European Union Center of Excellence

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Shale Gas from Poland to Pennsylvania: Global Business, Local Costs

Subtitle: 
A school visit at Mt. Lebanon High School
Presenter: 
Dimiter Kenarov, Pulitzer Center Fellow
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 02/05/2013 - 14:15 to 15:30

"Shale Gas: From Poland to Pennsylvania," the Pulitzer Center's joint reporting initiative with Calkins Media, publisher of shalereporter.com, examines the debate surrounding shale gas and the tangled mix of hopes, hype and concern in Eastern Europe and the US.

Location: 
Mt. Lebanon High School
Cost: 
Free
Contact Person: 
Veronica Dristas
Contact Phone: 
4-2918
Contact Email: 
dristas@pitt.edu

Engendering Italy: Gaps, Contradictions, & Paradoxes of Gender on the EU Background

Subtitle: 
Lecture and Reception
Presenter: 
Giuseppina Pellegrino, Visiting Italian Fulbright Scholar
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 02/22/2013 - 14:00 to 16:00

The lecture aims to reflect on how gender relationships and femininity are represented, depicted, and performed in contemporary Italy. Such a reflection is linked to the peculiarity of the Italian mediascape from a political and cultural viewpoint, and has direct consequences on political life and women’s movements. In this respect, the talk offers an overview of Italian society through the lens of gender and resistance to the influence of the media in monopolizing the evolution of women’s representations and identity in the country.

Location: 
4165 WWPH
Contact Email: 
env1@pitt.edu

The EU's Response to the Eurozone Crisis: Deeper Integration & Closer Transatlantic Ties

Presenter: 
Klaus Welle, Secretary General of the European Parliament
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 11:00 to 12:30

The Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University will be hosting the Secretary General of the European Parliament, Klaus Welle, and will be videoconferencing with numerous schools throughout the United States for a discussion on the Eurozone Crisis, and its effects on Europe and Europe’s international relationships.

Location: 
4217 WWPH
Contact Email: 
env1@pitt.edu

New Security Concerns in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Role of the EU

Presenter: 
Marina Skordeli, Director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence at the University of Athens
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 02/21/2013 - 12:00 to 13:30

The Eastern Mediterranean has long suffered from a complex security setting, which is made up of both traditional security challenges as well as asymmetric threats. More recently, we started to witness the additional effect of a couple of new challenges, which have set in motion a rebalancing of powers in the region and may threaten its stability even further: the Arab Spring and the recent offshore energy findings.

Location: 
4217 WWPH
Contact Email: 
env1@pitt.edu

Conversations on Europe Videoconference: "NATO: A Hammer in Search of a Nail"

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 02/19/2013 - 12:00 to 13:30

With its post-Cold War role in Europe behind it, an end to its role in Afghanistan planned for 2014, and new challenges in the Arab world, NATO is at yet another turning point in searching for a new role. This conversation will focus on what that role might be and how it relates to the security perspectives (broadly conceived) of the United States and its European allies.

Location: 
4217 WWPH
Contact Email: 
env1@pitt.edu

‘We Carried Your Secrets:’ One Man’s Experience of Reconciliation in Northern Ireland

Presenter: 
Jon McCourt, Peace Activist and Community Organizer
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Mon, 02/18/2013 - 12:00 to 13:00

Jon McCourt has been a community Peace Activist and a member of the Peace and Reconciliation Group in the City of Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland for over 30 years. As a young man he went on the first Civil Rights March in Derry in October 1968. He has been actively engaged in almost every aspect of the conflict that arose as the result of that march. He was involved in the events that have come to be known as Bloody Sunday when British soldiers clashed with civil rights protestors January 30, 1972.

Location: 
4500 Posvar Hall
Cost: 
Free
Contact Person: 
Allyson Delnore
Contact Phone: 
412-624-5404
Contact Email: 
adelnore@pitt.edu

Internships and Career Opportunities at the Department of State

Presenter: 
Patricia Guy, State Department Diplomat in Residence
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 13:00 to 14:00

Patricia Guy, a Diplomat in Residence for the State Department, will visit the University of Pittsburgh to talk about the State Department’s internship program, and will provide information and answer questions about careers and job possibilities with the Department of state.

Location: 
3911 Posvar Hall
Contact Email: 
slund@pitt.edu

International Financial Rescues in Europe and Beyond

Presenter: 
Christina Schneider (UC-San Diego)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 01/25/2013 - 12:00 to 13:30

Abstract:

Why do governments provide bilateral bailouts to countries that experience
financial crises above and beyond what the IMF provides? We argue that
governments face a trade off. On one hand, they have incentives to rescue a crisis
country because they want to prevent the spread of the crisis to their own country.
On the other hand, governments experience pressures from domestic constituents
who are oftentimes opposed to financial rescues. Politicians aim to balance these
countervailing pressures. Whereas they are more likely to provide financial support

Location: 
WWPH 4500

Colloquium: Figuring out Europe: Nation, State and the European Union in the German Public Sphere

Presenter: 
Russell Berman (Stanford)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 03/07/2013 - 12:30 to 14:00

With responses by Nancy Condee (Global Studies), Alberta Sbragia (Political Science) and Gregor Thum (History).

Russell Berman is Director of German Studies at Stanford, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Editor of TELOS,
and recent President of the Modern Language Association. He is an expert on German literature and culture and
on cultural relations between Europe and the United States, and is a pioneer in German Cultural Studies.
In more than 80 articles and five books, he has written widely on modern German and European literature and politics,

Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Contact Person: 
Alana Dunn
Contact Phone: 
412-624-5909
Contact Email: 
alanad@pitt.edu

"In the Center of Europe, But on the Fringe?"

Subtitle: 
Liechtenstein and European Integration
Presenter: 
Claudia Fritsche, Ambassador of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the U.S.
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 12:00 to 13:00

Claudia Fritsche, Ambassador of Liechtenstein to the United States, joined the Office for Foreign Affairs of the Principality of Liechtenstein on June 1st, 1978 and served in a variety of diplomatic functions. Ambassador Fritsche assumed her duties as the first resident Ambassador of Liechtenstein in Washington at the beginning of October 2002 after leaving her post in New York, where she had served as the Permanent Representative of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the United Nations from 1990 to 2002.

Location: 
4217 WWPH
Cost: 
Free.
Contact Person: 
Allyson Delnore
Contact Email: 
adelnore@pitt.edu

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