In This Issue: October 2014
Title VI Announcement
Workshop: Money for Europe
Research and Course Development Grant Opportunities
European Student Conference
Events
National Resource Center and 
FLAS Fellowships

 

 

The Center for European Studies (CES) is pleased to announce that it has yet again received a Title VI grant from the Department of Education, thus making us once more a National Resource Center (NRC) with Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships.  The total award from the Department of Education comes to $1,972,000 over the next four years.  This funding, along with the EU Center of Excellence grant (which CES also won for the 2014-15 year, funded at 90,000 Euros), will support a host of existing and new activities dedicated to European Studies.  To this end, over the next four years CES will, among other things: 

  • Build technology-assisted European language programs for hybrid courses (based on distance and on-site technology-mediated interaction) with COERLL, as well as train high school and university teachers in the programs through vigorous outreach initiatives and workshops.
  • Offer at least 5 FLAS awards to graduate students and 5 FLAS awards to undergraduate students annually, along with at least 2 summer FLAS awards.
  • Create with LBJ, as well as the Strauss Center and Clements Center, the new "Austin Forum in Diplomacy and Strategy."
  • In collaboration with the Center for Russia, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), introduce new less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) into our regular course offerings and establish a new consortium with other flagship state universities to increase the number of LCTLs available for students through strategic resource-sharing collaborations.
  • Create new courses through curricular enhancement across campus focusing on two key professional schools: the McCombs School of Business and LBJ.
  • Create new courses with a focus on Europe in Anthropology, Business, and Political Science with curricular development grants.
  • Build durable connections with professional schools and existing Title VI NRCs on campus to promote interdisciplinary and transnational research with a focus on Europe through conferences, events, workshops, lectures, and curriculum development.
  • Enhance our existing and extensive outreach program with UT's Hemispheres focusing on K-12 education, teacher training, area studies and language education, the business community, local colleges eligible for Title III and Title V funding, Minority-Serving Institutions, Colleges of Education, and the general public.
  • Continue to forge our existing collaborations with Minority-Serving Institutions and establish new ones through course offerings, course development, mentorships, visiting lectures, and conference workshops.
  • Develop our extensive business outreach program with a new workshop with IC2, the UT economic incubator.
  • Award research/travel grants for faculty and PhD students at UT.  
Douglas Biow
Director, Center for European Studies

 

Workshop: Money for Europe
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
12:00 p.m.
CLA 1.302E

 

Interested in studying in Italy or doing research in Paris but not sure where the money will come from?

 

Join us as we show you some tricks of the trade in finding grants and scholarships for your specific needs. The presentation will include an overview of the Regional Foundation Library's database and information on how students (both undergraduates and graduates) and faculty can use it to find funding.

 

Presented by Ellen Moutos-Lee, Director of the Regional Foundation Library, part of the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement.

 

 

The workshop is free and open to all but registration is required. http://tinyurl.com/Money4Europe

PIZZA WILL BE SERVED!

 

Sponsored by the European Union Center of Excellence with funding from the European Union.

 

Research and Course Development Grants


 

The Center for European Studies/EU Center of Excellence is pleased to be able to offer a number of research and curriculum grants for faculty and PhD students thanks to funding from the European Union.

 

The application deadline for each grant is October 24, 2014.

 

PhD Student Research Grants

CES will offer two grants of €1,454 each (approximately $1,830) for research on EU Public Policy or EU-US Relations. The overall aim of this grant is to ensure that EU public policy ideas and best practices are widely understood in the US by both academia and policy makers alike. To this effect, this research grant will award graduate students at UT the opportunity to conduct field research in Europe and meet with key policy makers at the supranational and Member State national level.

Application: https://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/european_studies/Funding-Opportunities/Graduate%20Funding%20Opportunities/PhD-Research-Grants.php

 

Faculty Research Grants
Competition for two grants of €2,181 (approximately $2,750) each for research on EU Public Policy or EU-US Relations. The overall aim of this grant is to ensure that EU public policy ideas and best practices are widely understood in the US by both academia and policy makers alike. This research grant will award faculty at UT the opportunity to conduct field research in Europe and meet with key policy makers at the supranational and Member State national level.

Application: https://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/european_studies/Funding-Opportunities/Faculty-Funding-Opportunities/Faculty-Research-Grants.php

 

Course Development Grants

CES will provide three course development grants in the amount of €2180 each (approximately $2,750) to create a new course on one of the three topics below. Our priority will be to award these funds to professors who seek to include them as a signature course in the College of Undergraduate Studies.


