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Ann-Kathrin McLean is currently a Doctor of Social Sciences candidate at Royal Roads University (RRU), Victoria, BC, Canada, in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies. Ann-Kathrin holds a MA degree in Tourism Management from RRU. Ann-Kathrin is an associate faculty member in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management and program associate for the MA in Tourism Management at RRU. With a particular focus on interactive and engaging learning activities and challenges, Ann-Kathrin brings a facilitative approach to her teaching. Her […]

Peo Hansen´s research interest lies in the contemporary as well as historical development of European integration. He has written extensively on the questions of migration, citizenship and identity as these relate to the current project and political economy of European integration. He has also explored the significance of colonialism and decolonization for the historical development of European integration and the current politics of European identity. Research interests: Migration policy, EU citizenship, colonial history, political economy, European Union

Dr. Matt James is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria. His research focuses on transitional justice, reparations, collective memory, political apologies, Canadian politics, and constitutionalism. He is the author of Misrecognized Materialists: Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics (UBC Press) and has published widely on memory, reparations, and political accountability. He also prepared a major research report for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on truth commissions, victims, and perpetrators. Dr. James is Co-Lead of […]

Diána Bartha has a degree in Sociology from Eötvös Loránd Science University of Budapest. Her thesis examines the identity of Hungarian minority in Romania with qualitative and quantitative methodology. The territory was detached from the former Kingdom of Hungary in 1920. The minority has a special and constantly shifting role in the Hungarian and Romanian social system. Due to the minority’s history, their identity and collective remembrance is complex. Diána Bartha has research background in the themes of Holocaust, Second […]

Jules Soupault (he/him) is a PhD student and currently co-supervised by Pr. Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly (UVic, School of Public Administration) and Pr. Birte Wassenberg (University of Strasbourg). For his dissertation topic, he is working on a comparison between the socio-historical construction of “smart borders” in North American and European borderlands, more precisely in Akwesasne and Derry/Londonderry. As a former student of the Institut d’Études Politiques in Toulouse (France) and the Linnaeus University in Växjö (Sweden), Jules Soupault has a background in […]

Dr. Francesca Tortorella works at the Université Catholique de Lille. She has a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Strasbourg (2019). Her thesis, directed by Pr. Sylvain Schirmann, examines the relation between Europeanism and antifascism and is titled: “From the birth of Giustizia e Libertà to the dissolution of the Partito d’Azione (1929-1947): a Europeanist antifascism”. Francesca Tortorella has an international and multidisciplinary background and studied Political Science and European Studies at the University of Siena and at […]

Dr Piotr Oleksy is an associate professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (History Department) and publicist collaborating with leading Polish journals. Scholarly expertise focuses on collective identity dynamics and identity policies in Central and Eastern Europe after collapse of Soviet Union and on international relations in the region. Author of two monographies on unrecognized Transdniestria and participant of international forums working on solving Transdniestrian conflict. Co-author of the report for European Parliament “Association agreements between the EU and […]

Dr. Sylvain Schirmann is a professor of contemporary history at Sciences Po Strasbourg, where he was Director from 2006 to 2015. He holds the Jean Monnet Chair on the History of European Construction and has also taught at the College of Europe. He is now the Coordinator of the Jean-Monnet Centre, which was launched on 6 November and is part of Sciences Po Strasbourg. The centre is made up of French and German researchers, and fulfils a threefold role of […]

Institute for Political Studies (IEP) at the University of Strasbourg (France), Maître de conférences habilité à diriger des recherches en études germaniques, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg, Membre de l’UMR 7367 Dynamiques Européennes, Membre associé du CEGIL.

Dr. Birte Wassenberg is Professor in Contemporary History at Sciences Po Strasbourg and Vice President in charge of Europe and International Relations of the University of Strasbourg (France). Former student of the College of Europe, she holds a Jean Monnet Chair, is member of the research Center of International and European Studies (CEIE) and director of the Franco-German Jean-Monnet Center of Excellence at the University of Strasbourg. Research interests: International Relations, Border studies, regionalism, the history of European Integration and […]

Dr. Ildikó Barna is Associate Professor of Sociology at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Faculty of Social Sciences in Budapest where she also serves as a Head of the Department of Social Research Methodology. She received a PhD in Sociology from ELTE in 2009. Dr Barna has written a number of publications, including Political Justice in Budapest after World War II, co-authored with Andrea Pető (CEU Press, 2015). Her presentations include: “Hungarian Postwar Justice through the People’s Tribunal of Budapest: Quantitative […]

Prof. Dr. Beata Halicka is Professor of Contemporary History at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her research focuses on forced migration, borderlands, nationalism, collective memory, identity formation, and German-Polish relations. Before joining Adam Mickiewicz University, she taught at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and served as a visiting professor at the University of Calgary and the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author or editor of numerous books and scholarly publications, including the award-winning […]

Fonna Forman is Associate Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego. A political theorist best known for her revisionist research on Adam Smith, her work focuses on recuperating the ethical, spatial and public dimensions of his thought. Since 2009 she has served as Editor of the Adam Smith Review, the premier international journal of Smith’s thought. Forman’s work engages the intersection of ethics, public culture, urban policy […]

Anna Jurkevics is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Yale University. Her research is primarily in the field of political theory, with a focus on democratic theory and history of German political thought. She specialises on the work of Hannah Arendt. Through her research, she contests sovereigntist geopolitical thought by touching on themes such as territory, land, and migration to offer new insights […]

Judith Teichman is Professor of Political Science and International Development at the University of Toronto and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of books and articles on politics and policymaking in Latin America, with a focus on Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. Her work on policy has dealt with economic and social policy, and with issues of poverty and distribution. She has also carried out research on the role of the World Bank and the […]

Michael Petrou is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University. He holds a PhD in Modern History from Saint Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. Petrou also holds and MA in Atlantic Canada Studies from Saint Mary’s University. As a historian, his research has focused on modern Canadian, European, and Middle Eastern history. Since 2018, Petrou has also been a Fellow in Residence at Carleton University in the department of Global and International Studies. […]