Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

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Session Overview
Date: Monday, 04/Sept/2023
8:00am - 5:15pmConference Registration
Location: Peter Froggatt Centre Foyer

Check in, get your name badge and grab a coffee.

8:45am - 5:15pmPublishers' Exhibition day 1
Location: Peter Froggatt Centre Foyer
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 101: Queering and Gendering the EUropean Project: On (Dis)Integration, (Homo)Nationalism and External Relations
Location: PFC/02/025
Session Chair: Izabella Wódzka, University College London
Discussant: Koen Slootmaeckers, City, University of London
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 102: EU Climate Action Between Legislative Politics and Democratic Legitimacy
Location: MST/03/004
Session Chair: Mats Braun, Metropolitan University, Prague
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 104: Linking to 'Europe' at the Periphery: Debates, Challenges and Findings from the Field
Location: PFC/03/006A
Session Chair: Dagmar Schiek, University College Cork
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 108: EU-UK Relations Post-Brexit I
Location: PFC/03/006B
Session Chair: Simon Sweeney, University of York
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 109: Making More Of Your Assessment
Location: MST/01/003
Session Chair: Simon Usherwood, Open University
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 110: Crisis and Change in the EU-OACPS Relationship
Location: PFC/02/011
Session Chair: Katharine A. M. Wright, Newcastle University
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 111: Rule of Law and Political (In-)Stability After Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Location: PFC/02/017
Session Chair: Timofey Agarin, Queen's University Belfast
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 112: The EU & Refugees
Location: PFC/02/013
Session Chair: Sanna Elfving, University of Lincoln
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 113: EU-Georgia Relations
Location: MST/01/004
Session Chair: Narine Ghazaryan, Radboud University
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 114: Policy-Making and Politics in the European Parliament
Location: Stephen Livingstone room
Session Chair: Martyn Bond, UACES
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 115: Democracy in Crisis
Location: PFC/03/005
Session Chair: Emanuele Massetti, University of Trento
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 117: Integrity, Ethics and Trust 2.0.: The EU and Member States after the Qatargate Scandal
Location: PFC/02/009
Session Chair: Jacob Öberg, Southern University of Denmark
10:30am - 11:00amCoffee Break
Location: Peter Froggatt Centre Foyer
11:00am - 12:30pmPanel 201: The EU, health governance and the COVID-19 pandemic
Location: PFC/02/009
Session Chair: Mary Guy, Liverpool John Moores University
11:00am - 12:30pmPanel 202: European Environmental Policy Analysis
Location: MST/03/004
Session Chair: Elena Simona Davidescu, University of York
11:00am - 12:30pmPanel 203: Inclusive Growth in 'Real' and 'Virtual' Europe
Location: PFC/02/025
Session Chair: Tom Hashimoto, Vistula University
Discussant: Maik Huettinger, ESSCA - School of Management
11:00am - 12:30pmPanel 204: Eastern European Neighbourhood Policy: What Role for EU Values?
Location: PFC/03/006A
Session Chair: Nicholas Ross Smith, University of Canterbury
11:00am - 12:30pmPanel 205: EU Governance and European Values
Location: Edgar Graham Room
Session Chair: Stephanie Laulhe Shaelou, UCLan Cyprus
11:00am - 12:30pmPanel 206: Knowing European Studies Differently: Interpretation and (Method)ology
Location: Moot Court
Session Chair: Lola Aubry, University of Luxembourg
Discussant: Dorte Jagetic Andersen, Syddansk Universitet

