Center News

CES-EUC SUPPORTED PROJECTS

The CES call for proposals produced a intriguing array of University-wide projects focusing on Europe. Support goes to the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies for a symposium "Practices and Power in Everyday Life; Aspects of the History of the Twentieth Century" focused on the work of German historian Alf L?dtke; the 12th Annual DeVries-Vanderkooy Lecture, organized by Ton Broos, director of Dutch Studies; the International Architecture Workshop which invites architecture faculty and students from Spain, France, Japan, and Australia working collaboratively with students from Michigan on a design project in Detroit; the conference "Reconceptualizing the Welfare State to Address 21st-C. Demographic Realities," led by Michael Reisch in the School of Social Work; and the German Marshall Fund Academic Policy Research Conference, "Systemic Implications of Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation and Competition," led by Robert Stern of Ford School of Public Policy.
 
EUC support continues for three research projects: "The Cultural Politics of EU Energy Security," led by CES-EUC director Michael Kennedy and researchers from the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki; "Pathways for Women to Obtain Positions of Organizational Leadership," led by Cindy Schipani (Ross School of Business); and "The Development of Laws and Policies Related to the Dissemination of Public Opinion Data in Central and Eastern Europe," led by Michael Traugott (CPS). In addition, the grant is sponsoring three workshops "The Cultural Politics of EU Energy Security" (Michael Kennedy); "European Federalism in Comparative Perspective," (Jenna Bednar), and the International Law Workshop (Daniel Halberstam); and a faculty exchange between Ford School of Public Policy and Sciences Po, Paris.

 

STUDENT NEWS

Ron Alquist (PhD economics) is the recipient of the 2007 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. Maggie Gebhard (Ford School of Public Policy) received EUCE-MI funding for internship at the OECD in Paris. Jennifer Miller (PhD political science) presented, "Consonant Federalism? The Role of Federalism on Exclusive Identity and Euroskepticism" at the EUSA International Conference in Montreal, Canada on May 17th. She chaired and was a discussant of the panel Euroskepticism: chronological and geographic variation. This summer she spent two months in Europe interviewing party members in the UK and France with regards to party outreach to minority voters. Mariely L?pez-Santana (PhD political science, 2006) accepted a tenured-track position at the George Mason University.

FACULTY/VISITOR NEWS

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Reuven Avi-Yonah (law) Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law, was recently appointed Chair of the American Bar Association's Committee on Value Added Tax and Other Consumption Taxes for a two-year term beginning July 2007. In May 2007, he was named International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. Jenna Bednar (political science) and Dario Gaggio (history) were both promoted from assistant professor to associate professor with tenure.Rita Chin was awarded a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2007-08 and a Rackham Faculty Fellowship in support of her new book project on the European Left and postwar immigration. Rachael Criso (Romance languages & literature) received a grant from CRLT to attend the UNTELE Conference on cross-cultural communication, global networking, and second language acquisition in Compi?gne, France, where she presented a paper. Dick E. H. De Boer, 2002 NVP from the Netherlands Research School for Medieval Studies in Gr?ningen, presented "Obey Me! I Am Neither Dead nor Insane: Disputed Authority in the Fourteenth-Century Low Countries" at the 42nd Congress of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University. Frieda Ekotto (French and comparative literatures) was presented with the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award by the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs for outstanding contributions to the development of a culturally and ethnically diverse campus community. Daniel Halberstam (law) presented "Zur Langfristigen Geschichtswirklichkeit und der Theorie des F?deralismus in Europa" at an international conference on European integration in Berlin and published "Desperately Seeking Europe: On Comparative Methodology and the Conception of Rights," International Journal of Constitutional Law 166 (2007). He also published "Of Grace and Dignity in Law: A Tribute to Friedrich Schiller" in Friedrich Schiller und der Weg in die Moderne (Walter Hinderer, ed., K?nigshausen & Neumann: W?rzburg, 2007). James C. Hathaway's book, The Rights of Refugees under International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005) was recently selected by the American Society of International Law to receive its Certificate of Merit designed to recognize "the most distinguished work in the field of international law in the current year or in the immediately preceding year." Vassilis Hatzopoulos (2006 Law School Jean Monnet Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Democritus University of Thrace) has been serving as an expert in the Directorate for the Internal Market at the European Parliament. He published "Why the Open Method of Coordination is bad for you: A letter to the EU,? in the European Law Journal 13, no. 3 (2007), and has "With or without you: judging politically in the area of freedom, security and justice" forthcoming in the European Law Review. Alexander Knysh (NES) published Al-Qushayri's Epistle on Sufism: An Annotated Translation (Garnet/Ithaca Press, March 2007) and was awarded a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2007-08 for his book project "Islam and Empire in the Northern Caucasus."
 
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Olga L?pez Cot?n (Residential College) contributed "Desde la mirada oscura: Geograf?as f?lmicas de la inmigraci?n en Espa?a" to the edited volume Memoria colonial e inmigraci?n: la negritud en la Espa?a posfranquista. Eds. Rosal?a Cornejo Parriego-Pr?l & Juan Goytisolo (Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2007, pp.142-58.) Andrei Markovits (political science and Germanic languages and literatures) is winner of the 17th-annual Golden Apple Award and the Tronstein Award for the best teacher in the Department of Political Science, received an honorary doctorate from the Leuphana University of L?neburg, Germany. James I. Porter (classical studies) published the edited volume, Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome (Princeton U. Press, 2006). Helmut Puff (Germanic languages and literatures) will serve as Interim Chair at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in 2007-08. Enrique Garc?a Santo-Tom?s (Spanish), was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship given annually for distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishments. Scott Spector (history and Germanic languages and literatures) and Johannes von Moltke (screen arts and cultures and Germanic languages and literatures) received fellowships for 2007-08 from the Institute for the Humanities for their respective projects, "Violent Sensations: Sexuality, Crime, and Utopia in Berlin and Vienna, 1860-1914" and "Moving Pictures: Film, History, and the Politics of Emotion."