JMCE Events Academic Year 2021-2022

SEMESTER II

• Wednesday, February 9 2022, 2-3pm (GMT), via Zoom Webinar ID: 876 7502 8139

Speaker: Dr. Ellie Brooks (University of Edinburgh)

Title: Covid-19 and EU Health Policy

Seminar Recording:

3-Question Interview:

 

• Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 2-3pm (GMT) via Zoom Webinar ID:863 4975 5802

Speaker: Professor James Hughes (LSE)

Title: The Ukraine crisis: A problem of trust

Seminar Recording:

 

• Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 3 -5 pm (GMT) via Zoom Webinar *joint event in collaboration with the

University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and Manchester University Press (MUP)

Speakers: Dr. Kathryn Simpson (MMU; JMCE) in conversation with Dr. Catherine Moury (NOVA University,

Lisbon)

Discussion Chaired by Prof. John O’Brennan (Maynooth University)

Title: European Politics Presents: Ireland’s Relationship to the European Union

• Wednesday March 9, 2022, 2-3pm (GMT) via Zoom Webinar ID: 871 5909 0028

Speaker: Prof. Marilena Simiti (University of Piraeus)

Title: The strength of civil society in Southern Europe: The case of Greek civil society before and after the economic crisis

Seminar Recording:

3-Question Interview:  

 

• Wednesday, March 30 2022, 2-3pm (GMT) * event co-organised with Manchester China Institute (MCI)

Speaker: Prof. Paul Irwin Crookes (Oxford School of Areas Studies, University of Oxford)

Title: The developing landscape of EU-China relations

Seminar Recording:

3-Question Interview

 

JMCE Events Academic Year 2021-2022

 

SEMESTER  I

 

Wednesday 6 October 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT+1)

Speaker: Dr. Chris Featherstone (LSE)

Title: Crisis of Influence: European Security and AUKUS

Zoom Webinar ID: 814 0939 2370

Seminar Recording:

 

3-Question Interview: 

 

Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 14:00 – 15.00 (GMT+1)

Speaker: Dr. Viviane Gravey (Queen’s University Belfast)

Title: Remain of Abstain? Environmental NGOs in the 2016 EU Referendum

Seminar Recording: 

3-Question Interview: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6__nmbCzYw

 

Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT)

Speaker: Prof. Henri Vogt (Uni. of Turku, Finland)

Title: The volatility of Germany and its implications for  European polity

Zoom Webinar ID 835 6133 4130

Seminar Recording: 

3-Question Interview: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1OQHpwXKs

Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT)

Speaker: Dr Mary C Murphy (Uni. College Cork, Ireland)

Title: Ireland after Brexit: The Challenge of Managing Relations with the EU and the UK 

Seminar Recording: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WudHnnSX80

 

3-Question Interview: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG7B82wh9ws

 

 

JMCE Events Academic Year 2020-2021

 

SEMESTER II

Wednesday, February 10^th 2021, 14:00-16:00 (GMT) via Zoom Webinar 

**JMCE SPECIAL EVENT**

Speakers: Professor Kevin Featherstone (LSE); Professor George Papaconstantinou (EUI, Florence Italy; fmr Greek Finance Minister); Professor Vivien Schmidt (Boston University, USA)

Title: The Eurozone between Perpetual Crisis and A New Paradigm: Looking back to move forward 

Video Recording

Wednesday, February 24^th 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT) via Zoom Webinar (ID: 857 7084 3105)

Speaker: Dr. Lamprini Rori (University of Exeter; EUI)

Title: The landscape of political violence in crisis-ridden Greece: evidence from the far right and the far left

Seminar Recording

3-Question-Interview

 Wednesday, March 10^th 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT) via Zoom Webinar 

Speaker: Dr. Gabriel Siles-Brügge (University of Warwick) 

Title: Performing Brexit? The Case of the UK’s Independent Trade Policy

Seminar Recording

3-Question-Interview

Wednesday, March 24^th 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT) via Zoom Webinar 

Speaker: Dr. Othon Anastasakis (St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford)

Title: Russia and Turkey in the Balkans: Parallel trajectories and legacies of the past                  

Seminar Recording

post-Seminar 3-Question-Interview

 

Wednesday, April 21^st 2021,  14:00 – 15:30 (GMT+1) via Zoom Webinar (ID: 816 5373 3660)

***JMCE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE 2021***

Speaker: HE João Vale de Almeida (European Union Ambassador to the United Kingdom)

Title: The European Union and the United Kingdom: a new relationship in a changing World

