Past Events and Activities
Events organised or supported by the Europaeum, in reverse chronological order
(older listings are incomplete)
For future events, see the events & activities page.
2024
Winter School: Survivance and Survival
29 January – 2 February 2024 | University of Tartu, Estonia
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Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication: Ambivalence and the Media
9–12 January 2024 | Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon
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2023
Classics Colloquium: War and Trauma: Ancient and Modern Dialogues
13–15 December 2023 | University of Bologna, Italy
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Summer School: Crisis? What Crisis? The Dialectics of European Integration
12–15 September 2023 | Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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Estoril International Political Forum
26–29 June 2023 | Estoril, Portugal
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Brussels Policy Seminar: Policy-Making Inside Europe
22–25 May 2023 | Brussels
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Spring School: Shifting Paradigms in Europe
19–21 April 2023 | The University of Oxford, UK
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Winter School: The Maghreb between Europe and Africa
8–10 March 2023 | Netherlands Institute Morocco, Rabat
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2022
Prague Security Conference: Challenges to European Security
24–25 October 2022 | Charles University, The Czech Republic
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The Europaeum’s 30th Anniversary Conference: ‘Challenges and Opportunities for Universities’
1–2 October 2022 | The University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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Scholars Programme Talk: Danny Sriskanadarajah, CEO of OxfamGB
30 September 2022 | The University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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Summer School: The Politics of Heritage
5–10 September 2022 | KU Leuven, Belgium
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Estoril International Political Forum
27–29 June 2022 | Estoril, Portugal
Organised by the IEP, Catholic University of Portugal. A small number of Europaeum students were selected for the Europaeum Debate.
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Classics Colloquium: Migrants in the ancient Greek and Roman world
27–28 June 2022 | University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Recovering Europe’s Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700: Concepts, Methods, Approaches
22–24 June 2022 | Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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Spring School: Law and Power
19–21 April 2022 | The University of Oxford, UK
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Winter School: Planetary Wellbeing
22–25 February 2022 | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (hybrid)
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Brussels Policy Seminar – Policy-Making Inside Europe
24–26 January 2022 | online
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2021
Classics Colloquium – Metabolé: Crisis and Transformation in Antiquity
25–27 November | Madrid
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Estoril Political Forum 2021 – On the 80th Anniversary of the Atlantic Charter: Structuring a New Alliance of Democracies
18–20 October | Estoril, Portugal
29th International Meeting in Political Studies, organised by the Instituto de Estudos Políticos, Lisbon
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Crisis as an opportunity for Europe? (conference)
1–3 October 2021
Venue: Real Fundación de Toledo Pl. de Victorio Macho, Toledo
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Summer School – Imagining Europe: Migration, Borders and the (Re)Making of ‘Europe’
9–14 August 2021 | online
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MA European History & Civilisation (seminar series)
4 May – 15 June 2021
Venue: Faculty of History, Oxford
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Spring School – Europe in the World – the World in Europe
22–24 April 2021 | online
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Classics Colloquium – Slavery: Antiquity and Modernity in Dialogue
11–12 February 2021 | online
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Brussels Policy-Making Seminar
28–29 January 2021 | online
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2020
Summer School (originally planned as the Spring School) – Europe in the World – The World in Europe
27–28 August | online
Estoril International Forum & Graduate Debate
22–24 June | Estoril, Portugal
The EU and the Balkan region – the state of play (seminar)
12–13 March | Zagreb
Co-organised with United Europe
China in Europe: Economics, Political and Geo-Strategic Challenges (workshop)
12–14 February | Mafra, Portugal
Outside the Euro – Monetary and Financial Issues for the EU periphery and beyond (one-day conference)
23 January 2020
Co-organised with the European Studies Centre, Oxford
2019
21–23 November 2019 | Geneva
Special Conference ‘Europe in the age of Xi and Trump’ more information
14–16 November 2019 | Krakow
Europaeum Classics Colloquium ‘Sacrifice as Ritual’
24–25 October 2019 | Brussels
Study trip to Brussels
7–13 July | Paris
Summer School ‘The Globalized Metropolis: Politics, Protestation and Participation in Modern Urban Spaces’ read report
24–26 June | Estoril
International Graduate Debate ‘The Transatlantic Alliance’
30 May | Oxford
Conference ‘Trade unions, democracy and political power in France, the UK and Europe’
2–4 May | Oxford
Spring School ‘Negotiation, Peace, Peace-Making’
30 April – 11 June | Oxford
MA European History & Civilisation, Trinity Term Seminar Series
‘European Empires’
Dr Alex Middleton, Foreign Despotism & the Victorian Constitution
Dr Elizabeth Baigent, Seeing the Land, Drawing the Map, Making the Territory: Sweden in its Stormaktstid
Dr Peter Brooke, Ends of Empires
Professor Giuseppe Marcocci, Can We Speak of an Iberian Global Empire?
