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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: "The UK After Boris"

The UK After Boris
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

The Prime Minister of the U.K., Boris Johnson, was forced to step down on September 6 after a mass resignation of his ministers.  This panel of British experts discusses his successor and the likely effects on the Conservative Party.

MODERATOR:
Jae-Jae Spoon
University of Pittsburgh

PANELISTS:
Tim Bale
Queen Mary University of London

Robert Ford
University of Manchester

Jane Green
University of Oxford

Robert Johns
University of Essex

The series is intended to present a broad range of views and opinions about topics relevant to Europe. The views expressed are those of the presenters and cannot be taken to represent the views or opinions of the U.S. Government nor the European Union.

We would appreciate your feedback on these videos and the Conversations on Europe series.  Please see our survey at: https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0x5l0NHN4btbAQR

This video has been funded with the assistance of both the European Commission (through the Erasmus + Programme) and the US Department of Education. The contents of this video are the sole responsibility of the European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the U.S. government or the European Union.

Co-support provided by the International Foreign Language Education office of the U.S. Department of Education and the European Commission's Erasmus + Programme. Views and opinions expressed are those of the individual panelists and do not reflect the views or opinions of the U.S. Government or the European Union.

The French Election - What is at Stake?

The French Election - What is at Stake?
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

On April 10th, France will hold a presidential election putting ideologies, personalities, and the future of France on the ballot. A run-off will be held on April 24th if no one secures a majority. The last Conversations on Europe for the 2021-22academic year will focus on the ramifications of this election's outcome, how Russia's invasion of Ukraine will impact the election, and how this can shape the next decade not only of France but of Europe as a whole.

PANELISTS:
Jean Beaman
University of California, Santa Barbara

Arthur Goldhammer
Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Philippe Marliere
University College London

The series is intended to present a broad range of views and opinions about topics relevant to Europe. The views expressed are those of the presenters and cannot be taken to represent the views or opinions of the U.S. Government nor the European Union.

We would appreciate your feedback on these videos and the Conversations on Europe series.  Please see our survey at: https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0x5l0NHN4btbAQR

This video has been funded with the assistance of both the European Commission (through the Erasmus + Programme) and the US Department of Education. The contents of this video are the sole responsibility of the European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the U.S. government or the European Union.

Co-support provided by the International Foreign Language Education office of the U.S. Department of Education and the European Commission's Erasmus + Programme. Views and opinions expressed are those of the individual panelists and do not reflect the views or opinions of the U.S. Government or the European Union.

Reckoning with the Past III Reparations

Reckoning with the Past III Reparations
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Colonialism in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries left legacies of violence, displacement, and economic underdevelopment with which European states and countries formerly under European control continue to reckon. How are damages calculated? Will restitution and recompense lead to reconciliation and social justice? Join us for a discussion of the transnational politics and history of reparations.

PANELISTS:
Joshua Kwesi Aikins
Human Rights Activist/Public Scholar

Wes Alcenat
Fordham University

Verene A. Shepherd
Centre for Reparation Research, The University of the West Indies

Claire Greenstein
University of Alabama at Birmingham

The series is intended to present a broad range of views and opinions about topics relevant to Europe. The views expressed are those of the presenters and cannot be taken to represent the views or opinions of the U.S. Government nor the European Union.

We would appreciate your feedback on these videos and the Conversations on Europe series.  Please see our survey at: https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0x5l0NHN4btbAQR

This video has been funded with the assistance of both the European Commission (through the Erasmus + Programme) and the US Department of Education. The contents of this video are the sole responsibility of the European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the U.S. government or the European Union.

Co-support provided by the International Foreign Language Education office of the U.S. Department of Education and the European Commission's Erasmus + Programme. Views and opinions expressed are those of the individual panelists and do not reflect the views or opinions of the U.S. Government or the European Union.

Decolonizing European Museums

Decolonizing European Museums
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Continuing our series on “Reckonin gwith the Past” in Europe, this month’s installment looks at what it means to decolonize museums, how the issues at stake differ across Western and Eastern Europe, and what barriers exist. How do we measure success? Join our panel of experts, including activists, academics, and curators, in this wide-ranging conversation.

PANELISTS:
Dan Hicks
University of Oxford

Erica Lehrer
Concordia University

Sumaya Kassim
Writer/Independent Researcher

Aline Nyirahumure
KUUMBA

MODERATOR:
Maureen Porter
University of Pittsburgh

The series is intended to present a broad range of views and opinions about topics relevant to Europe. The views expressed are those of the presenters and cannot be taken to represent the views or opinions of the U.S. Government nor the European Union.

