epsNet PLENARY CONFERENCE: 16-17 June 2006
Central European University, Budapest
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Europe in Context: Debating the Project |
Academic Convenors: Laszlo Bruszt, Carlos Closa and Neil Collins
Local Organiser: Attila Folsz
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Friday 16 June 2006 |
08:30
REGISTRATION |
09:15-11:00
Workshops: RESEARCHING EUROPE (1) |
Workshop 1: GELLNER ROOM
What International Role for Europe?
Chair: Andrew Cottey (University College Cork)
Stela Leuca (University of Novi Sad): Moldova: Walking the Walk Along and Across the New European Border [View  ]
Esmeralda Gassie (University of Limerick): Enlarging concepts before the enlargement: The European Union in Albania [View ]
Maxim Ryabkov (Mongolian National University of Education): The politics of gas supply in the context of Russian-European economic interdependence: a survey of the range of opinion
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Workshop 2: FACULTY TOWER 309
The Future of the EU Constitution
Chair: John Erik Fossum (University of Oslo)
Hans Vollaard, Bartho Boer (Leiden University): Euroscepticism in the Netherlands [View ]
Bernhard Stahl (Prota Mateja Nenadovic College Valjevo): Europe’ in France’s foreign policy discourses: Threat versus chance [View ]
John Erik Fossum, (Arena, U. of Oslo) - A. Menendez (University of León): A European Conundrum: Constitutionalisation versus Integration? |
Workshop 3:
FACULTY TOWER 409
Roundtable: State of the Art of Political Science
Chair: Radoslaw Markowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Arjan ven den Assem & Peter Volten (University of Groningen): Political Culture and International Relations: American Hegemony and European Challenge [View ]
Giorgio Freddi (University of Bologna)
Michael Goldsmith, (Salford University) and Wyn Grant (Warwick University): British Political Science in the New Millennium [View ]
Hans-Dieter Klingemann (WZB) |
Coffee break |
11:30-13:00
Auditorium
Official Opening and Plenary session
Chairs: Laszlo Bruszt, Carlos Closa and Neil Collins (Academic Convenors)
Keynote lecture: Questions of European governance
Péter Balázs (Director of CEU Centre for EU Enlargement Studies, former EU Commissioner)
Discussants: Hans-Dieter Klingemann (WZB) and Niilo Kauppi (CNRS, Strasbourg)
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Lunch break* |
14:30-16:30
Workshops: RESEARCHING EUROPE (II) |
Workshop 4: GELLNER ROOM
The Europeanisation of National Systems
Chair: Carlos Closa (Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid)
Gerda Falkner, Emmanuelle Causse & Clemens Widermann (IAS, Vienna): Post-Accession Compliance in Central and Eastern Europe [View ]
Rabia Karakaya Polat (Isik University, Istanbul): Europeanization in Turkey: Searching for impacts on foreign policy [View ]
Pavlina Stoykova (University of Manchester): Europeanisation of Policy-Making in South-Eastern Europe: The Case of Bulgaria [View ]
Leila Simona Talani: (LSE/U. of Bath): A dead stability and growth pact and a strong euro: There must be a mistake! An “embedded” intergovernmentalist perspective to the credibility of European exchange rate commitments [View ]
Elizabeth Sheppard (Sciences Po, Paris): Rethinking European defence: The Europeanisation of national defence policies in theory and practice
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Workshop 5: FACULTY TOWER 309
Political Parties and the EU
Chair: Zsolt Enyedi (Central European University, Budapest)
Paul Kennedy (University of Bath): Back to the Future: THE PSOE's Return to Office and the Re-establishment of the Paris-Berlin Axis in Spain's European Policy [View ]
Lyubka Savkova (University of Sussex, UK): More European than the Europeans : The Nature of the European Debate in Bulgaria [View ]
Diren Cakmak (Cankaya University, Turkey): The Third way and Communitarianism: Examples on the People’s Republican Party (CHP) and the Justice and Development Party (AK Party)
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Workshop 6: FACULTY TOWER 409
