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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
This Summer EURUS is pleased to host EURR 5108/PSCI 5103:Canada-EU Relations Taught by professor Tamara Kotar, this intensive summer course examines the relationship between Canada and the European Union. After introductory sessions on EU foreign policy making, the course examines aspects of the Canada-EU relationship including common policy... More
This Spring EURUS is pleased to offer EURR 4202/5202: Competing Foreign Policy Agendas in Eurasia: Russia, the EU, NATO, the US, and China. Taught by Dr. Mikhail Zherebtsov, the course will investigate recent conflicts in Eurasia including the Russian annexation of Crimea, military unrest in Ukraine, Russia's actions against Georgia, and the... More
Monday, March 30, 2015
Please join us Friday April 10, 2015 for our upcoming spring conference: “Geopolitics of Energy in the Caspian Region“. This conference will bring together leading academics, practitioners and diplomats to discuss the evolving situation in this dynamic region. This event is co-hosted by EURUS and the Embassies of Azerbaijan, Georgia and... More
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
"Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus advocates in this interview for a model of social business that uses the market system to deliver solutions for social ills. Yunus, renowned for his work developing microcredit and microfinance through Grameen Bank, explains the need for an economic approach focused on human selflessness and offers a new... More
Monday, March 23, 2015
EURUS professor Piotr Dutkiewicz was recently a guest on The Current, CBC radio’s flagship current affairs program. In conversation with host Anna Maria Tremonti, Prof. Dutkiewicz discussed the recently conducted polls in Crimea which show support for Russia's annexation of the peninsula. This provided a jumping off point for a larger... More
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
EURUS professor Martin Geiger be will be available for "sign out" through FPA's 'Living Books' initiative. Dr. Geiger recently joined the faculty of EURUS and is the Assistant Professor of Politics of Human Migration and Mobility. His 'living book' topic is, "International Migration Management. Disciplining the Mobility of People?" Make a... More
EURUS professor Joan DeBardeleben spoke with GlobalNews this week about the recent assassination of Russian opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov. Dr. DeBardeleben discusses the potential factors which could have contributed to Nemtsov's death and president Vladimir Putin's announcement that he will personally oversea the investigation. The full... More
Monday, February 23, 2015
The Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian studies will be hosting a seminar by Dr. Sebastian Baglioni, a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, entitled "Catalonia: the Difficult Path Towards Independence": On November 9, 2014, Catalonia celebrated a referendum on independence. This was seen by... More
Monday, February 2, 2015
In conjunction with the Department of History, EURUS is very pleased to host Dr. Robert Cutler for his upcoming lecture titled: "Seeing the Russian Anarchist Mikhail Bakunin As He Was: Dissolving the Historiographic Myths about his Personality and Ideas". The event will take place on February 11, 2015 from 2:30-4:00pm in 3302 River Building,... More
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Agnieszka Weinar is a Marie Curie Fellow hosted by EURUS and the Metropolis Project; she joins us from the European University Institute in Florence. Her research focuses on the international dimension of migration policy and more specifically on the Europeanization of migration policies in the EU. For more information, please click... More
This week EURUS professor Piotr Dutkiewicz was a guest panelist on The Current, CBC radio's flagship current affairs program. In conversation with host Anna Maria Tremonti, Prof. Dutkiewicz outlines why the conflict in Ukraine is now on the brink of full scale civil war. One of the key problems he argues is that “both sides... More
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Professor Piotr Dutkiewicz with Russian President Vladimir Putin The FPA Research Excellence Award Symposium Public discussion on Social Change in Modern Russia After growing up in Poland and spending years in Russia as a PhD student, Professor Piotr Dutkiewicz has a deep understanding of the Russian people, including those who comprise the... More
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