ESC Seminars and lectures 2023-24
MICHAELMAS 2023
Tuesday 10 October, 5pm
The unmixing of peoples
Lea Ypi (London School of Economics)
Discussant: Marilena Anastasopoulou (Pembroke College, Oxford)
Chair: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
In cooperation with SEESOX
Wednesday 11 October, 5pm
SEESOX PANEL DISCUSSION
Schengen enlargement: Are Bulgaria and Romania second-class EU Member States?
Eli Gateva (DPIR, Oxford); Sophie in’t Veld (MEP, European Parliament, online); Dragos Tudorache, (MEP, European Parliament)
Chair: Jonathan Scheele (SEESOX)
Tuesday 17 October, 5pm
The challenge of participatory democracy in post-national Europe
Aliénor Ballangé (Deakin Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Chair: Paul Betts (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Wednesday 18 October, 5pm
Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
Anu Bradford (Columbia University)
Chair: Hartmut Mayer (Europeaum, University of Oxford)
Tuesday 24 October, 5pm
Does financial assistance mitigate rural backlash? The case of the Common Agricultural Policy in France
Diane Bolet (Berlin Social Science Center (WZB))
Discussant: Katja Salomo (Dahrendorf Post-doc Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Chair: Tim Vlandas (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Wednesday 25 October, 5pm
SEESOX BOOK DISCUSSION
Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe: The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus
Renée Hirschon (St Peter’s College, Oxford)
Discussants: Robin Cohen (Kellogg College, Oxford); Basak Kale (Middle East Technical University (METU))
Chair: Michael Llewellyn Smith (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Tuesday 31 October, 5pm
From the securitisation of migration to the dehumanisation of refugees: A threat to liberal democracy
Franck Duvell (Osnabrück University); Başak Kale (Middle East Technical University, (METU))
Chair: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
In cooperation with SEESOX
Monday 6 November, 12:30pm
The making of the Samoa Agreement: Insights from the negotiations between the EU, Africa and the ACP states
Maurizio Carbone (University of Glasgow)
Chair: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Tuesday 7 November, 5pm
The Helsinki Process: Past and future
Juhana Aunesluoma (University of Helsinki); Richard Davy (Author); Kai Hebel (Leiden University)
Chair: Anne Deighton (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Tuesday 14 November, 5pm
Rural Europe as a Challenge for Contemporary History
Anette Schlimm (Weizsacker Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Chair: Paul Betts (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Tuesday 21 November, 5pm
Rethinking the Eastern Mediterranean in a volatile world
Alexander Clarkson (Kings College London); Constantinos Filis (American College in Athens)
Chair: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
In cooperation with SEESOX
Tuesday 28 November, 5pm
The curse of the Empire: Russia’s war against Ukraine
Gwendolyn Sasse (Nuffield College, Oxford); Martin Schulze Wessel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)
Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
In association with RESC
HILARY 2024
Tuesday 16 January, 5pm
What can opinion polls tell us about Europe in a changing world?
Ivan Krastev (ESC Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Discussant: Isabell Hoffmann (Bertelsmann Stiftung) [Online]
Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
In association with the Dahrendorf Programme
Tuesday 23 January, 5pm
Refugee protection in Europe: Some contemporary challenges
Catherine Briddick (St Antony’s College, Oxford); Steven Haines (University of Greenwich)
Chair: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
In association with the Refugee Studies Centre
Tuesday 30 January, 5pm
Covid-19 pandemic; lessons learned, challenges and opportunities for health policy and regulatory changes in the European Union
Andrzej Rys (EU Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Discussant: Dipak Kalra (The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data)
Monday 5 February, 5pm
Investcorp Auditorium
Recognizing Palestinian statehood: European views
Chris Doyle (Council for Arab-British Understanding); Alon Liel (Policy Working Group – Israel); Charles Powell (Elcano Royal Institute)
In association with the Middle East Centre
Tuesday 6 February, 5pm
Paella pans and petrol cans: Noise-making and Charivari in contemporary Spain
Matthew Kerry (Jesus College, Oxford)
Chair: Paul Betts (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Tuesday 13 February, 5pm
Energy transition, financial markets and new EU interventionism
Federica Genovese (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Chair: Tim Vlandas (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Tuesday 20 February, 5pm
What explains the enduring success of far-right parties in Europe?
Katja Salomo (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Chair: Tim Vlandas (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Thursday 22 February, 5pm
Building European defence through crises
Marilena Koppa (Panteion University, Athens)
Chair: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
In association with SEESOX
Tuesday 27 February, 5pm
Investcorp Auditorium
Where you stand depends on where you sit: The challenge of being an academic turned Head of State
Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson (President of Iceland)
Chair: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Friday 8 March, 5pm
The Story Smuggler, or how to narrate the happened and the un-happened
Georgi Gospodinov (Author of Time Shelter and winner of 2023 International Booker prize)
Chair: Catherine Briddick (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
In association with SEESOX
TRINITY 2024
Friday 26 April, 5pm
Investcorp Auditorium
From the Maidan to Mariupol: Civil Resistance in Ukraine 1990-2024
Olga Onuch (University of Manchester)
Chair: Adam Roberts (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Civil Resistance and Power Politics research project event
Tuesday 30 April, 5pm
LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI LECTURE
Restoring the rule of law in Poland: a particular or a universal challenge?
Marek Safjan (Formerly Polish Constitutional Court and European Court of Justice)
Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Friday 3 May, 5pm
Investcorp Auditorium
DAHRENDORF LECTURE
Europe faced with two wars
Josep Borrell Fontelles (EU Foreign Minister)
Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Monday 6 May, 3-6pm
DEAKIN FELLOW PANEL DISCUSSION
Evaluating Citizens’ Assemblies: Facing challenges and exploring new perspectives
Chair: Aliénor Ballangé (Deakin Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
In association with Maison Française d’Oxford
Wednesday 8 May, 12:30pm
SEESOX LUNCHTIME SEMINAR
Reconceptualising the EU-member states relationship in the age of permanent emergency
Stella Ladi (Queen Mary University of London; Panteion University; DPIR, Oxford)
Discussants: Paul Copeland (Queen Mary University of London); Georgios Kostakos (Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS))
Chair: Federica Genovese (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Thursday & Friday 16 & 17 May
WORKSHOP ON THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Regionalisation, geopolitical and geo-economic dynamics
Convenors: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford) and George Hajipavli (University College, Oxford)
Tuesday 21 May, 5pm
The fall of dictatorship in Spain, Portugal and Greece: 50 years on
Harris Mylonas (George Washington University); Joao Carlos Espada (Catolica, Lisbon)
Chair: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
In cooperation with SEESOX
Tuesday 28 May, 5pm
Dreaming of Europe: Work refugees and the migration crisis
Randall Hansen (University of Toronto; Refugees Study Centre, Oxford)
Discussant: Catherine Briddick (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Chair: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Friday 31 May 5pm
Welfare chauvinism in Europe: The opposition towards social benefits and services for migrants
Gianna Eick (University of Amsterdam)
Chair: Tim Vlandas (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Tuesday 4 June, 5pm
Investcorp Auditorium
ESC ANNUAL LECTURE
Democracy of the last man: The politics of demographic imagination
Ivan Krastev (ESC Visiting Fellow)
Chair: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Friday & Saturday 7 & 8 June
WEIZSACKER WORKSHOP
Developing the raw shifting paradigms and practices in Europe and the world since 1945
Convernor: Anette Schlimm (Richard von Weizsacker Visiting Fellow 2023-24)