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Classics Colloquium Report Print E-mail
ImageMaarten Jansen and Mariska Leunissen present a brief report on the Europaeum Classics Colloquium on Tears in Antiquity.

The fourth EUROPAEUM Classics Graduate Colloquium took place in November over a long weekend (November 25-27) at Leiden University, with representatives from Bologna, Bonn, Leiden, Madrid, Oxford and Prague and a guest speaker from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam. The central theme was the subject of Tears in Antiquity accommodating, just as the organisers had hoped, a wide range of topics and disciplines.

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ESIL Conference, 2004 Print E-mail
By Frédéric Mégret, PhD candidate HEI/Université de Paris I, Assistant Professor Law, University of Toronto.

Note, the Europaeum will support graduate attendees at the 2006 ESIL conference. Contact us for further details.

The European Society of International Law (ESIL) was created in 2004 by a large coalition of international lawyers working in Europe to provide much needed Europe-wide forum for discussion of the most pressing international law issues of the time. The ESIL had opened with a blast in May 2004, in the beautiful villa of La Pietra in Florence. Such was the enthusiasm created by this initial event, that it was felt an intermediate meeting before the next biannual conference in Paris 2006 would be most welcome.

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Oxford and Paris: Historical Links Print E-mail

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The following contribution is reproduced from the Europaeum Annual Report, 1996-97, and was originally a talk given by Mr Ralph Evans at the accession ceremony of the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne in Oxford on 2 October 1996. Mr Evans is a historical researcher and project co-ordinator of the Oxford University Press series on the History of Oxford. The author reminds us of the close historical connections between Paris and Oxford. It is reproduced here to remind us that the EVROPAEVM is merely reinforcing and reinvigorating traditional European ideals and links.

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Democracy and the Internet Print E-mail

New Rules for New Times

ImageIn the full text of his address to the Europeaum Policy Forum on Democracy and the Internet, at The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford University in September 2001, Tim Berners-Lee lays out his views the internet's impact on democratic life.
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