Fabrizio Tonello, Fulbright Visiting Professor from the University of Padua will lecture.

Michael Kaeding, Christine Mahoney, Nils Ringe, and Jennifer Victor will engage in a panel discussion that provides illumination on the role of information and expertise in policy making within the EU Parliament. A reception will follow.

University of Pittsburgh and area/regional undergraduate students will participate in the annual Model EU simulation on Friday, February 18 and Saturday, February 19. Participation is by invitation only.

The deadline for the submission of applications for the 2010-11 EUCE Faculty Grant Competition - Round Two is February 18, 2011. Application forms and grant information are available at the EUCE/ESC Web site:

William Sewell presents and Seymour Drescher responds in this Humanities Center Colloquium.

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.