IES Affiliate member Heidi Tworek’s (UBC) article “Quietly, one of President Trump’s tariffs threatens American democracy” was recently published in the Washington Post. The article uses European history to discuss contemporary tariffs.
Heidi’s article can be read here.
IES Faculty member Kurt Hübner’s (UBC) edited volume National Pathways to Low Carbon Emission Economies (Routledge, 2018) has recently been published.
For more information, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/National-Pathways-to-Low-Carbon-Emission-Economies-Innovation-Policies/Hubner/p/book/9781138312616
IES Visiting Scholar Ian Beacock’s (Stanford University) “The Frame of Things”, a book review on Holly Case’s The Age of Questions (Princeton University Press, 2018) has been published by the LA Review of Books.
To read this article, please visit: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-frame-of-things/
Announcement published by Gisela Brinker-Gabler on Thursday, August 16, 2018
Type:
Call for Papers
Date:
August 10, 2018
Location:
Spain
CFP: The European Culture Research Network [ECRN] of
The Council for European Studies invites submissions for papers for the International Europeanist Conference
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, June 20-22, 2019:
Sovereignties in Contention: Nations, Regions, and Citizens in Europe
(https://councilforeuropeanstudies.org
The ECRN will organize a panel series of its own.
You are also welcome to submit your own session proposals or individual abstracts on all aspects of European Culture to the European Culture Research Network
(Please send proposals to Gisela Brinker-Gabler (gbrinker@binghamton.edu) and Randall Halle (rhalle@pitt.edu)
Sessions involve a moderator and discussants, and can take three forms:
Mini-Symposia are a thematic cluster of 3-5 sessions of any of the above types grouped together.
Open Call
The ECRN/CES welcomes paper and session submissions on all aspects of European Culture:
e.g. Longing and Belonging to Places and Communities; Perceptions/Images/Stereotypes of Place, Nation, Group; Migration, Exile and Belonging; Migration and Empires; Migration, Religion, Ethnicity; Past allegiance (nostalgia, mythology); New Readings of Iconic Texts; New contexts: realistic, utopian, digital; Film adaptions and Rewritings, Graphic novels and film, Transnational Memories; (Post)colonial Studies; Eastern- and Central European Studies; Sexuality and Gender Studies; Imagology, Myth-and Folklore Criticism; Political Discourse and Education; Radicalism and Violence; European Avant-gardes; Cosmopolitics: Europe and the World.
ECRN Panel Series
Reshaping Europe: Experiments, Agency, Cultural Practice
Europe is not a place it is a process; it is a history of shifting borders and changing collectivities. The post-war aim of a Europe without borders, central to the project of the EU, set itself against a disastrous past of chauvinistic and imperial aggressions. And yet the contemporary European project has generated its own set of boundaries, mental and physical. It has reactivated older forms of belonging: national, regional, and cultural. While fostering a culture of travel and tourism, it has also sharpened class and ethnic conflict. East/West and North/South divides pull European unity apart. And in spite of the ideal of a Europe without borders, the EU has also generated its own new forms of territory: the Schengen Zone patrolled by Frontex, the borders of NATO splitting the Ukraine, the Eurozone, the Populist Right’s Europe of Nations, the continental Exit into isolated national sovereignty, the Occidental rift on the Bosporus, or the Mediterranean as grave.
This CfP seeks contributions that explores the European rethinking of borders and boundaries in cultural practice. We understand cultural practice broadly from museal institutional to street practice, from quotidian experience to avant-garde defamiliarization, from print to social media, from majority identitarian to local queer collectivist, etc. Proposals that explore European culture as a space of multiple loyalties over a single European universal are encouraged. We seek contributions that consider historical as well as contemporary cultural practice.
