Events
UK-EU relations in the Sunak era: conference round-up
7 November 2023, British Academy, London: Leading academics and practitioners met to assess what has changed in UK-EU relations since Rishi Sunak became prime minister in October 2022. Read the conference round-up.
Workshop for Early Career Researchers 'After Brexit: the UK, the EU, the European neighbourhood, and beyond'
21 June 2023, Møller Institute, Churchill College, Cambridge. Following the third anniversary of the UK’s departure from the EU, this workshop provided an occasion for early career researchers to present work that engages debates in relevant theoretical, conceptual and empirical literatures and that examines the political, legal and economic impact on the UK and the home nations, the EU, EU member, neighbouring states, and other third countries (read more)
UKICE Lunch Hour: How feasible is "rejoin"?
Video: UKICE Lunch Hour: How feasible is "rejoin"? 28 February 2023. Panel: Catherine Barnard, Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe; John Curtice, Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe; Joelle Grogan, Senior Researcher, UK in a Changing Europe; Hussein Kassim, Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe; Anand Menon, Director, UK in a Changing Europe
Knowledge Exchange
Cleo Davies has presented the state of play of the EU-UK relationship, including the bilateral relations with EU member states, in the House of Lords EU Affairs Committee (January 2023 and March 2023). She also gave a presentation to French business leaders in the agri-food sector (September 2023).
After Brexit: Utopia or Dystopia? Lecture Series
Now that the UK has left the EU, what role should it play in the world? What is ‘Global Britain’? What kind of relationship should the UK seek with its European neighbours? How serious are the tensions between England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on the question of the UK’s future relationship with the EU, and do they threaten the union? In this online lecture series, leading figures from politics and academia share their reflections, and offer their hopes and fears. To watch individual video recordings click the arrow tabs below:
Daniel Hannan - 'After The Lockdowns: Did Covid-19 Kill Global Britain?' Daniel Hannan
John Bruton - Brexit ... Reversing 1000 Years of History between These Islands
Nicola McEwen, David Phinnemore and Dan Wincott - A United Kingdom? Brexit and the Future of the Union Panel Discussion
Margaret MacMillan - Back to the Future? The Meaning of Global Britain Margaret MacMillan
Dominic Grieve - Brexit: revolution without end or stable future?
27 April 2021, 6:30 – 8:00pm
Daniel Hannan, Baron Hannan of Kingsclere (Author, Conservative peer, and former MEP. He serves as adviser to the UK Board of Trade and is President of the Initiative for Free Trade)
An epidemic flicks switches in our brains, making us warier, more introverted, more protectionist. We will emerge from the lockdowns into an altogether more pinched and authoritarian world. What does that mean for an internationally connected, commercial country like Britain?
Chaired by Professor Alan Finlayson, Professor of Social and Political Theory, UEA
11 May 2021, 6:30 – 8:00pm
John Bruton, Former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland, former Fine Gael party leader, and former EU Ambassador to the US
This talk places Brexit in the context of the last 1000 years of relationship between Ireland and Britain, and between Britain and continental Europe. The UK was originally a multinational organisation, but is losing that characteristic as it focuses increasingly on sovereignty and identity, concepts which, of their very nature, divide peoples and create borders between them.
Chaired by Professor Hussein Kassim, Professor of Politics, UEA
The UK’s relationship with the EU has been an increasing source of tension between the four nations since the 2016 referendum. This panel looks at views from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on how relations with the EU should develop, and considers whether the devolved settlement as currently configured is under threat. In the 2021 lecture series ‘After Brexit: Utopia or Dystopia?’, leading figures from politics and academia shared their reflections, and offered their hopes and fears for post-Brexit Britain.
Panelists: Nicola McEwen, David Phinnemore and Dan Wincott.
Chair: Hussein Kassim
This lecture looks at Britain and the British empire as a global hegemon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the policy choices and debates before Britain then, the disappearance of empire and the diminishing of British power after 1945, the legacies of empire on British thinking and policies, and what Global Britain may mean today.
Speaker: Margaret MacMillan CC CH, Professor of History, University of Toronto, and Professor of International History, University of Oxford
Chair: Emma Griffin, Professor of Modern British History, University of East Anglia
Speaker Dominic Grieve QC PC is a British barrister, President of the European Movement, and former Conservative politician. He served as Shadow Home Secretary from 2008 to 2009 and Attorney General for England and Wales from 2010 to 2014, and was Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield between 1997 and 2019. He campaigned against Leave, strongly opposed a no deal Brexit, and sought to prevent the prorogation of Parliament by Boris Johnson. In the 2021 lecture series ‘After Brexit: Utopia or Dystopia?’, leading figures from politics and academia shared their reflections, and offered their hopes and fears for post-Brexit Britain.
Chair: Hussein Kassim