The European Studies Graduate Student Colloquium was initiated in spring 2004 and fosters cross-disciplinary dialogue throughout the University and provides a context for graduate students interested in the Graduate Certificate Program to engage in continued conversation with colleagues outside their home departments. The colloquium draws on existing faculty resources within Duke, in addition to coordinating visiting scholars and external speakers.

The Colloquium is organized around the following four themes:

• Media and Visual Culture; Cinematic Representations, Advertising, Negotiation of Processes of Globalization and Transnational Capital
• Ethnic Conflict and Histories of Violence: Collective Memory, Contested Spaces and Preventative Policy
• Borders and Migration: Cross-Border Mobility, National/ Transnational Identities, Immigration Histories, Empire as a Contemporary Political/Economic Forum
• Legal Frameworks in a Comparative Perspective: Environmental Justice, Surveillance and Privacy, Impact of the European Union.

As the Colloquium becomes more established, its scope will expand to include more formal participation by graduate students in terms of panel formations and presentations of works in progress from throughout the University.

Members of the Colloquium Steering Committee are: Patrice Barley (Law), Bart Bonikowski (Economics), Janelle Blankenship (German), Hollianna Bryan (English), Elizabeth Cason, co-chair (Musicology), Casey Jarrin, co-chair, (English), Anna Navrotskaya (Romance Studies), and Marc Reibold.

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Comparative Area Studies (CAS) offers a major and minor to undergraduate students interested in the interdisciplinary study of societies and cultures of a particular region of the world, complemented with a concentration in a second world area and comparative study of international issues. Students currently study Latin America, North America, Africa, the Middle East, Russia, South Asia, East Asia, and Eastern and Western Europe, which has the largest number of students enrolled. CAS is especially appropriate for those with career objectives in academia, government (especially the foreign service), international business or law, health and environmental programs, the United Nations and international agencies, and private international religious or service organizations.

A list of courses relating to the concentration in Europe can be found at http://jhfc.duke.edu/cas/.