Funding is tight and it can be hard to arrange trips abroad to do field or archival research. Once you have a budget and a set schedule, it is imperative that every moment of your trip counts to its fullest. Moreover, careful preparation can also be useful in convincing grant-giving institutions that your project is worth funding. In this meeting moderated by EUCE/ESC Director Ron Linden, a panel of graduate students will share their experiences researching abroad (what worked and what didn’t), answer questions, and offer practical advice.

Jeffrey S. Sposato, Associate Professor of Musicology
Moores School of Music, University of Houston

During the French Revolution, all possessions of the church and former monarchy were declared to be the national property of the new French Republic. In order to deal with the influx of material, the government established storage dépôts in former monasteries and convents where the “objects of art and science” could be collected, sorted, and disseminated for public education. Under the direction of Alexandre Lenoir, the funerary monuments, sculpture, and architectural decoration stored at the Petits-Augustins dépôt evolved into the Musée des Monuments français.

On January 31, from 8:30am-1:00pm the EUCE/ESC will host an orientation for local high schools competing in the EU Delegation to the US sponsored competition, EURO CHALLENGE. Presenters include: Corrine Tomasi from the University of Pittsburgh, David Anderson from WISE in New York, Stacy Hope from the EU Delegation to the US in Washington, and Robert Schaub from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Pittsburgh branch.

EU simulation on Turkish accession to the European Union.

The squatting of physical spaces is an important form of protest in European social movements. From
the 1970s onwards, activists began to occupy abandoned buildings transforming them in spaces
where to experiment alternative lifestyles and elaborate radical politics. In Italy, squatted spaces,
usually named “Self-Managed Occupied Social Centers” and first established in the 1970s, became
the backbones of national and transnational social movements that emerged late in the 1990s. Far
from being dismissed, this form of collective action continues to be used in order to create spaces of

Next Wednesday (April 11), the Society and Honors College will proudly play host to a prominent intellectual historian of our generation: J.G.A. Pocock, author of Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law, Machiavellian Moment, and a multi-volume work on Edward Gibbon. An emeritus professor at Johns Hopkins, Pocock is noted for developing a novel approach to the study of history often referred to as the Cambridge School of intellectual history. His work encompasses a broad range of intellectual endeavors, including not only history, but also political science, philosophy, and literature.

Colloquium on Germany, Sabine Von Dirke (German), "White Collar Blues: Immaterial Labor and its Discontent,” with responses from Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon) and Lisa Brush (Sociology).

Colloquium, Ruth Bottigheimer (Stony Brook), “What’s Eastern and What’s Western in the Arabian Nights?” with responses from Susan Andrade (English) and Giuseppina Mecchia (French and Italian).

Colloquium, “To the Unknown Cinemagoers: German Cinema as an Occupation Cinema,” with responses from Mark Lynn Anderson (English), Lina Insana (French and Italian) and Barbara McCloskey (History of Art and Architecture).