Complexities of ‘Europe’: Between knowledge, power, citizenship and identity
Friday, 20 November 2009 to Saturday, 21 November 2009
Location: CRASSH Seminar room, 17 Mill Lane

PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 20

9.00 -9.30

Registration (Coffee provided)

9.30 -9.45

Welcome and Introduction

9.45 - 11.45

Panel 1: Imagi-nations: "Europe" in the making

Anne-Isabelle Richard
Colonial Europe. The debate about Eurafrique in the European movement in France, Belgium and Germany, c. 1925-1936
Emile Chabal
Just say 'Non'? France, Britain and Europe since the 1980s  
Leslie Rogne Schumacher
The Eastern Question as a Europe Question: Making and Remaking Europe Through Breaking the Ottoman Empire

11.45 - 12.00

Tea/Coffee Break

12.00 - 13.15

Lecture by Professor Gerard Delanty 
(Prof of Sociolog,Social & Political Thought and Head of the Sociology Department, University of Sussex) 
Interpreting the European Heritage

13.15 - 14.15

Lunch

14.15 - 15.45

Panel 2: Politics of knowledge

Alice Cervinkova
Making Europe: Academic Mobility and the Geopolitics of Movement
Kasia Zdunczyk
Consensus Building as a Contest over Domain Hegemony: The Case of a Regional Innovation Strategy Project
Marcela Linkova
Making European ‘women and science'

15.45 - 16.00 

Tea/Coffee Break

16.00 - 18.00

Panel 3: Reconsidering memory and Culture

Despina Syrri
The story of Staro Sajmiste produced/producing Europe
Dimitris Gintidis
That’ s the way they do it in Europe': Redefining Culture in a Greek border region
Lina Zigelyte
The Forging of Europe in David C?erny?’ s Entropa. Interpreting the Narrative of Falseness
Maria Prieto
Interrogating Europe: ‘Europeaness’ in urban modernity

18.30 -21.00

Dinner (Booking online / limited places)


 

Saturday 21

 

9.30 - 11.30

Panel 4: "Europe" inside out: Politics of governance

Anita McKinna
Kosovo: The International Community’ s European Project
Bohdana Dimitrovova
Re-bordering of Europe: The Case of the European Neighbourhood Policy
Amr Abdelrahman
EU and promoting Democracy in the Middle East: Europeanising the neighbour or containing its possible threats? 
Liene Ozolina
Raspberries, Tablecloths and Critical Thinking: Accountability reforms in post-Soviet Latvia Simona Ciotlaus
Corruption, ‘European money’ and Romanianness: Instantiations of the European Union rural development policy in a Romanian context

11.30 - 11.45

Tea/Coffee Break

11.45 - 13.00

Lecture by Associate Professor Henk van Houtum
(Head of the Nijmegen Cnetre for Border Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
The abducted and gated Europe 

13.00- 13.45

Lunch 

13.45 - 15.00

Panel 5: Debating Citizenship and participation

Anne Bostanci
Rethinking the role of communication and the EU’ s supranational institutions in processes of European identification
Dobrochna Bach Golecka
Towards A Pluralistic European Public Sphere
Nikitas Palantzas
A cosmopolitan europe? Negotiating political reform and the role of the European Union in Turkey

15.00 - 15.15

Tea/Coffee Break

15.15 - 17.00

Panel 6: Frontiers set, Frontiers crossed: Immigration and minorities

Dimitris Christopoulos: “
Reflections on the contemporary migration experience in Europe
Hande Sozer
An Attempt to Map the 'Margins of Europe' by Focusing on its Frontiers: The Bulgarian Turkish Frontier as a Case Study
Peter Holley
Expatriate Nationals or European Citizens? The Construction of National and European Identities amongst British Migrants in Finland

     

    17.00 - 17.30

    Closing Remarks