Conference: Commissioner Phil Hogan Launches Review of European Trade Policy Tue 16 Jun 2020 12.00 - 13.00 Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies International trade plays a central role in the EU’s economy and helps drive its prosperity and that of its partners. But EU’s trade policy is evolving in an increasingly challenging environment both ... Location: Outside EUI premises - Read more Commissioner Phil Hogan Launches Review of European Trade Policy
Online Debate: Role of Gas in the Smart Sector Integration Tue 16 Jun 2020 14.00 - 16.00 Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies The strategy for smart sector integration is an essential element in delivering the objectives of the European Green Deal. What impact will it make on the gas sector? In the absence of the Madrid Foru... Location: Outside EUI premises - Read more Role of Gas in the Smart Sector Integration
Workshop: A Discussion on Fashion: Material and Visual Approaches Tue 16 Jun 2020 16.00 - 18.00 Department of History and Civilization What do visual aspects of an object or source reveal that material ones do not? What does the materiality of a source disclose that visuality does not? How can historians of fashion consider side by s... Contact: Laura Borgese (EUI - Department of History and Civilization) - Send a mail Organiser: Iseabail Rowe Elena Rizzi (EUI) Moïra Dato (EUI) Giorgio Riello (EUI - HEC) Location: Via Zoom - Via Zoom Read more A Discussion on Fashion: Material and Visual Approaches
Seminar series: Vera E. Troeger (University of Hamburg) gives a talk on Maternity Benefits and Mothers’ Careers in Academia, in the SPS Departmental Seminar Series Wed 17 Jun 2020 12.30 - 14.00 Department of Political and Social Sciences SPS Departmental Seminar SeriesAbstract:Motherhood and professional advancements often conflict. Studies of female academics highlight gender disparities in senior ranks. One explanation for this ineq... Contact: Jennifer Rose Dari (EUI - Department of Political and Social Sciences) - Send a mail Organiser: Prof. Miriam Golden (EUI - Department of Political and Social Sciences) Speaker: Professor Vera E. Troeger (University of Hamburg) Location: VIA ZOOM - - Read more Vera E. Troeger (University of Hamburg) gives a talk on Maternity Benefits and Mothers’ Careers in Academia, in the SPS Departmental Seminar Series
Online Debate: Conversations for the Future of Europe (5): The Future of EU Unemployment Insurance: An Ethical Perspective Wed 17 Jun 2020 13.00 - 14.30 Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Department of Political and Social Sciences Recently, there have been numerous calls for the development of an EU unemployment insurance policy (compare also the recent proposal for an instrument for temporary Support to mitigate Unemployment R... Contact: European Governance and Politics Programme - Send a mail Discussant: Prof. Anton Hemerijck (EUI - Department of Political and Social Sciences) Prof. Laura Pamina Seelkopf (University of Munich) Organiser: Brigid Laffan (EUI - Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies) Prof. Philippe van Parijs (Robert Schuman Fellow and Université Catholique de Louvain) Prof. Andrea Sangiovanni (EUI - Department of Political and Social Sciences) Dr Juri Viehoff (EUI - Department of Political and Social Sciences) Lorenzo Cicchi (EUI - Robert Schuman Centre) Speaker: Prof. Andrea Sangiovanni (EUI - Department of Political and Social Sciences) Location: Outside EUI premises - Read more Conversations for the Future of Europe (5): The Future of EU Unemployment Insurance: An Ethical Perspective
Lecture: FSR C&M/FCP Joint Annual Training on Competition & Regulation for the Digital Era, Online Third Block, Digital Markets and New Regulatory Challenges 'Digital Platforms' Wed 17 Jun 2020 14.00 - 15.00 Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies This 5-week training provides expert insight into the most recent competition and regulatory issues raised by the digital economy. The course begins with an analysis of disruptive innovation and busin... Location: Outside EUI premises - Read more FSR C&M/FCP Joint Annual Training on Competition & Regulation for the Digital Era, Online Third Block, Digital Markets and New Regulatory Challenges 'Digital Platforms'
Academic Calendar: Academic Council Meeting Wed 17 Jun 2020 14.30 - 17.00 Academic Service - EXCLUSIVELY FOR AC MEMBERS - The Academic Council (AC) has general powers with regard to research and teaching at the European University Institute (EUI). It appoints the EUI’s teaching staff and d... Location: Sala del Consiglio - Villa Salviati- Castle Read more Academic Council Meeting
Webinar: Asylum Governance in Europe: Legal Frameworks, Adjudication, and New Technological Challenges Wed 17 Jun 2020 15.00 - 16.45 Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies With the occasion of the World Refugee Day, the CJC in collaboration with the MPC will hold a joint Webinar discussing some of the current challenges faced by refugees with academics and practitioners... Organiser: ACTIONES-CJC Migration Policy Centre Contact: Madalina Moraru - Send a mail Speaker: Leila Hadj-Abdou (EUI - RSCAS Migration Policy Centre) Mariavittoria Catanzariti (Research Associate, Centre for Judicial Cooperation, EUI) Madalina Bianca Moraru (EUI - Department of Law) Nick Gill (University of Exeter) Ana Beduschi (University of Exeter) Luca Minniti (Tribunal of Florence) Tony Good (University of Exeter) Location: Outside EUI premises - Read more Asylum Governance in Europe: Legal Frameworks, Adjudication, and New Technological Challenges
Working group: Colloquium on Analytical Sociology Wed 17 Jun 2020 16.45 - 19.45 Department of Political and Social Sciences This colloquium is compulsory for supervisees of Arnout van de Rijt, but is open to other researchers and visiting fellows who are committed to regular attendance. Any public lectures organized in con... Location: VIA ZOOM - Read more Colloquium on Analytical Sociology
Conference: 14th Max Weber Fellows June Conference - 'A Time for Anxiety?' - Day 1 Thu 18 Jun 2020 09.30 - 17.15 Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies ‘May you live in interesting times’ warns an apocryphal Chinese saying, sometimes used in English as a curse, which was selected as the title for last year's Venice Biennale. It may indeed be wise... Contact: Jashwanni Grewal (EUI - Max Weber Programme) - Send a mail Francesca Grassini (EUI - LAW Department) - Send a mail Location: Outside EUI premises - Read more 14th Max Weber Fellows June Conference - 'A Time for Anxiety?' - Day 1
Working group: ‘The Blind Letters: Women’s Access to Transitional Justice’ Thu 18 Jun 2020 11.00 - 12.30 Department of Law Presentation by Noemí Pérez Vásquez (Ph.D. researcher and Teaching fellow, SOAS, University of London). Discussant: Dr. Daniela Alaattinoglu (Senior researcher, University of Turku)Seeing the role of ... Location: ZOOM - Read more ‘The Blind Letters: Women’s Access to Transitional Justice’
Online Debate: The French-German COVID-19 Recovery Plan Thu 18 Jun 2020 13.00 - 14.15 Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies This online debate held by the European University Institute’s Florence School of Banking and Finance will introduce and discuss the unprecedented French-German proposal of a grants-based Recovery Pla... Contact: Florence School of Banking and Finance - Send a mail Location: Other location - Villa Schifanoia Read more The French-German COVID-19 Recovery Plan
Online Debate: The Configuration of Bidding Zones, Liquidity and Competition in the Electricity Market Thu 18 Jun 2020 14.00 - 17.30 Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies FSR Regulatory Policy Workshop Series 2019-2020The Online Workshop will aim to reflect and review the available evidence on the relationship between bidding-zone configurations and market liquidity. I... Location: Outside EUI premises - Read more The Configuration of Bidding Zones, Liquidity and Competition in the Electricity Market
Working group: Distant CLIC Conference Thu 18 Jun 2020 14.00 - 18.30 Department of Political and Social Sciences Keynote speakers: Margarita Torre (Instituto Carlos III-Juan March) Diederik Boertien (CED, Pompeu Fabra University)Presenters: Ilze Plavgo, Heta Pöyliö, Raffaele Grotti, Giampiero Passaretta and Marc... Contact: Monika Rzemieniecka (EUI - Department of Political and Social Sciences) - Send a mail Organiser: Prof. Fabrizio Bernardi Prof. Juho Härkönen Location: Via Zoom - Read more Distant CLIC Conference
Webinar: COVID-19 Trade and Development Agenda: African and Caribbean Perspectives and Expectations from Europe Thu 18 Jun 2020 15.00 - 16.00 Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies The Covid 19 pandemic is affecting the global economy and some predict it to be worse than the great depression. Is this crisis an opportunity to revisit the Trade & Development agenda? How will A... Contact: Mia Saugman - Send a mail Organiser: Bernard Hoekman (European University Institute) Location: Online - Read more COVID-19 Trade and Development Agenda: African and Caribbean Perspectives and Expectations from Europe
Lecture: Conversations in Global History - Framing World History for Undergraduates Thu 18 Jun 2020 17.00 - 18.30 Department of History and Civilization This webinar is part of a series of discussions with prominent scholars in the field of global history.Each conversation will take place at 17:00-18:30 (Florence time) and each will involve a reading ... Contact: Fabrizio Borchi (EUI - Department of History and Civilization) - Send a mail Organiser: Pieter M. Judson (EUI - Department of History and Civilization) Giorgio Riello (EUI - HEC) Speaker: Kenneth Pomeranz (University of Chicago) Daniel Segal (Pitzer College) Discussant: Daniel Forrest Banks (EUI - HEC) Klaudia Kuchno (EUI) Location: Outside EUI premises - Via Zoom Read more Conversations in Global History - Framing World History for Undergraduates
