The Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) will lead this simulation, which turns individuals into lead negotiators for one of the six countries involved in the North Korea nuclear negotiations. (North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan, Russia, and the United States.) As government representatives, participants will be tasked to reach a comprehensive agreement for North Korea’s denuclearization. With private information, resources, and their own wit, negotiators are out to win the best outcome for their respective governments.

Enlargement posed a serious challenge for the European Commission, which set as a goal bringing on board thousands of new staff. How successful was the Commission in meeting this challenge? And how successful were the newcomers in integrating in to the organization? Now, after several years, can we see that the staff from Central and East European countries have had an impact on the organization? Answering these questions sheds new light on the evolution of the Commission’s organizational culture which Ban, author of the new book analyzing these questions, will discuss.

After a decade of experiments with different techniques, in 1930s Soviet animation began a transformation to celluloid and aesthetics of social realism. However, interpretation of socialist realist aesthetic in animation turned out to be rather problematic, especially considering the influence of American animation, Disney in particular.

The second of the EUCE's 2013-2014 interactive Conversations on Europe Virtual Roundtable Series. Turkey’s likely future and its relation to Europe can be seen in several dimensions. Probably best known and easiest to track is its long-running pursuit of membership in the European Union. But Turkey’s geographic and historic position has also drawn it into—and pushed it away from--the rapidly changing dynamics of the Middle East. It is one of NATO’s oldest members but has signed onto virtually all of Russia’s energy initiatives in the region.

The end of Soviet power resulted in a number of “frozen” conflicts that birthed political entities with varying degrees of recognition: Transnistria in Moldova, Abkhazia and S. Ossetia in Georgia, and Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan. The existence of these quasi-states raises a host of questions related to statehood, sovereignty and political authority. In the 21st century, who decides whether a state is recognized as such? Must political dominion over a territory be recognized? Formal recognition aside, how do these unrecognized polities legitimate themselves to constituents?

Bioarchaeology has impacted how archaeologists reconstruct individual characteristics of past life-ways and behavior. Through detailed analyses of human remains in relation within their mortuary context, bioarchaeologists have contributed to understanding how social identity among the living (gender, status, occupation, social relations, etc) is represented in death.

DL= David Lawrence 106
PF= Pittsburgh Filmmakers
H= Hemingway’s

Mon 29 April 9am: 72 (DL)
Mon 29 April 2pm: 69 (DL)

Tues 30 April 9am: 66 (DL)
Tues 30 April 2pm: 70 (DL)

Wed 1 May 9am: 68 (DL)
Wed 1 May: roundtable: 47 (H)
Wed 1 May 7:30pm: 103 (PF)

Thurs 2 May 9am: 62 (DL)
Thurs 2 May 7:30pm: 107 (PF)

Fri 3 May 9am: 66 (DL)
Fri 3 May 2pm: 74 (DL)
Fri 3 May 7:30pm: 114 (PF)

Sat 4 May roundtable: 48 (H)