French Immersion institutes are designed for middle and high school French teachers, as well as French majors to broaden their cultural understanding of current events and international studies regarding French-speaking countries, to strengthen their French listening and speaking skills, and to share strategies for the teaching of French language and culture. We will be offering the following workshop spring, 2012

Topic: "Les Elections Présidentielles et Législatives Françaises de 2012

With Jean-Dominique Le Garrec, Consul Honoraire de France and Jean Pierre Collet, Ancien Consul Honoraire de France

Program Director : Bonnie Adair-Hauck, Ph.D.
Time: 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Room: 5200 Posvar Hall
Cost: $10.00 per workshop
Includes: ACT 48 credit, workshop; continental breakfast; lunch

Pennsylvania ACT 48 credit available for participants.

*****************All activities are conducted in French*****************

Dr. Erik Gray is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The Poetry of Indifference: From the Romantics to the Rubáiyát (Massachusetts 2005) and Milton and the Victorians (Cornell 2009), as well as the editor of Tennyson's In Memoriam (Norton 2004) and Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book 2 (Hackett 2006). He has also published articles on a range of poets including Virgil, Sidney, Donne, Milton, Pope, Gray, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, the Brownings, and Christina Rossetti. This talk is drawn from his current book project on love poetry.

Katie Trumpener, Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and English and director of graduate studies in comparative literature at Yale University

This graduate seminar is in English and open to all graduate students.

Katie Trumpener is one of the most innovative scholars in the field of comparative cultural studies. Her research spans the modern period (the late 18th century to the present) and explores a broad range of topics, from the history of the British and European novel to Anglophone fiction (especially from Scotland, Ireland, and Canada); from European film history to visual culture and music; nationalism, regionalism, and traditionalism; literature and culture of World War I, World War II, and the Cold War; the history of children’s literature (18th century to the present); and female novelists.

A group of this year's LL.M. students will discuss past struggles and future challenges related to the rule of law in their home countries. The second of two lectures, this event will feature discussions by Ivan Milosevic (Serbia), Cristian Minor (Mexico), Kustrim Tolaj (Kosovo), and Abeer Hashayka, Wael Lafee, and Mais Qandeel (Palestine).

The gap between the art and the science involved in producing Early Modern bird’s-eye views has long puzzled historians. On a visual level, city views were posited as being oriented toward a single perspective while simultaneously opening up vast, impossibly elevated cityscapes. Frequently they included the artist–cartographer’s self-portrait within the image, often shown sketching the city from a high hilltop—as if to verify the view as something witnessed and drawn directly from life. Considering that such views were almost always products of the studio stitched together from multiple site drawings and instrument-aided measurements, why did cartographers, artists, and geographers continually play down the scientific underpinnings of the viewmaking enterprise, treating it as a realm of direct, unmediated observation? This talk traces the theoretical and visual discourses concerning the purpose of the city view in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It will detail how measurement was translated into convincing perspectival pictures, and will further address the significant reversal that occurred in those discourses around 1600, when the emphasis upon the artist–cartographer’s transformative abilities would be replaced by a new stress upon the neutralizing power of scientific instruments.

Mark Rosen is Assistant Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley, and has held a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Medici Archive Project in Florence as well as a two-year Samuel H. Kress Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. He has published in The Art Bulletin, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Oud Holland, Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences, Nuncius, and other journals. His book manuscript, The Painted Map in the Age of Print and the Era of Exploration, is currently under review.

Saskia Beranek, PhD Candidate, History of Art and Architecture - University of Pittsburgh

In the 1630s, the most prominent aristocrats in the United Provinces, Frederik Hendrik and Amalia van Solms, commissioned a series of paintings from the Italian play Il Pastor Fido for Amalia’s private rooms in their new palace of Honselaarsdijk. Though the palace itself no longer exists, extensive documentation of both the design of the palace and its decoration survive. Previously, it has been suggested that these scenes contained a portrait of their patron. This paper furthers this hypothesis through a consideration not only of the iconography and political allegory of the cycle, but also through an examination of how portraits became an active element within elite spaces in the early modern period. Using two other examples of site specific allegorized portraiture of the same patron, this paper not only explores the artistic policies of a significant female patron, but also raises issues about the interaction of architectural spaces and their decoration and the dynamic and flexible power of the portrait.