We would appreciate your feedback on these videos and the Conversations on Europe series.  Please see our survey at: https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0x5l0NHN4btbAQR

This video has been funded with the assistance of both the European Commission (through the Erasmus + Programme) and the US Department of Education. The contents of this video are the sole responsibility of the European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the U.S. government or the European Union.

Co-support provided by the International Foreign Language Education office of the U.S. Department of Education and the European Commission's Erasmus + Programme. Views and opinions expressed are those of the individual panelists and do not reflect the views or opinions of the U.S. Government or the European Union.

Decolonizing the Curriculum in Europe

Decolonizing the Curriculum in Europe
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Reckoning with the past in Europe often means reckoning with a legacy of colonialism. In the U.S. and Europe, student demands to remove statues celebrating Civil War generals or colonialists from the campus have been followed by a broader call to systematically decolonize the entire curriculum. But what does this mean? How have European universities responded? And what can European and American institutions learn from each other as we all continue to work to implement Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in our classrooms and co-curricular programs?

PANELISTS:
Rowena Arshad
University of Edinburgh

Mohammed Bamyeh
University of Pittsburgh

Louie Dean Valencia
Texas State University

Paweł Lewicki
Europa-Universität Viadrina

MODERATOR:
Allyson Delnore
University of Pittsburgh

The series is intended to present a broad range of views and opinions about topics relevant to Europe. The views expressed are those of the presenters and cannot be taken to represent the views or opinions of the U.S. Government nor the European Union.

We would appreciate your feedback on these videos and the Conversations on Europe series.  Please see our survey at: https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0x5l0NHN4btbAQR

This video has been funded with the assistance of both the European Commission (through the Erasmus + Programme) and the US Department of Education. The contents of this video are the sole responsibility of the European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the U.S. government or the European Union.

Co-support provided by the International Foreign Language Education office of the U.S. Department of Education and the European Commission's Erasmus + Programme. Views and opinions expressed are those of the individual panelists and do not reflect the views or opinions of the U.S. Government or the European Union.

COP26 and the European Green Deal, Europe's Response to Climate Change

COP26 and the European Green Deal, Europe's Response to Climate Change
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

The United Nation's much hyped Climate Conference convened representatives from around the globe. In this session, our panel of experts discussed what happened in Glasgow, European leaders' reactions to the conference outcomes, and what role Europe is taking in international efforts to respond to climate change and climate-driven migration.

PANELISTS:
Patrick Bayer
University of Strathclyde

Shanti Gamper-Rabindran
University of Pittsburgh

Katharine Rietig
Newcastle University

Rosemary McCarney
University of Toronto

MODERATOR:
Jae-Jae Spoon
University of Pittsburgh

REFERENCES:

  • Bayer, Patrick and Federica Genovese. 2020. “Beliefs about Climate Action Consequences under Weak Global Institutions: Sectors, Home Bias, and International Embeddedness.” Global Environmental Politics. 20(4):28-50.
  • Bayer, Patrick and Michaël Aklin. 2020. “The European Union Emissions Trading System Reduced CO2 Emissions Despite Low Prices.” Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences 117(16): 8804-8812.
  • Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti. 2018. “The Shale Dilemma: A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development”, editor and contributor, University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • McCarney, Rosemary and Jonathan Kent. 2020. “Forced Displacement and Climate Change: Time for Global Governance.” International Journal. 75(4): 652-661.
  • Rietig K. 2021. “Learning in Governance: Climate Policy Integration in the European Union.” MIT Press.
  • Rietig K. 2021. “Accelerating Low Carbon Transitions via Budgetary Processes? EU Climate Governance in Times of Crisis.” Journal of European Public Policy. 28(7), 1018-1037.
  • Rietig K. 2020. “Multilevel Reinforcing Dynamics: Global Climate Governance and European Renewable Energy Policy.” Public Administration. 99(1), 55-71.

The series is intended to present a broad range of views and opinions about topics relevant to Europe. The views expressed are those of the presenters and cannot be taken to represent the views or opinions of the U.S. Government nor the European Union.

