The Europaeum Academic Directory

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Professor Robert Evans

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Regius Professor of History, Oriel College, University of Oxford
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Professor Robert John Weston Evans, FBA, was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham and Jesus College, Cambridge. Evans is Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He works on the post-medieval history of Central and Eastern Europe, especially concerning that of the Habsburg lands from 1526-1918.

He has a particular interest in the role of language in historical development. His main current research is on a history of Hungary, from 1740-1945. He also studies the history of Wales and is the President of Cymdeithas Dafydd ap Gwilym, the Oxford University Welsh language society.

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Robert Evans works on the post-medieval history of central and eastern Europe, especially of the Habsburg lands, 1526-1918. He has a particular interest in the place of language(s) in historical development. His main current research commitment is to a history of Hungary, 1740-1945. He also studies the history of Wales.
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Paul Flather

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University of Oxford
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Dr Paul Flather is Secretary–General of the Europaeum, an association of leading European Universities, and Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. He was the founding Secretary-General of the Central European University (1990-1994) originally set up in Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw by George Soros, and director of international and external affairs for Oxford University (1994-1999). Formerly, he worked at the BBC, Times Newspapers, and served as Deputy Editor of the New Statesman. His research work is on Indian political development since
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Indian political development since Independence

Professor Dr. Jürgen Fohrmann

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Rector and Professor of Modern German Literature and Literary Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Bonn University.
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Professor Jürgen Fohrmann became Rector of the University of Bonn in 2009 after serving as Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 2006-08. He holds the position as a full Professor of German Literature at Bonn University since 1991, following his lectureship at the University of Bielefeld.

He studied German Literature and Language as well as History at the University of Münster and the University of Bielefeld.

Cooperation with the Europaeum: 
  • Academic Council Member 2009 -
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Literary and Media theory, History of Science, Literary and Cultural History from the 18th to the 20th Century

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AmHof1d
D-53113Bonn

T: +49(228)73-7478
E-Mail: j.fohrmann@uni-bonn.de

Professor Robert Frank

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Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
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Professor Robert Frank is Professor of the History of Contemporary International Relations at the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Director of Identities, International Relations and Civilisations of Europe (IRICE). He is also Chairperson of the Commission of History of International Relations. His many publications and articles concern the history of international relations in the twentieth century and include‚ Penser historiquement les relations internationales

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International relations, diplomatic history

Professor Timothy Garton Ash

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University of Oxford
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Timothy Garton Ash is the author of eight books of political writing or ‘history of the present’ which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter-century. He is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he writes a weekly column in the Guardian which is widely syndicated in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

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The relationship between an enlarged European Union, the United States and the rest of the English-speaking world, approaches to the near East and the shaping of European identity

Professor Jean-Philippe Genet

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Professor in Medieval History, Université Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne
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Jean-Philippe Genet is Professor of Medieval History at the Universté of Paris I-Panthéon- Sorbonne. Professor Genet has been the President of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds of the CNRS National Committee (2000-2004). Professor Genet is currently teaching part of the Paris Module of the Europaeum MA.

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  • Teaching on a jointly-offered Europeaum MA in European History and Civilisation (Lecture on Disunion: the true hallmark of the history of Europe?) and the Chairman of the Paris Module MA Lecture and Workshop: Roots of Modern Europe.
  • Seminar organized by Professors Genet and Robert Frank devoted to European Civilization and Political Problems.

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History of Medieval Culture and Political History of Medieval West, especially politics, culture, and soviety in Great Britain (XIV –-XV century); genesis of modern states: comparison of France and Great Britain; medieval information and history.

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Laboratoire de Médiévistique occidentale de Paris (LAMOP)
Université Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne
12 place du Panthéon
75231 Paris Cedex 05
Tel: +33 1 40 46 33 42 / 40 45 33 21

E-mail: genet@univ-paris1.fr

Professor Victor-Yves Ghebali

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(deceased)
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Professor Ghebali joined the Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Intérnationales (HEI, Geneva, Switzerland) Department of Political Science in 1980, and was a full professor from 1990. He was the editor of two book series, Axes and Organisation internationale et relations internationales, as well as Director of the OSCE Cluster (Swiss contribution to the Partnership for Peace programme).

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His research interests concentrated on the League of Nations and the United Nations, East-West relations, the OSCE, the Mediterranean, and national minorities.

Sergiu Gherghina

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PhD Candidate in Political Science, Leiden University, Department of Political Science

Sergiu Gherghina is PhD researcher at the Institute of Political Science, University of Leiden. His major fields of interest are political parties (party organizations) in new democracies, legislative behavior, and democratization. He published articles in European Review, Comparative European Politics, Legislative Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, and European Union Politics and edited three national volumes on Parliaments and the EU institutions and policies..

Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill

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Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; Titular Professor of International Refugee Law, University of Oxford
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Rubin Director of Research, Institute of European Studies, University of Oxford (from 1997 to 2002), Professor of Asylum Law, University of Amsterdam (from 1994 to 1999), Professor of Law, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (from 1989 to 1997), Senior Legal Research Officer and variously Legal Adviser, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, London, Sydney, Geneva (from 1976 to 1988), Visiting Lecturer, Public International Law, Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston-upon-Thames (from 1973 to 1976), Lecturer, later Senior Lecturer, The College of Law, London (from 1971 to 1976

Cooperation with the Europaeum: 
  • Organiser and Co-Chair, Europaeum 2001 Oxford Summer School, Human Rights and the Movement of People – Meeting the challenges of racism, migration and displacement;
  • Organiser and Co-Chair, Europaeum 1998 Oxford Summer School, Human Rights in an Integrating Europe;
  • Visiting Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Developments Studies, Geneva, 2000-2001, 2004-2005;
  • Visiting Professor, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, 2007-2011.
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Public international law, including in particular immigration, refugees, statelessness and asylum, the use of force, terrorism, elections and electoral standards

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All Souls College
High Street
Oxford
OX1 4AL
Telephone: 01865 279379
guy.goodwin-gill@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Sir Marrack Goulding

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Sir Marrack Goulding, was educated St Paul’s School, London, and Magdalen College, Oxford. 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). In 1986 he joined the United Nations Secretariat as head of Peacekeeping (1986-93) and then of Political Affairs (1993-97). He has been Warden of St Antony’s College, Oxford, since 1997.
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International Relations
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Deceased