Back to Brussels in This Issue 2 EUCE Graduate Research Workshop: Training the Next Generation of EU Experts
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the newsletter of the center for west european studies and the european union center of excellence Back to Brussels In This Issue 2 EUCE Graduate Research Workshop: Training the Next Generation of EU Experts 3 Faculty Interview with Associate Professor Glennys Young 4-5 Spain Takes Center Stage in Seattle 6 Student Profile: Christopher Cunningham Photo: The Berlaymont building in Brussels, headquarters of the European Commission. Participants in our summer programs in Brussels will visit major EU institutions in the EU 7 Teacher Workshop: capital. Photo courtesy of the European Commission. Europe & the Environment A large number of CWES and EUCE These major developments in Europe activities over the past six months form the backdrop of the EUCE’s two 8 CWES Sponsors Films at have focused on the new Treaty programs operating in Brussels this the Seattle International of Lisbon and its impact on EU summer. Twenty students from eight Film Festival (SIFF) policymaking and the future direction US universities are participating of European integration. The full in this year’s EU Studies Summer 10 Events Calendar effects of the Treaty of Lisbon will Program, while an additional three only be felt and appreciated over UW undergraduates and three Seattle time as implementation moves area teachers will be participating in forward and the EU adjusts to new the EU Visit Program taking place policies and procedures in a host of in late June. The former, now in its Newsletter Editors areas. Meanwhile, a new permanent fifth year and running for five weeks President of the European Council in July and August, is our largest Daniel Ammons and High Representative for Foreign Brussels program to date. University Eva Dunn Affairs have both taken office, and the of Wisconsin political scientist Nils Samuel Lederer European Parliament has confirmed a Ringe, an expert on the European Phil Shekleton new European Commission. Parliament who led the 2008 program, will lead this year’s EU Studies This period of significant institutional Summer Program in Brussels. change in Europe has coincided with a major financial crisis in the euro- The Seattle contingent participating zone that has drawn world attention in the 2010 EU Visit Program will be and challenged EU leaders to deliver a joined in Brussels by over a dozen coordinated and effective response. other students, teachers, and staff continued on page 9 spring 2010 the henry m. jackson school of international studies, university of washington vol 16, no 3 spring 2010 WES Northwest European Union Center of Excellence News Training the Next Generation of EU Experts Eleven graduate students gathered at the University of Washington on May 21-22 to present their research to faculty members and fellow students at the two-day Western United States Graduate Research Workshop on the European Union, co-sponsored by the Seattle and Colorado European Union Centers of Excellence. The European Union Center of the abovementioned faculty members EU enlargement to Turkey. In the Excellence at the University of serving as discussant. “Immigration and Gender” session, Washington is always pleased Neil Vander Most (University of to work with our fellow Centers The workshop was structured around Illinois) set the anti-immigration throughout the United States to six thematic areas, based on the policies of far right parties in the advance learning opportunities for attendees’ dissertation topics. In Netherlands in a larger European students conducting research on the the workshop’s opening session on context and Alexandra Gerber EU. This year, we were proud to host “Immigration and Minority Rights,” (University of Michigan) discussed the second Western United States Basak Ural (University of Pittsburgh) the role of gender and knowledge in Graduate Research Workshop on presented her work on public the process of European integration. the European Union on May 21-22, opinion toward immigration and In the workshop’s final session in cooperation with the EUCE at the the EU in Germany while Douglas on “Public Opinion and European University of Colorado, Boulder. This Byrd (University of Utah) examined Integration,” Nick Clark (Indiana workshop aims to provide a forum the limits and implications of The University) assessed the European for US-based graduate students at European Charter for Regional or public’s political knowledge of the the dissertation level to present their Minority Languages. Amber Curtis EU. EU-focused research to an audience (University of Colorado) addressed of supportive, yet critical faculty and the effects of EU institutions on The Seattle and Colorado Centers peers and to provide methodological identity and Theocharis Grigoriadis were pleased to offer this unique and instruction in a way that is relevant to (UC Berkeley) discussed the political exciting opportunity for advanced research in the social sciences. economy of EU aid to the former graduate students. In this and future Soviet Union in the “Institutions and workshops, we hope to provide