Drawing on data from two qualitative studies on masculinity and domestic violence in Sweden, this lecture will address the relation between space, affect, and violence.
In the 1990's, European Institutions progressively got involved in some urban renewal projects linked to deprived neighborhoods of European cities. But they also since then seem to have given up their ambition to set up a proper urban community policy. Although European programs dedicated to cities remain far from representing the most important of European policies, we'll show that the interventions of European institutions in that realm have had different impacts on renewal policies in Europe.
Two-thirds of European inhabitants live in a city. Europe’s cities are the political, economic, and cultural core of European life and activity. As a result, urban public policies are shaped not only by local but also heavily by national and European decisions. As cities are not directly represented in Brussels in a dedicated assembly, they have been claiming to be recognized as major actors of the European decision-making process since the end of the 1980’s.
Panayotis J. Tsakonas is a Professor of International Relations, Security Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis at the Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean in Rhodes, Greece. He studied political science, international relations, and security studies at the Panteion University of Athens and Reading University, Great Britain.
By all accounts, the number of anti-Semitic incidences—including violent attacks on synagogues, businesses and individuals—has reached a postwar high across Europe. Official responses and those of community leaders have varied, as have explanations. Some point to the re-emergence of age-old European attitudes or populist political parties while others suggest a link to Europe’s changing demographic or a reflection of the unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The EU has devoted much attention to the issue of employment, especially to female employment. For example in 1997, The European Employment Strategy (EES) aimed to increase employment levels to evaluate the strategy’s results through an interpretation known as gender mainstreaming. In 2000, the Lisbon European Council set up quantitative parameters for female employment, such as a European average employment rate of over 60% to be achieved by 2010.
The ESC is proud to be hosting three visiting researchers from Middle East Technical University as part of a multi-year grant funded by the European Union that encourages researcher mobility and inquiry into topics related to security and governance issues related to Europe, Turkey, and the Transatlantic relationship: EU-GLOBAL. In this workshop, these visiting graduate students will present their research related to these themes, with a focus on specific research questions, methods, and initial conclusions, with responses from Pitt faculty and alumni working in the field.
During September's K-12 Educator Advisory Board meeting the staff met with members to discuss the following: introductions (specifically Kathy as the new outreach coordinator), grant updates, 2015-2016 program highlights, collaborative partnerships (ESCAPE, Global Scholars), as well as program and assessment feedback (Model EU assessments, COTE framework).
Professor Tsakonas provided a presentation on the European migration crisis to a group of high school students (one school in person and two other schools joined in remotely via BlueJeans). Following his presentation students had the opportunity to participate in a brief Q&A. This event was organized in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh.
