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On 9 May 2013 Europe will celebrate the 63rd anniversary of the Schuman Declaration. Sixty-three years ago, on 9 May 1950, the then French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman made the first move towards the creation of what we now know as the European Union (EU).
This year’s celebrations will be especially poignant following the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize 2012 to the EU. In its citation, the Nobel Committee said that the EU had “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe”.
The European External Action Service (EEAS) will be joining the other European Institutions throughout the month of May to celebrate Europe Day worldwide. EU Delegations will be leading a range of different events in their host countries on the theme of Europe in the World. Lectures, competitions, film festivals and other events organised by the EU Delegations in cooperation with [...]
The European Commission website recently published the Policy Review reporting the main findings ensued from the conference on “European Identity/Identities”, organized by the EC in Brussels in February 2012. The publication, authored by Prof. Robert Miller from Queen’s University, draws on a set of EU-funded research projects under FP6 and FP7 that deal(t) with questions related to identity in Europe. The book can be accessed via the website of the conference.
Farum is a suburb 40 minutes away from Copenhagen. Here, following the wish of a major, in the middle of the Nineties was born the first idea of an Immigrants Museum, now hosted in the Culture House (the museum as it is now opened its doors at the beginning of 2012). The Immigrantmuseet is a part of the state authorised Furesø Museums, which also run local museums and archives. Entrance is free. Anna Chiara Cimoli (Politecnico of Milan) visited it in the framework of her research about migration museums, and interviewed curator Susanne Krogh Jensen.
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‘Europe(to the power of) n’ at the House der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Europe (to the power of) n is a collaboration between 10 institutions in Europe and beyond led by the Goethe Institut – with the RCA as an organising partner. The launch event leads on from a series of ‘Scenarios about Europe’ in 2011/12 at the GfZK in Leipzig, and begins a cycle of exhibitions, projects, conferences and publications in the partner institutions running until March 2013.
The first exhibition will be ‘The Europa Triangle’ which opens at the Royal College of Art Battersea Galleries on Tuesday 17 July
The University of Glasgow is pleased to host a half day conference this Thursday, 17 May, on “National Identities – A Scottish – Bavarian comparison”. The conference begins at 2pm and is being held in the Gannochy Room at the Wolfson Medical School Building.
Speakers include:
Angus Robertson MP on “Identity in Scotland ahead of the Independence Referendum”
Dr Ludwig Spaenle, Bavarian Minister for Culture and Education, “Bavaria and Germany and Europe. Annotations to his present-day position and identity”
Prof Dauvit Broun and Dr Catriona MacDonald , University of Glasgow – “Between States: historical perspectives on being Scottish”
Prof Ferdinand Kramer, University of Munich, “A Thousand Years and more of History”
Attendance is free but you are required to register in advance via: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/events/conferences/nationalidentities/ . A more detailed programme can also be found via this link.
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The COCOPS project (Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future) seeks to comparatively and quantitatively assess the impact of New Public Management-style reforms in European countries, drawing on a team of European public administration scholars from 11 universities in 10 countries. It will analyse the impact of reforms in public management and public services that address citizens’ service needs and social cohesion in Europe. Evaluating the extent and consequences of NPM’s alleged fragmenting tendencies and the resulting need for coordination is a key part of assessing these impacts.
In eight related international research projects, COCOPS will map and analyse innovative mechanisms in the public sector to improve social and policy coordination, especially when the public sector is facing the public crisis. The research will contribute to our understanding of the impact of NPM by integrating sectoral and national analyses and to the development of future public sector [...]
International Conference as part of the
MeLA* – European Museums in an Age of Migrations European Commission FP7-funded project
Organised by the International Centre for Cultural & Heritage Studies, Newcastle University 3-4 September 2012
Call for Papers
The imperatives surrounding the museum representation of place have shifted from the late eighteenth century to today. This is in part because the political significance of place itself has changed and continues to change at all scales, from local, civic, regional to national and supranational. At the same time, recognition of changes in population flows, migration patterns and demographic movement now underscore both cultural and political practice, be it in the accommodation of ‘diversity’ in cultural and social policy, scholarly explorations of hybridity or in state immigration controls. These issues, taken historically, have particular significance for contemporary understandings of the role [...]
Lecture series
Dublin, 9 February, 15 March and 26 April 2012
How Migration Challenges Notions of Society, Education and Culture is a part of the lecture series EUNIC/UNIQUE Thoughts: Public Discussions on European Issues. The lectures will take place in the Goethe-Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 on 9 February, 15 March and 26 April 2012 from 2 to 5 pm.
Ireland is one of just two EU countries that has a majority of migrants from the EU member states. The diversity and scale of EU migration is a recent phenomenon though there is a long tradition of migration to Ireland from some EU-15 states, especially the UK, Germany and France. Ireland has also become home to a range of people from outside the EU including Nigeria, China, India, Philippines and Brazil. The lectures and panel discussions for each theme will assess how migrants are [...]
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