Skalny Center Academic Events
August 2008
Daniel Epstein is the Skalny Center's Postdoctoral Fellow for the academic year 2008-2009. He received his Ph. D. from Harvard University in 2008. He taught a course PSC 259 ("Democratic Consolidation") in the fall 2008 and is teaching PSC 269 ("Russian Politics") in the spring 2009.
August 2007
Alexandra Hennessy was the Skalny Center's Postdoctoral Fellow for the academic year 2007-2008. She taught a course PSC 266 ("Politics of the European Union") in the spring 2008.
Dr. Hennessy's postdoctoral research project examines the sources of pension reforms in the central European countries that formally joined the European Union in 2004. Pension reform is a particularly interesting area of post-1989 social policy, because pension schemes concern social as well as macroeconomic issues, exerting a direct influence on public finances, savings, labor and capital markets. The governments of Central Europe are not only constrained in their policy choices from “within” by domestically generated preferences and institutional legacies, but also from “without” by the European Union mandated convergence criteria. While existing scholarship on delegating social policymaking to Brussels has focused predominantly on the West European nations, very little attention has been devoted to studying how the pooling of sovereignty will affect the Central European countries, where patterns of party competition, interest representation, and public perceptions of the legitimacy of democracy had considerably less time to develop. The goal of this project is to find out whether this legacy will make it easier or more difficult for the post-Communist states to give up much of their cherished national sovereignty by joining the EU, knowing that even more will be eroded over time.
June 20, 2007
Professor Hauser's Fulbright grant was extended for 2007- 2008 academic year.
January 1, 2007
Ewa Hauser, director of the Skalny Center, received a Fulbright grant to teach courses on American
political films and ethnic relations in Mykolayiv, Ukraine for the spring 2007 semester.
October 11, 2006
One day symposium Images of America: Polish Perspectives on the U.S.
sponsored by:
Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission; U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs; American Studies Center, Warsaw University; and Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, University of Rochester
took place at University of Rochester River Campus, Interfaith Chapel.
Free and open to the public
September - December 2006
Three students from the University of Warsaw study at the University of Rochester as a part of the two-year collaboration within the Fulbright Scholar Alumni Initiatives Awards Program.
September - October 2005
Four students from the University of Warsaw study at the University of Rochester as a part of the two-year collaboration within the Fulbright Scholar Alumni Initiatives
Awards Program.
July 15, 2005
Ewa K. Hauser, director of the Skalny Center for Polish
and Central European Studies at the University of Rochester, received
Poland’s Cavalier
Cross of Merit for her achievements in promoting
Polish culture in America.
May 23, 2005
An
agreement to continue collaborations and exchanges between
the University of Rochester and Jagiellonian University was signed in
Krakow, Poland.
March 7 and 8, 2005
Conference "Comparative
Perspectives on Race, Nationalism and the Politics of Memory: Poland
and the United States" took place in Warsaw, Poland.
October 14, 2004
A visit of Professor
Maria Nowakowska, Vice-Rector of the Jagiellonian
University (Krakow, Poland) and a Chemistry Professor.
September
14 - 15, 2004
A visit of four faculty members from the University
of Warsaw American Studies Center, Warsaw, Poland:
Zbigniew Lewicki, professor and director
of University of Warsaw’s American Studies Center
Tomasz Basiuk, American Studies Center's
deputy director for student affairs, has developed courses on Holocaust
literature in cooperation with German universities
Agnieszka Graff, American Studies Center's
assistant professor, teaches gender studies, narrative theory, and the
history of the American women’s movement
Krystyna Mazur, American Studies Center's
assistant professor who teaches minority studies. Basiuk and Graff also
will be in residence at New York University during the 2004-05 year as
Fulbright scholars.
It is an innauguration of two-year
collaboration between the University of Warsaw and the University
of Rochester.
In the program:
Sept. 14, 2:00 - 4:00 pm, Round table discussion "Teaching
Diversity in Warsaw and Rochester"
Participants: Warsaw delegation (Lewicki, Basiuk, Graff,
Mazur)
UR: Fred Harris, John Michael, Larry Hudson, Signithia Fordham, Cilas
Kemedjio, Victoria Wolcott, Sharon Willis, John Borek Frank Shuffelton,
Greta Niu.
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