Shirin Fozi, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University

Tomb effigies have long formed a cornerstone of the modern study of Gothic and Renaissance art; it is well known that they were popular across western Europe during the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries, and attracted a broad spectrum of patrons and artists. The origins of the effigy format, however, have been very nearly overlooked in the past century: while a few of the rare, early Romanesque effigies are known to specialists in the field, a comprehensive study of the rise of this sculptural type in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries has yet to be published. This talk introduces a few key monuments from the formative period of the figural tomb effigy, and proposes that these Romanesque effigies were distinct from their Gothic and Renaissance counterparts not only in form, but also in function.

One Book, One Community Lecture Series:

"The Worldwide Fusarium Keratitis Epidemic of 2004-2006: What Would Dr. John Snow and Dr. Henry Whitehead Have Done?"
John Bullock, MD, MPH, MSc. Bullock is an infectious diseases epidemiologist at Wright State School of Medicine.

Also, part of the C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series.

The Tournées festival features a series of recent French films that will be screened in 35mm in Alumni Hall. It is an exciting group of films, and we hope you'll come and bring your friends, family, and students.

Feb. 23, 7:30 PM - "Welcome"
Feb. 24, 6:00 PM - "La Belle Endormie" (The Sleeping Beauty):
Feb. 24, 8:00 PM - "Boarding Gate"
Feb. 25, 7:00 PM- "35 Rhums" (35 Shots of Rum)
Feb. 25, 9:15 PM - "Hadewijch"

To view the full schedule & film descriptions: http://www.frenchanditalian.pitt.edu/documents/TourneesFrenchfilmseriesf...

Opening Reception to follow Welcome in the Alumni Hall Auditorium Lobby.

www.facecouncil.org

The squatting of physical spaces is an important form of protest in European social movements. From
the 1970s onwards, activists began to occupy abandoned buildings transforming them in spaces
where to experiment alternative lifestyles and elaborate radical politics. In Italy, squatted spaces,
usually named “Self-Managed Occupied Social Centers” and first established in the 1970s, became
the backbones of national and transnational social movements that emerged late in the 1990s. Far
from being dismissed, this form of collective action continues to be used in order to create spaces of
resistance and struggle in societies. Through a diachronic perspective, the meeting discusses: the
characteristics and ideological orientation of Social Centers; interactions between Social Centers and
public institutions; the role of Social Centers in social movement scenes.

Prof. Gianni Piazza is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Catania. He
works on squatted spaces, territorial conflicts and social movements in Italy. Among his recent publications:
Which models of democracy? Internal and external decision-making processes of Italian Social Centers in a
comparative study (2011, CSPS-WP Series); Voices of the Valley. Voices of the Straits. How protest creates
communities (2008, with Donatella della Porta).

Dr. Alice Mattoni is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh. She works on
media practices, precarious workers and social movements in Italy. Among her recent publications: Media
Practices and Protest Politics. How Precarious Workers Mobilise (2012); Mediation and Social Movements
(2012, with Bart Cammaerts and Patrick McCurdy, eds.).

This year's undergraduate Model EU will take place on the campus of Washington & Jefferson College. The following schools are sending students:
Bowling Green State University
Kent State University
John Carroll University
Washington & Jefferson College
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg

Sylvia Kofler, from the Washington Delegation of the European Union will attend and give a presentation, as will EUCE Director Ron Linden.

Work-in-Progress Series, "Soccer, its Fans and its Nation in German Literature and Film," Gavin Hicks (ABD)

This talk revisits the concept of orientalism in a long chronological context, including 4th Century BC Athens, Elizabethan and Caroline England, Enlightenment Europe, and colonial and contemporary New Zealand.
It seeks to identify a specifically geographic component of this construct, which historians have neglected.

Jonathan Scott is Professor of History at the University of Auckland.
Among many other books and articles, he is the author of When The Waves Ruled Britannia: Geography and Political Identities, 1500-1800 (Cambridge, 2011), Commonwealth Principles: Republican Writing of the English Revolution (Cambridge, 2004), and England's Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context (Cambridge, 2000).

