Conference Agenda

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: A New Constellation of EU Regulatory Authorities in the Digital Realm
Session Chair: Evangelia Psychogiopoulou
Discussant: Giuseppe Mazziotti
Session Chair: Federica Casarosa
9:00am - 10:30amEast-West Divide 01: Rethinking EU Enlargement: Approaches, Challenges and Lessons Learnt
9:00am - 10:30amEU Law & (in)Equality 01: Socio-economic (in)Equality in Europe Through the Lens of Anti-discrimination Law
9:00am - 10:30amEuropean Security 01: UK and European Security Burden-Sharing
9:00am - 10:30amEuropean Security 02: Navigating the Borders of the EU
9:00am - 10:30amEuropean Trade Policy 01: The Geoeconomic Turn in Trade Politics
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
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: AI: Harnessing Innovation for a Sustainable Future?
12:45pm - 2:00pmLunch Break
2:00pm - 3:30pmDigital Policy 02: Politics and Law of EU Data Governance
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
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
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
2:00pm - 3:30pmOT 204: Crisis Management and Resilience
2:00pm - 3:30pmTrust in a Changing Europe 01: Compliance and Enforcement Challenges: Institutional Logics and Organisational Behaviour
Session Chair: Raquel Cardoso
3:30pm - 4:00pmCoffee Break
4:00pm - 5:30pmCompetition and EU Integration: Current Frameworks and Future Strategies
4:00pm - 5:30pmDigital Policy 03: EU Digital Policy: Value or Interest Driven?
4:00pm - 5:30pmEast-West Divide 02: Evaluating EU Membership and its Impact on Domestic and EU policymaking
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
4:00pm - 5:30pmEuropean Trade Policy 02: EU Trade Policy and Third Parties: Influences & Impacts
4:00pm - 5:30pmGreen Deal 03: Debating the European Green Deal: Discourse, Narratives, and Networks
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
4:00pm - 5:30pmRace & Decolonisation 02: Imperial History and Legacies
4:00pm - 5:30pmT&L 01: Games, Theory and Skills
6:00pm - 8:30pmDrinks Reception
8:00pm - 9:30pmGraduate Forum Drinks Social

 
Date: Tuesday, 02/Sept/2025
9:00am - 5:45pmPublishers' Exhibition day 2
9:30am - 11:00amDigital Policy 04: Geoeconomic Turn and External EU Digital-Related Policy
9:30am - 11:00amEU Global Development 03: North Africa and the EU
Session Chair: Niels Keijzer
9:30am - 11:00amEuropean Security 05: National Preferences and Changing Security Realities
9:30am - 11:00amEuropean Security 06: Understanding Russia and Discourse on the War in Ukraine
9:30am - 11:00amGender & Sexuality 03: Representing Gender and Sexuality: Narratives, Discourse, and Identity
9:30am - 11:00amGreen Deal 04: The Energy Transition: Politics, Processes, and Justice
9:30am - 11:00amOT 401: Domestic Foreign Policies
9:30am - 11:00amOT 402: Democracy and Rule of Law: Policies and Practices
9:30am - 11:00amOT 404: European Identity: Leadership, Media, and Lived Experiences
9:30am - 11:00amOT 405: The European Neighbourhood and Enlargement
9:30am - 11:00amOT 406: Bikes, Cycling and Europe
Session Chair: Arantza Gomez Arana
9:30am - 11:00amTrust in a Changing Europe 02: Institutional Trust and the Rule of Law
11:00am - 11:30amCoffee Break
11:30am - 1:00pmDigital Policy 05: EU Policy and AI: Challenges and Opportunities
11:30am - 1:00pmEast-West Divide 03: Rethinking Europe’s East-West Divide: Identities, Borderlands and Values
11:30am - 1:00pmEU Global Development 04: China and the EU
Session Chair: Pascaline Winand
11:30am - 1:00pmEU Law & (in)Equality 02: EU Institutions and the Shaping of Socio-economic (in)Equality
11:30am - 1:00pmEuropean Security 07: Protection from Foreign Interference – The Roles of the European Union and NATO
Session Chair: Tomáš Weiss
11:30am - 1:00pmEuropean Trade Policy 03: Domestic Drivers and Consequences of EU Trade Policy
11:30am - 1:00pmFood Politics & EU Governance 02: What opportunities for EU-ropean Food Studies?
Session Chair: Laura Gelhaus
11:30am - 1:00pmOT 501: Identity, Populism and Public Perception
11:30am - 1:00pmOT 502: Empowering Citizens: Institutional Positions and Decision-Makers' Views on Democratic Innovations and Citizen Agency
Session Chair: Stefanie Beyens
Session Chair: Monika Brusenbauch Meislova
11:30am - 1:00pmOT 503: EU External Policy: Aviation and Fisheries
11:30am - 1:00pmOT 504: Roundtable on Arrival of Normative Power in Planetary Politics and the Planetary Organic Crisis
Session Chair: Ian Manners
11:30am - 1:00pmRace & Decolonisation 03: Human Mobility
11:30am - 1:00pmT&L 02: Educating Youth To Make Sense Of Europe: Case Studies On Teaching And Learning About The EU
Session Chair: Philip Murphy
1:00pm - 2:00pmLunch Break
2:00pm - 3:30pmPlenary 2: Bordered Europe: Immigration, Security, and Democracy
3:30pm - 4:00pmCoffee Break
4:00pm - 5:30pmDigital Policy 06: Roundtable Digital Governance EU: Current Debates and Future Research Approaches
Session Chair: Sebastian Heidebrecht
4:00pm - 5:30pmEU Global Development 05: Africa and the EU
Session Chair: Sebastian Steingass
Discussant: Niels Keijzer
4:00pm - 5:30pmEU Law & (in)Equality 03: Critical and Normative Approaches to EU Law and Socio-economic (in)Equality
4:00pm - 5:30pmEuropean Security 08: CSDP Missions - What Have We Learnt?
4:00pm - 5:30pmEuropean Trade Policy 04: Legal Innovations, Pitfalls and Possibilities in Trade Governance
4:00pm - 5:30pmGender & Sexuality 04: LGBTQIA+ Rights and Human Rights
4:00pm - 5:30pmGreen Deal 05: The EGD Beyond EU Borders
4:00pm - 5:30pmHealth & EU 03: The Expanding Reach of EU Health Law and Policy
Discussant: Mary Guy
4:00pm - 5:30pmIntegration Through Rights 02: (Ab)use of Rights by Right Wing Politicians?
4:00pm - 5:30pmOT 601: Perceptions and Narratives of Brexit
4:00pm - 5:30pmOT 603: The Missing Chapter. The EU’s Own Adherence to Rule of Law Standards
Session Chair: Barbara Grabowska-Moroz
4:00pm - 5:30pmT&L 03: Future-Conscious Learning and Research in European Studies

