Events archive
ESC Core Seminar Series
Martin Schulze Wessel (Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich), Gwendolyn Sasse (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
28 November 2023 - 5:00pm
Book discussion On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, giving rise to the deadliest conflict on European soil since the Second World War. How could this happen in... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Alexander Clarkson (Kings College London), Constantinos Filis (American College of Greece), Manal Shehabi (Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Oxford), Galip Dalay (St Antony's College, Oxford)
21 November 2023 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
In cooperation with SEESOX In person and online. To attend online, please register with Zoom. The panel will address themes that pertain to the Eastern Mediterranean, including how the region is... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Anette Schlimm (Weizsacker Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
14 November 2023 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract: The historiography of contemporary Europe has predominantly centered around urban and metropolitan experiences. Meanwhile, rural regions, their inhabitants, and village life have often been... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Juhana Aunesluoma (University of Helsinki), Richard Davy (Author), Kai Hebel (Leiden University)
7 November 2023 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
To attend online, please register with Zoom Richard Davy has recently published Defrosting the Cold War and beyond: an Introduction to the Helsinki Process, 1954 – 2022 (Routledge, 2023). He will be... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Franck Duvell (Osnabrück University), Başak Kale (Middle East Technical University, (METU))
31 October 2023 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abtract: Since 2015, those who arrived on the Greek islands have been sent to refugee camps. Often they protest against detention conditions waving banners saying “we are not animals” suggesting they... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Diane Bolet (University of Essex)
24 October 2023 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract: Against the backdrop of rising spatial inequalities, place-sensitive policies have become an increasingly popular instrument to support rural and “left behind” areas. Current studies tend... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Aliénor Ballangé (St Antony's College, Oxford)
17 October 2023 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract: The European Citizens’ Panels (ECP), set up in 2021-2022 in the framework of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), were presented by the European institutions as an “unprecedented... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Lea Ypi (London School of Economics)
10 October 2023 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract: Lea Ypi reads a chapter from her forthcoming book “Indignity”, which focuses on the impact of the population exchange on an Albanian family in Salonica in 1923. She then reflects on some of... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
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
ESC Core Seminar Series
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
ESC Core Seminar Series
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
ESC Core Seminar Series
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
ESC Core Seminar Series
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
ESC Core Seminar Series
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
ESC Core Seminar Series
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