Jean Monnet Lectures &
associated lectures, publications and papers
by Jean Monnet Chair, Associate Professor Philomena Murray

In her capacity as Director of CERC and a Jean Monnet Chair Associate Professor Murray has given a number of Jean Monnet lectures at other institutions with Jean Monnet awards and links. As Jean Monnet Chair she also regulary speaks on and delivers papers concerning the European Union.

Jean Monnet Lectures and talks

P. Murray, Assessing the EU as an international actor in East Asia: the challenges of coherence and effectiveness, paper to the Global Jean Monnet/ECSA-World Conference on A Europe of Achievements in a Changing World, Brussels, 24-25 November 2008.

Prospettive dell’Unione Europea come Attore Internazionale’, Jean Monnet Lecture Series 2004, Faculty of Sociology and Jean Monnet European Centre, University of Trento, Jean Monnet Lecture Series, 12 October 2004

Philomena Murray L’’Unione Europea: Attore Internazionale nel governance internazionale?’ (The European Union: An International Actor in International Governance?), Department of Economics, Faculty of Political Science, University of Padua, 14 October 2004

Distant Voices, Shared views? Australias Rediscovery of Europe, Jean Monnet Round Table seminar, Dublin European Institute, University College Dublin, 29 January 2004.

What did the EU ever do for us? Lecture as part of the Jean Monnet Session of the Larger Europe, New Europe? International Symposium held at CERC 10 October 2003

Associated Lectures, Papers and Speeches

P. Murray, Europe – the end of an idea or the spread of ideas?, presentation to panel on Europe – the End of an Idea, Festival of Ideas, the University of Melbourne, 18 June 2009.

P. Murray, External Challenges of Multilevel Policymaking, presentation to workshop on Innovative Governance in the European Union: The Politics of Multilevel Policymaking, Representation of the State of Niedersachsen to the European Union, Brussels, 25 Nov. 2008.

P. Murray, Challenges for scholars in examining the EU’s persona in its Asia strategy, presentation to the Rethinking Europe in a Non-European World (RENEW) Workshop, European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 10 Nov 2008.

P. Murray, Regionalism, inter-regionalism and bilateralism: The EU and the Asia Pacific, paper to the International Conference “EU Foreign Policy: Assessing the EU’s Role in the World”, University of Rome Tor Vergata, with the Center for American Studies in Rome and the Brookings Institution, Rome, 9 July 2008.

P. Murray, How Europe Looks at Asia: Between Expectations and Capabilities, paper presented to International Conference on EU-Asia Relations: A Critical Review, at the Contemporary Europe Research Centre, The University of Melbourne, 27-28 March 2008.

P. Murray, Advancing Regionalism: Does the EU Pursue a Regionalist Agenda in Asia? Keynote address to Conference on Regional Integration – Asia and Europe Compared, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, 16 January 2008.

'Regional Integration Comparing European and Asia Pacific Perspectives and Experiences’, paper to the EU-Australia – Europe Australia Asia Pacific Network Pilot Project Final Network and Postgraduate Conference, University of Trento, September 2007.

‘Reflections on Australia-Europe University Cooperation: The EAAPN Experience’, paper to the EU-Australia – Europe Australia Asia Pacific Network Pilot Project Final Network and Postgraduate Conference, University of Trento, September 2007.

‘Setting Agendas in European Studies: Some Reflections’, paper to the National Workshop of the Contemporary Europe Research Centre at the University of Melbourne and the Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia, on ‘European Studies in Australia – Setting Further Agendas’, at the Contemporary Europe Research Centre, The University of Melbourne 24 August 2007.

‘Back to the Future? Contemporary challenges for Australia – EU relations’, paper to Monash University Conference on Europe, New Governance, New Worlds?, Melbourne, April 2007

‘Contemporary European Perspectives on East Asia and EU-Asia Relations’, paper to CERC International Conference, Europe and Asia: Regions in Flux, 6–7 December 2006, Contemporary Europe Research Centre, The University of Melbourne.

‘The EU and Australia: Beyond the Tyranny of Distance?’ keynote speech to the 15th anniversary celebration of the Australian Institute of Polish Affairs, Melbourne, 18 November 2006.

'Model Europe? Reflections on the EU as a model of regional integration', paper to the EUI Conference on 'Interpreting globalisation', 6-7 Oct. 2006, EUI, San Domenico di Fiesole, Florence.

External Perspectives on the European Union, presentation to the School of International Studies, University of Trento, 4 October, 2006

Perceptions of the EU Among Australian Elites paper to Paper to the Network of European Studies Centres of Asia (NESCA) Workshop on the EU's new identity and its perception in Asia: Responding to the 7th Framework Programme Europe in the World'', 27-29 July 2006.  National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Issues relating to the value of migrant communities in EU-Australia relations, keynote address to the Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia and European Diaspora Research Network Conference on European Diasporas in Australia: Their Contribution to European Integration, Victoria University, Melbourne, 28 April 2006.

Is the European Union a Global Force  and what might this mean for Australia?, speech to the Pacific Institute, Melbourne, 27 April 2006

Responses to Europes Integration: From Old Bilateralism to a New Regional Bilateralism and Beyond, paper to the European Union Studies Association of the Asia-Pacific International Conference on Multilateralism and Regionalism in Europe and the Asia-Pacific, 8-10 December 2005, Keio University, Tokyo.

