Events

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.

Apotheosis of Antoninous Pius

Ninth Classics Colloquium:
Death and the Afterlife
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
19-21 November 2010

The theme for the 2010 Classics Colloquium – the ninth in our series – will be Death and the 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.

The Media, Europe & Democracy

The University of Bologna hosted the 2010 Europaeum Summer School on The Media, Europe & Democracy. The six day programme Summer School reflected on relations between the processes of democracy and the role and operation of the media, and questions of identity and public space, across Europe. The five-day programme also investigated ‘inside’ perceptions of the European Union by European citizens, and ‘outside’ perceptions from non-European actors, and their impact on notions of European citizenship, public debate and participatory democracy. As usual, the event was multidisciplinary, involving scholars with different backgrounds, including Sociology, International Relations, Law, Economics, Communication Studies, History and Cultural Studies.

Federalisms - East and West ?
India, Europe, and North America
University of Oxford, 28-30th September

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. Speakers and participants indclude Professor Lord Meghnad Desai of the LSE, Lord Hannay, former US Senator Gary Hart, Professor Yves Meny (former director of the European University Institute, Florence), Lord Liddle (former advisor to President Barroso), Anthony Barnett (founder of opendemocracy.net), Roger Cohen (leading columnist for the International Herald Tribune), John Palmer (former Guardian Europe-correspondent), Martin Wolf (the brilliant FT Columnist), Govinda Rao head of the Indian Finance Commission, and many many more. Our keynote speaker is Peter Sutherland former head of Goldmann Sachs, now a UN representative on Migration and Chair of the LSE. He will be speaking at 17.30 on the 28th September, in the Nissan Theatre, St Antony's College, Oxford on the theme Common Values and Federalism in Europe.  The event is being run with generous support from the  Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung and the James Madison Trust in Brussels. Please see the Conference Statement for a detailed summary of the event. The event is by invitation only, though the keynote talk is open to all.

This was our third special three-day programme of talks, discussions, interviews and special visits involving those at the sharp end of policy and decision-making in Brussels. It was organised with colleagues in Lisbon to focus on how European policy is made in Brussels in a range of fields and disciplines. The programme included visits to the European Parliament and NATO. Topics included the Making of EU Foreign Policy; The impact of EU Economic Policy; Lisbon Treaty & EU Policy; National Interests & European Politics; EU as a Major Foreign Policy Actor & Internal Market.

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Does the Lisbon Treaty raise more problems than it solves?
Daubeny Room, Magdalene College
11.00 – 12.30
Tuesday, 25th May

Does the long-heralded Lisbon Treaty pose fresh questions rather than solve older problems? Which way is Europe going? Is the European political class up to the job of embedding a new European citizenry? Is our triumvirate up to the job? What is the role for national leaders and presidents? Who leads Europe forward in this new Global era? Is Europe prepared for challenges from the East? Where is the Europe of our dreams?

Europaeum Lecture: Overcoming the legacy of the 20th Century: Protecting Human Rights in Modern Democracies
Thursday 3rd June, 2010, 17:15h
Leiden University, Lipsius Building, room 147 (Cleveringaplaats 1)

Professor Vernon Bogdanor
Professor of Government, University of Oxford

Where are today's good Europeans ?

Mansfield MCR & Jenkins Scholars Debate
Thursday, 20th May, 2010 at   19.45
Seminar Room (East), Mansfield College

Which way is Europe going ? Where is the Europe of our dreams ? Has the long-heralded Lisbon Treaty posed fresh questions rather solving older problems ? Is the European political class up to the job of embedding a new European citizenry ? Who is there to lead Europe forward in the new Global order ? Who is helping Europe prepare for the great challenges from the East? Are our new triumvirate up to the job ? What is the new role for  national leaders and presidents ?

Leiden University hosted our sixth event in Connecting Europe through History – Experiences and Perceptions of Migrations Project. The Europaeum organised a Graduate Research Workshop on Migration, Political Parties & Public Rhetoric in Contemporary Europe on June 3rd - 5th 2010. This event brought together young scholars from Europaeum universities to explore contemporary European themes. This two-day program investigated relations between Migration and Political Parties in Europe today: the effects of migration and migratory laws and the impact these have on politics and political parties and how political parties respond to migration and migrants. Thus, migration affects the discourse, activities and policy positioning of political parties, as well as patterns of competition and co-operation between political parties.  Simultaneously, government policy, political discourse and public opinion, affect processes and rates of migration, as well as relations between migrants and host communities.

European Migration in 1907

The University of Oxford hosted our fifth event in Connecting Europe through History – Experiences and Perceptions of Migrations Project. The Euroapeum organised a Graduate Research Workshop on Migration, Ethnicity, the Making of Modern Europe on May 21st - 22nd 2010. This event brought together young scholars from Europaeum universities to explore contemporary European themes. Speakers included: Professor Robert Evans (Regius Professor of History), Professor Peter Pulzer (Emeritus Professor of Government), Dr. Mateo Ballester (Professor in Politics, Compultense, Madrid), Dr. Renee Hirschon (St Peter’s College, Oxford), Dr Nando Sigona (Senior Researcher, COMPAS Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford University).

Helsinki University

The International Students of History Association in Helsinki organised its annual conference this year around the theme of Integration Throughout History, due to take place April 5-11th 2010 in Helsinki. The Europaeum co-supported this event as the fourth event of our Connecting Europe through History: Experiences and Perceptions of Migrations Project. Speakers from our partner universities will be taking part, please see the programme for more details.

The third event in our year-long Project, Connecting Europe through History – Experiences and Perceptions of Migrations, will take place in Paris on March 17th 2010, hosted at the Palais de la Porte Dorée. The topic of this conference is Histoire des phénomènes migratoires en France et en Europe : Quels enjeux pour les classes? The Project, run in partnership with EuroClio teachers' association and the International Students of History Association, will include a roundtable discussion with teachers focussing on the challenge of teaching history to students who do not share the same historical background.

Plato and Aristotle

Eighth Classics Colloquium:
Teaching, Teachers and Students
Charles University, Prague
6-8th November 2009

Conference Coordinator: Martina Vanikova, Charles University, Prague

Mission

The theme for the 2009 Classics Colloquium‚ the eighth in our series‚ was Teaching, Teachers and Students. This theme included Greek education and attitudes; sophistry and philosophy; pedagogy; didacticism; Roman education and attitudes; and literary depictions of teaching and learning. Classics graduate scholars at member universities of the Europaeum took part in this Colloquium, which aimed to bring young European classics scholars together with leading academic experts, presenting papers for discussion and critique by a fellow scholar.

Ethics and European Policy-Making

This Summer School looked at the role of ethics in the subject and practice of, the Law and lawyers; Politics and politicians; Economics and economists, sociologists and societal workers, as well as the wider implications on science and medicine. The five-day programme will also investigate the phenomenon of Ethics and its place in Europaean society; the European legal framework in relation to ethical issues; and the particular role of universities, educational institutions and NGOs in advocacy, support and delivery of ethical practices. Speakers included: Professor Farhad Ameli, (Law), Professor Etienne Picard (Public Law, Paris), Professor Jean Philippe Genet (Medival History, Paris), Dr Paul Flather (Politics, The Europaeum).