Cycle de conférences en anglais - MINERVE - 2ème semestre

Annulée et reportée à une date ultérieure

March, 6
Room CLI.036

William Ranval: What is the place of nuclear in the European energy mix?
William Ranval took his duties as ENISS Director in Brussels on 1st January 2018. ENISS is an association of nuclear installation license holders from 14 European countries which interacts with key stakeholders on safety and regulatory matters, e.g. WENRA, IAEA, the European Commission (www.eniss.eu).

Mr Ranval holds some other positions in international fora, for instance as the EDF member of the European Utilities Requirements Steering Committee.

He has built his experience in nuclear safety through diverse management and technical positions within the EDF Group for 30 years, from R&D to industrial applications. This includes experience in China, and also in the UK where he was involved in the EPR Generic Design Assessment, and the Hinkley Point C Nuclear Site License.

William Ranval holds a Master degree of Mechanical and Energy Engineering from Arts et Métiers Paris Tech., which was followed by a research position in 1991-1992 in Thermodynamic System Modelling at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the USA.

March, 22
Room CLI.006

Annulée et reportée au 19 avril

Oissila Saaïdia: The so-called Islamic Headscarf in Muslim and European Societies : History of an Age Old Debate (XIXe-XXIe centuries)
Oissila Saaïdia is a graduate in Arabic language, culture and civilization. She has a doctorate in Contemporary History and she’s able to direct and supervise PhD students. Currently, she is a Senior PhD Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Lyon 2. For four years, she was the director of a French institute of research in Tunis (IRMC/CNRS) with a regional competence (Tunisia, Algeria and Libya). She also resided in the Middle East for a few years, specifically during her PhD (Egypt, Syria and Lebanon). She’s interested by Religious challenges around the Mediterranean and the relationship between Religions and Politics. Her last book, The so-called Islamic Headscarf in Muslim and European Societies : History of an Age Old Debate (XIXe-XXIe centuries), will be published at the Editions du Cerf by Spring 2023.

April, 5th
Room CLI.006

Niall Bond, What might the term “community” in the European Communities possibly refer to?
With a Ph.D. in politics and German from the Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, a habilitation from the EHESS and a position as associate researcher at the University of Johannesburg’s department of sociology, Niall Bond lectures in the history of political, social, economic and juridical ideas, translation and interpretation at University Lyon 2. He has published more than 75 works, articles and chapters in six languages and translated works, inter alia Tönnies’ Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft between French, English and German in all directions and worked extensively as a conference interpreter, inter alia Euronews and for the European Central Bank. He was founder of a Jean Monnet module.