On November 2, 2012 the EUCE/ESC will host the 8th Annual Jean Monnet Symposium on the French Elections, the new French government, and its implications for the European Union. Lunch will be served from 12-1 and pre-registration is required for this portion of the program. To RSVP, please contact Karen Lautanen at kal70@pitt.edu.

Samples of panelists' relevant works can be accessed and downloaded at the EUCE/ESC website.

Schedule of Events:

11:30 am: Assemble at the Gold Room, University Club, 2nd Floor; check-in

In January 2012, the EUCE/ESC launched the new speaker series, Conversations On Europe. Featuring some of the country's top experts on the European Union, this series will link participants and presenters via videoconferencing across several sites. Audiences at all sites will be able to ask questions of the experts. This event is open to the public.
The Conversations Continue Fall 2012 with "Tiger in a Cage: Ireland and the New European Economy" on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 12 Noon in 4217 Posvar Hall. Panelists will include:

This three-day symposium "Crossing Borders: Ways of Constructing Identities" will take place at the University of Augsburg as a joint graduate student conference between the University of Augsburg and the University of Pittsburgh. Fifteen total graduate students will present: five graduate students from the University of Pittsburgh and ten from the University of Augsburg will be giving individual presentations on topics related to their dissertation research. The Faculty of Philology and History at the University of Augsburg will provide conference rooms.

On Monday, François Hollande became the first French Socialist candidate elected president since 1981. He campaigned for higher government spending and taxation. Does this signal a new economic approach to Europe’s financial problems? What might happen to austerity? And what is the Socialist economic approach? Dr. Alberta Sbragia, University of Pittsburgh Vice Provost and former Director of the European Studies Center and the European Union Center of Excellence addresses these questions, and talks about the future of the EU.

Regulating Unregulated Migration:
European and U.S. Reactions to Immigration

Friday, May 4th
9:00-9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30-10:00 Welcome and Introductions
Suzanna Crage, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
Ronald Linden, Director, European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center

10-11:30 The EU & U.S.: Demographic trends
Martin Schain, Department of Politics, New York University

11:30-1:30 Lunch (for registered participants)
Presentation: Public opinion about migration in the US and selected European countries

Historian Ann Blair of Harvard University will visit the University of Pittsburgh on October 1-2, 2012. The topic of her talk will be "Latin Authorship During the Rise of the Vernaculars."

More details to follow.

"Speaking in Tongues" Lecture Series

More details about the lecture will follow.

B. Burcak Basbug-Erkan is an assistant professor of Statistics at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara. She acts as the director of the METU Disaster Management Research and Implementation Centre since 2008. She holds a B.Sc. in statistics, METU, a M.Sc. degree in statistics, University of Warwick, the UK and a Ph.D. in statistics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the UK. Her main research interest is disaster risk management, extreme event modelling, insurance and actuarial analysis and financial risk management of disaster losses.

Screening of THE QUEEN will be introduced by Director, Stephen Frears. Q&A session with Colin MacCabe.

Known for making provocative, stylized, and tightly budgeted films about people living on society's social and/or sexual fringes,
British director Stephen Frears is renowned as one of his country's most vibrant and recognizable filmmakers. Regarding his

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.