Past lectures
EU lectures are typically co-sponsored by units on campus and funding from the European Union grants. In recent years the participating units have included: the Centre for Global Studies (CFGS), the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, the Department of Economics, the Department of Political Science, the European Studies Program, the Faculty of Law, the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, and the School of Public Administration.
2016 Fall lectures
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Co-Sponsors |
12 Sep 2016 |
Dr. Wolfgang Schoen |
The European Commission vs. Apple & Co. - Does Competition Lawconstrain Tax Competition? | Law |
2016 Summer lectures
Date/Time | Speaker | Title | Co-Sponsor |
17 Aug 2016 10:30 - 12:00 Sedgewick C168 |
Dr. Assem Dandashly | EU and Syria - full title and poster coming soon |
Centre for Global Studies and Dept of Political Science |
18 Aug 2016 12:00 - 1:30 Sedgewick C168 |
Dr. Pompeo Della Posta |
Economic and Political Reasons of the Euro Crisis | The Department of Economics Seminar Series |
19 Aug 2016 3:00 - 4:30 Sedgewick C168 |
Dr. André Lecours |
Nationalism and Self-Determination Claims in the European Union and Canada |
Centre for Global Studies and Dept of Political Science |
2016 Spring lectures
Date/Time | Speaker | Title | Co-Sponsors |
15 Jan 2016 3:00pm BEC 363 |
Dr. Lucas Herrenbrueck | Optimal monetary policy, currency unions, and the Eurozone divergence. |
The Department of Economics Seminar Series |
21 Jan 2016 7:30pm Legacy Art Gallery |
Dr. Jen Bagelman & Harsha Walia |
Series: The Refugee Crisis and the Sanctuary City |
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22 Jan 2016 3:00pm BEC 363 |
Dr. Thomas Lemieux |
Unemployment in the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States |
The Department of Economics Seminar Series |
6 Feb 2016 9:15pm Odeon 2 |
Alexander Sokurov (director) | Francofonia (film) |
The Department of French |
22 Feb 2016 1:00pm CLE A302 |
Stefano Fantaroni (First Counsellor of Political Affairs and Public Diplomacy, EU Delegation to Canada) | The EU on the global stage: Challenges and opportunities | |
Feb 25 2016 7:30pm Legacy Art Gallery |
Dr. Alison Mountz | Cities of Refuge |
Series: The Refugee Crisis and the Sanctuary City |
Mar 11 2016 7:00pm University Club Wild Rose Rm |
Dr. Jane Sandall | Understanding variation in caesarean rates in Europe and the evidence base for strategies to achieve an appropriate rate : managing perceptions of risk in organisations, providers and women and families |
School of Public Administration Department of Sociology |
Mar 17 2016 3:30pm DTB A357 |
Dr. Frank Wendler | Public discourse meets party politics: National parliamentary debates about European integration. |
CFGS; Department of Political Science |
Apr 7 2016 7:30pm Legacy Art Gallery |
Dr. Noam Leshem | Rethinking No Man's Land: Sanctuaries in the urban dead zone |
Series: The Refugee Crisis and the Sanctuary City |
May 24 2016 3:00-4:30pm HHB 110 |
"To be or not to be": Reflections on EU referenda: past, present and (of course future) |
CFGS; Department of History; Department of Political Science |
2015 Fall lectures
Date/Time | Speaker | Title | Co-Sponsors |
23 Sep 2015 7:00pm DTB A120 |
J. Donald C. Galloway, Dr. Scott Watson, Dr. Amy Verdun, Dr. Sabine Lehr, Mr. Almontaser Aidhy, Mr. Maher Boidany, and Dr. Feng Xu (moderator). | The global refugee crisis: Local, national and international responses | The Department of Political Science, the Centre for Global Studies & the Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives |
2015 Summer lectures
Date/Time | Speaker | Title | Co-Sponsors |
30 July 2015 3:00-4:30pm Sedgewick C168 |
Dr. Conception Garcia-Iglesias, EUCE Visiting Scholar (Economics) Dr. Juha Kilponen, Bank of Finland |
Secular Stagnation - Experiences of Greece, Portugal, Spain and Finland |
Department of Economics |
12 Aug. 2015 10:30-12:00 Sedgewick C168 |
Dr. Assem Dandashly, EUCE Summer Visiting Scholar, Political Science |
The EU Democratization Efforts in the Middle East and North Africa |
Department of Political Science & Centre for Global Studies |
2015 Winter and spring lectures
Date | Speaker | Topic | Co-Sponsors |
24 Apr 2015 |
Université de Montréal |
Eurozone morality tales | Department of Political Science |
The 2015 City Talks (Co-Sponsored by the EUCE)
Every year, UVic's Committee for Urban Studies hosts a series of lectures and events featuring distinguised urbanists from UVic and elsewhere. provides a place for public dialogue about the prospects and challenges of cities, and is free and open to the public.
