The Jean Monnet Circle Seminar “European Integration and Institutional Studies” offers a basic introduction into the major social, political, cultural, and economic developments in Europe and its interrelation with the process of globalisation and European integration. All topics are presented by alternating experts from different universities and institutions.

The seminar addresses the following topics:

• Europe Seen From Outside. Europe and Its Role in the World (Prof. Dr. Dirk Wentzel, Pforzheim University)
• The European Union. Institutional Design, Democratic Deficit and Options of Reform (Prof. Dr. Monika Oberle, University of Göttingen)
• Law within the European Union; Human Rights (Dr. Ingo Bott, Kanzlei Plan A)
• Identity and Diversity. Unity in Diversity as a European Vision (Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha, ZAK)
• Europe and Her Stories – Aspects of current narratives concerning the History of Present Europe (Dr. Dr. Jesús Munoz Morcillo, ZAK)
• The Future of the European Union after the European Elections (Julian Plottka, Institute for European Politics)

Economic Aspects of European Integration (Prof. Dr. Joachim Schild)

2-6 ECTS

Registration required via: https://www.zak.kit.edu/anmeldung.php/event/44632#calendar_top