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CERC Postgraduate Conference 2007

The Worlds of Europe and Europe in the World

Wednesday 5th December 2007

CONTEMPORARY EUROPE RESEARCH CENTRE
Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence
The University of Melbourne
Level 2, 234 Queensberry St, Carlton

About the Conference

The Contemporary Europe Research Centre (CERC) invites postgraduate students from across Australia and New Zealand with a research interest in modern Europe to participate in an Interdisciplinary Conference, The Worlds of Europe and Europe in the World.

Keynote Speaker:

Professor Janusz Symonides
(University of Warsaw)
“The European Union - Achievements and Challenges”

The Conference is being held on Wednesday 5 December 2007. There will be eleven papers given from students from around Australia and from New Zealand.

Conference Program

If you wish to attend the conference you should download a registration form. Prior registration is preferred since this will help us with organisation and catering.

This conference is being held in conjunction with a public lecture and major international conference: Europe and Asia between Islam and the United States: The Lessons of Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and Iran, jointly sponsored by CERC (The University of Melbourne, the Centre for Dialogue (La Trobe University) and the Innovative Universities European Union Centre (La Trobe University and Macquarie University), in co-operation with 4 overseas institutions. Postgraduates are encouraged to attend both events. For further information, please refer to: our conference page.

The aim of the postgraduate conference is to establish a forum for Australian and New Zealand postgraduate students and young researchers, working under the broad rubric of European Studies, to present and discuss their ongoing research with peers, academics and professionals in their given areas of interest. Papers are invited from a range of discipline areas, including law, economics, literacy and cultural studies, history and political science.

Papers from previous CERC postgraduate conferences in 2005 and 2006 have recently been published in an e-boook Europe: New Voices, New Perspectives

Limited assistance with travel costs has been made available for postgraduate presenters outside of Victoria. These funds are sponsored by CERC and the National Europe Centre.

Queries regarding the conference that are not covered by our website can be addressed to the conference convenors via the CERC office.