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Details: Republicans Abroad Luxembourg are organising a new-format event on Thursday 27 June at Vapiano in Kirchberg from 19:00.
Professor HARMSEN will speak on the current political climate and the repercussions, in an interactive format with attendees invited to bring some difficult questions and the floor will be open style.
Robert HARMSEN joined the University of Luxembourg in November 2008 as Professor of Political Science. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Alberta (Canada), and then undertook his doctoral work as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Kent at Canterbury (United Kingdom). After defending his doctoral thesis (on the historical and intellectual origins of the constitution of the French Fifth Republic) in 1988, he then returned to Canada as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université de Montréal, subsequently holding teaching positions at McGill and Laurentian Universities.
Crossing the Atlantic again, he joined Queen’s University Belfast in 1993, as a founding member of the Institute of European Studies. During his time at Queen’s, Dr. Harmsen served as the initial co-ordinator of the university’s now well-established MA programme in European Integration and Public Policy. He also held a number of key administrative posts, including those of Acting Director of the Institute of European Studies, Head of Teaching in the School of Politics and International Studies, and Director of Research for the European Governance and Gender Group in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy.
Professor Harmsen has been a recurring visiting professor at the Institut d’Etudes politiques de Strasbourg, a visiting researcher at the Faculty of Humanities of the University Amsterdam, and Researcher-in-Residence at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe. He is also a co-editor of the Amsterdam-based Editions Rodopi European Studies series.
Professor Harmsen’s research interests have spanned a broad range of topics concerned with the contemporary processes of European integration, at both the national and the supranational levels. He has written on the constitutional development of the European Union (including logics of ‘variable geometry’) and on the politico-legal dynamics of the European Human Rights regime (with particular reference to the post-enlargement challenges faced by the Council of Europe’s European Convention on Human Rights). He has also published extensively on the themes of ‘Europeanisation’ (notably examining the ‘path dependent’ logics of administrative adaptation to the EU decision-making process) and ‘Euroscepticism’ (specifically in relation to developments in Britain, France, and the Netherlands).
Professor Harmsen is currently the director of the Master in European Governance and the coordinator of the public policy axis within the European Governance research programme. As part of the overall strategic development of European and international policy studies at the University of Luxembourg, he has established a growing research group focused on the area of ‘Higher Education, Research and Innovation’. Work in this area includes the recently completed ‘Euro-Uni’ project (2010-12), undertaken in collaboration with Dr. Gangolf Braband, which examined the developmental dynamics of the Bologna Process and the wider emergence of a European higher education policy arena. Professor Harmsen is also actively continuing his research in the area of comparative constitutionalism and human rights. Current research encompasses both the continuation of his work on the European Court of Human Rights and a broader project examining patterns of judicial globalisation.
W-Lan is available, relaxed environment, in the heart of Kirchberg. Drinks, coffee or dinner, etc. are available. Park either in Auchan or outside along the side streets is easy, Vapiano is exactly opposite the shopping centre, at 44 Avenue John F. Kennedy.
Venue: Vapiano, 44 Avenue John F. Kennedy.
Organiser: Republicans Abroad Luxembourg
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