Graduate Student Conference

Crisis, Cooperation and Change in the European Union

 March 30-31^st, 2012

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The global financial crisis is one of the many challenges that the European Union has faced. These challenges have affected its citizens, institutions, and policy-making capabilities. The Organizing Committee of the Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference on the European Union welcomes papers addressing the theme “Crisis, Cooperation, and Change in the European Union.” Submissions are welcome from all disciplines on a variety of topics including, but not limited to, EU politics, governance, economics, history, security studies and institutions, as well as policies covering enlargement, immigration, development, trade, transatlantic relations, and foreign policy.

Submission Deadline for Abstracts: December 16, 2011

Abstracts should be 250-300 words in length. Preference will be given to abstracts that clearly specify the paper’s research design, including theoretical approach and methods.  Abstracts must be submitted on-line. Please also include a current C.V. with your submission. Only authors enrolled in degree-granting graduate or professional programs are eligible to participate.

The University of Pittsburgh's library system houses one of the largest and most complete archives of primary and secondary documents on the European Union, dating back to the beginnings of the European Coal and Steel Community. Conference presenters are given access to the archive for research while in Pittsburgh.

The open submission period for abstracts is November 16 - December 16, 2011.  

Please direct any further inquiries to: EUconf@pitt.edu

The Organizing Committee:

Andrea Aldrich, Chair

Harrison Grafos

Danial Heopfner

Sarah Patton

Brian Shaev

Evgeny Postnikov

Announcements

CALL FOR PAPERS

The European Union is currently facing many challenges that affect its citizens, institutions and policy-making capability. This conference wishes to highlight graduate student research that addresses some of these broad challenges. The Organizing Committee of the 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference on the European Union welcomes papers addressing the theme of the conference. We seek submissions from all disciplines on topics including, but not limited to, European Union politics, economics and institutions; and policies including enlargement, immigration, development, trade, transatlantic relations and foreign policy more generally.

Deadline for Abstract Submission: September 1, 2006.

Abstracts should be 250-300 words in length and will be accepted only via email as a Word document or PDF attachment; please include a current CV with your submission. Only authors enrolled in a degree granting graduate or professional program are eligible to participate.

Abstracts should be 250-300 words in length and will be accepted only via email as a Word document or PDF attachment; please include a current CV with your submission.

Only authors enrolled in a degree granting graduate or professional program are eligible to participate.

Please submit abstracts and any inquiries to: EUconf@pitt.edu

Sponsors

European Union Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburgh

European Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh

University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh

European Union Studies Association

Conference Program

Forthcoming

Travel and Accommodation

Participants are responsible for their own travel arrangements and expenses. However, accommodations will be provided for those participants who submit their papers by March 5, 2012.

Paper Availability

A number of the conference papers will be made available by the authors on the Archive of European Integration

 

We would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support: