The Impact of UK Anti-Smoking Policies in the Context of EU Directives
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This public lecture is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file below - starts at 0:25) and the PowerPoint slides as a PDF file (as a courtesy to the presenter, please contact him for permission to refer to his PowerPoint notes for the purpose of further research). In recent years the…
Religious Dissent, Sexuality and Social Control in Europe: A Case Study of a Radical Christian Movement in 18th Century Germany
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This public lecture is now available as: MP3 (please listen to the file below). Most religions have sexual politics, and Christianity is no exception. Many of the internal Christian struggles have some component of sexual politics, such as celibacy of the clergy, access of women to priesthood,…
Global Cotton: The Fibre that Made Europe Rich, 1400-1800
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This public lecture is now available as: MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts - starts at 0:40) and PDF (as a courtesy to the presenter, please contact him for permission to refer to his PowerPoint notes for the purpose of further research). The period between the late…
Ethnic Politics, Border Controls and Migrant Integration: A Comparative Europe-US Perspective on Securitisation
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This public lecture is now available as: MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts) and PDF (as a courtesy to the presenter, please contact her for permission to refer to her PowerPoint notes for the purpose of further research). The US has traditionally had a common focus on…
Competition and Solidarity in European Health Insurance Markets
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This public lecture is now available as: MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts). In most European Union (EU) member countries with a competitive health insurance market, such as Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands, governments or employers have…
The European Union: Still an Elite Project?
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This public lecture is now available as: MP3 (please listen to the file below in four parts) and PDF (as a courtesy to the presenter, please contact him for permission to refer to his PowerPoint notes for the purpose of further research). The view that the contemporary process…
The EU’s Biofuels Policy Road: Driving Lessons for Australia?
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This public lecture is now available as: MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts). Is the EU able to deliver on the biofuels component of its climate change agenda? Drawing on a UK ESRC-funded research project on the three main biofuels markets (the EU, USA and Brazil),…