Veranstaltungen

What drives the research of Europe globally? Researching and teaching Europe is not entirely concentrated in Europe or in the United States. Cen-ters for European studies are active around the globe, from Beijing to Belo Horizonte. While this is not entirely surprising, it still raises the question: what determines the interest in European studies outside of Europe? Is research on Europe at all politicized and, if it is, which factors matter? Is there a role played by the European Union in strengthening the research of Europe around the globe and to which extent is knowledge of Europe determined by domestic factors? These questions are tackled as part of a workshop on the politicization of European Studies in Asia. The workshop takes place in the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel.

Speakers:

• Divya BALAN is assistant professor in International Studies at FLAME University in Pune, India, and currently a visiting fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies.
• Mukhtar HAJIZADA is currently a Fulbright Fellow at the Davis Center at Harvard University. He has been a Jean Monnet Chair (2014-17) and is the founding chair of the Azerbaijani European Studies Association.
• Jing MEN is the Baillet Latour Professor of European Union-China Relations and Director of the EU-China Research Centre at the College of Europe in Brussels.
• Silvana TARLEA is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for European Global Studies and at the Department of Politics of the University of Basel.
• José-Lorenzo VALLÉS is the European Commission‘s Head of Strategy and Investments at the Dir A: Policy Strategy and Evaluation of the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture.
• Ralph WEBER is assistant professor in European Global Studies at the University of Basel.