This is the 6th annual graduate student conference on the European Union. The conference participants are graduate students from a wide variety of universities in Europe, Canada and the U.S. with an EU related research focus.

This conference has been intellectually organized by Political Science Professor Michael Goodhart. The papers represent the work of an American Political Science Association task force focusing on the conference's theme.

Piers Ludlow of the London School of Economics makes the case for including knowledge of the past development of the European integration process in any discussions about its present state and future course. In particular, he will stress that several of the Union's most distinctive features can only properly be understood by knowing more about their development over the integration process's 60-plus year history.

This lecture is being presented by Dr. Guy Standing, Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath. The lecture is based on his recently published book of the same title.

Three law students who were Nordenberg Fellows during the summer 2010 (Andrew DiSipio, Morgan Kronk and Andrew Vogeler) will share their experiences. The European legal institutions they interned at include the European Court of Auditors, Luxembourg, the European Commission's Legal Service, Brussels, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg.

This panel includes presentations by three graduate students: Gunes Ertan, Lance Lindauer and Farhod Yuldashev.

Anthony M. Bertelli, Associate Professor and C. C. Crawford Chair in Management and Performance at the School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California, will lecture on British politics.

In this 2011 Jean Monnet Symposium, Alexander Carius, Stanley Kabala, Joseph Marriott and Edward Rubin will discuss transatlantic perspectives on climate change and energy, both from a scientific and technological perspective and regarding the policy implications. A reception will follow the panel presentation.

Part of the Pizza & Politics Series. Some theorists speculate that it is the rise in individualism more than the often suspected increases in education and urbanization that has caused the latest drop in fertility rates across Europe. Certainly, the growing attention being paid to various forms of intimate citizenship support this hypothesis.

This lecture is being presented by Dr. Martin Holland from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, who holds the Jean Monnet Chair ad personam designation from the European Commission.