Dr Catherine Holmes, Approaches to the Byzantine Empire in the Age of Global History
Professor Mike Broers, The First Napoleonic Empire between: Model and Myth
2018
22–24 November | Krakow
Workshop ‘External and Internal Challenges to European Integration – Interpreting security in times of crisis’
26–28 Oct | Munich
Europaeum Classics Colloquium 2018 – ‘Mutatas dicere formas’ – Multimedia transformations in and of antiquity
6 Oct | Geneva
Workshop on “Democracy, indigenous rights and ethno-racial mobilisation: Latin America in comparative perspective”. Graduate Institute, Geneva. In association with the Europaeum.
27 Aug – 1 Sep | Helsinki
Europaeum Summer School ‘Future of Work’ – Reshaping the meaning of work in the future society
25–27 June | Estoril, Lisbon
26th Annual Political Forum: Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism & Democracy
Organised by the Institute for Political Studies, Catholic University Lisbon, with support from the Europaeum.
5 June | Oxford
Annual Oxford-Geneva Link Lecture
Professor Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, Graduate Institute, Geneva: A THEORY OF ISIS – Political Violence and the Transformation of the Global Order
Trinity Term 2018 | Oxford
Seminar Series for the graduates on the MA History & Civilisation, and Oxford History graduates ‘Before War, after War’
Dr Rowena Archer | When did the Hundred Years War End?
Dr Tracey Sowerby | War by other Means? Values and Practices in European Diplomacy c1500-c1600
Professor Peter Frankopan | Europe and the West – Past, Present and Future
Dr Paul Flather | Europe’s World Wars, the British Raj and the Arrival of Indian Independence
Professor Mike Broers | Visions of Empire: Napoleonic Europe when the War is Over
28–29 May | Oxford
Algeria, France: How memory works? Historical imagination as a category of practice.
An event organised by the European Studies Centre (Oxford) and supported by the Europaeum.
10–12 May | Oxford
Europaeum Workshop ‘People, Protest and Populism in European History – marking 50 years after the 1968 protests and 100 years after winning votes for some women in the UK’; Co-hosted with Maison Francaise d’Oxford, University of Oxford
19–21 March | Brussels
Policy Making Workshop
6–7 Feb | Oxford
Consensus Workshop
New challenges to building consensus: which ways forward?
2017
23–25 Nov | Ravenna (Bologna)
Classics Colloquium: Past and Present
3–4 Nov | Oxford
Research Workshop on Gender Inequalities
29–30 Sep | Oxford
25th Anniversary Weekend & International Conference on Academic Freedom
24–26 Sep | Geneva
European Election Day Exploratory Workshop
9–14 July | Madrid
(Summer School) Populism and Anti-Politics: Is Democracy in Crisis ?
26–28 Jun | Lisbon
International Graduate Debate
25 Apr – 13 June | Oxford
Seminar Series ‘ Brexit in Historical Perspective’
20–22 April | Oxford
Europaeum Graduate Workshop: Religion, Conflict, Secularism and Tolerance – 500 years after Wittenberg
8 Mar | Prague
Europaeum Lecture: Illiberal democracy and Post-Truth politics
6–8 Mar | Brussels
Workshop Policy-Making Inside Europe?
