UBC Centre for European Studies Podcast

Dr. Sara Shneiderman and Dr. Jeevan Baniya discuss how funding from the European Union is flowing into Nepal to support infrastructure development and “good governance” at the local level, while young people are leaving the country through labour migration to global locations including Europe. They consider how these dynamics unfold within the broader geopolitical contexts of the EU, China, and In...

Visiting Professor Ellen Marie Jensen from the Sámi University of Applied Sciences discusses with CES Researcher and PhD candidate Braden Russell the topic of green colonialism and Sámi activism in Norway and the broader Arctic region. A link to the recording and show notes can be found  here . To learn more about the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence in Critical Infrastructure Studies, check out o...

Invited Speaker Dr. Kiran Klaus Patel, from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, delivers a lecture on the history of the European Union and its changing positions regarding economic and securitization policies in volatile times. A link to the recording and show notes can be found ⁠ here⁠ . To learn more about the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence in Critical Infrastructure Studies, che...

This episode features a talk that Alessandro Mongili (University of Padua) gave while he was a Visiting Professor at UBC in the fall of 2025. His talk at the UBC Centre for European Studies and the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence in Critical Infrastructure Studies was called “Technology on the Margins of Europe and other Not-Quite-West” and focuses on technoscience and innovation in Sardinia and...