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Conversations and Commentaries on Europe: Video Resources

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ESC has online video offerings for select items from its extensive programming.  These resources are meant to ehance transatlantic conversations happening and enrich understandings of Europe here in the United States.

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Trade, Technology, and the Transatlantic Relationship
A conversation with European Commission Executive Vice Preseidnet Valdis Dombrovskis

September 30, 2021

 

 

 

 

Conversations on Europe: "Elections 2024: European Parliament Elections across the 27 Member States"

Elections 2024: European Parliament Elections Across the 27 Member States
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
MODERATORS:
Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh
Zeynep Somer-Topcu, The University of Texas at Austin
 
PANELISTS:
Kai Arzheimer, University of Mainz
Catherine DeVries, Bocconi University
Jan Rovny, Sciences Po-Paris
 
During this session of our Conversations on Europe, we will focus our discussion on the ongoing election campaign to the European Parliament, as the elections will take place between June 6th and 9th. With looming economic slowdown, increasing migration both on the southern and eastern border of the EU and growing support for populist and nationalist parties, what are the prospects for the EU integration?  What are the main topics of the campaign and how will they impact the elections?  Which parties will gain a majority in the upcoming 5 years term and shape the future of the EU?

 

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EU Enlargement - Cyprus

EU Enlargement: Spotlight on Cyprus
Thursday, March 28, 2024

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Randall Halle, University of Pittsburgh 
Erica Edwards, University of Pittsburgh
 
Panelists: 
Maria Hadjipavlou, University of Cyprus
Dr. Hadjipavlou is assistant professor in the Department of Social and Political
Sciences, University of Cyprus. Her research interests include the Cyprus conflict, international conflict resolution, reconciliation in divided societies, gender and
conflict, and feminist theory.
 
James Ker-Lindsay, LSE European Institute
Dr. Ker-Lindsay research focuses on conflict, peace and security in South East Europe (Western Balkans, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus), European Union enlargement, and secession and
recognition in international politics. He has played an active role in the development of South
East European Studies, both in Britain and internationally. He is a former coordinator of the
BISA Working Group on the region and is on the editorial boards of Southeast European and

 

Black Sea Studies, the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, and Ethnopolitics.

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EU Enlargement - Cyprus

EU Enlargement: Spotlight on Cyprus
Thursday, March 28, 2024

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Moderators: 
Randall Halle, University of Pittsburgh 
 
Panelists: 
Maria Hadjipavlou, University of Cyprus
Dr. Hadjipavlou is assistant professor in the Department of Social and Political
Sciences, University of Cyprus. Her research interests include the Cyprus conflict, international conflict resolution, reconciliation in divided societies, gender and
conflict, and feminist theory.
James Ker-Lindsay, LSE European Institute
Dr. Ker-Lindsay research focuses on conflict, peace and security in South East Europe (Western Balkans, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus), European Union enlargement, and secession and
recognition in international politics. He has played an active role in the development of South
East European Studies, both in Britain and internationally. He is a former coordinator of the
BISA Working Group on the region and is on the editorial boards of Southeast European and
Black Sea Studies, the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, and Ethnopolitics.
 
 
 
 

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Conversations on Europe - Understanding the Human Impact of the Russian War in Ukraine

The Russian War in Ukraine: Displaced People and Changing Security Concerns
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

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MODERATORS: 
Randall Halle, University of Pittsburgh
Erica Edwards, University of Pittsburgh
 
PANELISTS: 
Svitlana Babenko, Malmö University (*unable to attend)
Joachim A. Koops, Leiden University
Kseniya Yurtayeva, University of Michigan
 
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine transformed European security concerns dramatically. It has disrupted the lives of countless people in the region. It triggered a new wave of rapid forced migration throughout the EU and in other neighboring countries. Displacement from the war impacts not only Ukrainian women and children fleeing to Poland, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, and other neighboring countries. It has also affected Russians avoiding mobilization or Russian intellectuals avoiding repressions in their home country. Unfortunately, at a time of record numbers of internal and external displaced persons worldwide, numbers of people seeking asylum have now risen in Central Asia and Caucasus. In addition to considering the overall security situation resulting from the war, this Conversation on Europe will ask: how do these movements of people affect the current situation in the EU and in receiving countries? How have societies and state apparatuses reacted to this migration and what can we learn from these dynamics? What role does “security” and securitization play in these processes? 

