Events archive
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
ESC Core Seminar Series
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
ESC Core Seminar Series
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
ESC Core Seminar Series
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
ESC Core Seminar Series
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
ESC Core Seminar Series
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
ESC Core Seminar Series
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
ESC Core Seminar Series
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
ESC Core Seminar Series
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