Barbara Tsakirgis, Associate Professor of Classics and Art History; Chair, Department of Classical Studies, Vanderbilt University

Greek houses of the Classical and Hellenistic periods incorporated a number of features that were designed for the safe-keeping of the entire oikos, the homeowner, his family and slaves, and their possessions. While many of these security measures do not survive intact in the archaeological record, they can be reconstructed from both scant remains and from literary and epigraphical accounts.

The physical provisions for security in Greek houses were many, including stoutly built doors and window shutters. Such means served both to enhance the actual security and the impression of it.

Additionally, human and divine protection alike were features of domestic security. Slaves were stationed at the street door and images of Hermes were placed there to add to that protection. Still other divinities, including Herakles Alexikakos, were also called upon to protect the home. On the other hand, while Classical Athens possessed a police force of Scythian archers, there is no evidence that this police force was charged with protecting private property.

Outside of urban areas, householders in the countryside gained added protection from the towers which were a common feature of farmhouses. Square or round in section, these towers were used both to protect the family and as storage places for grain.

TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, STARTING FEBRUARY 2, 2012
“EUROPE AT 8:00” Eurochannel Short Films Tour
8:00 – 9:30 p.m., 4130 WWPH
Discover the newest perspectives of the European film scene through a series of short films from fifty-four film directors. The Eurochannel Short Films Tour has a strong regional footprint, revealing the creative genius of how cinema can be very diverse and surprising. Shaped by geographical and cultural features, those shorts films are as much charming as a work of the director’s passion. Stories of love or friendship in an adult’s brutal world, paintings of childhood feelings, stories of war or poverty, and comedies with unpredictable humor, Europe at 8:00 brings you the complexity of humanity as the European artists of the new generation see it. This series reflects unknown and unfamiliar dimensions of European reality.
Sponsored by: the European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center, the Russian & East European Studies Center

Europe at 8:00 – Film Schedule

Thursday, February 2
From Luxembourg: X on a Map, by Jeff Desom 13 minutes
From Portugal: Alfama, by João Viana 15 minutes
From France: Port of Call, by Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec 6 minutes
From Belgium: The End of the World, by Michael Havenith 10 minutes
From Azerbaijan: Theatrical Life, by Ilqar Najaf 22 minutes
From Latvia: Signs of Light, by Ilze Kunga 18 minutes

Tuesday, February 7
From Switzerland: Scribbling & Tingling, by Amaury Berger 13 minutes
From England: I’ll Tell You, by Rachel Tillotson 10 minutes
From Spain: Worstward Ho, by Alex Brendemühl 12 minutes
From Scotland: A Cheeky 20, by Chris Fallen 3 minutes
From Austria: Little World, by Marco F. Zimprich 18 minutes
From Poland: Endless Beginners, by Justyna Nowak 30 minutes

Thursday, February 9
From Bosnia & Herzegovina: I Don’t Dream in German, by Ivana Lalovic 13 minutes
From Italy: The Other Half, by Pipo Mazzepesa 9 minutes
From France: Last Markdown, by Nicolas Slomka 14 minutes
From Georgia: The Highway, by Sandro Japaridze 10 minutes
From Slovakia: Viliam, by Veronika Obertová 8 minutes
From Russia: Nail, by Michael Lockshin 13 minutes
From Albania: Snowdrops, by Robert Budina 26 minutes

Tuesday, February 14
From Belgium: Marie, by Jozefien Scheepers 17 minutes
From Switzerland: Parents, by Fernando Tiberini 11 minutes
From Spain: Lala, by Esteban Crespo Garcia 19 minutes
From Kosovo: The Dinner, by Blerta Zeqiri 17 minutes
From the Netherlands: Cat & Mice, by Nova van Dijk 9 minutes

Thursday, February 16
From the Czech Republic: Saharan Sands, by Josef Tuka 18 minutes
From Croatia: That Little Hand of Yours, Sara Hribar 23 minutes
From Ireland: The Ballad of Kid Kanturk, by John Butler 12 minutes
From Italy: From the 41st Minute, by Matteo Pellegrini 9 minutes
From Hungary: With a Little Patience, Laszlo Nemes 14 minutes
From Denmark: Peaceforce, by Peter Gornstein 19 minutes

