Seminars 2020-2021

The EGPP hosts a Seminar Series fortnightly or weekly on Wednesdays at 12:30-2pm. The EGPP Seminar Series covers the following types of seminars:

October 21, 2020 – Emeroteca (Badia Fiesolana)
EGPP Seminar Series: Research Seminar
Itinera Europea: Four Scenarios and their Plausibility
Speaker: Adrienne Héritier

November 4, 2020 – Emeroteca (Badia Fiesolana)
EGPP Seminar Series: Research Seminar
Postfunctionalism Reversed: Solidarity and Rebordering during the Corona-crisis
Speaker: Philipp Genschel

November 18, 2020 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Research Seminar
Political Consequences of the Great Recession – Key Results of the POLCON Project
Speaker: Hanspeter Kriesi

December 2, 2020 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Book Presentation
Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe
Speakers: Catherine E. De Vries & Sara Hobolt

December 16, 2020 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Book Presentation
Towards a Segmented European Political Order: The European Union’s Post-crises Conundrum
Speakers: John Erik Fossum & Jozef Bátora

January 13, 2021 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Seminar of the European Union Studies Working Group
No more saints and sinners: Tracing German preference formation in the EU’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic
Speakers: Amandine Crespy & Lucas Schramm

January 27, 2021 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Research Seminar
Higher Education Diplomacy
Speaker: Diane Stone

February 10, 2021 – Hybrid – Sala del Capitolo (Badia Fiesolana)
EGPP Seminar Series: Research Seminar
When all the pieces do not fall into place: the design of regulatory policy instruments across the EU Member States
Speakers: Claire Dunlop, Jonathan Kamkhaji, Claudio Radaelli & Gaia Taffoni

February 24, 2021 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Research Seminar
EU Member States’ positions on differentiated integration. What do governments say they want?
Speakers: Stefan Telle & Claudia Badulescu

March 10, 2021 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Book Presentation
Foundations of European Politics: A New Approach to Teaching the Politics of Europe
Speaker: Jonathan Slapin, Sara Hobolt, Catherine E. De Vries & Sven-Oliver Proksch

March 24, 2021 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Seminar of the European Union Studies Working Group
‘Europe will be built through crises?’ Explaining the variation in the outcomes of crises of European integration 
Speaker: Lucas Schramm

April 7, 2021 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Seminar of the European Union Studies Working Group
European Solidarity in Times of Crisis
Speaker: Rouven Symank

April 14, 2021 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Conversations for the Future of Europe
A Democratic Panopticon for the Recovery Fund as a new form of permanent citizen Involvement in EU decision-making
Speaker: Kalypso Nicolaïdis
Discussants: Albena Azmanova & Hannah Werner

April 21, 2021 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Book Presentation
The European Ambition: The Group of the European People’s Party and European Integration
Speakers: Luciano Bardi & Jacopo Cellini

May 5, 2021 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Conversations for the Future of Europe
A Republic of Europe? European democracy after the pandemic
Speaker: Ulrike Guérot
Discussants: Alberto Alemanno & Stefan Collignon

May 12, 2021 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Conversations for the Future of Europe
Democratising Europe’s economic government: The T-Dem Proposal of a Transnational Parliamentary Assembly
Speaker: Antoine Vauchez
Discussant: Joachim Blatter & Siyana Timcheva

May 19, 2021 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Conversations for the Future of Europe
EU taxes and how they can increase citizens support for the European Union
Speaker: Miguel Maduro
Discussants: Jakob Kapeller & Mattias Kumm

May 26, 2021 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Research Seminar
The Adoption of the EU’s Covid Recovery Plan: Policy Shift, Legal Engineering, and Institutional Transformation? 
Speaker: Bruno de Witte

June 2, 2021 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Research Seminar
Europe’s New Fiscal Union
Speaker: Pierre Schlosser

June 16, 2021 – Online via Zoom
EGPP Seminar Series: Research Seminar
Covid-19: Resilience and adaptation of the EU’s legislative process
Speakers: Selma Bendjaballah & Valentin Kreilinger

Conferences

The EGPP hosts an Annual Conference that focuses on a crucial theme for the European Union. Twice annually Dialogues are held jointly with the European Parliament Research Services (EPRS) to bring together academics and policy makers.

Aside from these regular events, EGPP holds workshops, debates and conferences organised within the various projects and covering the topics specific to their research.

Explore our calendar of events here.