Publications at the College of Europe #14 – Professor Oriane Calligaro

In this episode of the College of Europe Podcast, students and faculty of the College welcomed Professor Oriane Calligaro, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Université Catholiquede Lille. Her work examines the history and politics of European integration, with particular attention to the cultural and symbolic dimensions of the European project — how the EU seeks to narrate itself through culture, values, and memory. She is the author of Negotiating Europe: EU Promotion of Europeanness since the 1950s and has published widely on questions of European identity, memory politics, and the role of culture in EU governance.

In this lecture, entitled “Are Flanders Fields a European Site of Memory? The Arduous Quest for a European Remembrance of War,” Professor Calligaro reflected on the ways in which the memory of the First World War has been mobilised (and sometimes contested) in attempts to craft a European narrative. Her intervention opened a broader discussion on the possibilities, limits, and political implications of imagining a shared European remembrance of war.

Keynote speech of the Flanders Fields Lecture and Study Trip of the College of Europe, this session and the discussions invite curious listeners and European politics enthusiasts to engage critically with how Europe interprets its past and how these memory practices resonate with contemporary and future challenges for the European project.

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