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The European Studies Centre at St Antony's College is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of Europe. It has particular strengths in politics, history and international relations, but also brings together economists, sociologists, social anthropologists and students of culture. We see ourselves…

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    The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture - Central European philosophy and the search for truth in dark times

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2019 56:39


    The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture was given by Marci Shore, associate professor of history at Yale University. Her research focuses on European intellectual history, in particularly twentieth and twenty-first century Central and Eastern Europe. She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her PhD from Stanford University in 2001; and since 2004 has regularly been a visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński's The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. In 2018 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her current project titled “Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe.” The lecture was hosted by the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College and chaired by Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies.

    The 2018 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture - Poland between Europeanism and Nationalism: National Exception or Regional Norm?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2018 78:08


    Jacques Rupnik gives the 2018 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture

    Squaring the Circle on Brexit - Could the Norway Model work?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2018 41:12


    Squaring the Circle on Brexit - Could the Norway Model work? - at the European Studies Centre on June 1, 2018

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    One century, three Polands: the Second Republic, People’s Poland, and the Third Republic

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2015 78:52


    Prof Dariusz Stola, Director of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, gives a talk for the Programme on Modern Poland on 4th February 2015. Introduced by Professor Tim Garton Ash and Dr Mikolaj Kunicki.

    Sustainable finance: Restoring confidence and stability in the financial system

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2014 57:05


    Colin Mayer (Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School) gives a seminar for the PEFM programme. Chaired by Adam Bennett (St Antony's College, Oxford).

    The past is never dead: Balkan legacies of the First World War part two

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2014 63:35


    Speakers include: Ivo Banac (Yale University), Richard Crampton (St Edmund Hall, Oxford), Basil Gounaris (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Margaret Macmillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Eugene Rogan (St Antony’s College, Oxford) Convened by Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford), David Madden (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Elizabeth Roberts (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

    The past is never dead: Balkan legacies of the First World War part one

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2014 98:00


    Speakers include; Ivo Banac (Yale University), Richard Crampton (St Edmund Hall, Oxford), Basil Gounaris (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Margaret Macmillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Eugene Rogan (St Antony’s College, Oxford) Convened by Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College, Oxford), David Madden (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Elizabeth Roberts (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

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    The Cosmopolitan Outlook: How the European Project can be Saved

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2014 74:40


    Ulrich Beck, University of Munich and LSE, delivers the 2014 Dahrendorf Lecture. Discussants: Kalypso Nicolaïdis ,St Antony’s College, Oxford, Lord David Hannay, Former UK Permanent Representative to the EU and UN. Convenor: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College, Oxford).

    Reinventing politics: From the local to the regional and beyond

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2014 18:07


    Seesox annual lecture. Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania.

    Ukraine and its Place in the World

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2014 116:45


    2014 Elliott Lecture, St Antony's College. On 14 March 2014 the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre at St Antony’s College organised the 2014 Elliott Lecture: “Ukraine and its Place in the World”. The panellists were Mr Aleksander Kwasniewski – former President of Poland, Dr Javier Solana – former NATO Secretary General and EU high Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy and Dr Gwendolyn Sasse, Nuffield College, Oxford. The discussion was moderated by the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten.

    Poland, Ukraine, and the Politics of History

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2014 51:36


    POMP Lecture by Timothy Snyder.

    Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Eight.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2014 32:22


    Part Eight: Charles Powell.

    Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Three.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2014 23:29


    Part Three: Dariusz Stola.

    Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Seven.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2014 29:26


    Part Seven: Andras Mink.

    Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Six.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2014 24:51


    Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Five.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2014 38:25


    Part Five: David Ost. 1989: Turning Point for the Old Dissidents.

    Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Four.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2014 25:30


    Part Four: Anna Bikont. The legacy of Jacek Kuroń.

    Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Two.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2014 17:54


    Part Two: Timothy Garton Ash.

    Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part One.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2014 20:36


    Part One: Keynote - Aleksander Smolar.

