1. Europe's "Linguafolio" and language Study. CODE Y1

Instructor: Jacqueline VAN HOUTON, President, National Council of Supervisors of Languages, and Kristin HOYT, University of Georgia

LinguaFolio: Using the European Language Portfolio as a Self-Assessment Tool
We invited two national experts in LinguaFolio to present this US world language assessment project, based on the European model that is now gaining recognition

2. Impressionism and Modern Life in Paris. CODE Y2
Instructor: Christine Mehring
Christine Mehring is Assistant Professor of the History of Art at Yale. She received her BA from the University of Lüneberg, Germany, an MA from SUNY-Stony Brook, and another MA and her PhD from Harvard. She works on 20th-century European art and photography, postwar American art, and contemporary art. She is completing a book on the German abstract painter Blinky Palermo, co-editing an anthology of postwar European art, and working on a study of abstraction and decoration in the 20th century. Other publications include studies of Hans Hartung, Konrad Klapheck, Dieter Roth, and Benjamin Buchloh, and she has curated an exhibition of photographs at the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University. Professor Mehring’s lecture courses at Yale include a survey of Western Art from the Renaissance to the Present, an Introduction to Postwar Art in Europe and the United States, and an Introduction to Modern European Art, 1837-1938. She has taught seminars on Writing Art Criticism, Abstraction, Abstract Art and Design, Minimalism, Postwar German Art, the German Sixties, and Methods of Art History.

This session will focus on Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and others. More specifically, we will look at the ways in which these artists reflected on life in and around the rapidly changing city of Paris, for example, the transformation of the urban fabric under Baron Haussmann and the development of leisure culture and entertainment establishments.

3. Economy and Law in the EU. CODE Y3

Instructor: Francesco MEGGIOLARO, EC Fellow at Yale

KEYNOTE SPEECH + Q&A : The EU in the World: From Rhetoric to Reality?

Jolyon Howorth
Jolyon Howorth is Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at the University of Bath (UK). He is a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale (2002-2007). He has published extensively in the field of European politics and history, especially security and defense policy and transatlantic relations - thirteen books and over one hundred journal articles and chapters in books.

Our keynote address will look at the EU's role as an international actor over the past fifteen years, assessing its real influence in places like the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, the Mediterranean, and even Asia. Also the extent to which the US is now very keen to mend fences.