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, 01/Sept/2025
8:00am - 5:30pmConference Registration
8:00am - 5:30pmPublishers' Exhibition day 1
9:00am - 10:30amDigital Policy 01: Digitalisation and EU Law: Causes and Effects
Session Chair: Sebastian Heidebrecht
9:00am - 10:30amEast-West Divide 01: Rethinking EU Enlargement: Approaches, Challenges and Lessons Learnt
Session Chair: Eli Gateva
9:00am - 10:30amEU Law & (in)Equality 01: Socio-economic (in)Equality in Europe Through the Lens of Anti-discrimination Law
Session Chair: Susi Forderer
9:00am - 10:30amEuropean Security 01: UK and European Security Burden-Sharing
Session Chair: Tomáš Weiss
9:00am - 10:30amEuropean Security 02: Navigating the Borders of the EU
Session Chair: Lucie Tungul
9:00am - 10:30amEuropean Trade Policy 01: The Geoeconomic Turn in Trade Politics
Session Chair: Zhihang Wu
9:00am - 10:30amGender & Sexuality 01: Gender and Policy: Labour, Reproduction, and the Politics of Care
9:00am - 10:30amGreen Deal 01: The Politics of Climate Finance and Carbon Taxation
Session Chair: Rosa M. Fernandez Martin
9:00am - 10:30amOT 101: Left-Wing Parties And Green Politics And Policies
Session Chair: Michael Holmes
9:00am - 10:30amOT 102: Movements for Lobbying and Advocacy
9:00am - 10:30amOT 103: EU-China Relations
9:00am - 10:30amOT 104: European Responses to Contemporary Challenges
9:00am - 10:30amRace & Decolonisation 01: Identity and Memory
10:30am - 11:00amCoffee Break
11:00am - 12:45pmPlenary 1: 75 years after the Schuman declaration - keeping up with recent trends in European Integration History
Location: Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
12:45pm - 2:00pmLunch Break
2:00pm - 3:30pmPedagogy of/in crisis: Reconnecting the classroom to a world in flames
2:00pm - 3:30pmDigital Policy 02: Politics and Law of EU Data Governance
Session Chair: Dominika Harasimiuk
2:00pm - 3:30pmEU Global Development 01: The European Union and Island Nations in the Indo-Pacific
Session Chair: Sebastian Steingass
2:00pm - 3:30pmEuropean Security 03: France, Germany and European defence in the Post-2022 Era: Coping With Strategic Divergences Or Falling Apart?
Session Chair: Delphine Deschaux-Dutard
Discussant: Fabien Terpan
2:00pm - 3:30pmFood Politics & EU Governance 01: Feeding EU-rope: Concepts and Narratives in Agricultural Policy
Session Chair: Isabell Burmester
2:00pm - 3:30pmGender & Sexuality 02: Gender and Identity In Socio-political Spheres
Session Chair: Victor Hugo Ramirez Garcia
2:00pm - 3:30pmGreen Deal 02: Strengthening Democratic Governance for Climate Transitions
Session Chair: Claire Dupont
2:00pm - 3:30pmHealth & EU 01: COVID-19-Themed Research In 2025: New Practices, New Perspectives?
Session Chair: Mechthild Roos
Discussant: Juan Collado Perez-Llantada
2:00pm - 3:30pmIntegration Through Rights 01: Right Wing Policy Discourse in the European Parliament
Session Chair: Audrey Plan
2:00pm - 3:30pmOT 201: European Space Policy
Session Chair: Thomas Hoerber
2:00pm - 3:30pmOT 202: Workshop: Toolkits For Active European Citizenship Education Across Educational Levels
Session Chair: Emmanuelle Schon Quinlivan
2:00pm - 3:30pmOT 203: Financing Europe's Future: Budgets, Fiscal Reform, and Regional Competitiveness
Session Chair: Karlis Bukovskis
2:00pm - 3:30pmOT 204: Crisis Management and Resilience
Session Chair: Sonia Chikh M'hamed
2:00pm - 3:30pmTrust in a Changing Europe 01: Compliance and Enforcement Challenges: Institutional Logics and Organisational Behaviour
Session Chair: Raquel Cardoso
Discussant: Dimitry Kochenov
3:30pm - 4:00pmCoffee Break
4:00pm - 5:30pmCompetition and EU Integration: Current Frameworks and Future Strategies
Session Chair: Dominik Wolski
4:00pm - 5:30pmDigital Policy 03: EU Digital Policy: Value or Interest Driven?
Session Chair: Vanessa Ugolini
4:00pm - 5:30pmEast-West Divide 02: Evaluating EU Membership and its Impact on Domestic and EU policymaking
Session Chair: Eli Gateva
4:00pm - 5:30pmEU Global Development 02: Geopolitics and the EU Global Gateway
Session Chair: Simon Lightfoot
Discussant: Sebastian Steingass
4:00pm - 5:30pmEuropean Security 04: Technology and European Sovereignty
Session Chair: Jocelyn Mawdsley
4:00pm - 5:30pmEuropean Trade Policy 02: Trade and Economic Governance, Influence and Contestation
Session Chair: Maria Garcia
4:00pm - 5:30pmGraduate Forum: Elevator Pitch Workshop
4:00pm - 5:30pmGreen Deal 03: Debating the European Green Deal: Discourse, Narratives, and Networks
Session Chair: Jeffrey Rosamond
4:00pm - 5:30pmHealth & EU 02: From Vision to Reality: Collaborative Strategies for AI in Healthcare
Session Chair: Petra Holmberg
4:00pm - 5:30pmOT 301: European Union Foreign And Security Policy In Times of Turmoil
Session Chair: Brigid Laffan
Discussant: Richard Whitman
4:00pm - 5:30pmOT 302: Cities and Regions – on the Relevance of an “Urban-Rural Divide” in the EU
Session Chair: Elisabeth Donat
4:00pm - 5:30pmOT 303: Euroscepticism, Democracy, and Party Politics in the EU
Session Chair: Laura Montecchio
4:00pm - 5:30pmRace & Decolonisation 02: Imperial History and Legacies
Session Chair: Toni Haastrup
4:00pm - 5:30pmT&L 01: Games, Theory and Skills
Session Chair: Viviane Gravey
6:00pm - 8:30pmDrinks Reception
8:00pm - 9:30pmGraduate Forum Drinks Social