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Workshop on Identity and Representation in an Integrated Europe

May 9, 2002 — May 10, 2002

Cost:Free

Carleton University, May 9-10, 2002

Conference Program

WORKSHOP ON IDENTITY AND REPRESENTATION
IN AN INTEGRATED EUROPE
CARLETON UNIVERSITY

MAY 9-10, 2002
SENATE ROOM 6TH FLOOR, ROBERTSON HALL

Organized by the Centre of European Studies,
in cooperation with the Centre for Representation and Elections

May 9, 2002

8:30 REGISTRATION
8:45 WELCOME Dr. Joan DeBardeleben, Director, Centre for European Studies, Carleton University

OPENING COMMENTS

Charles Caccia, MP, Chair Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association

9:15 PANEL I: POLICY-MAKERS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION Chair:

Dr. Adrian van den Hoven, Robert Schuman Centre, European University, Italy
“The EC’s Trade Dialogue with Civil Society: The First Step Towards More Open & Transparent Trade Policy Making?”

Dr. Alasdair Roberts, Syracuse University
“Supranational Governance and the Right to Information: Lessons from Experience in the EU.”

Dr. Robert Cutler, Research Fellow, EURUS and Dr. Alexander von Lingen, European Parliament, Directorate General of the Presidency
“EU Enlargement & the Parliamentarization of its Institutional Reform.”

Discussant: Dr. Barbara Haskel, McGill University

10:45 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 PANEL II: MULTI-CULTURALISM, IMMIGRATION, AND DIVERSITY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION Chair: Dr. Robert Gould, Carleton University

Dr. Michael Temelini, Concordia University
“The Puzzle of Multiculturalism and the Challenge of European Integration.”

Dr. Peter Ives, University of Winnipeg
“Language and European Unification.”

Dr. Iwona Wronski, Carleton University
“The Challenge of Immigration and Population Mobility on EU Enlargement: Polish, Hungarian, and Czech Perspectives.”

Discussant:

12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30 PANEL III: POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE FORMATION OF A EUROPEAN IDENTITY Chair: Dr. Jon Pammet

Dr. Robert Gould, Carleton University
“Political manifestos as Statements of Identity in Recent European Elections.”

Erol Kulahci, University of Brussels, Belgium
“The Party of European Socialists & the Process of the Socio-Economic European Identity Creation: Rhetoric & Reality.”

Holly T. Goerdel, Texas A & M University
“Towards an Idea of Europe: Parties Changing Ideology.”

Discussant: Dr. Larry LeDuc, University of Toronto

3:00 COFFEE BREAK
3:15 PANEL IV: REPRESENTATION IN AN INTEGRATED EUROPE Chair: Dr. Larry LeDuc, University of Toronto

Dr. Didier Chabanet, Centre de Politologie de Lyon, France
“Organized Interests in the EU: Lobbying, Mobilizations & European Public Arena.”

Dr. Paul Hamilton, Brock University
“EU Enlargement and the Consolidation of Democracy in the Czech Republic,
Estonia, and Slovenia.”

Christian Leuprecht, Royal Military College
“Moderates, Radicals, and Parliament.”

Discussant:

4:45 PANEL V: THE EUROPEANIZATION OF GENDER Chair: Dr. Rianne Mahon, Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University

Dr. Patricia McDermott, York University
“The French System of “Parité”: A model for Gender Equity in the EU?”

Dr. Ilka Thiessen, St. Thomas University
“The Creation of European Identity in Macedonian Discourse: Looking at the Consequences of Exclusion.”

Discussant: Dr. Jill Vickers, Carleton University

May 10, 2002

9:00 PANEL VI: THE CREATION OF IDENTITIES IN EUROPE Chair:

Dr. Isabelle Petit, University of Montreal
“EC’s Interventions in Education: Insuring an Effective Implementation of the Common Market or Fostering a Supranational Identity?”

Sibel McGee, Texas A & M University
“Explaining Loyalties in the European Union: National vs. European Identities.”

Frederic Merand, University of California, Berkeley
“Military Officers and the Construction of Europe: A Review of the Military Press in France and Great Britain, 1972 – 2000.”

Discussant: Dr. David Long, NPSIA, Carleton University

10:45 PANEL VII: INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS I: THE FORMATION OF IDENTITY OUTSIDE THE EU Chair: Dr. Nicole Jackson, Carleton University

Stephanie Ortmann, London School of Economics
“Russian Identity: Current Trends?”

David Alpern Kovacs, McGill University
“Norwegian national Identity at the Turn of the Millennium: Stalward and In Flux.”

Dr. Regula Staempfli, University of Basel
“Political Communication in Switzerland and the EU.”

Discussant: Dr. Inger Weibust, NPSIA, Carleton University

12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30 KEY-NOTE SPEAKER Dr. Ferenc Miszlivetz, Hungary
“Future of Europe and the Emerging European Civil Society with Special Regard to Regionalism and Cross-Border Cooperation.”
2:30 PANEL VIII: IDENTITY FORMATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Chair:

Anne Sophie Krossa
“Traditional Lines of Identity-Construction in East-Central-Europe in the Context of the Accessions to the EU.”

Dr. Maria Goloubeva, Riga Stradins University, Latvia
“The Influence of Value Orientations on Attitudes Towards the EU in Latvia.”

Anna Horolets, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science
“Metaphoric Construction of European Identity: Through Meaning to Power.”

Discussant:

4:00 PANEL IX: THE REPRESENTATION OF IDENTITIES IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE Chair:

Dr. Jiri Melich, Carleton University
“Electoral & Party Identities in the Czech Republic and the Politics of Accession to the EU.”

Dr. Oleh Protsyk, University of Ottawa
“Legislative Dimension of Party Competition over European Integration in Ukraine and Russia.”

Discussant: Dr. Joan DeBardeleben, Carleton University

5:15 CLOSING COMMENTS

Workshop on Identity and Representation in an Integrated Europe, Carleton University
This workshop is organized with financial support from the European Commission.

The Centre for European Studies.
Paterson Hall 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6
Phone: (613) 520-2600 ext. 2888
E-mail: Njackson@ccs.carleton.ca
Fax: (613) 520-7501
Website: http://www.carleton.ca/ces

Selected Papers Presented at the Conference

The Centre for European Studies (CES)
and
The Institute of European and Russian Studies (EURUS)
Carleton University, Ottawa

This series is supported, in part, by a grant from the European Commission.

EUROPE-RUSSIA WORKING PAPERS

Europe-Russia Conference Series


Order No. Author Title Date Posted Length
201 Oleh Protsyk, University of Ottawa Domestic Political Institutions and Their Responses to EU Enlargement in Ukraine and Russia May ’02 15 pages
202 Dr. Adrian van den Hoven, Trade Policy Advisor, Union of Industrial and Employer’s Confederations of Europe (UNICE), Brussels The European Commission’s Trade Dialogue with Civil Society: The First Step Towards More Open and Transparent Trade Policy Making? May ’02 27 pages