The Year Ahead: iCES 2009-2010
The Institute of
Contemporary European Studies (iCES) has organised an exciting
programme of lectures and seminars for the 2009-2010 academic
year. Linked closely with the European Business School
London, iCES has decided to focus on the themes of job creation,
sustainability and climate change in Europe over the coming
year.
The iCES Executive team
comprising Professor Michael Scriven
(Director of iCES and Director of EBSL), Professor John Drew (Jean Monnet Professor of
European Business and Management) and Dr
Àngels Trias i Valls (Senior Research Assistant), have decided
to consolidate activities within key thematic areas to create
greater academic coherence and to maximise publication outputs.
Job Creation, Sustainability and
Climate Change
13 October
2009
Wolfgang Munchau (Associate Editor Financial
Times, Director of Eurointelligence and iCES Distinguished
Visiting Fellow) will give a lecture on the `Future Long Term
Economic Prospects for the EU’ at 7 pm in Darwin 204-205.
24 November
2009
the iCES Europe in the World Lecture will be
held at 6-30 pm in Tuke Hall. The theme will be `Sustaining Growth
and Jobs in Europe’. The keynote speakers will be John Monks,
General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC),
John Cridland, Deputy Director-General of the Confederation of
British Industry.
December 2009
an iCES Distinguished Visiting Fellow will give a lecture on an
aspect of European business and employment.
January 2010
the
European Government Business Relations Council will hold its annual
meeting in the iCES seminar room, Tuke 301, on the theme of
`Economic Growth and Employment in Europe at a Time of Crisis’.
April 2010
the
theme of the annual iCES Jean Monnet Memorial Lecture will be
`Energy and Climate Change post Copenhagen’. A panel of
experts will evaluate progress made on global environmental issues
in the aftermath of the Copenhagen conference on climate
change.
May 2010
In addition to these major lectures other iCES events are being
planned: a seminar on European privatisation in which the issues of
jobs and employment will be addressed, and a further lecture by
Wolfgang Munchau on the `Financial Situation of the Eurozone’.
Politics and Culture in Europe
In parallel with these events on jobs,
sustainability and climate change, iCES will also be organising
other seminars and workshops:
18 September
2009
iCES will host a European Anthropology -
Fieldwork in London Workshop with the Filo Network.
Keynote speakers will be Professor Daniel Miller (UCL) and
Professor John Eeade (Roehampton University).
27 October
2009
to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the
Berlin Wall, iCES has arranged in collaboration with the Senior
Experts group a seminar entitled `20 Years On: The EU after the
Fall of the Berlin Wall’. Several of the Senior Experts will
be speaking at this event which is to be held in the Knapp
Gallery.
18 February
2009
iCES will organise a day conference on
'Sub-State Nationalisms in Europe' organised by Dr Alan Sandry and
Dr Àngels Trias i Valls, the proceedings will be published on an
edited volume on this theme.
Debate and Dialogue
The aim of iCES is to
stimulate debate and dialogue on contemporary Europe and to develop
proactively links with other European Business Schools in the EBSI
(European Business Schools International) network. All
Regent’s college staff and students are welcome to attend the
lectures, seminars and workshops organised by iCES during
2009-2010.
Page last updated 9/28/2009