Europe's Stories Project
What story should Europe tell in the 21st-century? What do we want the EU to do by 2030? Our team, based in Oxford University, are going out to ask a wide range of Europeans about their formative, best and worst European moments. We are talking in greater depth to a number of Europeans, hearing their reflections on Europe's stories – and their own. We have also analysed a wide range of public opinion survey data, and are doing our own special polling in collaboration with the Eupinions project. The results are shown on the project website, https://europeanmoments.com/. We would also love to have your contribution, which you can share on https://europeanmoments.com/your-story. Contact us about anything else on info@europeanmoments.com
The project is directed by Professor Timothy Garton Ash and the Research Manager is Selma Kropp. For the project team see here. An advisory committee consists of leading Oxford academics: Professor Paul Betts, Dr Jonathan Bright, Professor Faisal Devji, Professor Carolin Duttlinger, Professor Robert Gildea, Professor Ruth Harris, Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh, Professor Andrew Hurrell, Dr Hartmut Mayer, Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis, Professor Rasmus Nielsen and Professor David Priestland.
Latest episodes
Jun 10, 2020 • 42min
10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium 5. Europe's (his)story in schools, museums, theatre and foundations
What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. With Steffen Sammler (Georg Eckert Institute), Constanze Itzel (House of European History, Brussels), Katie Ebner-Landy (Dash Arts), Michael Schwarz (Stiftung Mercator)
Chair: Karl-Heinz Paque (Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung ftir die Freiheit)
Held in St Antony's College, Oxford 2nd and 3rd May 2019
Jun 10, 2020 • 28min
10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium 4. Writing a history of Europe
What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. With Ian Kershaw (author of To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 and RollerCoaster: Europe, 1950-2017), Andreas Wirsching (author of Der Preis der Freiheit: Geschichte Europas in Unserer Zeit), Margaret MacMillan (Toronto/ Oxford) Chair: Paul Betts (Oxford)
Held in St Antony's College, Oxford 2nd and 3rd May 2019
Jun 10, 2020 • 39min
10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium 3. The power and perils of narrative
What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. With Andrew Hurrell (Oxford), Kalypso Nicolaidis (Oxford), Carolin Duttlinger (Oxford) Chair: Rasmus Nielsen (Oxford). Held in St Antony's College, Oxford 2nd and 3rd May 2019
Jun 10, 2020 • 38min
10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium 2. Contested narratives of today's Europe
What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. With Andras Lanczi (Corvinus University Budapest and A Europe We Can Believe In), Slawomir Sierakowski (Krytyka Polityczna, Warsaw), Damian Boeselager (Volt Europa), Gisela Stuart (Labour Party and Change Britain, UK) Chaired by Rana Mitter (Oxford)
Held in St Antony's College, Oxford 2nd and 3rd May 2019
Jun 10, 2020 • 1h 9min
10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium 1.What do Europeans know? What do they care?
Researchers, journalists, and academics discuss narratives in Europe. Topics include: the power of narrative in the Brexit vote, the EU's disconnect from the common citizen, resentment towards the EU in Eastern Germany, far-right activists promoting racist ideologies, language patterns of political elites, and attitudes towards the EU.
Mar 18, 2019 • 57min
The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture - Central European philosophy and the search for truth in dark times
The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture was given by Marci Shore, associate professor of history at Yale University. Her research focuses on European intellectual history, in particularly twentieth and twenty-first century Central and Eastern Europe. She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her PhD from Stanford University in 2001; and since 2004 has regularly been a visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński's The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. In 2018 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her current project titled “Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe.” The lecture was hosted by the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College and chaired by Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies.
