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- Summer 2011
- Current Trends in European Film
- Speakers: Milos Stehlik, Director of Facets Multimedia and Worldview’s Film Contributor (Chicago Public Radio); Carleton Jackson, Film and Television Studies Subject Librarian,University of Maryland.
- Moderator: Michelle Emanuel, University of Mississippi and Co-Director, Oxford Film Festival.
- Summer 2010
- Contemporary European Fiction in Translation
- Speakers: Chad Post, Director of Open Letter Press, University of Rochester; Alane Salierno Mason, Vice President and Senior Editor, W. W. Norton & Company and President, Words Without Borders: An Online Magazine for International Literature; Dr. Edwin Gentzler, Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Translation Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- Moderator: Richard Hacken, Brigham Young University.
- Summer 2009
- Situating Area Studies Librarianship in a Globalised World: New Directions, New Collections
- Speakers: Christopher Bush, Professor of French, Northwestern University; Sabine Engel, Director of the Center for German & European Studies, University of Minnesota; Christine Ingebritsen, Professor of Political Science & Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington.
- Moderator: Stephen Corrsin, New York Public Library.
- Summer 2008
- Cooperative Strategies for European Libraries: Access and Preservation
- Speakers: Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, Director of Development at the State and University Library, Statsbiblioteket,Universitetsparken, Aarhus, Denmark; Janifer Gatenby, Research Integration and Standards, OCLC, Leiden, The Netherlands; Fleur Stigter, Marketing Manager for The European Library and 'Users for Usability' Coordinator for Europeana/EDLnet.
- Summer 2007
- The European Union Today: Constructing European Identity
- Speakers: Hon. John Bruton, Ambassador of the European Union to the USA; Kathleen McNamara, Georgetown University; Arend Kuster, Director, Publishers Communications Group -- Europe.
- Summer 2006
- Immigration, Ethnicities and Historical Research in New Orleans
- Speakers: John Magill, Historic New Orleans Collection; Wilbur Meneray, Tulane University Library Special Collections; Emily Clark, Tulane University History Department.
- Summer 2005
- Digitizing Medieval Manuscripts: East & West
- Speakers: David Reynolds, Johns Hopkins University; Colum P. Hourihane, Princeton University; David J. Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh.
- Summer 2004
- Scholarly Communication in Europe: Trends in Libraries, Publishing, and Copyright
- Speakers: Manfred Antoni, Bas Savenije, Margot Wieser
- Spring 2004
- Migrations in Society, Culture, and the Library: WESS European Conference, Paris 2004
- Keynote Speakers: Roger Chartier, École des Hautes Études, Paris, and the University of Pennsylvania; Jean-Claude Guedon, Université de Montréal, Canada; Friedrich Heckmann, University of Bamberg and Director of the European Forum for Migration Studies; Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, University of Saarbrücken; David Seaman, Director of the Digital Library Federation in Washington, DC.
- For the final report see the article by Denis Lacroix in C&RLN Vol. 65, No. 7:
- Parisian migrations: A Report of the Western European Studies Section's Paris Conference
- Summer 2003
- Across the Pond: New Research-Library Networks in Europe and across the Atlantic
- Speakers: Sharon Brown, Jeffrey Garrett, Richard Hacken, Michael Neubert
- Summer 2002
- Mapping the Future of Historical Scholarship about Europe
- Co-sponsored by ALA’s Map and Geography Round Table (MAGERT).
- Presented with the generous support of Jean Touzot, libraire-éditeur.
- Speakers: Karl Longstreth, Humphrey Southall (powerpoint presentation).
- Moderator: Richard Hacken.
- Summer 2000
- Italian Studies and Italian Cultural Presence in North America: A Tribute to the Life and Contributions of Mario Casalini
- With the generous support of Jean Touzot, libraire-éditeur.
- Speakers: Dante Della Terza, keynote speaker, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University, and Professor Emeritus of Italian Literature at the Università Federico II, Napoli; John Tedeschi, Distinguished Academic Librarian Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ingrid Rowland, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and the College, University of Chicago; Paul Gehl, Custodian, John M.Wing Foundation on the History of Printing, the Newberry Library, Chicago.
- Summer 1999
- Western European Studies Librarianship: Looking Forward After 20 Years
- With the generous support of Jean TOUZOT Libraire-Éditeur and Belser Wissenschaftlicher Dienst.
- Speakers: Barbara Walden, James J. O'Donnell, Roger Brisson (moderator)
- Summer 1998
- Digitizing a Continent: National-Level Planning for Western European Libraries
- Co-sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
- Speakers: Jack Kessler, Kurt de Belder, Elmar Mittler, Deanna Marcum (respondent).
- Summer 1997
- Preconference on European Links: Sources of Information in Western European Studies for Academic Libraries
- (see WESS Newsletter description)
- Keynote address: The Current State of European Studies in North America and of Scholarly Publishing in Western Europe.
- Summer 1996
- The Changing Face of European Studies
- Cosponsored by the ACRL Slavic and East European Studies Section.
- Speakers: Leena Siegelbaum, Marcelino Ugalde, David Magier, Martha Brogan (moderator).
- Summer 1995
- European Connections: Electronic Resources for Western Europe
- Speakers: James Marchand, James Campbell, Mark Olsen.