Panel Chair: Jan Orbie, Ghent University

11:00am - 12:30pmPanel 207: Trade Policy Under Pressure? Global Challenges and Sustainability
Location: MST/02/009
Session Chair: Justine Muller, European University Institute
11:00am - 12:30pmPanel 208: EU-UK Relations Post-Brexit II
Location: PFC/03/006B
Session Chair: Cleo Davies, University of Warwick
11:00am - 12:30pmPanel 209: How Do You Make Your Teaching ‘Research-led’?
Location: MST/01/003
Session Chair: Stella Ladi, Queen Mary University of London
11:00am - 12:30pmPanel 210: European Integration Outside-In: Third Country Influence On EU Law And Policy Making
Location: PFC/03/005
Session Chair: Emilia Korkea-aho, University of Eastern Finland
Discussant: David Phinnemore, Queen’s University Belfast
11:00am - 12:30pmPanel 211: Europe's Security Architecture Under Stress: The Impact of the War in Ukraine
Location: PFC/02/017
Session Chair: Olha Zadorozhna, Kozminski University
11:00am - 12:30pmPanel 213: The EU and the Western Balkans
Location: MST/01/004
Session Chair: Laura Gheorghiu, Karl Franzens University Graz
11:00am - 12:30pmPanel 214: Public Voices, Public Funds: The Operation of Institutions in Europe
Location: Stephen Livingstone room
Session Chair: Richard Milner, University College Cork
11:00am - 12:30pmPanel 216: EU Integration and Citizens' Rights - A New Avenue to EU Legitimacy?
Location: PFC/02/013
Session Chair: Dagmar Schiek, University College Cork
11:00am - 12:30pmSession 217: Forging a Successful Career in Academia: An Interactive Workshop for Emerging Academics
Location: PFC/02/011
Session Chair: Niall Robb, Queen's University Belfast
12:30pm - 1:30pmLunch Break
Location: Peter Froggatt Centre Foyer
1:30pm - 3:00pmPlenary 1: 50 Years of EU Enlargement
Location: PFC/0G/007
Session Chair: David Phinnemore, Queen’s University Belfast
3:00pm - 3:30pmCoffee Break
Location: Peter Froggatt Centre Foyer
3:30pm - 5:00pmPanel 301: Europe's Dark Legacies: From Colonialism to Coloniality
Location: PFC/02/025
Discussant: Kolar Aparna, University of Helsinki
3:30pm - 5:00pmPanel 304: The EU as an International Actor for Development and Human Rights
Location: PFC/03/006A
Session Chair: Justine Muller, European University Institute
3:30pm - 5:00pmPanel 305: Sociological Approaches to the Rule of Law
Location: PFC/02/013
Session Chair: Stephanie Laulhe Shaelou, UCLan Cyprus
Discussant: Marc Hertogh, University of Groningen
3:30pm - 5:00pmPanel 306: Critical Perspectives on the EU's 'Eastern Partnership': Actors, Networks, and Tools of Foreign Policy and Geopolitics
Location: Moot Court
Session Chair: Tiffany G. Williams, University of Jena
Discussant: Tiffany G. Williams, University of Jena
3:30pm - 5:00pmPanel 307: Trade Policy Trajectories: Frenemies, Rivalries and Races in the EU and beyond
Location: MST/02/009
Session Chair: Elitsa Garnizova-Moeva, LSE/NBU
3:30pm - 5:00pmPanel 308: EU-UK Relations Post-Brexit III
Location: PFC/03/006B
Session Chair: David Phinnemore, Queen’s University Belfast
3:30pm - 5:00pmPanel 309: Playing At EU Decision-making: The Co-Decide?! Board Game
Location: MST/01/003
Session Chair: Viviane Gravey, Queen's University Belfast
3:30pm - 5:00pmPanel 310: EU Investment in and with African Partners
Location: Edgar Graham Room
Session Chair: Toni Haastrup, University of Manchester
3:30pm - 5:00pmPanel 311: Perspectives on Russia's War against Ukraine: Inside the EU
Location: PFC/02/017
Session Chair: Tom Hashimoto, Vistula University
Discussant: Timofey Agarin, Queen's University Belfast
3:30pm - 5:00pmPanel 313: The Eastern Enlargement of the EU
Location: MST/01/004
Session Chair: Olha Zadorozhna, Kozminski University
3:30pm - 5:00pmPanel 315: Europeanisation of Higher Education Policy: The case of European University Alliances
Location: PFC/02/011
Session Chair: Nadia Manzoni, Central European University
