March DATE, 2012. EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 2: Reshoring in the U.S. and Europe: The End of the Outsourcing Era?, Caspar Hunsche, Senior Director, The Supply Chain Council, Inc.
April DATE, 2012 — Conference 3: “Elite Policymaking and Financing in the EU and US: Accountability or Paralysis?” led by the former Chair of Government, Professor John Higley, and organized by CES in consultation with the Department of Government, CREEES, and LBJ.
April DATE, 2012 – Finals of Euro Challenge, NY
April DATE, 2012 –EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 3: Interdependencies in the Global Downturn and the Risks of Protectionism, Pankaj Ghemawat, Professor of Global Strategy, IESE Business School, Barcelona, and author of World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It.
Summer 2012 – Workshop 2: Teaching European Union in Texas High Schools
Summer 2012 – Coordination Meeting for the Creation of a Masters of Arts in European Studies.
PREPARING FOR YEAR TWO OF THE GRANT:
July 2012 (preparing for Year 2 of the grant) – Course Development I: Call for curriculum development and instructional grant for a business course (to be taught in the Spring of 2013) that would focus its empirical case studies on the European Union.
July 2012 (preparing for Year 2 of the grant) – Course Development II: Call for a competitive curriculum development grant for a “Signature Course” on issues related to ethics and leadership in the European Union. The grant will consist of funding to facilitate course development by the faculty member chosen to develop the course.
July 2012 (preparing for Year 2 of the grant) Organize course for at Huston-Tillotson [HT] on (1) “Comparative Government with a focus on Europe and the EU” for Fall 2012 and “Modern European History and the EU” for spring 2013, and co-ordinate guest lectures of UT faculty with HT.
Year 2: September 1, 2012 – August 31st, 2013
*All events in Year 2 will be assessed for impact based on number of applicants/participants and immediate feedback from applicants/participants (to be ascertained through a short email/written survey that all participants will be able to complete on a voluntary basis). We will be coordinating with CTL throughout the year to develop and implement an objective, outside measurement evaluation report for the three-year grant cycle.
September 1, 2012 – January 2013 – European Scholar I: Adjunct position for a scholar from Europe (Topic of course to be determined.).
September 1, 2012 – Summer 2013 – Graduate Travel Stipend: Competition for one stipend of 1,000 euros for UT School of Law students to take part in European Court of Justice in Luxemburg.
September 1, 2012 – Summer 2013 – PhD Research Grant: Competition for two grants of 2,000 euros each related to research on EU Public Policy or EU-US Relations.
September 1, 2012 - Call for two 10 hour-a-week research assistantship positions to facilitate conference, outreach, lecture series, and data collection activities (2 student workers)
September 1, 2012 – Call for two faculty research grants of 3,000 Euros each with a focus on Business in the EU and Business relations between the EU and US
September 1, 2012 – Call for two faculty research grants of 1,500 Euros with a focus on Social Sciences and Humanities in the context of the EU
Sept 1, 2012 – December 15, 2012. Implement course for fall 2012 at Huston-Tillotson [HT] on “Comparative Government with a focus on Europe and the EU” and co-ordinate guest lectures of UT faculty with HT.
September 1, 2012. —Euro Challenge: Beginning planning stage.
October 1, 2012 – Collaborative lecture and seminar exchange with École des hautes études en sciences sociales on the EU, Europe, and Muslim identity politics. Topic to be determined.
October DATE, 2012 –Workshop 1: “Grants and fellowships for studying in and researching on Europe” – One day workshop for students, faculty and researchers on obtaining grants and fellowships for research on/in Europe.
October DATE, 2012 - Information Session for Euro Challenge (2 days)
October DATE, 2012 — EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 1. Topic to be determined.
November DATE, 2012– Conference 1: “EU-US Energy: Comparative Energy Public Policies and Technologies,” led by Professor Michael Webber and organized by CES in consultation with LBJ and the Cockrell School of Engineering.
November DATE, 2012 - EU Center of Excellence Anthropology Lecture Series. Topic and Lecturer to be determined.
January 2013 – May 2013 – European Scholar II: Visiting Scholar position from Sweden (EU-related course to be determined).
January 2013 – May 2013. Implement course for spring 2013 at Huston-Tillotson [HT] on “Modern European History and the EU” and co-ordinate guest lectures of UT faculty with HT.
