Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Programme 2019-23
This was our second three-year Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence grant under theEU’s Erasmus+ programme.
The proposed programme’s overall theme centredon 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,focused on specific manifestations of such passionate politics.
Read about all of our Centre of Excellence Programmes here
Passionate Politics and the Future of Europe (2019-23)
Taking on a pressing issue facing the Union from several member states through a conference, roundtable, seminar and LLM module (Led by Oliver Gerstenberg, UCL Laws ; Heather Grabbe, OSEPI-ADD; Claudia Sternberg, UCL EI)
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)
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 Michał Murawski of UCL SSEES, with Maria Mileeva and Denis Maksimov)
Policy-focused events, papers, and blogs in collaboration with the Scottish Centre on European Relations (Led by SCER Director Kirsty Hughes)
Continuation of all our work—events, podcasts, videos, the UCL Europe Blog—on the UK’s relationship with Europe (Led by Uta Staiger, Claudia Sternberg, Lucy Shackleton)
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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