23 Feb | Geneva
Geneva lecture: Will Hutton ‘Brexit and Trump – will the world order hold?’
16–18 February | Prague
Graduate Workshop: Post-Truth, Populism, Prejudice – Europe’s Values in Crisis?
2016
15 Nov | Oxford
Lecture Professor Gilles Carbonnier: The Case for Humanitarian Economics: Recalibrating Civil War and Disaster
1–6 Sep | Oxford
organised by the China Centre: China and Europe – Challenges for the Future
27–29 June | Estoril/Lisbon
Graduate Debate: After the British referendum vote, should the EU adopt more integration or more flexibility?
10 June | Geneva
2016 Europaeum Day on Migration crisis
12 May | Prague
Europaeum Academic Council, celebrating 700 years since the birth Charles IV, founder of Charles University.
21–23 Apr | Oxford
Spring School Charisma & political leadership in European history: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly ?
22–24 Feb | Brussels
European Policy Seminar on Policy-Making inside the EU
21–24 Jan | Bologna
Graduate Workshop: Mobility and Migration – a crisis for Europe’s citizens?
2015
23 Nov | Oxford
Europaeum European Democracy Day
5–7 Nov | Barcelona
Classics Colloquium: Poetry, Oratory, Rhetoric, Persuasion: The Power of the World in Ancient Times
18 Sep | Leiden
Celebrating 10 years of MA in European History: Professor Brian Young, Professor Wim Blockmans, Dr Nicolas Vaicbourdt ‘800 Years after Magna Carta: Republican Legacies in the Netherlands, Britain and France’
31 Aug – 5 Sep | Prague
Summer School Euroscepticism and Populism: Understanding the New Politics of Europe
22–24 June | Lisbon/Estoril
Europaeum Graduate Debate ‘Does Europe’s Elite still have too much power over Europe’s citizens and National Parliaments?’
16–18 June | Brussels
Europaeum Policy Seminar
28 May | Geneva
Lecture William Beinart: South Africa – Lessons for African democracy
23–25 Apr | Oxford
Workshop Peace-Making & War-Mongering
16 Feb | Oxford
Debate: European Rights, Human Rights – Convergence or Dissonance?
5 Feb | Oxford
Debate: Does the Brussels ‘Eurocrat’ still matter?
2014
13 Nov | Oxford
Europaeum European Democracy Day (Lecture) HSH Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein: The State in the Third Millenium and the Crisis of Self-Determination
5–7 Nov | Paris
Classics Colloquium: Man and Beast
23–25 Oct | Krakow
Graduate Workshop: Jews in Europe – Is there still a Question?
27–28 Sep | Oxford
Conference: The Meaning of 1914
29 Jun- 4 Jul | Madrid
Summer School Women in Europe: Unfinished Revolution?
Trinity Term | Oxford
2014 MA in European History seminar series
25–27 Jun | Lisbon
Lisbon Graduate Debate: The Third Wave of Democratization?
9–11 May | Krakow
Jagiellonian Rectors Conference: Universities in East & Central Europe – 25 Years of Academic Freedom?
29 Apr | Oxford
Lecture Sir Paul Collier, CBE | Migration – Winners and Losers
24–26 Apr | Oxford
Spring School Citizens, Economists, Emperors, Clerics: The Making of Europe?
19 Feb | Geneva
Lecture Jussi Hahnhimäki | Re-evaluating the Legacy of Henry Kissinger: Statesman or Stuntman?
11–13 Feb | Brussels
European Policy Seminar
2013
30–31 Oct | New York City
Conference: Power, Privacy, and the Internet (New York Review of Books, with support from the Europaeum)
2–7 Sep | Barcelona
Summer School Rights and Citizens in Europe: are we all really equal?
24–26 June | Lisbon/Estoril
Europaeum Graduate Debate: Will Europe fail if the Euro fails?
