The European Union Center of Excellence and European Studies Center is pleased to announce that Alberta Sbragia, Pitt Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Union Studies Association!

Organized in collaboration with Wulf Reiners of the Jean Monnet Chair for Political Science of the University of Cologne, the workshop will serve to bring together practitioners and academic scholars to discuss the collaboration of state and non-state actors, such as the European Union, as well as those from civil society, within the system of global health governance.

*Undergraduate Directed Research*

Felicia Grasso (with Jody Garcia):
Jody's work centers on language contact and historical language change. My work with
Jody’s research included translating a number of texts in different dialects of German
to English. I took a look at translation theory, the issues that have arisen over the years
in translation. I gave a sample of specific issues I ran into when translating dialects and
outdated German texts into English, and show how I chose to face these issues. I show

This is an interdisciplinary seminar, drawing students from art history, films studies, anthropology, and creative writing, which has investigated the role of death and mortality in the formation and transformation of culture. The course is organized around the new constellation structure of HAA, focusing on the conceptual frameworks of agency, identity, and mobility/exchange.

In recent years, the area of the Black Sea region has seen several momentous changes, including: the emergence of several new states—some as a result of violent conflict; the appearance of a variety of governing systems, nominally based on democratic models but varying widely in terms of the practices of democracy; the end of the long-standing status quo of the Cold War with a resulting change of alliance patterns; and increasing prominence of a European, and Russian, energy highway.

The presentation aims to analyse the external dimension of the EU’s immigration policy and its implications for Turkey as a transit country. It tries to demonstrate the development and institutionalization of the EU’s externalization of its immigration policy within a theoretical context. Applying the theoretical debate

The EUCE/ESC will hold a ceremony during graduation weekend to recognize its undergraduate and graduate recipients of the European Union or West European Studies Certificate Program. A reception will follow for family and friends of the Center in the Pittsburgh Athletic Association.

This presentation is offered as an introduction to Courtney Long’s dissertation, “Re-Categorizing Great Britain's Medieval Architecture: A Lesson in Nineteenth-Century Visual Taxonomy.” Courtney’s project seeks to investigate the ways in which architectural historians and natural scientists conveyed the process of change over time in textual and graphic observations published between 1800 and 1850.

We are honored to have Dr. Erwin H. Epstein as our guest speaker. He is one of the most famous educational historians in Comparative Education. The lecture will take place on 17 April, 12:00-1:30 p.m., Room 5604 Posvar Hall (Colloquium Room).

This is a brown bag lecture, so feel free to bring lunch to the lecture.

Abstract

We use the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to show that personal relationships which
individuals maintain for non-economic reasons can be an important determinant of regional
economic growth. We show that West German households who have social ties to East
Germany in 1989 experience a persistent rise in their personal incomes after the fall of
the Berlin Wall. Moreover, the presence of these households significantly affects economic
performance at the regional level: it increases the returns to entrepreneurial activity, the