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Forthcoming Events:
Trinity Term 2011 MA Lecture Series begins...
 The latest cohort of graduate students on the Europaeum's groundbreaking MA in European History and Civilisation, have just entered their final term at Oxford. At Oxford students begin their research papers, supervised by top Oxford academics. The Europaeum also offers a series of lectures, followed by special graduate seminars. This year's series on The Limits of Europe began on May 2nd with Dr Nicholas Davidson, Fellow of St Edmund Hall, lecturing on the topic Coexistence and Coercion: the many religions of early modern Europe. Lectures are open to all interested students, and will take place every week during Trinity Term at 10.00am at the History Faculty. Click here to download the Lecture Series Programme
Europaeum Lecture - The Fall of Communism in Europe
 Professor Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University and former Director of the Russian and East European Centre at St Antony’s College, will speak on the topic Why did Communism end in Europe? Why did it mutate in Asia ? on May 11, 2011 at Charles University, Prague. Professor Brown is one of the world's premier academics on Russian and Soviet politics, Communist politics, the Cold War and political leadership - and also on the life of Mikael Gorbachev who is marking his 80th birthday galas around the world. Professor Brown has also just written on the former Russian president on openDemocracy.com. This Europaeum Lecture will be Co-Chaired by Dr Milan Znoj, Department of Political Science at Charles University, and Researcher in the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences; and Dr Michael Pullman, Head of the Department of Economic and Social History at Charles University. All are welcome to attend. The lecture will start promptly 16.00 at the Karolinum. Please visit the Europaeum Lectures section of our website for more information.
Graduate Workshop on Human Rights Law
 The Europaeum is co-supporting with the Law Faculty of Oxford University, and Queen's University Belfast, a one-day workshop on May 20th on Human Rights Law in Europe and the UK, working with Professor Chris McCrudden (Oxford) and others, bringing over Law professors from Prague, Paris 1, and Leiden, to join others from Oxford, LSE, Strasbourg and many UK Government departments, to dissect and discuss areas of contention, overlap and dissonance. A report on the event will follow in due course.
Graduate Symposium on Eastern Christianity
 The Europaeum is supporting a third Graduate Symposium bringing together new and established old scholars from Oxford, Leiden and Bologna dedicated to Eastern Christianity in Context will be held at Leiden University on 21st May 2011. The Symposium will bring together graduate students from the three participating universities whose research subjects involve any of the Oriental Christian cultures, including Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, and Syriac, as well as neighbouring Islamic, Byzantine, and Slavic cultures. The seminar, being coordinated by Professor Theo van Lint, the Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies at Oxford, and colleagues, in Leiden. Click here to download the Programme
Graduate Workshop on Europeanization
 The Europaeum is organising a graduate History workshop on Europeanization and the Roots of Modern Europe taking place in Oxford from May 27-29th, 2011. Today we speak about Europeanization as a process of ‘change’. But what does this process actually mean and how does it work? This three-day workshop aims at analysing the process of Europeanization from different perspectives, including theoretical approaches and various case studies. The participation of graduates from different Europaeum universities will allow for the exchange of experiences and encounters of Europeanization across Europe. This workshop is open to graduates from the universities of the Europaeum network. Interested students should contact the Europaeum office at once to participate ! Please distribute the event Poster to students and colleagues.
Programmes:
Europaeum MA in European History - application deadline
 The FINAL DEADLINE for later applications for the Europaeum's pioneering MA in European History and Civilisation with terms spent at Leiden, Paris and Oxford, is May 30th. This programme offers students a special opportunity to deepen their knowledge of European history and institutions, their philosophical and historical backgrounds and underpinnings, and their social and economic contexts, through the lens of three different university worlds. This knowledge plays an increasingly crucial role in practical decision-making and strategic planning, where Europe-wide and global contact and negotiation is required. Interested students should consult our website as soon as possible for Application details. Please support our recruitment efforts and distribute the attached Poster to students and colleagues and on noticeboards.
