EUROPEAN STUDIES CENTRE

St Antony’s College ▪ University of Oxford

ST ANTONY’S COLLEGE ▪ OXFORD ▪ OX2 6JFTEL +44 (0)1865 274470 ▪ FAX +44 (0)1865 274478 EMAIL european.studies@sant.ox.ac.uk

Unless otherwise indicated, all events will take place in the Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road

For further details telephone Anne-Laure Guillermain on 01865 27 44 70 or e-mail: european.studies@sant.ox.ac.uk

Unless otherwise indicated, all events will take place in the Seminar Room,

European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road

PROGRAMME FOR TRINITY TERM 2008

Week 3 (05/05 – 11/05)

Thursday 8 May (Europe Day)

12.45am – 2pm Lunch Seminar

Is the EU really the champion of multilateralism?

Franziska Brantner (Heinrich Böll Foundation)

Chair: Kalypso Nicolaïdis

Friday 9 & Saturday 10 May

9am – 5pm An inter-disciplinary workshop organised jointly by The Modern History Faculty (Commonwealth History Research Seminar); The Maison Française d’Oxford, and GRE

Echoes of imperialism: Re-thinking European colonialisms

Convenors: John Darwin, Jan Georg Deutsch, Julie Irving, Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Rahul Rao, Berny Sebe

Week 4 (12/05 – 18/05)

Tuesday 13 May

5pm SEESOX Seminar

Moderates, the media and the making of the Greek far right

Antonis Ellinas (Reuters Institute, Oxford)

Chair: Othon Anastasakis

Wednesday 14 May

5pm

Maison Française d’Oxford Seminar in collaboration with the Maison Française d’Oxford and European Affairs Society

My May ‘68

Alain Geismar (L'Institut d'études Politiques, Paris)

Followed by a roundtable with students on Can students change the world?

Chair: Kalypso Nicolaïdis

Thursday 15 & Friday 16 May

Thursday 2 pm, to Friday 5pm

Dahrendorf Room,

St Antony’s College A three day series of events on The fifth republic at fifty

(for more information please consult the DPIR website)

Seminar

The fifth republic at fifty: Fifty years of constitutional change in Britain and France

Convenors: Vernon Bogdanor, and Jean Pascal Daloz

Public Lecture

The fifth republic at fifty: New Constituional Settlement in Britain and France?

H.E. Edouard Balladur (Former Prime Minister, Chair of the Commission for Constitutional Reform, France)

The Right Honourable Jack Straw (Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for Justice, UK)

Saturday 17 May

9 am-5pm

Department of Politics and International Relations,

Manor Road

Seminar

The Reciprocal influence of institutions on the party system & of the party system on institutions since 1958

Convenor: David Goldey

Week 5 (19/05 – 25/05)

Thursday 22 May

5pm Talk

The Iran nuclear dossier: What can the EU do?

Emmanuele Ottolenghi (Director, Transatlantic Institute, Brussels) Convenor: Kalypso Nicolaïdis

Friday 23 May

3pm – 6.45pm

(with a coffee break)

Lecture Theatre,

St Antony’s College Seminar in collaboration with The Oxford University Project on Civil Resistance and Power Politics, and the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre

The European Way of Civil Resistance

Adam Roberts (Balliol College, Oxford), Jiří Dienstbier (Former Czechoslovak Foreign Minister and Charter 88 Spokesman), Alex Pravda (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Timothy Garton Ash

(St Antony’s College & Editor, Civil Resistance and Power Politics), Pavol Demeš (German Marshall Fund, Bratislava), Masha Lipman (Carnegie Endowment, Moscow)

Week 6 (26/05 – 01/06)

Tuesday 27 May

5pm SEESOX Book Launch

Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey

Umut Özkirimli (Istanbul Bilgi University)

Spyros A. Sofos (Kingston University, London)

Chair: Othon Anastasakis

Thursday 29 May

5 pm

Dahrendorf Room, St. Antony’s Talk in collaboration with Russian Studies Centre

Russian Orthodoxy, Judaism or Civil Religion? The choice of Russian Jews

Elena Nosenko (Institute for Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Science)

Convenor: Elena Katz

Friday 30 &Saturday 31 May

Workshop

Nazism and Fascism

Convenors: Paul Corner & Jane Caplan

Week 7 (02/06 – 08/06)

Tuesday 3 June

5pm Book promotion

New sources and new challenges for the transatlantic partnership

Vittorio Emanuele Parsi (Catholic University of Milan)

Convenors: Elisabetta Brighi and Kalypso Nicolaïdis

Wednesday 4 & Thursday 5 June

9am-5pm

ESC Workshop:

Financial Regulation in the XIXth century

Convenors: Martin Bohl and Knick Harley

Friday 6 June

12 noon – 5pm

Saturday 7 June

9.30am – 5pm

Friday 6 June

5pm

Lecture Theatre

St Antony’s College RAMSES and Maison Francaise d’Oxford

Mediterranean unions – Visions and politics

Convenors: Dimitar Bechev, Raffaela Del Sarto, Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Alexis Tadie, Leila Vignal, Michael Willis

Public Lecture

The French Presidency of the EU and the Mediterranean

Alain Le Roy (French Ambassador to the UK)

Week 8 (09/06 – 15/06)

Monday 9 June

9 am-17:30pm

Basque Workshop

Out of Paradise:

Welsh & Basque languages facing modernity (1800 – 2000)

Convenor: Jurgi Kintana

Department of Politics and International Relations

Manor Road

9 am-5pm

Workshop in collaboration with Department of Politics and International Relations and Maison Française d’Oxford

Europe's energy policy: Power and norms

Convenor: Jan Zielonka

Wednesday 11 June

5pm Workshop

Struggle for recognition: British Muslims in the shadow of the EU

Sonia Tebbakh (St. Antony’s College’s Deakin Fellow, Oxford)

Tufyal Choudhury (University of Durham)

Convenor: Kalypso Nicolaïdis

Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 June

9am-5pm

British Academy Conference

Republicans without republics

Convenor: Karma Nabulsi

Monday 24-25 June

(time to be advised)

Seminar in cooperation with the German Marshall Fund

The EU, WTO and the pursuit of global economic justice

Convenors: Matthew Eagleton-Pierce and Kalypso Nicolaïdis