Tuesday, February 21
From Serbia: Old Mountain, by Goran Stankovic 18 minutes
From Malta: .303, by David Serge 11 minutes
From Spain: Let’s Go to Plan B, by Paz Piñar 14 minutes
From Turkey: Snow, by Erol Mintas 22 minutes
From Wales: Skimming Pebbles, by Tariq Ali 9 minutes
From Romania: The Cage, by Adrian Sitaru 17 minutes

Thursday, February 23
From Montenegro: Masks, by Andro Martinovic 13 minutes
From Germany: Lumen, by Philip Koch 29 minutes
From Sweden: The Last Things, by Levan Akin 20 minutes
From Lithuania: Grandpa, by Andrius Paskevicius 11 minutes
From Moldova: Sasa, Grisa & Ion, by Igor Cobileanski 11 minutes
From Macedonia: Glow, by Tamislav Aleksov 15 minutes

Tuesday, February 28
From Switzerland: Laterarius, by Marina Rosset 3 minutes
From Cyprus: Trachoni, by Nick Kapros 10 minutes
From Ukraine: Her Seat is Vacant, by Bohdana Smymova 17 minutes
From Northern Ireland: Paint, by Ryan Tohill 9 minutes
From Iceland: Safe Journey, David Óskar Ólafsson 22 minutes
From Norway: A Tale of Balloons, by Torfinn Iversen 14 minutes
From Spain: Duck Crossing, by Koldo Almandoz 12 minutes

Thursday, March 1
From Belarus: Life is Infinite Return, by Vladimir Piskunovic 17 minutes
From Armenia: Ararat, by Renaud Armanet 13 minutes
From Bulgaria: Someone Else’s Steps, by Neda Morfova 4 minutes
From Greece: Samurai, by Theo Papadoulakis 26 minutes
From Finland: Kirkonkyla Kyrkby, Elise Pietarila 14 minutes
From Estonia: Champion, by Kaupo Kruusiauk 13 minutes

During the French Revolution, all possessions of the church and former monarchy were declared to be the national property of the new French Republic. In order to deal with the influx of material, the government established storage dépôts in former monasteries and convents where the “objects of art and science” could be collected, sorted, and disseminated for public education. Under the direction of Alexandre Lenoir, the funerary monuments, sculpture, and architectural decoration stored at the Petits-Augustins dépôt evolved into the Musée des Monuments français. The artifacts were organized into a chronological sequence of “century rooms” representing the rise and fall of French arts and civilization. The symbolic memory of the monarchial and ecclesiastical past was embedded in the artifacts, and this material legacy needed to be reframed for the Revolutionary present. By prioritizing historical and temporal specificity rather than former purposes and contexts, Lenoir transformed the artifacts into “historic monuments” and organized them into a new symbolic history of France. For Lenoir, the chronological sequence was a layered political tool about the educational enlightenment of the individual, which he described as the “regeneration” of man. According to Lenoir, the overall “physiognomy” of each historical period was dominated by the ruling monarch, while the rise and decline of artistic development was indicated by the prevalence or lack of individual artistic achievements. The century room sequence was followed by the Élysée, a picturesque garden filled with tombs and monuments dedicated to great figures from French history. Within the chronological sequence of the century rooms, Lenoir created a container for the politically charged educational dissemination of the monarchial history of France. Enlightened by the rise and fall of individual accomplishment through the century rooms, the visitor left the monarchial past in the last century room and entered the atemporal Élysée, which represented the eternal Revolutionary present and which was dedicated to the timeless heroic deeds and intellectual accomplishments of exceptional historical figures. The Musée des Monuments français was an evocation of the progress of human agency.

*Part of the Jean Monnet Lecture Series on European Union Law*

Dr. Davor Babic was a visiting professor at the School of Law for the spring term 2012 (December 28, 2011-January 28, 2012). He taught European Private International Law (2 credits).

EU simulation on Turkish accession to the European Union.

In the Renaissance, studying nature meant (most of the time) encountering nature. But these encounters, as Peter Dear has indicated, tended to generate a discussion (in the period and in the historiography) between unmediated sensory experiences and experiences organized by prior conceptual categories. This paper focuses on anatomical encounters, when anatomists articulated that distinction with clarity, in order to reconsider the significance of ephemeral and permanent anatomy theaters.

The relationship between the two is usually described chronologically:
theaters were temporary before they were permanent. This has encouraged a second view, namely that temporary theaters initiated the study of anatomy through human and animal dissection (the encounter with nature), and permanent theaters further developed that study. This paper will argue against such a seamless transition. Even when the permanent anatomy theater was built and in use in Padua, temporary theaters continued to provide more immediate, sensory experiences for professors as well as students.

This talk is sponsored by the working group on Medicine, Philosophy, and the Scientific Revolution (http://www.pitt.edu/~pmd17/MPSR.html) and supported by the Center for Philosophy of Science. The event is free and open to the public.

On January 17th,2012, the European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh will host an interactive videoconference devoted to the current European financial crisis. To be held from 12-1:30 p.m. in 211 David Lawrence Hall, the session is entitled “Is the Future of the Eurozone the Future of Europe?” This is the first in a series of “Conversations on Europe,” in which participants and audiences will be linked across several sites by video. This first session will feature some of the country’s top experts on the European Union, including Dr. Alberta Sbragia, Vice-Provost of Graduate Studies at the University of Pittsburgh; Dr. Christiane Lemke, Max Weber Chair in German and European Politics at New York University and Professor of Political Science at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany; and Larry Neal, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Audiences at all three sites will be able to ask questions of the experts. This event is open to the public.

Sarah Beckwith works on late medieval religious writing, medieval and early modern drama, and ordinary language philosophy. In this seminar, we will discuss chapter three of her most recent book, Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness (Cornell, 2011). Professor Beckwith is also the author of Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York's Play of Corpus Christi (Chicago, 2001), and Christ's Body: Identity, Religion and Society in Medieval English Writing (Routledge, 1993). She is currently working on a book about Shakespearean tragedy and about philosophy's love affair with the genre of tragedy.

Marianne Novy and Ryan McDermott will offer responses to the pre-circulated reading. Reply to this email in order to receive the reading attachment.

The text for discussion is “Repairs in the Dark: Measure for Measure and the End of Comedy.” If you have questions, please email Professor Jennifer Waldron (jwaldron@pitt.edu).

*Professor Beckwith will also give a lecture at Duquesne University on Thursday, January 12th at 4:00 in 324 Fisher Hall.*

Mr. Lionnet’s thesis explores sovereignty, hegemony, and human rights in EU-ACP (African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States) relations. His project seeks to get beyond the ideology of Eurafrica to better understand development policies in the 1950s and 1960s. For his research, Mr. Lionnet has come to the University of Pittsburgh to make use of the European Union Delegation Collection housed at the University Library. The Collection is a virtually complete assemblage of official European Community documents published since the early 1950s. In his work on development, Mr. Lionnet has had occasion to work in European archives in addition to this one. He has generously agreed to speak with Pitt grad students about his experiences in the University’s Depository Collection, how it compares to others, what he has found, and how it all informs his larger research project. Please join us then for Pizza & Politics…& Archives.

Randall Halle is the Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He studied at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, the University of Freiburg, the University of Utrecht, and the Free University in Berlin. He received his PhD from Madison in 1995. Halle works primarily on film, visual culture, and social philosophy. He is currently pursuing two different projects tentatively entitled Interzone Europe: Social Philosophy and the Transnational Imagination as well as Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference. Halle has received numerous grants. Academic year 2004-2005 he was a Senior Fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University. In 2006 he was offered the honor of being the first occupant of the Jonas Chair at the University of Pittsburgh. Academic year 2009-2010 he was a Senior Fulbright Researcher in Berlin.

As the European Union confronts one of the deepest crises of its history, the frustration of a number of member states at the apparent hegemony of the “Franco-German couple" has become vocal and public. With elections approaching in 2012 in France and 2013 in Germany, it is worth considering what a transfer of power from the current governing parties to the major opposition parties, the Parti Socialiste (PS) and the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD), might harbor for the future of the European integration project. In this presentation, I examine how these parties handled past crises, both when in government and in opposition. I explore policy continuities and evolution over time through an examination of these parties’ roles in the Empty Chair Crisis, President Mitterand’s program for socialist transformation, German reunification, the proposal for a European constitution, and the current financial and debt crisis.

Cultural night out at Jozsa Hungarian restaurant for GSPIA graduate students.

