Talking Europe

The UCL European Institute’s Brexit & Beyond podcast is back, with our first episode recorded 100% remotely. In this episode, Brexit research assistant Annisha Jhatakia interviews EI Executive Director, Uta Staiger, and Institute Manager, Oliver Patel, about the many ways COVID-19 is likely to impact the Brexit negotiations.

They discuss whether the transition period will be extended, the realities of conducting negotiations remotely, and the EU's response to COVID-19 more broadly.

This podcast was recorded on Thursday 26 March, before the EUCO videoconference. The speed of coronavirus developments means there may be new information by the time you listen. In the coming weeks, we will continue to provide more content and analysis as the situation develops. For the latest updates, please subscribe to our email newsletter and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

In the fifth edition of our 'Talking Europe' podcast series, Miriam Leonard, Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception at UCL Classics, talks revolution, freedom and the role of Greek philosophy and tragedy in Hannah Arendt's thought.

The conversation, with the European Institute's Dr Uta Staiger, takes its point of departure from a Special Issue on Hannah Arendt and the Ancients in the Journal of Classical Philology (Jan 2018), which was edited by Prof. Leonard.

In this first podcast of a new series on EU policy beyond Brexit, Dr Nathan Lea, Senior Research Associate at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics, discusses the significance of the new European regulation protecting personal data.

He shares a very positive view of the GDPR, which manages to strike a subtle balance between the need to harmonise different national frameworks, the necessity to tackle misuses of personal data and a certain degree of flexibility to enable innovation. A true European success story that emulates similar legislations to be passed throughout the world.

On 20 March 2018 the LSE European Institute, LSE Hellenic Observatory, and UCL European Institute hosted the launch of a new book - The Greco-German Affair in the Euro Crisis: Mutual Recognition Lost. You can now listen to the recording of this event, which brought together scholars from across Europe.

Speakers

- Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni is a PhD student at the European Institute, LSE.

Chair

- Waltraud Schelkle is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the European Institute, LSE.

Benjamin Martill (Dahrendorf Fellow, LSE)discussed the new book, 'Brexit and Beyond: Rethinking the Futures of Europe' - co-edited with Uta Staiger of the UCL European Institute - at the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels on 28 February 2018.

In the fourth edition of our 'Talking Europe' podcast, Dr Mererid Puw Davies, in conversation Dr Tim Beasley-Murray, explores the West-German anti-authoritarian protest movement of the 1960s. Focusing on the protests of 1967 and 1968 - nearly fifty years on from that pivotal year - the podcast delves in to the novel and creative forms and methods of protest adopted by the movement, from graffiti to agit-prop poetry, and what it tells us about similar social movements today.

Mererid Puw Davies is a Senior Lecturer in German at UCL.

In the third of our 'Talking Europe' series of podcasts, Dr Rachel Morley, charts the changing representations of femininity in pre-revolutionary Russian cinema, in conversation with Dr Tim Beasley-Murray. Rachel is Lecturer in Russian Cinema and Culture at the UCL School of Slavonic Studies.

Tim Beasley-Murray talks wine and politics with Andrew WM Smith, in the first of the European Institute's new series of podcasts.

Vineyard image (C) Flickr User 'Miss Messie' (Creative Commons)

The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) and the UCL European Institute host a debate with two irreverent philosophers on the European Union and its discontents. It follows the recent publication of their jointly authored book:

“Instead of a peace-project, the European Union is increasingly turning into a warzone: whether it be the expulsion of immigrants or riots in Paris and London, or European interventions to bring “more democracy” to Libya or Syria. But instead of leaving Europe to the enemies, Žižek and Horvat reflect on the fight for a different Idea of Europe.” (Istros Books, 2013)

Speakers:

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. His books include The Sublime Object of Ideology (Verso, 1989), Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (MIT Press, 1991), The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six. Essays on Woman and Causality (Verso, 1994), The Fragile Absolute, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For (Verso, 2000), The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (MIT Press, 2002) On Practice and Contradiction (Revolution!) with Mao Zedong (Verso, 2007), Philosophy in the Present with Alain Badiou (Polity Press, 2010), The Year of Dreaming Dangerously (Verso, 2012), Less Than Nothing (Verso, 2013).

Srećko Horvat is a philosopher from Croatia. He is the author of After the End of History. From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement (Laika Verlag, Germany, 2013), a regular contributor to The Guardian and was one of the leaders of the Subversive Festival.

Chair: Dr Bojan Aleksov (SSEES)

The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) and the UCL European Institute host a debate with two irreverent philosophers on the European Union and its discontents. It follows the recent publication of their jointly authored book:

“Instead of a peace-project, the European Union is increasingly turning into a warzone: whether it be the expulsion of immigrants or riots in Paris and London, or European interventions to bring “more democracy” to Libya or Syria. But instead of leaving Europe to the enemies, Žižek and Horvat reflect on the fight for a different Idea of Europe.” (Istros Books, 2013)

Speakers:

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. His books include The Sublime Object of Ideology (Verso, 1989), Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (MIT Press, 1991), The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six. Essays on Woman and Causality (Verso, 1994), The Fragile Absolute, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For (Verso, 2000), The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (MIT Press, 2002) On Practice and Contradiction (Revolution!) with Mao Zedong (Verso, 2007), Philosophy in the Present with Alain Badiou (Polity Press, 2010), The Year of Dreaming Dangerously (Verso, 2012), Less Than Nothing (Verso, 2013).

Srećko Horvat is a philosopher from Croatia. He is the author of After the End of History. From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement (Laika Verlag, Germany, 2013), a regular contributor to The Guardian and was one of the leaders of the Subversive Festival.

Chair: Dr Bojan Aleksov (SSEES)