Texts and Resources

Tuesday 22nd November
Core Seminar- Mechanisms of Surveillance: Monitoring Citizens in European Democracies & Dictatorships
Security, Surveillance and Democracy in Europe - video of the conference here.
Didier Bigo (KCL)
Convenor: Jane Caplan

REMEMBERING 1956: DE-STALINIZATION & SUEZ AFTER FIFTY YEARS 10-11 November 2007.

Going Dutch on Europe: Can we learn from them on getting past no? 16 October 2007

Are British Eurosceptics so special? 14 November 2006. Text of a lecture given by Julian Mishi (Senior Research Fellow INRA - CESAR) and Vernon Bogdanor (Dept of Politics and IR) on 14 November 2006. Chair: Kalypso Nicolaidis.

Is the EU better at balancing defence of civil liberties with security against terrorism than the US? October 24, 2006. Text of a lecture given by Shirley Williams (Peer, author of Good Cause) on October 24, 2006. Chair: Dave Armstrong.

Stephen Wall and Anand Menon - 31 October 2006. Text of a lecture given by Stephen Wall (former foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair) and Anand Menon (author of "Governing Europe") on 31 October 2006. Chair: Kalypso Nicolaidis.

Pierre Moscovici: Intervention - Oxford - 19 octobre 2006. Text of a lecture given by Pierre Moscovici (Vice-President of the European Parliament) on 19 October 2006. (Jointly organised by ESC and Maison Francaise) Chair: Kalypso Nicolaidis. See also http://mfo.ac.uk/Publications/comptesrendus/Moscovici_eng.htm

Britain and Poland: the Neglected Friendship (English); Britain and Poland: the Neglected Friendship (Polish). Text of a lecture delivered at the European Studies Centre by Professor Bronislaw Geremek (former Foreign Minister of Poland; Professor of European Civilisation, College d'Europe; Member of the European Parliament), 17 May 2006.

Being a Jewish/Christian/Muslim/Secular European. Notes made at a half-day conference at the European Studies Centre on 10 May 2006. Professor George Steiner (Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge), Professor Henry Mayr-Harting (Emeritus Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Oxford), Professor Tariq Ramadan (Visiting Fellow, St Antony's College) and Professor Ralf Dahrendorf (Lord Dahrendorf, former Warden of St Antony's). Chair: Professor Timothy Garton Ash.

See also: European Research Group's Joint Doctoral Seminar

State-Building in a Post-Conflict Environment: Lessons Learned in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Text of a lecture delivered at the European Studies Centre by Paddy Ashdown (Rt Hon Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, Former High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina), 26 April 2006.

Speech on Europe. Text of the Annual European Studies Centre Lecture delivered by The Prime Minister, The Right Honourable Tony Blair MP, 2nd February 2006.

Crisis as Opportunity: Problems, Challenges, Frontiers and Chances for the European Union. Text of a lecture delivered at the European Studies Centre by Professor Dr Hans-Gert Pottering MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, 25 January 2006.

Great Game or European Fair Play? The European Union and the world in the 21st century. Text of Fourth Annual European Studies Lecture delivered by Bernard Bot, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, 1 December 2004.

Are There Moral Foundations Of European Power? Text of the Adam von Trott Memorial Lecture delivered at Mansfield College, Oxford, by Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, Director, European Studies Centre, and Gerd Bucerius Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary History, 30 November 2004.

Is Europe still the workers' best friend?. Text of lecture delivered by John Monks, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Congress, 4 June 2004.

Why the European Union Needs Turkey. Text of the Third Annual European Studies Centre Lecture delivered by Mr Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey, 28 May 2004

Latvia's outlook after 1 May. Text of lecture delivered by HE Dr Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of the Republic of Latvia, 11 May 2004

Is the Enlarged EU an Economic Superpower? Text of lecture delivered by Pascal Lamy, EU Trade Commissioner, 10 March 2004.

EU25 > 15+10. Text of lecture delivered by Kristiina Ojuland, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, 19 February 2004.

The Future of Europe after Iraq. Text of Second Annual European Studies Lecture delivered by George A. Papandreou, Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs & President of the EU Council of Ministers, 6 May 2003

Shaping the European constitution - strengthening democracy, enhancing the capacity to act, simplifying procedures. Lecture delivered by Professor Jürgen Meyer on 30th April 2003, at Lincoln College; organised by the Oxford University European Affairs Society.

Lecture 'Germany in Europe', delivered by Ambassador Thomas Matussek as part of the Seminar Series Germany After the Elections during Hilary Term 2003

Seminar Series: Citizenship and National Minorities in Europe: History, Theory and Practice, Hilary Term 2003

Reflections on the Future of Europe. Text of Inaugural European Studies Centre Lecture delivered by Jose Maria Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain, 20th May 2002

How Can Europe Create Jobs. Text of Allan Larsson Lecture, 30 April 2002 (pdf format)

Lecture Series: New Dimensions in Italian Public Policy given during Michaelmas Term 2002

What Story Should Europe Tell? A debate about where Europe has come from and where it should be heading to.