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Jean Monnet lecture with European Commissioner for Climate Action Wopke Hoekstra
Date: 21 May 2024
Time: 10.30-12.30
Location: Turnzaal, FASoS
New podcast online! The Eastern Neighbourhood
Listen to the first episode of season 2 of the podcast Understanding Europe!
Charelle and Brendan are excited to share that they are back for a new season of Understanding Europe with a three part series on Democracy Promotion in the EU. Go over and have a listen!
Listen to the latest episode of the podcast here.
Save the date! 07th February: “The Crime of Solidarity”
SAVE THE DATE! 07th FEBRUARY, “THE CRIME OF SOLIDARITY”
On February 7th, we are pleased to welcome Dr. Francesco Tava as guest speaker for the second Jean Monnet lecture of this academic year. Francesco Tava is Associate Professor and head of the BA philosophy at UWE, Bristol. His research is focussing on political philosophy, applied ethics, and phenomenology, with an emphasis on political solidarity in Europe.
This lecture will be about the “Crime of Solidarity”. Afterwards, we invite you to a discussion with the lecturer.
The lecture will take place at the Spiegelzaal at FASoS, GG 80-82 from 18.30 to 20.00.
Save the date! 26 January | Roundtable in honour of professors Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks
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.
New video! Interview with Jarl Frijs-Madsen
On September 13th 2023, CERiM had the pleasure of welcoming Ambassador Jarl Frijs-Madsen to deliver the first Jean Monnet Lecture of this academic year under the title: “The European Union in a New World Order”.
Jarl Frijs-Madsen is the Danish ambassador to the Netherlands since 2021. He has been ambassador to Norway and Consul General in New York. Previously, Frijs-Madsen was Under-Secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Additionally, he worked as a futurist and Associated Partner at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.
Watch the interview with him here.
Jean Monnet lecture with Jarl Frijs-Madsen
On September 13th 2023, CERiM will have the pleasure of welcoming Ambassador Jarl Frijs-Madsen to deliver the first Jean Monnet Lecture of this academic year under the title: “The European Union in a New World Order”.
Jarl Frijs-Madsen is the Danish ambassador to the Netherlands since 2021. He has been ambassador to Norway and Consul General in New York. Previously, Frijs-Madsen was Under-Secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Additionally, he worked as a futurist and Associated Partner at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.
The lecture will take place in the Spiegelzaal at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Grote Gracht 80-82, Maastricht from 18.30 to 20.00.
Register here.
New podcast online! Looking back
The 10th and last episode of CERiM’s Understanding Europe is out now! This time, Charelle and Brendan talk about the different episodes that have been published this year, discussing how they link and what threads are pulled throughout them all. So if you haven’t yet had a chance to listen to this year’s episodes this is the place to start! A TL;DR if you will.
Listen to the newest episode of the podcast.
New podcast online! A Decentered Perspective
A new podcast of the Understanding Europe series is published.
In this episode, Brendan and Charelle sit down with Assem Dandashly and Gergana Noutcheva to discuss the legitimacy of the EU as an external democracy promoter in its southern and eastern neighbourhood while internally it is dealing with a rule of law crisis in member states such as Poland, Hungary, Austria. Has this internal crisis affected the way the EU is perceived? Has it hindered its legitimacy as an international player? Join them as they unpack these questions!
Listen to the newest episode of the podcast here.
New video online! Interview with Philomena Apiko
Our interview with head of AU-EU relations at The European Centre for Development Policy Management Philomena Apiko is online. Find the link to the video here.
Centre for European Research in Maastricht 