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Researching the European Union seminar: Debating European Integration in Turbulent Times

 

Welcome to the second Researching the European Union seminar of 2024!

 

Debating European integration in turbulent times

 

We are delighted to welcome our colleagues from the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) EU-programme to present their research on contemporary themes of EU integration, including enlargement politics, memory politics and narratives about European integration.

 

13 March 2024, 15.00-16.30
The Centre for European Studies,
Unioninkatu 33, seminar room 247

 

Speakers:

Tyyne Karjalainen (FIIA): “EU member states driving European integration in the Eastern neighbourhood?”

Marco Siddi (FIIA): “Transnational Memory Politics and EU-Russia Relations”

Manuel Müller (FIIA): “The Cosmopolitan-Democratic Narrative of European Integration”

The seminar series Researching the European Union is organised and chaired by Johanna Kantola and Päivi Leino-Sandberg at the University of Helsinki.

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Researching the European Union seminar: Governing Finnish EU policy and EU-NATO relations

Welcome to the Researching the European Union seminar series session:

Governing Finnish EU policy and EU-NATO relations

17th November 2023
12.30-14.00
University of Helsinki, U33 room 247

 

We are delighted to welcome Professor Tapio Raunio and Research Director Hanna Ojanen from Tampere University to present their research on the European Union in our seminar series. The session focuses on governing policies and structures in the context of Finnish EU policy and influence and EU-NATO relations.  

Speakers:

Tapio Raunio (Tampere University): “Still speaking with one voice – or why the Finnish national EU coordination system does not change?”

Hanna Ojanen (Tampere University): “Researching EU-NATO relations”

The seminar series Researching the European Union is organised and chaired by Johanna Kantola and Päivi Leino-Sandberg at the University of Helsinki.

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Researching the European Union seminar: Gendering violence and anti-gender backlash in Europe

Welcome to the Researching the European Union seminar series session:

Gendering violence and anti-gender backlash in Europe

5th December 2023
14.00-15.30
University of Helsinki, U33 room 247

 

We are delighted to welcome Professor Mona Lena Krook (Rutgers University) to the Centre for European Studies (CES) to present her work on violence against women in politics based on her Oxford University Press book on the topic.

The seminar will also present research from the Horizon Europe funded research project CCindle studying anti-gender politics, backlash against gender equality and feminist responses to it in Europe and the EU.

 

Speakers:

Mona Lena Krook (Rutgers University): Violence against women in politics

Johanna Kantola (University of Helsinki): Conceptualising institutional feminist responses to anti-gender politics in Europe

Valentine Berthet (University of Helsinki): Findings about feminist responses to anti-gender politics in the European Parliament

The seminar series Researching the European Union is organised and chaired by Johanna Kantola and Päivi Leino-Sandberg at the University of Helsinki.