A new book, Facets of Migration in Contemporary Europe derived from the 2008 Europaeum graduate workshop on European Migration in the 21st Century: a Challenge to Nation-States ? at Charles University, Prague, is to be  published by Ibidem verlag Stuttgart in late Spring.

Leiden University will host one of the Europaeum's graduate research workshops this year, which gives young scholars the chance to present their initial findings in an international setting and to discuss ideas with others working in similar fields, before  experts from Leiden and other European universities.

The Europaeum Oxford-Geneva Bursary competition for 2010-11 is now closed. Successful candidates will be announced next month. See a report from a recent Geneva bursary winner who studied in Oxford last year.

The current Europaeum MA cohort will be arriving from Leiden in Paris shortly, for the second term in their programme, before moving on to Oxford. Please note that we are now accepting applications to this special triple based programme for 2010-11, with deadlines in April and June, see our programme poster. Also check out our updated MA Student Survival Guide for Paris compiled by last year's students to help you on the way.

The Institute of History at Leiden University is organising an international conference on 15-16th January 2010,  analysing relations between cultural and political regionalism in the period 1890-1914 and the international comparison of these movements in Europe. Scholars from a number of Europaeum institutions will be taking part, including Helsinki, Bologna, Oxford, and of course Leiden.