Eu centers proposal submission guidelines

The Future of the Nuclear Energy Business in Europe and the US

Rex Tillerson Chairman and CEO, Exxon Mobil Corp.

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  Reshoring in the US and Europe: The End of the Outsourcing Era?
  

Caspar Hunsche, Senior Director, The Supply Chain Council, Inc.

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  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.
The lecture series events are also highly structured and will be incorporated into our outreach efforts. To this end, each invited speaker will be asked to participate in a series of events, organized as follows:
DAY 1

5:00pm: Public lecture (45 minutes) plus question and answer period (30-minutes) Free to faculty and students. Broadcast of lecture posted on UT-sponsor websites/ University Channel.

6:15pm: 45-minute reception for attendees.

7:15pm: Private dinner and discussion session with invited faculty, university and local VIPs, and corporate sponsors. Discussions off the record. (Max. 20 guests.)

DAY 2

8:00am: (Time flexible) Breakfast meeting in partnership with International Center of Austin for business community and public.

Fulfillment of Objectives for Business and Politics Lecture Series:
Objective 1: The high profile speakers will increase the awareness of EU policies on campus.

Objective 2: The Lecture Series will be open to the public and will thus fulfill most of the expected outcomes under Objective 2. Furthermore, we intend to work closely with our regional educational, business, and institutional partners in order to plan the Lecture Series in a way that is most beneficial to them. Local media will also be invited to participate in covering the speakers and interviewing them.

Objective 5: We will open the Lecture Series to the faculty in a way where they can integrate their class activities around the talks. In that way we will embed the center activities in the ongoing UT programs. The Lecture Series will continue a long tradition of the McCombs School of Business working closely with the Texas business community in developing strategies for investment. Furthermore, the Lecture Series will raise the profile of the Center in the business community, leading to new sources of funding.
II. EU Center of Excellence “Europe and Islam Speak” Lecture and Seminar Cultural Exchange Series
Islam has unquestionably “globalized” itself in the last 30 years. Immigration and new technologies of communication such as the Internet have favored the establishment of Muslim communities in Europe and the EU. The consequences of this change are felt strongest in France, the western European country with the highest population of Muslims and with one of Europe’s oldest shared histories with Islam. Today, France’s Muslims number 5-6 million. They have been at the forefront of efforts to rethink Islam and its place in the world, either looking within Europe and the EU for a “Euro-Islam” (the Europeanization of Islam) or to pan-Islamic movements that identify outwards towards the global community of believers (ummah). These in turn have been confronted by both France’s leftist traditions of secularism (laicïté), which see Islam as an existential threat to cherished Republican institutions, and the right-wing’s integralist nationalism that construes Islam as essentially alien to the Catholic France they support. Understanding the historical, sociological, and cultural dimensions of Islam and French national identity is a difficult task, and it is central to a nuanced understanding of Islam in Europe and the EU. As a National Resource Center funded through the US Department of Education, our ongoing institutional affiliation and cooperation between the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, which began in 2010-11, marks an important link forward for scholarship. It brings together researchers representing many different fields of study in the US and France to clearly identify the core issues at stake in these events and chart their broader historical importance as they relate to the US, Europe, and the EU. We will continue to organize through the exchange three such lectures/seminars over the course of the grant cycle.
Target Audience: Our target audience is 50-75 attendees per lecture.
Fulfillment of Objectives for the EU/Islam Lecture Series:


Objective 1: The high profile speakers will increase the awareness of EU policies towards Islam on campus.

Objective 2: The Lecture Series will be open to the public and will thus fulfill most of the expected outcomes under Objective 2. Furthermore, we intend to work closely with our regional educational and institutional partners in order to plan the Lecture Series in a way that is most beneficial to them. Local media will also be invited to participate in covering the speakers and interviewing them.

Objective 5: We will open the Lecture Series to the faculty in a way where they can integrate their class activities around the talks. In that way we will embed the center activities in the ongoing UT programs. To this end, we have asked both Dr. Benjamin Bowers, an expert in French and Muslim relations in the History Department, and Dr. Terri Givens, an expert in the EU and Immigration policy in the Government Department, to organize this series to ensure that the lectures dovetail with existing and planned curricula over the three-year grant period.
III. EU Center of Excellence Diplomat Speakers Series
The Center will cooperate with the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Strauss Center to continue to bring high level and senior policy makers and diplomats from Europe to UT. The two institutes will offer their speakers as an “in-kind” contribution to the Center and CES will help them with the selection of speakers.
Target Audience: Our target audience is 75-100 attendees per lecture.
Fulfillment of Objectives for the Diplomat Lecture:


Objective 1: The high profile speakers will increase the awareness of EU policies on campus.

Objective 2: The Lecture Series will be open to the public and will thus fulfill most of the expected outcomes under Objective 2. Local media will also be invited to participate in covering the speakers and interviewing them.

Objective 5: We will open the Lecture Series to the faculty in a way where they can integrate their class activities around the talks. In that way we will embed the center activities in the ongoing UT programs.
IV. EU Center of Excellence Lecture Series in Anthropology
The Center for European Studies at UT announces the launching of the EU Center of Excellence Lecture Series in Anthropology. The series will enable the Center to invite distinguished anthropologists and intellectuals invested in matters of contemporary European culture and society, and whose work is related to studies of the EU. We are especially interested in individuals whose research intersects with other fields, including, but not limited to, globalization and transnational studies.
We aim to start the series with Vincent Crapanzano, Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York, Graduate Center. His research interests include symbolic and interpretive anthropology, ethno-psychology, anthropology and literature, and theories of interpretation. His newest book, The Harkis: The Wound That Never Heals, is a haunting chronicle of betrayal and abandonment, ostracism and exile, racism and humiliation, in which the author examines the story of the Harkis, the quarter of a million Algerian auxiliary troops who fought for the French in Algeria’s war of independence. The focus of Prof. Crapanzano’s lecture, however, will be on the children of the Harkis who, living in France today, still suffer from their parents’ wounds. Many have become activists, lobbying for recognition of their parents’ sacrifices, compensation, and an apology. In examining the offspring of the Harkis, Prof. Crapanzano will show how children bear responsibility for the choices their parents make, how personal identity is shaped by the impersonal forces of history, and how violence insinuates itself into every facet of human life. He will also demonstrate how events of the past have legal resonances in the present and how the matter of the Harkis and their descendants needs to be understood within the broader context of postcolonial migration and identity politics in the EU today.
Target Audience: Our target audience is 40-60 attendees for the lectures.
Fulfillment of Objectives for the Anthropology Lecture Series:


Objective 1: The high profile speakers will increase the awareness of EU policies on campus.

Objective 2: The Lecture Series will be open to the public and will thus fulfill most of the expected outcomes under Objective 2. Furthermore, we intend to work closely with our regional educational and institutional partners in order to plan the Lecture Series in a way that is most beneficial to them. Local media will also be invited to participate in covering the speakers and interviewing them.

Objective 5: We will open the Lecture Series to the faculty in a way where they can integrate their class activities around the talks. In that way we will embed the center activities in the ongoing UT programs. To this end, we are working closely with the new Chair of Anthropology, Dr. Katie Stewart, on this project and have her full support, and we will be integrating these lectures into the activities and classes of the Department of French and Italian.