European Studies Center

Synonyms: 
CWES
ESC

"Unconditional Convergence"

Subtitle: 
Pittsburgh International Trade & Development Seminar
Presenter: 
Dani Rodrick (Harvard)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 09/09/2011 - 12:00 to 13:30

Harvard Economist Dani Rodrik described how "Unconditional convergence is alive and well, but that we need to look for it within manufacturing industries rather than the economy as a whole. Industries that start at lower levels of labor productivity grow faster, regardless of the quality of policies or institutions in their home economies." For more, see Professor Rodrik's blog: http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2011/09/unconditional-conv....

Location: 
1502 Hamburg Hall, CMU

Centrality and Perceptibility as Indicators of Dominance at Intersecting Religioscapes

Subtitle: 
From Anatolia to the Alentejo to the Andes
Presenter: 
Robert M. Hayden (Antropology, Pitt), Enrique Lopez-Hurtado (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos), Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir (Middle East Technical University), Aykan Erdemir (Member of the Turkish Parliament)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 12/06/2011 - 15:30 to 17:30
Location: 
3160 WW Posvar Hall

Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference on the European Union, 2012

Subtitle: 
Crisis, Cooperation, and Change in the EU
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 03/30/2012 (All day) to Sat, 03/31/2012 (All day)

The Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference on the European Union will welcome graduate students from around the world to present the research on "Crisis, Cooperation, and Change in the EU."

Location: 
PAA
Event Web Site: 
http://www.ucis.edu/euce
Contact Person: 
Allyson Delnore
Contact Phone: 
412-624-5404
Contact Email: 
adelnore@pitt.edu

French Immersion Institute

Subtitle: 
La Société Française: Ça Bouge!!! L'adaptation des lois, des individus et des familles aux changements de nos jours
Presenter: 
Myriam Gau, Centre Francophone de Pittsburgh
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 10/15/2011 - 08:30 to 13:30

The French Immersion Institute, Directed by Bonnie Adair-Hauk, Ph.D., organized this workshop for middle and high school teachers to broaden their cultural understanding of current events and international studies regarding French-speaking countries, to strengthen their French listening and speaking skills, and to share strategies for teaching of French language and culture.

Location: 
5200 Posvar Hall
Cost: 
$10.00
Contact Person: 
Timothy Thompson
Contact Email: 
tst@pitt.edu

External Advisory Board Meeting

Subtitle: 
Panel Discussion: "The Eurozone Crisis: Implications and Prospects"
Presenter: 
Alberta Sbragia (Vice-Provost, Political Science); Despina Alexiadou (Political Science); Rachel Epstein (University of Denver)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 10/26/2011 - 08:30 to 10:30

Members of the newly-constituted External Advisory Board for the EUCE/ESC met for breakfast and a panel discussion about banking and the sovereign debt crisis in Europe.

Location: 
University Club Gold Room
Contact Person: 
Karen Lautanen

Pizza & Politics: Historical Perspectives on French Socialism, German Social Democracy, and Crisis within the European Communities: From the Empty Chair Crisis to Financial Collapse, 1965-2011

Presenter: 
Brian Shaev
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 12/07/2011 - 12:00

As the European Union confronts one of the deepest crises of its history, the frustration of a number of member states at the apparent hegemony of the “Franco-German couple" has become vocal and public. With elections approaching in 2012 in France and 2013 in Germany, it is worth considering what a transfer of power from the current governing parties to the major opposition parties, the Parti Socialiste (PS) and the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD), might harbor for the future of the European integration project.

Location: 
4625 WWPH

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