The Seattle and Colorado Centers Political Economy” session. Rounding the next generation of EU scholars were proud to offer advanced graduate out the first day of the workshop with a professional and supportive students the opportunity to develop in the “Policy and Politics” session, environment in which to present, their research under the guidance of Marina Henke (Princeton University) develop, and receive criticism on their distinguished faculty members at this presented her research on theories dissertation research. Through these two-day workshop. Professors James of European security cooperation collaborative projects, the European Caporaso (University of Washington) and Torben Heinze (Free University University Centers of Excellence can and Joseph Jupille (University of of Berlin) assessed the diffusion of maximize our resources and continue Colorado) conducted the workshop public policy in the field of European to support cutting-edge research on sessions, with additional support from higher education. the EU. Cliff Carrubba (Emory University). Tanja Börzel (Free University of Leading off the second day of the Berlin), our 2009-10 EUCE Short-Term workshop in the “External Relations The European Union Center Visiting Scholar, also participated in Perspectives” session, Mary Anne of Excellence is proud to the workshop. This year’s workshop Madeira (University of Washington) announce this year’s recipients of the EUCE Graduate Student featured eleven graduate students examined regional integration and Research Grant: from ten different universities. Each social policy in the EU while Michael student was given 45 minutes to Wright (University of Pittsburgh) Brad Epperley (Political Science), Charles Causey present their research in front of presented his work on the practical (Sociology). faculty and their peers, with one of and theoretical implications of page 2 spring 2010 WES Northwest Faculty Interview with Glennys Young Glennys Young, Associate Professor in The Jackson School of International Studies and Department of History, is one of the co-organizers of this year’s lecture and film series, “Lives, History, Memory: The Spanish Civil War, 70 Years After.” CWES Graduate Assistant Samuel Lederer sat down with Professor Young recently to discuss the series, her expertise in Russian studies, and the origins of her interest in the Spanish Civil War. Can you talk about the lecture and film series, “Lives, History, Memory: The Spanish Civil War, 70 Years After,” that you have been co-organizing this year?” This is co-organized with several colleagues on campus, including Susan Glenn (History), Anthony Geist (Spanish & Portuguese), Mark Jenkins (Drama), Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (Graduate Student – Drama). Our goal has been to design a lecture and film series that would educate people about the Spanish Civil War and also highlight issues regarding the history and memory of the war. One controversial topic has been the grassroots efforts of children and relatives of victims of Franco’s Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War to have the unmarked mass graves opened and have their loved-ones receive dignified and proper burials. In fact, the film that we are showing this week, one that CWES was kind enough to sponsor, “Mari Carmen España: The End of Silence” (Pontus Hjorthén and Martin Jönsson, 2008) speaks directly to that issue and concerns one person whose grandfather lies in one of those mass graves. We’ve had four speakers so far this year. Peter Carroll, who has written one of the best books on the Abraham Lincoln Brigades, spoke in November. Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish magistrate, spoke at the School of Law in February. Helen Graham gave a talk in April in which she situated the International Brigades in larger European, and Photo: Glennys Young poses on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz in June 2009 on a research visit for global, historical developments. Our last speaker, Jordana her upcoming book, The Communist Experience: Mendelson, discussed one of the most famous portraits of the A Global History Through Documents. Photo 20th century, Picasso’s “Guernica.” We have shown a number courtesy of Glennys Young. of films this year, including “Dreams and Nightmares” by Abe Osheroff, who was a member of the Lincoln Brigades and fought in Spain, and “The War in Drawings,” (“La Guerra Dibujada,” Amanda Gascó and Xavier Cortés, 2006) which details the first systematic use of art therapy in the world in children’s colonies during the Spanish Civil War. The film series has been very well-attended, and each of the films has generated valuable discussion facilitated by one of the faculty members of the organizing group. By design, the series is coordinated with a course I am giving this term, a seminar for junior history majors that has the same title as the series itself. My students have been attending the films and lectures, and have been asking great questions. They have really contributed to the intellectual vitality of the series. You are an expert on Russian history; but you are a co-organizer of the “Lives, History, Memory” series.