Annual Lecture
European Union: Where next for European citizens?
European Ombudsman
Professor Nikiforos Diamandouros
4-5pm 17 March 2010
Council Chamber, Whitworth Building
Followed by a wine reception
The new Republic and the Old Empire:
the United States and the British Isles after 1776
Maurice Bric, UCD
3pm 18 May 2009
Council Chamber, Whitworth Building
Civil Society in EU Governance: Towards a more efficient and democratic Union?
Professor Beate Kohler-Koch, Mannheim (website)
21 May 2008
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Beate Kohler-Koch is Professor em., former Chair for International Relations and European Affairs at The University of Mannheim; she is project director at the MZES, Mannheim University and since 2008 Professor at the Bremen International Graduate School of the Social Sciences. Her recent research activities concentrate on the transformation of governance both at EU and national level and on the contribution of civil society to EU democracy. She has initiated and coordinated a large national research programme (1996 - 2005) on “Governance in the EU” and the EU funded Network of Excellence “CONNEX” on "Efficient and Democratic Governance in a Multi-Level Europe" (2004-2008). She has published widely on European integration and EU governance. Over the last years her book publications cover “The transformation of governance in the European Union” (1999/2007), constitutional politics (2002), a state-of-the-art reflection on European integration (2003), an exploration of “Linking EU and National Governance” (2003), a textbook on integration and European governance (2004), an assessment of interest intermediation in Europe (2005). Her most recent publications include: Review Article: The "Governance Turn" in EU Studies. Journal of Common Market Studies, 44, 1: 27-49, 2006, (with B. Rittberger) and several edited volumes such as "Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union”, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield 2007, (with B. Rittberger); `The Institutional Shaping of EU-Society Relations: A Contribution to Democracy via Participation', Journal of Civil Society 3/3, 2007, (with B. Finke); “Opening EU Governance to Civil Society - Gains and Challenges”, CONNEX Report Series, Vol. 5, 2008 (with D. De Bièvre, W. Maloney); "Changing Images of Civil Society. From Protest to Governance", London: Routledge 2008, (with B. Jobert, forthcoming); “European multi-level governance: Contrasting images in national research“, Cheltenham: E. Edgar Publ., 2008 (with F. Larat forthcoming); “Efficient and Democratic Governance in Multi-Level Europe”, CONNEX Report Series, Vol. 9 (with L. Larat, forthcoming).
Towards an EU Citizenship?
Judge George Arestis, Cypriot Judge on the European Court of Justice
16 March 2007
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