Peace Corps Brown Bag Info Session
(Bring your lunch!)
Stop by the session to hear from a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and Recruiter, Jonnett Maurer, about how Peace Corps might fit into your immediate future and get questions answered about your application.
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.
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.
Having returned from a set of talks with loyalist groups on the ground in Northern Ireland, Dr. Novosel will examine what is happening within the loyalism movement in Northern Ireland, the challenges it faces and what it is actively doing to the situation there. In addition to providing an overview of loyalism and its activities today, the lecture will also focus on impressions and an analysis of a trip to Northern Ireland in early March where Dr.
The French Immersion Institutes are designed for middle and high school teachers to broaden their cultural understanding of current events and international studies regarding French-speaking countries, to strenghten their French listening and speaking skills, and to share strategies for the teaching of the French language and culture.
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.