Annual conference on The Future of Europe - 2030
 The future of Europe is much on the minds of all European citizens - following the fallout from the economic crisis. This year's annual conference is to be held in Spain on this theme, Futures for Europe, looking forward at various scenarios on offer up to the year 2030. Key questions for the assembled experts and scholars will be Has EU expansion now ended ? Will the Euro survive and at what price ? Can free mobility be sustained ? What about education policies ? What is Europe's contribution now to international environmental policy after Cancun ? How will the Europe Project fare in the face of the growing power from Brazil, India, and China ? Policy-makers, academic scholars, business, political and community leaders, and Europaeum graduates as representatives of the next generation - are invited - with Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former President of Latvia, key member of the 2010 EU Reflection Group on the future of Europe, as a keynote speaker. This event is set for July 18-23rd in Santander, co-ordinated with our new associate partner the Fundación Ortega Marañón (FOM). More details will emerge via our website. Click here to view the preliminary Programme
Summer School on The Future of Europe 2030
The deadline to apply for this year's Summer School is approaching. The Europaeum is organising this year's summer school on The Future of Europe 2030 alongside our annual conference with many top speakers, due to be held in the beautiful surroundings in Santander and will run from July 17-23rd.There will be the usual mix of discussions, debates, role-playing, and graduate presentations, alongside the major lectures occurring as part of our major annual international event and of course access to top speakers at the linked conference. Up to 30 places are being held for Europaeum graduates - three from each full partner member - and at least one for associate members. Participation costs are covered - apart from travel. Europaeum graduates from a range of disciplines from Law, Economics, Politics, History, Geography, International Relations, and other relevant disciplines, to attend the event. To apply, please contact the Europaeum Office and your local Europaeum Liaison Coordinator via e-mail with letter of application, a short CV (max. 2 pages), and a support letter from your supervising professor - by the beginning of June. Click here to download a preliminary Programme
2011 Europaeum Classics Colloquium - Helsinki
 The theme for the 2011 Classics Colloquium – the tenth in our series – will be Strangers and Friends hosted by the University of Helsinki this October. 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. See the Poster for more information. As usual, the Europaeum will provide accommodation and meals for up to 20 graduates and one or two lecturers for the duration of the colloquium. Individuals are responsible for covering their own travel costs (either from their department or from other sources). Applicants are asked to submit a 100-word abstract, CV, and recommendation from at least one of their academic advisors to the Office as soon as possible. All papers must be in English. Senior scholars from Europaeum universities will be contacted directly. The first main deadline for applications is the end of July. There will be a further deadline in mid-September. Please distribute the event Poster to interested students and scholars.
Scholarships and Opportunities:
International Debate at Future of Free World conference
 The Europaeum is again inviting four young scholars to help lead an special international debate as part of an international conference on the future of the Free World. The motion on the table will be The Free World should allow Iran to develop nuclear technology ? and it will be part of the Institute for Political Studies, Catholic University of Portugal (IEP-UCP) annual conference and summer school taking place in Lisbon from 27-29th June 2011 (please see . Graduate students from the Europaeum, IEP-UCP, Boston University, Brown University, Georgetown University, and the LSE will take part in the debate. The debate will be chaired as usual 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), and Professor Miguel Monjardino (IEP-UCP and Expresso, Lisbon). Interested Europaeum graduate students should contact the office by May 31st if they wish to attend. Participation costs for the conference and debate are covered for the selected participants, and travel grants are also available. For more information please see the Debate Poster and Conference Application Form.
Brussels Graduate European Policy-Making Seminar
 The Europaeum is organising the fourth annual Policy-Making inside Europe ? taking place in Brussels from June 20th-22nd. This three-day programme of talks, discussions, interviews and special visits involving those at the sharp end of policy and decision-making in Brussels, has been organised with colleagues in Lisbon to focus on how European policy is made in Brussels in a range of fields and disciplines. The programme includes visits to the European Parliament and NATO. Topics will include 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. The Europaeum has up to 10 places available for graduates and postgraduates from member universities. Please send an application letter and CV, with a supporting recommendation from your Tutor/Supervisor. Letters should be received by the Europaeum Office by May 31st for the first round of selections. All participants will need to cover their own travel and contribute towards a special dinner). Please see the event Poster for more details.