17–18 June | Brussels
European Policy Seminar
12–14 Jun | Paris
Annual Conference: European society and social solidarity – Is Europe fragmenting?
27 May | Geneva
Lecture Dr Faisal Devji | Lecture on Muslim Passions in Europe
2012
6–8 Dec | Oxford
Workshop Rousseau and Republican Traditions in Europe
16 Nov | Oxford
Classics Colloquium: Leadership in the Ancient World
7–10 Nov | Oxford
Workshop From Plato to NATO: communication, media and rhetoric in Europe
26–27 Oct | Prague
Conference: Effet Utile – understanding international treaties
2–7 Sep | Oxford
Summer School Conflict Resolution in Europe: Lessons for Tomorrow
25–27 Jun | Lisbon
Debate: Open Societies, Open Markets and Common Identities
18–20 Jun | Brussels
Seminar Policy Making at the EU level
25–27 May | Oxford
Spring School Rousseau and Republican Traditions in Europe
21 May | Oxford
Lecture Professor Sir Adam Roberts | A Kind of Madness: Jean-Jacques Rousseau on International Relations
4 May | Prague
Conference: The Ideas of Prevention in European Law
Trinity Term | Oxford
MA Oxford Lectures: The Fault-lines of Europe
27–29 Apr | Prague
Challenges and Opportunities for Europe in building a Global Green Economy
22–23 Mar | Paris
Workshop The Arab Spring One Year on: What next ?
2011
26 Nov | London
Conference: Universities under Attack
11-13 Nov | Leiden
Workshop Europe and its ‘Giants’ of Leadership – Past, Present and Future?
7 Nov | Oxford
Lecture Professor Keith Krause | The End of War: Political Violence in the 20th Century
21 Oct | Helsinki
Classics Colloquium: Strangers and Friends
18-22 Jul | Madrid
Conference: The Future of Europe
17-23 Jul | Madrid
Summer School The Futures of Europe: Which Way Towards 2030
29 Jun | Krakow
Debate: The Free World should allow Iran to develop nuclear technology?
23-25 Jun | Paris
Conference: Celebrating the life of Tony Judt (The New York Review of Books, with support from the Europaeum)
17-29 Jun |Lisbon
Debate: IEP-YCP Estoril Political Forum – The Future of the Free World
20-22 Jun | Brussels
Seminar Policy-making inside Europe
9 Jun | Bonn
Panel discussion: Europe and the Arab Spring: What should we be doing?
27 May | Oxford
Workshop Europeanization and the Roots of Modern Europe Today
21 May | Leiden
Symposium Eastern Christianity in Context
11 May | Prague
Lecture Professor Archie Brown | Why did Communism end in Europe? Why did it mutate in Asia?
17 Mar | Prague
Conference: Liability in European Law
3 Mar | Geneva
Lecture Dr Ngaire Woods | Bypassed in the New Economic Order? The EU and Global Governance after the Crash
2010
10-11 Dec | Finnish Institute Berlin
European Conceptual History Project: Defining Political Concepts in Europe
15 Nov | Oxford
Lecture Professor Richard Baldwin | The Great Trade Collapse: What happened? What happens next?
12-14 Nov | Paris
Workshop Risks from Climate Change: Lessons in global diplomacy
10-11 Nov | Brussels
Europaeum Policy Seminar
6 Nov | Krakow
Classics Colloquium: Death and the Afterlife
21 Oct | Prague
Lecture Professor Robert Fox | Science and the travails of Modernity in Fin-de-siècle France
28-30 Sep | Oxford
Conference: Federalisms – East and West – India, Europe and North America. (Lecture) Peter Sutherland | Common Values and Federalism in Europe
5 Sep | Bologna
Transition from an Emigration Country to an Immigration Country (Connecting Europe through History – Experiences and Perceptions of Migrations project)
5-10 Sep | Bologna
Summer School The Media, Europe & Democracy
24 -26 Jun | Lisbon
IEP-UCP Estoril Political Forum: The Future of the Market Economy and Democracy
21-23 Jun | Brussels
Seminar Policy-making inside Europe?
