The deadline for applications is Feb. 15, 2011. Additional details are available at http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/funding/2011/call_jean_monnet_action_ka1_2..., or from:

Belen Bernaldo de Quiros

Head of Unit

European Commission - Directorate General for Education and Culture

Directorate A - Lifelong Learning: horizontal Lisbon policy issues and international affairs

Unit A3 - Jean Monnet; partnerships; relations with the Agencies

+32-2-296.03.12 (direct phone)

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The Jean Monnet Program has as one of its strategic aims to ensure the continuation of high quality teaching on European integration across generations. In this context, the call for proposals invites Jean Monnet applications from both senior scholars and those who are still in the early stages of their academic careers (after the PhD). Such applications not only strengthen the reputation of scholars' Jean Monnet activities, they also constitute a necessary bridge to the future.

Applications for Jean Monnet Modules are the traditional 'entry level' for the Jean Monnet network. Such Modules can be taught or co-taught by members of the higher education teaching staff at the level of lecturer and assistant professor.

Pitt undergraduates with a research interest in the EU are encouraged to apply for participation in this year's Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union. The deadline for submission of a research topic for the 2011 conference, to be held April 7-8, 2011, is February 12, 2011. Among the awards for top papers delivered at the conference, this year the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley will award three places in a six-day study tour to Brussels to visit EU institutions, NATO, and the College of Europe.

University of Pittsburgh graduate students will interrogate and challenge the definitions of 'national' and 'transnational' through an investigation of American, German, Russian, Israeli, Palestinian, Mexican, South Korean, and Japanese screen cultures.

Aaron Abbarno is a PhD candidate in the University of Pittsburgh's Dept. of Political Science.

This lecture addresses the challenge to devise legally sound and politically palatable options in light of the specific interests of African states, specifically: how can ICC prosecutions be reconciled with peacemaking initiatives when one party is under indictment and what is the proper role of the Security Council in the undertakings of the ICC?

Sharon Kinoshita,works in Mediterranean Studies with Brian Catlos (History, UCSC), she co-directs the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies as well as the University of California Multicampus Research Project Initiative in Mediterranean Studies (http://mediterraneanseminar.org).

Three sessions will be presented: Texts in Context; Deferral, Other, Boundary; and Subjects in Crisis.

Lecture given by Jarmila Curtiss, Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany, Center Associate, Center for International Studies (European Union Center of Excellence and Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies) University of Pittsburgh, and Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, Duquesne University

Through an analysis and dialogue of the theories of space and place outlined by Michel De Certeau, Michel Foucault, Henri Lefebvre, and Edward Soja, Ms. Jonsson will examine how the 'other spaces' (both public and private) are re-coded with informal and invisible meanings and rituals. This allows for a new lens through which we can read Francophone texts from different regions and time periods such as Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnifique, Assia Djebar's Les femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement, and Azouz Begag's Le Gone du Chaaba.

The deadline for the submission of applications for the 2010-11 Faculty European Grant Competition is December 3, 2010. Application forms and grant information are available from the EUCE/ESC Web site:

The deadline for graduate students in fields other then Fine Arts, Performing Arts, Dance, and Architecture to submit applications for the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Services) Student Scholarships and/or Research Grants to the New York office is November 15, 2010. For detailed information and application procedures, please go the EUCE/ESC Web site:

Lina Insana, Pitt Faculty Fellow, will lead this colloquium.

Pieter Judson is a professor at Swarthmore College and currently serves as editor of the Austrian History Yearbook. He is the author of Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience and National Identity in the Austrian Empire 1848-1914.

Philipp Gassert has recently taken over as Chair at the University of Augsburg. His research focuses on 20th century international history, the history of transatlantic relations, National Socialism, and post-1945 contemporary German and European History. He received his PhD from the University of Heidelberg. He is the co-founder of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies and was a DAAD Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Arpad von Klimo, Carolyn Warner and Francois Foret will present this panel discussion. Lunch will be provided at 11:30 a.m.

The 2010 Nicholas C. Tucci Lecture will be presented by Theodore J. Cachey, the Albert J. Ravarino Family Director of Dante and Italian Studies, Professor and Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, at the University of Notre Dame.

This lecture will be presented by Anthony Grafton, the Short-term Fellow from Princeton. A reception will follow in the Frick Fine Arts Cloister from 6 pm to 7:30 pm.

Michael Miller of Central European University (Budapest) is the author of Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation (Stanford University Press).

In this video-conference, Matthias Peter Sonn and Patrick Crowley will analyze the 2010 European Financial Crisis as well as its implications for fiscal sustainability, growth, and financial markets.

Professor Bonnie Adair-Hauck will present this workshop in French for High School and Post-Secondary teachers of French. Act 48 credit is granted for this workshop.

Ernst-Peter Brezovszky, Austrian Consul General, will conduct a roundtable discussion with faculty and students.

This videoconference, in coordination with the Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS at Johns Hopkins, will be moderated by Daniel Hamilton and will feature Philip H. Gordon, Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs in the United States Department of State.

Ana Kladnik and Adelina Stefan present their PhD research on consumerism and tourism in three different socialist states.

Elizabeth Otto will present this lecture.

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Services) will visit both the University of Pittsburgh and CMU to hold information sessions for undergraduate students, graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and faculty about funding opportunities for study and research in Germany. Previous knowledge of German is not required for these awards.

Want to prepare yourself for the global marketplace? Learn first hand from students on how to internationalize your studies at Pitt by earning an international studies certificate or the Bachelor of Philosophy (BPHIL) in International and Area Studies. Students can develop a more concentrated and in-depth understanding of a world region or a global theme. For any major on campus! Learn from students on how they benefit from affiliations with the Centers for Latin American Studies, Russian and East European Studies, Global Studies, Asian Studies, European Union and the European Center for Excellence and the African Studies Program. Food from around the world served.

President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, will give a lecture via videoconfernce on the topic 'Europe, the Systemic Consequences of the Slowly Abating Crisis and the Need to Re-Formulate the Case for Capitalism.'

The Union for the Mediterranean: Continuity and Change in European-Mediterranean Cooperation.

The Union for the Mediterranean, formerly known as the Barcelona Process (1995), was created at the Paris Summit in July 2008. The new multi-lateral framework for Euro-Mediterranean cooperation introduced many innovations. This talk will examine the different aspects related to the genesis and the evolution of a French initiative.