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EU Enlargement: Hungary

EU Enlargement: Spotlight on Hungary
Thursday, February 29, 2024

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EU Enlargement- Spotlight on Hungary


Moderators:

Gabriella Lukacs, University of Pittsburgh
Erica Edwards, University of Pittsburgh

 
Panelists:
Zsuzsanna Szelényi, Founding Director: CEU Democracy Institute Leadership Academy
Ms. Szelényi is a former politician from Hungary, foreign policy specialist, author and Founding Director at the CEU Democracy Institute Leadership Academy. She is conducting research about how autocratic politics is influencing and shaping the future of the European Union. In the framework of the Democracy Institute Leadership Academy her team develops curriculum supporting pro-democracy activists in Central and Eastern Europe.
 
Stefano Bottoni, Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI)
Dr. Bottoni is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History (SAGAS). Between 2009 and 2019 he was research fellow at the Institute of History, Research Center for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a visiting fellow at Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena (2015). His main fields of interest are the political and social history of Eastern Europe under the socialist regimes, with a special focus on nationality politics in Romania and post-1989 political developments in Hungary. He is actively involved in the EU-Co-funded educational program "History in the Public Sphere" as member of the Curriculum Development and Quality Assurance Committee.

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Conversations on Europe: Mis/disinformation Security: Protecting EU Values and Democracy

“Mis/disinformation Security: Protecting EU Values and Democracies”
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
MODERATOR:
Erica Edwards, University of Pittsburgh
 
PANELISTS:
Ralitsa Kovacheva, Sofia University
Julia Partheymüller, University of Vienna
Elena Bruni, LUISS Guido Carli, Italy, Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh 
 
Not to be confused with misinformation, meaning inaccurate information,
disinformation is false material meant to intentionally mislead or misinform individuals. Brought to the fore in 2016 with Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, disinformation threatens to erode trust in democratic systems, weaken individual freedoms, and increasingly undermine governments around the world.  While the U.S. has yet to make meaningful progress in addressing disinformation, Europe has moved forward with new legislation and initiatives. Join us for this session of Conversation on Europe in which we ask what steps Europe is taking to shore up EU values and counter disinformation. Rephrase
Not to be confused with misinformation, meaning inaccurate information, disinformation is false material meant to intentionally mislead or misinform individuals. Brought to the fore in 2016 with Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, disinformation threatens to erode trust in democratic systems, weaken individual freedoms, and increasingly undermine governments around the world. While the U.S. has yet to make meaningful progress in addressing disinformation, Europe has moved forward with new legislation and initiatives.
Join us for this session of Conversation on Europe in which we ask what steps Europe is taking to shore up EU values and counter disinformation.

 

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EU Enlargement: Slovenia

EU Enlargement- Spotlight on Slovenia
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Tuesday January  23, 2024 at 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM ET
Panelists:
Simona Kukovič, School of Advanced Social Studies in Nova Gorica
Dr. Simona Kukovič is Associate Professor of Political Science and works at the School of Advanced Social Studies in Nova Gorica, Faculty of Information Studies, and the University of Ljubljana. Dr. Kukovič’s area of expertise is political and administrative leadership at the local level. She also conducts research in the areas of leadership, comparative regional and local government, local democracy and participation, public administration, and administrative and political processes and institutions. She is Slovenian representative to the COST networks, a member of the executive board of the Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA) and general editor of the international scientific journal Journal of Comparative Politics.
 
