The deadline for applications is Feb. 15, 2011. Additional details are available at http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/funding/2011/call_jean_monnet_action_ka1_2..., or from:

Belen Bernaldo de Quiros

Head of Unit

European Commission - Directorate General for Education and Culture

Directorate A - Lifelong Learning: horizontal Lisbon policy issues and international affairs

Unit A3 - Jean Monnet; partnerships; relations with the Agencies

Pitt undergraduates with a research interest in the EU are encouraged to apply for participation in this year's Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union. The deadline for submission of a research topic for the 2011 conference, to be held April 7-8, 2011, is February 12, 2011. Among the awards for top papers delivered at the conference, this year the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley will award three places in a six-day study tour to Brussels to visit EU institutions, NATO, and the College of Europe.

This lecture addresses the challenge to devise legally sound and politically palatable options in light of the specific interests of African states, specifically: how can ICC prosecutions be reconciled with peacemaking initiatives when one party is under indictment and what is the proper role of the Security Council in the undertakings of the ICC?

University of Pittsburgh graduate students will interrogate and challenge the definitions of 'national' and 'transnational' through an investigation of American, German, Russian, Israeli, Palestinian, Mexican, South Korean, and Japanese screen cultures.

Aaron Abbarno is a PhD candidate in the University of Pittsburgh's Dept. of Political Science.

Sharon Kinoshita,works in Mediterranean Studies with Brian Catlos (History, UCSC), she co-directs the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies as well as the University of California Multicampus Research Project Initiative in Mediterranean Studies (http://mediterraneanseminar.org).

Three sessions will be presented: Texts in Context; Deferral, Other, Boundary; and Subjects in Crisis.

Lecture given by Jarmila Curtiss, Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany, Center Associate, Center for International Studies (European Union Center of Excellence and Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies) University of Pittsburgh, and Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, Duquesne University

Through an analysis and dialogue of the theories of space and place outlined by Michel De Certeau, Michel Foucault, Henri Lefebvre, and Edward Soja, Ms. Jonsson will examine how the 'other spaces' (both public and private) are re-coded with informal and invisible meanings and rituals. This allows for a new lens through which we can read Francophone texts from different regions and time periods such as Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnifique, Assia Djebar's Les femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement, and Azouz Begag's Le Gone du Chaaba.

The deadline for the submission of applications for the 2010-11 Faculty European Grant Competition is December 3, 2010. Application forms and grant information are available from the EUCE/ESC Web site: