Maurizio Cotta (University of Siena) - European citizenship: theoretical problems and political challenges
On March 30 2009 between 9 and 10 a.m, Maurizio Cotta, Professor of Political Science Department of History, Law, Political and Social Science Faculty of Political Science – University of Siena gave an Opening Lecture to the 2009 Annual Conference titled ‘ European citizenship: theoretical problems and political challenges’ at Corvinus University, Old Building Rector's Auditorium.
Radek Markowsk (Polish Academy of Sciences) - On Democracy
On March 30, between 17:30-18:30 Radek Markowski, Head of Electoral Research Section, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Warsaw School of Social Psychology gave a Public Lecture titled On Democracy , at the Popper Room at CEU.
Corwin Smidt (The Henry Institute) will give a lecture on The Changing Role of Religion in American Presidential Elections on Monday, November 10th at 17:15 in the Gellner Room
Corwin Smidt serves as the Director of the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics and as Professor of Political Science at Calvin College (Grand Rapids, Michigan). Dr. Smidt received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Iowa. He is the author, editor, or co-author of 12 books, including Pews, Prayers, and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility in America which is forthcoming this fall from Georgetown University Press. His other recent books include: Pulpit and Politics (2004) and Religion as Social Capital (2003). He is currently serving as the primary editor of a forthcoming Oxford University Press volume: The Oxford Handbook on Religion and American Politics.
Dimitar Bechev (University of Oxford) gives a lecture on “EU as a Regional Hegemon - From Enlargement to the European Neighborhood Policy”, discussed by Annabelle Littoz-Monnet (IRES) on Thursday, November 6, 5:15 p.m. in Popper Room, Nador u. 9
Dimitar Bechev is Research Fellow at the European Studies Centre, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, and also Lecturer in International Relations at Worcester College, Oxford. He holds a D.Phil (2005) and MSc (2001) in International Relations from the University of Oxford as well as Master's degrees in Law and International Relations from the Sofia University (Bulgaria). He works on the enlargement and foreign policies of the EU as well as the history and politics of Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Mediterranean. He is the author of Mediterranean Frontiers: Borders, Conflict and Memory in a Transnational World (I.B. Tauris, with Kalypso Nicolaidis) and Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia (Scarecrosw Press), both forthcoming in 2009. He is managing a research project on 'Agents of Change in the Mediterranean' sponsored by the RAMSES2 Consortium of Mediterranean Studies (6th Framework Programme) and carried out by St Antony's College and the Free University of Berlin. Dimitar Bechev has consulted various public bodies including the European Parliament, and is involved as a region head for Central and Eastern Europe in Oxford Analytica, a leading consulting firm.
Thomas Carothers (Vice President for Studies-International Politics and Governance Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) was a guest speaker at the doctoral saminar on Tuesday, October 16; where he held a talk entitled How Democracies Emerge: The ‘Sequencing’ Fallacy
Thomas Carothers is the vice president for studies-international politics and governance at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In this capacity, he oversees the Democracy and Rule of Law Project, which he founded, and the Middle East Program.
Carothers is a leading authority on democracy promotion and democratization worldwide as well as an expert on U.S. foreign policy generally. He is the founder and director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Project which analyzes the state of democracy in the world and the efforts by the United States and other countries to promote democracy. In addition, he has broad experience in matters dealing with human rights, international law, foreign aid, rule of law, and civil society development.
He is the author or editor of eight critically acclaimed books on democracy promotion as well as many articles in prominent journals and newspapers. He is an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and serves on the board of various organizations devoted to democracy promotion.
Prior to joining the Endowment, Carothers practiced international and financial law at Arnold & Porter and served as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State.
Sidney Tarrow (Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology, Cornell University) started the 2007/08 Doctoral Seminar series by giving a talk based on his paper (co-authored with James Caporaso), entitled: Polanyi in Brussels: European Institutions and the Embedding of Markets in Society, on Tuesday, October 9, FT 908.
Professor Sidney Tarrow's areas of interest include comparative politics, social movements, political parties, collective action, and political sociology. His 1990 monograph, Democracy and Disorder ( Oxford), received the Best Book in Collective Action and Social Movements award from the American Sociological Association. His major book is Power in Movement ( Cambridge 1998). In the past five years, Professor Tarrow has co-authored or edited four other books and monographs, including The Social Movement Society (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998; edited with D. Meyer), Contentious Europeans (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998; with D. Imig), Dynamics of Contention (Cambridge, 2001; with D. McAdam and C. Tilly), and Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics (Cambridge, 2001; with R. Amizade et al), and numerous articles in sociological and political science journals.
Erik Angner (Department of Philosophy and Department of Finance, Economics and Quantitative Methods, University of Alabama at Birmingham) gave a public talk on “Hayek and the idea of spontaneous order” on Monday, March 12 4:00 p.m. CEU, Nádor u. 11. Hanák Room.
Erik Angner is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Department of Finance, Economics and Quantitative Methods, University of Alabama at Birmingham. He completed two Ph.D degrees at the University of Pittsburgh, one in History and Philosophy of Science and one in Economics. His research area involves exploring philosophical assumptions implicit in contemporary social and behavioral science, and issues related to the origins of modern social, political and economic thought, in particular the political philosophy of Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992). He has published several papers on the nature, origin and implications of Friedrich A. Hayek’s theory of cultural evolution. More recently, he finished a book, titled Hayek and Natural Law ( London: Routledge), which argues that Hayek's work should be seen as continuous with the Natural Law tradition.
Max Kaase (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Mannheim) held a talk on “Political Participation and the Future of Pluralist Democracy” on Tuesday, January 16, 5:30 p.m. CEU, Nador u. 9, Gellner Room.
Max Kaase is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Mannheim, where he held the position of University Professor of Political Science and Comparative Social Research from 1980 until 1993 before having moved to the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin as a Research Professor until September 2000. He became President of the International Political Science Association in 2003, and he is the former Vice President of the International University Bremen (2000 – 2006). He has published widely in the fields of comparative politics, political sociology and mass communication. Throughout his career, he has been greatly involved in many academic projects and institutions, including being a member of the German Science Council from 1987 until 1992. He also was a member of the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation, and from 1999 to 2003 he acted as its Vice President