 
Date: Wednesday, 03/Sept/2025
8:45am - 3:00pmPublishers' Exhibition day 3
9:00am - 10:30amDigital Policy 07: EU Law In The Era of Digitisation: On Strategic Litigation Causes, Actors And Processes
Session Chair: Rebecca Zahn
9:00am - 10:30amEuropean Security 09: Geopolitical, Strategic or Still Confused - Reassessing the EU
9:00am - 10:30amFood Politics & EU Governance 03: Russia’s war against Ukraine and its broader impacts: food, water, sanctions
Session Chair: Laura Gelhaus
9:00am - 10:30amGender & Sexuality 05: Challenging the Mainstream: Far-Right and Far-Left Gender Politics
9:00am - 10:30amGreen Deal 06: Actors and Intermediaries Towards a Net-Zero Future
9:00am - 10:30amHealth & EU 04: Balancing Health With Other EU Policies: Ethics, Trade, Migration, Alcohol Brand Marketing, And AI
Session Chair: Mary Guy
Discussant: Eleanor Brooks
Session Chair: Mina Hosseini
9:00am - 10:30amOT 701: Navigating the Brexit Aftermath
9:00am - 10:30amOT 702: EU Actorness and Enlargement
9:00am - 10:30amOT 703: European Integration And European Social Democracy In Times Of Crisis
Session Chair: Ugur Tekiner
Discussant: Julie Smith
9:00am - 10:30amOT 704: Europe's Changing Geopolitical Order: Security, Energy, and Democracy
9:00am - 10:30amRace & Decolonisation 04: Decolonisation and Identity across Europe and Africa
Session Chair: Simone Duranti
9:00am - 10:30amT&L 04: The Internationalisation of European Studies
Session Chair: Hila Zahavi
Discussant: Foteini Asderaki
10:30am - 11:00amCoffee Break
11:00am - 12:30pmPlenary 3
12:30pm - 1:30pmLunch Break
1:30pm - 3:00pmDigital Policy 08: Digitalisation and EU Law: Causes and Effects
1:30pm - 3:00pmEast-West Divide 04: Evaluating Foreign Policy: CEE and the EU in a Changing Global Order
1:30pm - 3:00pmEU Global Development 06: EU Development Policies
Session Chair: Niels Keijzer
Discussant: Simon Lightfoot
1:30pm - 3:00pmEuropean Security 10: Futures of EU Defence
1:30pm - 3:00pmEuropean Security 11: Dissent and Politicisation of EU Security
1:30pm - 3:00pmEuropean Trade Policy 05: Implementing the Green Agenda in EU Trade Policy
1:30pm - 3:00pmGender & Sexuality 06: Gender in the EU Institutions: Internal and External Dimensions
1:30pm - 3:00pmIntegration Through Rights 03: Claiming Rights, Identity and Far Right Policy Diffusion
1:30pm - 3:00pmOT 801: Blame, Accountability and Legitimization
1:30pm - 3:00pmOT 802: Governance of Sustainability in Europe
Session Chair: Thomas Hoerber
1:30pm - 3:00pmOT 803: The Territorial Dimension of EU Knowledge Policies
Session Chair: Marie Lohrum
1:30pm - 3:00pmTrust in a Changing Europe 03: Interstate Trust and Judicial Cooperation

 
Date: Friday, 12/Sept/2025
10:00am - 11:30amVirtual Panel 101: EU Security Cooperation
10:00am - 11:30amVirtual Panel 102: Legal Integration and Policy Challenges in the Evolving European Framework
10:00am - 11:30amVirtual Panel 103: Food Politics and EU Governance
10:00am - 11:30amVirtual Panel 104: Bureaucracy, Transparency and Efficiency in Practice
12:00pm - 1:30pmVirtual Panel 201: Diversity, Gender and Representation
12:00pm - 1:30pmVirtual Panel 202: The European Green Deal: Progress, Pitfalls, and Prospects
12:00pm - 1:30pmVirtual Panel 203: Current Trends and the Future of Trade Policy
Session Chair: Konstantinos Margaritis
2:30pm - 4:00pmVirtual Panel 301: Geopolitics and Strategy
2:30pm - 4:00pmVirtual Panel 302: Competition and EU Integration
2:30pm - 4:00pmVirtual Panel 303: The EU's Engagement in Gender Equality and Human Rights in South(east) Asia