Events archive
ESC Core Seminar Series
Professor Elena Korosteleva (University of Kent, Professor of International Politics, Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics and Director of Global Europe Centre)
3 December 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Resilience seems to have become ‘the everyday’ covering almost all aspects of our daily lives, and pervading the policy agenda of major international institutions. However, despite the upsurge in its... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Professor Petra Terhoeven (Weizsaecker Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
26 November 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
The Richard von Weizsaecker Lecture 2019 - The other side of terrorism: Victimhood and acknowledgment in the context of terrorist violence The history of terrorism has been largely a history of... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Mr Wojciech Przybylski (Res Publica Foundation, Visegrad Insight, Warsaw) and Dr Joerg Forbrig (German Marshall Fund of the U.S., Berlin)
19 November 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
"Central European Futures: Five Scenarios for 2025" lays out five major scenarios that could dramatically alter the shape of Central Europe, and Europe at large, over the coming years. As this key... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Professor Jeffrey Kahn (SMU Dedman School of Law, Texas)
12 November 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Assessments of London’s relationship with Strasbourg tend to highlight recent discontent about perceived infringements of parliamentary sovereignty by the European Court of Human Rights. The British... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Professor Sergio Fabbrini (Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Dean of Political Science Department, Luiss Guido Carli, Rome)
5 November 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Sergio Fabbrini proposes a way out of the EU’s crises which have triggered an unprecedented cleavage between ‘Sovereignist’ and ‘Europeanist’ forces. The intergovernmental governance of the multiple... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Professor Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College, Oxford)
29 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
30 years ago, communist rule ended across central Europe in a dramatic series of events ranging from Solidarity's election triumph in Poland on 4 June 1989, through the ceremonial reburial of Imre... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Mr Ralf Fuecks (Director, Center for Liberal Modernity, Berlin)
22 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Mr Ralf Fuecks, Director, Center for Liberal Modernity, launches his latest book, called Defending Freedom: How We Can Win the Fight for an Open Society. The Chair for this event will be: Professor... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Various
15 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
The ESC will open the academic year with its first seminar, on the current state of play in Europe. Just a few days before an important EU summit on Brexit, and a few weeks before a new commission... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Professor Martin Geyer (Munich, and Richard von Weizsaecker Fellow, European Studies Centre, St Antony’s, Oxford)
27 November 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
ESC Richard von Weizsaecker Lecture States of Emergency: What we can learn Today from German Interwar History Martin H. Geyer is the Richard von Weizsäcker Visiting Fellow at the European Studies... Read more
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Niccolo Milanese (European Alternatives)
13 November 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Citizens of Nowhere, unite? Europe might seem like a continent pulling itself apart: ten years of economic and political crisis have pitted North versus South, East versus West, citizens versus... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
6 November 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
The Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford
image: google images ***EVENT NOW SOLD OUT*** *** PLEASE NOTE THAT THE VENUE FOR THIS EVENT HAS NOW CHANGED from the ESC, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, TO: THE NISSAN LECTURE THEATRE, ST ANTONY'S... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
30 October 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
The Agora Europe Series: Brexit and Populism Conceived in this moment of appalling political instability, Agora Europe creates opportunities for a public debate on how to reorganize the European... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Dr Konstantinos Kornetis (Santander Fellow, European Studies Centre, St Antony’s, Oxford)
23 October 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Photo credit: Susan Taylor Projections Onto the Past: Remembering Democratisation in Spain and Portugal. The almost simultaneous demise of the Estado Novo in Portugal (1933–1974) and the Francoist... Read more
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Professor Judith Marquand (Cardiff)
16 October 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Democrats, Authoritarians and the Bologna Process. The Bologna Process, initiated in 1999, now includes all 48 member countries of the Council of Europe. In 2010, it was renamed ‘the European Higher... Read more
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Dr Tim Vlandas (St Antony's, Oxford)
9 October 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Explaining the rise of the far right in Europe: Economic Insecurity, Cultural backlash and the role of social policies. Far right parties are on the rise across Europe. Their shared populist rhetoric... Read more