Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship | (EPIIC)

EPIIC is a carefully integrated, multidisciplinary program. Through its innovative and rigorous curricula and projects, EPIIC prepares young people for informed activity in their communities, whether locally, nationally or globally.

The Sherman Teichman Education for Public Inquiry (EPIIC) Endowed Colloquium
At EPIIC's core is the year-long, multidisciplinary course on a global political theme. Undergraduate and graduate students of diverse nationalities, viewpoints, experiences, and interests participate in this rigorous colloquium that stresses critical, analytical, and normative thinking. Students are encouraged to confront the ambiguity and complexity of EPIIC's annual global theme through a multi-disciplinary examination of the issues and controversies that the topic reflects. They are taught the subject under investigation not only by a broad range of distinguished academics and practitioners, but also as active participants in defining the issues through classroom discussions, extensive readings, and independent research. There is an emphasis both on individual progress and on the collaborative effort -- in essence, on growing as an intellectual team. Students produce tangible outcomes of their studies through their individual research papers or projects, the international symposium in late February, and the Inquiry simulation for high-school students in early April.

In 2011, on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of EPIIC - Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship, the core program of the Institute for Global Leadership, the alumni of EPIIC endowed the colloquium in honor of their teacher and mentor, the Institute's Founding Director, Sherman Teichman.

Their funds provide for the colloquium's guest lecturers, teaching assistants, seminar mentors, an annual Outward Bound weekend, syllabus materials, subsidies for text books and other EPIIC expenses. The endowment helps ensure the high standard and quality of this preparatory course of the annual EPIIC symposium, and enables all Tufts students to partake fully in its activities.

Symposium
The Norris and Margery Bendetson International EPIIC Symposium is an annual five-day public forum featuring scores of international practitioners, activists, academics, public intellectuals, and journalists. EPIIC's symposia -- consisting of presentations, panel discussions, topical forums, informal gatherings, multimedia and dramatic presentations, and workshops -- are intellectually wide-ranging and accessible. The perspectives of the participants are intentionally diverse, often competing, and at times adversarial.

The 2015-16 EPIIC colloquium will focus on the future of Europe. The 2016 symposium will be the Institute's 31st annual symposium. More information will be available on these pages soon.

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Special Opportunities and Projects

Social Justice and the EU - SOLSTICE
Join an international consortium on the EU approach to the interpretation and application of norms and international laws in regard to human rights, looking at the impact of EU engagement with human rights both within Europe and outside Europe. This effort will be led by Mario De Caro, Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Roma Tre, and Erin Kelly, Chair of Philosophy, Tufts University.

Human Rights and EU Peacekeeping
On the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the “safe area” of Srebrenica and the largest massacre in Europe since WWII, work with analysts and scholars from the National Security Archive, The Hague Institute for Global Justice, and the Tufts Institute for Mass Atrocity and Genocide (IMAGe) to research this atrocity.

Civil Society and Non Violent Resistance
Study with experts and scholars from CANVAS (Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies), including Srdja Popovic, founder of Otpor! and a key figure in the nonviolent struggle against Slobodan Milosevic, and Tufts Fletcher School Professor of the Practice Eileen Babbitt.

Media, Freedom of Expression, and Hate Speech
Probe the dimensions of this controversial continuum with such journalists, media experts and activists as Zineb El Rhazoui, former columnist at Charlie Hebdo; Thomas Hughes, Executive Director, Article 19: Defending Freedom of Expression and Information; Razia Iqbal, Presenter, BBC Newshour; and Kenan Malik, author of From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy.

The Power and Politics of Memory
Join an investigation into the ongoing impact and repercussions on contemporary European politics and culture of Franco’s Spain, France’s reconciliation with its Vichy Regime, Germany with its Holocaust past, lustration and post- Communist societies.

Migration
Join a research team investigation into the causes and human and societal costs of immigration, led by such experts as Paolo Cuttitta, post-doctoral researcher at VU University of Amsterdam.

Tufts European Horizons EU Chapter
Participate in the creation of a Tufts chapter of European Horizons, a US-based nonpartisan think tank exploring European identity, the concept of the social market economy, European integration, and transatlantic relations.

European Roma
Think and work with distinguished human rights and global health experts, including Margareta Matache, FXB Project Director at the Harvard School of Public Health, to address the profound marginalization of the Roma community in Europe.

The European Security Environment
Explore Russian-European security relations, EU-NATO relations, and hybrid warfare and the Baltics with the IGL’s ALLIES program and military and security experts, including Michael Peznola, the IGL’s Executive Director (Col, USMC (Ret.); Lt.Col Donald Thieme, Professor of Policy Analysis, US Naval War College; and Professor Richard Shultz, Director, International Security Studies, The Fletcher School.

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