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CES News

CES Fall Speakers Series

Friday, November 18, 2005
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
UCIS Conference Room at 223 E. Franklin Street

Gary Marks (UNC, Political Science) will discuss The Conflicts that Drive European Integration.. 
 

Friday, December 2, 2005
11:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
UCIS Conference Room at 223 E. Franklin Street

Milada Vachudova (UNC, Political Science) will discuss Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage, and Integration After Communism.
 

Italian Humanitarian Lecture

Thursday, November 17, 2005
6:00 p.m.
Toy Lounge, Dey Hall

The UNC faculty of Italian and the Department of Romance Languages will host a lecture by Dr. Gino Strada, a famous Italian doctor, humanitarian and writer. He is a war surgeon and the founder of "Emergency", a humanitarian organization devoted to providing medical and surgical aid to victims of war through setting up and staffing hospitals in areas most devastated by war. 

In January 1999, Dr. Strada published Pappagalli verdi: cronache di un chirurgo di guerra (Green Parrots: Chronicles of a War Surgeon). In this book, Dr. Strada recounts his experiences with war victims and introduces readers to the destruction caused by these anti-personnel mines (the "green parrots"). It captured the prestigious International Viareggio Versilla Prize. In 2004, the book was translated into English under the title Green Parrots.

The event is organized by Italian faculty and The Italian Club at UNC and co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies. The lecture is open and free to the public and to all faculty and students. Contact Amy Chambless with any questions.

History, Freedom and Democracy: Michele Amari's Orientalist Europe

Thursday, December 1, 2005
3:00 p.m.
Frank Porter Graham Student Union, room 3503

Professor Roberto Dainotto, Associate Professor of Italian at Duke University, will present a chapter of his forthcoming book: Europe (in Theory), Duke University Press. The objective of this book is to single out, in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century theorizations of Europe, the surfacing of structures and paradigms that have since informed ideas of the continent and its cultural identity. Europe (in Theory) looks at the emergence of counter-hegemonic theories of Europe from the Mediterranean south, which attempt to tell the story of Europe as seen and felt by its PIGS (Brussels' own cute acronym for Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain). This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Department of Romance Languages.

Fancy a Film in French?

In collaboration with Prof. Martine Antle’s course on Identities in Contemporary European Cinema and the Languages Across the Curriculum program, CES is sponsoring a series of film screenings on Thursday evenings during the fall semester. The series is free and open to the campus community, and a short discussion of the films will follow the screenings. All films will be shown in their original language with English subtitles; the LAC discussions will be in French. Individuals wishing to attend only the film screenings are free to leave before the discussion. A full listing of the films is available here.
 

• Thursday, November 17, 2005 
  6:00 pm 
  Peabody 204 
  His Secret Life (Italian/Turkish) 
• Thursday, December 1, 2005 
  6:00 pm 
  Peabody 204 
  Amelie (France)

EUSA Corner
Following are meetings and announcements from the European Union Studies Association, of which the UNC-CH Center for European Studies is a sustaining member.

Call for Papers: EU Foreign/Security/Defense Policy - Current Challenges, Future Prospects

Monday, April 3, 2006 | Greenberg House of Syracuse University | Washington, DC
We are pleased to announce a second research workshop on the future of EU foreign policy. This is a follow-up workshop to the 2004 event, which considered the future of transatlantic relations from a variety of perspectives. This time we have expanded the range of possible topics, as the EU today is facing major stresses from within and without. Internally, the EU must confront the aftermath of the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty, which had included foreign and defense policy reform as a major component. The EU must also incorporate the foreign policy interests of its new member states while opening accession talks with several others. Beyond the prospective member states, the EU is attempting to put relations with its near neighbors on a new course with policies that may have important repercussions with other players in the region, such as Russia and the US.

The purpose of this workshop is to examine current scholarly work on these issues from both sides of the Atlantic to shed light on future trends in EU foreign policy. Toward that end, we seek paper proposals from EUSA members on the following topics:

• Post-enlargement issues with foreign policy implications
• Post-Constitutional Treaty issues with foreign policy implications
• Other EU foreign policy issues such as post conflict reconciliation, multilateral organizations, US/EU relations, development, the Middle East Peace Process, etc.

This workshop is sponsored by the SEU, with support from the EU Center of Syracuse University. Please send only paper titles and abstracts (up to 500 words) to Michael E. Smith. Applicants will be notified by January 30, 2006. 

Deadline: December 10, 2005

Call for Papers: Culture and Culture Policy in the New European Union

This thematic issue of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (ISSN 1481-4374), is issuing a call for papers. Culture policy is understood as all aspects of community-, institution-, government-, and international organization-based policy in theory and practice with regard to all aspects of culture. Foci of the issue include aspects of culture and culture policy in the eastward enlargement of the European Union and ensuing issues between West Europe and Central and East Europe and issues in culture and culture policy within the cultures and countries of Central and East Europe. Papers should not exceed 6000 words and they should use no end notes or footnotes. Citations follow the MLA guide for parenthetical citations and include a list of works cited. For more on CLCWeb's style guide, click here.

Please send papers to the editor of CLCWeb, Steven Totosy de Zepetnek by March 30 2006.
 
 

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