Jo Labanyi, professor of Spanish and Portuguese and director, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, New York University.

The Center for European Studies-European Union Center's winter series focuses on contemporary Spain. Events ongoing January–April, 2010. In conjunction with the current Spanish presidency of the European Union, the University of Michigan's Center for European Studies-European Union Center (CES-EUC), in collaboration with the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (WCED), will devote the winter semester of 2010 to exploring recent debates about the meanings of transition and memory in democratic Spain.