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JMCE Symposium: The Future of Central and Eastern Europe
October 28, 2024 — October 29, 2024
Time: 9:30 AM — 1:00 PM
| Location: | 2017 Dunton Tower |
| Cost: | Free |
The Centre for European Studies (Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence) and the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta are pleased to invite you to a signature diplomatic event and two-day symposium:
The Future of Central and Eastern Europe
Monday/Tuesday, October 28-29, 2024
Location: Carleton University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) lounge, room 2017 Dunton Tower
PROGRAM:
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28
9:30 – 9:50 Welcomes and Introductions
9:50 – 11:40 Panel 1 – Politics and Economy of Central Europe – Moderator: Lori Thorlakson
- Zsolt Gal (Corvinus University), “”Hungary and Slovakia: Reluctant and slow fiscal consolidation and decoupling from Russian energy dependence”
- Armin Langer (University of Florida), “Shaping European Politics: Nationalist Populist Narratives in the 2024 EP Elections in Austria and Hungary”
- Maria Popova (McGill University), “Is Ukraine too Corrupt to be in the EU?”
- Christian Schimpf (University of British Columbia), “ Populism Reimagined: Tracing the FPÖ’s path from Opposition to Dominance in Austrian Politics”
11:45 – 13:00 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45 Panel 2 – Cultural Studies/Music – Moderator: Christian Schimpf
- Nicole Lugosi (University of Alberta), “The Goth Metal Scene as a Site of Resistance: Reappropriation and Reclamation of Romani Identity”
- Alexander Carpenter (University of Alberta), “Negotiating Identity in Central European Hip-Hop”
- Sergey Toymentsev (Saint Louis University), “Retro-Future in Russia’s Recent Film and Television”
- 14:45 – 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:30 Keynote – Jacob Mikanowski, “A Kidnapped West or a Divided East? Reading Kundera Forty Years Later”
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29
10:00 – 11:30 Panel 3 – Ukraine and Central Europe – Moderator: Alexander Carpenter
- Alina Nychyk (Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), “War and Enlargement: How Ukraine Became a Candidate for EU Membership”
- Mariia Burtseva (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta’s Disrupted Ukrainian Scholars and Students (DUSS) initiative), “The Experience of LGBTQI+ People in Ukraine During the Full-Scale Russian Invasion”
- Martin Dangerfield (University of Wolverhampton), “The Visegrad Group and the Ukraine war: Does the Central European ‘Alliance’ have a Future?”
11:45 – 13:00 Lunch and departures
Registration is required for this event as space is limited. Please register here.
This event is an activity of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, which is funded in part by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
