STUDY ABROAD
Candidates for the M.A. degree in European studies are
encouraged to spend their summer session abroad.
RESEARCH WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS
Research Workshops: These ongoing study groups are made up
of faculty and graduate students from New York University
and other area institutions and aim to help refine and design research projects,
both individual and collective.
Currently
the organized workshops are as follows: Modern European History; Eurasian
Connections; Gender in Transition: Women in Europe;
Mediterranean Studies; and Language Acquisition Assessment.
Faculty Colloquia: A series of public lectures, the Center
for European and Mediterranean Studies Lecture Series, is organized by the
Center primarily to bring specialists from Europe
and from other American universities to the NYU community. Speakers from the United
States and Europe focus on such issues as immigration,
class relations, the political construction of Europe,
nationalism, and the relationship between politics and culture.
Conferences: The Center organizes national or regional
conferences on European subjects, open to faculty and graduate students.
Conferences held in 2005-2007 included “The Politics of Anti-Semitism in
Contemporary France and Europe,” “Conflicting Memories and European
Integration,” “War, Atrocity, Terror: Europe Since 1900,” and “Immigration and
Cultural Exchange: German Jewish Presences in the U.S.
and Post-Cold War Germany.”
Film Series: Each year the Center for European and
Mediterranean Studies has addressed timely and relevant European issues through
its student-run film series. All events are free and open to the public.
The spring
2006 film series, Balkan Conflict: Internal, External, Eternal?, explored the
roots and workings of Balkan conflict—ethnic, social, economic, political, and
religious. Can the fires of hatred be extinguished, or will they continue
blazing into the 21st century? Five Balkan directors have attempted to answer
that complex question, while also producing masterful works of cinematic art,
such as the following: The Hostage (Constantine Giannaris, Greece); Before the
Rain (Milcho Manchevski, Macedonia); No Man’s Land (Danis Tanovic, Bosnia);
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey); Whose Is This Song? (Adela Peeva, Bulgaria).
SPECIAL FACILITIES
The Center’s offices include a seminar room and a modest
document and periodical collection dealing with contemporary Western and Eastern Europe. The latter includes journals, weeklies,
and newsletters from European centers and institutions. The NYU Law Library is
a depository of official documents of the European Community, and the Elmer
Holmes Bobst Library has a wide selection of European newspapers and
periodicals in addition to strong book collections on all aspects of
contemporary Europe. The Center assists Bobst
Library in developing its European holdings.
DEPARTMENTAL FELLOWSHIPS, PRIZES, AND AWARDS
The Center offers an annual competition for three federally
funded academic-year Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for
students who will study a West European language as an integral part of an
academic program. It offers a small number of graduate assistantships that
provide tuition and stipends for work in the Center. Four FLAS summer language
training fellowships are also available. The Center also has limited funds to
subsidize graduate student domestic travel to Europeanist scholarly meetings,
for which application can be made throughout the academic year.
A
comprehensive list of University, Graduate
School, and departmental
fellowships, prizes, and awards appears in the Financing Graduate Education
section of the GSAS Application for Admission and Financial Aid. This
information is also available on the GSAS Web site at
http://gsas.nyu.edu/page/grad.financialaid.
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