Jean Monnet Lectures at CERC

The following lectures at the Contemporary Europe Research Centre, have been sponsored by the Jean Monnet Chair, held by Associate Professor Philomena Murray.

2009

• Mme Odile Quintin (Director General for DG Education and Culture, European Commission)
  ‘Meeting the Challenges for Education in Europe’
  2 March
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• Dr Antonio Missiroli (European Policy Centre, Brussels)
  'Does the European Union have a Security Strategy?'
  21 April
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• Prof Adam Rotfeld (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, former Foreign Minister of Poland)
  'Shaping a New International Security System'
  5 October
  

2007

• Prof Jan Zielonka (Professor of European Politics and Ralf Dahrendorf Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford)
  "Europe as a Global Democracy Agent"
  1 May
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• Prof Martin Holland (Director, National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury)
  "The EU through the Eyes of Asia: A Comparative Study of Media Perceptions"
  24 August
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• Prof Brigid Laffan (Research Director, Dublin European Institute based at University College Dublin)
  "From Fischer to the European Constitution and Beyond"
  2 October
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2006

• Prof Marek Belka (Executive Secretary of the UN’s Economic Commission for Europe, former Prime Minister of Poland)
  "The European Union after Enlargement: Challenges and Opportunities"
  7 March
  (CERC in association with the Australian Institute of Polish Affairs)
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2005

• Prof Richard Bellamy (Department of Government, University of Essex, UK)
  "Between Past and Future: The Democratic Limits of EU Citizenship"
  16 March
• Prof Michael Keating (Professor and Head of Department, Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute)
  "The New Regionalism in Europe: Territorial Restructuring and Political Change"
  13 August
• Prof Jacques Rupnik (Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and Research Director at CERI – Foundation National des Sciences Politiques, Paris)
  "The dilemmas of the post-enlargement European Union"
  1 December
• Mr Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Prime Minister, Republic of Turkey)
  "Alliance of Civilisations"
  7 December

2004

• Prof Jürgen Meyer (Tübingen University, Delegate of the German Bundestag to the EU Constitutional Convention),
  "State and Society Building? An insider account of the attempt to construct an EU Constitution"
  3 November
• Prof Dietmar Braun (Institut d'Etudes Politiques et Internationales, Université de Lausanne),
  "Federal Perspectives of Governing the European Union"
  9 November
  

2003

• Dr Hermann Schmitt (University of Mannheim)
  "Problems of Political Linkage in the European Union"
  21 March
• Prof Jacek Puchla (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
  "The Future of the Past: The Role of National Heritage in the New European Union"
  25 March
• Prof Finn Laursen (Director, Centre for European Studies, University of Southern Denmark ),
  "Regional Integration Schemes: International Regimes or Would-Be Polities?"
  10 October

2002

• Dr Fraser Cameron (Head of the Political and Academic Affairs Section, Delegation of the European Commission, Washington)
  "Europe the Strange Superpower"
  2 July

2001

• Prof Philippe Schmitter (European University Institute in Florence)
  "How to Democratize the EU ...and Why Bother?"
  12 September

CERC Seminars falling within the ambit of the Jean Monnet Chair

2009
CERC Spinelli Lecture Series

This is an activity of the Jean Monnet Chair ad personam (Agreement number 2006-1544/001-001) awarded to Associate Professor Philomena Murray.

• Prof Richard Pearson (Visiting Professor, Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex; and at the Centre for Labour Market Studies at the University of Leicester)
  3 March
  European research; a personal employment odyssey
• Prof Claudia Riehl (Director of the Centre of Language Diversity and Multilingualism at the University of Cologne)
  17 March
  The EU and the challenges of multilingualism
• Dr Fraser Cameron (Director of the EU-Russia Centre, Director of EuroFocus-Brussels)
  31 March
  The EU's relations with its strategic partners: The US, Russia and China

2008
CERC Spinelli Lecture Series

This is an activity of the Jean Monnet Chair ad personam (Agreement number 2006-1544/001-001) awarded to Associate Professor Philomena Murray.

