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This week we have:
1. CES
News
2. Calls
for Papers
3. Seminars
and Workshops
4. Grants
and Fellowships
5. Position
vacancies
6. EUSA
Corner
Click the links above to go directly to the section headings. Feel free to contact us at europe@unc.edu with any problems.
LAC Mini-Workshop
Thursday,
March 23, 2006 | 2:00 - 4:00pm
103 Coates
Building (223 E. Franklin Street)
The
Center for European Studies, the University Center for International Studies,
and the Institute of Latin American Studies invite graduate students and
faculty in languages/literatures, social sciences, and humanities departments
to attend a Languages
Across the Curriculum (LAC) Mini-Workshop.
This accelerated workshop provides a brief introduction to UNC-CH's LAC Program, which integrates the use of foreign languages into interdisciplinary courses within the College of Arts and Sciences. Workshop sessions will cover The Theory and Practice of LAC and Tips and Techniques for LAC.
Participation in this workshop is strongly recommended for graduate students who wish to apply for upcoming LAC TA positions. Registration is required to attend; more information here. Attendance is free, and light refreshments will be served.
LAC TA Position Announcement
| UNC's
Languages
Across the Curriculum Program seeks experienced bilingual TAs
to lead LAC discussion sections for the following Fall 2006 courses: |
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| See
an outline of the responsibilities of these TA positions
Eligible applicants
must possess native or near-native fluency in the target language.
For full application details, click here. Application Deadline: Friday, March 31 |
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Europe
as Identity: Histories, Spaces, Relations | A New Video Series Course
The fifth course in the EU Studies video conference series of courses run between UNC-Chapel Hill, NCSU, and UNC-Charlotte will be taught Fall 2006 by Peter Wagner of North Carolina State University. The course will be picked up live via video connection at the Chapel Hill and Charlotte campuses 3-3:50 PM MWF.
The course is
designed to show what is at stake in the present attempts to answer the
question of a European identity. In the first place, the course will provide
a thorough discussion of the Leitmotifs and ways by which “Europe” has
been created, and describe how the question of a European identity has
been answered in the past. The focus of the course is therefore on the
relationships between “identity” and “space”: the borders/ties that have
come to bind and the borders/ties that have come to divide what is known
as Europe today. The final aim of this course is for students to gain a
deeper understanding of the varieties of “Europe” that have existed throughout
history, to appreciate the contemporary vision of a united Europe, including
its problems and perspectives, and in general to learn about the dynamic
relationship between histories, norms, and visions that define a “self”
and its “other.” Given this task, the course is multi-disciplinary and
inter-disciplinary,
drawing on history, the social sciences and humanities, and a wide variety
of theories and approaches. Read
a full description of the course here.
Gender, Experience, and Memory in the 18th and 19th Centuries - A Transatlantic (post)Graduate Workshop
May
16, 2007 | UNC Chapel Hill, Johnston Center
The conveners
of the UNC workshop series, "Gender, Politics, and Culture in Europe and
Beyond," welcome paper proposals from area graduate students and recent
postdoctoral students for our spring 2007 workshop entitled, "Gender, Experience,
and Memory in the 18th and 19th Centuries". During this one-day workshop,
area participants will join doctoral students from Britain and Germany
in a discussion of the themes of memory and experience in their recent
research. All presented papers should include gender as one important category
of analysis. Senior scholars from both sides of the Atlantic will provide
commentary and lead a closing roundtable discussion of the broader themes.
A lunch buffet and coffee, tea, beverages and cookies for the coffee breaks
will be provided.
We would be delighted to consider submissions by (post)graduate students at any level and in any field treating East or West European, North American, Latin American, or Caribbean history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We are open to papers from a wide range of fields, including but not limited to history, art history, or literature. Proposals should not be longer than 350 words and should include a brief biographical sketch.
For more information on the workshop, please view the workshop prospectus. Please email proposals or questions to J. Laurence Hare, Jr.
