This seminar series is part of the ‘Europe in the world’ research area of the Global Governance Programme at the Schuman Centre organised by Stephanie Hofmann.
All events will take place in Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia.



19 October (15.30-17.00)
Why legal form and funding models matter in advocacy
Guest speaker: Nina Hall
2 November (15.30-17.00)
Nomadic (counter)mapping: motioning migration-security nexuses
Guest speaker: Jef Huysmans
16 November (15.30-17.00)
Europe’s long twentieth century
Guest speaker: Peo Hansen
21 November (18.00-19.30)
Whiteness and the European project: An alternative account of the EU as a racialised project
Guest speaker: Hans Kundnani
23 November (15.30-17.00)
Navigating regime complexes, but how? The external dimension of EU crisis politics
Guest speaker: Berthold Rittberger
14 December (15.30-17.00)
Collusion as boundary (un-)making on the EU’s Eastern border
Guest speaker: Xymena Kurowska
18 January (13.30-15.00)
The EU’s competing sociotechnical imaginaries of defense innovation and industry
Guest speaker: Jocelyn Mawdsley
1 February (13.30-15.00)
Digital surveillance, platform power and the politics of asylum
Guest speaker: Claudia Aradau
5 February (15.00-17.00)
The information economy: media usage, political networks and public attitudes
Guest speaker: Mark Copelovitch
29 February (13.30-15.00)
‘Responding’ to immigration: the militarisation of Africa-EU relations
Guest speaker: Toni Haastrup
14 March (13.30-15.00)
The geopolitics of digital technologies: tech-imaginaries, AI and the EU’s quest for digital sovereignty
Guest speaker: Rebecca Adler-Nissen