Events

RECON’s concluding conference discusses key findings from the 5-year long project (2007-2011), which has focused on the conditions for democracy in Europe.

RECON’s concluding conference discusses key findings from the 5-year long project (2007-2011), which has focused on the conditions for democracy in Europe.

Europe has recently been struck with a crisis that also exposes the democratic challenges facing the European Union. What are the prospects for democracy beyond the nation state in this time of crisis?

Europe has recently been struck with a crisis that also exposes the democratic challenges facing the European Union. What are the prospects for democracy beyond the nation state in this time of crisis? This question will be discussed by scholars from across Europe and beyond when RECON presents highlights from five years of research at a public seminar in Oslo. 

A workshop in RECON's Work Package 6 - The Foreign and Security Dimension.

The book European Stories: Intellectual Debates on Europe in National Contexts, edited by Justine Lacroix and Kalypso Nicolaïdis within the framework of RECON's WP 5 - Civil Society and the Public Sphere, was presented and debated at a conference organised by the Spinelli Group in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Scholarly thinking about democracy as an idea and about democracy as political practice is still largely divided along disciplinary lines – normative political theory and empirical political science. Democracy as an idea is almost exclusively discussed within political theory.

How to strengthen democracy in the EU was the key question of the RECON open-for-all outreach conference. The conference presented key findings from the 5-year long research project.

How to strengthen democracy in the EU is the key question of the RECON open-for-all outreach conference. The conference presents key findings from the 5-year long research project.

The aim of this RECON workshop is to explore the role and status of gender by investigating the aspect that has the greatest impact on the different roles of men and women: namely, the bearing and raising of children.

A RECON workshop at the 2nd International Conference on Democracy as Idea and Practice.

RECON’s midterm conference in Prague will aim at engaging participants in a constructive discussion on the theoretical models underlying the project, as well as taking stock of RECON’s research halfway through the project.