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Europaeum Policy Seminar: Policy making in Brussels

Tags: This is our sixth special two-day programme of talks, discussions, interviews and special visits involving those at the sharp end of policy and decision-making in Brussels. It has been organised with colleagues in Lisbon to focus on how European policy is made in Brussels in a range of fields and disciplines. The programme includes visits to the European Parliament. Topics will include the current Economic Crisis, the economic and political future of Europe. The accent above all is on debate and understanding. Please take a look at the full program here

Graduates debate Lisbon

Tags: The Institute for Political Studies of the Catholic University of Portugal is hosting its annual major international summer school and conference in Lisbon, at the end of June, bringing together policymakers and academics from the US, UK, Portugal and the rest of Europe. As usual, our event will be in the form of an Oxford Union-style open debate led by leading Europaeum graduate students. This will involve four research graduates- each speaking for or against the given proposition, with expert commentators on hand, and a final open vote on the proposition taken. One position is yet to be filled. If interested please contact the The Europaeum Office as soon as possible. For the full programm please click here.

Philosophy as a Humanist Discipline

Tags: The Europaeum is again a co-sponsor with the New York Review of Books Foundation of an important philosophy conference this month, on June 21 and 22nd, reviewing the ideas of humanism and idealism of three Oxford giants - Sir Isaiah Berlin, Sir Stuart Hampshire and professor Bernard Williams. The event also marks part of the 50th birthday celebrations of the NYRB. Those taking part include Alan Ryan, John Gray, Mark Lilla, Avishai Margalit and Timothy Garton Ash. Those specifically representing the Europaeum include Professor Michael Freeden who has led two Europaeum research Group Projects on Liberalisms, and Political Concepts in Europe, and Dr Nicholas Budden (see profile of the month in this month's bulletin) who has led the Europaeum's Cultural Difference in Europe Programme which continues with this month's Paris conference. For the full programme please see here or see the poster here.

Paris Convention: Is Europe Fragmenting?

Tags: Paris convention: Is Europe fragmenting?  European society and social solidarity: Is Europe fragmenting ? Université Paris I Sorbonne, Salle 1. Starts at 16.00 on wednesday June 12th continues Thursday June 13th 09.30 and Friday June 14th 09.30 All welcome. See Paris Conference poster hereeurope fragmentingeurope fragmenting
Since the Second World War, European institutions have repeatedly been tested by crisis. A decade ago there remained widespread confidence that the future of the so-called European Project was secure – born over a lengthy period of successful institutional reform, growing prosperity, economic integration, expanding membership and, even, popular support. The end of the Cold War enabled this founding vision - protecting peace, entrenching democracy and promoting a common sense of European identity - to go beyond the Franco-German, to embrace the whole continent. Participation in shared institutions was to be the effective formula for diminishing and controlling inherited suspicions, animosities and conflicts, among, and within, the nations of Europe. Today this European solidarity is fracturing. The severity and complexity of the economic crisis has undermined earlier optimism, even the inevitability of the ultimate success of the European Project. 

Europaeum School Summer 2013 Rights and Citizenship in Europe: are we really equal ?

Tags: Europaeum School Summer 2013
Rights and Citizenship in Europe: are we really equal?

Human rights are taken for granted in Europe, and among Europe’s citizens. This was not always so. There were long battles to achieve such rights, and then to see Europe’s Human Rights Act established, enacted and enforced. Now, the current crisis has helped to refocus our interest in civic, political and economic rights by challenging universalism and revealing gaps and inequalities This summer school – the 20th in our series - will bring together experts from law and justice, think tanks, NGOs and universities, to discuss key questions over five days of talks, panels, working groups, debates role-playing and discussions. More information will follow.