WCEE Roundtable. Europe's Polarized Political Landscape: Discussion on European Elections

U-M Faculty will discuss the results of elections in France, Italy, Germany, UK, and their implications.

Speakers: Joshua Cole, History, U-M; Scott Greer, Public Health and Political Science, U-M; Johannes von Moltke, Germanic Languages & Literatures and Film, Television, and Media, U-M; Giulia Riccò, Romance Languages & Literatures, U-M. Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, Weiser Family Professor of European and Eurasian Studies, William H. Sewell Jr. Collegiate Professor of Sociology, WCEE Director, U-M.

Joshua Cole is professor of history at U-M, where he’s been teaching since 2004. His research and teaching deal primarily with the social and cultural history of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and he’s published work on gender and the history of the population sciences, colonial violence, and the politics of memory in France, Algeria, and Germany.

Scott Greer is professor of health management and policy, global public health, and political science at U-M. He researches the ways in which political systems operate and shape health policy decisions. He has done extensive research on a variety of topics including COVID-19 policy response, health governance, strategic purchasing in health care, the politics of public health and disaster response, federalism, science policy, and European integration. He conducts research on the European Union, United Kingdom, and the United States in particular.

Johannes von Moltke is the Rudolf Arnheim Professor of Film, TV, and Media and German Studies at U-M. His published work addresses topics in German film and cultural studies, critical theory, and film theory, and it has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Berlin Program in Advanced German and European Studies, and the American Academy in Berlin, among others. A Past President of the German Studies Association, von Moltke currently serves as the Interim Director of the U-M International Institute.

Giulia Riccò is assistant professor of Italian at U-M. Her book, New World Italians: The Invention of a Brazilian Identity, traces the discursive production of a modern, racialized Italian identity in São Paulo, Brazil. She is the co-editor of the 2020 Radical History Review issue dedicated to Fascism and Anti-Fascism since 1945. In 2021, Giulia received the Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation (ISSNAF) inaugural award for innovation in the study of Italian culture.

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