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).

Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 22nd Apr 2026, 10:43:02am BST

 
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SLB 2.03
SLB 2.04
SLB 2.05
SLB 2.06
SLB 2.07
SLB 2.08
SLB 2.09
SLB 2.10
SLB 2.11
SLB 3.02
SLB 3.03
SLB 3.04
SLB UG 15
SLB UG 17
Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
SLB 1.18 Meeting Room 2
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Gender & Sexuality 01: Gender and Policy: Labour, Reproduction, and the Politics of Care
9:00am - 10:30am
SLB 2.03
Charlotte Galpin
Location: SLB 2.03
Session Chair: Charlotte Galpin
Presentations: 3
EU Global Development 01: The European Union and Island Nations in the Indo-Pacific
2:00pm - 3:30pm
SLB 2.03
Sebastian Steingass
Location: SLB 2.03
Session Chair: Sebastian Steingass
Presentations: 2
Race & Decolonisation 02: Imperial History and Legacies
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 2.03
Toni Haastrup
Location: SLB 2.03
Session Chair: Toni Haastrup
Presentations: 6
OT 204: Crisis Management and Resilience
2:00pm - 3:30pm
SLB 2.04
Sonia Chikh M\'hamed
Location: SLB 2.04
Session Chair: Sonia Chikh M\'hamed
Presentations: 5
EU Global Development 02: Geopolitics and the EU Global Gateway
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 2.04
Simon Lightfoot, Sebastian Steingass
Location: SLB 2.04
Session Chair: Simon Lightfoot
Discussant: Sebastian Steingass
Presentations: 4
EU Law & (in)Equality 01: Socio-economic (in)Equality in Europe Through the Lens of Anti-discrimination Law
9:00am - 10:30am
SLB 2.05
Susi Forderer
Location: SLB 2.05
Session Chair: Susi Forderer
Presentations: 5
Gender & Sexuality 02: Gender and Identity In Socio-political Spheres
2:00pm - 3:30pm
SLB 2.05
Victor Hugo Ramirez Garcia
Location: SLB 2.05
Session Chair: Victor Hugo Ramirez Garcia
Presentations: 1
East-West Divide 02: Evaluating EU Membership and its Impact on Domestic and EU policymaking
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 2.05
Eli Gateva
Location: SLB 2.05
Session Chair: Eli Gateva
Presentations: 5
OT 104: European Responses to Contemporary Challenges
9:00am - 10:30am
SLB 2.06
Peter Hefele
Location: SLB 2.06
Session Chair: Peter Hefele
Presentations: 6
OT 203: Financing Europe's Future: Budgets, Fiscal Reform, and Regional Competitiveness
2:00pm - 3:30pm
SLB 2.06
Karlis Bukovskis
Location: SLB 2.06
Session Chair: Karlis Bukovskis
Presentations: 5
Competition and EU Integration: Current Frameworks and Future Strategies
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 2.06
Dominik Wolski
Location: SLB 2.06
Session Chair: Dominik Wolski
Presentations: 5
European Security 01: UK and European Security Burden-Sharing
9:00am - 10:30am
SLB 2.07
Tomáš Weiss
Location: SLB 2.07
Session Chair: Tomáš Weiss
Presentations: 4
Green Deal 01: Strengthening Democratic Governance for Climate Transitions
2:00pm - 3:30pm
SLB 2.07
Stefan Ćetković
Location: SLB 2.07
Session Chair: Stefan Ćetković
Presentations: 1
T&L 01: Games, Theory and Skills
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 2.07
Viviane Gravey
Location: SLB 2.07
Session Chair: Viviane Gravey
Presentations: 2
OT 101: Left-Wing Parties And Green Politics And Policies
9:00am - 10:30am
SLB 2.08
Michael Holmes
Location: SLB 2.08
Session Chair: Michael Holmes
Presentations: 1
OT 201: European Space Policy
2:00pm - 3:30pm
SLB 2.08
Thomas Hoerber
Location: SLB 2.08
Session Chair: Thomas Hoerber
This panel synthesizes research on the evolving landscape of space policy and governance, highlighting emerging trends and strategic approaches in space policy and governance, as well as the roles of both emerging and established space actors. The presentations will cover a range of topics: the ethi...
Presentations: 3
European Security 04: Technology and European Sovereignty
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 2.08
Jocelyn Mawdsley
Location: SLB 2.08
Session Chair: Jocelyn Mawdsley
Presentations: 5
OT 102: Movements for Lobbying and Advocacy
9:00am - 10:30am
SLB 2.09
Elena Simanschi
Location: SLB 2.09
Session Chair: Elena Simanschi
Presentations: 5
Digital Policy 02: Politics and Law of EU Data Governance
2:00pm - 3:30pm
SLB 2.09
Dominika Harasimiuk
Location: SLB 2.09
Session Chair: Dominika Harasimiuk
Presentations: 6
Digital Policy 03: EU Digital Policy: Value or Interest Driven?
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 2.09
Vanessa Ugolini
Location: SLB 2.09
Session Chair: Vanessa Ugolini
Presentations: 4
Green Deal 02: Debating the European Green Deal: Discourse, Narratives, and Networks
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 2.10
Jeffrey Rosamond
Location: SLB 2.10
Session Chair: Jeffrey Rosamond
Presentations: 5
Race & Decolonisation 01: Identity and Memory
9:00am - 10:30am
SLB 2.11
Toni Haastrup
Location: SLB 2.11
Session Chair: Toni Haastrup
Presentations: 3
Food Politics & EU Governance 01: Feeding EU-rope: Concepts and Narratives in Agricultural Policy
2:00pm - 3:30pm
SLB 2.11
Isabell Burmester
Location: SLB 2.11
Session Chair: Isabell Burmester
Presentations: 3
OT 301: European Union Foreign And Security Policy In Times of Turmoil
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 2.11
Brigid Laffan, Richard Whitman
Location: SLB 2.11
Session Chair: Brigid Laffan
Discussant: Richard Whitman
Presentations: 1
Trust in a Changing Europe 01: Compliance and Enforcement Challenges: Institutional Logics and Organisational Behaviour
2:00pm - 3:30pm
SLB 3.02
Raquel Cardoso, Dimitry Kochenov
Location: SLB 3.02
Session Chair: Raquel Cardoso
Discussant: Dimitry Kochenov
Presentations: 1
OT 303: Euroscepticism, Democracy, and Party Politics in the EU
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 3.02
Laura Montecchio
Location: SLB 3.02
Session Chair: Laura Montecchio
Presentations: 5
European Trade Policy 01: The Geoeconomic Turn in Trade Politics
9:00am - 10:30am
SLB 3.03
Zhihang Wu
Location: SLB 3.03
Session Chair: Zhihang Wu
OT 302: Cities and Regions – on the Relevance of an “Urban-Rural Divide” in the EU
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 3.03
Jens Carstens
Location: SLB 3.03
Session Chair: Jens Carstens
Presentations: 1
Digital Policy 01: Digitalisation and EU Law: Causes and Effects
9:00am - 10:30am
SLB 3.04
Sebastian Heidebrecht, Giuseppe Mazziotti
Location: SLB 3.04
Session Chair: Sebastian Heidebrecht
Discussant: Giuseppe Mazziotti
Presentations: 5
Health & EU 01: COVID-19-Themed Research In 2025: New Practices, New Perspectives?
2:00pm - 3:30pm
SLB 3.04
Mechthild Roos, Juan Collado Perez-Llantada
Location: SLB 3.04
Session Chair: Mechthild Roos
Discussant: Juan Collado Perez-Llantada
Presentations: 2
European Trade Policy 02: Trade and Economic Governance, Influence and Contestation
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 3.04
Maria Garcia
Location: SLB 3.04
Session Chair: Maria Garcia
Presentations: 6
East-West Divide 01: Rethinking EU Enlargement: Approaches, Challenges and Lessons Learnt
9:00am - 10:30am
SLB UG 15
Eli Gateva
Location: SLB UG 15
Session Chair: Eli Gateva
Presentations: 4
Integration Through Rights 01: Right Wing Policy Discourse in the European Parliament
2:00pm - 3:30pm
SLB UG 15
Audrey Plan
Location: SLB UG 15
Session Chair: Audrey Plan
Presentations: 3
Health & EU 02: From Vision to Reality: Collaborative Strategies for AI in Healthcare
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB UG 15
Petra Holmberg
Location: SLB UG 15
Session Chair: Petra Holmberg
Presentations: 1
Coffee Break
10:30am - 11:00am
SLB UG 17
Location: SLB UG 17
Lunch Break
12:45pm - 2:00pm
SLB UG 17
Location: SLB UG 17
Coffee Break
3:30pm - 4:00pm
SLB UG 17
Location: SLB UG 17
European Security 02: Navigating the Borders of the EU
9:00am - 10:30am
Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
Lucie Tungul
Location: Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
Session Chair: Lucie Tungul
Presentations: 5
Plenary 1: 75 years after the Schuman declaration - keeping up with recent trends in European Integration History
11:00am - 12:45pm
Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
Giacomo Benedetto
Location: Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
Session Chair: Giacomo Benedetto
 
