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CREES Noon Lecture. National Minorities as a Legal Category in the Czech Republic (and Beyond) at the Time of Rising Nationalism
Helena Hofmannová, associate professor of constitutional law, Charles University; Michigan Grotius Senior Research Scholar, U-M
The Czech philosopher Jan Patočka wrote in Europe and the post-European Age that demolition is a certain type of construction. The current...
Conversations on Europe/CREES Lecture. Making a New Europe: A Transnational Ethnography of Far-right Activism
Agnieszka Pasieka, Elise Richter Research Fellow, University of Vienna
Contemporary far-right activists in Europe are often portrayed as anti-European. Given that “Bruxelles” is one of their chief enemies,...
Conversations on Europe. Different Pathways, Common Destination? Public Policy and Institutional Changes in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain during and after the Economic Crisis
Dimitri Sotiropoulos, professor of political science, University of Athens
While Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain slid into economic crisis in the 2010 for different reasons and at different time points and have...
CREES Noon Lecture. How the West Corrupts the East: Swedish Bribes and Uzbek Dictators
Fredrik Laurin, Knight-Wallace Fellow and special projects editor for Current Affairs, SVT (Swedish Television)
With a world record fine and the CEO now on trial in Sweden, Europe’s fifth largest telecommunications provider, Telia Company AB, is...
WCED Lecture. Politics Goes Pear Shaped. Old Regime Cultures and Revolutionary Politics, ca. 1792-1825
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, associate professor of history and spatial sciences, University of Southern California
Can the story of a pear help us understand the rise of democracy in the West? This talk uses the career of Louis-Augustin Bosc, a French...