Papers are especially welcome that attend to anxieties about mass migration and collective displacement, explore assertions of national histories or inter- and trans-national alternatives, discuss experienced shifts of sovereignty and cultural belonging. We encourage critical approaches that do not take culture or identity as a given but rather ask how have past and present life experiences shaped cultural collectives, generated mythologies, produced domination, sought to resolve conflict. How do contemporary exclusivities relate to or differ from past exclusions.
With your contributions, we hope to establish a series of panels with a concluding roundtable oriented toward new horizons and European futures.
Send proposals to gbrinker@binghamton. edu and rhalle@pitt.edu
EUROPEAN CULTURE is a new Research Network at
the Council for European Studies, New York. For membership information see https://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/research/research-networks/european-culture
Contact Email:
Position Type
UBC Vancouver Work Learn Program
ID
854321
Faculty of Arts
Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies
WL W18 Research Assistant
Job Description
The Research Assistant will assist in developing and organizing an international research network and conference as part of the UBC Excellence Cluster on Migration (https://migration.ubc.ca/people/markus-hallensleben), including publications in English and German. Under the supervisor’s guidance, the student is expected to contribute with their own research interest and actively participate in a SSHRC funding application (for either a conference or Insight Development grant). Duties include editing an interdisciplinary book project, assisting in editing research papers and conference contributions; assisting with correspondences; event organization including budgeting; photocopying and scanning research material; locating research sources and compiling bibliographies in Endnote and RefWorks; image editing; clearing copyrights; signing out library books; running research and related errands independently and under supervision. As part of the outcome of the project, a graduate student would also be expected on working towards their own publications.
Qualifications
Strong research and communication skills; previous editing experience and experience in event or conference organization desirable; knowledge of German language and literature desirable but not required; high interest in cultural studies and interdisciplinary knowledge in Migration Studies and European Studies; excellent editing/ writing/ computer skills a must; familiarity with WORD, REFWORKS, ENDOTE, EXCEL and PAGES (Mac) helpful.
Student Learning Components
Anticipated skill and knowledge acquisition: Attend workshops for editing/bibliographical software; learn how to plan and run an international network and event; gain competency and knowledge of current practices and research trends in interdisciplinary German studies (literature and culture; migration studies); get involved in an international research project with opportunity to connect to researchers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, and the US; develop their own career path from undergraduate student to academic position. Mentorship for their own publications, encouragement for professional administrative work and feedback is provided on an ongoing basis with the goal of performing at a highly professional level. This job allows for applying theoretical knowledge in European literature and cultural studies to other fields (i.e., migration studies). It intends to prepare a student for future professional work at publishing houses, governmental organization, NGOs, and other research organizations including universities.
Position Classification
Salary / Wage
21.00
Hours Per Week
10
Total Number of Hours per Student Position
100-200 (Depending on one or two RAs hired)
Experience Level
All Current Undergraduate and Graduate Students preferable in a Masters Program, a Phd Program, Graduated with an Undergraduate Degree, or Graduated with a Graduate Degree (Masters or Phd)
Preferred Degrees/Disciplines
Arts/Social Sciences
Is this Work Learn position research oriented?
Yes
Work Learn Supervisor
Markus Hallensleben
Work Learn Supervisor Email
Work Learn Administrator
Diane Smyth
Work Learn Administrator Email
Anticipated Start Date
September 24, 2018
Posting Date
August 1, 2018
Expiration Date(Required)
September 20, 2018
Please send Resume and other documents to
Additional Documents Requested.
Cover Letter, Unofficial Transcript, Writing Sample, Class Schedule
EMGIP (Émigré Memorial German Internship Program) offers internship opportunities for U.S. and Canadian students in the German parliament, the Bundestag. The internships are two months long and we try to match the position with the student’s interests and experiences. Interns will be placed within the Verwaltung, preferably with a Sekretariat working for their preferred Ausschuss. In addition to contributing to the respective offices, interns have the opportunity to study legislative and administrative procedures in the German parliament.
