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The calendar has been arranged in sequential date order and includes both UACES events and non-UACES events. Details about events not already listed should be sent via email to admin[a]uaces.org.


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January 2008


12 January 2008
Thinking Through Governance & Sustainability: Exploring Governance Theory & its Relationship to Sustainable Development - seminar by Ian Bache
Venue: London, UK
Contact: Mike Brooks (m.brooks1[a]westminster.ac.uk)


19 January 2008
 UACES Supported Event 
The Treaty of Rome, the European Parliament and the Regions and Substate Nations of the European Union
Venue: Edinburgh, UK
Contact: Andrea Birdsall (a.birdsall[a]ed.ac.uk)


February 2008


7 February 2008
Gas and electricity markets: working for consumers or national champions? - conference
Venue: Brussels, Belgium
Contact: European Voice


8 February 2008
Understanding the EU Reform Treaty - conference
Venue: London, UK
Contact:
Centre of European Law, King's College London


9 February 2008
Social aspects of Green Economics: Basic income, women and debt,  poverty, human trafficking, pensions, women’s access to economics
Venue: Oxford UK
Contact: Miriam Kennet (events[a]greeneconomicsinstitute.eu)


16 February 2008
 UACES Supported Event
 50%
Gender, Equality and Politics: European Futures
Venue: Guildford, Surrey, UK
Contact:
James Nye (jn0003[a]surrey.ac.uk) or Roberta Guerrina (r.guerrina[a]surrey.ac.uk)


16 February 2008
 UACES Supported Event
European Voice EU Studies Fair - Fair and Workshop (due to include a seminar organised by UACES)
Venue: Brussels, Belgium
Contact: Mayssa Badr (mayssa.badr[a]economist.com)


21 February 2008
 UACES Lecture
Gérard Errera, Secrétaire Général, Quai d'Orsay: The Future of Europe - ESDP and the French EU Presidency
Venue: Brussels, Belgium
Contact: Sue Davis (sedavis[a]uaces.org)


28 February 2008
European Investment Bank - Annual Press Conference
Venue: Brussels, Belgium
Contact: European Investment Bank


March 2008


1 March 2008
3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference on the European Union -  The Future of the EU: Addressing the Challenges of Governance, Globalization and Multiculturalism
Venue: Pittsburgh, USA
Contact: eu
conf[a]pitt.edu


5-8 March 2008
Sixteenth International Conference of the Council for European Studies
Venue: Chicago, USA
Organised by: Council for European Studies


12 March 2008
Discourses of Sustainability: An Approach to Governance Research - seminar by Yvonne Rydin
Venue: London, UK
Contact: Mike Brooks (m.brooks1[a]westminster.ac.uk)


13-14 March 2008
The EU Enlargement and Turkey – Challenges and Possibilities - conference
Venue: Växjö, Sweden
Contact: Stefan Lindkvist (Stefan.Lindkvist[a]vxu.se)


13-14 March 2008
Political Control and Accountability in a European Perspective - conference
Venue:
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Contact:
ilse.vandendriessche[a]pubr.unimaas.nl or marina.jodogne[a]facburfdr.unimaas.nl


26-28 March 2008
EU-Asia Relations: A Critical Review
Venue: Melbourne, Australia
Contact:
pbmurray[a]unimelb.edu.au


29-31 March 2008
British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Annual Conference 2008
Venue: Cambridge, UK
Contact:
basees2008[a]basees.org.uk


31 March - 3 April 2008
58th Political Studies Association Annual Conference: Democracy, Governance and Conflict
Venue: Swansea, UK
Organised by: Political Studies Association


April 2008


1 April 2008
'Europe: the State of the Union' and 'A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair' - book launch
Venue: London, UK
Contact: bne.events2008[a]googlemail.com


3-4 April 2008
Remembering 1948 and 1968: Reflections on Two Pivotal Years in Czech and Slovak History - conference
Venue: Glasgow, UK
Contact:
Laura Cashman (l.cashman[a]lbss.gla.ac.uk)


3-4 April 2008
The Role of the Franco-German Tandem in Re-launching the EU - conference
Venue: Bruges, Belgium
Contact:
Luis Bouza Garcia (
lbouza[a]coleurop.be)


