The following presentations will be made at this symposium: Kirsten Fudeman, Assistant Professor of French, University of pittsburgh, 'What French and France Meant to Mediveval Jews'; Sharon Kinoshita, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz and Fellow, Pitt Humanities Center, 'Multilingual France, Global French'; Deena Klepper, Associate Professor of Religion and History, Department of Religion, Boston University, 'Recovering Lost Letters: The Literary Study of Cross-Cultural Encounter and New Direction in Medieval European History'.

The World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh is accepting applications for candidates to participate in a study tour to Europe. The trip to Paris, Brussels and an eastern European city is scheduled for June 25-July 2, 2011. The trip is tailored to the interests of secondary school teachers, administrators, and curriculum coordinators, as well as university faculty. Participant fee is $500, with airfare, accommodations, some meals, and local travel will be provided by the World Affairs Council.

This lecture will focus on Poland's relationship with the European Union (EU) in the wake of it becoming an EU member state. The implications of Poland's experience for future enlargements of the EU will also be examined.

Dr. Trzaskowski is a member of the European Parliament's (EP) Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) from Poland. He is Vice-Chair of the EP's Committee on Constitutional Affairs and a member of the Delegation for Relations with the United States.

Sebastian Harnish, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Institute of Political Science, University of Heidelberg, Germany examines Germany's foreign policy trajectory since 1990. Addressing concerns about Berlin's conduct in Afghanistan and the Euro zone crisis, he challenges the argument that a 'normalization of German Foreign Policy' is currently under way. Responses will be offered by Professor Sabine von Dirke and Professor Patrick Altdorfer, University of Pittsburgh.

This lecture is being presented by Dr. Anastasia Grammaticaki-Alexiou, Professor of Law at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

This lecture is being presented by Dr. Anastasia Grammaticaki-Alexiou, Professor of Law at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

This lecture is being presented by Dr. Anastasia Grammaticaki-Alexiou, Professor of Law at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

The EU Studies Summer Program in Brussels offers advanced undergraduates the opportunity to study the emergence of a united Europe in its dynamic core and is intended for students interested in the politics of the European Union. The five week program features lectures nd seminars, as well as meetings with European officials and site visits to major EU institutions and organizations.

This is a live streaming of the GLOBSEC 2011 Bratislava Security Forum, the most prestigious security forum in Central Europe.

Professor Fabrizio Tonello, the 2011 University of Pittsburgh History Department Italian Fulbright Visiting Professor, will offer a personal view of Italian politics and government.