Events

Lecture by VUB-Chair Prof. Dr. Françoise Tulkens

Lecture in the series on "The WTO Doha Round, the EU and the Future of the World Trading System" by Roger Kampf, WTO, TRIPS division.  The lecture will take place in Aula D.0.07.

Lecture in the series on "The WTO Doha Round, the EU and the Future of the World Trading System" by Christopher Roberts, Chair European Services Forum, Senior Trade analyst with Covington and Burling, former Director General Trade UK, and James Howard, Director Employment and International Labour Standards, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. The lecture will take place in Aula D.2.01 on the VUB Campus.

Lecture in the series on "The WTO Doha Round, the EU and the Future of the World Trading System" by Dr. Jochem Wiers, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embassy in Paris, Aughor of the book "Trade and environment in the EC and the WTO". The lecture will take place in Aula D.2.0.01 on the VUB Campus.

Lecture by VUB Chair Prof. Dr. Françoise Tulkens.

Final lecture in the series on "The WTO Doha Round, the EU and the Future of the World Trading System", by Dr. Peter Balas, European Commission, Deputy Director-General Trade, former Permanent Representative of Hungary to the WTO, and Prof. Dr. Jarrod Wiener, Kent University, Dean and Director Brussels School for International Studies. The lecture will take place in Aula B.031 on the VUB Campus.

Presentation by IES Researcher Camilla Adelle on her research “The European Union and the ‘External’ Dimension of Sustainable Development: Ambitious Promises but Disappointing Outcomes?”

On 15 February, the VUB hosted a conference on the integration at EU level of environmental concerns into other policy areas such as transport, energy and development cooperation. It was organised by EPIGOV, a research project on the modes of governance used at all levels, from local to global, to promote environmental policy integration. Nineteen research institutions from ten European countries have come together under the auspices of EPIGOV to organise three thematic conferences, of which this was the first.

IES Lecture Series on European Identity:  "New Europeans, New Identities."  Lecture by Richard Lewis of the Institute for European Studies.  Aula E.0.04

On 15 February, the VUB hosted a conference on the integration at EU level of environmental concerns into other policy areas such as transport, energy and development cooperation. It was organised by EPIGOV, a research project on the modes of governance used at all levels, from local to global, to promote environmental policy integration. Nineteen research institutions from ten European countries have come together under the auspices of EPIGOV to organise three thematic conferences, of which this was the first.

Lecture by VUB Chair Prof. Dr. Françoise Tulkens

IES Colloquium: "The Place of Non-competition Considerations in EC Antitrust and Merger control in the Audiovisual and Telecommunications Sectors". Presentation by Ben Van Rompuy in the IES Conference Room.

IES Lecture Series on European Identity: "European citizens: commonality and diversity". Lecture by Professor Tariq Ramadan, St Anthony's College, Oxford. Aula E.0.04. 

On February 22nd IES welcomed Professor Tariq Ramadan as the second speaker in the Spring Lecture Series on European Identity.

 

In the framework of the Spring Lecture Series on European Identity, IES and the University of Kent at Brussels  welcomed Professor Susan Condor of the Department of Psychology of the University of Lancaster to present the findings of a study done in the Greater Manchester area of Northern England. The study concerned the attitudes of working class Muslim youth of Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic origin towards their local, British and European identities.

IES Colloquium: "Interviews and interview techniques for policy analysis". Lecture by Leo Van Audenhove. The lecture will take place in the IES Conference Room. Registration is required!
 

IES Lecture Series on European Identity: "Integration Policies for Europe: A Common Agenda." Lecture by Dr. Iwona Piorko, DG Justice, Freedom and Security, European Commission. Aula E.0.04.

The fourth presentation in IES’ Spring lecture series was delivered by Dr. Iwona Piorko from the Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security.

Lecture by VUB Chair Prof. Dr. Françoise Tulkens

IES Lecture Series on European Identity: "Rethinking Turkish Identity on the Road to the European Union." Lecture by Dr. Salme Ozcurumez, Centre for European Studies at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. Aula E.0.04

For the 6th lecture in the current series on European Identity, IES welcomed the lawyer and anthropologist Professor Marie-Claire Foblets on March 22nd 2007. She delivered a fascinating and very clear lecture on the private international law aspects of Islamic personal law especially in the area of marriage and divorce where there appear to be numerous conflicts in the practice authorised by the law in Islamic countries and the practice in EU Member States.

Lecture by VUB Chair Prof. Dr. Françoise Tulkens

IES Lecture Series on European Identity: "Making Citizens in Europe:  How to Make Citizenship More Relevant and More Inclusive." Lecture by Prof. Rainer Bauböck, Institut fur Politikwissenschaft, Innsbruck. Aula E.0.04.

IES Colloquium: "Engaging China - Uniting Europe? The European Foreign and Security Policy towards The People's Republic of China". Presentation by May-Britt Stumbaum,
DGAP (German Council on Foreign Relations) European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Program. The presentation will take place in the IES Conference Room.

IES Lecture Series on European Identity:  Prof. John Bowen of Washington University (St. Louis) will read a lecture "The French Headscarf Issue:  What this Means for European Identity."  The lecture will take place in Aula E. 0. 04