January DATE, 2013– Texas EU Summit 2: “Connecting Central Texas Businesses to the European Markets”
March DATE, 2013 – Conference 2: “Reassessing EU/US Policy on Secession: The Lessons of Yugoslavia and Georgia,” led by Alan Kuperman and organized by CES in consultation with LBJ.
March DATE, 2013. EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 2. Topic to be determined.
April DATE, 2013— Conference 3: “Comparative Politics of Identity in Old & New Europe,CHANGE NAME” led by Mary Neuburger and Robert Moser, and organized by CES in consultation with the Department of Government, CREEES, and LBJ.
April DATE, 2013 – Finals of Euro Challenge, NY
April DATE, 2013 –EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 3. Topic to be determined.
Summer 2013 – Workshop 2: Teaching European Union in Texas High Schools
PREPARING FOR YEAR THREE OF THE GRANT:
July 2013 (preparing for Year 3 of the grant) – Call for curriculum development and instructional grant for a business course (to be taught in the Spring of 2014) that would focus its empirical case studies on the European Union.
July 2013 (preparing for Year 3 of the grant) – Course Development II: Call for a competitive curriculum development grant for a “Signature Course” on ethics and leadership in the European Union.
July 2013 (preparing for Year 3 of the grant) Organize course for at Huston-Tillotson [HT] on (1) “European Politics and the EU” for Fall 2013 and “War and Peace in Europe and the EU” for spring 2014, and co-ordinate guest lectures of UT faculty with HT.
Year 3: September 1, 2013 – August 31st, 2014
*All events in Year 3 will be assessed for impact based on number of applicants/participants and immediate feedback from applicants/participants (to be ascertained through a short email/written survey that all participants will be able to complete on a voluntary basis). We will be coordinating with CTL throughout the year to develop and implement an objective, outside measurement evaluation report for the three-year grant cycle.
September 1, 2013 – January 2014 – European Scholar I: Adjunct position for a scholar from Europe (Topic of course to be determined).
September 1, 2013 – Summer 2014 – Graduate Travel Stipend: Competition for one stipend of 1,000 euros for UT School of Law students to take part in European Court of Justice in Luxemburg.
September 1, 2013 – Summer 2014 – PhD Research Grant: Competition for two grants of 2,000 euros each related to research on EU Public Policy or EU-US Relations.
September 1, 2013 - Call for two 10 hour-a-week research assistantship positions to facilitate conference, outreach, lecture series, and data collection activities (2 student workers)
September 1, 2013 – Call for two faculty research grants of 3,000 Euros each with a focus on Business in the EU and Business relations between the EU and US
September 1, 2013 – Call for two faculty research grants of 1,500 Euros with a focus on Social Sciences and Humanities in the context of the EU
September 1, 2013. —Euro Challenge: Beginning planning stage.
Sept 1, 2013 – December 15, 2013. Implement course for fall 2013 at Huston-Tillotson [HT] on “European Politics and the EU” and co-ordinate guest lectures of UT faculty with HT.
October DATE, 2013 – Collaborative lecture and seminar exchange with École des hautes études en sciences sociales on the EU, Europe, and Muslim identity politics. Topic to be determined.
October DATE, 2013 - Information Session for Euro Challenge (2 days)
October DATE, 2013 –Workshop 1: “Grants and fellowships for studying in and researching on Europe” – One day workshop for students, faculty and researchers on obtaining grants and fellowships for research on/in Europe.
October DATE, 2013 — EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 1. Topic to be determined.
November DATE, 2013– Conference 1: “Sexual Citizenship and Human Rights: What Can the U.S. Learn from the EU and European Law?” led by Professor Thomas Hubbard and organized by CES in consultation with Women’s and Gender Study, the Rapoport Center, and CREEES.
November DATE, 2013 - EU Center of Excellence Anthropology Lecture Series. Topic and Lecturer to be determined.
January 2014 – May 2014 – European Scholar II: Visiting Scholar position from Sweden (Topic of course to be determined).
January 2014 – May 2014. Implement course for spring 2014 at Huston-Tillotson [HT] on “Modern European History and the EU” and co-ordinate guest lectures of UT faculty with HT.
January DATE, 2014– Texas EU Summit 2: “Connecting Central Texas Businesses to the European Markets”
March DATE, 2014 – Conference 2: “EU and US Legal Approaches to Citizenship and Human Rights,” led by Karen Engle and organized by CES in consultation with LBJ, Law, Women’s and Gender Studies, and CREEES.
March DATE, 2013 - First Round of Euro Challenge
March DATE, 2014. EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 2. Topic to be determined.
