Events archive

Image: series of stamps issued by the Swiss government to commemorate the work of UNCTAD, copyright Getty Images
ESC Core Seminar Series

Cold War, Trade War: The Soviet Union, the EEC, and UNCTAD’s battle for free trade

Alessandro Iandolo (Politics and International Relations, Oxford)
9 March 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Event
In 1964, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was born with an ambitious objective: convincing UN member states to lower or remove all barriers to the free circulation of... Read more
Image: Saint-Jean-de-Luz, in the French Basque country
ESC Core Seminar Series

Between Region and Nation: Reimagining Basque Identity Within the French Nation-State, 1780-1870

Talita Ilacqua (Deakin Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
2 March 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Event
The paper will explore the birth and development of an idea of region in the French Basque country in the aftermath of the French Revolution, thus countering the frequent view that regionalism, as a... Read more
Image: Peter Gatrell
ESC Core Seminar Series

Unsettling Europe: further reflections on post-1945 history

Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester)
23 February 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Event
In this paper I draw upon hitherto unused material from the confidential case files of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. They concern applications for... Read more
Image: Bart M.J. Szewczyk
ESC Core Seminar Series

Europe's Grand Strategy in a New World Order

Bart Szewczyk (Sciences Po, Paris)
16 February 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Event
This book proposes that the European Union should craft a grand strategy to navigate the new world order based on a four-pronged approach. First, European decision-makers (both in Brussels and across... Read more
Image: January 2020 Poland Rally
ESC Core Seminar Series

Is there still “rule of law” in Poland and Hungary?

Adam Bodnar (SWPS University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Warsaw), Zsolt Enyedi (Central European University and Politics and International Relations, Oxford) and Marta Bucholc (Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw)
9 February 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Online Event
The discussion about a rule of law conditionality on the disbursement of EU funds has focused attention sharply on issues around the rule of law in East Central Europe, and particularly in Poland and... Read more
Image: Helsinki Demonstration, 1968 - Courtesy of Szilas, Wikimedia Commons
ESC Core Seminar Series

’68ers, ’89ers, & post-89ers: What are the key historical generations in contemporary Europe?

Include: Kostis Kornetis (Autonomous University of Madrid), Isabell Hoffmann (Bertelsmann Foundation), Jennifer Dowd (Oxford), members of the Europe’s Stories project team
2 February 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Event
What is a ‘generation’? What is the relationship between the demographer’s, the opinion pollster’s and the historian’s way of thinking about generations? Is there a distinctive post-1989 generation... Read more
Image: Marek Naczyk
ESC Core Seminar Series

Taking back control: Comprador bankers and the revival of developmentalism in Poland

Marek Naczyk (Social Policy and Intervention, Oxford)
26 January 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Online Event
With rare exception, political economists assume that developmental policies and developmental alliances between state and business are the result of a top-down co-option or coercion of business by... Read more
Image: Paul Betts' book cover and Paul Betts
ESC Core Seminar Series

Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe after the Second World War

Paul Betts (St Antony's College, Oxford)
19 January 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Event
Our Hilary Term 2021 Programme of Events begins with the Centre's own Professor Paul Betts talking about his new book Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe after the Second World War. In 1945, Europe... Read more