    POMP Seminar Series 6

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2014 83:34


    From Kochanowski to Huelle and Beyond: Translating Polish Literature Before and After 1989. Panel session Presenters: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, (UK Translators Association, Mentor for BCLT), Ursula Phillips (Honorary Research Associate of UCL SSEES). George Gömöri (University of Cambridge). Chair: Jan Fellerer (Wolfson College, Oxford).

    POMP Seminar Series 5

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2014 71:49


    Vectors of Looking: Reflections on the Luftwaffe's aerial survey of Warsaw, 1944. Ella Chmielewska (Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh) . Discussants: John Beck (Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, University of Westminster). Convenor: Mikołaj Kunicki (St Antony’s College, Oxford).

    POMP Seminar Series 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2014 108:13


    Poles and Germans into Silesians: Serial Nationalisation's in Late 20th Century Poland. Speaker: Dr Jim Bjork (Department of History, King’s College London). Discussant: Dr Hugo Service (Department of History, Oxford). Chair: Professor Paul Betts (St Antony’s College, Oxford).

    POMP Seminar Series 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2014 84:28


    Legal Culture in the Process of Integration. Polish post-EU Accession migrants in the United Kingdom. Dr Agnieszka Kubal (Centre for Socio- Legal Studies, Oxford) ; discussant: Dr Jan Fellerer (Wolfson College, Oxford) , chair: Prof Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College, Oxford).

    A Schuman Compact for the Euro Area

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2014 74:50


    Ashoka Mody, Princeton University gives a seminar for the PEFM programme. The discussant was David Vines, Balliol College, Oxford and the chair was Kalypso Nicolaïdis, St. Antony's College, Oxford.

    Evolutionary Mechanisms in Business.

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2013 44:36


    Warden's Distinguished Lecture: Dr Leszek Czarnecki, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Getin Noble Bank, gives a talk on dual nature of business.

    Political Extremism in the Interwar Period and its Economic Roots.

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2013 55:15


    Kevin O'Rourke, Chichele Professor of Economic History, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, gives a seminar for the PEFM programme. The discussant was Othon Anastasa and the chair was Paul Betts, St. Antony's College, Oxford.

    Restoring Confidence in the Euro Area.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2013 43:05


    Klaus Regling, European Stability Mechanism, gives a talk for the European Studies Centre seminar series on banking and the economic recession. Chaired by Max Watson, St Antony's College.

    Banking Reform Five Years On.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2013 57:33


    John Vickers, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, gives a talk for the European Studies Centre seminar series on banking and the economic recession. Chaired by Max Watson, St Antony's College.

    The global and Euro area crises: Will next time be different?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2013 49:52


    Sean Berrigan Director for Financial Stability and Monetary Affairs in DG ECFIN at the European Commission gives a seminar on the Euro crisis. Chaired by Max Watson of St Antony's College, Oxford.

    Europe: still a common vision?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2012 56:17


    Dr Wolfgang Schäuble (German Federal Minister of Finance) delivers a lecture for the European Studies Centre, St Antony's College on 29th October 2012.

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    Addressing the crisis in Europe and the global economy: Lessons from the 1920s and 1930s?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2012 70:57


    A lecture at the St Anthony's College Oxford, European Studies Centre, given by Professor's David Vines and Patricia Clavin chaired by Maxwell Watson on 28th November 2012.

    The Impact of European Court of Human Rights' Decisions and Turkish Code Reforms Pertaining to the Headscarf on Islamist Women in Turkey: Enabling Emancipation or Legitimizing Discrimination?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2012 20:18


    Sarah Ficher, (American University), gives a talk for the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region held on Tuesday 12 June, 2012 in St Antony's College.

