Events archive

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ESC Core Seminar Series

Reflections on Brexit: How should we ‘read’ Brexit four years later? What does Brexit do to the UK and to the EU? What could a new partnership look like?

Simon Kuper (FT), Brigid Laffan (EUI), Chris Bickerton (Cambridge University)
1 December 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Online Event
For our last session of this very momentous year 2020, we revisit the issue that used to be number one before COVID pandemic intervened, namely Brexit. With three prominent commentators we reflect on... Read more
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ESC Core Seminar Series

Will Post-Covid Europe Get Serious about Combating Climate Change?

Dieter Helm (Professor of Economic Policy, Oxford and Author of Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change), Wolfgang Münchau (Eurointelligence), Riccardo Mastini (Autonomous University of Barcelona and Green New Deal for Europe)
24 November 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Event
A webinar by the Dahrendorf Programme’s Europe’s Stories project with a report on the results of a new eupinions opinion poll on European attitudes to climate change , done specially for the Europes’... Read more
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ESC Core Seminar Series

Break-Down or Revitalization? Transatlantic Relations after the US Elections

Anthony Gardner (former US Ambassador to the European Union), Peter Wittig (former German Ambassador to the UN, the US and the UK)
17 November 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Event
Anthony Gardner (former US Ambassador to the European Union) and Peter Wittig (former German Ambassador to the UN, the US and the UK) in conversation about Transatlantic Relations after the US... Read more
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ESC Core Seminar Series

New Generational Perspectives on German Reunification Thirty Years Later

Lauren Crawford (Yale), Kate Stanton (Oxford), Marcus Colla (Christ Church College, Oxford)
10 November 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Event
This seminar will offer fresh interpretations of the concerns and consequences of German Reunification by a new generation of young historians, whose research revisits some of the forgotten and... Read more
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ESC Core Seminar Series

The EU without Britain: Never Closer Union

Vernon Bogdanor (Professor of Government at King's College, London)
3 November 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Webinar
Was Brexit a peculiarly British aberration or does it reflect anxieties which are also held elsewhere? In 2016, Donald Tusk declared `It would be a fatal error to assume that the negative result in... Read more
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ESC Core Seminar Series

Western Europe’s Democratic Revolution

Professor Martin Conway (History Faculty, Oxford)
20 October 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Webinar
Western Europe’s Democratic Revolution Professor Martin Conway (Professor of Modern European History, Oxford) speaks, Professor Paul Betts (St Antony's College, Oxford) is Chair, and Dr Talita... Read more
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ESC Core Seminar Series

Opening of the Academic Year: Panel Discussion: Europe's State of Play. Where are we? Where are we heading?

João Vale de Almeida (Ambassador of the European Union to the United Kingdom), Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College, Oxford)
13 October 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Webinar
The European Studies Centre is delighted to welcome and host, at its opening event for the academic year 2020/21, João Vale de Almeida, the Ambassador of the European Union to the United Kingdom. He... Read more