News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu     www.selu.edu/news Contact: Rene Abadie Date: 3/17/03   SOUTHEASTERN TO SPONOSOR FORUM ON U.S.-EUROPEAN RELATIONS       HAMMOND – The state of relations between the United States and European nations will be the topic of a panel discussion scheduled for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25, at the Southeastern Louisiana University Center, Room 133.        The event, sponsored by the Southeastern Department of History and Political Science, is free and open to all students and the public. Participants include Southeastern faculty members and four University of New Orleans visiting professors from Europe. A question and answer session will follow.       “The current tensions in the world related to the situation in the Mid-East have certainly focused attention on international affairs, particularly our relations with long-time allies in Europe,” said event coordinator Judge James E. “Jimmy” Kuhn of the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal in Baton Rouge. “This panel discussion is intended to shed some light on how the events of the past several months are affecting our current relationships as well as the outlook for the future.” Judge Kuhn serves on the adjunct faculty for the Department of History and Political Science.       Serving on the panel from Southeastern will be Margaret Gonzalez-Perez, associate professor of political science and a specialist in international relations. The European representatives include Heinrich Neisser, who holds the Jean Monnet Chair of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck and is a visiting professor of political science at UNO; Martin David, Ministry of Sciences Fellow at CenterAustria of the University of New Orleans; Peter Berger, professor of economic history at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and Marshall Plan Anniversary Chair in Austrian Studies at UNO; and Guenter Bischof, director of the Center for Austria Culture and Commerce at UNO’s CenterAustria and former associate director of the UNO Eisenhower Center. Each panelist will make an opening brief presentations to be followed by a question and answer session.       The discussion will be moderated by William Robison, Southeastern professor of history and head of the Department of History and Political Science. Roman Heleniak, Southeastern scholar in residence, will moderate the questioning of panelists. Return to News Releases