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Right to Know is an ethnographic (and anecdotal) podcast series about people coming to terms with the internet in some of India’s poorest rural and tribal districts, where many have not seen a television, or as in the ancient city of Chanderi, locals are still coming to terms with cars and scooters. Right to Know is presented and produced by Andrew Garton and has been adapted from his book Right to Know: India's Internet Avant-garde published by the Digital Empowerment Foundation and the Aus ...
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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 proje ...
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For something different in this series finale, we speak with Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Politics at Oxford and Director the Europe’s Stories Project. What have we found out about what young Europeans want the EU to be and to do? Why do we need to speak of both synergies and trade-offs? Do we find ourselves more or less optimistic abo…
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Ana and Lucas speak with Marianna Lovato and Olivier de France, the team’s experts on foreign policy and international politics. Our polls found that most Europeans want stronger European cooperation—but foreign policy does not rank highly among their priorities, even if they place significant emphasis on Europe as a community of values. Is the EU …
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Today, we talk with Sophie Vériter and Josef Lolacher about the core of the European project - democracy. How solid is this core? We talk about democratic backsliding, the perceived inefficiency of consensual regimes, and Europe in a changing world of populist and authoritarian tendencies. What can and should the EU do to defend this community of v…
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Ana and Lucas speak today with our team’s specialists on the things that bring quality of life to Europeans - jobs, industry and the welfare state. Coming from North Macedonia, Kristijan Fidanovski has a keen interest in the intersection between social policy and EU enlargement, whereas Guillaume Paugam joins us immediately after a stint at the Eur…
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Ana and Lucas speak today with Victoria Honsel and Reja Wyss, who co-wrote the report chapter on climate action. Both have also been young Europeans actively involved in politics. Our polls found that 58% of Europeans want the EU to be carbon neutral by 2030, with an additional 20% aiming for 2040. What measures are acceptable for managing this tra…
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Ana and Lucas speak today with Luisa Melloh, who manages the project behind this series. Many things flow across borders - capital, goods, ideas - but young Europeans also assume that they themselves can move freely and with ease. One of our polls found that nearly three-quarters of Europeans agree that the EU would not be worth having without free…
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Today, Ana and Lucas speak with Dan Snow and Maeve Moynihan about who young Europeans are. This generation is not used to thinking of Europe as divided by war or wall, but it is living through a pandemic, and its shared experiences will determine the future of the European project. What makes them different from other generations? Will they make up…
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What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. With Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Ashoka University, Delhi), Sonia Lucarelli (University of Bologna), Khaled Fahmy (Cambridge) Chair: Faisal Devji (Oxford). Held in St Antony's College, Oxford on 2nd and 3rd May 2019.By Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Sonia Lucarelli, Khaled Fahmy, Faisal Devji
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What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. With Ayyam Sureau (Association Pierre Claver, Paris), Katalin Barsony (Romedia, Budapest), Ayse Kadioglu (Sabanci University, Istanbul), Chair: Ruth Harris (Oxford).By Ayyam Sureau, Katalin Barsony, Ayse Kadioglu, Ruth Harris
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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 …
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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) He…
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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 2019By Andrew Hurrell, Kalypso Nicolaidis, Carolin Duttlinger, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
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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…
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What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. With Isabell Hoffmann (eupinions, Bertelsmann Foundation), Katrin Bennhold (New York Times), Christian Rauh (WZB), Daniel Judt (Oxford). Chaired by Hartmut Mayer (Oxford). Timothy Garton Ash (Oxford) introduces the conference. Held in St Antony's College, Oxfo…
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We travel to the Indo-Nepalese border and listen in on two public meetings where some people discover, for the first time, just what a pension is and a building we are filming in is struck by lightning. Presented and produced by Andrew Garton Right to know is adapted from the book Right to Know - India's Internet Avantgarde [PDF].…
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We discover what the United Nations Development Program means by India's media dark, we find a broadband wireless tower made entirely from junk and children from different castes sing together on a video conferencing platform in Rajasthan. Presented and produced by Andrew Garton Right to know is adapted from the book Right to Know - India's Interne…
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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 200…
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