We would appreciate your feedback on these videos and the Conversations on Europe series.  Please see our survey at: https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0x5l0NHN4btbAQR

This video has been funded with the assistance of both the European Commission (through the Erasmus + Programme) and the US Department of Education. The contents of this video are the sole responsibility of the European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the U.S. government or the European Union.

Co-support provided by the International Foreign Language Education office of the U.S. Department of Education and the European Commission's Erasmus + Programme. Views and opinions expressed are those of the individual panelists and do not reflect the views or opinions of the U.S. Government or the European Union.

An Uneven Recovery? Health Outcomes and Economic Impacts Across Europe

An Uneven Recovery? Health Outcomes and Economic Impacts Across Europe
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

The effects of COVID-19 have been felt unevenly across Europe, a trend which continues into the recovery from the pandemic. In this panel, experts discussed how these inequalities have been felt on an individual level and at the national level in terms of health and educational outcomes and economic impacts.

PANELISTS:
Holly Jarman
University of Michigan

Julia Lynch
University of Pennsylvania

Martin Myant
European Trade Union Institute

Sylke Schnepf
JRC-European Commission

MODERATOR:
Jae-Jae Spoon
University of Pittsburgh

REFERENCES:

  • Bambra C, Lynch J, Smith K. “The Unequal Pandemic: Covid-19 and Health Inequalities.” 2021. Bristol University/Policy Press, 2021. 
  • D’Hombres, B. and Schnepf, S.V. 2021. “International Mobility of Students in Italy and the UK: Does It Pay off and for Whom?” Higher Education. 82, pp. 1173–1194
  • Jarman, Holly. 2017. “Trade Policy Governance: What Health Policymakers and Advocates Need to Know.” Health Policy. 121(11): 1105-1112.
  • Lynch J. 2020. “Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth.” Cambridge University Press.
  • Myant, Martin. 2020. “European Multinational Companies and Trade Unions in Eastern and East-Central Europe.” European Trade Union Institute. pp. 40.
  • Schnepf, S.V. and Colagrossi, M. 2020. “Is unequal uptake of Erasmus mobility really only due to students' choices? The role of selection into universities and fields of study.” Journal of European Social Policy. 30(4):436-451.

The series is intended to present a broad range of views and opinions about topics relevant to Europe. The views expressed are those of the presenters and cannot be taken to represent the views or opinions of the U.S. Government nor the European Union.

We would appreciate your feedback on these videos and the Conversations on Europe series.  Please see our survey at: https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0x5l0NHN4btbAQR

This video has been funded with the assistance of both the European Commission (through the Erasmus + Programme) and the US Department of Education. The contents of this video are the sole responsibility of the European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the U.S. government or the European Union.

Co-support provided by the International Foreign Language Education office of the U.S. Department of Education and the European Commission's Erasmus + Programme. Views and opinions expressed are those of the individual panelists and do not reflect the views or opinions of the U.S. Government or the European Union.

Free Movement in the Time of COVID: The Economics and Ethics of Digital Vaccine Passports

Free Movement in the Time of COVID: The Economics and Ethics of Digital Vaccine Passports
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

As Europe seeks to recover from the impacts of COVID-19, European leaders have implemented digital health passes and vaccine passports. These measures have met comparatively little resistance compared to the U.S., but critics warn of ethical and legal concerns, including data privacy. What does free movement mean in the time of COVID? How might we understand differences in public health policy with regards to vaccine mandates and vaccine passports across Europe and how does that compare to the U.S.?

PANELISTS:
Peter Baldwin
University of California Los Angeles

Ana Beduschi
University of Exeter

Sarah Chan
University of Edinburgh

Alex John London
Carnegie Mellon University

MODERATOR:
Jae-Jae Spoon
University of Pittsburgh

REFERENCES:

  • Ada Lovelace Institute. 2021. “Checkpoints for Vaccine Passports.” European Artificial Intelligence Fund.
  • Baldwin, Peter. 2021. “Fighting the First Wave Contagion and the State Democracy and Disease.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Beduschi, Ana. 2021. “Digital Health Passports for COVID-19: Data Privacy and Human Rights Law.” University of Exeter; UKRI Economic and Social Research Council.
  • Beduschi, Ana. 2021. “COVID-19 Health Status Certificates: Policy Recommendations on Data Privacy and Human Rights.” University of Exeter; UKRI Economic and Social Research Council.
  • Chan, Sarah. 2020. “Imagining Life with “Immunity Passports”: Managing Risk during a Pandemic.” Discover Society, Policy Press, pp. 1-4
  • London AJ (2021) For the Common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics. Oxford University Press.

