EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN: CONVERGENCE, CONFLICTS AND CRISIS
Lunchtime Seminar Series, Hilary and Trinity Term 2006

Seminar Convenors: Dr Kalypso Nicolaidis and Dr Dimitar Bechev

16 January
Europe as a Normative Power: Why is the EuroMed Partnership in Crisis and What Should Be Done About It?
Kalypso Nicolaidis, University of Oxford

23 January
Nationalism and Territory in the Post-Ottoman Space
Kerem Oktem, University of Oxford

30 January
Constructing South East Europe: The Politics of Regional Identity in the Balkans
Dimitar Bechev, University of Oxford

13 February
Memory and Conflict in the Mediterranean
Dimitri Nicolaidis, Universit� de Paris I

20 February
Population Displacements in South East Europe: The Contemporary Relevance of the 1923 Lausanne Convention
Renee Hirschon, University of Oxford

27 February
Rethinking the Mediterranean. Reality and Re-Presentation in the Creation of a 'Region'
Michelle Pace, Birmingham University

6 March
Berber Identity in North Africa: A New Basis for Transnationalism in the Mediterranean?
Michael Willis, University of Oxford

17 May
Crossing the Mediterranean: The Case of EU-Lebanon Relations
Nadim Shehadi, Chatham House

24 May
Conflict, Co-habitation, Catharsis: 'European' Universalist and Turkish Westernist Encounters
Nora Fisher, University of Oxford

31 May
What is Collective Memory?
Marie-Claire Lavabre, Maison Fran�aise, Oxford

14 June
Margins of Error: The EU's Handling of the Cyprus Conflict
Olga Demetriou, European Studies Centre, Oxford