Selected Open Events

Open events of the European Studies Research group

Telling Stories About Europe: A Feminist Account of Brexit’. Talk by Charlotte Galpin (POLSIS, University of Birmingham), 2024. 

Don't look at them! Establishment of the Radical-Right AfD during the Past 10 Years’, Talk by Andreas Küpfer (Technical University of Darmstadt and UoB School of Government Research Visitor). Co-hosted with CEDAR, 2024.

Reflections on Recent Elections in Europe' roundtable with Patricia Correa Vila (Aston University) and Tim Haughton (POLSIS, University of Birmingham), chaired by Petra Alderman (University of Birmingham), 2023.

Morality Politics of regulating borders in Europe and Germany. Talk by Narku Laing (visiting scholar, LMU Munich). Discussant: Julian Pänke, 2019 

Ukraine’s Never-Ending ‘Crisis’, Geopolitics, Capitalism: Anomalies or Ignored Inevitabilities? Talk by Dr Yuliya Yurchenko (University of Greenwich). Discussant: David Bailey, 2019  

Not 'Coming Out'? The Attitudinal Panopticon and the Shallow Europeanisation of LGBT Rights in Serbia. Talk by Dr Koen Slootmaeckers (City University of London). Discussant: George Kyris, 2018 

Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration. Talk by Professor Catherine De Vries (Director of the Essex Centre for Experimental Social Sciences, University of Essex) Discussant: Charlotte Galpin. Chair: Julian Pänke, 2018 

Book Launch: Beyond Defeat and Austerity (by David Bailey) & The Euro Crisis and European Identities (by Charlotte Galpin), 2017 

Understanding Migration Through Film. Screening of the 40' documentary 'Refugee Highway' by award-winning film maker Chronis Pechlivanidis, followed by a discussion and Q&A with: Chronis Pechlivanidis, Film Maker; Dora Komninou, Solidarity Now; Dr Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Birmingham; Sarkawt Omar, University of Birmingham. Discussant: Dr George Kyris, 2017 

What Brexit means for Britain’s Place in the World? Panel discussion with: Ian Bond, Foreign Policy Director at Centre for European Reform, Jocelyn Mawdsley, Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle and Mark Webber, University of Birmingham. Chairs: George Kyris and Julian Pänke, 2016 

Europe after the Eurozone crisis? 2012. A panel discussion with Michelle Pace, Charlotte Galpin, Felix Heiduk, Dave Toke, David Bailey. 

Bridging the Local/Global Divide: Transnational Advocacy in Theory and Practice Conference, 2009. Hosted by Julie Gilson in association with the Open University.