1st EUROPEAN STUDIES CENTER CONFERENCE – UFMG – FEBRUARY 2014
EUROPEAN STUDIES TODAY: EXPERIMENTS AND MODELS
Goals: Discuss models and experiments concerning European Studies in Brazil and other countries and regions of the world. Support recently opened UFMG European Studies Center (CEE Portuguese acronym), in modeling its own way and institutional design. Foster exchange of Brazilian and European institutions, having Europe as a theme and goal of its investigations, interests and background.
Day 1: February 17th
9:00AM Opening: European Union and New Challenges for Higher Education and European Studies in the World – Possibilities of Narrowing Relationships and establishing partnerships with Brazil
Speaker: Ana Paula Zacarias (Brazil’s EU Delegation)
10:30 Panel 1: European Studies in Europe
Speakers: Juhana Aunesluoma (Helsinki Network for European Studies) and Ana de Medeiros (University of Kent)
Moderator: Ana Maria Rabelo Gomes
12:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Panel 2: European Studies in Europe
Speakers: Jörg Monar (Collège d’Europe), Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann (Freie Universität Berlin), Marco Borraccetti (Università di Bologna -UniBo)
Moderator: Vera França
16:00 – 17:00 Coffee
Day 2: February 18th
9:00 Panel 3: European Studies outside Europe
Speakers: Hideki Hayashi (Hitotsubashi University) and Matthew Rosenstein (University of Illinois)
Moderator: Alexandre Cunha
10:30 Panel 4: European Studies in Brazil
Speakers: Elena Lazarou (Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV), Julie Schmied (UnB) and Myriam Ávila (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG)
Moderator: Ivan Domingues
12:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Meeting with UFMG Researchers – Presentation of CEE Actions and Calls for Projects (Possible Grants and Other Topics)
Participants: Dietrich Halm (Deutsche Forchungsgemeinschaft – DFG), Christian Müller (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD), Alessia Franchini (UniBo) and Alexandre Cunha (UFMG)
Moderator: Myriam Ávila
16:00 – 17:00 Coffee
16:30 Closing