Dr. Maloy (Econ) & Dr. Alexiadou (Political Science) will be giving their take on the economic and social/political implications of the new Greek debt deal and the debt crisis in Europe in general.

Internship panel for GSPIA Master's students looking for internships abroad.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21
Pizza & Politics: What’s Next For Italy? A Conversation with Alberta Sbragia
Dr. Alberta Sbragia, Vice Provost, University of Pittsburgh
12:00 PM, 4217 WWPH
Alberta Sbragia, former EUCE/ESC Director and current Vice-Provost for Graduate Studies, will host a round table discussion about the current economic and political crisis in Italy. Please join us for pizza and a lively discussion about the implications for the Euro and the future of the European Union. As a Mark A. Nordenberg University Chair and the Jean Monnet Professor ad personam in the Department of Political Science, Dr. Sbragia served as the Director of the European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center from 1984-2010, as chair of the European Union Studies Association, now headquartered at the University of Pittsburgh, and as President of the Conference Group on Italian Politics.
Sponsored by: European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center

A workshop with Dr. Eszter Zsofia Toth (Hungarian State Archive) and Professor Ulf Brunnbauer (University of Regensburg, Germany). Dr. Toth is one of the leading historians of the history of everyday life of Communist countries. Her work includes her much acclaimed oral history study of a women's brigade in a socialist factory in Budapest, her PhD project which investigated the profound problems of gender, class, and life-styles in the Kadar era. Professor Ulf Brummbauer has worked extensively on the problems of social history, nationalism, identity constructions and historiography in South Eastern Europe, especially Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania, and the Western Balkan countries.

The Annual Commemoration of Kristallnacht (The “Night of Broken Glass” on November 9-10, 1938)

Survivor’s Account by Ruth Drescher
Music by Susanne Ortner-Roberts (clarinetist)
Readings by Pitt Students

This program is made possible with the support of the Jack Sittsamer Holocaust Studies
Enrichment Fund in the Jewish Studies Program.

Over 75 papers will be delivered on topics from all fields (literature, history, political science, sociology, anthropology, law, religion, art, music, cultural studies, film studies, gender studies, etc.) that treat the question of the idea of France or Frenchness in any time period from the middle ages to the twenty-first century.

For a full version of the conference schedule, please visit the Web site.

Dr. Alberta Sbragia appearence on Bloomberg TV.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/pomboy-says-surge-in-italy-bond-y...

Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- In response to recent developments in the European Debt Crisis, Stephanie Pomboy, president of MacroMavens LLC, Irene Finel-Honigman, adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, Alberta Sbragia, a professor at University of Pittsburgh, and Stephen Wood, chief market strategist at Russell Investments, talked about Europe's sovereign debt crisis and its implications for the U.S. Treasuries. They spoke with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock."

Matteo Galli, who teaches at the University of Ferrara, is one of the foremost German Studies scholars in Italy and is also an expert on German cinema. He has published books on Elias Canetti, Thomas Mann, and E. T. A Hoffmann, and he has translated works by Jens Sparschuh and Uwe Timm, among others. He is also the editor of a major volume on the history of German cinema, Da Caligari a Good Bye, Lenin! (2004).

Erik Bleich is a Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College and will give a talk based on his book on this subject published this year by Oxford University Press.

Historian Elina Gertsman will present a lecture entitled "Holy Anatomy, Animate Substance: the Shrine Madonna as a Performing Object" on October 27, 2011. Elina's work combines more traditional methods of art historical scholarship with an interest in performance studies and cognitive science (or "embodied cognition"). She is the author of *The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance* (2010) and has also published several articles and edited the collection, *Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts* (2008).

Foreign Visiting Professor Dr. Bernhard Schloh will present the first of this year’s two annual Jean Monnet lectures on European Union Law. The lecture is titled “The Present Situation of the European Union: Legal and Political Reflections.” Professor Dr. Bernhard Schloh is a former member of the Legal Service of the Council of Ministers of the European Union and is Professor Emeritus at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.

The French Immersion Institute, Directed by Bonnie Adair-Hauk, Ph.D., organized this workshop for middle and high school teachers to broaden their cultural understanding of current events and international studies regarding French-speaking countries, to strengthen their French listening and speaking skills, and to share strategies for teaching of French language and culture.