Opportunities

Call for Proposals

The UF Paris Research Center is currently accepting course proposals for our 2009 Spring Break, May Intersession and Summer Study Abroad terms.

Faculty interested in creating new discipline-specific programs at the Paris Research Center should contact Director, Gayle Zachmann at paris-research@clas.ufl.edu.

Paris Research Center study abroad programs are meant to provide faculty an opportunity to create innovative courses to be taught in authentic environments. Courses should provide students unique, discipline- and faculty research- specific experiences.

• 2009 Call for Proposals (PDF)
• 2009 Intensive Weeklong Study in Paris Course Proposal (PDF)
• 2009 Intensive Weeklong or Two-Week Study at the Paris Research Center
  May Intersession Program (PDF)

The Paris Research Center is currently accepting applications for our Spring Semester, Spring Break, May Intersession, Summer, and Fall Semester Study Abroad programs. For more information, please visit our study abroad page. Space is limited; apply today at www.abroad.ufic.ufl.edu to ensure your spot in the program of your choice.

Call for Spring Break, May Intersession & Summer 2008 Courses in Paris

The following includes important information concerning the submission of course proposals for 2008 Summer, Spring Break and May Intersession programs at the UF Paris Research Center. Faculty interested in creating new discipline-specific programs at the Paris Research Center should contact Director, Gayle Zachmann at paris-research@clas.ufl.edu.

The UF Paris Research Center is currently accepting course proposals for our 2008 Spring Break, May Intersession and Summer Study Abroad terms.  Paris Research Center study abroad programs are meant to provide faculty an opportunity to create innovative courses to be taught in authentic environments. Courses should provide students unique, discipline- and faculty research- specific experiences.

When considering your course proposal, please keep in mind the following:

• The Paris Research Center will assist faculty of member units with questions prior to the submission of course proposal. 
• When submitting your proposal, please be sure to specify the term for which you would like your proposal to be considered.
• All proposals must be submitted by the specified deadline. If you plan to propose a course at the Paris Research Center, please notify us by email at paris-research@clas.ufl.edu.
• Once course proposals are selected, the Paris Research Center will assist with preparation CLAS International Committee approval.

Please read the following course proposal guidelines carefully

Spring Break Intensive Weeklong Study Abroad Programs at the Paris Research Center

Proposal deadline: July 15, 2007

These innovative weeklong programs for intensive study abroad in Paris are expressly created to provide in-depth on-site international experiences. These two-credit courses include seven activity-rich days in Paris with classes given on-site at the cultural, historical and political institutions studied.  A template has been provided to assist in course design and can be downloaded from our website (PDF).

Faculty interested in teaching Spring Break 2007 at the Paris Research Center should submit brief course descriptions and a tentative itinerary/syllabus by July 15, 2007.  Please feel free to request information and advice on course design from the Paris Research Center at paris-research@clas.ufl.edu.

May Intersession Intensive Weeklong Study Abroad Programs at the Paris Research Center

Proposal Deadline: July 15, 2007

These innovative programs for intensive study abroad in Paris are expressly created to provide in-depth on-site international experiences. These two to three credit courses include activity-rich days in Paris with classes given on-site at the cultural, historical and political institutions studied.  The length of May Intersession programs can vary from one to two weeks, depending on the needs of the program.  A template for the weeklong program has been provided to assist in course design and can be downloaded from our website at the following link (PDF).

Faculty interested in teaching May Intersession 2007 at the Paris Research Center should submit brief course descriptions and a tentative itinerary/syllabus by July 15, 2007.  Please feel free to request information and advice on course design from the Paris Research Center at paris-research@clas.ufl.edu.

Summer Study Abroad Programs at the Paris Research Center

Proposal deadline: July 15, 2007

The Paris Research Center welcomes course proposals for our 2008 Summer Study Abroad Program in Paris. 

