Spring Semester 2009  

Wednesday May 27, 2009
Frozen Conflicts and Failed States
Prof. Piotr Dutkiewicz - Institute of Russian and European Studies, Carleton University

Wednesday May 20, 2009
Still awkward after all these years? Britain and the EU from Margaret Thatcher to Gordon Brown
Prof. Andrew Geddes - Department of Politics, University of Sheffield

Wednesday May 13, 2009
Asymmetric Federalism and Conflict Resolution in the Arab World
Hazem Hassan Hanafi - PhD Candidate, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University

Thursday May 7, 2009
The Economics of the Israeli-Palestinian Two State Solution
Prof. Ephraim Kleiman - Professor Emeritus, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

EU-Consent Lecture
Wednesday May 6, 2009
The Lisbon Strategy post 2010
Prof. Ian Begg - European Institute, London School of Economics

Wednesday April 29, 2009
Poland and the EU Five Years After Enlargement
Prof. Grzegorz Gorzelak - Centre for European Regional and Local Studies University of Warsaw

Thursday March 26, 2009
The Israeli Occupation, the Israeli Society and the Peace
Gideon Levy - Journalist and Member of the Editorial Board, Haaretz Newspaper, Tel Aviv
Winner of the 2007 Euro-Med Journalist Prize for Cultural Dialogue

Wednesday March 11, 2009
The First 100 days of the Obama Administration
Prof. Ray La Raja - Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Wednesday February 25, 2009
Dr. Jens Woelk - Assistant Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Trento
Will present his new book: "The Constitutional Transition of Bosnia-Herzegovina. From an imposed system to a sustainable multinational State?"
Discussants:
Roberto Toniatti, Professor of  Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Trento
Roberto Belloni, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Trento

Fall Semester 2008

Wednesday December 17, 2008
Mirror of Identity: The Islamic Headscarf in Western Europe
Prof. Christian Joppke - Graduate School of Government, American University of Paris

Thursday, December 11, 2008
Welfare State Reform in the United States and the European Union – Policy Choices and the Constitution of the New Welfare Society
Dr. Christian Toft - Department of Economics, University of Kassel

Monday November 24, 2008
Official opening of the Academic Year of the School of International Studies
The Lectio Magistralis entitled "The Future of Transatlantic Relations after the US Elections of November 2008" will be delivered by
Prof. David Calleo - Director of European Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

Tuesday November 11, 2008
Italian Foreign Policy and the EU: Past and Future
Dr. Antonio Missiroli - Director of Studies, European Policy Centre Brussels

Wednesday November 5, 2008
The European Parliament and the EU Enlargement Policy
Dr. Sandro D’Angelo - European Parliament, Directorate General for External Policies

Wednesday October 29, 2008
The European Union after enlargement: continuity or change?
Dr. Pierpaolo Settembri - Secretariat of the Council of the EU, Brussels

Monday October 20, 2008
War and Nationalism: Japan and the Russo - Japanese War of 1904-5
Prof. Naoko Shimazu - School of History, Birbeck College, University of London