3-5 Jun | Leiden
Workshop Migration, Political Parties & Public Rhetoric in Contemporary Europe (Connecting Europe through History – Experiences and Perceptions of Migrations project)
Lecture Professor Vernon Bogdanor | Overcoming the legacy of the 20th Century: Protecting Human Rights in Modern Demoracries
25 May | Oxford
Debate: Does the Lisbon Treaty raise more problems than it solves?
21-22 May | Oxford
Workshop Migration, Ethnicity and the Making of Modern Europe (Connecting Europe through History – Experiences and Perceptions of Migrations project)
20 May | Oxford
Debate: Where are today’s good Europeans?
5-11 Apr | Helsinki
Conference: Integration Throughout History
17 Mar |Paris
Conference: Histoire des phénomènes migratoires en France et en Europe- Quels enjeux pour les classes?
1 Jan | Bologna
Workshop Sacred Spaces in modern European Cities
2009
6 Nov | Prague
Classics Colloquium: Teaching, Teachers and Students
16-18 Oct | Krakow
Workshop The Europeanisation of Central and Eastern Europe: how has it gone?
6-11 Sep | Paris
Summer School Ethics and European Policy-Making
25-27 Jun | Lisbon
Debate: IEP-ECP Estoril Political Forum – NATO at 60
12 May | Geneva
Lecture Professor Margaret MacMillan | 90 years on – lessons for peacemakers from 1918?
7 May | Madrid
Lecture & Workshop Democracy promotion: Elections without Democracy, Democracy without Elections
12 Feb | Oxford
Lecture Professor Vera Gowlland-Debbas | The Middle East and the Challenges for International Law
9-11 Jan | Oxford
Conference Liberalism East and West
2008
20 Nov | Bologna
Classics Colloquium: Metamorphosis between Science and Literature
14-19 Sep | Bonn
Summer School Sacred Buildings in the Modern City
26 Jun | Lisbon
Debate: IEP-ECP Estoril Political Forum – Human Rights Today
19 Jun | Oxford
Europe in the New World Order – Challenges for the Future?
22-25 May | The Hague
Human Rights Conference | (with Leiden University and EUROCLIO)
22-24 May | Oxford
The Dilemmas of Digitization | (Maison Française, co-supported by the Europaeum)
12-13 May | Madrid
Cultural Difference Conference
9 May | Oxford
Seminar: Ending Empires, how and why? – Britain, Habsburg, Spain et al
26-28 Jun | Lisbon
IEP-UCP Estoril Political Forum: Human Rights Today
22-26 April | Den Haag
Final Conference in EUROCLIO/Europaeum/EU-Programme “Connecting Europe through History”
“Tracking the Essential Human Rights Moments and Documents in History. Human rights in Europe? Tolerance, Democracy, Citizenship, Critical thinking and Multiperspectivity as European Values.”
18 Apr | Leiden
Seminar discussion: Ending Slavery – views from Africa and the Caribbean (with EUROCLIP)
4-6 Apr | Prague
European Migration in the 21st Century – a Challenge to Nation-States?
17-18 Mar | Oxford
Workshop Europaeum European Conceptual History Research Project: Meanings of Rights and Democracy in Europe
11 Mar | Geneva
Lecture Professor Vaughan Lowe | The Double Helix of Terrorism and Tyranny: can civil liberties survive the war on terror?
