A research assistant at the Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies has represented the EUI’s Academic Careers Observatory (ACO) at the Researcher Careers and Mobility Conference in Dublin. Alanna O’Malley attended the conference, which was organised as part of the Irish presidency of the EU, on 14 and 15 May. She took part in the workshop […]
On 17 April Archong Fung, professor at Harvard Kennedy School, will give a lecture on ‘Viral engagement: fast, cheap and broad, but good for democracy?’ The lecture, organised by the Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies, will reflect on high profile online campaigns in 2011 and 2012. Fung will examine cases such as the shooting […]
On 20 March Tim Besley, economics and political science professor at the London School of Economics, will give a lecture on ‘Developments in the political economy of economic policy’. The interdisciplinary lecture is part of a series which takes place on the third Wednesday of the month, organised by the Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral […]
Later this month a multidisciplinary conference will examine the road from the League of Nations to the United Nations, responding to new approaches in the study of international institutions. The conference, from 21 to 23 March, is organised by the Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies, the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies’ Global Governance […]
Tariq Modood, professor of sociology and founding director of the University of Bristol’s Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, will deliver a Max Weber Lecture on 20 February 2013. Modood has published extensively on multiculturalism, ethnic identity and citizenship, and is a regular contributor to media and public debate on these issues. In his […]
François Bourguignon, director of the Paris School of Economics, visited the EUI on 16 January to speak on ‘The globalisation of inequality’. Watch the video by the Max Weber Programme below, or read an article about the speech on the EUI website.
A former Max Weber fellow has received the Best Thesis Award by the Franco-German University, for her work “Europeanization of party competition in France, German and the UK (1986-2009)”. Isabelle Guinaudeau defended her thesis in 2011, before spending a year at the EUI as a fellow where she researched French law-making in taxation, nuclear energy […]
On 21 November Jo Shaw from the University of Edinburgh School of Law will present the monthly Max Weber Lecture, speaking on ‘Citizenship as a space of law’
Economics professor Ramon Marimon has accepted the office of president of the Society of Economic Dynamics; the first European to take up the position.