Eu centers proposal submission guidelines

(2) Lecture Series
I. EU Center of Excellence EU-US Distinguished Business and Politics Lecture Series:
CES and the McCombs School of Business’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) will collaborate with LBJ in the form of a three-part lecture series over the grant cycle, with three lectures sponsored each year, for a total of nine lectures. The series will focus on the economies and international relations of the EU and US, and each will have a significant business outreach component to them. The purpose of this series is: (1) to promote student and faculty dialogue on these two important regions and trading partners of the world; (2) to encourage outreach between the university and the broader public, including the Central Texas business community; and (3) to facilitate the establishment of a more permanent intellectual community among Liberal Arts, the McCombs School, and LBJ in the field of EU-US studies. We are targeting 50-75 attendees per lecture.
II. EU Center of Excellence Diplomat Speakers Series:
The Center will assist LBJ in bringing in speakers from the EU, former and current diplomats. Speakers will be drawn both from Member State diplomatic corps and the European External Action Service. Indeed, LBJ and the Strauss Center, which is housed within LBJ, regularly bring in diplomats, such as the German Ambassador to the US Klaus Scharioth, who came to UT in December, 2010, and addressed Berlin’s policy response to the Eurozone financial crisis as well as geopolitical matters such as Russian resurgence and US-German collaboration in the Middle East. The series will be held in the prestigious LBJ Presidential Library Presidential Suite where the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen recently addressed the Austin community on May 11. In short, LBJ and the Strauss Center will provide the EU Center of Excellence with prestigious fora for prominent diplomats from the EU institutions and EU member states. Our target audience is 75-100 per lecture.
III. EU Center of Excellence “Europe and Islam Speak” Lecture and Seminar Cultural Exchange Series:
As a National Resource Center, CES will continue to coordinate and organize a collaborative lecture series and faculty exchange (begun this year) with the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), in Paris, which would involve, among other things, during the three-year grant cycle a scholar from the Centre coming to UT once a year to work with students and faculty on the topic of Muslim communities and their histories in Europe and the EU. We anticipate one lecture each year as part of our series on “Europe and Islam Speak.” Our target audience is 50-75 per lecture.
IV. EU Center of Excellence Lecture Series in Anthropology:
CES 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. Our target audience is 40-60 per lecture.