10 April 2008
 UACES Supported Event  50%
Thematic workshop for JCER special issue 2008: 'Media and Communication in Europe: Babel Revisited'
Venue: Bristol, UK
Contact: Agnes Inge Schneeberger (icsaih[a]leeds.ac.uk)


11-12 April 2008
European Integration Without Integration of European Societies? Fourth HEIRS Conference
Venue: Brussels, Belgium
Contact:
heirs2008[a]ulb.ac.be


11-16 April 2008
ECPR Joint Sessions
Venue: Rennes, France
Contact:
ecpr[a]essex.ac.uk


17-18 April 2008
New Employment Policies in the European Union: What Can We Learn from the Best Performing Countries?
Venue: Paris, France
Contact: info[a]cicerofoundation.org


17-18 April 2008
Issues and Challenges of e-Government: Experiences from Europe and Beyond - conference
Venue: Norwich, UK
Contact:
Vassiliki Koutrakou (v.koutrakou[a]uea.ac.uk)


18 April 2008
 UACES Supported Event
 50%
A Comparative Perspective on the Right to Strike
Venue: Leicester, UK
Contact:
Mark Bell  (mark.bell[a]leicester.ac.uk)


18-19 April 2008
18 April 1948: Italy between Continuity and Rupture - conference
Venue: Reading, UK
Contact:
Linda Risso (l.risso[a]reading.ac.uk)


18-19 April 2008
European Union Policies in the Making - conference
Venue: Krakow, Poland

Contact: Anna Marszałek (amarszalek[a]wse.krakow.pl)


23 April 2008
T
he 2008 Italian General Elections - roundtable
Venue: Loughborough, UK
Contact: Martin Mik csig[a]lboro.ac.uk


24-25 April 2008
 UACES Supported Event  50%
9th Annual Conference of the UACES Student Forum
Venue: Canterbury, UK
Contact: UACES Student Forum


24-26 April 2008
The European Union in International Affairs - conference
Venue: Brussels, Belgium
Contact: conference[a]ies.be


25 April 2008
The European Parliament in an enlarged EU: Beyond the Lisbon Treaty
Venue: London, UK
Contact: Ulrike Rüb-Taylor (ulrike.rub[a]fedtrust.co.uk)


25 April 2008
Croatia and the EU: A Sussex European Institute European Perspectives Conference
Venue: Brighton, UK
Contact:
Adrian Treacher (a.h.treacher[a]sussex.ac.uk)


28 April 2008
Party Politics & the EU on the Island of Ireland - conference
Venue: Dublin, Ireland
Contact:
essg.psai[a]gmail.com


30 April 2008
 UACES Event
UACES-Reuters ‘Reporting Europe’  Lecture and Awards Ceremony
Venue: London, UK
Contact: Sue Davis (sedavis[a]uaces.org)


May 2008


2 May 2008
The Lisbon Treaty and Beyond: Hype, Hopes and Fairytales - conference
Venue: Oxford, UK
Contact:
jenny.dix[a]iecl.ox.ac.uk


5 May 2008
Europa y Mediterráneo: Política Migratoria, Seguridad y Defensa
Venue: Zaragoza, Spain
Contact: Stelios Stavridis (dr.stelios.stavridis[a]gmail.com)


5-6 May 2008
The EU as a Global Actor - conference
Venue: Halifax, Canada
Contact: F
inn Laursen (finn.laursen[a]dal.ca)


7 May 2008
The Case Study Method in Research on Governance & Sustainability - seminar by Joe Ravetz
Venue: London, UK
Contact: Mike Brooks (m.brooks1[a]westminster.ac.uk)


9 May 2008
Creation, Evolution, Dissolution: New Research on Yugoslavia, 1918-2008 - conference
Venue: London, UK
Contact:
Dejan Djokić (d.djokic[a]gold.ac.uk) or James Ker-Lindsay (james.lindsay[a]kingston.ac.uk)


9-10 May 2008
Mixed Agreements Revisited - conference
Venue: Leiden, The Netherlands
Contact: Francine Oldenhof (f.p.oldenhof[a]law.leidenuniv.nl)


