Information About Distinguished Visitors & Scholars

As an essential part of the center’s mission to provide opportunities for students, faculty and the public to learn about Europe, European integration, and the European Union, the EUCE/ESC sponsors and hosts an array of scholars and practitioners for visits of varying lengths throughout the year that cover diverse topics of importance to the study of Europe.  Topics range from economics, security, and policy to multicultural issues in Europe and the accession of Turkey to the European Union.  Noted visitor to the Center and the University of Pittsburgh in February 2006 was European Commission President Manuel Barroso.

Past Visitors

Fall 07

Dr. Ziga Vodovnik, University of Ljubljana
Dr. Tatyana Stoicheva, University of Sofia
Dr. Daniela Pauknerova, University of Economics, Prague
William Lehr, MIT
Richard Cawley, European Commission's DG Information Society and Media

Spring 07

Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia, Associate Senior Researcher at the Center for Political Science (CEVIPOF), and an Associate Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).
Doina Cajvaneanu, PhD student, School of International Studies, University of Trento
Dr. Henrik Enderlein, Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Political Science Dept., Duke University
Dr. Claudia Fahrenwald, a Research Associate and Lecturer at the Department of Education at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Dr. Fahrenwald will be on campus April 15 through the 21st.
Baroness Kishwer Falkner, Liberal Democrat Peer, United Kingdom House of Lords.
Dr. Robert Falkner, Lecturer in International Relations, London School of Economics
Mr. Søren Jensen, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Denmark
Dr. Jaroslaw Ksiazek, Consul General of Poland in Brest, Belarus
Dr. Richard Maddox, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Achilleas Mitsos, Visiting Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence
Ms. Miriam Mozgan, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Slovenia
Tom Spencer, Executive Director, European Centre for Public Affairs, Visiting Professor of Public Affairs, Brunel University
Mr. Francois Rivasseau, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of France
Dr. Asbjørn Røiseland, Associate Professor of Political Science, Bodo University College, Norway
Mr. Paul Schmit, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Luxembourg
Dr. Charles Skinner, Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Dept. of State (retired).

Fall 06

Dan Breznitz, School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech
Dr. Alexis Debat, senior terrorism consultant for ABC News, contributing editor to Politique Internationale and The National Interest, director of the Scientific Committee for the Institut Montaigne in Paris, and senior fellow at the Homeland Security Institute at the George Washington University.
Dr. Walter van Gerven, Faculty of Law, University of Leuven, and former Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg
Dr. Mark Gilbert, Department of History, University of Trento
Dr. Panos Kazakos, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens, and Director of the Institute for European Integration and European Politics.
Dr. Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University
Dr. Guntram Wolff, Economics Department, Public Finances, Deutsche Bundesbank; Research Fellow, Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn

Spring 06

Jon Benjamin, Deputy Counsel-General and Deputy Head of Mission, British Consulate, New York.
José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission.

Speech given on February 10th:"From Pittsburgh to Lisbon: reform in times of change" and rededication of the EU Centre of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh
Video from UCIS's PILS server
Transcript from the Europa Website

Dr. Peter Gilsdorf, Former Principle Legal Advisor, EU Commission.
Dr. Mark Haas, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Duquesne University.
Dr. Anthony Krupp, Assistant Professor of German at the University of Miami.
Helmut Kuhne, member of the European Parliament.
Dr. Jeffery Lewis, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Cleveland State University.
Sylvia Mihalikova, Jean Monnet Chair, Director and Vice-Dean for International Relations, Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Faculty for Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Achilleas Mitsos, Advisor to the European Commissioner for Science and Research.

On February 9th Dr. Mitsos gave the lecture: “Modernizing Europe: Redistribution vs. Growth”
Presentation

Dr. Eric Remacle, Visiting Distinguished Professor at the European Union Center of Excellence; Professor of Political Science, Free University of Brussels.
György Schöpflin, Member of the European Parliament from Hungary, and Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats Dr. Dirk Rupnow, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna.
Andras Simonyi, Hungarian Ambassador to the U.S.
Dr. Frank Stern, Professor and Chair of the Visual and Cultural History Section of the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, Austria
For more information regarding visitors, contact Tom Allen at tfa3@ucis.pitt.edu.

Fall 2005

Professor Sergio Fabbrini, Department of Political Science, University of Trento
Jörg Himmelreich, Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund
Dr. Giandomenico Majone, Professor of Public Policy (retired), European University Institute

On October 27 Dr. Majone gave the lecture: "Dilemmas of European Integration" which can be viewed online:
Video from UCIS's PILS server

Professor Ulrika Mörth, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University
Dr. Lars Niklasson, Swedish Agency for Public Management (Statskontoret).
Professor Karl Schlögel, Europe U1/14/08rofessor Klaus Vogelgsang, Department of Medieval Studies, University of Augsburg
Dr. Guntram Wolff, Economics Department, Public Finances, Deutsche Bundesbank; Research Fellow, Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn

Spring 05

Paolo Bernardini, Italian Fulbright Professor; Resident Director, Center for Italian and European Studies in Padova, Boston University
Robert Bradtke, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Jonathan Davidson, Senior Advisor, Political and Academic Affairs, Delegation of the European Commission, Washington, D.C.
Hans DeJong, Office of Transportation, Royal Netherlands Embassy
Charles Ford, Vice President, American Foreign Service Association, U.S. Department of Commerce
Jean-Yves Haine, Senior Research Fellow, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris
Marc Houben, former Netherlands Liaison Officer to the Coalition Provisional Authority (South), Basra, Iraq
Professor Paulette Kurzer,
Claire Kramsch, Director, Berkeley Language Center, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Andrew McLaughlin, Group Chief Economist, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Professor Anand Menon, Director, European Research Institute, University of Birmingham
Conor O’Dwyer, Department of Political Science, University of Florida
Eric Remacle, Visiting Distinguished Professor at the European Union Center; Professor of Political Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Dr. Dorothy Robyn, Senior Consultant, The Brattle Group
Professor Jose Manuel Sobrino, Professor of Public International Law, International Relations, and Jean Monnet Chair of European Law, University of La Coruna, Spain
Professor Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Lithuania; Chief Economic Advisor to the President of Lithuania
Professor Lori Walters, French Department, Florida State University
Dr. Guntram Wolff, Economics Department, Public Finances, Deutsche Bundesbank; Research Fellow, Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn

Fall 04

Ariane Chebel D’Appollonia, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po); Visiting Professor, Graduate School for Public & International Affairs ; Visiting Fellow, Ford Institute for Human Security
John Esposito, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, Foreign Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Mark Hallerberg, Department of Political Science, Emory University
Professor Hubert Isak, Institute of European Law, University of Graz, Austria
Charlotte Mahr, Sciences Po Graduate Exchange Student, Graduate School for Public & International Affairs
Bowman Miller, Director, Office of Analysis for Europe, U.S. Department of State
Knud Hedeager Nielsen, Public Affairs Manager, Carlsberg Breweries
Eva Nowotny, Austrian Ambassador to the United States

On November 29th, Ambassador Mowotny gave the lecture: "For a Bigger and Stronger European Union" which can be viewed online:
Video from UCIS's PILS server

Professor Rainer Prätorius, Department of Public Administration, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/ Universität der Bundeswehr, Hamburg
Professor Ben Rosamond, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warwick
Gregor Thum, DAAD Professor, Department of History
Margaret Vonno, Economic Counselor, Netherlands Embassy, Washington, D.C.
Professor Thomas Wilson, Department of Anthropology, SUNY Binghamton
Katarzyna Zukrowska, Program for European Studies, Warsaw School of Economics