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, 10:40:01am 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 1.19 Meeting Room 6
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OT 402: Democracy and Rule of Law: Policies and Practices
9:30am - 11:00am
SLB 2.03
Giada D\'Andrea
Location: SLB 2.03
Session Chair: Giada D\'Andrea
Presentations: 3
East-West Divide 03: Rethinking Europe’s East-West Divide: Identities, Borderlands and Values
11:30am - 1:00pm
SLB 2.03
Emilija Tudzarovska
Location: SLB 2.03
Session Chair: Emilija Tudzarovska
Presentations: 3
OT 405: The European Neighbourhood and Enlargement
9:30am - 11:00am
SLB 2.04
Michael Higham
Location: SLB 2.04
Session Chair: Michael Higham
Presentations: 4
EU Law & (in)Equality 02: EU Institutions and the Shaping of Socio-economic (in)Equality
11:30am - 1:00pm
SLB 2.04
Aikaterini Orfanidi
Location: SLB 2.04
Session Chair: Aikaterini Orfanidi
Presentations: 3
Integration Through Rights 02: (Ab)use of Rights by Right Wing Politicians?
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 2.04
Dagmar Schiek
Location: SLB 2.04
Session Chair: Dagmar Schiek
Presentations: 3
EU Global Development 03: North Africa and the EU
9:30am - 11:00am
SLB 2.05
Niels Keijzer
Location: SLB 2.05
Session Chair: Niels Keijzer
Presentations: 3
Food Politics & EU Governance 02: What opportunities for EU-ropean Food Studies?
11:30am - 1:00pm
SLB 2.05
Laura Gelhaus
Location: SLB 2.05
Session Chair: Laura Gelhaus
Presentations: 1
Green Deal 03: The EGD Beyond EU Borders
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 2.05
Alexandra Buylova
Location: SLB 2.05
Session Chair: Alexandra Buylova
Presentations: 4
Digital Policy 04: Geoeconomic Turn and External EU Digital-Related Policy
9:30am - 11:00am
SLB 2.06
Xinchuchu Gao
Location: SLB 2.06
Session Chair: Xinchuchu Gao
Presentations: 4
OT 501: Identity, Populism and Public Perception
11:30am - 1:00pm
SLB 2.06
Aijan Sharshenova
Location: SLB 2.06
Session Chair: Aijan Sharshenova
Presentations: 3
OT 601: Perceptions and Narratives of Brexit
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 2.06
Simon Usherwood
Location: SLB 2.06
Session Chair: Simon Usherwood
Presentations: 3
European Trade Policy 03: Domestic Drivers and Consequences of EU Trade Policy
11:30am - 1:00pm
SLB 2.07
Serena Kelly
Location: SLB 2.07
Session Chair: Serena Kelly
Presentations: 5
EU Global Development 05: Africa and the EU
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 2.07
Sebastian Steingass, Niels Keijzer
Location: SLB 2.07
Session Chair: Sebastian Steingass
Discussant: Niels Keijzer
Presentations: 7
OT 406: Bikes, Cycling and Europe
9:30am - 11:00am
SLB 2.08
Simon Lightfoot
Location: SLB 2.08
Session Chair: Simon Lightfoot
Presentations: 1
T&L 02: Educating Youth To Make Sense Of Europe: Case Studies On Teaching And Learning About The EU
11:30am - 1:00pm
SLB 2.08
Philip Murphy
Location: SLB 2.08
Session Chair: Philip Murphy
Presentations: 2
European Security 06: Understanding Russia and Discourse on the War in Ukraine
9:30am - 11:00am
SLB 2.09
Laura Gelhaus
Location: SLB 2.09
Session Chair: Laura Gelhaus
Presentations: 6
Digital Policy 05: EU Policy and AI: Challenges and Opportunities
11:30am - 1:00pm
SLB 2.09
Xuechen Chen
Location: SLB 2.09
Session Chair: Xuechen Chen
Presentations: 4
T&L 03: Future-Conscious Learning and Research in European Studies
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 2.09
Patrick Bijsmans
Location: SLB 2.09
Session Chair: Patrick Bijsmans
Presentations: 4
OT 504: Roundtable on Arrival of Normative Power in Planetary Politics and the Planetary Organic Crisis
11:30am - 1:00pm
SLB 2.10
Ian Manners
Location: SLB 2.10
Session Chair: Ian Manners
Presentations: 1
OT 502: Empowering Citizens: Institutional Positions and Decision-Makers' Views on Democratic Innovations and Citizen Agency
