Lecture

Trump: The Presidency that Changed US History?

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Wednesday, September 28, 2022 - 16:30
Event Location: 
Posvar 4130
What is Donald Trump's personality like? What was his family like? What is his ideology? What have been the highlights of his performance as a businessman, candidate, and head of the government of the most powerful country in the world? These questions require multi-causal answers that go beyond the clichés that have been spread by his defenders, his detractors, and Trump himself. The 45th president of the United States has been both praised and reviled.

Reframing urban and regional 'development' for 'left behind places'

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Thursday, September 15, 2022 - 13:00
Event Location: 
3415 Posvar Hall
The recent wave of populism has focused attention on ‘left behind’ places as hotspots of discontent. Seeking to remedy their neglect in urban and regional studies, the aim of this paper is to engage with the problems of ‘left behind’ places and to stimulate fresh thinking about alternative approaches. Reflecting the complex and inter-connected issues facing such places, it argues that a new conception is required to address issues of belonging and attachment.

Willem Noe - A Career as a Dutch Economist at the European Commission--Working for Europe

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Thursday, April 14, 2022 - 12:45
Event Location: 
Zoom
In this brief presentation, Willem Noe, European Commission Official and former EU Fellow at GSPIA, will give a brief overview of working at the European Commission as an international organization, and his own career path as an economist at the Commission dealing with globalization, European Union Enlargement (entry of new Member States into the EU), and the economies of several Member States.

Rereading Russian Energy Chains Under the Thunder of War

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022 - 12:30
Event Location: 
Zoom
This keynote event is part of the European and Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium 2022. In this presentation Professor Balmaceda will revisit the burning question of how global, more specifically Europe's dependency on Russian fossil fuel chains has affected international responses to Ukraine's security. Her latest book, Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union, sheds light on how Russia's fossil fuel exports have created what now seems like more of a threat than an opportunity for all parties involved.

Christina Fiig | EU Gender Policies in a Context of (Quasi) Permanent Crisis

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Tuesday, May 17, 2022 - 15:00
Event Location: 
Zoom
Join the Center for West European Studies and the Jean Monnet EU Center to continue the Talking Gender in the EU Lecture Series, with Christina Fiig on "EU Gender Policies in a Context of (Quasi) Permanent Crisis," on May 17, 2022 at 12:00pm PDT/3:00pm ET. This is presented by the University of Washington Center for West European Studies and the Jean Monnet EU Center. This is a part of JMintheUS. #JMintheUS

The End of Peace: How Russia’s Invasion in Ukraine is re-making Europe, Russia and the future of transatlantic relations with Ivan Krastev

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022 - 12:00
Event Location: 
Zoom
The 2022 Otto and Fran Walter Foundation Memorial Lecture features Ivan Krastev, Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, discussing what the Russian invasion of Ukraine means for the future of Europe, Russia and transatlantic relations. This is presented by the CUNY Graduate Center's EU's Studies Center. This is a part of the JMintheUS. #JMintheUS

Great Expectations? The role of universities as civic anchors in place-based innovation

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Wednesday, April 6, 2022 - 11:00
Event Location: 
Posvar 4217
Recent decades have seen increasing demands from policy makers for publicly funded universities to be proactive drivers of innovation and development in the places in which they are located, particularly in less developed or peripheral regions. This has led to a resurgence of interest in concepts such as the civic university in understanding the contributions universities might make to local social and economic development. This research explores, and culminates in challenging, many of the orthodoxies underpinning the policy rhetoric around the role of universities as civic anchors.

The Governance of Antibiotics in Europe

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Tuesday, April 12, 2022 - 12:15
Event Location: 
Posvar 4130
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a leading cause of death around the world, with the highest burdens in low-resource settings, and is expected to grow exponentially to cause around 10 million deaths annually in 2050. It is defined by high degrees of complexity given its international, multisectoral, ‘one health’ and ‘creeping’ features, which creates significant challenges for good governance. In addition, only 0,5% of all AMR related research comes from the social sciences, which indicates that we know relatively little about the behavioral and institutional aspects of antibiotics.

The Governance of Antibiotics in Europe

Type: 
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 - 12:15
Event Location: 
Posvar 4130
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a leading cause of death around the world, with the highest burdens in low-resource settings, and is expected to grow exponentially to cause around 10 million deaths annually in 2050. It is defined by high degrees of complexity given its international, multisectoral, ‘one health’ and ‘creeping’ features, which creates significant challenges for good governance. In addition, only 0,5% of all AMR related research comes from the social sciences, which indicates that we know relatively little about the behavioral and institutional aspects of antibiotics.