The invitation to the lecture and the meeting with Asje Toje (Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute)

We would like to invite you to the meeting with Asje Toje (director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and member of the Institute of Political Science at the University of Oslo).

The meeting will be held on October 16 (Wednesday) at 12.00 inroom 237 at the Institute for International Studies, University of Wroclaw, ul. Koszarowa 3, Wroclaw.

The meeting will be in English.

The awarding of the 2012 Nobel peace Prize to the European Union was met with joy in many camps and with anger in others. In this 45 mins lecture, Asle Toje will examine the rationale for awarding the EU this prestigious award, how the EU fits in among other Nobel laureates as well as drawing some of the longer lines from the will and testament of Alfred Nobel and to the present day. There will also be a possibility to discuss the latest laureate, to be announced on Friday 11 October.

Asje Toje (b. 1974) is Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, and a researcher at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Oslo. Toje’s research interests are found at the intersection of security studies and European studies. Since Toje graduated from Cambridge University, Toje  has published widely on European security and foreign policy. Among his last works is America, the EU and Strategic Culture: renegotiating the transatlantic bargain (London, Routledge) and The European Union as a Small Power: After the Post-Cold War (London, Macmillan, 2010).