April DATE, 2014— Conference 3: “The European Public Sphere: Understanding the Role of Mass Media and Interpersonal Discussion in Shaping Today's European Citizenship,” led by Homero Gil De Zuniga and organized by CES in consultation with the School of Journalism.
April DATE, 2014 – Finals of Euro Challenge, NY
April DATE, 2014 –EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series 3. Topic to be determined.
Summer 2014 – Workshop 2: Teaching European Union in Texas High Schools
End of the Project: August 31, 2014
EU CENTERS 2011-14
Proposal Narrative Form 4. Detailed Description of Proposed Activities 4.A.1. Activities: Conferences and Workshops. Provide a summary of all conferences and workshops planned during each academic year of the entire 2011-14 grant period. For each, indicate themes to be addressed, the number and nature of expected attendees, any resulting information products, means of dissemination. Please also specify how these activities will further the program policy objectives and produce the related outcomes set out in section II of the Call for Proposals, and provide measurable criteria for evaluating their implementation. Attach additional page(s) if necessary.
CONFERENCES I (these conference events will vary by year): Common threads:
All Conferences will have in common the Information, Dissemination and Measurable Criteria aspect:
Conference will be open to the public. The Center will inform its partner educational institutions in Austin and Central Texas to send their students and faculty. The Center will invite State government officials, business leaders and non-governmental organizations to the event. Local Austin media will be informed of the event and invited to cover it.
The conference lectures will be available online in video format. Notes from discussion panels will be available in transcript form. A Conference report will be compiled and placed on the website.
Participants will be asked to fill out a satisfaction survey that will help the Center improve future conferences. The measurement and evaluation will be overseen by UT’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL).
Policy-makers from the State Capitol and Governor’s Office will be asked to provide their input on how to improve the conferences to better fit their needs and policy concerns.
All Conferences will have in common that they will fulfill Objective 1: “Develop centers of academic excellence in EU studies with a view to broadening and deepening the base of European Union studies, and increasing awareness of the Union’s policies.”
Conferences will all fit the description of “academic research conferences devoted to issues of applied EU and EU-US public policies, and also encourage interaction between researchers and practitioners.” All of our conferences will have a heavy emphasis on invited practitioners, business leaders and policy makers.
The conferences will have the effect of increasing the “numbers of university faculty and other scholars, including professional school faculty and graduate students” who will become interested in “conducting research on issues of applied EU and EU-US public policies.” As will become evident from the topics we choose for our conferences, the emphasis is squarely on “issues of applied EU and EU-US public policies.”
All Conferences will have in common that they will fulfill Objective 2: “Promote greater understanding of the EU and EU-US relations among regional outreach constituencies.”
By being open to the public and by being advertised with the regional universities and colleges which will form our core partner institutions the conferences will create effective outreach in the regional community.
The Center will also target business leaders and State officials (who are conveniently located mere blocks away from the Center location and conference facilities) and make sure that they are aware and present at our events. Business leaders will be both invited as guests and as active participants.
Media will be informed of the Center events and encouraged by facilitating their presence (our conference venue is already fully equipped for media presence).
Speakers from EU institutions and EU member states will be invited to all of the below listed conferences.
All Conferences will have in common that they will fulfill Objective 5:
“Attract additional support for Center activities.”
The Center will organize a wide array of policy relevant conferences that will tie into the already well- developed policy focused research community within the University.
The Center will cooperate with a number of other academic and research units on campus, raising its profile and building strong partnerships.
By engaging the local media, as well as the members and the staff of the Texas State government and legislature, the Center will make a strong case for further State funding. Texas policy makers will come to appreciate the level of policy idea diffusion that the Center will make available to them.
All Conferences will have a consistent and robust participation by the UT’s academic community which will be informed of planned events and involved in the planning.
YEAR 1: October 23, 2008November DATE, 2011 – Conference 1: “Alternatives to Austerity”
The conference would bring together specialists from the United States, Europeans working in the United States, and selected specialists from Europe, especially from those countries hardest hit by the economic crisis. The purpose of the conference would be to compare conditions and analyses, and to discuss alternatives to a prolonged economic decline, high unemployment and sustained assaults on public institutions and the welfare state.
Proposed participants (a preliminary list):
Europeans:
Andor Laszlo, Hungary: European Commissioner for Employment.
John Eatwell, UK, President, Queens College, Cambridge (Senior Adviser, British Labour Party).
Alain Parguez, France, Professor Emeritus, University of Besançon.