• Prof Richard Pearson (Visiting Professor at the University of Sussex’s Centre for Migration Research and at the Centre for Labour Market Studies at the University of Leicester and Research Director at the Employability Forum)
  11 March
  Shaping Immigration Policy and Numbers: Some international reflections
• H.E. Gábor Csaba (Ambassador of Hungary)
  22 April
  The Significance of the Transatlantic Link: A Central European Perspective
• Prof Jean-Noel Jeanneney (President, Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
  30 April
  National stereo-types and the construction of the European Union

2005

• Prof Jörg Fisch (Modern History, University of Zurich)
  "Why is Europe the only continent with a history?"
  18 April
• Professor Gudrun Biffl (Senior Research Fellow, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Professor of Economics, University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna)
  “Immigration to Europe in the Context of EU Enlargement”
  21 June
• Dr Simon Lightfoot (School of Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University) “The consolidation of Europarties? The impact of the party article on the development of political parties in the European Union" 19 July
• Associate Professor Carlo Altomonte (Department of Economics, Universita Bocconi)
  “The way ahead: Economics and policies in the enlarged Europe”
  9 August
• Dr Leo Cooper (CERC Senior Fellow)
  “Long Road to the Lucky Country: European Immigration and Multiculturalism in Australia"
  23 August
• Matthew Baldwin (Acting Director, Directorate-General for Trade, European Commission, Brussels)
  “EU-Australia trade and economic relations: nothing but problems?"
  23 November

2004

• Dr Lorand Bartels (School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK)
  'Human Rights Conditionality in the EU's External Trade Relations'
  12 July
• Dr Stefan Auer (CERC Fellow, Dublin European Institute, University College Dublin)
  ‘Whose Europe is it Anyway? Derrida, Habermas, Havel, Patočka and Rumsfeld debate the meaning of European identity’
  3 August
• Prof Cas Mudde (Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp)
  ‘National Populism and Globalisation’
  10 August
• Mr Peter Kemp (Department of Cinema Studies, RMIT), ‘Tasting the Pudding: Contemporary European Cinema’, 17 August.
• Dr Michael Bruter (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK), ‘Media, Symbols and European Identity: A six country case study’, 24 August.
• Consul-General of Croatia, Ms Ana Modun, "Croatia and the EU", 7 September.
• University of Melbourne International Public Lecture and Dean’s Public Lecture, Dr Garret FitzGerald (former Prime Minister, Ireland) ‘Reflections on Europe’s Role in a Globalised World’, 14 September.
• His Excellency Dr Klaus-Peter Klaiber (Ambassador, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany ), The New Security Structure in Europe , 28 September.
• Dr Andrew Dawson (Department of Anthropology, The University of Melbourne) Displacement and refugee return: the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina 12 October.

2003

• Professor Jacek Purchla (Jagiellonian University, Poland) 'The Future of the Past: The Role of National Heritage in the New EU' 25 March
• Mr Patrick Ensor (Editor, The Guardian Weekly) 'Britian, Europe and Iraq' 28 March
• Dr Luke Nottage (Faculty of Law, Sydney University) 'Convergence, Divergence and the Middle Way in Harmonising or Unifying Private Law: Recent European Developments and Implications for Australia' 15 April
• Professor Peter Hans Nelde (German Linguistics, Brussels University) 'Brussels - A New Tower of Babel' 20 May
• Dr George Joffe (Royal Institute of International Affairs, London) 'The Trans-Atlantic Relationship and the Future of the European Union after Pre-emptive Intervention in Iraq' 27 May
• Prof. Pnina Werbner (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Keele University) 'The Predicament of Diaspora: Muslims in Britain' 8 July
• Prof. Michael Henry Heim ‘The Literary Process in the New Europe’ (University of California at Los Angeles) 22 July
• Dr Carl Levy (University of London) "Europe's Asylum and Refugee Policy since 11 September 2001" 24 July
• Professor Eiko Theilemann (London School of Economics) 'Why EU Policy Harmonisation Undermines Refugee Burden-Sharing' 26 August
• Professor Finn Laursen (Director, Centre for European Studies, University of Southern Denmark) 'The Convention's Draft Constitution: Towards a more federal EU?' 14 October