On Thursday, 27 October 2016, the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe will celebrate its first ten years.
This event primarily aims at the alumni and students of the College of Europe but is also open to the wider public (online registration required by Monday 24 October at 12:00 noon).
Draft programme (more details will become available soon):
9:30: Welcome by Prof. Dr. Sieglinde GSTÖHL, Director, Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies
9:45: Roundtable discussion “EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies: Past, Present, Future” with alumni of the ten past promotions (from Copernicus to Chopin)
11:00: Coffee break
11:30: Introduction of the laureate Prof. Dr. Dieter MAHNCKE, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe for 40 years and founding Director of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies, by Prof. Dr. Olivier COSTA, Director, Department of European Political and Administrative Studies
11:45: Honorary lecture by Prof. Dr. Dieter MAHNCKE, “What’s Wrong with the European Union?”
12:30: Conferral of the title of Honorary Professor to Prof. Dr. Dieter MAHNCKE by the Rector of the College of Europe, Prof. Dr. Dr. Jörg MONAR
12:45: Lunch buffet
About the speaker
Dieter MAHNCKE has been visiting professor at the College of Europe for forty years (1976-2016). During this time, he was also Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Chair for European Foreign Policy and Security Studies (1996-2010), Director of the Department of European Political and Administrative Studies (1996-2008) and founding Director of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies (2006-2010). Among his previous professional affiliations are the University of the Armed Forces in Hamburg, the Office of the German Federal President and the German Federal Ministry of Defence. He holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MA and PhD from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, DC, and a Habilitation from the University of Bonn.
More information can be found here.