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SEIS Academic Forum Series
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Forum on British Studies (No.52 )
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Ongoing European Union Challenges: Austerity Policies, Structural Intra-EU Economic Imbalances and the Refugee Crisis
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Speaker: Professor Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock
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Time: 15:20-16:50
Date: 21 September 2017 (Thursday)
Venue: Room 313, English School Building, BFSU
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Introduction
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——The European Union has been facing multiple challenges in recent years: The Eurozone crisis and austerity in EU member states, refugee crises, Brexit etc. In the age of crises and challenges, how has the European Union overcome the crises, what progress has been made and has the progress been effective? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the future European integration?
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——近年来欧盟面临诸多挑战：欧债危机、成员国紧缩政策、难民危机、英国脱欧等等。在危机与挑战的时代，欧盟如何应对危机，目前已经取得了哪些成效，是否起到了应有的作用？我们应该对未来欧洲一体化持什么样的态度？
About the Speaker
Professor Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock is Professor of Politics and Political Communication at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication of Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. She has published extensively on European audiovisual policy-making, political communication, reporting crises, global and EU cultural policies and on the political economy of the media, nationally, regionally and globally. She is a member of the academic associations IAMCR and has been elected twice member of its International Council. She founded the Political Communication Section of ECREA in 2006, and served as its president until 2010. She has participated in several pan-European and global collaborative research projects. She has guest-lectured at the Universities of Stockholm, Loughborough, Padova, Copenhagen, Moscow, Tbilisi State University, Université Stendhal de Grenoble, London School of Economics, University of Vienna. Her research interests comprise [a] the nexus of democracy and public / political communication, [b] the political economy of public communication [c] the potential of interactive new media for cultural diversity and for social and political re-organization and [d] the public policies addressing issues of novel communications and new media phenomena, such as the ‘Power of Search Engines’ and the ‘Phenomenon of Web 2.0’.