Summer Study Abroad at the Paris Research Center is meant to provide faculty an opportunity to create innovative courses to be taught in authentic environments.  Courses should provide students unique, discipline- and faculty research- specific experiences.  This six-week interdisciplinary program welcomes students from all majors.  All courses include subject-specific enhancement activities such as site visits and guest lecturers.

Faculty interested in teaching Summer 2008 at the Paris Research Center should submit brief course descriptions by July 15, 2007.  Please feel free to request information and advice on course design from the Paris Research Center at paris-research@clas.ufl.edu.

Reconsidering Relationality

April 18-19, 2007

Download agenda here

The relationship between art works, institutions and their audiences has recently been a topic of considerable discussion. “Reconsidering Relationality” will revisit this debate, positing relationality as a space for art that temporarily suspends institutional autonomy and explores new forms of interaction with the lifeworld. From this perspective, the sphere of art functions as a vehicle for such experimentation; as a laboratory where the relations between different subjects, forms, and spaces can be tested. This is not a falsely open idea of the sphere of art, one that “aestheticizes” relations, as well as the social and creative processes implicit to them, and thus interrupts their effectiveness by fetishizing and freezing them in turn. Rather, the notion of relationality that we seek to reconsider is derived from a broad experimental tradition in modern and contemporary art that has explored meaningful methods of restoring artistic processes with forms of subjective appropriation. This is a tradition that has sought to go beyond institutional overdetermination in an attempt to revive art’s transformative potential within the broadest possible frame.

• Workshop organizers: Alexander Alberro, University of Florida & Nora Alter, University of Florida
• Keynote Speaker : Jacques Rancière (Professor Emeritus, Université de Paris VIII)
  “Image, Action, Relations: Questions about the Politics of Art”

Participants include: Christa Blümlinger (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle); Wouter Davidts (Ghent University); Diedrich Diederichsen (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna & Merz-Akademie, Stuttgart); Lutz Koepnick (Washington University-St. Louis); Birgit Pelzer (Ecole de Recherches Graphique, St. Luc, Brussels); Sébastien Pluot (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Bourges) ; Chantal Pontbriand (Parachute magazine); Juliane Rebentisch (Universität Potsdam); Constanze Ruhm (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) ; Carsten Strathausen (University of Missouri-Columbia); Felicitas Thun (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna); Stephen Wright (Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris).

Sessions

• International Affairs & the Public Sphere: For more information about this exceptional program designed for UF students seeking to internationalize their education, attend the information session on Tuesday, March 6 at 4PM in FLI 13 (Flint Hall). PRC affiliates may apply to the Center for European Studies for the following opportunities. For more information, please visit the CES website at grove.ufl.edu/~ces/.

Guest Lectures – Spring Break Programs
Week of March 11-17, 2007

Tuesday, March 13

2:30-5:30
Guest lecturer: Daniel Maximin (award winning poet, essayist and novelist)
Paris Research Center, Reid Hall, Salle des Conferences

Daniel Maximin, a poet, essayist and novelist, originating from Guadeloupe, has devoted his time to writing, education, and culture. He has acted as the director of cultural affairs in Guadeloupe, helped organized the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, and most recently published the novel Les Fruit du Cyclone: Une geopoetique de la Caribe in 2006. Other publications include : Tu, c’est l’enfance [Seuil 2004, winner of the Prix de l’Académie Française Maurice Genevoix in December 2004], L’Île et une nuit [Seuil, 2002], Soufrières [Seuil 1995]

7:00-8:30
A Symposium on “Jules Verne’s Paris”
Paris Research Center, Reid Hall, Salle des Conferences

• Download the PDF
• Presenter: Daniel Compère is a professor at Paris III and at the Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle. Heis the author of numerous articles and books on Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas, fantastic fiction and the popular novel. In 1972 he founded the Centre de Documentation Junes (Amiens).
• Presenter: Jean-Michel Margot is the President of the North American Jules Verne Society.An independent scholar, he has published numerous articles on Verne, and has edited two collections of documents related to Verne’s reception in the popular press if the late 19th Century. The foremost bibliographer of Verne’s studies, his personal collection of Verne criticism is the most extensive in the world.