Miro Haček, University of Ljubljana
Dr. Miro Hacek is Professor at the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences. He runs courses Introduction to Political System, Introduction to Public Administration and Local and Regional Government. From 2005 to 2007 and 2013 to 2017 he was the Head of political science department; from 2007 to 2011 he was also Head of policy analysis and public administration department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana. From 1999 to 2009 he was General Secretary of the Slovenian Political Science Association, while in May 2009 he was elected President of the Association and in June 2011 for the vice-president of the Association. Between 2012-2018 he served as the Vice-President of Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA), and from 2018 he is current President of the Association.

 

 

EU Enlargement: Baltic States

EU Enlargement: Spotlight on Balti States (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia)
Thursday, December 7, 2023

Panelists:
Daunis Auers, University of Latvia

Dr, Auers is Professor of European Studies and Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Latvia. He studied at the London School of Economics and defended his PhD at University College London. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California-Berkeley (2005-2006) and a Baltic-American Freedom Foundation Scholar at Wayne State University in Detroit (2014). His book on The Comparative Government and Politics of the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the 21st Century – was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. He is currently working on a monograph analyzing Nordic-Baltic integration and is a Fulbright program Visiting Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle during the fall and winter of 2023/2024.

Ivars Ijabs, PhD, Member of the European Parliament
Dr. Ijabs is a Member of the European Parliament, elected in 2019 from the electoral alliance “Attīstībai/Par!”. Before entering politics, he was a widely known political scientist, publicist, associated professor at the University of Latvia and a researcher at the Advanced Social and Political Research Institute of the University of Latvia.  In the European Parliament, Dr. Ijabs is active in the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), and the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA), representing the “Renew Europe” group. His priorities are with legislative proposals that would bring more EU funding for science, research, and innovation in Latvia.

EU Enlargement: Slovakia

EU Enlargement: Spotlight on Slovakia
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Michal Vašečka, PhD, Bratislava Policy Institute
Dr. Vašečka is a sociologist by background and focuses his interests on issues of ethnicity, race, antisemitism, and migration studies. As an Associate Professor he operates at the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts (BISLA) since 2015, he is a program director of Bratislava Policy Institute. Since 2012 Michal Vašečka serves as a representative of Slovakia in the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) of the Council of Europe. He operated at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University in Brno in 2002-2017 and at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the Comenius University in 2006-2009.
Miloslav Bahna, PhD., Slovak Academy of Science
Dr. Bahna is a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where he currently serves as the director. His research focuses on international migration, quantitative comparative sociology and quantitative survey methodology. He is a long term representative of Slovakia in the International Social Survey Programme and the CESSDA ERIC pan-European infrastructure. His first book focuses on post-2004 EU enlargement migration from Slovakia (VEDA, the publishing house of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2011).

Conversations on Europe: Yaoundé Conventions 60 Years On

"Yaoundé Conventions 60 years on: Africa-EU Relations Now"
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

MODERATORS:
Randall Halle, University of Pittsburgh
Catherine Koverola,  University of Pittsburgh
 
PANELISTS: 
Michael Odijie, University College London
Pernille Røge, University of Pittsburgh 
Mounir Saidani, Editor-in-Chief of Omran Social Sciences/Arabb Center for Research and Political Studies-Doha. 
Abdou Seck, Gaston Berger University/Groupe D’Action et D’Etude Critique Africa (GAEC) 
 
It is 60 years since the signing of the Yaoundé Convention (1963).This was a moment in the history of decolonization when the Associated African States, 12 mainly young postcolonial Western Africa countries, signed a trade agreement with the also young European Economic Community. The Yaoundé Convention was part of the EEC’s Eurafrica initiative, an effort to maintain a
presence in the former colonies. Yaoundé initiated a series of trade and aid agreements that replaced the colonial relation with a developmental model. An era of trade and infrastructural development followed. However, many critics have suggested that this strategy of aid set off the pattern of uneven and unequal development. This Conversation on Europe and Africa takes this event as an opportunity to consider development aid in Africa historically and in its contemporary form. Our panelists bring a mix of historical and regional knowledge to the conversation