European Studies Center

Synonyms: 
CWES
ESC

Europe Today Lecture Series: EU Migration Governance: Coordination, Collaboration, Subcontracting, and Going Alone

Presenter: 
Nicholas R. Micinski
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 02/01/2023 - 16:00

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

Location: 
Zoom
Contact Person: 
Pawel Lewicki
Contact Email: 
pawel.lewicki@pitt.edu

Europe Today Lecture Series: "21st-Century European Cities: Colonial Modernity, Race and Space"

Presenter: 
Giovanni Picker
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 01/25/2023 - 16:00

Speaker: Giovanni Picker
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Glasgow University

Moderator: Pawel Lewicki, University of Pittsburgh

Location: 
Zoom
Contact Person: 
Pawel Lewicki
Contact Email: 
pawel.lewicki@pitt.edu

Europe Today Lecture Series: Insights into National and European Political Landscape after Presidential Elections in the Czech Republic

Presenter: 
Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 01/18/2023 - 16:00

SPEAKER:
Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň
Institute of International Relations, Prague
Czech Republic

Location: 
Zoom
Contact Person: 
Pawel Lewicki
Contact Email: 
pawel.lewicki@pitt.edu

Roundtable: Democratic Histories, Democratic Futures

Presenter: 
John Markoff and other Pitt faculty members
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 01/27/2023 - 16:00

This in-person, one and a half-hour roundtable includes the following Pitt faculty members and concludes the conference.
--John Markoff, Department of Sociology
--Diego Holstein, Department of History
--Michael Goodhart, Department of Political Science
--Mohammed Bamyeh, Department of Sociology
This roundtable will be moderated by Randall Halle, Department of German and the European Studies Center.

Location: 
Sociology colloquium Room, 2432 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Mohammed Bamyeh
Contact Email: 
mab205@pitt.edu

Panel on Democratic Alternatives II

Presenter: 
Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh, and Ben Manski, George Mason University
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 01/27/2023 - 14:30

In this one and a half hour, in-person panel, Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh, will discuss "Globalization and the Future of Democracy Today?"
Ben Manski, George Mason University, will discuss "The Other World That Is Necessary: The Imperative of Next System Studies." The discussion will be moderated by Nathan Katz, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh.

Location: 
Sociology Colloquium Room, 2432 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Mohammed Bamyeh
Contact Email: 
mab205@pitt.edu

Panel on Histories of Democracy

Subtitle: 
Democracy and Executive Might in 19th Century Europe and the Americas
Presenter: 
Mark Philp, University of Warwick, UK, is moderator
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 01/27/2023 - 12:30

This one and half hour virtual panel on Histories of Democracy will be moderated by Mark Philp of the University of Warwick, UK

The speakers and their topics are:
--Eduardo Posada-Carbo, University of Oxford, UK "Simon Bolivar"
--Guy Thomson, University of Warwick, UK, "Benito Juarez"
--Stephen Sawyer, American University in Paris, France, "Napoleon II and the Third Republic"

Joanna Inness, University of Oxford, UK, will be the Commentator.

Lunch will be served for those watching the session in the Colloquium Room.

Location: 
Zoom
Contact Person: 
Mohammed Bamyeh
Contact Email: 
mab205@pitt.edu

The Politics of Nostalgia: South Africa and Beyond

Presenter: 
Amber Reed, Spelman College
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 01/27/2023 - 11:00

This one and a half hour, in-person lecture is part of the conference on Democracy in Europe, Democracy Beyond Europe. The speaker is Amber Reed, Spelman College. This session will be moderated by Joshua Bloom, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

Location: 
Sociology Colloquium Room, 2432 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Mohammed Bamyeh
Contact Email: 
mab205@pitt.edu

Can the Rule of Law Save European Democracy?

Presenter: 
Jessica Greenberg, University of Illinois
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 01/26/2023 - 16:30

This one-hour, in-person lecture is part of the conference on Democracy in Europe, Democracy Beyond Europe. The speaker is Jessica Greenberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her talk will be moderated by Nancy Condee, Director of Russian East European & Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh.

Location: 
Sociology colloquium Room, 2432 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Mohammed Bamyeh
Contact Email: 
mab205@pitt.edu

Panel on Democratic Alternatives I

Presenter: 
Hillary Lazar and Benjamin Case, both from the University of Pittsburgh
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 01/26/2023 - 15:00

During this one and a half hour, in-person panel, Hillary Lazar will speak on "Democracy and the Anarchist Turn into 21st Century Activism" and Benjamin Case will speak on" Ballot Initiatives as a Window into Democracy in Crisis." The panel discussion will be moderated by Mark Paterson, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh.

Location: 
Sociology Colloquium Room, 2432 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Mohammed Bamyeh
Contact Email: 
mab205@pitt.edu

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