Events

The research project REFLEX will organize the workshop Making Non-Majoritarian Institutions Safe for Democracy on 20-21 June in Oslo. 

Andreas Eriksen presents the paper 'The Accountability of Independent Agencies' on 28 May 2019 at ARENA.

Markus Patberg presents the paper 'Constituent Power in the European Union: A Critique of Regional Cosmopolitanism' on 14 May 2019 at ARENA. 

EUREX will organize the workshop 'Expertise and policy-making – comparative perspectives' in The Hague on May 13-14, 2019. Deadline for paper proposal: February 1, 2019.

LUISS School of Government and ARENA will host a panel debate on the future of Europe as a part of the launch of the research project EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy (EU3D) in Rome on 12 April 2019. 

The kick-off conference of the EU3D project will be held in Rome on 11-12 April 2019, with internal project sessions as well as a public event on the future of Europe with high-level panel participants.

M.A. Johanne D. Saltnes from ARENA Centre for European Studies will be defending her PhD thesis Norm collision in the European Union’s external policies. EU development policy revisited. 

Eva Heims will present the paper 'Same, same, but different: Regulatory Expertise and the Differentiated Application of EU Law by National Regulators' on 19 March at ARENA.

ARENA Centre for European Studies will host a workshop on justice, trade and development as a part of the GLOBUS project in Oslo on 14-15 March 2019. 

Craig Parsons presents the paper 'Polanyian Muscles in Hayekian Brussels: The European Union’s Economic Authority in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective' on 26 February 2019 at ARENA.

Claudio Radaelli presents the paper 'Don't think it is a good idea! A critical analysis of the "ideas school"' on 5 February 2019 at ARENA.

M.A. Johanna Strikwerda from ARENA Centre for European Studies and the Department of Political Science will defend her PhD dissertation Integration in the European Union's field of defense and security. 

Jonathan Kuyper presents the paper 'Complementing and correcting representative institutions: When and how to use mini‐publics' on 22 January at ARENA. 

Solveig Aamodt will present the paper 'The non-state that failed as an international leader: Explaining why the EU largely gave up its global climate governance ambitions' at the ARENA Tuesday Seminar on 11 December 2018.

The seminar will discuss three recently published books which deal with challenging questions of identity and belonging, as well as terrorism.

Christilla Roederer-Rynning presents ‘Black Boxes and Open Secrets — Trilogues as a Democratic Resolution’ on 13 November 2018 at ARENA.

Costanza Margiotta will make a presentation based on her paper 'An Update on Secession as the “Ultimate Right”: for a Liminal Legality' on 6 November 2018 at ARENA.

William E. Scheuerman will present his paper 'Constituent power and civil disobedience: beyond the nation state?' at the ARENA Tuesday Seminar on 23 October 2018.

Professor William E. Scheuerman will give a presentation 'Can Political Institutions Commit Civil Disobedience?' at the seminar at the Faculty of Law. The seminar is jointly organised by the Department of Public and International Law and ARENA.

At the ARENA Tuesday Seminar on 16 October 2018, Mark Dawson will present his paper 'Reconciling Independence and Accountability at the European Central Bank: The False Promise of Proceduralism'.

At the extended ARENA Tuesday Seminar Professor Matt Qvortrup and the ARENA researchers held Referendum Symposium, providing accounts on the EU-related referendums, including the Brexit referendum.

Jan Zielonka, Professor of European Politics at Oxford University, will discuss his latest book Counter Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat on 18 September 2018 at Fritt Ord.

Jan Zielonka will make a presentation entitled 'The remaking of the EU’s borders and the images of European architecture' at the ARENA Tuesday Seminar on 18 September 2018.