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Working Lunch with Visiting Fellows

On Thursday, May 15, 2014, at 12.15 pm, the Institute for European Global Studies invited to a Working Lunch with Visiting Fellows. This time, the scientific input was provided by Prof. Michael J. Geary and Frank Bayersdorf. Dr. Isabella Löhr chaired the event.

Michael J. Geary is Assistant Professor of Modern Europe and the European Union at Maastricht University, Netherlands. He received his doctoral degree from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. His research project, entitled "Integration or Disintegration", explores why the European Union needs a Post-enlargement Policy to deal with the multiple rounds of accession since the early 1970s. Amongst other fellowships, he was awarded the Global Europe Fellowship at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, a Fulbright-Schuman Fellowship at the Catholic University of American (DC) and a European Parliament-Bronisław Geremek Research Fellowship at the College of Europe in Warsaw.

Frank Beyersdorf is a doctoral candidate in history at Mannheim University and is currently writing his thesis, which analyses global media policy through the League of Nations and the United Nations systems between 1919 and 1952. He has taught courses on international organizations and global history and European diplomacy in the 19th and 20th century in Heidelberg, Mannheim and Berlin. Mr. Beyersdorf’s research interests are international organizations, the state, technology, imperialism, actor-network theory, and norm generation beyond borders.

Working lunches are a new platform for communication initiated by Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch. They provide visiting fellows with a forum to present their research and to exchange ideas in a relaxed atmosphere.