European Forum
The European Forum series of guest lectures began even before the official launch of CREST. It is a venue open to faculty, postgraduates, undergraduates and members of the public. Topics include issues related to the development of the European Union, a range of broader European issues including European security and relations between the EU and the former Soviet countries of Eastern Europe as well as the analysis of public policy concerns in and outside the EU.
European Forum
The UK and the European Union: Better-Off Out?
Date: 12 October
Speaker: Prof. Ulf Sverdrup, Director, Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs (NUPI).
The European External Action Service: diplomatic instrument or institutional battleground
Date: 19 October
Speaker: Dr. Karolina Pomorska, University of Cambridge
From Life After UEA to Researching Global Environmental Politics and Forest Governance
Date: 2 November
Speaker: Dr. Heike Schroeder, School of International Development, UEA
The European Union's Engagement with Issues of Religious Freedom
Date: 16 November
Speaker: Dr. Sean Oliver-Dee, Archbishop of Canterbury's Representative to the EU
Homecomings: Returning Cultural Property to Greece and to Italy
Date: 30 November
Speaker: Prof. David Gill, University Campus, Suffolk
For further Information, please contact:
Dr Vassiliki Koutrakou, CREST, PSI, UEA,
ARTS 3.80, v.koutrakou@uea.ac.uk
To view the complete list of speakers for the previous years sessions please click on the appropriate link below.
2005 - 2006
Human Rights and the European Parliament
Date: 14 October 2005 - Cancelled but to be rescheduled.
Speaker: Mr. Richard Howitt, MEP Eastern Region
The European Superpower
Date: 4 November 2005
Speaker: Professor John McCormick
Institution: Indiana University
Better EU Governance: Training the Decision-Makers
Date: 11 November 2005
Speaker: Dr. Adam Steinhouse
Institution: National School of Government, UK Cabinet Office
Muddling Through: The Europeans as 'returning imperialists' after 9/11
Date: 3 February 2006
Speaker: Dr. Vassilis Fouskas
Institution: University of Sterling
"Germany is a really important country!" (George W. Bush)
Date: 17 February 2006
Speaker: Dr. Barbara Marshall
Institution: University of East Anglia
Deliberative Democratic Processes in EU Policy Implementation - The Citizen Juries and the EU's Water Framework Directive
Date: 24 March 2006
Speaker: Professor Geoffrey D. Gooch
Institution: Linköpings University Sweden