Lecture Series / Brown Bag
CLAS Speaker Series
CLAS Speaker Series: "Political Parties and Policy Reform: Expansion of Healthcare in Latin America"
Free and open to the public
Register to attend in person: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/content/clas-event-registration
CLAS Speaker Series
Register to attend in-person: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/content/clas-event-registration
CLAS Speaker Series
Register to attend in-person: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/content/clas-event-registration
Conversations on Europe: Economics of Climate Response
Moderator: Randall Halle, University of Pittsburgh
Panelist/s:
Phoebe Koundouri, University of Cambridge
Max Koch, University of Lund
Maša Ocvirk, Global Europe Program, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars
Description:
This Conversation on Europe will look at the economics of climate response. Growth or degrowth, clean investment or circular consumption, modernization or renovation: what are the European routes toward sustainability? From a Transatlantic perspective, what are the best economic practices in climate response?
Conversations on Europe: Legal Battles Against Ecocide: Civil Society Climate Initiatives and the Judicial System
Description: Join in a conversation on criminalization of climate activists and their day in court with legal scholar Veronica Federico, Attorney Gaëlle Cognet, and one of the successful Swiss Climate Activists, Elsbeth Stern.
Conversations on Europe: The History of Environmentalism: Right, Left, Center
Reactionary? Progressive? Localist? Globalist? How do our climate politics line up? This panel will explore the history of environmentalism as a way of thinking about the spectrum of political positions in climate response. Recall that the oil shock, acid rain, nuclear energy protests at Wyhl, concern over DDT, all in the 1970s generated a new environmental activism: citizens initiatives in civil disobedience against business and state. In Germany and elsewhere very disparate interests came together to form what was understood as a new progressive political party: the Greens.
The EU's Security and Defense Partnerships in a World in Transition
This seminar will provide an overview of the historical, legal, institutional, and policy dimensions of the EU’s evolution as an international security actor. It will examine the development
of the EU’s Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) and will analyze the EU’s partnerships with core strategic partners, as well as the EU’s inter-organizational cooperation with the UN and NATO in the context of rising geopolitical rivalries. This will also include the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, shifting international alliances, and the future of European strategic