Video Recording

Wednesday, April 28^th 2021,  14:00 – 15:00 (GMT+1) via Zoom Webinar (ID: 870 5404 7540)

**JMCE SPECIAL EVENT**

Speaker: Kalliopi Stefanaki (UNHCR Protection Officer)

Title: Greece: a laboratory for the testing of EU asylum policies. A practitioner’s view

Webinar Recording

2020/21 SEMESTER I

 

• Wednesday 21 October 2020, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT+1) – Webinar (Zoom Meeting ID 893 9922 9282)

Speaker: Prof. Jon Pierre (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

Title: Nudges Against Pandemics: Sweden’s COVID-19 containment strategy in perspective

3-Question-Interview:

Seminar Recording:

 

• Wednesday, 4 November 2020, 14:00 – 15.00 (GMT) – Webinar (Zoom Meeting ID 874 5777 1814)

Speaker: Dr. Andy Smith (Sciences Po Bordeaux)

Title: Made in France: Power relations, Institutions and Political Work

3-Question-Interview

Seminar Recording

• Wednesday, 18 November 2020, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT) – Webinar (Zoom Meeting ID 872 7608 8963)

Speaker: Prof. Sofia Vasilopoulou (University of York)

Title: ‘Protesters’ versus ‘nationalists’: why political trust prevents the far right from expanding its appeal, but has a different effect on its core electorate

3-Question-Interview

Seminar Recording

• Wednesday, December 2 2020, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT) – Webinar (Zoom Meeting ID ID: 873 9612 7695)

Speaker: Dr. Luis Simón (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Title: Subject or Object? Europe in Sino-American Competition

3-Question-Interview

Seminar Recording

2019/20 SEMESTER II

• Wednesday 5 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 @ Simon Building, Room 2.39

Speaker: Dr. Paul Copeland (Queen Mary University of London QMUL)

Title: The EU’s social dimension and the crisis of European Integration

• Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 @ Simon Building, Room 2.39

Speaker: Dr. Katharine Wright (University of Newcastle)

Title: Gendering EU External Relations: the case of digital diplomacy

• Wednesday 4 March 2020, 14:00-15:00 @ Simon Building, Room 2.39

Speaker: Dr. Lamprini Rori (University of Exeter)

Title: The  landscape of political violence in crisis-ridden Greece

•  Wednesday 18 March 2020, 14:00-15:00 @ Simon Building, Room 2.39

Speaker: Dr. Othon Anastasakis (St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford)

Title: Russia and Turkey in the Balkans: Parallel trajectories and legacies of the past

•  Wednesday 22 April 2020, 14:00-15:00 @ Simon Building, Room 2.39

Speaker: Dr. Peg Murray–Evans

Title: Constructing Rising Power from the Outside In: South Africa in Global Climate Governance

•  Wednesday 6 May 2020, 14:00-15:00 @ Simon Building, Room 2.39

Speaker: Dr. Nagore Calvo Mendizabal (King’s College London KCL)

Title:

SEMESTER II

• Wednesday 2 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 @ University Place, 3.211

Speaker: Dr. Margarita Markoviti (Université Libre of Brussels)

           Title: From the Burqa to the Crucifix: Religious Freedoms and European Governance in a Context of Increasing Radicalisation

• Wednesday 16 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 @ University Place, 3.211Speaker: Dr. Francesca Batzella (University of Hertfordshire)Title: EU energy policy in challenging times. What lessons can be drawn from Nord Stream 2?
• Wednesday 6 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 @ University Place, 3.214Speaker: Dr. Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan (University of Bristol)Title: Brexit: Path dependency, unintended consequences and the Article 50 Process
• Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 @ University Place, 3.214Speaker: Dr Ruairidh Tarvet (University of Edinburgh)Title: Northern Nationalisms: Renegotiating Swedish and Danish National Identities
•  Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 @ University Place, 3.214Speaker: Lamprini Rori (University of Exeter)Title: The  landscape of political violence in crisis-ridden Greece

SEMESTER II

• Wednesday 13 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 @ University Place, 3.213

 

Speaker: Dr. Kostis Kornetis (University of Oxford)

Title: Memories of Democratic Transitions in Greece and Spain

 

• Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 @ University Place, 3.213

Speaker: Prof. Simon Bulmer (University of Sheffield)

Title: Germany and the European Union: a reluctant hegemon?

