You are invited to join us for the European Studies Center’s first Conversations on Teaching Europe webinar on Tuesday, October 13th from 3:30 – 5:00 PM EDT.

Dr. Linden is interviewed on World Affairs Council's "Global Press Confrence" on KQV 1410 AM Radio. The interview will be rebroadcast Sunday, August 9th at 10:30 PM. The topic of the interview is The Bailout of Greece: Repercussions for Europe and the World.

Dr. Panayotis Tsakonas, an Onassis Foundation Fellow and Professor Ozgehan Senyuva, visiting from Middle Eastern Technical University as part of Pitt's EU-GLOBAL partnership, will present a roundtable discussion of the current state of Turkish-Greek-EU relations. Given recent elections in Turkey, recent economic turmoil in Greece, and on-going negotiations between both parties over Cyprus, there will be no shortage of interesting topics to discuss.

Dans le monde francophone, quelles sont les relations entre l’identité linguistique, l’identité nationale, le sexe, et la sexualité?

Prenez part à notre vidéoconférence pour répondre à cette question avec un panel d’experts:

Abdellah Taïa, écrivain marocain d’expression française
Denis Provencher, professeur de français et de la communication interculturelle à l’Université de Maryland Baltimore County
Nadia Fadil, professeur au Centre de recherches sociologiques, KU Leuven

French and Italian Languages and Literatures is celebrating its 50th anniversary during calendar year 2015. As important figures in the department’s past, present, and future, they invite you to join the celebration!
Join the Department at the 50th anniversary social reception in the University Club Ballroom to reconnect with classmates and faculty. RSVP to frit50@pitt.edu by September 30, 2015, with your name, graduation year, and current address.

Mark your calendars! The EUCE/ESC invites students, faculty, and friends of the Center to join us at our opening reception in 4130 Posvar Hall. Learn about this year’s full schedule of events, new courses, faculty and students, and meet this year’s visitors while enjoying some light refreshments.

Dr. Allison research focuses on the EU's promotion of regionalism to ASEAN: economic integration, institutionalization, and human rights. Dr. Allison is a recipient of the 2015 EUCE/ESC Summer Scholars Grant.

Mr. Lappalainen is scientific advisor to UNESCO's European Coalition of Cities Against Racism, which is building a network of cities to share experiences and improve policies to fight racism, discrimination, and xenophobia. This lecture will discuss how cities around the world tackle discrimination, racism, and social exclusion and invite discussion on how we can improve our work to address these issues in our region. A reception will follow the program in the Frick Fine Arts Cloister.

Dr. Pricilla Layne is the co-editor of the book Rebellion and Revolution: Defiance in German Language, History, and Art (2010). In this talk, she will take a look back at German reunification and consider its effects on minorities. How did minoritarian Germans feel excluded from the celebrations? How were minorities used to incite public fears? How did minoritarian artists respond to the physical and epistemic violence? And how has the notion of a German identity become more inclusive twenty-five years later?