Luuk van Middelaar, guest lecturer on Cycle Europe

march 5, 2021

Luuk van Middelaar, historian and political philosopher, Professor of European Law at Leiden University (Netherlands), is the first guest lecturer in the Cycle Europe series at the Collège de France. He will give a series of four lectures, from March 24 to April 14, 2021, under the title "L'Europe géopolitique - actes et paroles".

His first lecture, entitled "L'Europe face aux voisins russes et turcques : la frontière / Exercice géopolitique (1)", will take place on March 24, 2021 at 7:30 pm in camera at the Collège de France. It will be broadcast live on our website, but will not be open to the public due to sanitary conditions.

The Collège de France has a long tradition of reflection on Europe. In response to the crises (economic, social, political, migratory and, more recently, health) that continue to shake Europe, and the frequently renewed calls for its "rebirth" or "refoundation", the Collège is once again engaging in debate on Europe's future in the world, through a series of lectures.

Each year, two speakers will be invited to the Collège to think about Europe, one in autumn and the other in spring, for a month-long series of four lectures. Europe is understood here in the broad sense of European studies. The cycle will welcome any historical, political, philosophical, philological, anthropological, sociological, legal, economic, literary, theological, religious or archaeological reflection on Europe as a continent, civilization, culture, idea, value(s), myth, legal order or culture, institution(s), international organization (European Union or Council of Europe) or market.

The Europecycle is coordinated by a committee comprising Professors Samantha Besson, Edith Heard, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge and Thomas Römer. It is supported by the Fondation Hugot of the Collège de France.