Events
The Europe and the World Centre hosts a range of high-profile events including interdisciplinary academic conferences, workshops, seminars and public lectures. Find out about our past events.
May 2025
European Nationalism Resurgent in 21 Century
This 2 day event included a lecture by Professor Erika Harris and an international workshop in honour of Professor Harris’s work on nationalism. The event was attended by over 100 people including people from international organisations and institutions.
Download the European Nationalism Resurgent in the 21st Century programme (PDF, 63KB).
March 2025
The implications of Putin’s wars: conflicts in Eurasia and the changing patterns of European security
The Europe and the World Centre in partnership with the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence welcomed Ambassador Natalie Sabanadze to the University of Liverpool to discuss the implications of Russia invading Ukraine.
About the talk
This talk examined Russia’s objectives in the war, the instruments it has employed to achieve them, and how it has adapted to evolving circumstances. Three years into the conflict, what does Russia’s strategic balance sheet look like? How has the political landscape in Eurasia shifted, and what new security risks are emerging for Europe? Furthermore, how has the war in Ukraine deepened the rift between the West and the Global South? Finally, what are the broader implications of Russia’s deepening partnerships with China, Iran, and North Korea?
About the speaker
Dr. Natalie Sabanadze is Senior Research Fellow Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. She also served as Georgia’s Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Belgium and Grant Dutchy of Luxembourg and Head of Mission to the EU. Prior to that she was Senior Adviser and Head of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Section of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. Natalie Sabanadze has published and lectured extensively on post-communist transition, nationalism and ethnic conflict, Russian foreign policy, and the EU in the world.
March 2024
Annual lecture ‘Balkans and the EU: prospects and controversies' - Professor Dejan Jovic
Professor Dejan Jović is a professor at University of Zagreb and Belgrade and The European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Heis a specialist on post-Yugoslav politics and foreign policy in the Balkans. In the period between 2010 and 2014 he was the main political analyst for the President of Croatia. Author of a number of books and articles, he serves as President of the Foreign Policy Forum, a think-tank he co-founded.
April 2023
Kin Majorities and Kin-state Politics
Europe and the World Centre (EWC) brought together kin-state politics scholars to discuss the recently published book Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova by Dr Eleanor Knott (LSE). Her book explores the intersections and (geo)politics of identity and citizenship in Moldova and Crimea in the wake of Russian annexation.
Find out more abou the Kin-state event.
January 2022
Sovereignty and the Denial of International Equality
Written by Dr Xavier Mathieu, the book, Sovereignty and the Denial of International Equality: Writing Civilisational Difference in Early Modern International Relations provides an in-depth intellectual picture of ‘civilised sovereignty’ in colonial and domestic contexts.
Find out more about the event with Dr Xavier Mathieu.
April 2021
The Past Can’t Heal Us
Lea David is an Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow at the School of Sociology, University College Dublin (UCD). This talk investigated the relationship between human rights and memory, while bringing into question one of the most basic, deeply embedded presumptions in human rights and transitional justice: that ‘proper’ memorialization is a crucial step in establishing moral responsibility for past atrocities and, consequently, human rights values in conflict and post-conflict settings.
Find out more about the Past Can't Heal Us event.
2019
- Lessons from Kosovo 20 Years on
- Migration and Authoritarianism in Egypt
- Workshop: International Political Economy and the State in the Middle East
- True Croatian Anti-Fascists
- The Brexit Debate
- Haiti - Colonialism, Occupation, and the UN
2018
- Film Screening: We Made Every Living Thing from Water
- Workshop: Non-traditional ways of disseminating research
- Public Lecture: War & Identity
- Workshop: War & Identity
- Refugee Journeys Through the Balkan Route: A Crisis No More?
- External influences in South East Europe?