| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, March 12, 2015 | 7:00PM - 8:30PM | The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs - 1 Devonshire Place |
Keynote Panel for “Europe in Flux: Transnational Challenges for Europe in a Globalized World,” a conference presented by the graduate students of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
ALEXANDRA V. ORLOVA
DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINOLOGY,
RYERSON UNIVERSITY
Dr. Alexandra Orlova is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at Ryerson University. She received her Ph.D. in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in 2004. She also holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Osgoode Hall Law School. Alexandra joined the Department of Criminology as a full-time faculty member in 2005. She teaches courses on Canadian Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, International Perspectives, and Security Threats. Her main research interests focus on transnational organized crime, Russian organized crime, international terrorism and international crimes. She has published articles in the areas of international law as well as traditional and non-traditional security threats.
MATT GURNEY
NATIONAL POST
Matt Gurney is columnist and editor at the National Post, where he also serves as an editorial board member. Matt is a familiar face on televised political panels, having appeared on MTV Canada, CTS, CTV, and the CBC, and is heard frequently across the country on national and local radio programs. He joined Toronto’s CFRB NewsTalk 1010 as a regular contributor in 2011, where he frequently also serves as a guest host. His writings cover a wide range of subjects but typically involve geopolitics, military and defence matters, space exploration, laws related to self-defence and gun control, health care and end-of-life issues and politics at any level. Born in Toronto’s Leaside neighbourhood, Matt has a B.A. and M.A. in military history.
DOUG SAUNDERS
GLOBE AND MAIL
Doug Saunders is a Canadian-British author and journalist. He is the author of the books Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World (2011) and The Myth of the Muslim Tide (2012) and is the international-affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail. He served as the paper’s London-based European bureau chief for a decade, after having run the paper’s Los Angeles bureau, and has written extensively from East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East and North Africa. He writes a weekly column devoted to the larger themes and intellectual concepts behind international news, and has won the National Newspaper Award, Canada’s counterpart to the Pulitzer Prize, on five occasions.
DR. MARTIN DANGERFIELD
EUROPEAN INTEGRATION,
UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON
Martin Dangerfield is Professor of European Integration and Jean Monnet Chair in the European Integration of Central and East Europe at the University of Wolverhampton where he teaches mainly European Union studies. His current research projects include Visegrad states and EU sanctions policy towards Russia, EU Macro-regional strategies, and Macedonia’s EU aaccession process. Recent publications have focused on Visegrad Group cooperation, EU-Russia relations, the European Neighbourhood Policy/Eastern Partnership, subregional cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe and links to the European Union enlargement process. Earlier work focused on the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) aspects of the Czech transformation process and the external economic relations of post-socialist states.
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