Christian Chavagneux, France, Editor, Alternatives Economiques.
Hugo Sousa, Portugal, Ministry of Economics.
Stuart Holland, UK/Portugal, University of Coimbra.
Alessandro Roncaglia, Italy, University of Rome.
Bruno Amoroso, Italy, Roskilde University (Denmark) and Federico Caffé Society, Rome
Theodore Pelagidis, Greece, University of Piraeus.
Gunnar Tomasson, Iceland, Washington (formerly IMF)
Olivier Giovannoni, France, Bard College
Eric Tymoigne, France, Lewis and Clark College
Americans:
Jan Kregel, Levy Economics Institute (formerly University of Bologna).
Randall Wray, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Robert Guttman, Hofstra University and University of Paris
Steven Cohen, University of California, Berkeley.
Norman Birnbaum, Georgetown University Law Center.
Thomas Ferguson, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Robert Blecker, American University.
Themes: European energy policy in the 21st Century. European policy challenges. International Agreements on Carbon-Dioxide and their Impact on European and American Policies. Technology as a Solution to Environmental Issues.
Invited Attendees:
The Conference will highlight a mix of policy makers, industry leaders (CEOs of major energy conglomerates from both the US and Europe) and academics.
H.E. French Ambassador to the United States Pierre Vimont
Oliver Appert – CEO Institute Francais du Petrole
Jacques Percebois – Economics Professor Aix)
Paul Jaskow – Economics Professor, MIT)
Speaker from the British Government (to be determined)
Speaker from the US Department of Energy (to be determined)
Rex Tillerson – CEO Exxon
Jean-Marie Chevalier – Economics Professor, University of Paris – Dauphine
April March DATE 201209– Conference 2: “Conference on the Euro Crisis”
In 2010, the European Union experienced its first sovereign debt crisis as investors grew fearful that several of the Eurozone members might be unable to repay their government debts. Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain, and Belgium saw their government bonds downgraded and had to watch helplessly as the bond yield spreads between their own government bonds and those of more solvent member states such as Germany rose to new heights. The crisis soon became most acute in Greece, and on May 2, 2010, the International Monetary Fund and the remaining Eurozone countries agreed to a bailout in the form of a €110 billion loan. A week later, the member states of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund went even further and pledged to make available as much as €750 billion to secure the solvency of the less stable Eurozone countries. While these measures have so far succeeded in averting sovereign defaults, the threat that the Euro Crisis poses is far from over.
The Euro Crisis has profound implications for law and policy in the European Union and raises numerous questions of fundamental importance. Should the Treaty on European Union be amended to provide a clearer basis for financial rescue measures, and, if so, how should such amendments be designed? Should the Eurozone states move towards closer economic and fiscal integration? Should the European Union at least be able to interfere in the economic and fiscal policy of individual member states if such interference becomes necessary to preserve the stability of the Euro? Should the European Union consider the introduction of insolvency proceedings for member states? Does the Euro Crisis call for a redefinition of the role of the European Central Bank?
To discuss these and other questions, we plan to organize a conference on the Euro Crisis at the University of Texas School of Law.
Potential Participants include: FORMAT
Prof. Dr. Armin von Bogdandy, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (EU constitutional law)
Prof. Grainne de Burca, Harvard Law School (EU constitutional law)
Prof. Stavros Gadinis, Berkeley (regulation of financial markets)
Prof. Dr. Gerard Hertig, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland (banking and financial services)
Prof. Luis Miguel Poiares Maduro, European University Institute, Florence, Italy (EU constitutional law)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schön, Max-Planck-Institut for Tax Law and Public Finance (taxation)
Dr. Chiara Zilioli, Deputy General Counsel of the European Central Bank (EU law)
“Using Force Abroad: Perspectives from Europe and the United States.”
Themes: Transatlantic co-operation in European and US force projection. Allied co-operation in peace enforcing missions. Transforming societies, consolidating peace after civil wars. Public opinion and out-of-area missions.
Invited Attendees:
The Conference will highlight a mix of policy makers, defense experts from think-tanks and academics.
Stewart M. Patrick – Senior Fellow and Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance
Ivo H. Daalder – Brookings Institution
Stephen Biddle – Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
Steafan Ganzle – Member of the German Defense Ministry Research Section on Africa
To be determined – US Department of Defense Official
To be determined – German Defense Ministry Official (most likely the Minister)
Richard Youngs – Research Director, FRIDE - Fundacion par alas Relaciones Internacionales y el Dialogo Exterior
