Date: 17 February 2012
Venue: Royal Holloway, Founders building/FW101
Programme
11.00 – 11.30 Welcome and introduction to the ‘Many Europes’ workshop by Chris Rumford
11.30-13.00: Panel 1: Identity, borders & multiculturalism
S. Anne G. Bostancı (Surrey) – EUrope and other Europes
Joanna Cagney (Royal Holloway) – Models of ‘Multiculturalism’: Identifying Difference, Differentiating Identity
Valentina Kostadinova (Birmingham) – The European Commission and the Configuration of Internal EU Borders: Passive and Active Contributions
Chair: Chris Rumford
14.00 – 15.30:Panel 2: Civil society, public sphere & democracy
Cristian Nitoiu (Loughborough) – Fostering Union’s democratic identity through the European Public Sphere
Alistair Brisbourne (Royal Holloway) – Governing Civil Society in the Euro-Mediterranean – The Anna Lindh Foundation and EU Commission post-Arab Uprisings
Sezin Dereci (Bremen) – NGOs in the context of Turkey’s accession to EU: Explaining their divergent patterns of engagement to Turkey’s process of Europeanisation
Chair: Didem Buhari-Gulmez
16.00- 17.30: Panel 3: ‘Hard cases’ & cultural clashes
Tamás Scheibner (Budapest) – Globalization, National Paradigms, and the Unification of Eastern Europe: The Paradox of Postcolonialism as Applied to Post-Soviet Europe
Gozde Yilmaz (Berlin) – Multiplying ever differentiated Europe? The resistance of the EU against Turkish Accession
Didem Buhari-Gulmez (Royal Holloway) EU as a ‘heuristic device’: Three-dimensional Europeanization in Turkey
Chair: Chris Rumford
