INTERNATIONAL WEEK, November 11-15, 2013
Stay tuned for fun events all week!
Stay tuned for fun events all week!
The 9 project participants from Albania, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Slovak Republic and Spain have been invited to the US under the auspices of the Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program. The visitors are all actively involved with good governance issues through their work with NGO’s or as elected officials. The themes for the Pittsburgh segment of the program are economic redevelopment and sustainable urban development..
9 project participants from Albania, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Macedonia, the Netherlands, the Slovak Republic, and Spain have been invited to the US under the auspices of the Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program and will participate in a roundtable discussion discussing US-EU relations. The visitors are all actively involved with good governance issues through their work with NGO’s or as elected officials. The themes for the Pittsburgh segment of the program are economic redevelopment and sustainable urban development.
As a part of Europe Day celebrations, EUCE connected with Sunnyside Elementary. We presented information on the EU to two 6th grade classes.
Femme morocaine
French Immersion Workshop for primary and secondary school teachers.
The European Union Center of Excellence and European Studies Center is pleased to announce that Alberta Sbragia, Pitt Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Union Studies Association!
Organized in collaboration with Wulf Reiners of the Jean Monnet Chair for Political Science of the University of Cologne, the workshop will serve to bring together practitioners and academic scholars to discuss the collaboration of state and non-state actors, such as the European Union, as well as those from civil society, within the system of global health governance.
*Undergraduate Directed Research*
Felicia Grasso (with Jody Garcia):
Jody's work centers on language contact and historical language change. My work with
Jody’s research included translating a number of texts in different dialects of German
to English. I took a look at translation theory, the issues that have arisen over the years
in translation. I gave a sample of specific issues I ran into when translating dialects and
outdated German texts into English, and show how I chose to face these issues. I show
This is an interdisciplinary seminar, drawing students from art history, films studies, anthropology, and creative writing, which has investigated the role of death and mortality in the formation and transformation of culture. The course is organized around the new constellation structure of HAA, focusing on the conceptual frameworks of agency, identity, and mobility/exchange.