Publications & Media
Migration booklet to be released
The booklet on the Europaeum-EUROCLIO-Isha project on Connecting Europe through History - Experiences and Perceptions of Migrations in Europe is being published this week, and will be distributed to history teachers and students across Europe and Europaeum partners next month. The launch of the booklet will be formally launched at a press conference in Brussels in late June when the survey results - which confirm that a vast majority of teachers do believe Migration should become an integral theme in current History classroom teaching - and a series of special recommendations on history teaching will be drawn up as result of the year long project, will be unveiled for further follow-up and implementation. Click here to browse the project website
Report of the Month
Climate Change Conference
The impacts of climate change have global repercussions that effect everyone on the planet. Needless to say they have become crucial issues that brings a wide array of political, social, and economic perspectives to bare. Last year the Europaeum organised an international graduate workshop on The Politics and Economics of Climate Change - Lessons for European diplomacy in Paris to open discussions revolving around these various perspectives. The event brought together the usual mix of Europaeum graduate students with top scholars and policy-makers from across Europe. Click here to view a student report prepared by several graduates who participated in at the conference.
2010 Classics Colloquium
The 2010 Europaeum Classics Colloquium on Death and the Afterlife, held at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow last November, brought students and scholars from across the Europaeum network to discuss a variety of fascinating classical subjects including on death, suffering, health and medicine, funerary customs, apotheosis and the afterlife, and even lead poisoning ! Click here to view the full report
Link-of-the-Month:
The European Science Foundation
The European Science Foundation (ESF) was founded in 1974 making it one of the oldest milestones towards real scientific cooperation across Europe. It works as an independent, non-governmental organisation dedicated to pan-European scientific networking and collaboration,and promotes an array of research across its 78 member bodies, which include research funding, research performing academies and learned bodies from 30 countries. The ESF-sponsored European Collaborative Research programme Cross-National and Multi-Level Analysis of Human Values, Institutions and Behaviours (HumVIB) is one of many such programmes bringing together Europe's academic community. The programme’s final conference on 8-10th September 2011 conference is particularly geared toward early-career researchers, with the goal of promoting new collaboration. A limited number of grants will be available. Click here for more information on how to apply.
Around the Members:
GENEVA: How to pay Europe's debt ?
Charles Wyplosz, Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, who gave a distinguished Europaeum Lecture in Oxford on Fiscal Discipline in the Monetary Union: Rules or Institutions?, has just published an insightful brief with the Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE) on European Debt Crisis: What is the Way Out? He explores numerous options available to Eurozone countries, and posits that the end of the Euro is still a possibility. He argues that the Commission has become subordinate to powerful governments in issues of fiscal discipline and proposals for restructuring sovereign debt, leading to the promotion of national interests over the common market. See his latest report on http://stockholmnetworkblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/european-debt-crisis-what-is-the-way-out/
LEIDEN: Building stronger links with China
Leiden Rector and Europaeum Council Member, Professor Paul van der Heijden is currently concluding talks with the University of Xiamen in China to establish academic links between the two institutions, intensifying research and teaching co-operation. The Leiden University has a long history of international collaboration, and these initial agreements focussed on IT studies are just the first step towards establishing deeper connections with Chinese counterparts. Click here fore more information
OXFORD: Book launch for new book on Turkey
 Kerem Oktem - an expert on modern Turkish history from St Antony's College, Oxford - recently released his latest book on Angry Nation - Turkey since 1989, published by Zed Books Inc. Kerem Oktem charts the contemporary history of Turkey, exploring such key issues as the relationship between religion and the state, Kurdish separatism, Turkey's relationship with Israel and the ongoing controversy over Turkey's entry into the EU. This is the definitive book on the country's erratic transformation from a military dictatorship to a maturing, if still troubled, democracy. Click here for more information
Footnote-of-the-Month:
Europaeum joins intellectuals in Paris to honour Tony Judt
 The Europaeum is one of the sponsors of a high-level event in Paris June 23rd - 25th run by the New York Review of Books, after providing crucial logistical support and office space for the organising NYRB foundation in the months leading up to the event. The event brings together some of the world's leading intellectuals and academics in honour of the ideas and work of Tony Judt, former professor of European Studies at New York University. His last perhaps most political book, Ill Fares the Land, has received rave reviews, as did his last major work, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, written during his period of severe illness suffering from terminal motor neurone disease. It is planned to include senior figures from Paris 1-Sorbonne at the event. The distinguished list of speakers include Professor Ronnie Dworkin from NYU/Oxford who spoke at the Liberalisms conference co-supported by the Europaeum last year, Chris Patten who is a Europaeum trustee and chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Jacques Rupnik, Director of Research, CERI, Sciences-Po, Paris, who debated recently in Oxford with our Secretary-General on the development of the ECE region. Click here to view the conference Programme |
