Europe in Question Events

Every year, the EIQ team organises their annual lecture that takes place at LSE and features distinguished speakers and topics that reflect the work of the series.
EIQ Annual Lectures
The Long-term Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Euro Area
Thursday 03 June 2021, 6:00pm to 7:00pm
OnlineSpeakers: Poul Mathias Thomsen
Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
Six Political Philosophies in Search of a Virus: critical perspectives on the coronavirus pandemic
Monday 15 June 2020, 1:00pm to 2:30pm
OnlineSpeakers: Professor Gerard Delanty
Chair: Dr Sonja Avlijaš
Anti-System Politics in Europe: the Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich Democracies
Thursday 30 May 2019, 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Old Theatre, Old BuildingSpeakers: Dr Jonathan Hopkin
Chair: Dr Miriam Sorace
Europe in a Map: people and borders in times of change
Speakers:
Professor Simon Glendinning
Professor Elspeth Guild
Dr Natascha ZaunChair: Dr Robert Basedow
Whither Europe? Historical perspectives on 2017
Speakers:
Professor Michael Cox
Dr Abby Innes
Professor Mike SavageChair: Dr Lucia Rubinelli
Should we stay or should we go?
Tuesday 10 May 2016 | Old Theatre
Speaker: Professor Danny Dorling
Chair: Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis
Political Community and EU Law
Wednesday 6 May 2015 | Wolfson Theatre
Speaker: Professor Damian Chalmers
Chairs: Professor Sara Hobolt
The 2014 EP elections: a victory for European democracy?
Monday 2 June 204 | Wolfson Theatre
Speakers: Dr Sara Hagemann, Assistant Professor, European Institute, LSE and Head of VoteWatch.eu
Dr Mareike Kleine, Associate Professor in EU and International Politics, European Institute, LSE
Prof Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow, European Institute, LSE
Chair: Prof Maurice Fraser, Head of the European Institute, Professor of Practice in European Politics
Do countries need currencies, and do currencies need countries?
Tuesday 21 May 2013 | Wolfson Theatre
Speaker: Prof Harold James
Chair: Prof Paul De Grauwe
A European asymmetry: making markets and dealing with their externalities
Monday 28 May 2012 | Wolfson Theatre
Speaker: Prof Colin Crouch
Chair: Dr Jonathan White
Saving the Euro – at the expense of democracy in Europe?
Thursday 12 May 2011 | Wolfson Theatre
Speaker: Professor Fritz W. Scharpf
Chair: Professor Simon Hix
Other events
Adjusting to external economic norms and standards of "the West": The case of Israel
Thursday 2 December 2010 | 1.00-2.00pm (Sandwiches will be served from 12.30pm) | KSW.G108
Speaker: Alfred Tovias
Chair: Dr. Joan Costa-i-Font
The European Institute and EIQ are delighted to host Prof. Alfred Tovias, who will be presenting a paper on Israel's progressive adjustment to and homologation of foreign norms and standards through the negotiation of an Action Plan with the European Union and membership of the OECD. Alfred Tovias is the Walter Rathenau Professor in European Economics at the Department of International Relations of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He also holds the Jean Monnet Chair on External Economic Relations of the EU since 2001. Among other posts, he was Visiting Lecturer and Research Fellow at the LSE during 1999/2000.
Aftershock: Europe and the Post-Crisis World
Monday 10 May 2010 | 6.30-8pm | New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Philippe Legrain
Chair: Dr. Joan Costa-i-Font
The global economy is in turmoil. Is globalisation next at risk? Can it and should it be saved?
Philippe Legrain is a former visiting fellow at the European Institute and an independent writer, journalist and consultant.
This event was made possible with the generous support of the LSE Annual Fund.
The European Constitutional Settlement: Democratically Legitimate? Politically Stable?
Tuesday 12 May 2009 | 6.30-8pm | Old Theatre
Speaker: Professor Andrew Moravcsik
Chair: Professor Damian Chalmers
The lecture will launch the European Institute's new Discussion Paper series LSE 'Europe in Question' Series – LEQS, which publishes academic and policy research on European processes and institutions.
Andrew Moravcsik is professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University.