This page announces program deadlines, upcoming events, and special TAM activities. Additionally, this page serves as a portal to the annual Transatlantic Perspectives online journal, authored by TAM students and edited by Sarah Hutchison.
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2009 October TAM Trip to Washington, D.C.
The TAM students enjoyed their trip to Washington, DC over fall break: October 21-23rd, 2009. They made visits to The World Bank, The Delegation of the European Commission, The World Resources Institute, and the US State Department. It was especially meaningful to be hosted by three TAM alums during these briefings. On Thursday evening about 30 graduates of the program and a dozen soon-to-be grads (members of the Class of 2009) joined the TAM students for a party at the Hotel Helix.
TAM 2009 DC Trip
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TAM Alumni - Current Student Gathering in Paris - May 2009
TAM students studying at Sciences Po and a number of TAM graduates enjoyed a marvelous brunch at les éditeurs (www.lesediteurs.fr) in Paris on Sunday, May 17th, 2009. TAM alumni traveled in from Germany, Croatia, Belgium, Northern Ireland and even DC for the event!
Representatives of TAM 2003
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Members of the TAM Class of 2007
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TAM II Track - VU Amsterdam - May 2009
On May 12th, 2009, John Stephens, Director of the Center for European Studies, and Kees van Kersbergen, Head of Department of the VU Political Science Department, met in Amsterdam and signed the Masters Student Training Agreement Between the Department of Political Science of VU University Amsterdam and the Center for European Studies at UNC-CH. Under the terms of the agreement, up to 10 graduate students from TAM II will spend a full academic year at VU taking part in the MSc Political Science program. In September 2009, the first group of five TAM II students will arrive in Amsterdam to undertake coursework.
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TAM Congratulates TAM II student Thomas Hylands – Fulbright Scholarship Recipient
Thomas Hylands recently received a Fulbright Research Scholarship for the European Union. He will soon begin his second year in TAM’s Track II and will undertake coursework at VU University, Amsterdam. Tom's current research project is entitled: "Fat Government, Thin Populace? The Impact of Welfare State Regime Type on Obesity". Congratulations Tom!!
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SIETAR-USA Conference
On Friday, April 3, 2009 TAM’s Associate Director, Sarah Hutchison, and two of the current TAM Track II students, Marissa Ingalls and Stylianos Kelaiditis, presented a paper at the Society for Intercultural Education, Research and Training – USA 2009 conference in Cary, NC. The session was entitled “Defining Intercultural Education: The TransAtlantic Masters Program’s Intercultural Solutions” and focused specific attention on the role of foreign-language acquisition within US-based Professional MA programs in the Social Sciences.
Please see the SIETAR-USA website for further details: http://www.sietarusa.org/
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New addition to TAM Track II: UPF in Barcelona
TAM is pleased to announce that the UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA (UPF) in Barcelona, Spain will participate in the
Track II offerings beginning in the fall of 2010. Track II applicants who are interested in spending the 2009-2010
academic year at UNC now have the option to spend the second year of the program (2010-2011) in Amsterdam or in
Barcelona. UPF classes will be offered in English.
For more information please see the following website and
please watch the TAM website for further updates:
http://www.upf.edu/postgrau/en/masters/politica/politiques/presentacio/index.html
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TransAtlantic Perspectives
TransAtlantic Perspectives is an online journal produced by the Transatlantic Masters Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Click the logo to read more!