Dear guests, The Group on Bioethics of the Institute of European Studies is organizing a lecture by Dr. Evangelos Protopapadakis, on Re-thinking the ‘right to die’ under the light of Kantian ethics Dr. Protopapadakis is an Assistant Professor of the applied ethics, Director of the NKUA Applied Philosophy Research Lab at the National and Kapodistrian…
Year: 2019
February 13 – Spanish Democracy: 40 Years of the Spanish Constitution
Dear guests, The Institute of European Studies is organizing a lecture by Carmen Alvarez on Spanish Democracy: 40 Years of the Spanish Constitution The lecture will provide us with a review of the recent history of Spain. Forty years after the entry into force of the Spanish Constitution, approved by an overwhelming majority in…
February 4 – Debate with Michal Vit on migration issues
Dear guests, The Institute is organizing a debate with Dr Michal Vit on The Changing Dynamics of the Effective Protection of EU External Borders or/and Forced Migrants Dr Vit is a professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies of the Metropolitan University Prague. He is currently researching migration issues and is conducting…
Dr Miroslav Prokopijević has passed away
With great sorrow and pain we inform the public that our long-time colleague, Senior Principal Fellow Dr Miroslav Prokopijević, has suddenly passed away on the night of 20/21 January 2019 at his home in Belgrade. Dr Miroslav Prokopijević’s funeral will be held at the New Cemetery in Belgrade, on Friday 25 January 2019 at…
Sanja Ivić, EU Citizenship: Towards a Postmodern Conception of Citizenship?
The modern liberal idea of citizenship is constructed by a fixed notion of identity which gains meaning through a number of binary oppositions, such as we/ they, citizen/ foreigner, self/ other and so forth. Defined by these binaries, where the first term is perceived as dominant because it is considered to be derived from reason,…
Sanja Ivić, Paul Ricoeur’s Idea of Reference: The Truth as Non-Reference
This book investigates the importance of Ricoeur’s hermeneutics and poetics in rethinking humanities. In particular, Ricoeur’s insights on reference as refiguration and his idea of interpretation as a triadic process (which consists of mimesis 1 – prefiguration, mimesis 2 – configuration, and mimesis 3 – refiguration) will be applied to philosophy of science and to…
January 17 – a lecture by Umut Uzer
Dear guests, The institute begins its 2019 cycle of public events with a lecture by Dr Umut Uzer From a Multinational Empire to a national state: The emergence of Turkish Identity (in English) Dr Uzer is an Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Istanbul Technical University (ITU). He is an…