If they ever did, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) do not stand alone as ‘ivory towers’ separate from society and economy. Nor are HEIs completely removed from either the foreign policy of their home governments or from transnational governance. Indeed, recent Horizon 2020 programs have funded HEIs to undertake research into science and cultural diplomacy but have been relatively silent on the roles that these institutions might play in diplomacy. HEI roles and functions in diplomacy go beyond treating HEIs as mere ‘tools’ of public or civic diplomacy. Instead, this paper/seminar adopts and extends the classic typology of the Royal Society and American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to examine their (potential) deeper imbrication in diplomatic praxis.

Speaker: Diane Stone

Discussant: Daniele Caramani

*This event will be on Zoom. Registered participants will receive the meeting ID and password on the day of the event.

REGISTRATION

Programme coming soon.

Speakers: Claire Dunlop, Jonathan Kamkhaji, Claudio Radaelli & Gaia Taffoni

The EGPP hosts a Seminar Series fortnightly on Wednesdays at 12.30-2pm in Villa Schifanoia or in Badia Fiesolana. The series covers the following types of seminars:

For more information see the events webpage here.

The 2019 European Parliament elections have been described as ‘a fateful election for Europe’. Despite the outcome not matching the feared landslide success of Eurosceptic and populist forces, the general picture is that of a European Union where polarisation and politicisation is higher than the past. The EGPP Annual Conference 2020 presents high-level scholarly research on, broadly, the drivers and consequences of the electoral results of May 2019, as well as the European political space and its (reshaped?) dimensionality. A keynote speech by Simon Hix, who will join the EUI in September 2021 as Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics, opens the conference. Then, the first two panels are devoted to Europe’s issue space. The second day comprises three panels dedicated to institutions and citizens, with a focus on electoral systems, spitzenkandidaten, selectorate, party choice and turnout. A final panel on populism and radical right closes the conference. The selected papers presented in the conference will be evaluated by the conference organisers and later published as either chapters to an Edited Volume or articles of a Special Issue in a scientific journal.

*This event will be on Zoom. Registered participants will receive the meeting ID and password prior to the start of the event.

Organisers

Lorenzo Cicchi | European University Institute
Diego Garzia | University of Lausanne
Brigid Laffan | European University Institute
Alexander H. Trechsel | University of Luzern

PROGRAMME & REGISTRATION

A recording of the read-out of the 2019 vote for the European Parliament that took place on 29 May 2019 at EUI can be found here.
Find out more about previous editions of the EGPP Annual Conference here.