SPIRe’s Dr. Niamh Hardiman recently organized a well-attended and very successful conference on ‘The European Periphery and European Integration’, as part of her IRC-funded research project, based in UCD Geary Institute, on The Political Economy of the European Periphery.

Guest speakers and participants in related events included Dr. Alex Afonso (King’s College London), Prof. Kevin Featherstone (LSE), Prof. Seán Ó Riain (NUIM), and Prof. Sebastián Royo (Suffolk University, Boston).

The audience included people from backgrounds in universities, politics and policy-making, along with representatives from the Embassies of Greece, Spain, and Portugal.

Alex Afonso (King’s College London), Sebastián Royo (Suffolk University, Boston), Niamh Hardiman (UCD SPIRe), Kevin Featherstone (LSE)

Sebastián Dellepiane Avellaneda (University of Strathclyde), Niamh Hardiman (UCD SPIRe), George Pagoulatos AUEB), Jon Las Heras (PhD candidade, U.Manchester), Spyros Blavoukos (AUEB)

 Seán Ó Riain (NUIM), Niamh Hardiman (UCD SPIRe)