 

• Wednesday 13 March 2019, 14:00-15:00 @ University Place, 4.214

Speaker: Dr. Nikos Skoutaris (University of East Anglia)

Title: Differentiated Brexit? Rethinking the position of Scotland and Northern Ireland in the context of the UK’s departure from the EU

 

• Wednesday 27 March 2019, 14:00-15:00 @ University Place, 4.214

Speaker: Dr. Martin Steven (University of Lancaster)

Title: Euro-realism in Party Politics: the rise of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) at the European Parliament’

 

• Wednesday 8 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 @ University Place, 3.209

Speaker: TBC

Title: TBC

SEMESTER I

• Friday 5 October 2018, 17:30-19:00 @ University Place, Theatre A

***The JMCE Annual Lecture 2018-19***

Speaker: Margaritis Schinas (Chief Spokesperson, European Commission)

Title: The Future of Europe: an EU that empowers and protects.

• Wednesday 17 October 2018, 14:00 @ University Place, 6.206

Speaker: Dr. Kathryn Simpson (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Title: Making Sense of Brexit – The Political and Policy Implications for the UK’s Devolved Administrations

• Wednesday 7 November 2018, 14:00 @ University Place, 6.206

Speaker: Dr. Rosa Maria Fernandez (University of Chester)

Title: National Interests as Barriers for Sustainable Energy Transitions in Europe

• Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00 @ University Place, 6.206

Speaker: Dr. Rachel Minto (University of Cardiff)

Title: Re-wiring European Networks post-Brexit: Continuity and change from a multi-level perspective

• Wednesday 5 December 2018, 14:00 @ University Place, 6.206

Speaker: Dr. Mustafa Kutlay (City University)

Title: Turkey in Turbulent Times: political institutions and economic development

SEMESTER II

• 31 January 2018, 14:00-16:00 @ Alan Turning, G107

Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Franks, IMF and Prof. Nicos Christodoulakis, AUBE/LSE

Title: Economic Convergence in the Eurozone: Coming Together or Drifting Apart?

 

• 14 February 2018, 14:00-15:00 @ University PLace 4.214

TBC

 

• 28 February 2018, 14:00-15:00 @ University Place 4.214

Speaker: Dr. Kathryn Simpson, MMU

Title: Making Sense of Brexit – The Political and Policy Implications for the UK’s Devolved Administrations

 

• 14 March 2018, 14:00-15:00 @ University Place 4.214

Speaker: Ordoliberalism and economic policy in the EU

Title: Prof. Kenneth Dyson, University of Cardiff

 

• 18 April 2018, 14:00-15:00 @ University Place 4.214

Speaker: Prof. Helen Drake, Loughborough University

Title: Is France having a moment? The 2017 French electoral series and the populist challenge to the Fifth French Republic

 

 SEMESTER I

 

• Wednesday 4 October 2017, 14:00 @ University Place 4.211

Speaker: Prof. Charlie Burns (University of Sheffield)

Title: Brexit: The implications for the UK and the environment

 

• Wednesday 18 October 2017, 14:00 @ University Place 4.211

Speaker: Dr. Paul Tobin (University of Manchester)

Title: EU Climate Policy at a Time of Crisis

 

• Wednesday 1 November 2017, 14:00 @ University Place 4.211

Speaker: Prof. Raymond Agius (Emeritus, University of Manchester)

Title: Health at work in the shadow of Brexit

 

• Wednesday 15 November 2017, 14:00 @ University Place 4.212

Speaker: Prof. Panagiotis Ioakimidis (Emeritus, University of Athens)

Title: The EU’s future after the French and German Elections

 

Semester II

 

• Wednesday 8 February 2017, 16:15 @ Geoffrey Manton bld. Lecture Th. 5 (MMU campus)

Speaker: Prof Dr Michael Gehler (Institut für Geschichte, Universität Hildesheim)

Title: The European Union: A new post-modern Empire?

 

• Wednesday 22 February 2017, 14:00 @ Simon_4.47

Speaker: Francie Molloy, MP

Title: Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland and Brexit

 

• Wednesday 8 March 2017, 14:00 @Uni Place_4.211

Speaker: Reetta Toivanen (University of Helsinki)

Title: European fantasy of the Arctic region as a tabula rasa

 

• Wednesday 22 March 2017, 14:00 @ Uni Place_6.208

Speaker: Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska (Centre for European Reform)

Title: Parliamentary Scrutiny of Brexit

 

• Wednesday 17 May 2017, 14:00 @ Roscoe 4.2

Speaker: Steven Hurst (formerly of the European Parliament)

Title: Working with the Conservatives in the European Union: an insider’s view

Semester I

 

• Wednesday 5 October 2016, 14:00 @ University Place 3.209

Speaker: Dr. Silke Trommer (University of Manchester)

Title: Burn the Bills: Irish Responses to Austerity in Social Context

 

• Wednesday 19 October 2016, 14:00 @ Simon 5.08

Speaker: Daniel Šitera (Leipzig University/Charles University in Prague)

Title: Is the EU Cohesion Policy failing East-Central European countries?