New deadline
for proposal submission: March 24, 2006
National Scholarship and Transnational Experience: Politics, Identity, and Objectivity in the Humanities & Social Sciences
April
6-8, 2006 | University Room of the Institute for Arts & Humanities,
UNC Chapel Hill
This interdisciplinary
colloquium will bring together scholars and graduate students from both
sides of the Atlantic to discuss the relationship between nationalism and
transnationalism in the development of the humanities and social sciences
in Europe. The presenters will place new transnational approaches in historical
perspective and will consider how transnational experiences, ideas, and
contacts have influenced the production of “national”
knowledge. The participants will cover a wide range of fields, including:
anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, folklore, history, literature, philology,
and philosophy.
THE PUBLIC IS
WARMLY INVITED TO ATTEND AND JOIN THE DISCUSSION.
For more information,
visit the colloquium
website, and open the workshop
flyer.
Contact: J.
Laurence Hare, Jr.
Sponsored by
the Alexander von-Humboldt Foundation, the UNC Center for European Studies,
and the UNC Department of History, Kenan Fund.
Language Fellowships for Graduate Students in European Union Policy Studies
The
Indiana University European Union Center of Excellence announces €2000
fellowship opportunities for summer study of the following EU and EU-accession
languages at the Indiana University Summer Workshop in Slavic and East
European Languages (SWSEEL): Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian,
Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, and Slovene.
Graduate students with an interest in issues of applied EU and transatlantic public policy and those desiring language training before embarking on field research or a professional internship in the EU are eligible to apply.
For full fellowship information, visit this page. An online application is available here. For more information, contact the SWSEEL office at (812) 855-2608 or via email.
Deadline: March 24, 2006
New Global Health Faculty Research Partnership Grants
The
UNC
Partnership in Global Health, a program of the Office
of Global Health in the UNC School of Public Health, is pleased to
announce the new Global Health Faculty Research Partnership Grants (GHP)
program. Designed to foster the development of multidisciplinary research
projects and partnerships in global health, grants will be made to UNC-Chapel
Hill faculty for international travel to establish or maintain research
relationships with colleagues in other countries. Approximately 10-15 grants
will be made each year in amounts up to $5,000.
For more information about the application process and review criteria, please visit the grant site. If you have questions, please email ogh@unc.edu.
Deadline: April
1, 2006
Atlantic Council Internship Program
Positions
Open: The John A. Baker Internship Program of the Atlantic Council
of the United States offers ten to fifteen volunteer (unpaid) positions
during the fall, spring, and summer academic terms. These positions require
a strong interest in international affairs, business, and/or education.
Applicants should possess some administrative or office experience, as
well as work in scholarly research. Course credit may be arranged through
the student's academic institution.
Areas of Interest: The Atlantic Council's current projects address: new relationships within Europe and between Europe and North America; the transformation of the newly independent Slavic and Eurasian states; new relationships among the Asian and Pacific nations, as well as their ties to North America and Europe; new opportunities for enhancing global and regional security; global interdependence in the arenas of energy, the environment, trade, economic growth and development; international education; government and corporate relations; and marketing. For more information on specific Council programs, please see our website.
For application details, see the Atlantic Council Internship Program website. Inquiries may be directed to the Internship Coordinator at 202-778-4954 or via email.
Deadline for
the summer term: March 30, 2006
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.
6th Annual European Summer School in Global and European Governance
August
7 - 18, 2006 | University of Trento, Italy
The aim of
this summer school is to examine ways of understanding the relationship
between regional integration, with an emphasis on European integration,
and the broader questions of creating order in global governance. It will
seek to provide advanced doctoral students with the conceptual tools and
research skills necessary to carry out research on questions of regional
integration, especially in a comparative context, and explore how regional
governance may help us understand the ways in which order is created in
the global context. The aim is to have participants write a 30-40 page
paper which presents the conceptual basis of their research.
For full information,
open the summer
school description.
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Gali
Beeri
International
Education Program Coordinator
Center
for European Studies/EU Center
University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel
Hill, NC 27599-3449
919-843-9852
919-962-5375
(fax)
gali@unc.edu
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(European Studies)
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(Transatlantic Masters Program)