Upcoming West European Studies Events

EVENTS

1. FRIT’s Circolo Italiano Fall 2010 Film Series

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

7 p.m.

Myers Hall 130

Good morning, Aman (2009) by Claudio Noce

2. German Reunification Brownbag

Thursday, September 30, 2010

12:30 – 2 p.m.

Maple Room, IMU

“20^th Anniversary of German Reunification”

Discussion and Brown Bag Lunch with Stefanie Sigrid Rehm, Liaison for the Brussels Office of the State Chancellery of Saxony

3. FRIT Lecture: Civility, Honor, Familiarity

5:30 pm, Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Walnut Room

Indiana Memorial Union

“Civility, Honor, Familiarity: The Case of the French Seventeenth Century and Beyond”

  Hélène Merlin-Kajman, Université de Paris 3 – Sorbonne nouvelle

4. Minority Languages in Europe Conference

October 7- 9, 2010

“Minority Languages in Europe: Successes and Challenges”

The preliminary schedule is posted on the website (http://www.iub.edu/~west/documents/eurlangsprogram.pdf).

5. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

October 14-17, 2010

Indiana University Bloomington

“Variation and Linguistic Theory”

For more information, please visit the symposium website at http://www.indiana.edu/~hls2010/.

6. ACTFL 2010 Annual Convention and World Languages ExpoNovember 19-21, 2010
Pre-convention Workshops – November 18, 2010
Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA

Advance Registration by: Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Visit http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=5156 to register.

OPPORTUNITIES

1. Faculty Exchange Program

Application deadline: November 18, 2010

For more information see our website at: http://www.indiana.edu/~ovpia/ovpia/funding/uWide.php#SFE.

                                                                                                                                                                                          

2. Smith Richardson Junior Faculty Research Grant Program

The Smith Richardson Foundation’s International Security and Foreign Policy Program is pleased to announce its annual grant competition to support junior faculty research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history.  The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to support tenure-track junior faculty engaged in the research and writing of a scholarly book on an issue or topic of interest to the policy community.

For more information, visit http://www.srf.org/grants/international_junior_faculty.php.