Mr. Dimiter Kenarov will present a lecture that focuses on shale gas in Poland and Europe which will be live videoconferenced with the European Union Center of Excellence at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
“Shale Gas: From Poland to Pennsylvania” – Based upon his new project forthcoming that focuses on a commodity called “a game changer", promoted as a cleaner fossil alternative to coal and oil and cheered as the next step toward the American dream of energy independence. Poland is now Europe's center of shale gas. Like Pennsylvania, it embraces the promises and dangers of extraction. At the center of debate: hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and an associated largely unexplored question of global politics.
As President Obama’s second term commences, the continued vitality of America’s oldest alliance remains critical, as seen by recent speculation about a US-EU free trade agreement. Simultaneously, Europe itself is in the midst of change, as its eastward expanding borders force a reassessment of European and EU identity. Ms. Amy Westling, Deputy Director of the Office of European Union and Regional Affairs, joins us from the US Department of State to discuss the continued importance and current initiatives of the evolving transatlantic partnership.
An author of several books posing an anthropological perspective on government, political labor, and power, Professor Schumann will offer an argument for the Welsh, UK, and EU development hierarchies, and how the organizational cultures of Welsh rural authorities shape local interpretations and administrations of UK/EU development policies. The discussion will be framed in terms of analyzing civil-state relations in a changing Wales, UK, and Europe. Following the talk Dr. Schumann will welcome questions from the audience.
The EUCE/ESC, in cooperation with the Center for Russian and East European History (REES) will host the next in our ongoing series of virtual roundtables on the subject of Croatia’s impending accession as the 28th member state of the European Union. The title of the video conference is “The Next Member State: Croatia’s Path to the European Union”. REES Associate Director Andrew Konitzer will moderate. REES Center Director Robert Hayden will join other distinguished panelists from Europe and other EUCEs throughout the U.S.
Reforming the Policy and Practice of Community Engagement of Higher Education featuring keynote addresses by:
Mark A. Nordenberg, Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh
David P. Baker, Penn State
Kassie Freeman, President, Southern University System
Alex Johnson, President, CCAC
Anne Kaplan, Vice President, Northern Illinois University
Josef W. Konvitz, Chair, PASCAL International Observatory
The Department of History of Art & Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce its 2012 graduate student symposium titled “Exhibition Complex: Displaying People, Identity, and Culture.” Organized in collaboration with the Carnegie Museum of Art, our topic is inspired by the museum's fall 2012 exhibition Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939. This year's symposium sets out to analyze the many modes of display, types of artistic production, and built and existing structures that constitue ephemeral exhibition spaces.
Cengiz Haksoz, a graduate student in the Anthropology Department at Pitt, will present a portion of his dissertation, which focuses on transnational identity formation. Pizza and Politics is the EUCE/ESC’s monthly graduate student speaker forum focusing on European and European Union Studies. For more information, contact Allyson Delnore at adelnore@pitt.edu. PIZZA WILL BE SERVED.
Lunch with faculty, staff, and an undergraduate student studying Polish and International Affairs. The guest of honor was Filip Jasinski, First Counselor of the Permanent Representation of Poland to the EU and he was accompanied by Mr. Tomasz Maciejko, a simultaneous interpreter.
