The theme for the 2010 Classics Colloquium – the ninth in our series – will be Death and afterlife. This theme will include a broad range of subjects and areas of research: linguistics, literature, culture, religion, philosophy, archeology, art history and others. Classics graduate scholars at member universities of the Europaeum are invited to take part in this Colloquium, which aims to bring young European classics scholars together with leading academic experts, with the chance to present papers for discussion and critique by a fellow scholar.

A new volume of essays has been published derived from the 2006 Europaeum-supported international conference on Franco-British interactions in science since the seventeenth century held at the Maison Française in Oxford, as a joint initiative of the Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques and the European Society for the History of Science. This part of a cycle of events looking at how scientific ideas spread around Europe.

The 2010 Europaeum Summer School on The Media, Europe & Democracy will take place in Bologna on 5th – 10th September 2010. The event comprises a series of lectures, discussions, workshops, debates, and practical exercises on the relations between the processes of democracy and the role and operation of the media, and questions of identity and public space, across Europe.

Applications are invited from Europaeum post-graduates, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers, for fully supported bursaries to attend this two-day international conference September 28-30th, 2010, in Oxford on the theme of Federalisms - East and West  - India, Europe and North America. The event will look at current thinking and contrasting concepts of Federalism in Europe across the world.

The Europaeum organised the third annual Policy-Making inside Europe ? which took place in Brussels from 21st – 23th June 2010. This three-day programme of talks, discussions, interviews and special visits involving those at the sharp end of policy and decision-making in Brussels, was organised with colleagues in Lisbon to focus on how European policy is made in Brussels in a range of fields and disciplines.