 

• Wednesday 26 October 2016, 14:00 @ University Place 3.212

Speaker: Aron Bakos (Babeș-Bolyai University)

Title: The life story, the military stories, and the historical views of a marginalized person in Transylvania

 

• Monday 14 November 2016, 15:00 @ University Place 3.212

Speaker: Prof. David Phinnemore (Queens University Belfast)

Title: Negotiating Brexit: The Challenges, Options and Constraints facing the UK Government

 

• Wednesday 30 November 2016, 14:00 @ University Place 4.209

Speaker: Dr. Charlotte Burns (University of York)

Title: The economic crisis and the environment in Europe

 

• Wednesday 14 December 2016, 14:00 @ University Place 4.214

Speaker: Dr. Julian Patrick Panke (University of Birmingham)

Title: Europe as Empire

Seminar Series 2015-16

 

Semester I

 

Speaker: Dr. Anna Sophie Maas (College of Europe Natolin)

Title: EU-Russia Relations 1999-2015: From Courtship to Confrontation

5 October 2015, 2pm,  University Place 3.212

Speaker: Prof. Martin Seeleib-Kaiser (University of Oxford)

Title: The UK Welfare State, EU Membership and Free Movement

21 October 2015, 2pm, University Place 3.211

Speaker: Dr Mark Langan (University of Leicester)

Title: The Moral Economy of EU Association with Africa 

11 November 2015, 2pm, University Place 4.214

Speaker: Dr. Maurizio Carbone (University of Glasgow)

Title: The rise and fall of aid effectiveness in the European Union

25 November 2015, 2pm, University Place 5.207

Speaker: Dr. Adonis Pegasiou (University of Cyprus)

Title: The EU’s Response to the Financial Crises in Ireland and Cyprus

9 December 2015, 2pm, University Place 5.207

 

Semester II

Speaker: Dr Gabriel Siles-Brügge (University of Manchester)

Title: The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 14:00 @ University Place 5.204

 

Speaker: Prof Neill Nugent (College of Europe, Bruges)

 Title: The Supposed Decline of the European Commission

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 14:00 @ University Place 5.206

 

Speaker: Arlinda Rrustemi (University of Leiden)

Title: Statebuilding in Kosovo: Comparing the International and Local Perspectives

Wednesday 9 March 2016, 14:00 @ University Place 5.209

 

Speaker: Dr Elizabeth Monaghan (University of Hull)

Title: A Good Start? The European Citizens’ Initiative and Participatory Democracy in the EU

Wednesday 13 April 2016, 14:00 @ University Place 5.209

 

Speaker: Dr Ben Richardson (University of Warwick)

Title: Working Beyond the Border: Labour Standards and EU Trade Agreements

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 14:00 @ University Place 5.209

 

Speaker: Prof Michael Shackleton (University of Maastricht)

Title: Ever closer Union? Changing relations between the Commission and the European Parliament

Wednesday 4 May 2016, 14:00 @ University Place 4.213

 

Semester I

Speaker: Dr Eli Gateva (Queen Mary University, London)

Title: EU Enlargement Policy 20 Years after Copenhagen

Speaker: Dr Miguel Otero-Iglesias (Elcano Royal Institute and ESSCA)

Title: The Euro, the Dollar and the Financial Crisis

Speaker: Dr Georg Picot (The University of Manchester)

Title: Liberalisation, dualisation, or recalibration? Italian and Spanish labour market reforms under austerity

Speaker: Dr Jean-Christophe Graz (University of Lausanne)

Title: Standards in multiple authorities: revisiting the transatlantic divide

Speaker: Dr Toni Haastrup (University of Kent)

Title: Gender in Interregional Context: a different exploration of EU-Africa relations

Speaker: Dr George Christou (University of Warwick)

Title: Constructing Cyber Resilience in Europe: Opportunities and Challenges

 

Semester II

Speaker: Prof Catherine de Vries (University of Oxford)

Title: Losing the Hearts and Minds – Public Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration

Speaker: Dr Sofia Vasilopoulou (University of York)

Title: The Golden Dawnʼs ʽnationalist solutionʼ: Explaining the rise of the far right in Greece

Speaker: Marc Smith (Jones Kelleher & Associates)

Title: European Union Citizens or Migrants?