3:30pm - 5:00pmPanel 316: Challenging or Upholding the Rule of Law?
Location: PFC/03/005
Session Chair: Lukas Hamrik, Masaryk University
5:45pm - 7:00pmDrinks Reception
Location: Belfast City Hall
8:00pm - 9:30pmGraduate Forum Drinks Social
Location: The Sunflower Public House
Date: Tuesday, 05/Sept/2023
9:00am - 5:45pmPublishers' Exhibition day 2
Location: Peter Froggatt Centre Foyer
9:30am - 11:00amPanel 401: Exploring the European Health Union
Location: Edgar Graham Room
Session Chair: Eleanor Brooks, University of Edinburgh
9:30am - 11:00amPanel 402: Grey areas of market integration
Location: PFC/02/025
Session Chair: William Daniel, University of Nottingham
9:30am - 11:00amPanel 405: EU Referendums and Politics in Ireland
Location: PFC/02/009
Session Chair: Paul Adams, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
9:30am - 11:00amPanel 406: Theorising Europe, Otherwise: On Myths, Race and the 'Garden'
Location: Moot Court
Session Chair: Tiffany G. Williams, University of Jena
Discussant: AJ Kurdi, University of California, Berkeley
9:30am - 11:00amPanel 407: Roundtable: Trade-Sustainability-Security: the New Impossible Trinity?
Location: MST/02/009
Session Chair: Sangeeta Khorana, Aston University
Discussant: Maria Garcia, University of Bath
9:30am - 11:00amPanel 408: EU Member States as Bilateral Actors
Location: PFC/03/006B
Session Chair: Kelly Soderstrom, The Univerity of Melbourne
9:30am - 11:00amPanel 409: Higher Education in Europe
Location: MST/01/003
Session Chair: Beata Jurkowicz, German Historical Insitute Warsaw
9:30am - 11:00amPanel 410: European Sovereignty & International Security
Location: MST/01/004
Session Chair: Evangelos (Evans) Fanoulis, University of Galway
9:30am - 11:00amPanel 411: What Now for EU-Russia Relations?
Location: PFC/02/011
Session Chair: Andrew Cottey, University College Cork
9:30am - 11:00amPanel 413: EU’s Raison D’etat – The Way Forward In The Times of Turbulence
Location: PFC/02/013
Session Chair: Spasimir Domaradzki, University of Warsaw
9:30am - 11:00amPanel 414: Implementing NextGenerationEU: Challenges in Governance and Accountability
Location: Stephen Livingstone room
Session Chair: Paul Stephenson, Maastricht University
9:30am - 11:00amPanel 415: Understanding and Mapping European Solidarity in Times of Crises
Location: PFC/03/005
Session Chair: Egle Dagilyte, Anglia Ruskin University
9:30am - 11:00amPanel 416: EU Law & Justice: Consumers, Competition & Sustainability
Location: PFC/02/017
Session Chair: Imelda Maher, UCD
9:30am - 11:00amPanel 417: Legal and political integration in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Location: PFC/03/006A
Session Chair: Paul James Cardwell, King's College London
11:00am - 11:30amCoffee Break
Location: Peter Froggatt Centre Foyer
11:30am - 1:00pmPlenary 2: Ukraine and the future of European Integration
Location: PFC/0G/007
Session Chair: Alister Miskimmon, Queen's University Belfast
1:00pm - 2:00pmLunch Break
Location: Peter Froggatt Centre Foyer
2:00pm - 3:30pmPanel 501: Re-interpreting 'Normative' 'Power' 'Europe': Critique Through Discursive and Narrative Contestations
Location: PFC/02/025
Session Chair: Stella Ladi, Queen Mary University of London
2:00pm - 3:30pmPanel 502: The Future of Environmental and Sustainability Discourses Across Europe
Location: MST/03/004
Session Chair: Rosa Maria Fernandez Martin, Keele University
2:00pm - 3:30pmPanel 504: The EU's Response to Brexit: United & Effective
Location: Stephen Livingstone room
Session Chair: Brigid Laffan, EUI
2:00pm - 3:30pmPanel 505: Northern Ireland and the EU
Location: PFC/02/009
Session Chair: Giacomo Benedetto, Royal Holloway University London
2:00pm - 3:30pmPanel 506: Violent Border(ing)s: Colonial Continuities in the EU's Migration Regime
Location: Moot Court
Session Chair: Anissa Bougrea, Ghent University

