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Connect with current and new students, faculty, and staff, learn about GSC initiatives, and enjoy conversation and refreshments. We welcome all students, faculty, and staff to attend
The European Studies Center invites you to an open series with hybrid and asynchronous forms. The series takes participants from a shared research foundation in European policy to a finished policy brief published in the Interdisciplinary Review of ValEUs (IRV).
The series teaches the craft of writing for impact and how to transform complex political, economic, and cultural questions into clear, concise, and persuasive policy briefs that reach governmental, non-governmental, and international audiences.
Participants will learn to:
Identify and define a policy problem with precision
Conduct concise, evidence-based analysis grounded in real research
Communicate complex issues in accessible, policy-oriented formats
Develop practical, actionable recommendations for decision-makers.
Who Should Participate:
Faculty and researchers seeking to broaden their academic work
Humanities Scholars
Graduate and undergraduate students
Educators (Continued-Education Certificate)
Professionals interested in public policy, international affairs, transatlantic relations/European Studies.
No prior policy-writing experience is required.
What does it take to work for the United Nations? Join Tamar Hanh, Deputy Director of the UN Information Center in Washington, D.C., for an inside look at the work of the UN and the range of internship and career opportunities available to students interested in international affairs.
From Occupation to Integration explores how French ideas about civilization and the civilizing process shaped the practice of occupation in the French
Zone and the early stages of European integration.
The French Zone was set apart from the other Allied zones by the occupiers’ belief that Nazi “barbarism” was deeply rooted in German culture and history.
In this engaging study, Drew Flanagan deftly details and analyzes the entanglement between the Europeanization of the French Zone and decolonization in France’s empire, prompting readers to consider the continued impact of colonial and imperial ideas and practices on contemporary Europe and the European Union.
Discussants:
Gregor Thum, Department of History
John Boonstra, Department of History