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Venue |
22 Jan 2015 (7:30pm) |
Barbara Kintaert Documentarian and community activist |
"Can one small street in Vienna change the memory of the Holocaust? |
Legacy Art Gallery (630 Yates street) |
19 Feb 2015 (6:30pm) |
Film Screening |
"Welcome" by Philippe Lioret |
Open Space Gallery (510 Fort street) |
26 Mar 2015 (7:30pm) |
Ken Foote Department of Geography, University of Conneticut |
"Contested places, constested pasts: Race, place, and the politics of memory in contemporary Budapest" |
Legacy Art Gallery (630 Yates street) |
16 Apr 2015 (7:30pm) |
Glyn Ford Steering committee of Unite Against Facism; former member of the European Parliament |
"How can the European left deal with the threat posed by Xenophobia?" |
Legacy Art Gallery (630 Yates street) |
2014 Fall lectures
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Co-Sponsors |
20 Nov 2014 |
Dr. Keith Banting (Queen's University) |
Transatlantic convergence: Multiculturalism and immigrant integration in Europe and Canada. | CFGS |
27 Nov 2014 |
Monique Scheer (Eberhard Karls Universitaet) |
New Centers of Islamic Theology at Universities in the EU: the German Case This lecture is part of the Norms of minority religious participation: Fields of practice conference (Nov 27-Dec 1, 2014) |
2014 Summer lectures
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Co-Sponsors |
18 July 2014 |
(Ruhr University Bochum) |
Interest Groups in EU Politics: How to Lobby the EU | Political Science |
2014 Winter and spring lectures
A highlight of this lecture series was a talk from the EU Ambassador to Canada, Ms. Marie-Anne Coninsx, about the future of Canada-EU relations, with regards to CETA, the Strategic Partnership Agreement, and research collaboration.
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Co-Sponsors |
14 Jan 2014 |
Laurence Malafry (Stockholm University) |
European Austerity: Does Inequality Matter | Dr. Paul Schure |
21 Feb 2014 |
(Bank of Canada) |
Exploring Differences in Household Debt Across Euro Area Countries and the US | Economics |
6 Mar 2014 |
(University of Bristol) |
Britain and the European Union | Political Science |
10 Mar 2014 |
(University of Edinburgh) |
Scottish? British? European? Attitudes towards the Referendum on Scottish Independence 2014 | Political Science |
27 Mar 2014 |
Antje Wiener (University of Hamburg) |
Stateness of a Non-State: 'European' Citizenship Practice Twenty Years On | CFGS |
27 Mar 2014 |
Mareike Kleine (London School of Economics) |
Informal Governance in the EU | CFGS |
27 Mar 2014 | Marie-Anne Coninsx (EU Ambassador to Canada) | The Future of Canada EU Relations: CETA, Strategic Partnership Agreement, Research Collaboration | CFGS |
15 Apr 2014 |
(Catholic University of Louvain) |
Is the European social model dead? The Euro Crisis and its Impact on National and European Social Policies |
Political Science |
05 May 2014 |
Adam Steinhouse (National School of Public Administration) |
How to Understand and Influence the EU |
Economics, Political Science, Law and Business |
2017: City Talk Series
2017: City Talks Series
The Jean Monnet EU Centre at UVic and City Talks brought speakers with European perspectives to Victoria to contribute to the established City Talks series. Details and videos can be found at .
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Co-Sponsors |
26 October |
Anton Tantner Lecturer, Department of History, University of Vienna |
The Political Life of Numbers: The History of House Numbering in European Cities |
City Talks and the Jean Monnet EU Centre of Excellence |
30 November |
Emilia Palonen Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki |
Space of Passions: Populism and the Politics of "Us" in the Urban Streetscapes of Europe |
City Talks and the Jean Monnet EU Centre of Excellence |
2017 Fall lectures
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Co-Sponsors |
8 November |
Dr. Ambroise Kom |
Xenophobia and Identity in France: The Case of the French banlieues |
UVIC's Department of French, Department of History, European Union Centre of Excellence (EUCE), European Studies Program (EUS), Interdisciplinary Program in Cultural, Social and Political Thought (CSPT), The Unesco Chair in Community Based Research and Social responsibility in Higher Education. |
2017 Spring lectures
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Co-Sponsors |
10 April 2017 Noon David Turpin Building (DTB) A110 |
Dr. Martin Klatt |
Brexit, Right-wing Populism, Migration: |
Borders in Globalization |
6 Mar 2017 13:00 - 14:00 ROOM CHANGE: |
Dr. Raoul Delcorde |
From ISIS to Ukraine, the challenges facing the EU and Belgium. The international situation today and the perspective ahead of us. Lecture notice |
Centre for Global Studies |
24 Feb 2017 15:00 - 16:30 BEC 363 |
Thierry Warin, HEC Montreal |
Reducing Systemic Risk in Europe: is the "banking union" a big enough step? Host: Paul Schure |
European Union Centre of Excellence (EUCE) |
26 Jan 2017 16:30 - 18:00 David Strong C108 |
European Commission |
EU INITIATIVE ON WORLD’S OCEAN GOVERNANCE |
Centre for Global Studies, Ocean Networks Canada |
2014-2016: EUCE Lecture Series
European Union Centre of Excellence (EUCE) Lecture Series at UVic
During the 2014-2016 EU Lecture series the participating units were: the Centre for Global Studies (CFGS), the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, the Department of Economics, the Department of Political Science, the European Studies Program, the Faculty of Law, the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, and the School of Public Administration.
