Masters Students Giovanni D'Agostino and Niek Kelders recently sat down to record a podcast on National Parliaments, the Early Warning Mechanisms, and political hostility. Their discussion and Q&A session are connected to the general theme of European Democracy, beneficial and detrimental conflicts, and future avenues for European Studies.

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Episode 3: The second episode of the UACES's New Graduate Forum Podcast series welcomes Neli Kirilova, PhD Candidate in Security Studies, Doctoral School of International Relations and Political Science, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary & PhD Fellow at the Doctoral School on CSDP / CFSP, European Security and Defence College in Brussels, Belgium. She recently handed in her thesis ‘Power perception and conflict prevention in the Black Sea region: the EU, Russia and Turkey’.

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Episode 2: The second episode of the UACES's New Graduate Forum Podcast series features Scott Arthurson, a doctoral student and politics tutor at the University of Melbourne. He discusses Populism, its definitional dilemmas, and explains why Populism is still relevant in contemporary politics.

Disclaimer: This Podcast is based on research presented at UACES's 2023 Graduate Forum Research Conference in Barcelona.

Episode 1: The first episode of the UACES's New Graduate Forum Podcast series features Luca Augé, PhD student at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris. He discusses public reactions to the so-call "partygate scandal" investigation outcomes, and what this means for the Conservative Party and its leaders.

Disclaimer: This Podcast is based on research presented at UACES's 2023 Graduate Forum Research Conference in Barcelona.

Professor Simon Usherwood interviews Professor Loukas Tsoukalis, winner of the UACES Lifetime Achievement Award 2022.

They are in conversation about Professor Tsoukalis' new book 'Europe's Coming of Age' and his academic career. The podcast was recorded at UACES 52nd Annual Conference for European Studies in Lille.

Order your copy here: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=europes-coming-of-age--9781509554553

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After three years of being the Chair of UACES, Dr Nicholas Startin met incoming Chair Professor Simon Usherwood to talk about the duties of the role, share their memories of previous conferences and explain what role UACES played in their career.

Thank you Dr Nicholas Startin for being a dedicated Chair of UACES, leading the association through a pandemic. We are delighted to welcome Professor Simon Usherwood as Chair, taking up the role in September 2021.

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UACES 2021 Graduate Forum Conference events officer Carlos Bravo-Laguna joins us to talk about his research on the humanitarian response to the 2019 Cyclones Idai and Kenneth.

This recording is based on research presented at the UACES Graduate Forum Research Conference 2021 (17-18 July, online).

With Support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

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