Wednesday,

08 February 2012

start 10.15am

Kirkwood Village KA04

The year starts with a special Roundtable Seminar with H.E. David Daly, Head of the EU Delegation to Australia & New Zealand and H.E. Susanne Shine, Ambassador of Denmark to Australia & New Zealand.

David Daly will be speaking on the developments of the New Zealand-EU relationship from the perspective of his work as Head of the EU Delegation to New Zealand in light of the crisis currently enveloping in the EU.

Susanne Shine will be speaking on Denmark’s term as the current President of the ‘Council of the European Union’ which runs until the end of June 2012. Additionally, Susanne will draw on her experience as Ambassador to New Zealand, Australia and Fiji.
Please also see the flyer.

10.15am to 10.30am Coffee & Tea
10.30am to 11.45am Roundtable Seminar with Q&A

Friday,

17 February 2012

Showcasing Research, Summer Studentship and Internships at the NCRE

This Seminar will be presented by Sofia Cardoso Alves (MA, Portugal), Manuel Liesenfeld (MA candidate, Germany) and Shivani Makwana (MBM Candidate UC). Our international team will present findings from their research at the NCRE.
After the Seminar we invite you to stay for a cup of coffee and some biscuits in KD01.

Thursday,

23 February 2012

start 10.30am

Special Roundtable Seminar presented by the Chargé d'Affaires of the EU Delegation to New Zealand and Wellington, Mr Michalis Rokas.

10.30am to 11.00am Morning Tea
11.00am to 12.00pm Roundtable Seminar concluding with Q&A

Friday,

24 February 2012

The European Union and the Financial Crisis

This seminar considers the way in which EU institutions responded (or failed to respond) to the banking crisis of 2008, the new EU regulatory and supervisory architecture that emerged from the banking crisis and how EU law is shaping and being shaped by the current crisis of confidence in the Eurozone.

Prof Joanna Gray
Visiting Erskine Fellow
Professor of Financial Regulation, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Friday,

02 March 2012

'"The Outraged": how and why young people are reshaping democracy in the European Union'

2011 was the year that (mostly) young people rose up and overthrew their leaders in much of North Africa and the Middle East (the so-called 'Arab Spring'). Youth activism also became major feature of European politics: from the demonstrations against youth unemployment of the ‘indignados’ (‘the outraged’) in Spain and many other countries to the Occupy movement that spread across Europe from the United States. The political and social exclusion of young people in European democracies also spilled over into violence, as with the rioting and looting that shook England last August. A number of authors have written of a ‘democratic deficit’ in the European Union. Although most attribute this deficit to the EU itself, it is in fact national democracies that are in trouble, where young people (in particular) have become increasingly detached from conventional politics and the state. Using data from the European Social Survey and the European Values Study, this paper will look at the changing nature of youth, citizenship and politics across the European Union.
Dr James Sloam
Senior Lecturer in Politics
Co-Director, Centre for European Politics
Royal Holloway, University of London
http://cep.rhul.ac.uk