15-16 May 2008
The Implications of European Integration
Venue: St Louis, USA
Contact:
d.mayes[a]auckland.ac.nz


16 May 2008
The Future of European Environmental Law
Venue: Groningen, The Netherlands
Contact:
 bes[a]rechten.rug.nl
Note: it is possible to travel from this event to join the 2nd day of the UACES conference below


16-17 May 2008
 UACES Event  50%
Energising Europe: Climate Change, Energy Security and Europe’s Next Big Project
Venue: London, UK
Contact:
UACES


19 May 2008
EU Competitiveness: Are we on the right track? - lecture by Alexandr Vondra, Deputy Prime Minister for European affairs of the Czech Republic
Venue: London, UK
Contact: conferences[a]lse.ac.uk


23-24 May 2008
The Road Europe Travelled Along. The Evolution of the EEC/EU Institutions and Policies - conference
Venue: Siena, Italy
Contact: L'Associazione Universitaria di Studi Europei (AUSE)


25-27 May 2008
The EU in a Global Perspective: Intercultural dialogue across three continents - conference
Venue: Bremen, Germany
Contact: Monika Blaschke (blaschke[a]hs-bremen.de),
www.mes.hs-bremen.de or www.graduatecenter.de


27-28 May 2008
34th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of German Politics (IASGP)
Venue: London, UK
Contact:
Dan Hough (d.t.hough[a]sussex.ac.uk)


June 2008


6 June 2008
 UACES Supported Event  50%
Cleavages in Europe’s Political Economy: Socio-economic Preferences of Actors, Sectors, and Country Size Effect
Venue: Udine, Italy
Contact:
Benedicta Marzinotto  (benedicta.marzinotto[a]uniud.it)


13-14 June 2008
Regional Development Challenges of EU Border Regions in the Context of the Interaction Between the EU and Countries of its Immediate 'Neighbourhood' - conference
Venue: Tartu, Estonia
Contact:
Gulnara Roll (gulnara.roll[a]ut.ee) or Karin Kruusmaa (karin[a]ibs.ee)


16 June 2008
UPF-CIDOB Research Seminar: Immigration and Citizenship Policies in the EU
Venue: Barcelona, Spain
Contact:
migraciones[a]cidob.org


17 June 2008
The European Union after the Reform Treaty: A New Era? - workshop
Venue: London, UK
Contact: Isabelle Hertner (
i.hertner[a]rhul.ac.uk)


19-21 June 2008
10th Anniversary Conference of the European Journal of Social Theory: Europe since 1989: Interpreting Social Change
Venue: Brighton, UK
Contact:
Paul Blokker (p.a.blokker[a]sussex.ac.uk) or Gerard Delanty (g.delanty[a]sussex.ac.uk)


23-28 June 2008
The EU Institutions, EU Decision Making and Lobbying in the EU - Summer School
Venue: Siena, Italy
Contact: eu.summer.seminar[a]uniroma2.it


30 June - 18 July 2008
International Summer School in Forced Migration
Venue: Oxford, UK
Contact:
summer.school[a]qeh.ox.ac.uk


30 June - 11 July 2008
Summer School on Immigration and Asylum Policy of the European Union
Venue: Brussels, Belgium
Contact: odysseus[a]ulb.ac.be


July 2008


2-9 July 2008
Summer School on Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe 2008
Venue: Prague, Czech Republic
Contact:
cdpe[a]cpvp.cz


3-4 July 2008
The Next 50 Years: The Future of European Law & Policy - conference
Venue: Birmingham, UK
Contact: Institute of European Law, University of Brimingham


4-5 July 2008
 UACES Supported Event  50%
The European Commission White Paper on Sport - Better Regulation in Sport?
Venue: Lancashire, UK
Contact:
cslr[a]edgehill.ac.uk


23-26 July 2008
2nd Global International Studies Conference (WISC)
Venue: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Contact: wisc[a]fdv.uni-lj.si


27 July - 9 August 2008
CESUN Summer University on Central European Studies
Venue: Pécs, Hungary
Contact: dobai[a]btk.pte.hu


30 July - 16 August 2008
3rd ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques
Venue: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Organised by:
ECPR