8 Feb | Paris
Europaeum MA Lecture and Workshop: Roots of Modern Europe
2007
23 Nov | Oxford
Classics Colloquium: Myth, Culture, Society: Europaeum Classics Colloquium in memory of Jean-Pierre Vernant
17 Nov | Bologna
Seminar | Culture, Humanities & Technology
10-12 Nov | Brussels
European Policy-Making Seminar
5-6 Oct | Prague
Workshop Europaeum Research Project Group on European Economic Integration | The European Union: 50 Years On
27 Aug – 2 Sep | Helsinki
Summer School The Borders of Europe
7 Jul | Oxford
Islam-in-Europe Conference. Social Cohesion – the Oxford Paradigm
23 Jun | Debate: Challenge from the East – Is the West Ready for China?
10-12 May | Helsinki
Conference Inside Globalisation: Interpreting the New Order
16-17 Mar | Prague
Conference Re-Making Europe – Which Way Now? Europe at the Crossroads (co-supported by the Europaeum)
16-17 March | Geneva
Conference European Voices: Actors and Witnesses of European Integration
16-17 Mar | Geneva
European Voices: Actors and Witnesses of European Integration
22 Feb | Washington DC
Conference Is there still a West?
13 Feb | Oxford
Lecture Professor Wim Blockman | The Medieval Origins of European Democracy
2006
17-18 Nov | Oxford
Workshop Europaeum European Conceptual History Research Project | Defining Political Concepts in Europe
3-4 Nov | Bologna
Workshop Islam-in-Europe
17 Nov | Madrid
Classics Colloquium: The Orient, Greece & Rome
17 Nov | Oxford
Lecture Professor Wladyslaw Strozewski | Human Being and Values
3 Nov | Bologna
Workshop Islam-in-Europe
27-28 Oct | Helsinki
Workshop Game Theory and Applications in Problems of International Economics
13 Oct | Oxford
Restructuring Corporate Governance
11-16 Sep | Krakow
Summer School Bridging the Divide: EU-US Relations after 9/11
12-13 June | Oxford
Conference Eight Questions on Writing Contemporary History
29 June – 1 July | Krakow
Conference Cultural Difference in Europe: Political, Civic and Legal Culture in Poland and its Neighbours
5 May | Oxford
Conference Middle East and North African Immigrants and Their Descendants, Diaspora/Homeland Relations: Transnationalism and the Reconstruction of Identities in Europe
9-12 March | Bonn
Symposium on the Charta Oecumenica
2005
18 Jan – 8 March | Oxford
Seminar Series with Visiting Parliamentary Fellows: Conflict Resolution
11 Feb | Prague
New Information Technologies and the Future of the Humanities, Conference
25-27 Nov | Leiden
Classics Colloquium: Tears in the Ancient World
2004
29 June | Leiden
Leiden-Oxford Programme Europe, Shaping the Future
17-18 Sep | Prague
The 2nd Jean Monnet Workshop ‘Politics and Economics of European Integration & Economic Theory of Political Markets’
2003
20-22 Nov | Oxford
Classics Colloquium: Methods and Traditions of Graduate Research: Approaches to Herodotus and Tacitus’s Annals
15 November | Prague
Conference Cultural Difference in Europe: Culture and Political Culture in the Czech Republic
25-27 April | Oxford
Conference Whose Europe? National Models and the Constitution of the European Union
2002
17-22 Sep | Oxford
Summer School European Economic Integration
12 Apr 2002 | Oxford
Lecture Lord Professor (Ralf) Dahrendorf | Global Security Interlinked: Poverty, Security and Development
Oxford
2001
15-17 November | Oxford
Conference The Future of European Union Relations with Eastern Europe
10 November | Oxford
Conference The Future of the Third Way
26 September | Oxford
Policy Forum Democracy and the Internet ‘new rules for new times’
1 June | Bologna
Conference The Space of Opinion: Cultural and Political Reviews in Europe
1998
11 – 12 December | Leiden
Conference Human Rights and the Refugee Problem
1997
28-29 November | Paris
Conference L’Europe et la Monnaie
1996
21 – 22 March | Geneva
Conference Defining and Projecting Europe’s Identity: Issues and Trade-Offs
1995
10-12 October | Bonn
Conference The Integration of East Central Europe into the EU
1994
2- 3 September | Oxford
Conference Europe and America after the Cold War: the end of ‘the West’?
1993
17 – 19 September | Oxford
Conference Are European Elites losing touch with their peoples?
