Sciences Po Dijon students visit Tirana campus
Yesterday, we hosted a bright group of students from the Sciences Po Dijon campus in Tirana. As part of their annual study trip to the region, the Bourgogne Balkans Express - BBE Student Association...
Book presentations - 2024/2025
In collaboration with the Bruges Library, the IDEAs programme hosts weekly book presentations featuring visiting professors from the IDEAs programme as well as external scholars who are intellectually close to the College. Each IDEAs weeks' Wednesdays at 12h15, these events bring together authors, faculty members, and students to discuss recent publications in European studies and related fields. Together, they contribute to shaping an “ideal IDEAs library” — a shared intellectual space reflecting the core themes, questions, and critical approaches of the programme. Open to the College community and beyond, these presentations foster dialogue across disciplines and highlight the vibrant academic culture at the College of Europe.
02/04/2025 - Stefana BROADBENT, Pour une nouvelle culture de l’attention. Que faire de ces réseaux sociaux qui nous épuisent ? (Odile Jacob, 2024)
Pictures: Stefana Broadbent. All right reserved.
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19/03/2025 - Hélène MICHEL, The EU’s government of worker mobility. An interdisciplinary discussion (Routledge, 2023)
Picture: Hélène Michel. All right reserved.
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05/03/2025 - Antoine VAUCHEZ, Le moment régulateur. Naissance d'une contre-culture de gouvernement (Presses de Sciences Po, 2024)
Picture: Antoine Vauchez. All right reserved.
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26/02/2025 - Cécile ROBERT (Sciences Po Lyon), Political Sociology Perspectives on Lobbying in the EU (Springer, 2025)
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19/02/2025 - François FORET, Disenchanted Europe? The European Union in search of narratives (Rights-Values-Way of life) (Routledge, à paraître en 2025)
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6/11/2024 – Didier GEORGAKAKIS et Marylou HAMM, Numéro spécial Politique européenne, Approches anthropologiques et ethnographiques de l’Union européenne (novembre 2024).
In the first part of this special issue of Politique européenne, Didier Georgakakis and Marylou Hamm revisit the legacy of the 1990s Abélès, Bellier, and McDonald report in European studies. They highlight the importance of anthropological and ethnographic methods in studying European political spaces, emphasizing a break from positivist approaches, and a focus on power relations and collective representations. They present contributions that renew reflections on understanding the European space.
The second part features five analyses that explore EU institutions through an anthropological and ethnographic lens. Topics include EU Council diplomats, European civil servants, and interest representatives. The issue concludes with an interview in which Georgakakis discusses the representation of political science and social sciences at the European level.
Pictures : Oriane Calligaro and Didier Georgakakis. All rights reserved.
The first volume can be accessed via this link, the second volume via this link.
9/10/2024 - Jean-Frédéric SCHAUB, Nous avons tous la même histoire – les défis de l’identité (Odile Jacob, 2024).
In Nous avons tous la même histoire – Les défis de l'identité, Jean-Frédéric Schaub examines contemporary critical movements such as decolonial approaches and "woke" politics, which challenge the Western model of domination inherited from European colonialism and Enlightenment universalism. He analyzes how history can be instrumentalized—either to support the construction of the nation-state or to be rejected by activist movements rooted in inherited identities. Schaub advocates for an autonomous and scientific history, wary of ideological uses, and calls for a methodological universalism. He explores questions of memory, truth, and objectivity, offering fresh insight into today’s debates.
Jean-Frédéric Schaub, born in 1963 in Paris, is a modern historian and Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). A specialist in the political structures of Iberian societies in the early modern period, his recent work focuses on the political history of race.
Picture : Jean-Frédéric Schaub. All rights reserved.
3/10/2024 – Jan ZIELONKA, The Lost Future and How to Reclaim It (Yale University Press, 2023). 
In this essay, Jan Zielonka explores the inability of contemporary democracies to anticipate the major crises of our time. He critiques the limitations of the nation-state in addressing global challenges and calls for a rethinking of democracy through transnational networks — cities, NGOs, and economic actors — capable of imagining a shared global future.
Jan Zielonka is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, at the University of Oxford and visiting professor at the College of Europe. A specialist in Europe and democratic transformations, he is the author of numerous influential works on the crisis of liberalism and the future of transnational governance. Picture : Jan Zielonka. All rights reserved.