    Melina Mercouri's cultural activity and its continuation: Europe-economy and the power of culture

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2012 40:58


    Spyros Mercouris delivers a lecture on 7 June 2012 at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. Mr Spyros Mercouris has been Honorary President of the Cultural Capitals and Cultural Months of Europe Network, member of the board of directors of Melina Mercouri foundation and special advisor to the kids of Guernica movement. He has organised innumerous cultural events, symposia and exhibitions of high impact all over the world as well as presented documentaries and lectures on television. He is the brother of the legendary greek figure Melina Mercouri, (1920-1994) known as 'the last greek goddess', former minister of culture in Greece and actress of international acclaim having won the award of best actress in Cannes film festival and been nominated for an academy award, three golden globe awards and two BAFTA awards. Melina Mercouri was the one who conceived and established the 'european capital of culture' institution. She was a strong political activist starting an international campaign during greek military junta despite two terrorist attempts and one assasination attempt against her in Genova and her being deprived of her greek citizenship and contributed to the re-establishment of democracy. She died in 1994 while being in her post as minister of culture and received a state funeral with Prime Minister Honours. Her day of death was announced by UNESCO as international day of culture.

    Balancing Reason and Revelation: The Status of Women in the Jurisprudence of Ayatullah Yusuf Sani'i.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2012 28:51


    Concluding lecture from the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region conference by Saiyad Ahmad (American University Cairo).

    Political reconciliation as women's democratic citizenship: Women's rights-claiming around the drafting of a new constitution in Turkey

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2012 19:11


    Part of the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region conference: Politicizing Women and Women's Issues by Burcu Ozcelik (University of Cambridge):.

    Before the 'Days of Rage': Registers of Bahraini Women's Activism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2012 22:51


    Part of the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region conference: Politicizing Women and Women's Issues by Nova Robinson (Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey).

    Changing state-society relations in Morocco through family law reform: 'the state enters the home of the citizen'.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2012 18:21


    Part of the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region conference: Legal Reforms in Theory and Practice by Dörthe Engelcke (University of Oxford):.

    Custody regulations in the United Arab Emirates: Legal reforms and social realities.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2012 8:23


    Part of the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region conference: Legal Reforms in Theory and Practice by Lena-Maria Möller (Max-Planck-Institute Hamburg).

    Comparing family law reform in the MENA: Reflections on regional patterns following economic globalization.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2012 19:44


    Part of the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region confernce: Legal Reforms in Theory and Practice by Rania Maktabi (Ostfold University College).

    How Universal is Liberalism?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2012 95:24


    Professor Ronald Dworkin, New York University, delivers the 2012 Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture, with response from Professor Sir Adam Roberts, President of the British Academy.

    Is Nothing Sacred? Free Speech and Religion

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2012 61:36


    Professor A C Grayling delivers the 2011 Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture, with responses by Charles Moore and Dr. Usama Hasan. Filmed on 10 June 2011.

    After "Returning to Europe": Divides and Challenges in the Enlarged European Union

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2011 54:03


    Professor Claus Offe (Professor of Political Sociology, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin) delivers the 2011 European Studies Centre Annual Lecture on 4th March 2011.

    Does the Internet Help People Power?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2011 46:37


    Evgeny Morozov, author of "The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom", delivers a lecture on the political use of the internet, particularly during protests and demonstrations. Comment by John Lloyd (Director of Journalism Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism). Chair: Timothy Garton Ash. Organized jointly with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, the Oxford University Project on Civil Resistance and Power Politics, and the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom.

    Common Values and Federalism in Europe

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2010 56:09


    David Hannay, Peter Sutherland and Peter Luff participate in a discussion on Common Values and Federalism in Europe. Part of the Europaeum Conference recorded at St Anthony's College in September 2010.

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    British EU Policy After The Election

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2010 55:34


    Recorded on 15th June 2010, the European Studies Centre, St Antony's College presents The Chancellor of the University of Oxford Lord Patten of Barnes in conversation with Lord Hannay and Sir Stephen Wall. Convenor: Professor Jane Caplan.

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    Wellbeing and Inequality in Post-Industrial Society

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2010 102:41


    The Annual Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture is delivered by a leading thinker on a subject related to Ralf Dahrendorf's concerns. This inaugural (2010) Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture was delivered by Lord (Adair) Turner.

    Reframing Human Rights in the Global Era:a tribute to Sérgio Vieira de Mello

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2008 33:24


    "Reframing Human Rights in the Global Era: a tribute to Sírgio Vieira de Mello", delivered by the former president of Brazil, Dr Fernando Henrique Cardoso as part of the British Council's series of lectures on "Raising Human Rights Awareness".

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