On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), we are delighted to award honorary doctorates to Prof. Dr. Liesbet Hooghe and Prof. Dr. Gary Marks for their joint research on multi-level governance, particularly in the context of European integration. 

Professors Hooghe and Marks will receive their honorary doctorates in the St. Janskerk during the celebration of the 48th Dies Natalis of Maastricht University on Friday 26 January (afternoon). In the morning, we will organize a roundtable in their honour at our faculty. This will be an opportunity to meet both laureates and for FASoS colleagues to reflect on the importance of their research. Please join us for this celebration.

Programme – Friday 26 January

10:40 Welcome with coffee and tea

11:00 Roundtable on the importance of multi-level governance

Chair: Hylke Dijkstra

• Christine Neuhold

• Paul Stephenson

• Soetkin Verhaegen

• Iskander de Bruycker

11:30 Discussion with the audience

Chair: Sophie Vanhoonacker

• Responses by professors Hooghe and Marks

• Initial questions by students from the Research Master European Studies

• Questions and answers

12:30   Sandwich lunch at FASoS

The programme will take place at the Turnzaal, FASoS.

Registration

Please register for this roundtable at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences via this link: https://maastrichtuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5hydOaJ6iROwyV0 

Note: There is a separate registration for the celebration of the Dies Natalis in the St. Janskerk in the afternoon of 26 January (the University has send a registration link via email).

About the laureates

Professors Hooghe and Marks originally coined the concept of multi-level governance in the early 1990s. Their study of the unraveling of the central state, resulting in increased regional, European and international authority, fundamentally shapes our understanding of European Studies today. The study of politicisation, the theory of postfunctionalism, and their recent work on transnational cleavages are major scholarly innovations that follow from their thirty-year long research agenda. Their work is critically important for us in Maastricht and as it gives us insight into European integration, international organisations, but also devolution and regional governance. What is more, professors Hooghe and Marks have been massively supportive of a new generation of European Studies scholars.