Seminar Series
2020/2021 (Academic Semester II)
JMCE Events Academic Year 2020-2021
SEMESTER II
Wednesday, February 10th 2021, 14:00-16:00 (GMT) via Zoom Webinar (ID: 899 0339 6578)
**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
Wednesday, February 24th 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
Wednesday, March 10th 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT) via Zoom Webinar (ID: 894 2559 9246)
Speaker: Dr. Gabriel Siles-Brügge (University of Warwick)
Title: Performing Brexit? The Case of the UK’s Independent Trade Policy
Wednesday, March 24th 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT) via Zoom Webinar (ID: 828 6972 7528)
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, April 21st 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: TBA
Wednesday, April 28th 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
2020/2021 (Academic Semester I)
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
2019/2020 (Academic Semester II)
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:
2019/2020 (Academic Semester I)
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
2018/ 2019 (II)
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
2018/ 2019 (I)
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
2017/ 2018
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
2016/ 2017
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
2015/ 2016
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
2014/ 2015
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
2013/ 2014
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
2012/ 2013
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
2011/ 2012
Speaker: Dr Huw Macartney (The University of Manchester)
Title: Coercive Neoliberalism & the Eurozone Crisis: the new politics of European statecraft
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.