Expansion of membership, expansion of scope, the European Union and Australia paper to CERC International Conference 2005, A Bitter Triumph?  The Crisis of the European Project in the Aftermath of Enlargement, Contemporary Europe Research Centre, University of Melbourne, 1 December 2005

'Obstinate or obsolete? Reflections on the European integration project' CERC International Conference 2005, A Bitter Triumph?  The Crisis of the European Project in the Aftermath of Enlargement, Contemporary Europe Research Centre, University of Melbourne, 1 December 2005

'The Future Face of Europe', Europe Update Workshop on Current Challenges, Future Perspectives,  sponsored by the national Europe Centre and the European Commission Delegation, at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra,  9 November 2005

Australia and the European Superpower, presentation to the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Melbourne, 27 October 2005.

Close Encounters:  Beyond the Transatlantic Relationship, paperto Conference on The Future of Europe, European University Institute, Florence, Alumni Association with the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, 30 September 2005

Australia and the European Superpower: Engaging with the European Union, paper to the Euro-Asia Centre and Centre for European Studies, University of Limerick, 21 September 2005.

Australias New Relationship with Europe: Close Encounters with a Twenty-firstcentury Superpower, paper to the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London and Monash University London Centre, 12 September 2005.

Is the EU a new kind of superpower?, presentation to the Political Interest Society, University of Melbourne, 6 September, 2005.

'The EU - Superpower of the 21st Century?' Lecture to Department of Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, Sydney, 3 June 2005.

EU Governance: Model for Integration or Metrosexual Superpower?, paper to Conference on Shifting Boundaries of Sovereignty: Governance and Legitimacy in the European Union and Australasia, 22-3 March 2005, at the National Europe Centre, Canberra.

Lanalise comparata dellintegrazione regionale:  il caso dellASEAN ed il regionalismo del Asia Pacifico (Comparative Analysis of Regional Integration:  the case of ASEAN and regionalism in the Asia Pacific), to the Symposium on Comparative Regional Integration: Europe, Asia, Africa and Mercosur Compared. Faculty of Political Science, University of Padua, 14 October 2004.

Should Asia emulate Europe?, paper presented to International Conference on Regional Integration  Europe and Asia Compared, Conference of Korean Institute for International Economic Policy; the EU Studies Association of Korea and Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, 3 May 2004.   

The Model European? The European Model? Reflections on the EU as a model of regional integration. Paper presented to Dept of Political and Social Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, 5 February 2004.

Publications (under Jean Monnet auspices)

P. Murray, “A Clash of Interests? Europe's quest for an integrated approach to east Asia” in European Commission, A Europe of Achievements in a Changing World: Visions of Leading Policymakers and Academics/L'europe des realisations dans un monde en mutation: La Vision des leader Politiques et academiques, European Commission, Directorate General Education and Culture, Brussels, 2009, pp. 214-236

P. Murray, “European Studies - looking to the future”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, June 2009, pp. 1-13

P. Murray, “The uses and abuses of the concept of integration”, in Chris Rumford ed., Sage Handbook of European Studies, London, Sage, 2009.

P. Murray, “Model Europe? Reflections on the EU as a model of regional integration”, in Pompeo Della Posta, Milica Uvalic and Amy Verdun (eds), Interpreting Globalization: European Perspectives. Basingstoke, Palgrave, forthcoming , 2010.

P. Murray, "Advancing Regionalism: the EU's policy towards Asia", in B. Andreosso, O'Callaghan and M. Bruna Zolin eds. Asia and Europe: Connections and Contrasts. Venice, University of Venice Press, Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2008 pp. 34-48

P. Murray (ed.) Europe and Asia: Regions in Flux, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2008.

P. Murray, “Contemporary European Perspectives on East Asia and EU-Asia Relations”, in P. Murray (ed.) Europe and Asia: Regions in Flux, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2008.

P. Murray, “Introduction: Europe and Asia, two regions in flux?” in P. Murray (ed.) Europe and Asia: Regions in Flux, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2008.

P. Murray, “What Australians think about the EU: National Interests in an international setting”, in Martin Holland and Natalia Chaban eds., Public, Elite and Media Perceptions of the EU in the Asia–Pacific: Conceptualizing EU Public Diplomacy, London, Routledge, 2008.

“Exporting a new public space? Reflections on the EU integration experience as a paradigm”, European Political Science, No.7 2008 pp.264–272.

P. Murray, ‘The EU and Australia: Beyond the ‘Tyranny of Distance?’ in Peter Anderson and Georg Wiessala, eds. The EU and Asia: Reflections & Reorientations, European Studies: A Journal of European Culture, History and Politics, 25, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2007, pp.261-285.

P. Murray, Australia and the European Superpower: Engaging with the European Union, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2005

P. Murray “Should Asia emulate Europe?”, in Woosik Moon and Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan, eds. Regional Integration – Europe and Asia Compared. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005, pp. 197-215.

P. Murray “The Challenge of the New Bilateralism: Australia’s relations with Ireland in the context of the European Union”, Australian Journal of Irish Studies, Issue 4, Remembered Nations, Imagined Republics, 2004, pp. 207-220.

P. Murray ‘The Clash Of Integrations? Recasting The European Union Bargain’, Jean Monnet Working Papers Series, Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Facoltà di Sociologia, (Department of Sociology and Social Research, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento), Jean Monnet Lecture Series, JML 4. 23 pp. (refereed), 2004

P. Murray, 'Australian Voices: Some Elite Reflections on the European Union', Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia (CESAA) Review, No.29 October 2002

Other associated publications

The Challenge of the New Bilateralism:  Australias relations with Ireland in the context of the European Union, Australian Journal of Irish Studies, Issue 4, Remembered Nations, Imagined Republics, 2004, pp 207-220.

Towards a research agenda on the European Union as a Model of Regional Integration. Asia Pacific Journal of EU Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2004, pp. 33-51.