Europe
"Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England"
Professor Picciotto pre-circulated her essay to facilitate discussion on the relationship between Protestantism, experimental science, the public sphere, and intellectual labor itself.
"Postpartum and Menstuating Women and the Immutability of Natural Law: A Twelfth-Century Discussion"
"The Jews Who Are Not One: French Intellectuals, Philosophy, and the Politics of Nationhood"
"Montesquieu est-il encore vivant?: Apparition et développement d'un contrôle de constitutionnalité des lois en France"
Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference on the European Union, 2012
The Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference on the European Union will welcome graduate students from around the world to present the research on "Crisis, Cooperation, and Change in the EU."
French Immersion Institute
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.
External Advisory Board Meeting
Members of the newly-constituted External Advisory Board for the EUCE/ESC met for breakfast and a panel discussion about banking and the sovereign debt crisis in Europe.
Pizza & Politics: Historical Perspectives on French Socialism, German Social Democracy, and Crisis within the European Communities: From the Empty Chair Crisis to Financial Collapse, 1965-2011
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.
Pizza & Politics: “Using the EU Archive at Pitt to Research Beyond Eurafrica”
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.
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