THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11: EUROPE DAY!
Are you interested in studying and eventually working in Europe? Then join us for this series of events that will give you information and resources to successfully include Europe in your plans.

Europe Day Fair
11:00am – 2:00pm, Lower Lounge – William Pitt Union

A panel discussion of Irish migration since the 18th century with specific focus on the Irish experience in Pittsburgh. Featured panelists are Irish historians at Universities in the Pittsburgh region. James Lamb, Honorary Consul of Ireland will chair the discussion.

As part of the EUCE/ESC's Irish Studies Week, Profesors Sabina Deitrick (Associate Professor in GSPIA and Co-Director of UCSUR's Urban and Regional Planning Program) and Tracy Soska (Professor in the School of Social Work, COSA Chair, and Director of Continuing Education) will share their experiences visiting Ireland and Northern Ireland as co-Directors of Pitt's Community Outreach Partnership Center. They went to the island to meet, present to, consult with, and learn from university and community colleagues.

The European Union Center of Excellence and European Studies Center welcome back students and faculty and usher in the new academic year with refreshments and conversation. Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome - we hope to see you there.

Visiting Scholar Dusan Soltes (visiting at the IBC from July 3-15, 2012) and five graduate students from Political Science and GSPIA discussed careers, politics, the UN, and the EU over lunch. Soltes is a professor at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia and specializes in FDI and the global financial crisis.

From September 10-14, 2012 the EUCE/ESC will host Irish Studies Week. The activities will include a video conference, center lectures on Gaelic Revivals, The Irish in Pittsburgh, the Idea of Poverty in Ireland, and Irish Culture. Please check back for a full list of programs.

On November 2, 2012 the EUCE/ESC will host the 8th Annual Jean Monnet Symposium on the French Elections, the new French government, and its implications for the European Union. Lunch will be served from 12-1 and pre-registration is required for this portion of the program. To RSVP, please contact Karen Lautanen at kal70@pitt.edu.

Samples of panelists' relevant works can be accessed and downloaded at the EUCE/ESC website.

Schedule of Events:

11:30 am: Assemble at the Gold Room, University Club, 2nd Floor; check-in

In January 2012, the EUCE/ESC launched the new speaker series, Conversations On Europe. Featuring some of the country's top experts on the European Union, this series will link participants and presenters via videoconferencing across several sites. Audiences at all sites will be able to ask questions of the experts. This event is open to the public.
The Conversations Continue Fall 2012 with "Tiger in a Cage: Ireland and the New European Economy" on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 12 Noon in 4217 Posvar Hall. Panelists will include:

This three-day symposium "Crossing Borders: Ways of Constructing Identities" will take place at the University of Augsburg as a joint graduate student conference between the University of Augsburg and the University of Pittsburgh. Fifteen total graduate students will present: five graduate students from the University of Pittsburgh and ten from the University of Augsburg will be giving individual presentations on topics related to their dissertation research. The Faculty of Philology and History at the University of Augsburg will provide conference rooms.

On Monday, François Hollande became the first French Socialist candidate elected president since 1981. He campaigned for higher government spending and taxation. Does this signal a new economic approach to Europe’s financial problems? What might happen to austerity? And what is the Socialist economic approach? Dr. Alberta Sbragia, University of Pittsburgh Vice Provost and former Director of the European Studies Center and the European Union Center of Excellence addresses these questions, and talks about the future of the EU.