August 2008


6-9 August 2008
The XV NOPSA Conference
Venue:
Tromsř, Norway
Organised by: Nordic Political Science Association (NOPSA)


25-27 August 2008
2nd ECPR Graduate Conference
Venue: Barcelona, Spain
Organised by:
ECPR


28-31 August 2008
APSA Annual Meeting - conference
Venue: Boston, USA
Organised by:
American Political Science Association (APSA)


September 2008


1-3 September 2008
 UACES Event
 50%
Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2008: Rethinking the European Union
Venue: Edinburgh, UK
Organised by: UACES and the Europa Institute, University of Edinburgh


11-12 September 2008
Regeneration and Reinvention: practices of 'the New': An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
Venue: Salford, UK
Contact: postgradconference-esri[a]salford.ac.uk


12-13 September 2008
External governance of the European Union - workshop
Venue:
Lucerne, Switzerland
Contact: Sandra Lavenex (sandra.lavenex[a]unilu.ch) or Frank Schimmelfennig (frank.schimmelfennig[a]gess.eup.ethz.ch)


16-17 September 2008
6th
Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy
Venue: Pavia, Italy
Contact: graduate.conference[a]iuss.unipv.it


18-19 September 2008
Europe in Transition - Demographic Change and Sustainable Development - conference
Venue: Essen, Germany
Contact: Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration e.V.


25-27 September 2008
4th Pan-European Conference on EU Politics
Venue: Riga, Latvia
Organized by: ECPR Standing Group on the European Union


25-27 September 2008
7th Biennial Conference of the ECSA – Canada: The Maturing European Union
Venue: Edmonton, Canada
Contact: ecsa-c_2008_submissions[a]uvic.ca


25-27 September 2008
Europe in the Changing World: Challenges, Priorities and Research Collaboration - conference
Venue: Canterbury, New Zealand
Contact: ncre[a]canterbury.ac.nz


October 2008


10-11 October 2008
Fifth Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium
Venue: Tucson, USA
Contact: rmesc[a]email.arizona.edu


16-17 October 2008
Second Annual Conference of the University Network of the European Capitals of Culture
Venue: Liverpool, UK
Contact:
Gyöngyi Pozsgai (gyongyi.pozsgai[a]iro.pte.hu)  


November 2008


14-15 November 2008
Europe – a Continent of Immigration? Legal Challenges in the Construction of the European Migration Policy
Venue: Berlin, Germany
Contact:
wish[a]grakov-berlin.eu


20 November 2008
Monetary and financial transformations in Central and Eastern Europe - conference
Venue: Paris, France
Contact: Kirsten Ralf (kirsten.ralf[a]esce.fr) or Alexandre Sokic (alexandre.sokic[a]esce.fr)


December 2008


4-5 December 2008
2008 International Conference on the EU Studies at Academia Sinica
Venue: Taipei, Taiwan
Contact:
Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS)


Jan 2009    Feb 2009    Mar 2009    Apr 2009    May 2009    Jun 2009

Jul 2009    Aug 2009    Sep 2009    Oct 2009    Nov 2009    Dec 2009

Jan 2010    Feb 2010    Mar 2010    Apr 2010    May 2010    Jun 2010

Jul 2010    Aug 2010    Sep 2010    Oct 2010    Nov 2010    Dec 2010


January 2009


February 2009


March 2009


April 2009


14-19 April 2009
ECPR 37th Joint Sessions
Venue: Lisbon, Portugal
Organised by:
ECPR


23-25 April 2009
EUSA Eleventh Biennial International Conference
Venue: Los Angeles, USA
Contact: EUSA


May 2009


June 2009


July 2009


August 2009


September 2009


3-5 September 2009
 UACES Event
 50%
Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2009: UACES 39th Annual Conference
Venue: Angers, Loire Valley, France
Organised by: UACES


3-6 September 2009
APSA Annual Meeting - conference
Venue: Toronto, Canada
Organised by:
American Political Science Association (APSA)


7-9 September 2009
10th Congrčs de l’AFSP
Venue: Grenoble, France
Organised by:
Association Française de Science Politique


10-12 September 2009
5th ECPR General Conference
Venue: Potsdam, Germany
Organised by: ECPR


October 2009


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