Cardiff School of European Studies
Cardiff’s large and successful School of European Studies is a vibrant multidisciplinary unit that specialises in the different histories, political systems, languages, literatures and cultural identities of Europe.
In the most recent independent assessment of the quality of research in British universities, the School was ranked second in the UK by Research Power calculation. Research in the School is focused in three areas covering Histories, Memories and Fictions of Europe; Political Theory and European Governance; Identity and Public Policy.
The School also has five designed research centres which focus on Welsh Governance, British Idealism, European Film & Visual Cultures, Ideology Critique and Modern German History.
The School offers an impressively wide range of degree programmes and has well-established language exchanges with some of the leading institutions in Europe. It was commended in the last independent Teaching Quality Assessment for both the supportive approach of its staff and for the level of its student achievement.
European Commission
For more information, visit the European Commission Office website:
http://ec.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/index_en.htm
The Learned Society of Wales
The Society is Wales’s first national scholarly academy. It was launched in May 2010 by a group of independent scholars (the Society’s Founding Fellows) who are based in or connected with Wales, and who represent the major academic disciplines.
The Society’s aims are:
- to celebrate, recognise, preserve, protect and encourage excellence in all of the scholarly disciplines, and in the professions, industry and commerce, the arts and public service;
- to promote the advancement of learning and scholarship and the dissemination and application of the results of academic enquiry and research;
- to act as a source of independent and expert scholarly advice and comment on matters affecting the wellbeing of Wales and its people and to advance public discussion and interaction on matters of national and international importance; and
- to establish itself as a recognised representative of the world of Welsh learning internationally.
The Society is a company limited by guarantee and is a registered charity. It is fully independent, with its governance and programme of work determined by the Fellowship via an elected Council which is chaired by the President, Sir John Cadogan CBE DSc FRSE FRSC PLSW FRS.
For more information, visit the Society’s website: www.learnedsocietywales.ac.uk
Further information
Professor Kenneth Dyson
School of European Studies
Email : DysonKH@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone : +44(0)20 2087 5636
Dr Ian Stafford
Research Officer
Email: StaffordIM@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 2087 0325
Europe and the UK in the financial crisis: Union or Disunion?
6th December 2011
As we face the largest financial and economic crisis since the 1930’s, what are the implications for Wales and the UK?
Wales’s First Minister, the Rt.Hon. Carwyn Jones AM, will discuss Wales and the European Union in light of this salient issue in his keynote speech at an economic governance event this week (Wednesday). This will be the first time the First Minister has spoken in public on this subject.
The School of European Studies at Cardiff University together with the European Commission, and in association with the Learned Society of Wales, are hosting the half-day conference which will bring together speakers from across Wales, the UK and Europe to explore potential strategic options that UK and Welsh governments will face in the future.
The conference, which coincides with the 20th anniversary of the agreement of the Maastricht Treaty of the European and Monetary Union (EMU), will be chaired by former Cardiff University President and former Vice-President of the European Commission, Lord Neil Kinnock.
Other key participants at the conference include MEP and member of the Economic and Monetary Committee Kay Swinburne, Michele Calandrino of the European Commission, and Rory O’Donnell, Director of the National Economic and Social Council in Ireland.
The European Union and its Member States have faced unprecedented challenges caused by the global financial and economic crisis during the last 18 months. The conference will consider how proposed reforms to re-shape economic governance within Europe, may affect Wales and the rest of the UK.
Kenneth Dyson, Professor at the School of European Studies, said: “With newspaper coverage that ‘we have only a few days left to save the Euro’, and with the imminent meeting of the European Council to try to agree a final crisis package to reassure the markets, what choices face Wales and the UK in this context?”
‘A Federal Europe in the Making? Europe 2020, the European Semester and the Euro Plus Pact’ takes place on Wednesday 7th December at the Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay, from 9.45am – 2.00pm.
The conference is free of charge and is part of the wider programme of events ‘Reforming European Economic Governance: Implications for the United Kingdom and Wales’ which runs until Spring 2012. The programme is sponsored by the European Commission and the Cardiff School of European Studies, organised in association with the Learned Society of Wales.