The State of the Union - SIXTH EDITION

Women in Europe and the World

The State of the Union conference, organised by the European University Institute (EUI), is an annual event for high-level reflection on the European Union.
Supervised by a committee of influential EUI academics, the scientific content of The State of the Union 2016 is organised around the theme of “Women in Europe and the World”.
High-profile actors in politics and the law, in finance and economics, and in religious and associational life will be invited to discuss the situation of women in Europe and beyond, in a series of keynotes and round table discussions that bring together the worlds of politics and policy with those of academic research.

 

• Refugees, Migration and Citizenship
• Employment and Social Affairs
• Political and Economic Empowerment
• Conflict and Transitions to Democracy
• Sexual and Reproductive Politics

The Scientific Committee

• Stephan Albrechtskirchinger is the Director of the EUI’s Communications Service. Before joining the EUI he held senior positions in communications and public affairs in the private and public sectors throughout Europe. He has followed courses at Harvard and INSEAD and is a graduate of Sciences-Po, Paris.
• Laura Lee Downs holds the Chair in Gender History at the EUI and is directrice d'études at the Centre de Recherches Historiques, EHESS. Her current research explores the shifting relationships between the social and the political in twentieth-century Europe via the comparative study of civil society mobilizations around social welfare in France, Italy and Great Britain from about 1870-1970.
• Pasquale Ferrara is EUI’s secretary general. He was head of the analysis and planning unit at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 2011. He served as chief advisor at the Italian embassy in Washington DC until 2004. His diplomatic career started in 1984 and took him to several countries, including Chile and Greece.
• Brigid Laffan is Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, and Director of the Global Governance Programme, EUI. Prior to that she was Professor of European Politics, Vice-President at the School of Politics and International Relations, University College of Dublin. She was the founding director of the Dublin European Institute and member of the Royal Irish Academy.
• Ruth Rubio Marin is Professor of Constitutional and Public Comparative Law at the EUI. Previously she taught at the University of Seville, and held research and teaching positions at NYU, Princeton, Queen's University and Berkeley. Her primary research areas are constitutional law, immigration and nationality law, law and gender, antidiscrimination law and minority rights.
• Anna Triandafyllidou is Professor at GGP, where she coordinates the Research Area on Cultural Pluralism. Previously, she was part time professor at the RSCAS, she was Senior Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy. She serves as national expert and evaluator of research for several national and international projects and networks and agencies.
• J.H.H. Weiler is President of the EUI. Previously he served as Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair at Harvard Law School and subsequently as Director of the Jean Monnet Center at NYU School of Law. He is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law and the International Journal of Constitutional Law.
• Jennifer M. Welsh is Professor and Chair in International Relations at the EUI and a Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford. She was appointed by the UN Secretary General to serve as his Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect. Previously she  co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.

Organizer and Partners

• European University Institute

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