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This year's winner of our El Pomar-Europaeum bursary, set up to bridge links across the Atlantic, launched in 2008, Nuno do Carmo (pictured here with fellow El Pomar scholars) is now spending five weeks in the US, attached to the El Pomar Foundation in Colorado, to be followed by time in Washington DC. The PhD student from the Institute of Political Studies at the Catholic University of Lisbon is sending us a weekly blog of his experiences.

The Europaeum international conference on Federalisms - East and West - India, Europe and North America will be taking place on 28-30th September in Oxford with key figures in European policy-making, media, and academia. This conference seeks to compare and contrast federalist ideas and structures across three continents.

The fifth event in the Connecting Europe through History – Experiences and Perceptions of Migrations project series. linked to the Europaeum takes place at Bologna University on September 5th, on theme Transition from an Emigration Country to an Immigration Country, at the Collegio Erasmus. The event explores how this transition is reflected in History Education in Italy, using shared experiences, media representations, and how this is received and can be dealt with in the classroom. Participants - including experts from partners Euroclio (click here for the European teachers' association latest newsletter) and IHSA, the international history  students association - plus research students from Oxford and Bologna - will look at best practice for adults, young people, Italians and foreigners. Click here to view the final programme.

Three recent Europaeum collaborative volumes, derived from past workshops and research initiatives are now being deposited in libraries at partner universities. We hope you will check these out if they are within your fields of interest. Reviews and e-links will appear on our Publications pages on our website. They are as follows:

The theme for the 2010 Classics Colloquium – the ninth in our series – will be Death and Afterlife, encompassing a range of subjects and areas of research: linguistics, literature, culture, religion, philosophy, archeology, art history etc. Classics graduate scholars at Europaeum member universities are invited to take part in this Colloquium, taking place at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, from

The Europaeum has already selected two students for the Oxford-Geneva study bursaries for 2010. One supports an Oxford graduate student to pursue a programme of study at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and one to support a student from The Graduate Institute to study at Oxford during the coming academic year. Please see the full press release.

Professor Tomáš Halík's book Patience with God: The Story of Zacchaeus Continuing In Us was named the July 2010 Book of the Month by the US Catholic Book Club. Professor Halík, a long-time supporter of the Europaeum, worked as a psychotherapist during the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia while at the same time was secretly ordained as a Catholic priest and active in the underground church.

Dr. Oswyn Murray, Emeritus Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, at Balliol College and former Chairman of Oxford's  Ancient History SubFaculty, spent more than a week in Prague in April as a Europaeum Visiting Professor at Charles University.

Sir Marrack Goulding, one Britain's most distinguished diplomats, and long-time supporter of the Europaeum, has died. Sir Marrack had a long and respected career in foreign service and academia. As a British diplomat he worked in London in the Foreign Office (1964-68, 1972-75) and the Cabinet Office’s Central Policy Review Staff (1975-77). Most of his overseas posts were in Arab countries but they also included the British Mission to the United Nations in New York and Angola (Ambassador, 1983-85).

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.

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.

This year's theme was on Political Dimensions of the Economic Crisis: The Future of the Market Economy and Democracy and included a special debate on Can Democracy Work without a Market Economy? with graduates from the Europaeum, IEP-UCP, Boston University, Brown University, Georgetown University, and the LSE. The debate was chaired by Dr Paul Flather (Secretary General, Europaeum), with expert moderators Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky (Member of the Board, IFES, Oxford) and Professor Eusebio Mujal-Leon (Georgetown University, Washington DC).

Does the Lisbon Treaty raise more problems than it solves? This was the theme of the graduate debate that took place in Magdalen College, Oxford. The lively panel debate began with brief initial provocations from two long-standing Europeanists and two graduate Jenkins Scholars.

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The Europaeum organised a lecture with Professor Vernon Bogdanor cbe, Professor of Government at the University of Oxford, on Overcoming the legacy of the 20th Century: Protecting Human Rights in Modern Democracies on June 3rd, 2010. The Lecture was hosted by Leiden University, and was chaired by Professor Wim van den Doel, Dean of Humanities, Professor of General History, Leiden University.