EU Studies Fair - 11th annual postgraduate education event
Saturday 13 February 2010
Venue: Brussels, Belgium
The EU Studies Fair is an education fair and networking event bringing together prospective students, universities, academic institutions offering postgraduate programmes in EU and International Relations, Business and Law.
Come to Brussels to discover international programme offerings from leading universities throughout the globe; including:
Attending as a visitor is free of charge Register now at www.eustudiesfair.com
Thursday 21 January 2010
Venue: G12, Birmingham Business School
Time: 15.00
'Why are we in Afghanistan?'
Ivan Lewis, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister
Ivan Lewis MP was a Minister at the Department for International Development (DfID) from October 2008 to June 2009. Prior to joining DfID he was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department of Health from May 2006 to October 2008.
Ivan has been a member of Parliament for Bury South since 1997. Prior to joining Parliament he worked in the voluntary sector from 1986 to 1997 for Outreach, Contact Community Care Group and as Chief Executive of the Manchester Jewish Federation.
Please register for this event by emailing Eleanor Leftwich at e.g.leftwich@bham.ac.uk stating your name, course title / department and / or organisation
Wednesday 27 January 2010
Venue: ERI Conference Room (G51)
Time: 14:00-17:00
ERI Cross College Europe Seminar
Europe and the Financial Crisis
With contributions from:
Buffet Lunch provided from 13:30
All Staff and Student Welcome
Friday 27 - Saturday 28 November 2009
International conference BASEES-UACES network / CREES - ERI
‘Russia: A Part of Europe or Apart from Europe?’
Organised as part of the BASEES-UACES network in collaboration with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) and the European Research Institute, will be held at Priorsfield, University of Birmingham. This event is sponsored by the BASEES-UACES network, the UoB Jean Monnet Fund, the UoB ERI and the College ASSC initiative.
Guest speakers will include Professor Vladimir Baranovsky, Deputy Director of Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of World Economy and International Relations, and Sir Andrew Wood, former UK ambassador to Russia. Other prominent invited speakers from UK and Europe will also participate.
Venue: University of Birmingham, Priorsfield
Thursday 19 November 2009
Chris Bryant MP, Minister for Europe, will be giving a talk entitled, ‘The Relevance of Europe to Young People’
Venue: Law Lecture Room 1, 11:00
All staff and students of University of Birmingham are welcome to attend.
Monday 30 November 2009
Cross-College seminar
Democracy and Its Opponents in Contemporary Europe.
The ERI / Italian Studies Cross-college event Democracy and its Opponents in Contemporary Europe will take place on the afternoon of 30 November Please note the change of date. This is to due to the visit to the university on 01 December of the Italian novelist Dacia Maraini.
The seminar will have contributions from
Daniele Albertazzi and Duncan McDonnell (Italian Studies) and Tim Haughton (CREES) on “populism” in Western and Eastern Europe
Karin bottom (INLOGOV) on the BNP
David White (CREES) on the democratic opposition in Russia
The session will begin at 13:30 with lunch. All staff and graduate students from the University of Birmingham are welcome to attend.
Friday 06 November 2009
Time: 13:00-16:00
Venue: Room 125 Geography Building
Cross-College seminar
Politics and the Environment in Europe in the 20th Century.
The third ERI Cross-College seminar will examine the theme of Politics and the Environment in Europe in the 20th Century. The seminar will bring together contributions from Mark Bassin (GEES), Corey Ross (History), Richard Green (Economics), Julian Clark (GEES), Helen Borland (Business), David Toke (Sociology) and James McKay (History).
A buffet lunch will be provided.
All staff and graduate students are welcome.
For more details contact Mark Bassin (GEES) Email: m.bassin@bham.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)121 41 43878
Monday 12 October 2009
ERI seminar
Europe: The State of the Union: A debate between Vivien Schmidt (Boston University) and Anand Menon.
Marking the publication of the Journal of Common Market Studies’ Annual Review of the European Union in 2008 two of the contributors and world leading scholars of the European Union Anand Menon and Vivien Schmidt will discuss the challenges facing the EU and will offer some potential solutions.
followed by a reception to mark the launch of the Journal of Common Market Studies’ Annual Review of the European Union in 2008 (opens in a new window) (Wiley Blackwell) edited by Nat Copsey and Tim Haughton
ERI Conference Room
Thursday 08 October 2009
Seminar
Reflections on the 1989 Revolutions in Europe
Marking the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe former British Ambassador to Moscow Rodric Braithwaite and distinguished academic now member of the European Parliament, Professor. Gyorgy Schopflin, share their reflections of the causes and consequences of those momentous events.
Contributions from Sir Rodric Braithwaite (former British Ambassador to USSR) and Professor George Schopflin MEP
ERI Conference Room
Tuesday 6 October 2009
Graduate Centre for Europe - Welcome Event
The Graduate Centre for Europe (GCfE) (opens in a new window) is an interdisciplinary academic and social forum for graduate students with an interest in Europe.
To find out more, join us for lunch and an introduction to GCfE.
In previous years, the postgraduate committee of GCfE has organised seminars by prominent outside speakers, socials, research skills sessions and annual conferences.
03 - 04 July 2009
Conference
The Caucasus and Central Asia: Methodological, Cultural and Political Challenges
This international interdisciplinary conference brings together leading academics, policy makers and PhD students providing a historic, cultural, social and political perspective on this strategically important region of the former Soviet Union.
Key speakers include:
Venue: University of Birmingham, the European Research Institute (ERI) Building - G51, Edgbaston.
14 - 15 May 2009
Conference
Bringing the Policy Back In: A Substantive Agenda for the New European Union
The ERI was pleased to welcome Vice-President of the European Commission, Margot Wallström, to give the keynote speech at a two-day conference co-funded by the European Commission and Advantage West Midlands.
The event brought together scholars, policy practitioners, government officials and regional leaders from commerce and industry to assess the EU’s policy remit and debate ways on which European policy can help improve citizens’ jobs and lives. With so much time and effort spent on institutional navel-gazing, this conference considered the real policy output that affects business and citizens across the 27 member states.
More information about this event is available in the news section
For more information contact Jelena Obradovic: j.obradovic@bham.ac.uk
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