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.
2008 - 2009
Insights of an MEP
Date: 10 October 2008, 5pm
Location: Room A3.01
Speaker: Christopher Beazley, Conservative East of England MEP
What's wrong with the EU and how to fix it
Date: 24 October 2008, 5pm
Location: Room A3.01
Speaker: Professor Simon Hix, Department of Government
Institution: London School of Economics
Europe: the State of the Union
Date: 21 November 2008, 5pm
Location: Room A3.02
Speaker: Professor Anand Menon, Director European Institute
Institution: University of Birmingham
The EU - A Post-Westphalian Actor in a Neo-Westphalian World
Date: 5 December 2008, 5pm
Location: Room A3.01
Speaker: Dr. Uwe Wunderlich
Institution: Aston University
Writing the Green Party's European Elections' Manifesto, 2009
Date: 30 January 2009, 5pm
Location: Room A3.01
Speaker: Dr. Rupert Read
Institution: University of East Anglia
Working for peace in war-torn countries: and NGO's experience
Date: 20 February 2009, 5pm
Location: Room A3.01
Speaker: Dan Smith, Secretary General, International Alert
Menage a trois: Britain, France and the USA in the 20th century
Date: 20 March 2009, 5pm
Location: Room A3.01
Speaker: Professor Andrew Williams
Institution: St. Andrews University
Is A New Civil Society Out There? - The Internet and virtual activism
Date: 20 March 2009, 5pm
Location: Room A3.01
Speaker: Antje Grebner and Paul Nixon
Institution: University of The Hague
The June 2009 European Parliament Elections (Round Table Debate by Members of European Parliament)
Date: 27 March, 3-5pm
Previous guest Lecturers have included, among others: Lord David Owen, Gerard Delanty, Phillipa Sherrington, Alex Warleigh, Lee Miles, Richard Bellamy, Ruth Wodak, David Phinnemore and Michelle Cini.