2012: Anne Burrill, "Environment Policy in Europe"
Anne Burrill, EU Visiting Fellow from Jackson School, University of Washington, came to the University of Washington on January 27th, 2012 as a lecturer on 'Environment Policy in Europe'. Anne Burrill is part of the European Commssion as a Directorate General for Environment.
See the pdf version of her lecture.
2011: Ian Kilbey, "Interpreting the Power to Impose Financial Penalties upon Member States"
Ian Kilbey, lecturer at De Monfort University, gave a talk on September 20th, 2011, where he discussed the use of financial penalties under Article 260 TFUE to ensure the compliance of EU Member States with EU law. He also explored how the Maastricht Treaty, created in 1992, has been interpreted by the European Commission and the Court of Justice of the European Union.
2011: Dr. Anthony Lappin, "Arabs and Spain: 711 and all that"
On October 20th, 2011, the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies presented a free & open to the public lecture by Dr. Anthony Lappin from the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Manchester. See the poster.
2010: Erik Aerts, "No Public Exchange Banks in Flanders and Brabant (1400-1800)"
On March 10th, 2010, Erik Aerts, Katholieke University, came to UVic to give a lecture explaining the absence of public banks in the Southern Low Countries from 1400 to 1800. This talk was sponsored by the Jean Monnet Centre Ad Personam.
2010: Karel Kovanda, "New Face of the EU"
Sponsored by the Jean Monnet Centre Ad Personam, this talk was given by Karel Kovanda, Deputy Director General in the Directorate General for External Relations (DG Relex), on March 10th, 2010.
2010: Irene Sacristan, "What the Lisbon Treaty means for the European Union"
This talk was given by Irene Sacristan, University of Washington, on March 15th 2010. Sacristan is a lawyer who has been extensively involved in the European Commission, specifically in the field of drug regulation, policy and legislative initiatives.
2010: Hans Vollaard, "Euroscepticism in the Netherlands"
On March 23rd, 2010, Hans Vollaard, Leiden University, gave a talk about the euroscepticism in the Netherlands, which has been on the rise since 2005. In his lecture, Vollaard explored questions around the origins of euroscepticism and wether the Dutch revolt against the EU is a reflection of declining support or an unwillingness of the Dutch to be engaged in EU politics.
2010: Christope Bertossi, "Mistaken Model: The 'Crisis' of Citizenship and Multiculturalism in France, Britain and the Netherlands"
On April 8th, 2010, Christope Bertossi, Director of the "Migrations, Identities, Citizenship" research program at the Institute for International Relations in Paris, gave a talk at UVic about citizenhip and multiculturalism. In his lecture, Bertossi challenged the global picture of ‘models’ and their ‘crises’, and proposes a new approach to ‘national models’ that brings about a deeper understanding of the so-called ‘crisis’ with respect to the integration of migrant and minority groups in Europe.
2010: Gilly Mathieson, "Scotland, the UK and Europe in the 21st Century"
Gilly Mathieson, a BBC video journalist and producer, came to UVic on August 12th, 2010, and gave a talk that was of immense interest to students and staff interested in British and Scottish politics.
See the poster.
2009: March Lecture Series
March lecture series
- March 18- Luncheon talk with Dietmar Schirmer: ‘States and National Minorities in the EU: How does Brussels Shape Attitudes Towards Devolution and Regional Autonomy?'
- March 19- Luncheon talk with Patricia Conlan: ‘Parliamentary Scrutiny of European Issues in Ireland: Changing approaches’
- March 23- Luncheon talk with Dr. Susan E. Clarke: ‘Money is Not Enough: Governance Issues in US Urban Homeland Security Policies’
- March 24- Susan E. Clarke, Women Scholars Lecture Series: ‘A Critical Look at Social Entrepreneurship’ (Senate Chambers, University Centre – Public Lecture)
- March 25- Luncheon talk with Susan E. Clarke: ‘Muslims and Local Governance in London Boroughs’