Conferences
Conference: Federalisms - East and West ?
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.
Integration Throughout History
Helsinki UniversityThe 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.
Histoire des phénomènes migratoires en France et en Europe : Quels enjeux pour les classes?
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.
Conference on Constitutional Pluralism
The Europaeum co-supported an international conference Constitutional Pluralism in the European Union and Beyond organised by the Institute for European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford, on March 20-21st 2009 held at St Anne's College.
Conference Coordinators: Stephen Weatherill, Professor of European Community Law, University of Oxford
Human Rights Conference at The Hague
Tracking essential documents, moments and people in Human Rights History
The joint EUROCLIO-Europaeum project Connecting History through Europe, in cooperation with Leiden University, will host the Final Conference from 22-25th April, in The Hague on Tracking essential documents, moments and people in Human Rights History.
Constitutional Pluralism in the EU
European Court of Human RightsConstitutional Pluralism in the European Union and Beyond
The Europaeum is co-supporting an international conference Constitutional Pluralism in the European Union and Beyond organised by the Institute for European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford, on March 20-21st 2009 to be held at St Anne's College.
Europaeum Policy Seminar
The Europaeum organised a special 3-day seminar in Brussels on Policy-making in Brussels.
This was our second 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 and Leiden 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 role of EU Foreign Policy; The impact of EU Economic Policy; Thinking Europe?; How Policy is made in Brussels; and the role of European institutions.
Europaeum Debate
The Oxford University Society is organising a debate in Oxford, with support from the Europaeum, as part of its special Alumni Weekend, on Europe in the New World Order: Challenges for the Future? with Lord (Chris) Patten, and Peter Mandelson, on September 19th.
Culture, Humanities, and Technology
The continuing Europaeum research programme on Culture, Humanities, and Technology in Europe
is co-supporting a major international conference with the Maison Française d’Oxford on The Dilemmas of Digitization, on 22-24th May, 2008.Cultural Difference Conference in Krakow
The continuing Europaeum Cultural Difference in Europe Research Project holds its fourth workshop at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid on Cultural Difference in Europe.
European Migration Conference
European Migration in the 21st Century: a Challenge to Nation-States ?
The Europaeum is sponsoring a special workshop on European Migration in the 21st Century: a Challenge to Nation-States ? hosted by Charles University, Prague. Graduate students for all Europaeum universities are invited to attend.Islam-in-Europe Conference
Social Cohesion - the Oxford Paradigm
Introduction
Oxford has a long legacy of a city at the forefront of multicultural initiatives. Dating from its inception, it has been a centre of cultural preservation with such institutions as the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library and the numerous colleges that constitute the University of Oxford. The University itself brings together students and scholars from across the globe. As a city with
European Voices Conference
The History of European Integration Society (HEIRS), part of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, is holding its third Colloquium, following the successful conferences in Cambridge (2004) and Portsmouth (2005).
Integration Conference
The Univerzita Karlova V (Charles University), Prague hosted an international conference, co-supported by the Europaeum, on Re-Making Europe – Which Way Now?: Europe at the Crossroads, held on 16-17th March, 2007.
Integration Conference
The History of European Integration Society (HEIRS), part of the Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internationales, HEI, hosted its third annual Colloquium at the Department of International History and Politics, GIIS, Geneva on:
