Events archive

Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)

Ece Temelkuran, author of How to Lose a Country: the Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship (2019)
4 December 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
ZOOM
A certain political and moral insanity seems to be taking over the world. Both the political and the moral consensuses are under the consistent attack of rightwing populist leaders using... Read more
Latin American History Seminar

TBC

Ilan Stavans, Armhest College, Jorge Cañizares, University of Texas
3 December 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
online
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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