Academic Calendar: Degree awarding ceremony and June Ball Fri 19 Jun 2020 09.00 - 23.59 Academic Service Location: Outside EUI premises - Read more Degree awarding ceremony and June Ball
Workshop: Introduction to Machine Learning for the Social Science (via Zoom) Fri 19 Jun 2020 09.00 - 12.00 Department of Political and Social Sciences Location: Other location - Badia Fiesolana Read more Introduction to Machine Learning for the Social Science (via Zoom)
Conference: 14th Max Weber Fellows June Conference - 'A Time for Anxiety?' - Day 2 Fri 19 Jun 2020 09.30 - 17.30 Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies ‘May you live in interesting times’ warns an apocryphal Chinese saying, sometimes used in English as a curse, which was selected as the title for last year's Venice Biennale. It may indeed be wise... Contact: Jashwanni Grewal (EUI - Max Weber Programme) - Send a mail Francesca Grassini (EUI - LAW Department) - Send a mail Location: Outside EUI premises - Read more 14th Max Weber Fellows June Conference - 'A Time for Anxiety?' - Day 2
Working group: Justified Public Spending according to Adam Smith Fri 19 Jun 2020 10.00 - 12.00 Department of History and Civilization We have revived Adam Smith from his Corona-induced coma and start into the fifth and last book of the Wealth of Nations. In this, Adam Smith approaches a crucial question of Classical Liberalism: Whic... Contact: Johannes Ludwig Maria Pelzl (EUI) - Send a mail Organiser: Working group Economic History and Ideas Location: Outside EUI premises - Read more Justified Public Spending according to Adam Smith
Online Debate: COVID-19 and new ‘digital’ business models Fri 19 Jun 2020 13.00 - 14.00 Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies In the aftermath of COVID-19, Europe is expected to face an un-precedent economic crisis. In particular, the social self-isolation caused by COVID-19 challenges the traditional ways whereby goods and ... Location: Outside EUI premises - Read more COVID-19 and new ‘digital’ business models
Online Debate: #FlorenceLive webcast: conversations on the post-Corona world and Africa Mon 22 Jun 2020 15.00 - 16.00 School of Transnational Governance The COVID-19 pandemic has already profoundly changed how we live and work, and how the world is organised. To understand these changes and help navigate a post-Corona world, the European University In... Contact: STG Conferences - Send a mail Location: Online - Read more #FlorenceLive webcast: conversations on the post-Corona world and Africa
Summer school: Academy of European Law summer course on The Law of the European Union Mon 22 Jun 2020 11.00 - 16.00 Tue 23 Jun 2020 11.30 - 16.00 Wed 24 Jun 2020 11.30 - 12.30 Thu 25 Jun 2020 11.30 - 16.00 Fri 26 Jun 2020 11.30 - 16.00 Mon 29 Jun 2020 11.30 - 16.00 Tue 30 Jun 2020 11.30 - 16.00 Wed 01 Jul 2020 11.30 - 16.00 Thu 02 Jul 2020 11.30 - 13.00 Academy of European Law Course convenors: Claire Kilpatrick, Professor of International and European Labour and Social Law, European University Institute, and Joanne Scott, Professor of European Law, European University Inst... Location: Outside EUI premises - Read more Academy of European Law summer course on The Law of the European Union
Seminar series: Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar: 'Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools' Mon 22 Jun 2020 15.00 - 16.15 Department of Economics Abstract: We investigate whether individuals who are made aware of their stereotypes change their behavior, studying teacher bias in Italian schools. Teachers give lower grades to immigrant students c... Speaker: Prof. Michela Carlana (Harvard Kennedy School) Contact: Lucia Vigna (EUI - Department of Economics) - Send a mail Organiser: Prof. Andrea Ichino (EUI - Department of Economics) Location: Online via Zoom - Read more Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar: 'Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools'
Thesis defence: The Politics of Central Bank Reform. Post-financial crisis institutional reform in the USA and UK Tue 23 Jun 2020 14.30 - 16.30 Department of Political and Social Sciences The prudential role of central banks has been greatly strengthened since the 2008 financial crisis. Yet domestic institutional dynamics have produced significant divergence in institutional reform. T... Contact: Monika Rzemieniecka (EUI - Department of Political and Social Sciences) - Send a mail Defendant: Harpal Singh Hungin (EUI - Department of Political and Social Sciences) Examiner: Prof. Dorothee Bohle (EUI - Department of Political and Social Sciences) Prof. David Coen (University College London) Prof. Manuela Moschella (Scuola Normale Superiore) Supervisor: Prof. Pepper Culpepper (University of Oxford) Location: via zoom - Read more The Politics of Central Bank Reform. Post-financial crisis institutional reform in the USA and UK