In This Issue: September 2014
EU Center of Excellence Grant
New Faces at CES
EUCE Brussels Program
Events
EU Center of Excellence

 

Dear colleagues and friends of CES:

I am pleased to inform you that the Center for European Studies has been awarded once again an EU Center of Excellence grant from the European Union which will bring in roughly 90,000 Euros for a variety of activities over 2014-15. Activities this year will include the new Austin Forum in Diplomacy and Statecraft, which CES is developing with Dean Robert Hutchings and Professor Jeremi Suri, along with new and exciting collaborations with UT's IC� Institute. Over the course of the year you will receive a variety of announcements about conferences, research grant awards, class development awards, workshops, symposia, and the like, all tied directly to the EU Center of Excellence grant. In the meantime, I welcome you all back to campus and hope you had a good summer.

Douglas Biow
Director, Center for European Studies 
New Faces at CES
 

The start of the new year also brings some changes to our Center.

 

Dr. Michael Mosser will serve as the new Assistant Director for CES beginning this fall. Dr. Mosser is a lecturer in the Department of Government and the International Relations and Global Studies (IRG) major at the University of Texas at Austin. Along with serving as a seminar leader for IRG capstone courses in international security and science, technology and the environment (STE), he also teaches courses in European security, European environmental politics, and comparative politics. His research interests include a re-examination of operational military doctrine in the US, Europe, and Australia, as well as an investigation into the changing security functions of the European Union Military Staff (EUMS) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). With Dr. Lorinc Redei of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, he is conducting additional research on rethinking the European security architecture, which will be the focus of a spring 2015 conference sponsored by CES, the European Union through CES's EUCE grant, and the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Law and Diplomacy. 


Charlotte Harris has accepted a position as a Senior-Interface Manager with UT's Central Business Office. We'll miss her but we are all thrilled for her new adventure! 


 
Serving in this position now is Nhi Nguyen. Nhi previously worked in the College of Liberal Arts Dean's Office as part of Centralized Business Services. "Being a part of the centralization process has provided me the knowledge and foundation of best business practices. My goal is to take that knowledge and support the growth and development of the center, in terms of administration and finances." Nhi received her B.S. in Human Development and Family Sciences from UT in 2012.

 

 

EUCE Brussels Program
 

This past summer, CES was once again able to send three UT Austin undergraduate students and two Texas highs school teachers on the EUCE Brussels Program thanks to the financial support of CES's EU Center of Excellence (EUCE) grant.

 

The students and teachers enjoyed a five-day scheduled tour of Brussels organized by UNC Chapel Hill, EUCE's network coordinator. While there, they visited the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, and the US Mission to the EU among other organizations. They also enjoyed special talks and briefings by officials and delegates of the EU.

 

We're please to announce that CES will again be awarding trips for the 2015 EUCE Brussels Program. Applications will open in January 2015 with a closing date in early spring. Please visit our website for more information.

EUCE Brussels 2014

 

EVENTS                   
Please view the individual webpages prior to events as times and locations may change.

Texas and Germany: Energy Twins?
Panel Discussion, Networking, and Dinner Reception
September 2, 2014
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center
Room 203
  

There are surprising similarities in the way German and Texas think about their electricity markets. Both are fully deregulated and competitive. Both have large and growing amounts of wind and solar power. Both have economically-efficient "energy-only" markets, where power producers get paid for their energy, not for providing stand-by capacity.  And both have questions about market structures and avoiding blackouts.


 

A delegation of German energy officials and experts are visiting Austin to learn about market design issues, to see what lessons from the Texas experience can be applied back home. Join us for a symposium featuring experts from Germany and Texas to see what the future holds for energy markets.


 

Join us afterwards for a reception at Saengurrende Hall to welcome our guests.

  

For more information and to get tickets, please visit thttps://germanpower.splashthat.com.

 

  
 
Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris
Now thru September 14, 2014
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  

About the exhibition

The first major exhibition in the United States devoted to 19th-century French artist Charles Marville explores the beauty, variety, and historical poignancy of his art. Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris features nearly 100 photographs that span Marville's entire career.


 

At the heart of the show are the images for which Marville (1813-1879) has been most celebrated: rigorously composed, beautifully detailed prints that he made beginning in the early 1860s as official photographer for the city of Paris. One of photography's early masters, Marville has long been a mystery, partly because documents that would shed light on his biography were thought to have disappeared in a fire that consumed Paris's city hall in 1871. However, new research has helped to reconstruct his personal and professional biographies.


 

Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris shows the City of Light taking shape through prints carefully selected for their perfectly calibrated compositions, exquisite technique, and exceptional state of preservation. Many of Marville's photographs depict Paris at the very moment of its transformation from a city of narrow streets and medieval buildings into the most modern of European capitals. His compelling urban views show Paris both before and after historic neighborhoods were razed to make way for broad boulevards, monumental buildings, and manicured parks. Featured works from Marville's early career also include landscapes, cityscapes, studies of sculpture, and striking architectural photographs made in Paris, across France, and in Germany along the Rhine.


 

Exhibition Catalogue

Accompanying the show is an illustrated exhibition catalogue, available through The MFAH Shop (713.639.7360) and the Museum's Hirsch Library (713.639.7325).


 

Admission
Entrance to this exhibition is included with your Museum admission.

Museum members receive free general admission.

 
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