Central and East European Studies Centre
Activities
The CEES Centre regularly hosts (guest) lectures, roundtables, and film screenings.
Overview
- 19 March 2020: ‘Democratic Backsliding and State Politicisation: Evidence from 30 Years of Political Appointments in Hungary’ by Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling (University of Nottingham) and Fanni Toth (University of Loughborough)
- 5 February 2020: ‘Political Economy of EU Structural funds: Institutional Quality, Oversight, and Corruption Controls’ by Mihaly Fazekas (Central European University)
- 26 November 2019: ‘Political Parties and Referendums in Eastern Europe: The Effect of Cues and Pre-Campaign Attitudes’ by Sergiu Gherghina (Glasgow University)
- 10 October 2019: CEES.cinema documentary screening ‘Breaking News: Spending the Same Day in Two Different Newsrooms’
- 10 May 2019: ‘Narrating the EU Refugee/Migration “Crisis”: The Case of Hungary and Slovakia’ by Beatrix Futák-Campbell (Leiden University) and Katarina Jakubčeková (Slovakian Embassy in The Hague)
- 17 May 2019: ‘Listening for Silence: Absence and Lack in Political Thinking’ by Michael Freeden (University of London)
- 11 March 2019: ‘The End of Social Democracy: Historical Reflections on Ralf Dahrendorf’s Thesis’ by Oliver Rathkolb (University of Vienna)
- 1 March 2019: ‘Lineages of Baltic Neoliberalisation: Reflections on Class, Revolution and Capital Accumulation’ by Jokubas Salyga (University of Nottingham)
- 12 October 2018: ‘Does Europe still transform? Insights from the case of Macedonia’ by Simonida Kacarska (European Policy Institute, Skopje)
- 27 September 2018: ‘What were the Napoleonic Wars really about?’ by Adam Zamoyski
- 15 June 2018: CEES.cinema Suprise Screening
- 9 May 2018: ‘Pinochet in Prague: Latin American Neoliberalism and (Post-)Socialist Eastern Europe’ by Tobias Rupprecht (University of Exeter)
- 13 April 2018: ‘Visualizing the Nation’ by Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT)
- 13 December 2017: Round Table ‘Challenges to Liberal Democracy: Slovakia and the Czech Republic’, with Darina Malová, Tomas Cirhan, and Petr Kopecký
- 8 December 2017: CEES.cinema ‘Oleg’s Choice’
- 24 November 2017: ‘Are Minorities Free Riders? Testing Social Resistance Framework in Central-Eastern Europe’ by Natalia Letki (Institute of Sociology)
- 23 June 2017: ‘Chains of Value, Chains of Power: Russian Energy, Value Chains and the Remaking of Social Relations from Vladivostok to Brussels’ by Margarita Balmaceda (Harvard University)
- 10 March 2017: ‘Opposites Attract? Rethinking Nationhood and Empire in Habsburg Central Europe, 1804-1930’ by Pieter Judson (European University Institute, Florence)
- 3 February 2017: Roundtable ‘Is Illiberalism Gaining Ground in Central Europe? Politics in Hungary and Poland’, with András Bozóki, Aleks Szczerbiak, Antoaneta Dimitrova, and Honorata Mazepus
- 25 November 2016: ‘Illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe: Headlines of Nationalism, Sub-text of Class’ by Danijela Dolenec (University of Zagreb)
- 28 October 2016: ‘The Eurasian Economic Union: Institutions, Challenges, and Prospects’ by Rilka Dragneva (Birmingham Law School)
- 24 June 2016: ‘Russians Love… Fair Authorities Too. Legitimation Strategies and Citizen Conceptions of Legitimacy across Political Regimes’ by Honorata Mazepus (Leiden University)
- 4 April 2016: Panel on the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement, with Antoaneta Dimitrova, Hans Oversloot, Kristof Jacobs, Petr Kopeck, and Tom Louwerse
- 26 February 2016: ‘Central European Places of Memory: A Typological Classification and Its Pitfalls’ by Christoph Leitgeb (Austrian Academy of Science)
- 11 February 2016: ‘Patronage, Personalism and Institutionalisation in Russia’ by Jos Elkink (University College Dublin)
- 22 January 2016: MAXCAP conference on EU enlargement, with Simon Mordue, Bernard Steunenberg, Tanja Börzel, Heather Grabbe, Zoltan Krasznai, and Antoaneta Dimitrova
- 27 November 2015: ‘Corporate State Capture in Open Societies: The Emergence of Corporate Brokerage Parties’ by Abby Innes (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- 30 October 2015: ‘Executive and Gender Politics in South-Eastern Europe’ by Ekaterina Rashkova (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
- 25 September 2015: ‘Brotherhood or Fratricide? Russian Foreign Policy and Ukraine’, Opening Lecture CEES Centre by Luke March (University of Edinburgh)