- Summer 1994
- Emerging European Writing: Visions and Voices of the New Europe
- Speakers: Giuliana Menozzi, Aida Bamia, Richard Preto-Rodas, Siegfried Mews.
- Summer 1993
- Europe East and West: New Resources for North American Libraries
- Cosponsored by the ACRL Slavic and East European Section.
- Speakers: Edward Kasinec, Sem Sutter, Michael Miller.
- Summer 1992
- Cinema Paradiso: Movies, Libraries, and European Culture
- Cosponsored by the ACRL Arts Section, and the ALCTS Audiovisual Committee.
- Speakers: Steve Hanson, Anne Schlosser, Nancy Goldman.
- Summer 1991
- European Unification 1992: Impact on Information and Libraries
- Co-sponsored by the College Library Section and the Law and Political Science Section.
- Speakers: John McIntyre, James Campbell, Michael Hopkins.
- Summer 1990
- Translation: The Craft, Politics, and Access
- Co-sponsored by the Chicago Area Translators and Interpreters Association (CHICATA) and The Chicago Union of Literary Translators (CULT).
- Speakers: Kenneth J. Northcott, Carol Maier, Karl Green, Charles Fineman (respondent).
- Summer 1989
- Austria, Switzerland and the two Germanies: Collection Building and Bibliographic Control
- Speakers: Agnes Peterson, Richard Hacken, Louis Pitschmann, Gail Hueting.
- Publication: Papers appear with those from 1988 and 1989 annual programs in Western European Studies: Current Research Trends and Library REsources, WESS Occasional Paper, No. 3, 1990
- Summer 1988
- Strangers in New Worlds: Migration Studies in Europe and America
- Sponsored by ANSS/ACRL.
- Speakers: Dino Cinel, Mark J. Miller, Joel Wurl, Carol Armbruster, Helen MacLam, Susanne Roberts.
- Publication: Papers appear with those from 1988 and 1989 annual programs in Western European Studies: Current Research Trends and Library Resources, WESS Occasional Paper, No. 3, 1990
- Summer 1987
- New Directions in Old World Research: Western European Studies from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance: Implications for Libraries
- Co-sponsored by the History Section of RASD and by RBMS.
- Speakers: Thomas N. Habinek, Mary Wack, Sally Scully, Chris D. Ferguson, Barbara Halporn, Kathleen Reed.
- Publication: Papers appear with those from 1988 and 1989 annual programs in Western European Studies: Current Research Trends and Library REsources, WESS Occasional Paper, No. 3, 1990.
- Midwinter 1987
- In-house Library Guides
- Summer 1986
- Research Trends and Library Resources in Western Europe: Assumptions and Realities
- Speakers: William Bader, Ioannis Sinanoglou, John Finzi, Gerald Anderson, Ellen Brow.
- European Information services and WESS Librarians: Unrecognized Partners (Discussion group)
- Summer 1985
- Western Europe Women's Studies
- Co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Discussion Group
- Speakers: Virginia Clark, Beth Stafford, Rita Pankhurst.
- Publication: Papers appear in Women's Studies in Western Europe: A Resource Guide, edited by Stephen Lehmann and Eva Sartori as WESS Occasional Publication, No. 2, 1986.
- Summer 1984
- Europe online: New sources from the Old World
- Speakers: Charles Chadwyck-Healey, Judith Rowe, Paul Peters, Pascal Sanz.
- Midwinter 1984
- Aftermath of the University of Minnesota Symposium on Western European Studies and North American Research Libraries
- Summer 1983
- France and Francophone Canada: Publishing Trends, Selection Tools, and Library Collections Today
- Cosponsored by Resources Section of RTSD
- Speakers: Jean-Pierre Bardos, Charles Fineman, Richard K. Gardner, Joan Higbee, Assunta Pisani.
- Midwinter 1983
- Eighteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC)
- Speaker: Judith Singleton.
- Summer 1982
- Resources of German-speaking Europe: Publishing Patterns and Bibliographic Strategies for the '80s
- Speakers: Knut Dorn, Peter R. Frank.
- Summer 1981
- The Library of Congress and the Future of Western European Collections
- Speakers: David Kraus.
- Summer 1980
- The Government Documents of Western Europe
- Cosponsored by International Documents Task Force of GODORT.
- Speakers: Eve Johansson, Gloria Westfall, David Rozkuszka.
- Panelists: Anthony Angiletta, James Campbell, Joan Higbee, David Rozkuszka.
- Western European Language Specialists Discussion Group Topics, 1975-1979
- Promoting the Use of Humanities Collections through Advanced Level Bibliographic Instruction (Discussion group)
- Speakers: Mary George; Sheila Hart; Eldred Smith.
- International Flow of Books
- Cosponsored by Resources Section of RTSD, RTSD AAP Joint Committee, IRRT, the Asian and African Section or ACRL, the Slavic and East European Section of ACRL, and WELS.
- Speakers: Julian Behrstock; W. Bradford Wiley.
- Book Trade in Western Europe
- Speakers: George Vrooman; Knut Dorn; Hugo Cortius (Nijhoff); Mario Casalini; and Emanuel Molho (French & European Publications).
- The World of Books
- Speakers: Alan Taylor; Herbert Lottman
- Discussion group on above topic for Western Europe: Agnes Peterson.
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