Eu centers proposal submission guidelines

The Blanton Museum of Art -–
The Suida-Manning and Leo Steinberg Collections provide astounding exhibitions of European paintings and prints. Highlights include works by canonical masters from Sebastiano del Piombo, Parmigianino and Veronese, to Rubens, Claude Lorrain, and Guercino and many other works equally as impressive, illuminating the history of European art.

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   University staff/logistical support
   

Staff/Logistical Support + Programmatic Visibility:
The Executive Board would include the following UT faculty, with additionally one Austin-based representative, who is an expert on the EU and European foreign policy and security:

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  Dr. Gary Freeman (Director of the Center of the EU Center for Excellence) – Chair and Professor of the Government Department
  
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  Dr. Douglas Biow (Chair of the Executive Board and Principal Investigator of the EU Center for Excellence Grant) – Superior Oil Company-Linward Shivers Centennial Professor and Director of the Center for European Studies
  
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  Ambassador Robert Hutchings – Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
  
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  Dr. Mary Neuburger (Associate Director of the EU Center for Excellence) – Director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
  
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  Dr. Michael Webber – Associate Director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy in the Jackson School of Geosciences
  
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  Dr. Sabine Hake – Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture
  
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  Dr. Karen Engle – Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law and Director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
  
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  Dr. Philippa Levine – Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities and Associate Director of British Studies
  
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  Marko Papic – STRATFOR (Analyst – Europe)
  

The University will organize all the activities of the EU Center of Excellence through CES, which is currently one of thirteen National Resource Centers for European Studies in the US, as well as the recipient through the US Department of Education of a Foreign Language and Area Studies award for graduate and undergraduate fellowships in the area of European Studies. CES has a Director, Associate Director, and two permanent staff members, as well as allied staff in other academic and college units who assist the Center. Additionally, CES will coordinate all it of its activities with LBJ, Law, the Rapoport Center for Human Rights, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the Government Department, and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES). In this way, the Center will have a wide network of administrative and logistical support. We have also established close links with the Austin’s International Hospitality Council, the Texas Governor Office, The Texas Senate Committee on International Relations and Trade, the Texas House Committee on Border and International Affairs, the International Business Institute at Austin Community College and the Austin High School Academy for Global Studies. We will work with these partners to advertise our events to a wide public as well as to choose speakers and conference invitees that would benefit their needs. We will consult our partners in the strategic planning of activities.