 
Speakers:
Professor Simona Guerra - University of Surrey
Professor Brigitte Leucht - University of Portsmouth
Professor Peo Hansen - Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society, REMESO
Professor Carine Germond –  Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTN
Rewriting national a...
European Security 03: France, Germany and European defence in the Post-2022 Era: Coping With Strategic Divergences Or Falling Apart?
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
Delphine Deschaux-Dutard, Fabien Terpan
Location: Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
Session Chair: Delphine Deschaux-Dutard
Discussant: Fabien Terpan
Presentations: 1
Pedagogy of/in crisis: Reconnecting the classroom to a world in flames
2:00pm - 3:30pm
SLB 1.18 Meeting Room 2
Toni Haastrup
Location: SLB 1.18 Meeting Room 2
Session Chair: Toni Haastrup
Dramatic social change including shifts in domestic governance, and mass atrocity in multiple crisis zones have made the social science classroom a challenging place. Students and educators alike are navigating a world where the boundaries between the political, the personal, and the pedagogical are...
Graduate Forum: Elevator Pitch Workshop
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 1.18 Meeting Room 2
Location: SLB 1.18 Meeting Room 2
Ever tried to present your research… without actually presenting it?
Had to explain your PhD to your grandma, a flatmate, or that one friend who thinks you study “politics or something”?
This year’s Graduate Forum workshop is all about that: developing soft skills and finding playful, creative ways ...
Conference Registration
8:00am - 5:30pm
Drinks Reception
6:00pm - 8:30pm
Punch Tarmey’s Liverpool, 31 Grafton Street Cains Brewery Village, Liverpool L8 5SD