Lecture Series / Brown Bag

For more than three decades, the European Union has been recognised as a world leader in the fight against global warming and climate change. Climate policy has become a dominant issue on the EU's environmental agenda and has gradually been integrated into other policy areas, most notably energy policy. In terms of climate and energy policy, the EU has developed the most advanced and comprehensive regulatory framework in the world, which includes both EU-wide policies and targets to be achieved by Member States.

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Oxana Shevel Associate Professor, Political Science Tufts University Discussion: When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Ukraine’s spirited and effective resistance caught many observers by surprise amidst expectations of Russia’s quick victory. This talk will focus on the profound identity transformation within the Ukrainian society that began following the Euromaidan revolution and the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2014.

Kaija E. Schilde Jean Monnet Chair of European Security Associate Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies Director, Center for the Study of Europe Project on the Political Economy of Security Pardee School Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking The EU is a non-unitary security state of international significance and is threat responsive to challenges to its interests.

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SPEAKER: Milada Anna Vachudova University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Professor Vachudova will explore how the rise in support for populist parties has shaped party systems in Europe over the last decade, focusing on ethnopopulist parties -- parties that make strong anti-pluralist appeals, vilifying individuals, groups and institutions labeled as culturally harmful. When in power, ethnopopulist parties use these appeals to justify the concentration of power -- and this playbook has helped bring authoritarian rule to Hungary while Poland stands on the brink.

Presenter: Nicholas R. Micinski Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the University of Maine Moderator: Paweł Lewicki, Associate Director European Studies Center Migration has become an important area of cooperation within the European Union and has faced several recent refugee crises, including people seeking protection from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Ukraine. This lecture will discuss the ways in which cooperation within the EU has evolved over the last 20 years, focused on the starkly different responses in 2015-17 and 2022.

Speaker: Giovanni Picker Assistant Professor of Sociology at Glasgow University Moderator: Pawel Lewicki, University of Pittsburgh This talk builds on Giovanni Picker's three books, one monograph (2017) and two co-edited volumes (2018 and 2022), which investigate the ways in which various racial structures shape 21st-Century European cities. In the first part of the talk, Dr. Picker will discuss the historical canon of Social Science research on European cities, and the canon's silence regarding colonialism and race. In the second part of the talk, Dr.