ValEUs Lecture: Rethinking the Role of Culture and Arts in EU foreign policy
We invite you to an engaging open lecture by Dr. Claske Vos from the University of Amsterdam. The lecture will explore the vital role of culture and arts in shaping the EU’s external actions and the opportunities and challenges these efforts face in today’s complex global landscape. It will be hosted by Dr. Özge Onursal-Beşgül & Prof. Ayhan Kaya.
The event is scheduled for Wednesday, October 23, 2024, from 14:00 to 16:00. It will be held both in-person and online. For those planning to attend in person, the lecture will take place in the Energy Museum Seminar Room at the santralistanbul Campus of Istanbul Bilgi University.
ValEUs Foreign Policy Debates with Civil Society: Climate Change, Activism, and Government Policy in the EU and Beyond
The ValEUs Project has organised a series of panel discussions with civil society organisations discussing European values and EU foreign policy. In these debates, contestations and ambivalences of European foreign policy are exposed, allowing for the exploration of new avenues to counteract these contestations and ambivalences.
On September 30 the ValEUs Foreign Policy Debate at the Rutgers University will feature Luisa Neubauer, Gubad Ibadoghlu and Elena Apostoli-Cappello. They will discuss climate change, activism and government policy in the EU and beyond. The event is open to a local audience and available via live stream.
Los impactos del libre comercio: Mirada de las mujeres en resistencia y búsqueda de alternativas
El webinar se celebrará en español con traducción simultánea al inglés. El webinar tiene el objetivo de visibilizar y vincular las problemáticas que viven las mujeres trabajadoras, defensoras de tierras, territorios, ambientalistas, de derechos humanos, activistas influidas por los tratados comerciales y sus resistencias, con el enfoque en el TLCUEM, conectando voces de México y Europa.
The Impacts of Free Trade: Women’s Perspectives on Resistance and the Search for Alternatives
Each webinar will be held in Spanish with simultaneous translation to English. The webinars will visualize and link the problems experienced by women workers, land and territory defenders, environmentalists, and human rights activists, influenced by free trade agreements and their local resistance, with a focus on the EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement, bringing together voices from Mexico and Europe.
First Annual ValEUs Conference: The Contestation of European Values from Afar
European values play a significant role in shaping the attachment of citizens and elites to the European Union (EU). They are central to the EU’s self-definition of where it stands and set the orientation of its foreign policy. Yet far from being universally accepted and promoted, the EU’s goals have increasingly been contested. The first Annual ValEUs Conference investigates such contestations and a variety of other questions integral to facilitate our understanding of EU foreign policy.
The conference is hosted by Nazarbayev University (Astana, Kazakhstan) between September 13-15, 2024. It draws from the rich interdisciplinary expertise of our global research and education network, presenting over 30 contributions from ValEUs scholars. For more details, check our conference program below.
Nativist and Islamist Radicalism in Europe: Co-Radicalisation of Young Europeans
On May 31, 2024, Prof. Ayhan Kaya from the İstanbul Bilgi University (İstanbul, Turkey) presented the third edition of the ValEUs Lecture Series at the SPUI25 conference in Amsterdam.
Between 2019 and 2024, Prof. Kaya led a comprehensive research project on what’s causing radicalization among young Europeans with both ‘native’ and ‘Muslim’ backgrounds, focusing on radical Islamism and right-wing extremism. In the past two decades since 9/11, these two groups have been studied separately, emphasizing the polarization between them. In reality, they face similar problems like being marginalized in society economically, politically, and psychologically.
Deliberative Democracy Instruments as a Panacea for Democracy in Crisis?
On May 22, 2024, Prof. Paulina Pospieszna from the Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland) presented a paper about “Deliberative Democracy Instruments as a Panacea for Democracy in Crisis”. This second edition of the ValEUs Lecture Series, held at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, attracted over 120 listeners.