 

Course I: EU as global actor, politically and economically

Course II: Ethnographic study of the EU

Course III: Business and the EU and the importance of the transatlantic relationship for both US and EU economies


 

Application: https://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/european_studies/Funding-Opportunities/Faculty-Funding-Opportunities/Course%20Development%20Award.php

 

If you have questions, please contact Sally Dickson at [email protected]

European Student Conference 2015

Yale University, with the support of funding from the European Commission, is hosting a student conference in February 2015.  The "European Student Conference" will host some of the most innovative European policy-makers and distinguished professors to discuss students' ideas for the European Union. The conference is the basis for a student think-tank that will be a contact point and support mechanism for students in the United States, enabling them to transform their motivation into concrete action for the benefit of the European Union.

The conference is open to undergraduate and graduate students from universities in the U.S. The first-round application deadline is October 27, 2014. 

For more information, and to apply to participate, please visit http://escatyale.com/

 

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

"The Atlantic Economy of the Late Seventeenth 
and Eighteenth Centuries"
Discussion with Woodruff D. Smith
Research Affiliate, Institute for Historical Studies
and Professor Emeritus of History
University of Massachusetts, Boston
October 6, 2014
12:00 p.m.
GAR 4.100

The "pre-industrial Atlantic economy" is a concept constructed by historians and economists that has been widely accepted as a useful framework for historical interpretation.  It has helped to overcome some of the difficulties inherent in focusing historical research on individual countries and has exposed significant economic phenomena that had earlier been overlooked.  There has, however, been relatively little critical analysis of the concept and of the extent to which it accurately depicts the transoceanic economic world that is its subject.  One of the reasons for this is that there exists no clear consensus about what the early modern Atlantic economy actually was - that is, about the array of specific phenomena to which the concept applies.  What were its specific elements and the nature of the relationships among them?  How did the Atlantic economy operate as a system (if it did), and in what ways did it change?  To what extent and in what ways can the Atlantic economy be seen as something distinct from the transoceanic empires of the period and from the early modern "global economy?"  How can one account for the fact that there is little evidence of formal consciousness of its existence in the eighteenth century?  What implications can reasonably be drawn from the nature of the Atlantic economy for explaining other aspects of late seventeenth and eighteenth-century history?

The meeting of the Institute for Historical Studies on Monday, October 6, will consist of a discussion of some of these questions.  A brief discussion paper will be circulated that summarizes some of the approaches taken by historians and economists to the pre-industrial Atlantic economy, expands on one of them, and applies it to the question of why the state-chartered Atlantic companies of the Netherlands, England, and France for the most part failed to achieve their seventeenth-century aims and had to change their business models drastically in the eighteenth century.  The paper may serve as a starting-point for a discussion but hopefully not as its boundary.

Professor Smith's faculty profile:

Responder:
Mark Metzler
Professor of History and Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
and IHS Program Coordinator 2014-15

Free and open to the public. RSVP required. To RSVP, please email Courtney by 9 a.m., Friday, Oct. 3.

For more information: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/historicalstudies/events/32301 

"Cataloging a World behind Wire:
The UHSMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos"
Talk by Geoffrey Megargee
Senior Historian, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 
October 8, 2014
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
GAR 1.102
  

Geoffrey Megargee graduated from St. Lawrence University with a BA in 1981. Following stints as an army officer and in the business world, he attended San Jose State University, where he received an MA in European History, and Ohio State University, where he earned his PhD in Military History in 1998. He is now a Senior Applied Research Scholar with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where his primary role is to serve as the General Editor for the Museum's Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945. He has also been a Presidential Counselor for the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.


 

Please RSVP for this event: [email protected] 


"Crimes of the Germany Army in Eastern Europe"
Talk by Geoffrey Megargee
Senior Historian, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 
October 8, 2014
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
GAR 0.102
  

Geoffrey Megargee graduated from St. Lawrence University with a BA in 1981. Following stints as an army officer and in the business world, he attended San Jose State University, where he received an MA in European History, and Ohio State University, where he earned his PhD in Military History in 1998. He is now a Senior Applied Research Scholar with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where his primary role is to serve as the General Editor for the Museum's Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945. He has also been a Presidential Counselor for the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.


