Events archive

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
Voting card
SEESOX

Can elections bring (real) change? Lessons learned and prospects for the Western Balkans

Florian Bieber (Graz University; Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group), Donika Emini (Civikos Platform; Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group), Borisa Falatar (Nasa Stranka), Vujo Ilic (CRTA, Serbia), Jovana Marovic (Politikon Network, Montenegro; Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group)
27 January 2021 - 5:00pm
Zoom webinar
Podcast
Please register here SEESOX Seminar Series A bstract: In South East Europe, elections are often dismissed as mere window-dressing to democracy, churning the same elites over and over. However, recent... 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
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European Studies Seminar

European climate action: Political economy challenges

Various
21 January 2021 - 2:00pm to 7:00pm
Zoom webinar
Podcast Session 1, Podcast Session 2, Podcast Session 3, Podcast Session 4, Go to the EuPEP blogsite to read the blogs from the conference
COP26, the next global climate summit, will take place in Glasgow in November 2021, and Europe will be a key player. This online conference looks at the political economy challenges (as opposed to... Read more
democracy on downward arrow
SEESOX

Democracy in South East Europe: Backsliding or new normal?

Damir Kapidzic (University of Sarajevo), Milada Vachudova (North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
20 January 2021 - 5:00pm
Zoom webinar
Podcast
Please register here SEESOX SEMINAR SERIES Abtract: This is the introductory seminar in the Hilary Term SEESOX series looking at the quality of democracy in South East Europe. The main questions for... 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

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