 

2:00pm - 3:30pmPanel 507: The Governance of Trade
Location: MST/02/009
Session Chair: Maik Huettinger, ESSCA - School of Management
2:00pm - 3:30pmPanel 508: UK Public Policies And Policy Making After Brexit: More Than De-Europeanisation? (1)
Location: PFC/03/006B
Session Chair: Maria Garcia, University of Bath
2:00pm - 3:30pmPanel 509: A Workshop On Toolkits For Teaching And Learning European Integration From Childhood To Adulthood
Location: Edgar Graham Room
Session Chair: Emmanuelle Quinlivan, University College Cork
2:00pm - 3:30pmPanel 510: The Internal and External Dimensions of Europe's Sustainable Energy Transition
Location: PFC/02/011
Session Chair: Claire Dupont, Ghent University
2:00pm - 3:30pmPanel 511: European Defense 30 Years After The Maastricht Treaty : Analyzing The Evolution(s) of CSDP In The Ukrainian War Context
Location: PFC/02/017
Session Chair: Delphine Deschaux-Dutard, University Grenoble Alpes
2:00pm - 3:30pmPanel 515: The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy transformed? Responses to current challenges.
Location: PFC/03/005
Session Chair: Ben Tonra, University College Dublin
2:00pm - 3:30pmPanel 516: Current Developments in EU Security and Defence Policy
Location: PFC/02/013
Session Chair: Tomáš Weiss, Charles University
2:00pm - 3:30pmPanel 518: Circle of Stars: A History of the European Union and the People Who Made It
Location: PFC/03/006A
Session Chair: Helen Drake, Loughborough University London

Book Panel on Circle of Stars: A History of the European Union and the People Who Made It
(Yale University Press).

3:30pm - 4:00pmCoffee Break
Location: Peter Froggatt Centre Foyer
4:00pm - 5:30pmPanel 601: What Now for the European Security Architecture?
Location: MST/01/004
Session Chair: Jocelyn Mawdsley, Newcastle University
4:00pm - 5:30pmPanel 602: Speaking Truth to Power and People? Research and Engagement at the Science/Policy Interface
Location: MST/03/004
Session Chair: Viviane Gravey, Queen's University Belfast
4:00pm - 5:30pmPanel 603: The Europeanisation of Identities and Narratives Through Everyday Practices I
Location: PFC/02/011
Session Chair: Alexander Brand, Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences
4:00pm - 5:30pmPanel 604: Mainstreaming EU Values in Regulatory and Commercial Powers
Location: PFC/03/006A
Session Chair: Tine Deschuytere, European University Institute
4:00pm - 5:30pmPanel 605: All-Island Dimensions of Brexit
Location: PFC/02/009
Session Chair: Dagmar Schiek, University College Cork
4:00pm - 5:30pmPanel 607: Different Understandings Of EU Foreign Policy: Relational Approaches About EU Policymaking
Location: PFC/02/025
Session Chair: Marianna Lovato, University College Dublin
Discussant: Benjamin Martill, University of Edinburgh
4:00pm - 5:30pmPanel 608: Northern Ireland In The UK-EU Relationship: Interactions Between The Protocol And The Trade And Cooperation Agreement
Location: PFC/03/006B
Session Chair: David Phinnemore, Queen’s University Belfast
4:00pm - 5:30pmPanel 609: Interdisciplinarity in Practice
Location: MST/01/003
Session Chair: Tomáš Weiss, Charles University
4:00pm - 5:30pmPanel 610: Exploring Greater European Interconnectivity in Insecure Global Trade
Location: Stephen Livingstone room
Session Chair: Samuel Crooks, Institute for a Greater Europe
4:00pm - 5:30pmPanel 612: Populism and Euroscepticism in Europe
Location: Edgar Graham Room
Session Chair: Beata Jurkowicz, German Historical Insitute Warsaw
4:00pm - 5:30pmPanel 613: The History of Integration: Shared Values or Dissent?
Location: MST/02/009
Session Chair: Veronika Czina, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies
4:00pm - 5:30pmPanel 615: The European Central Bank in Times of Crisis
Location: PFC/03/005
Session Chair: Tom Hashimoto, Vistula University
4:00pm - 5:30pmPanel 616: Towards EU Law's Embeddedness
Location: PFC/02/013
Session Chair: Brigitte Leucht, University of Portsmouth
Discussant: Elaine Fahey, City, University of London
4:00pm - 5:30pmSession 617: Jobs Beyond Academia: Non-Academic Career Options
Location: PFC/02/017
Session Chair: Niall Robb, Queen's University Belfast
7:00pm - 11:00pmConference Dinner
Location: Titanic Hotel Belfast

