October 2009

Date October 2, 2009

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Graeme Robertson


Time 12:00-1:30pm
Location FedEx Global Education Center, rm 2008/10
Type of Event Public Lecture
Title Elections, Information and Liberalization in the Post-Cold War Era
Contact Info europe@unc.edu
Notes Public lecture by Graeme Robertson (UNC-CH Political Science).

Part of the fall 2009 CES Friday Speaker Series. Light refreshments provided.

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Date October 5, 2009

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Time 1:30-2:30pm
Location FedEx Global Education Center, rm 4003
Type of Event Public Discussion
Title European Voices: A Dialogue with Journalists on Contemporary Media in Transition
Contact Info europe@unc.edu
Notes Journalists from 16 countries participating in the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists discuss the challenges they face in independent media outlets with UNC faculty, students, and staff. Audience members will have an opportunity to engage Murrow Program participants in a moderated forum.

Dr. Robert Jenkins, Director, Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies will moderate the session. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies in conjunction with the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists.

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Date October 9, 2009

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Jolyon Howorth


Time 12:00-1:30pm
Location FedEx Global Education Center, rm 4003
Type of Event Public Lecture
Title European Defence Policy in the Light of the Irish Referendum
Contact Info europe@unc.edu
Notes Public lecture by Jolyon Howorth, Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at the University of Bath, and Visiting Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale University.

Part of the fall 2009 CES Friday Speaker Series. Light refreshments provided.

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Date October 16, 2009

Claude Mosseri-Marlio
Claude Mosséri-Marlio

Time 12:00-1:30pm
Location FedEx Global Education Center, rm 4003
Type of Event Public Lecture
Title Contrasting Competition Concepts
Contact Info europe@unc.edu
Notes Public lecture by Claude Mosséri-Marlio of the European Court of Justice. The lecture will focus on why the approach by EU and US courts to similar competition cases often results in contrasting conclusions. Mosséri-Marlio is professor of European law and the European Court of Justice at the American Business School in Paris and visiting lecturer at the Tyumen University in Siberia.

Part of the fall 2009 CES Friday Speaker Series. Light refreshments provided.

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Date October 26, 2009

Claude Mosseri-Marlio

Time 2:00-4:00pm
Location FedEx Global Education Center, rm 1009
Type of Event Public Videoconference
Title Present and Future Challenges in Transatlantic Trade Policy
Contact Info europe@unc.edu
Notes

Join us in a videoconference with Baroness Catherine Ashton, the European Commissioner for Trade, and Dr. Ewa Björling, Swedish Minister for Trade, Presidency of the European Union, for a discussion on “Present and Future Challenges in Transatlantic Trade Policy.”

Baroness Catherine Ashton is Former Leader of the House of Lords; former Parliamentary Under-Secretary, UK Ministries of Justice; Constitutional Affairs; and Education and Skills. Dr. Ewa Björling was elected to the Swedish Parliament in 2002; former Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee; Member, Swedish Moderate Party.

Hosted by the European Union Center of Excellence Washington, D.C., the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and Johns Hopkins University.

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Date October 29, 2009

Berlin Wall


Time 4:00-8:00 pm
Location UNC Institute for the Arts & Humanities, Hyde Hall
Type of Event Workshop
Title Workshop: The Fall of the Wall: Twenty Years After
Contact Info europe@unc.edu
Notes

Konrad Jarausch (UNC History Department) and Holger Moroff (UNC Political Science Department) - in collaboration with William Donahue (Duke University, Department of German Languages and Literature)- are planning a conference on "The Fall of the Wall: Twenty Years After".

Part of the fall 2009 North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series

To attend, register with Philipp Stelzel (stelzel@email.unc.edu) by October 25.
For more information and workshop flyer see: http://www.unc.edu/ncgs

Co-sponsored by the UNC EU Center of Excellence.

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