Goethe Institut Satellite Vancouver (Call for Proposals)

A new German-Canadian arts initiative by the Goethe-Institut Toronto

The Goethe-Institut is embarking on a 2-year initiative to create the Goethe Satellite, a programming framework where artists and curators are invited to develop projects in Vancouver.

Satellites are mobile platforms that connect people and enable global networks through the reception and transmission of sound, image, data and text. The Goethe Satellite is a moving hub that journeys throughout Vancouver collecting and distributing the voices of collaborating artists, spaces, and curators.

Rather than establishing itself within a singular space, the goal of the Goethe Satellite is to facilitate unique site-specific projects and pop-up spaces around the city, where artists, organizations and collectives will have the opportunity to collaborate, perform, and show work that expands current artistic practices.

The concept is flexible and fluid, and at the same time defined by the objectives of the Goethe-Institut. The Satellite becomes a way of showcasing the intersections of space, community, culture, art, and time. By using different spaces for limited times, the initiative will be able to evolve in both form and feeling within different geographical spaces around the city.

For 50 years, the Goethe-Institut has been promoting dialogue and exchange between Canadian and German artists. The Satellite emerges from the Goethe- Institut’s interest in exploring experimental concepts within contemporary art today, in multiple locations with flexible structures. The Institut believes that Vancouver’s unique location and artistic milieu provides the ideal setting for the Satellite concept.

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Rethinking Europe: Study of Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Call for Papers)

Rethinking Europe: New Approaches and Methodologies to the Study of Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries

The Center for German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota invites paper proposals from advanced graduate students for a workshop 27-31 October, 2011, focusing on Europe’s position in and to the world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Participants will meet in Minneapolis and workshop pre-circulated papers of 20-30 pages in length. University of Minnesota faculty and graduate students will provide additional commentary throughout the sessions. Housing will be covered by the Center for German and European Studies for all participants; substantial funds are also available to offset the costs of air travel.

Interested graduate students should submit a coverletter briefly describing their work, CV, and an up-to 300-word abstract to rethinkingeurope@gmail.com by 31 May 2011. Participants will be notified by mid-June.

2011 Western US Graduate Research Workshop on the EU (Call for Papers - DEADLINE IMMINENT)

The European Union Centers of Excellence at Boulder and Seattle present:

2011 Western U.S. Graduate Research Workshop on the European Union

May 13-14, 2011

University of Colorado at Boulder

The European Union Centers of Excellence in Seattle, Washington and Boulder, Colorado are pleased to announce an application deadline extension for their upcoming Western United States Graduate Research Workshop on the European Union, to be held at the University of Colorado at Boulder on May 13-14, 2011. Applications will now be accepted through April 8, 2011.

Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute - Violence in Europe (Call for Applications)

Fellowships for Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute in European Studies, July 17 - July 29, 2011.

"Violence Across the Mediterranean to Northern Europe: Theory and Practice"

ECSA-C Young Researchers Network (Call for Membership)

In 2004, the Young Researchers Network became an official entity within the European Community Studies Association-Canada (ECSA-C YRN). Currently, the ECSA-C YRN seeks to expand its activities in order to strengthen its capacity as a dynamic, innovative organization within the area of European studies in Canada. Graduate students from Canadian universities are most welcome to join the Network.

Click here for PDF flyer.

Want to Join?

Please contact ECSA-C YRN President: Anastasia Chebakova at achebako@uvic.ca.

Prague Summer Schools 2011 (Call for Applications)

The Prague's Centre for Public Policy (Centrum pro verejnou politiku - CPVP) is pleased to announce the forthcoming Prague Summer Schools 2011 on the following topics:

1.      European Summer Institute on the Future of Europe: Lobbying in Brussels

2.      Summer School on Crime, Law and Psychology

3.      Summer School on Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe

4.      Summer School on 'China: a World Superpower - Myth or Reality?'

EU-Canada Young Journalist Award 2011 (Call for Submissions)

The European Union is pleased to announce the 2011 EU-Canada Young Journalist Award.

Brussels, the home of the European Union's institutions, is host to the largest permanent press corps in the world. By writing or recording a story about the European Union or EU-Canada relations, you could win a trip to Europe and meet the press corps in Brussels, the city at the heart of the EU's decision-making machinery.

European Union Study Tour & Internship Program 2011

The application period is now open for the 2011 EU Study Tour & Internship Program. The Study Tour will take place from 09-27 May 2011. The deadline for all Study Tour applications is 01 March 2011 but earlier applications would be appreciated. The deadline for Internship Program applications is 28 February 2011.

For more information click here to view the flyer or visit the program's website here.

Interested students may want to look into funding available through UBC. Please note that the deadline for the Graduate Student International Research Mobility Award is 01 February 2011.

*** UPDATE (25 January 2011) - Please find below important forms for the study tour and internship programs as well as the latest news about the the program. All documents are to be completed in Word and sent electronically as indicated on the form.***

• EUST&IP Network e-Bulletin 2
• Study Tour Application Form
• Student Internship Position Application Form
• 'Letter of Commitment' Form for Intern Applicants
• Faculty Referral Form
  

Second Annual York University Graduate EU Conference: Europe in Uncharted Waters (Call for Papers)

11-12 March 2011 - York University

The Europe of today is starkly opposite of its former self. Conflict, conquest and disunity were once perennial features of the continent, most notably during its imperial heyday. The fluidity of borders and its changeability because of territorial and monarchal ambitions was a normalcy. By the middle of the 20th century, however, there would materialize an abrupt digression. Two afflictive wars, an intermediate recession and the mechanization of death by one despotic leader would irrevocably change the very ethos of the continent, and for the first time in history, Europe would unite. Ever since, conflict has been repudiated in favour of conciliation and war in favour of peace, and it has, many say, been relatively successful. A semblance of divisive rivalries from a bygone era remains in the Balkan region, but otherwise the continent has been at peace, and collective prosperity has resulted. Modernity, it appears, has been kind to Europe, more so than history. Yet now, pundits say, an ominous storm looms in the distance. Security inadequacies, economic defaults and unsustainable welfare policies, to name a few, are besieging and eroding the European Union and its cohesion. Uncharted and dangerous waters are where Europe finds itself today. How it decides to proceed will determine the success or failure, and the future or end of its political experiment.

No longer can it subordinately rely on the United States, as it has previously done, to remedy the disparities which it now confronts:  the new Europe demands a new way.

Fifth European Union Centre of Excellence Dalhousie Conference: 10-12 April 2011 (Call for Papers)

The EU and Transatlantic Relations: Security and Political Economy Issues

The EU Centre of Excellence at Dalhousie University hereby invites paper proposals for its fifth Annual Conference which will take place at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, from Sunday evening 10 April until Tuesday 12 April late afternoon. The conference will start with a dinner at the Lord Nelson Hotel Sunday evening and the conference itself will take place in Room 1020, the Kenneth Rowe Management Building, 6100 University Avenue, Halifax, starting Monday morning at 9:00 am.

The topic this time is the EU and Transatlantic Relations. The conference will take stock of Transatlantic Relations in 2011 in a broad sense, including the Atlantic area's position in the global political as well as
economic system.