Sponsored by Yale University Press

Date: Wednesday, 06/Sept/2023
8:45am - 3:00pmPublishers' Exhibition day 3
Location: Peter Froggatt Centre Foyer
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 701: Law-making and Legislation in EU Health Governance
Location: PFC/02/008
Session Chair: Mary Guy, Liverpool John Moores University
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 702: EU Disintegration and Environmental Standards: What Does Brexit Mean for Environmental Governance in the EU and UK?
Location: MST/03/004
Session Chair: Viviane Gravey, Queen's University Belfast
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 703: The Europeanisation of Identities and Narratives Through Everyday Practices II
Location: PFC/02/011
Session Chair: Alexander Brand, Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 704: What Role for the EU in the Indo-Pacific?
Location: PFC/02/010
Session Chair: Nicholas Ross Smith, University of Canterbury
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 705: Democracy and Other Values
Location: Edgar Graham Room
Session Chair: Marc Hertogh, University of Groningen
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 706: EU-Centrism in World Politics: Critiquing EU External and Diplomatic Relations
Location: Moot Court
Session Chair: Helene Sjursen, University of Oslo
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 708: Foreign Policy Post-Brexit
Location: Stephen Livingstone room
Session Chair: Jarolim Antal, Prague University of Economics and Business
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 709: Research and Expertise in the European Parliament
Location: PFC/02/009
Session Chair: Fabia Jones, European Parliament Liaison Office London
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 711: What Now for China-Russia-West Relations?
Location: MST/01/004
Session Chair: Maxine David, Leiden University
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 712: Euroscepticism in East-Central Europe: New Directions on the Old Routes in Time of the EU Polycricis?
Location: MST/02/009
Session Chair: Petr Kaniok, Petr Kaniok
Discussant: Vít Hloušek, Masaryk University
9:00am - 10:30amPanel 715: 'The EU under Strain? - Current Crises Shaping European Union Politics'
Location: MST/01/003
Session Chair: Simon Usherwood, Open University
Discussant: Stella Ladi, Queen Mary University of London
10:30am - 11:00amCoffee Break
Location: Peter Froggatt Centre Foyer
11:00am - 12:30pmPlenary 3: The European Political Community as a new path for European cooperation
Location: PFC/0G/007
Session Chair: Simon Usherwood, Open University