Thursday, March 15  

10:00-12:00
Guest lecturers Professor Cliff Jones and Professor Lynda Kaid
Paris Research Center, Reid Hall, Salle des Conferences

• A Presentation on international law and the war on terror
  by Professor Cliff Jones
  Professor Cliff Jones is a visiting faculty member from the Levin College of Law, at the University of Florida. His research is centered around US, EC, and international and comparative competition law, EC law, media law, intellectual property law, constitutional law, and election and campaign finance law and has most recently published Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law in the EC, UK, and USA in 1999.
• A Presentation terrorism and international media
  by Professor Lynda Kaid
  Professor Lynda Kaid is a professor at the University of Florida and the Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research. Her research specialties include political advertising and news coverage of political events. A Fulbright Scholar, she has also done work on political television in several Western European countries

2:30-4:30
Guest lecturer Jake Lamar, Novelist
Paris Research Center, Reid Hall, Salle des Conferences

Jake Lamar, an author born and raised in New York, graduated from Harvard University and spent the beginning of his career writing for Time magazine. In 1993 moved to Paris and has most recently published the novel Ghosts of Saint Michel in 2006 [St. Martin’s Minotaur 2006]. Other publications include Rendez-vous 18ème [St. Martin’s Minotaur 2003], The Last Integrationist [Crown 1996], and Bourgeois Blues [Plume 1992].

Friday, March 16

4:00-6:00
Guest lecturer Bob Swaim, Filmmaker
Paris Research Center, Reid Hall, Classe 6

Bob Swaim, an American filmmaker educated in Paris has been active as a producer, screenwriter, and actor in film, television, and theater. He has worked all around the world and has won numerous awards at festivals worldwide, including the Berlin Film Festival and the Festival de Saint Malo. Upcoming projects include directing a play at the Theatre du Chatelet. His films include : Nos Amis Les Flics [2004], L’Atlantide [1992], La Balance [1982], La Nuit de Saint-Germain-des-Près [1977].

Teaching and Research Opportunities

Faculty Course Enhancement Grants

The CES holds annual competitions for 3 course enhancement grants of $2,500-3,000 for the Summer of each academic year. The grants are designed to assist current faculty in the enhancement of existing courses to incorporate new technologies, to broaden the scope of the course to make it more interdisciplinary, or to create a capstone experience add-on units that incorporates a study abroad visit to Europe. To be eligible, courses may be in any area or department, but must include substantial European content. The deadline for application for summer support is February 28, 2006. Faculty conducting research to create courses at the Paris Research Center are encouraged to apply.

Faculty New Course Development Grants

The CES holds annual competition for 3 course development grants for the Summer semester of each academic year, in the amount of $2,500-$3,000 each. The grants are designed to assist current UF faculty in the development of new interdisciplinary courses with a substantial European focus. Faculty conducting research to create courses at the Paris Research Center are encouraged to apply. The deadline for application for summer support is February 28, 2006.

Student Grants

Summer Abroad Travel Grants (undergraduate students)
The CES and EUSP offer three annual grants of $500 each to undergraduate students participating in a CES summer study abroad program (currently Brussels-VUB, Salzburg or Prague) and completing EU relevant coursed work. The deadline for application for summer support is February 28, 2006.

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Fellowships

Scholarship in French Cinema Studies
The Society for French American Cultural Services and Educational Aid (FACSEA) is offering a Scholarship for Masters or Ph.D. candidates to study French cinema in France. For more information, please consult www.frenchculture.org

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Internships

Internships in France in the Public or Private Sector
For more information, please consult www.frenchculture.org/education/support or e-mail Saima.ASHRAF-HASSAN@diplomatie.fr

Internships Related to the European Union
The EUSP is collecting a database of internship opportunities related to the European Union. For more information, please consult the Center for European Studies' opportunities link on their website (grove.ufl.edu/~ces/)

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