EU Today

This podcast features Professors Susan Pennybacker and Cemil Aydin, organizers of the spring 2019 Global Brexit panel and Lost Futures conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They share reflections on the conference, its themes, and the academic research produced from it. The events were supported by the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, housed at the UNC-CH Center for European Studies. Our interviewer is Mark Reeves, a PhD candidate in the UNC-CH Department of History.

This podcast features an interview with Professor Jonathan Polk (University of Gothenburg). He discusses his research on political parties in the EU, including the divides between the elite and working class within parties.

This podcast features an interview with Jennifer Fitzgerald (University of Colorado Boulder) and Mark Helbling (University of Bamberg and WZB Berlin Social Science Center). They discuss the meaning of terms like populism and radical, and dive into their research on what is making people vote for populist (and leftist) parties in Europe.

This podcast features an interview with Prof. Dr. Kiran Klaus Patel of Maastricht University. He speaks about his research on cooperation and integration in Europe post-WWII, and their effects on current events in Europe.