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European Institute Student Conference: Cumberland Lodge

The EI’s annual student conference takes place at Cumberland Lodge, a 17th-century Grade II listed former-Royal manor in Windsor Great Park. Each year we try to find a topic for our conference at Cumberland Lodge that offers something for all of our students.

'Confluence of Crisis: Europe & Ukraine'

4th-6th November 2022

The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Confluence of Crisis: Europe and Ukraine’. This conference engaged with the current conflict in Ukraine and invited participants to consider the various crises connected to the conflict, whether these be political, economic, or humanitarian. The conference also featured a workshop for students to discuss and explore solutions to the crises facing Europe and Ukraine.

War and Democratic Value: The Ethics of Fighting for Ukraine

Speaker: Professor Christopher Finlay, Professor in Political Theory, Durham University

Chair: Dr Cristóbal Garibay-Petersen, Fellow in European Philosophy, European Institute, LSE.

Approaching the Intersections of Identity and Citizenship from the Bottom Up in Crimea and Moldova

Speaker: Dr Ellie Knott, Assistant Professor in Qualitative Methods, Department of Methodology, LSE

Chair: Dr Marta Lorimer, Fellow in European Politics, European Institute, LSE

The Ukraine war and its implications for Europe

Speaker: Mujtaba Rahman, Managing Director, Europe, Eurasia Group

Chair: Professor Jonathan Hopkin, Professor of Comparative Politics, European Institute, LSE

What do news media in Putin's Russia Reveal about the regime's survival strategy?

Speaker: Lanabi La Lova, Researc Officer, European Institute, LSE

Chair: Daniela Movileanu, PhD student, European Institute, LSE

'Intergenerational Fairness'

2nd-4th Feburary 2022

This conference explored the various ways and dimensions in which policies can contribute to intergenerational fairness.

At this Cumberland Lodge Conference, we encouraged our students to think about and discuss the ways in which public policies could become sensitive to their intergenerational impact, and whether they should even do so. Our learning and teaching will be different in that students will be producers and communicators of policy ideas.

Read a blog post from one of our EI students about their time at Cumberland Lodge

'Crossing Continents: Europe-Africa'

2020

This conference explored the various ways and dimensions in which Europe and Africa are connected in an increasingly global world – whether that is evidenced in the movement of goods and services, the movement of people and peoples, or the movement of knowledge and ideas..

This conference gave the opportunity for our students to think about and discuss the ways in which Africa continues to mark the economic, political and cultural life of Europe today – including, in the wake of European colonisation, a newly new European identity: the Afropean.

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Convened by Dr Niina Vuolajarvi

This course explores mobility and borders as sites of contestation and focuses on perspectives rising from the (everyday) practices of migration in Europe and beyond.

This course takes distance from the normative lens of the nation-state and its control apparatus to the movement of people. It introduces critiques of methodological nationalism, addresses issues of decolonisation and postcolonial condition in migration studies and examines mobility and rights as differentially accessed resources defined by global hierarchies.

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The Political Economy of Migration in Europe - EU468

Convened by Dr Angelo Martelli

The course aims to deepen students’ understanding of the role played by migration and spatial inequality in different phases of European integration and policy-making.

This course allows the students to participate in a G20 Simulation and learn from fantastic guest-speakers, past examples include;

Julia Blocher, Project Lead, The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Michael Clemens, Director of Migration, Displacement, and Humanitarian Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development, Andrea Milan, Data Manager – Migration Governance Indicators, Global Migration Data Analysis Center

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European Integration from a Global Governance Perspective - EU487

Convened by Dr Mareike Kleine

This course engages recent positive and normative scholarship in various disciplines on governance in and beyond Europe. Putting European integration in a global and comparative perspective promises to illuminate current public and scholarly debates about past, present, and future, as well as the nature of European integration and Europe’s place in an interconnected world.

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MSc Culture and Conflict in a Global Europe

This programme explores the multifaceted opportunities and challenges globalization brings to Europe.

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This multidisciplinary programme studies European politics and policy-making in an international context, and includes courses dedicated to developing students’ professional skills.

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This programme offers a unique range of courses that will deepen students' knowledge of migration and mobility issues and help them gain new insight into public policy responses to international migration

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The programme provides a historically grounded, multi-disciplinary analysis of key political and economic processes and problems in Europe.

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