11:30am - 1:00pm
SLB 2.11
Stefanie Beyens, Monika Brusenbauch Meislova
Location: SLB 2.11
Session Chair: Stefanie Beyens
Session Chair: Monika Brusenbauch Meislova
Presentations: 1
Gender & Sexuality 04: LGBTQIA+ Rights and Human Rights
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 2.11
William Daniel
Location: SLB 2.11
Session Chair: William Daniel
Presentations: 5
OT 404: European Identity: Leadership, Media, and Lived Experiences
9:30am - 11:00am
SLB 3.02
Mal Farrell
Location: SLB 3.02
Session Chair: Mal Farrell
Presentations: 5
Health & EU 03: The Expanding Reach of EU Health Law and Policy
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 3.02
Mary Guy
Location: SLB 3.02
Discussant: Mary Guy
Presentations: 5
Digital Policy 06: EU Law In The Era of Digitisation: On Strategic Litigation Causes, Actors And Processes
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB 3.03
Rebecca Zahn
Location: SLB 3.03
Session Chair: Rebecca Zahn
Presentations: 1
Gender & Sexuality 03: Representing Gender and Sexuality: Narratives, Discourse, and Identity
9:30am - 11:00am
SLB 3.04
Curzio Fossati
Location: SLB 3.04
Session Chair: Curzio Fossati
Presentations: 4
Trust in a Changing Europe 02: Institutional Trust and the Rule of Law
9:30am - 11:00am
SLB UG 15
Miguel João Costa, Lorenzo Bernardini
Location: SLB UG 15
Session Chair: Miguel João Costa
Discussant: Lorenzo Bernardini
Presentations: 4
EU Global Development 04: China and the EU
11:30am - 1:00pm
SLB UG 15
Pascaline Winand
Location: SLB UG 15
Session Chair: Pascaline Winand
Presentations: 4
OT 603: The Missing Chapter. The EU’s Own Adherence to Rule of Law Standards
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SLB UG 15
Barbara Grabowska-Moroz, Jacquelyn Veraldi
Location: SLB UG 15
Session Chair: Barbara Grabowska-Moroz
Discussant: Jacquelyn Veraldi
Presentations: 1
Coffee Break
11:00am - 11:30am
SLB UG 17
Location: SLB UG 17
Lunch Break
1:00pm - 2:00pm
SLB UG 17
Location: SLB UG 17
Coffee Break
3:30pm - 4:00pm
SLB UG 17
Location: SLB UG 17
European Security 05: National Preferences and Changing Security Realities
9:30am - 11:00am
Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
Andrew Cottey
Location: Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
Session Chair: Andrew Cottey
Presentations: 5
European Security 07: Protection from Foreign Interference – The Roles of the European Union and NATO
11:30am - 1:00pm
Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
Tomáš Weiss
Location: Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
Session Chair: Tomáš Weiss
Presentations: 1
Plenary 2: Bordered Europe: Immigration, Security, and Democracy
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
Charlotte O\'Brien
Location: Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
Session Chair: Charlotte O\'Brien
Speakers:
Professor Sonia Morano-Foadi - Oxford Brookes University
Professor Jonas Grimheden - European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex)
Professor Simon Usherwood – The Open University
The plenary will address the complex and often polarising debates around immigration in Europe, focusing par...
European Security 09: Futures of EU Defence
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
Gordon Abeiku Mensah
Location: Redmonds Building Large Lecture Theatre
Session Chair: Gordon Abeiku Mensah
Presentations: 5
Research of/in crisis: Redefining relevant research when academic freedom falters
11:30am - 1:00pm
SLB 1.19 Meeting Room 6
Toni Haastrup
Location: SLB 1.19 Meeting Room 6
Session Chair: Toni Haastrup
Academic freedom has come under fire across the world. Many UACES members, too, face explicit limitations of their research objects, or more subtle pressures leading to self-censorship. This transformation goes alongside different societal and governmental expectations about academia. Space for crit...