 

Sponsored by: History Department; Institute for Historical Studies; Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies; more tba


 

For more information: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/events/32443


"Paris, 1624: Poetry, Eloquence, and Repression
in the Age of Richelieu"

Talk by Robert A. Schneider
Indiana University, Bloomington
October 13, 2014
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
GAR 4.100
  

In 1624, the great "libertine" poet Th�ophile de Viau was prosecuted for blasphemy and sodomy; weakened by two years in prison, he died in 1626.  In the same period, others with heterodox beliefs also were threatened by the authorities.  This paper will explore the repercussions of this wave of repression, which prompted many men of letters to reconsider the terms of public discourse.  It will suggest that the culture of so-called absolutism, usually associated with the Cardinal Richelieu and the centralizing monarchy, was largely fashioned from the aspirations, anxieties, and values of writers and intellectuals.
 

Faculty web page:
indiana.edu/~histweb/faculty/37


 

For more on this event: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/historicalstudies/events/32268


"NATO-Russia Relations:
The Ukrainian Crisis and Beyond"
with Dr. Sharyl Cross, Ph.D.
Director, Kozmetsky Center for Excellence in Global Finance
St. Edward's University
Global Policy Fellow, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center

October 21, 2014
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
UTC 3.102
  

Dr. Cross will discuss the implications of NATO's current expansion on European security in the wake of the Ukrainian crisis. She will share insights from her recent appearance on a panel at the Wilson Center in Washington DC, where she shared the spotlight with Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, former Prime Minister of Poland Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, and former Foreign Minister of Russia Andrey Kozyrev, among others.

 
CREEES invites all interested students to attend this important guest lecture. Please note that as this will take place during our Introduction to Russian East European and Eurasian Studies course (REE 301), space may be limited, so please arrive a few minutes early.

Hosted by the Center for Russian, East European, Eurasian Studies (CREEES)

For more information: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/creees/events/33488

 


"International Policy & Academic Perspectives on the Impact of the Ukrainian Conflict:
A New 'Cold' or 'Hot' War?"
with Dr. Sharyl Cross, Ph.D.
Director, Kozmetsky Center for Excellence in Global Finance
St. Edward's University
Global Policy Fellow, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center

October 28, 2014
7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Jones Auditorium
St. Edward's University, Austin
  


 Thiforum will explore the implicationothe Ukrainian Conflict for regional & worlsecurityCan this conflict be managed to prevent escalatioto a broader  regional or global war or crisisIthe West movininto a new era of conflict with Russia?What are the implications? This evening evenwill feature an exchange of views amonleading academic anpolicy expertof Ukraine, Russian Federation, European Union/NATO, UnitedKingdom,Germany, anthe United States.

 

Panelists:

  • Dr. VolodymyDubovyk, Professor, DepartmenoInternational Relations and Director, Center foInternational Studies, OdessNational University, Odessa, Ukraine
  • Dr. Tatyana Shakleina, Professor and Head of Department of Applied Analysis of International Problems, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
  • Dr. Igor Okunev, Vice-Dean, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
     
  • Ms. Despina Afentouli, NATO Headquarters Brussels, Responsibility for NATO Engagement in Ukraine and Caucuses, Brussels, Belgium 
  • Dr. Amadeo Watkins,Visiting Senior Lecturer and Co-Director, Centre for Military Educational Outreach, Defence Studies Department (JSCSC), King's College London
  • Dr. Andre Hartel, Council of Europe, Directorate of Policy Planning & Professor, Friedrich-Universitat Jena, Germany
     
  • Mr. ScottW. Roenicke, Senior Political-Military Advisor on Russia, Joint Chiefs of Staff OSD/Pentagon and former Director of Russian Affairs, National Security Staff
    of thePresident of the United States 2012-2013
     
     
  • Dr.R. Craig Nation, Professor Russian and Eurasian Security, United States Army War College Carlisle 


Moderated by Dr. Sharyl Cross, Director Kozmetsky Center of Excellence


 

   
 
Blueberry Soup
Screening at UT Austin October 30, 2014

"Blueberry Soup is an extraordinary documentary about the constitutional change in Iceland following the financial crisis of 2008. This is a not-well-known story of grassroots constitutionalism, an inspiration to the rest of the world. The film is a deeply touching account of an eclectic group of individuals reinventing democracy thought the rewriting of the nation's constitution."


 

For more information: http://www.wilmaswishes.com

Header photo: Autumn leaves, Crimea, Ukraine
 
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