UACES Arena, Brussels
An innovative series of lunchtime seminars in Brussels that offer academics and practitioners an opportunity to exchange ideas and to keep abreast of the state-of-the-art in Contemporary European Studies.
The series presents new ideas for a changing Europe with speakers who challenge conventional wisdom in the policy-making world. The speakers have an academic expertise and the Arena offers the invited speakers the opportunity to receive constructive feedback on research-in-progress from a broad, multidisciplinary audience of mainly Brussels-based practitioners of EU policy making, with an interest in policy-relevant research.
The seminars are free to attend, but you do need to register in advance - instructions on how to do this can be found with the full listing for each seminar (our hosts, Edelman The Centre, organise a large number of events, so they need you to email them with a specific keyword in the subject line).
The seminars typically run from 12:30 to 14:00 (with a sandwich lunch provided from 12:00 to 12:30).
Venue: 22, Avenue Marnix, B-1000 Brussels
Call for UACES Arena bursaries
Apply now for an Arena Bursary to present your research in the Autumn.
< Application Form: Download here >
Deadline: Wednesday 12 September 2012
UACES invites leading scholars to present research on cutting edge issues to an audience of Brussels-based practitioners and scholars as part of the UACES Arena seminar series.
Is your work topical? Innovative? Timely?
Two bursaries of £500, awarded on a competitive basis, are available for UACES members who would like to take up this opportunity.
If successful, you would need to be available to present your research during the Autumn (October-November 2012, exact date by mutual agreement, no seminars will be scheduled on a Friday).
Bursaries to present at the UACES Arena are advertised via the members' email list.
Upcoming and Previous seminars
6 June 2012
'En attendant Godot' or the EU Law Limits to Integration Conditions for Migrants
Diego Acosta Arcarazo (University of Sheffield)
10 May 2012
The Cinema of the EU: European Identity and Universality
Mariana Liz (King's College London)
8 December 2011
The New Euroscepticism: Sources, Patterns and Implications
Dr Simon Usherwood (University of Surrey)
7 November 2011
The International Dimension of the EU Financial Transaction Tax: The EU as a Global Robin Hood?
Dr Bart van Vooren (University of Copenhagen)
30 June 2011
Facing EU policy failures in the Middle East - the new Arab Awakening
Dr Francesco Cavatorta (Dublin City University) and Dr Michelle Pace (University of Birmingham)
21 April 2011
The best of intentions: are EU biofuels policies on the right road?
Prof Rob Ackrill (Nottingham Trent University) and Dr Adrian Kay (Australian National University)
10 December 2010
The EU in Israeli Eyes - Public, Elite, Civil Society & Media Perceptions
Dr Sharon Pardo (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
10 November 2010
EU Sports Policy after the Lisbon Treaty
Dr Borja Garcia (Loughborough University)
Should the EU Raise its Game in its Relationship with China? (30 April 2010)
What’s Left of the Single Market? (31 March 2010)
One Step Closer to a New Europe? The Impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the EU institutions? (14 December 2009)
The European Parliament 2009-2014 - what next? (27 May 2009)
The EU's Security Strategy in the Western Balkans - Working Together, Thinking Differently (31 March 2009)
Fleshing out the Lisbon Treaty's Provisions on 'Participatory Democracy' (4 February 2009)
EU Leadership in International Climate Policy (19 November 2008)
Half a Century of European Financial Integration (23 April 2008)
Public Opinion(s) in the European Union (12 March 2008)
Between Transparency and Regulation (23 January 2008)
The EU's Economic Relations with India and China (12 December 2007)
The Future of the European Security Strategy (5 November 2007)
Communicating Europe (3 July 2007)
EU Law and Sport (23 May 2007)
The EU and the WTO (18 April 2007)
The External Dimension of EU Migration Policy (7 March 2007)