Eligibility
Applicants for EMGIP – Bundestag should possess outstanding academic records and personal integrity as well as sufficient knowledge of the German legislative process. Participants should be advanced undergraduates or graduate students in fields such as political science, international relations, law, history, economics or German. PhD students are not eligible. Students must be fluent in spoken German and possess excellent writing skills.
U.S. and Canadian citizens and permanent residents are eligible to apply. International students who are enrolled in a full time course of study in the U.S. or Canada may also apply. German nationals are not eligible.
Terms of Award
The successful applicant will receive compensation of approximately EUR 1,800 per month from the German Bundestag. Subsidized health insurance is available through DAAD for a monthly fee. DAAD can help the interns to obtain housing in Berlin and make contacts with fellow international interns and German students. Travel expenses are the intern’s responsibility.
For further information: https://www.daad.org/en/find-funding/graduate-opportunities/emgip-bundestag-internship/
The Council for European Studies (CES) at Columbia University invites proposal submissions for the 26th International Conference of Europeanists on the themes of Sovereignties in Contention: Nations, Regions and Citizens in Europe. The conference will be held at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid on June 20-22, 2019.
Conference Information:
Sovereignty is at the crux of current developments in Europe and at the center of political debate—of which the 2016 referendum on Brexit is just one example. The claim to regain national sovereignty vis-a-vis EU policy-making is common to populist movements throughout Europe today, and it currently dominates the rhetoric of the national governments of Hungary and Poland as well. Anxieties about sovereignty are also key to understanding the demands put forward by regional entities such as Scotland, Catalonia, and Lombardy.
These fights for new forms of sovereignty – or the restoration of old ones – are surprising, even bewildering, to those who imagined that the process of European integration would render the concept of sovereignty obsolete. Yet recent developments clearly show that sovereignty again has become a crucial concept in political, social and cultural fields. It is increasingly invoked not only by regions, nations, and Europe itself, but also by minority populations, marginalized groups, and even individuals as the reason justifying their claims of self-governance, emancipation, or political empowerment.
Recent developments and the material challenges that complicate them – globalization, the digital revolution, mobility – call upon us to reflect on the motives, polities, concepts, and rhetorics of sovereignty more profoundly and, given the complexity of the challenges, to seek fresh approaches that transcend disciplinary boundaries. “Sovereignties in Contention in Europe: Nations, Regions and Citizens” aims to provide an opportunity to bridge the gap between different models for the study of sovereignty: from a governmental and institutional perspective to looking at bottom-up processes, from socio-economic and legal aspects to questions of identity, nationhood, and historical memory.
Submission Information:
We particularly welcome proposals in these areas, including cross-thematic and interdisciplinary papers, as well as proposals in other areas relevant to contemporary Europe.
Proposals may be submitted from August 10 to October 5, 2018. Priority will be given to panel submissions. Participants will be notified of the Program Committee’s decision by December 14, 2018.
Information on how to submit proposals will be posted on the CES website and disseminated through its newsletter. To subscribe to the CES newsletter visit: https://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/publications. For information on how to submit a proposal, please consult the Submission Help page or our newsletter.
For more details:
Founded in 1970, the Council for European Studies (CES) produces, supports, and recognizes outstanding, multi-disciplinary research on Europe through a wide range of programs and initiatives.
One of our visiting scholars, Chase Foster, will be moving to London beginning in September 2018 to take up a one-year postdoctoral position at the London School of Economics. He will be teaching in the Dept. of Government’s Master’s Programs in Regulation and Public Administration. While we will certainly miss Chase here at the IES, we are absolutely delighted for him and we wish him all the best in his future endeavours. Congratulations, Chase!
Sandra Schinnerl, a doctoral student in Interdisciplinary Studies and a graduate student at the IES, has recently been awarded a collaborative scholarship from the Public Scholars Inititative (PSI) at UBC. Her work was selected as being of significant merit and potential for advancing scholarship in the public interest. Congratulations, Sandra!