VU Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies

Recent developments

• Seminar on Climate Change and the Voiceless

On Thursday, June 13th, Professor Randall S. Abate (Monmouth University, USA) will visit the VU and give a talk on the topic of his forthcoming book - Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming September 2019).

The seminar will take place at 14.30h until 16h in room HG-10A20 (VU main building).

Everyone is warmly invited to join. If you are planning to, please let us know by email (m.e.jozwiak@vu.nl).

VICES is funding a series of new projects in the coming months in collaboration with researchers at the VU!

• Nana de Graaff and Michiel Verver will be organizing a workshop on Chinese investments in Europe;

• Dion Kramer and Marieke Oprel will be organizing an event on the inclusive and exclusive dynamics of formal and moral citizenship in Europe;

• Ozlem Terzi will be organizing a workshop on emotions in European foreign policy at populist times, and

• Wolfgang Wagner, Tanja Aalberts and Willem Trommel will invite Prof. Richard Münch for a talk on the comtemporary politics of higher education and university research in Europe.

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About VICES

VU Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies (VICES) is a platform for researchers at VU to share their research, work together, and develop new ideas new ideas regarding Europe and European integration. It welcomes all those at the university who are interested in contemporary Europe, and extends an ongoing invitation for them to participate in events, share their thoughts, make suggestions, and apply for funding. It also aims to include colleagues who do not study Europe directly, but who have ideas or knowledge that can help us understand the continent and its dynamics. These may be political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, cultural theorists, economists, lawyers or others.

Why have VICES?

VICES aims to:

• invigorate and raise the profile of the research done at VU on Europe
• create new interdisciplinary networks of researchers 
• add to the field of European studies by offering a distinctive and refreshing perspective on the field
• facilitate new research projects, new funding and new ideas

Our mission statement

European integration is a uniquely radical experiment in governance, which can only be understood by drawing on the insights of the human and social sciences beyond those traditionally regarded as ‘European studies’. The study of Europe needs to become less introspective, and more exploratory: we plead for a turn to the outside, to reinvigorate the field.