"Europe as Empire: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome"s

National tour of Professor Jan Zielonka,
Professor of European Politics at the University of Oxford
Ralf Dahrendorf Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford

May 2007, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane

Melbourne
1:00 p.m. Tue, 1 May
Room 212, 2nd Floor, 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton
'Europe as a Global Democracy Agent' - Seminar
Contemporary Europe Research Centre, University of Melbourne

5:30 p.m. Wed, 2 May
Village Roadshow Theatrette, State Library of Victoria
'Europe as Empire: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome' - Public Lecture
Jointly sponsored by IUEU Centre, the National Europe Centre, Monash European and EU Centre, and the Contemporary Europe Research Centre

1:00 p.m. Thurs, 3 May
'Europe's Power Ambitions' - Seminar
La Trobe University

1:00 p.m. Mon, 7 May
Hooper Lecture Theatre
'The Quality of Democracy after joining the EU' -Undergraduate Lecture
La Trobe University

Adelaide
5:00 p.m. Wed, 9 May
Noel Stockdale Room, Flinders University Library, Flinders University
'Europe as Empire: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome' - Public Lecture
Jjointly sponsored by The Flinders Humanities Research Centre for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Exchange, in partnership with the School of Political and International Studies

Sydney
6:00 p.m. Thu, 17 May
The Glover Cottages, 124 Kent Street, Millers Point
'Europe as Empire: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome' - Public Lecture
The Australian Institute for International Affairs

3:00 p.m. Fri, 18 May
107, W6A, Macquarie University
'The evolving international system in Europe' - Seminar
Department of Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University

Newcastle
Mon, 21 May
'Europe as Empire: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome'
University of Newcastle

Brisbane
Tue, 29 May
'Europe as Empire: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome'
Griffith University

Professor Zielonka,
Professor of European Politics and Ralf Dahrendorf Fellow
University of Oxford

Address: European Studies Centre, St Antony's College, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Email: jan.zielonka@sant.ox.ac.uk

Jan Zielonka is Professor of European Politics at the Univeristy of Oxford and Ralf Dahrendorf Fellow at St Antony's College. He studied Law at the University of Wroclaw, Poland, and Political Science at the University of Warsaw where he received his Ph.D. in 1981. In 1982 he settled in the Netherlands, first at the University of Groningen and then, as from 1984, at the University of Leiden. In January 1996 he was appointed Professor of Political Science at the European University Institute in Florence (Joint Chair in European Studies at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and the Department of Political and Social Sciences). He took up his present position at the University of Oxford in January 2004. He has published numerous works in the field of comparative politics (Soviet and Eastern European studies), the history of political ideas, international relations, human rights and security. His current research deals with the evolving nature of the European Union and the process of the EU's eastward enlargement. His books include Europe as Empire. The Nature of the Enlarged European Union, (Oxford University Press, 2006), Europe Unbound: Enlarging and Reshaping the Boundaries of the European Union, (Routledge 2002), Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe, vol. 1 & 2 (Oxford University Press, 2001), Explaining Euro-paralysis. Why Europe is Unable to Act in International Politics (Macmillan, 1998), and Political Ideas in Contemporary Poland (Avebury 1989).

Professor Zielonka’s CV and publication list can be found at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~polf0040/

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