The series is intended to present a broad range of views and opinions about topics relevant to Europe. The views expressed are those of the presenters and cannot be taken to represent the views or opinions of the U.S. Government nor the European Union.

We would appreciate your feedback on these videos and the Conversations on Europe series.  Please see our survey at: https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0x5l0NHN4btbAQR

This video has been funded with the assistance of both the European Commission (through the Erasmus + Programme) and the US Department of Education. The contents of this video are the sole responsibility of the European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the U.S. government or the European Union.

Co-support provided by the International Foreign Language Education office of the U.S. Department of Education and the European Commission's Erasmus + Programme. Views and opinions expressed are those of the individual panelists and do not reflect the views or opinions of the U.S. Government or the European Union.

How and Why Europe (Mis)Understands Black America

How and Why Europe (Mis)Understands Black America
Thursday, October 7, 2021

Jean Monnet Center Distinguished Lecture - Gary Younge,
Author, broadcaster, and editor-at-large for The Guardian based in London, England and Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester

Europe's views on Black America are informed by a range of contradictory tendencies: amnesia about its own colonial past, ambivalence about its racial present, a tradition of anti-racism and international solidarity and an often fraught geo-political relationship with the United States itself. Europe both resents and covets American power, and is in little position to do anything about it. So African Americans represent to many a redemptive force– living proof that that US is both not all that it claims to be and could be so much greater than it is. This sense of superiority is made possible, in no small part, by a woefully, willfully incomplete and toxically nostalgic understanding of Europe's own history which has left significant room for denial, distortion, ignorance and sophistry. The result, in the post-war era, has been moments of solidarity often impaired by exoticization or infantilization in which Europe has found it easier to export anti-racism across the Atlantic than to practice it at home or export it across the Channel, the Mediterranean and beyond.

COMMENTS:
Felix Germain,
Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Will the Center Hold? What to Expect in the German Federal Election

Will the Center Hold? What to Expect in the German Federal Election
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

On the eve of the German Federal Elections, our panel of experts weighed in on the various issues concerning German voters, the legacy of outgoing Chancellor Merkel, the potential impact of this election on the EU and Germany’s relationship with the U.S., and the significance of the Green Party mounting their first ever candidate for the Chancellorship.

PANELISTS:
Kai Arzheimer
University of Mainz

Marcel Lewandowsky
University of Florida

Jae-Jae Spoon
University of Pittsburgh

Jana Puglierin
European Council on Foreign Relations

MODERATOR:
Steve Sokol
American Council on Germany

REFERENCES:

  • Arzheimer K. 2020. “A partial micro-foundation for the ‘two-worlds’ theory of morality policymaking: Evidence from Germany.” Research & Politics.
  • Arzheimer, Kai. 2018. “Conceptual Confusion is not Always a Bad Thing: The Curious Case of European Radical Right Studies.” Demokratie und Entscheidung. Eds. Marker, Karl, Michael Roseneck, Annette Schmitt, and Jürgen Sirsch. Wiesbaden: Springer. 23-40.
  • Lewandowsky, Marcel. 2022. "New parties, populism, and parliamentary polarization. Evidence from plenary debates in the German Bundestag." in: Michael Oswald (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Populism. Palgrave: Basingstok, pp. 611-627
  • Lewandowsky, Marcel. 2019. "Promoting or Controlling Political Decisions? Citizen Preferences for Direct-Democratic Institutions in Germany." German Politics 29 (2): 180-200
  • Puglierin, Jana and Piotr Buras. 2021. “Beyond Merkelism: What Europeans expect of post-election Germany.” European Council on Foreign Relations.

The series is intended to present a broad range of views and opinions about topics relevant to Europe. The views expressed are those of the presenters and cannot be taken to represent the views or opinions of the U.S. Government nor the European Union.

We would appreciate your feedback on these videos and the Conversations on Europe series.  Please see our survey at: https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0x5l0NHN4btbAQR

This video has been funded with the assistance of both the European Commission (through the Erasmus + Programme) and the US Department of Education. The contents of this video are the sole responsibility of the European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the U.S. government or the European Union.

Co-support provided by the International Foreign Language Education office of the U.S. Department of Education and the European Commission's Erasmus + Programme. Views and opinions expressed are those of the individual panelists and do not reflect the views or opinions of the U.S. Government or the European Union.