European Studies Center

Synonyms: 
CWES
ESC

EU Global? The EU and Global Health Governance

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 09:00 to 12:00

Organized in collaboration with Wulf Reiners of the Jean Monnet Chair for Political Science of the University of Cologne, the workshop will serve to bring together practitioners and academic scholars to discuss the collaboration of state and non-state actors, such as the European Union, as well as those from civil society, within the system of global health governance.

Location: 
University Club
Contact Email: 
euce@pitt.edu

Linguistics Undergraduate Research Poster Session

Presenter: 
Ranem Atia, Felicia Grasso, Mara Katz, Anisa Mughal, Jessica Packer, Spencer Onuffer
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 04/26/2013 - 15:00

*Undergraduate Directed Research*

Felicia Grasso (with Jody Garcia):
Jody's work centers on language contact and historical language change. My work with
Jody’s research included translating a number of texts in different dialects of German
to English. I took a look at translation theory, the issues that have arisen over the years
in translation. I gave a sample of specific issues I ran into when translating dialects and
outdated German texts into English, and show how I chose to face these issues. I show

Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, Room 208B
Contact Person: 
Sally Kim
Contact Email: 
sjk70@pitt.edu

Student Symposium: The Living and the Dead

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 04/19/2013 - 14:00 to 17:00

This is an interdisciplinary seminar, drawing students from art history, films studies, anthropology, and creative writing, which has investigated the role of death and mortality in the formation and transformation of culture. The course is organized around the new constellation structure of HAA, focusing on the conceptual frameworks of agency, identity, and mobility/exchange.

Location: 
Visual Media Workshop, 116 Frick Fine Arts Building
Contact Person: 
Natalie Swabb
Contact Email: 
njs21@pitt.edu

Global Issues Through Literature: Europe and Immigration

Presenter: 
Bernard Hagerty (Dept. of History)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 11/14/2012 - 17:00 to 20:30

The first in a series of six workshops focusing on different global issues and how educators can use literature to further explore the topic. The first workshop will focus on Europe and the topic of immigration. Dr. Bernard Hagerty will discuss the novel Bruno, Chief of Police, by the journalist Martin Walker. It is a remarkable portrayal of the new, multicultural French countryside. North African immigrants are central to the plot and are portrayed in an evenhanded and nuanced way, and rural people themselves appear as a pressured minority. History matters, and the EU is omnipresent.

Location: 
4209 Posvar Hall
Cost: 
Free
Contact Person: 
Veronica Dristas
Contact Email: 
dristas@pitt.edu

The Changing Security Environment of the Black Sea

Subtitle: 
Policy Conference
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 05/02/2013 - 09:00 to Fri, 05/03/2013 - 16:00

In recent years, the area of the Black Sea region has seen several momentous changes, including: the emergence of several new states—some as a result of violent conflict; the appearance of a variety of governing systems, nominally based on democratic models but varying widely in terms of the practices of democracy; the end of the long-standing status quo of the Cold War with a resulting change of alliance patterns; and increasing prominence of a European, and Russian, energy highway.

Location: 
Pittsburgh Athletic Association
Contact Person: 
Eleni Valliant
Contact Email: 
env1@pitt.edu

The External Dimension of the EU's Immigration Policy: The Case Study of Turkey

Presenter: 
Dr. Ayselin Goze Yildiz
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 04/12/2013 - 15:30 to 16:30

The presentation aims to analyse the external dimension of the EU’s immigration policy and its implications for Turkey as a transit country. It tries to demonstrate the development and institutionalization of the EU’s externalization of its immigration policy within a theoretical context. Applying the theoretical debate

Location: 
4625 Posvar Hall
Contact Email: 
euce@pitt.edu

European Union Center of Excellence/ West European Studies Certificate Graduation Ceremony

Presenter: 
Ronald Linden (EUCE/ESC Director)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 04/26/2013 - 16:00 to 17:00

The EUCE/ESC will hold a ceremony during graduation weekend to recognize its undergraduate and graduate recipients of the European Union or West European Studies Certificate Program. A reception will follow for family and friends of the Center in the Pittsburgh Athletic Association.

Location: 
Pittsburgh Athletic Association
Cost: 
free

A Window into the Making of Architectural History in Great Britain (1800-1850)

Presenter: 
Courtney Skipton Long (HAA)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:00

This presentation is offered as an introduction to Courtney Long’s dissertation, “Re-Categorizing Great Britain's Medieval Architecture: A Lesson in Nineteenth-Century Visual Taxonomy.” Courtney’s project seeks to investigate the ways in which architectural historians and natural scientists conveyed the process of change over time in textual and graphic observations published between 1800 and 1850.

Location: 
Room 203 Frick Fine Arts

Good Neighbors, Bad Neighbors: How War and Conflict Change Us

Presenter: 
Dan Simpson (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Jan Gross (Princeton), Anthony Novosel (University of Pittsburgh), Edward Orehek (Univeristy of Pittsburgh), Robert Szymczak (Penn State), Gregor Thum (University of Pittsburgh)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sun, 05/05/2013 - 15:00 to 17:00

A continuation of the conversation begun by PICT Theatre's production of Tadeusz Slobodzianek's play Our Class,/i>, and featuring noted Princeton historian Dr. Jan T. Gross, whose book Neighbors inspired the play. Join us for a compelling discussion.

Haven't seen the play? Our Class runs through May 4th. Use code PANEL55 for Buy-One-Get-One-Free tickets at picttheatre.org or call 412-561-6000.

RSVP requested: https://picttheatre.secure.force.com/ticket/

Location: 
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Cost: 
Free
Contact Person: 
Michelle Belan
Contact Email: 
mbelan@picttheatre.org

The Economic Impact Of Social Ties: Evidence From German Reunification

Presenter: 
Tarek Hassan (Chicago)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 04/09/2013 - 15:00

Abstract

We use the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to show that personal relationships which
individuals maintain for non-economic reasons can be an important determinant of regional
economic growth. We show that West German households who have social ties to East
Germany in 1989 experience a persistent rise in their personal incomes after the fall of
the Berlin Wall. Moreover, the presence of these households significantly affects economic
performance at the regional level: it increases the returns to entrepreneurial activity, the

Location: 
4716 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Debra Ann Ziolkowski
Contact Email: 
daz1@pitt.edu

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