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This week we have:
1. CES
News
2. Grants
and Fellowships
3. Seminars
and Workshops
4. EUSA
Corner
5. Other
International Studies news
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CES Fall Speakers Series (*please note room change for the talk on September 22)
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Friday, September 22, 2006 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Coates Building, 223 East Franklin Street: Seminar Room Ulrich Grothus (North American Director, DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service) will discuss Trans-Atlantic Exchange in Higher Education, with a special focus on North America and Germany. |
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Friday,
October 6, 2006
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Coates Building, 223 East Franklin Street: Seminar Room Donald Searing (UNC-CH, Political Science) will discuss Political Tolerance: Meaning, Measurement, and Context. |
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Music (*please note change of date)
Friday, September
22, 2006 | 5-6pm | WXYC 89.3 FM
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Majors
Expo 2006
Wednesday,
September 27, 2006 | 11am - 3pm | Student Union Great Hall
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European Film Screenings
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 Tuesday 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.
Tuesday,
September 26, 2006
5:00 pm
Undergraduate
Library, room 205
The Promise
(Germany)
Tuesday,
October 3, 2006
5:00 pm
Undergraduate
Library, room 205
Run Lola
Run (Germany)
European Union/Transatlantic Relations PhD Database
The
Network of European Union Centers of Excellence in the United States (EUCE)
would like to invite graduate students pursuing a doctoral degree in topics
related to the European Union or Transatlantic relations to submit their
names and dissertation information to a new database of PhD dissertations
currently under construction. The goal of the database is to help doctoral
students identify fellow candidates working in similar areas in the United
States and anywhere else in the world. Please go to the EUCE
Network website and download a short form which can be filled out and
returned on-line. Thank you to everyone who has submitted so far! The Center
for European Studies serves as the network coordinator for EU Centers of
Excellence in the United States.
Study
and Research in Germany
Thursday,
September 21, 2006 | 4pm | 413 Dey Hall
Ulrich Grothus
(North American Director, DAAD-German Academic Exchange Service) will meet
with students about Study and Research in Germany: Information on
Opportunities and Funding with the German
Academic Exchange Service. This meeting is open to all students
interested in study, research, and internships in Germany. View the flyer
for more details.
Berlin Program Fellowship: Request for Research Proposals
The
Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies is pleased to solicit
applications for its next fellowship competition. The program offers fellowships
to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including
historians working on the period since the mid-19th century for a research
period in Berlin between 10-12 months. The Berlin Program Fellowships are
awarded for doctoral dissertation field research as well as postdoctoral
research. Fellowship stipends are EUR 1100 per month for fellows working
on a dissertation project and EUR 1400 per month for recent Ph.D.'s. The
program accepts applications from U.S. and Canadian nationals or permanent
residents. Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be full-time graduate
students who have completed all coursework required for the Ph.D. and must
have achieved ABD (all but dissertation) status by the time the proposed
research stay in Berlin begins. Also eligible are U.S. and Canadian Ph.D.s
who have received their doctorates within the past two calendar years.
For details, please open the flyer
(PDF format) or download an application form at http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/
Deadline: December 1, 2006
Coloniality at Large: From the Peripheries of the European Union (Romania, Hungary, and Ireland)
Friday,
September 29 | 12:00 - 5:30p.m. | Conference Room, Multicultural Center
at the Bryan Center, Duke University
The Center
for Global Studies and the Humanities, at Duke University, and the
working group on Globalization, Modernity and Coloniality (The Consortium
of Latin American Studies) announce a workshop on Coloniality at Large:
From the Peripheries of the European Union (Romania, Hungary, and Ireland).
The workshop will be followed by an informal conversation on Saturday,
September 30th from 10 am to 1 pm (Conference Room, International Studies,
UNC—across the street from the Planetarium).
Sponsored by: The Center for European Studies, UNC; The Center for European Studies, Duke University; The Department of History, Duke University & The Center for International Studies, Duke University.
For more details,
view the workshop
program.
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.
Position Vacancy: Europe/Comparative Political Economy
University
of Pittsburgh
The Department
of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications
for a tenure stream position in Europe/Comparative Political Economy at
the Assistant Professor level, pending budgetary approval. We are interested
in Europeanists (Europe being defined as the European Union and/or the
EU member-states) who have interests in the politics of economic policymaking,
especially as related to government spending, fiscal and monetary policy
institutions, and/or the welfare state. Candidates should provide indications
of their quantitative and/or formal modeling skills. The individual appointed
will teach courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and be
affiliated with relevant centers. The university hosts a Title VI Comprehensive
National Resource Center for European Studies, a Title VI National Resource
Center for Russian and East European Studies, and one of ten European Union
Centers of Excellence. The appointment begins with the Fall 2007 academic
term. Salary will be commensurate with rank, experience, and qualifications.
Strong preference will be given to candidates who have completed all requirements
for the Ph.D. degree prior to the start of the appointment. Please send
applications (including C.V., a statement of research and teaching interest,
and two or three relevant publications [if available]) to:
Chair, Comparative
European Politics Search Committee; Department of Political Science; University
of Pittsburgh; 4600 Posvar Hall; Pittsburgh, PA 15260.
Applicants
should also arrange to have at least three reference letters sent to the
above address. Political Science Department telephone number (412) 648-7290.
Email address Ertman@pitt.edu.
Deadline: October 1, 2006
Position Vacancy: Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies
London
School of Economics and Political Science
Applications
are invited for the newly endowed post of Chair in Contemporary Turkish
Studies in the European Institute. The appointment will be from 1 April
2007 or later by agreement. The Chair has been established on a permanent
basis as a result of the generosity of various donors.
We seek an outstanding candidate to provide academic leadership in research, teaching and related public activities. Preference may be given to candidates in political economy, economics, or public policy - but candidates in other social science disciplines are encouraged to apply. The appointee will be expected to have a good knowledge of the Turkish language and society. For further information on the Institute, visit the website.
Those interested are encouraged to obtain the further particulars and details of how to apply from the Human Resources Division, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK (telephone: +44 20 7955 6068 or e-mail hr.recruit.prof@lse.ac.uk). Applications must be submitted via the Human Resources Division.
Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Kevin Featherstone, Director of the European Institute, at: k.featherstone@lse.ac.uk Please quote job reference number: SA/05/04.
Deadline: October 6, 2006
Jean Monnet Research Fellowship
The
University of Michigan Law School is pleased to announce the 2007-2008
Jean Monnet Research Fellowship competition. This Fellowship provides up
to $20,000 for a six-month stay at the University of Michigan Law School
to complete a publishable work on European integration. It is intended
primarily for law professors researching European integration, but is open
to academics from other disciplines as well.
For more information, please visit the University of Michigan Law School website.
Deadline: December 1, 2006
Other International Studies news
Guanajuato, Mexico: Photo Exhibition and Discussion
Thursday,
September 21 | 3:00 pm | UCIS Conference Room
Join the University
Center for International Studies for a reception and discussion about
the cultural differences between the U.S. and Mexico as bordering countries.
Pedro Lasch, Interim Director for Latino/a Studies at Duke University,
will be joined by Photographer Adam Gori to lead the discussion. Adam's
collection of black and white photographs of Guanajuato, Mexico, is currently
on display at UCIS through September.
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