** co-hosted with the European Movement, Manchester Branch**

Speaker: Ingar Solty (University of York/Berlin)

Title: Questioning the Interrelations of Economic and Political Crises in the Eurozone

**co-hosted with the Global Political economy cluster**

Speaker: Gwendolyn Sasse (University of Oxford)

Title: Polish Migrants in the UK: The Determinants and Content of Social and Political Remittances

Semester I

Speaker: Dr Greig Charnock (The Univeristy of Manchester) and Dr Tom Purcell (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

Title: The Limits to Capital in Spain

 

Speaker: Professor Brigitte Young (University of Münster)

Title: The Battle of Ideas in the Eurozone Crisis Management: German Ordoliberalism vs. Post-Keynesianism

 

Speaker: Dr. Bob Hancke (London School of Economics)

Title: Comparative Institutional Advantage in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

 

Speaker: Professor Justin Greenwood (Robert Gordon University)

Title: Participation, Representation and Interest Mediation in the EU

 

Speaker:  Dr George Karyotis (University of Glasgow)

Title: The Greek Debt Crisis: Austerity Politics and the Drivers of Protest

 

Semester II

Speaker: Professor Tony Heron (University of York)

Title: Europe and the Global South in retrospect and prospect

 

Speaker: Dr Dimitris Bouris (College of Europe, Natolin)

Title: The European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories: state-building without a state

 

Speaker: Professor Lucia Quaglia (University of York)

Title: The Politics of Transatlantic Regulatory Disputes in Finance Before and After the Global Financial Crisis

** Event jointly hosted with The University of Manchester Global Political Economy Cluster **

 

Speaker: Dr Christopher Kitchen (University of Sheffield)

Title: An ‘Iraq Syndrome’ in UK Foreign Policy? Libya, Syria and Britain’s Continued Enthusiasm for Intervention

 

Speaker: Professor Ian Bache (University of Sheffield)

Title: The Politics of Wellbeing

 

Speaker: Professor Richard Whitman (University of Kent)

Title: Going Global or Staying Local? The European Union as a Global Security Actor

Semester I

Speaker: Evgeny Klochikhin (Manchester Business School)

Title: Russia’s Innovation Transition: still a second class actor?

 

Speaker: Dr Gabriel Siles-Brügge (The University of Manchester)

Title: Social vs Global Europe in the wake of the crash: reconciling EU trade policy with the European social model

 

Speaker: Dr Rocco Bubbico (European Commission, DG Regio)

Title: A convergent Union? European regional policy between austerity and public investment

Presentation on EU Regional Policy (pdf)

Speaker: (Baron) Roger Liddle (former European adviser to Tony Blair and José Manuel Barroso)

Title: The future of British membership of the European Union

 

Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Cladi (St Bonaventure University, New York)

Title: “The rise of the European Union as a great power after the Cold War: balancing US hegemony?”

 

Semester II

Speaker: Dr Sotiris Zartaloudis (The University of Manchester)

Title: Greek politics in an era of crisis: meltdown or re-configuration?

 

Speaker: Costas Georgousis (National Film and Television School)

Title: ‘The Cleaners’: a documentary and commentary on the rise of the far right in Greece.

 

Speaker: Prof Michelle Cini (University of Bristol)

Title: ‘Britain’s European Policy: where next?’

 

Speaker: Dr Ian Bruff (Loughborough University)

Title: The Rise of Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Europe

 

Speaker:  Dr Owen Parker (University of Sheffield)

Title: Free movement for whom, where, when? – Roma EU citizens in France and Spain

Speaker: Dr Huw Macartney (The University of Manchester)

Title: Coercive Neoliberalism & the Eurozone Crisis: the new politics of European statecraft

Poster (PDF) | Report (PDF)

 

Speaker: Dr Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik (Aston University)

Title: What does it mean to ‘come to terms with the past’? The Serbian public and war crimes.

 

Speaker: Prof Sarah Green (The University of Manchester)

Title: The absent lives of undocumented dead bodies in the Aegean borderlands.

 

Speaker: Prof Andrew Russell (The University of Manchester)

Title: The Con-Lib Coalition: marriage of inconvenience?

 

Speaker: Dr Hubert Ertl (University of Oxford)

Title: The impact of the Bologna process on European higher education: reflections on developments in Germany and England.