Events archive

ESC Lunchtime Seminar

The EU and the Arms Trade: Law, Policy, and the Brexit Distraction

Laurence Lustgarten (Green Templeton College)
23 November 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, ESC
ESC Lunchtime Seminar

ESC Book Workshop. What Next: Britain After Brexit

Anthony Barnett (co-founder of openDemocracy)
2 November 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, ESC
Brexit was a wake up call - but a wake up to what? A nightmare of Farage proportions that drags Britain further into an Atlantic of fear and chronic isolation? Or a wake up to mend our broken... Read more
ESC Lunchtime Seminar

Brussels after Brexit

Gijs de Vries (St Antony's College)
12 October 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, ESC
ESC Lunchtime Seminar

In Defence of Europe: Can the European Project Be Saved?

Professor Loukas Tsoukalis (University of Athens and Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at Harvard Kennedy School)
14 June 2016 - 12:30pm
This seminar will launch Professor Tsoukalis' new book published by Oxford University Press
ESC Lunchtime Seminar

French solidarity with South Africa and Transnational Networks: history of the first anti-apartheid movement (1960-74)

Anna Konieczna (Deakin Fellow, St Antony’s College)
8 March 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, ESC
ESC Lunchtime Seminar

The End of the Love Affair? Central Europe drifting away from the West.

Jaroslaw Kuisz (POMP Visiting Academic, St Antony’s College)
3 March 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre
Jarosław Kuisz, Ph.D. is assistant professor at Faculty of Law and Administration, Warsaw University, chercheur étranger associé w Institut d’histoire du temps present, at CNRS in Paris, and editor-... Read more
ESC Lunchtime Seminar

Yugoslav legacies and European Union accession: Challenges of liberalism in the Western Balkans

Adis Merdzanovic (SEESOX Visiting Academic, St Antony’s College)
1 March 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract In the Western Balkans, the last two centuries have witnessed the emergence of genuine nationalist and communist movements as well as the establishment of political regimes corresponding to... Read more
ESC Lunchtime Seminar

Abusing democracy in the Western Balkans: Evidence from recent field research

Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos (University of Athens, Greece)
23 February 2016 - 12:15pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract Populism can be both a mode of political participation and a mode of political domination, as it is shown by the consolidation of populist regimes in Serbia and FYR Macedonia. The linguistic... Read more
ESC Lunchtime Seminar

Fear, Disgust and Contempt: Anatomy of Political Passions

Karolina Wigura (POMP Fellow, St Antony’s College)
16 February 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, ESC
With POMP
ESC Lunchtime Seminar

Socialists in the Iberian transitions to democracy: Clues of an unexpected success story.

Maria Elena Cavallaro (Santander Fellow, St Antony’s College)
9 February 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, ESC
ESC Lunchtime Seminar

The Legal Foundations of European Economic Governance

Antonio Estella (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain)
5 February 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Light lunch provided
ESC Lunchtime Seminar

The Greek Left from the Balkan Wars to the Eurozone crisis: A national/international history

Kostis Karpozilos (SEESOX/A.G. Leventis Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
2 February 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
In 2015 Syriza, a party of the European left, rose to power in Greece amidst an unprecedented social and financial crisis that exemplified the structural constrains of the common European project.... Read more
ESC Lunchtime Seminar

Thinking strategic and acting pragmatic: The European refugee crisis and Turkey-EU relations

Başak Kale (Middle East Technical University, Ankara)
26 January 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
ESC Visiting Academics Seminar Series Light lunch provided The relations between Turkey-EU have never been easy due to the challenges on both sides of the negotiations table that have complicated the... Read more
ESC Lunchtime Seminar

Thinking strategic and acting pragmatic: The European Refugee crisis and Turkey-EU relations

Basak Kale (Middle East Technical University, Ankara)
26 January 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre
ESC Visiting Academics Seminar Series Light lunch provided The relations between Turkey-EU have never been easy due to the challenges on both sides of the negotiations table that have complicated the... Read more