April and May: China-Russia Lecture Café 2019 @ Het Pand: experts shed their light on different topics related to China and Russia. Lectures are followed by networking lunch, for which registration is required.

The course of world politics is determined by the interaction between great powers. Those powers are the US, the established power; Russia, the declining power; China, the rising power; and the EU, the power that doesn’t know whether it wants to be a power. If the EU does not just want to undergo the policies of the other powers it will have to become one itself, but it should differ in its strategy. The EU has the means to pursue a distinctive great power strategy, a middle way between dreamy idealism and unprincipled pragmatism, and can play a crucial stabilizing role in this increasingly unstable world
Format :
12h: Lecture and Q&A - 13h: Sandwich Lunch - Registration is required.
Note :

07/05, 12h: Koen Schoors : « China and Russia, Uneasy Similarities » - register

16/05, 12h: Fabienne Bossuyt : « Connecting Eurasia : Is Cooperation between the EU, China and Russia in Central Asia Possible? » - register
- 8 May : Cerise lecture 19.30h @ het Pand : Dariya Orlova from the Mohyla School of Journalism will talk about « Donbas Resident’s Response to Ukrainian and Russian Mainstream Media Narratives » - register
- The Russia Platform and the Faculty of Arts & Philosophy are organizing a crash course Russia(n) for business people: in 5 modules participants will learn the principle features of Russian and gain an insight into Russian culture.