Conferences, Workshops, & Seminars

Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum National Conference

Sponsors: EUCE-UNC

Dutch Studies in a Globalized World

Sponsors: American Association for Netherlandic Studies, EUCE-UNC

The Politics of Change

Sponsors: EUCE-UNC, Free University Amsterdam

Transaltantic Graduate Student Conference

Sponsors: EUCE-UNC, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg

Franco-Arabic Cultures Today: Developments, Dialogues, and Challenges

Sponsors: EUCE-UNC

Social Policy Against Poverty and Social Exclusion: Dealing with Informality

Sponsors: EUCE-UNC, Working Group on Political and Economic Regimes of the Carolina-Duke Consortium for Latin-American Studies

European Federalism in Comparative Perspective

Sponsors: EUCE-MI, Center for Political Studies, Department of Political Science, International Institute.

Animal Health, Food Safety and EU/U.S. Public Policy

Sponsors: The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and the EU Center of Excellence at Texas A&M University

NGOs in New Member and Accession Countries

Sponsors: EUCE-MI, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, The William Davidson Institute.

Climate Change, Drought and EU/U.S. Public Policy

Sponsors: The College of Geosciences, the EU Center of Excellence and the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy at Texas A&M University

Business and Labor Markets in the Transatlantic Economy

Sponsors: The Mays Business School and the EU Center of Excellence at Texas A&M University, and the South Texas College of Law.

Exploring Frameworks for Transatlantic Cooperation

This conference is geared to young professionals.

A Virtual Transatlantic Forum on Enterprise and Innovation

This workshop is designed for business and local government leaders in the SE United States and the U

The Future of Transatlantic Security Relations

Conference speakers and panels will examine critical U.S. and European foreign and defense policies, and military strategies. The conference will include public forums for contrasting U.S. and European perspectives on: grand strategy; U.S. basing realignments; complementary U.S. and European initiatives for expanding regional and out-of-region security, stability, peacekeeping and power projection roles and missions; and homeland security and terrorism.

After the Racial State: Difference & Democracy in Post-fascist Germany

Sponsors: Center for European Studies (CES), Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Institute for the Humanities.

Roundtable: Why Is France Burning?

For several weeks in the fall of 2005, (sub)urban violence in France grabbed the headlines. In order to try to make sense of these events, faculty members interested in the study of France from several disciplines organized a roundtable to discuss the factors at issue in the riots.

Euroskepticism: Causes and Consequences

This project brings together researchers who can provide keen insight on Euroskepticism-causes and consequences-from several angles. All participants will present new work on the topic. This project is to produce a special journal issue and edited book on Euroskepticism. Conference took place in Amsterdam.

Democracy, Inequality & Representation- Europe in Comparative Perspective

This conference brings together scholars from Syracuse University, Cornell, Harvard, the University of Michigan, Duke, the University of Connecticut, the University of Oxford, the Science Center in Berlin, and the Juan March Institute in Madrid.

Constructing the European Higher Education Area

In the context of debates about globalization and education, and especially the construction of new knowledge spaces in a globalizing context, we are hosting a two day symposium on one of the more fascinating and complex knowledge spaces that is emerging - the European Higher Education Area. The European Higher Education Area is the outcome of recent attempts at a number of levels to "create a European space for higher education in order to enhance the employability and mobility of citizens and to increase the international competitiveness of European higher education" (Bologna Declaration, 1999).

Global Apparel/Clothing Europe

This international workshop and conference, focusing on the European clothing industry, brings together researchers studying trade liberalization and production networks with policy makers and other stakeholders from government, NGOs, and industry, to explore the changing patterns of production and trade in Central and Eastern Europe, and the roles played by national and EU institutions and markets in these changes as the industry adjusts to EU accession and the completion of the integration of clothing into the WTO on January 1, 2005.

European Union Integration and Party System Change

In this conference, scholars from across the globe sought crossfertilization of theoretical and empirical work on political parties in Europe and beyond, with a central purpose: to understand the effect of European integration on national political party systems in East and West.