Sponsored by UK in a Changing Europe

12:30pm - 1:15pmLunch Break
Location: Peter Froggatt Centre Foyer
1:15pm - 2:45pmPanel 802: Green Deal Discourse and Politics
Location: MST/03/004
Session Chair: George Asiamah, The University of Sheffield
1:15pm - 2:45pmPanel 803: Integration Via Legislation?
Location: PFC/02/011
Session Chair: Sanna Elfving, University of Lincoln
1:15pm - 2:45pmPanel 806: Shifting the Subject: Global East and Global South Positionalities
Location: Moot Court
Session Chair: Izabella Wódzka, University College London
Discussant: Laura Luciani, Ghent University
1:15pm - 2:45pmPanel 808: Territorial Politics in the United Kingdom
Location: Stephen Livingstone room
Session Chair: Anwen Elias, Aberystwyth University
1:15pm - 2:45pmPanel 810: Cross Border Cooperation & Negotiations
Location: PFC/02/010
Session Chair: Stefan Gänzle, Universitetet i Agder
1:15pm - 2:45pmPanel 812: European Identities
Location: MST/02/009
Session Chair: Višeslav Raos, University of Zagreb
1:15pm - 2:45pmPanel 813: Between the Eastern Partnership & the Western Balkans: The Blurring of EU Policies
Location: PFC/02/008
Session Chair: Christina Griessler, Andrássy University Budapest
1:15pm - 2:45pmPanel 815: Book Roundtable: The European Union - Crisis and Challenges (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Location: MST/01/003
Session Chair: Mark Rhinard, Stockholm University
1:15pm - 2:45pmPanel 816: The EU’s Judicial System under Scrutiny: a Focus on Research Methods and Theoretical Approaches
Location: Edgar Graham Room
Session Chair: Cristina Saenz Perez, University of Leeds
Date: Monday, 11/Sept/2023
10:00am - 11:30amVirtual Panel 101: Confronting the Autocrats? EU External Human Rights Policy in the 2020s
Virtual location: Zoom: Panels 01 & 305
Session Chair: Karolina Pomorska, Leiden University
10:00am - 11:30amVirtual Panel 102: New Technologies and the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: Cybersecurity, Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence
Virtual location: Zoom: Panels 02
Session Chair: Hartmut Aden, Berlin School of Economics and Law, (HWR Berlin)
10:00am - 11:30amVirtual Panel 103: Enlargement & Integration in the EU
Virtual location: Zoom: Panels 03
Session Chair: Doris Malaj, Institute of European Studies, University of Tirana
10:00am - 11:30amVirtual Panel 104: The EU as an External Actor I
Virtual location: Zoom: Panels 04
Session Chair: Jing Jing, University of Edinburgh (PhD graduate; independent researcher)
12:00pm - 1:30pmVirtual Panel 201: (En)countering the ‘Colonial’ in the Critique of EUrope
Virtual location: Zoom: Panels 01 & 305
Session Chair: Antonio Salvador M. Alcazar III, Central European University / Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals
12:00pm - 1:30pmVirtual Panel 202: Impact of European Values and Practices on Western Balkan Countries
Virtual location: Zoom: Panels 02
Session Chair: Elena Polo, Institute for European Studies, University of Tirana
12:00pm - 1:30pmVirtual Panel 203: EU Law & Justice
Virtual location: Zoom: Panels 03
Session Chair: Theodoros Karathanasis, CESICE
12:00pm - 1:30pmVirtual Panel 204: European Identity and European Borders
Virtual location: Zoom: Panels 04
Session Chair: Jing Jing, University of Edinburgh (PhD graduate; independent researcher)
2:30pm - 4:00pmVirtual Panel 301: The EU as a Value Driven Actor (Virtual Stream)
Virtual location: Zoom: Panels 01 & 305
Session Chair: Sebastian Steingass, College of Europe in Natolin
2:30pm - 4:00pmVirtual Panel 302: UK Public Policies And Policy Making After Brexit: More Than De-Europeanisation?
Virtual location: Zoom: Panels 02
Session Chair: Viviane Gravey, Queen's University Belfast
2:30pm - 4:00pmVirtual Panel 303: Democracy, Treaties and Governance in the EU
Virtual location: Zoom: Panels 03
Session Chair: Robert Flahive, Whitman college
2:30pm - 4:00pmVirtual Panel 304: The EU as an External Actor II
Virtual location: Zoom: Panels 04
Session Chair: Milan Igrutinovic, Institute of European Studies, Belgrade
2:30pm - 4:00pmVirtual Panel 305: Towards Interpretive and Feminist Ways of Knowing in EU Studies
Virtual location: Zoom: Panels 01 & 305
Session Chair: Alvaro Oleart, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Discussant: Ana Pantea, Babes-Bolyai University