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PRESS RELEASES

Weiser Center’s “Freedom without Walls” series commemorates 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Oct 29, 2009

Veton Surroi, Civil Society Activist and Journalist, to Speak about Kosovo War. Oct 27, 2009

Former Polish President returns to University of Michigan to teach course, give public lecture. September 28, 2009

Weiser Center Events to Focus on Historic Anniversaries of 2009. September 9, 2009

Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia
2008-09 Annual Report (PDF)

The International Academy Central placed fourth in the Euro Challenge National Competition. April 29, 2009

Europe and the Financial Crisis: Michigan High School Students take on the Euro Challenge
The International Academy Central has won the Michigan preliminary round of the EURO Challenge 2009 Regional Competition and will be advancing to the semi-final round of the competition in New York City on April 29, 2009. They will be competing against 24 other teams from eight states. April 2, 2009

Learning from the Experts. Huron High School Students Visit UM for Special Lecture. March 30, 2009

EU Center of Excellence receives three-year European Commission grant September 1, 2008

CES-EUC SUPPORTED PROJECTS

EUC Faculty Projects 2008-09
Anna Grzymala-Busse, Political Science, research, “The Sacralization of Politics in the European Union.” John E. Jackson, Political Science, research on “Attitudes of Poles towards the European Union.” Janet H. Lawrence and Michael Bastedo,Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, School of Education, international workshop, “Towards a European Higher Education Area: Bologna Process and Beyond.” Cindy A. Schipani, Business, international workshop, “Pathways for Women to Obtain Positions of Organizational Leadership.”

CES-EUC Course Development Awards, 2008-09
Rita Chin, History, “Multiethnic Europe: Immigrants and Muslims in Postwar Britain, France, and Germany.” Anna Grzymala-Busse, Political Science, “Religion and the Making of Europe.” Janet Hart, Anthropology, “Deprovincializing Europe: Architects and Public Culture.” Kader Konuk, German/Comparative Literature,“Islam and the West: Critical Perspectives on European Literature.”

 

STUDENT NEWS

EUC Jean Monnet Fellows, 2009
Ela Gezen, PhD German, “Heimisches Berlin: Longing and Belonging.” Mónica López-Lerma, PhD Comparative Literature, “The Ghosts of Justice: Re-Imagining the Spanish Past.” Jennifer Miller, PhD Political Science, “Redefining the Nation: Center-Right Party Outreach toward Visible Minorities in Europe.” Jessica Robbins, PhD Anthropology, “Making and Unmaking Polish Persons: Aging and Memory in Postsocialist Poland.”

CES-EUC Summer Research and Internship Grants, 2009
Elisabeth Alber, BA Political Science/German (Brussels, Belgium). Catherine Benson, PhD Natural Resources and Environment (Switzerland). Heloise Finch-Boyer, PhD Anthropology and History (France). Maria Hadjipolycarpou, PhD Comparative Literature (Cyprus). Trevor Kilgore, PhD History (Italy). Laura Kupe, BA Political Science/Modern European Studies minor (Germany). Jeremy Ledger, PhD History (Spain). Paul Lewis, BA Mathematics/Jazz Studies (France). Aaron McCloud, MBA Business/MSE Naval Architecture (Denmark). Rosa Moore, BA History of Art/German (Germany). Noel Delgado Moreno, BS Chemical Engineering/German (Germany). Davide Orsini, PhD Anthropology & History (Italy). Mark Rudolf, BS Biomedical Engineering/German minor (Germany). Anna Wieck, PhD History of Art (Spain).

EUC/Ford School of Public Policy Summer Internship Grant, 2009
Egan Reich, MPP Public Policy. Internship at the EastWest Institute, Brussels, Belgium.

EUC Jean Monnet Fellows, 2008
Alex Gerber (PhD sociology), published "The Letter versus The Spirit: Barriers to Meaningful Implementation of Gender Equality Policy in Poland" in Women's Studies International Forum special issue dedicated to Eastern European women's encounter with the European Union (forthcoming).

FACULTY/VISITOR NEWS
The following are significant accomplishments in 2008-09 reported by faculty affiliated with CES-EUC.

Books

Vincenzo Binetti, Italian. Città nomadi. Autonomia e esodo nella metropoli contemporanea (Ombre Corte, 2008). David Caron, French/Women’s Studies. My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community (Cornell UP, 2009). Dena Goodman, History/Women’s Studies. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters (Cornell UP, 2009). Artemis Leontis, Modern Greek. Culture and Customs of Greece (Greenwood Press, 2009). Margaret R. Somers, Sociology/History. Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to have Rights (Cambridge UP, 2008). Jan Svejnar, Public Policy/Business/Economics. Labor Markets and Economic Development, co-editor w/ Ravi Kanbur (Oxford: Routledge, 2009).

Grants & Awards

Joshua Cole, History. Norman and Jane Katz Faculty Fellow, U-M Institute for the Humanities, 2008-09. Dena Goodman, History/Women’s Studies. Jantina Tammes Chair of Gender Studies, University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2009. Scott Greer, Public Health. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation’s McDevitt Excellence in Research Award in health policy for “Out of Pocket Spending and Medication Adherence Among Dialysis Patients in 12 Countries,” 2009. Anna Grzymala-Busse, Political Science. APSA Greg Luebbert Award for Best Article in Comparative Politics, 2008. | AAASS Ed A. Hewett Prize for Best Publication on the Political Economy of the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe for Rebuilding Leviathan: Party Competition and State Exploitation in Post-Communist Democracies (Cambridge UP, 2007), 2008. | Henry Russel Award, U-M, 2009. John E. Jackson,Political Science/Business. Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008. |Career Achievement Award, Society for Political Methodology (APSA), 2008. Andrei S. Markovits, German/Political Science. Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 2008-09. | Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship, U-M, 2009. Geneviève Zubrzycki, Sociology. Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Grant from the ASA/NSF award for a research project on “Nationalism, Religion and Secularization in Quebec and Poland,” 2008. | Polish Studies Association’s Biennial Kulczycki Book Prize for The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland (Chicago UP, 2006), 2008.

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