The title of the theme for the 16th conference: “Tension, Trust and Transformation”, seeks to capture the experiences of recent times, crises and global challenges, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change debates and activism, inequalities and violence, persisting levels of populism...

The UACES Annual Conference in contemporary European Studies offers an important interdisciplinary forum for researchers in Political Science, Economics, Law, Geography, History, Public Policy and Sociology.

The topic of the Conference is “European Society or European Societies?” The aim is to consider whether we can look at European society as an increasingly cohesive entity or whether divisions of nation, class, ethnicity, region, gender and so on continue to be more salient. Traditionally,...