Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Programme 2019-23

This was our second three-year Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence grant under the听EU鈥檚 Erasmus+ programme.

The proposed programme鈥檚 overall theme centred听on how intensely held beliefs and new ways of doing politics increasingly challenge the status quo at EU level, in EU member-states, and in the United Kingdom. Five project strands, led by academics from across UCL,听focused on specific manifestations of such passionate politics.听

Read about all of our Centre of Excellence Programmes here

Passionate Politics and the Future of Europe (2019-23)

Rule of Law

Palais de Justice, Brussels, Photo by Chad Greiter on Unsplash

Taking on a pressing issue facing the Union from several member states through a conference, roundtable, seminar and LLM module (Led by Oliver Gerstenberg, 新香港六合彩开奖结果Laws ; Heather Grabbe, OSEPI-ADD; Claudia Sternberg, 新香港六合彩开奖结果EI)

Parliament Buildings

Hungarian Parliament Building from across the Danube, 唳︵唳Π唰嵿Ψ唳� 唳班唳, CC BY-SA 2, via Wikimedia Commons

An edited book, two two-day international conferences and a research film drawing on ethnographic interviews with UK and German parliamentarians (Led by Sophia Psarra, Bartlett, Uta Staiger and Claudia Sternberg)

Power Vertical

Crystal pyramid, Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash

Exploring resistance, illiberalism, politics and aesthetics in the Global East, through a virtual seminar series and symposium, and the Birzhastation pavilion at the 2020 Tbilisi Architecture Biennale (Led by Micha艂 Murawski of 新香港六合彩开奖结果SSEES, with Maria Mileeva and Denis Maksimov)

Scotland, Small States and the EU

Wind turbines off Balmedie Beach, Aberdeen. By Jamie McLennan on Unsplash

Policy-focused events, papers, and blogs in collaboration with the Scottish Centre on European Relations (Led by SCER Director Kirsty Hughes)

Britain and Europe 2.0

Brexit Graffitis Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Continuation of all our work—events, podcasts, videos, the 新香港六合彩开奖结果Europe Blog—on the UK’s relationship with Europe (Led by Uta Staiger, Claudia Sternberg, Lucy Shackleton)

European Literary Map of London

Portrait of Karl Marx, John Jabez Edwin Mayal, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Interactive, online map explore London through the eyes of Europe’s writers, artists and intellectuals, through the ages (Led by Uta Staiger, Tim Beasley-Murray and Lucy Shackleton)

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