Democracy and Citizenship in Europe
Chair: Lori Thorlakson (University of Nottingham)
Clodagh Harris (University College Cork): Democracy, citizenship and participation
Joanna Ziolkowska (Warsaw University, Poland): Beyond Nation State? Problem of Political Identity and Post-national Citizenship in the Context of Common Europe and Globalization Processes [View ]
Andrea Schlenker (Free University Berlin): Multiple identities in Europe: The EU - a multi-national or post-national community or none at all? [View ]
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Coffee break |
17:00-18:45
Auditorium
Plenary Roundtable
Keynote speaker: George Soros (Chairman and Founder, Open Society Institute, Soros Foundations Network)
Mr Soros will discuss the Chapter on the European Union in his forthcoming book "The Age of Fallibility"
Discussants: Giorgio Freddi (University of Bologna) and Mike Goldsmith (University of Salford)
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Saturday 17 June 2005 |
09:00-10:30
Workshops: RESEARCHERS, TEACHING AND THE PROFESSION IN EUROPE (I)
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Workshop 7: GELLNER ROOM
Training for First-Time University Teachers (1): "How to Motivate Students"
Chair: Gabriela Gregusova (Comenius U. of Bratislava)
Elizabeth Sheppard (Sciences Po Paris): Introduction: Making Europe more interesting and motivating to students. [View ]
Markéta Rulíková.(Centre for Social Studies. Institute of Philosophy and Sociology. Polish Academy of Sciences) Motivating students at public versus private colleges in the US)
Nora Mikušová (University of Economics, Bratislava): How to encourage to learn using new software and how to handle students with different level of skills. [View ]
Cãtãlina Spârleanu: Positive feedback as a means to motivate students or “I go to classes because I feel that I'm important” [View ] |
Workshop 8: FACULTY TOWER 309
Quality of Teaching
Chair: Erkki Berndtson (University of Helsinki)
Stéphane La Branche (Institute of Political Studies, Grenoble): Teaching new research questions in political studies: the case of the environment [View ]
Jaakko Kauko (University of Helsinki): The Institutionalisation of Quality Assurance in European Higher Education. [View ]
Mihaela Secrieru, Anca Cehan (“Al. I. Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania): Romanian University Curriculum Standards under Scrutiny [View ] |
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Coffee break |
10:45-12:15
Workshops: RESEARCHERS, TEACHING AND THE PROFESSION IN EUROPE (II)
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Workshop 9 : GELLNER ROOM
Training for First-Time University Teachers (2): "How to Supervise Theses"
Chairs: Kinga Kas (Corvinus U. of Budapest) & Gabriela Gregusova (Comenius U. of Bratislava)
Veronika Mitková (Comenius University in Bratislava): Using Supplement Materials for the Course [View ]
Anja Hennig, Tomáš Karásek: Teaching Political science as a process of collective reasoning: The motivational value of working groups within an international setting [View ]
Paul Roe, (Central European University in Budapest): Problems with Supervision
Joanna Renc-Roe (Central European University in Budapest): How to Supervise Students |
Workshop 10: FACULTY TOWER 309
How to Get Published in English
Chairs: Erkki Berndtson (University of Helsinki) & Steven Kennedy (Palgrave MacMillan Publishers) |
Workshop 11: FACULTY TOWER 409
European Accreditation System in Political Science
Chair: Jadwiga Koralewicz (Polish Academy of Sciences, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw) |
Lunch break* |
14:00-15:30
Workshops: RESEARCHERS, TEACHING AND THE PROFESSION IN EUROPE (III) |
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Workshop 12: FACULTY TOWER 309
Politics Students: Work Experience and Employment Prospects
Chair: Fiona Buckley (University College Cork)
Fiona Buckley (University College Cork): Politics Students: Work Experience and Employment Prospects in Ireland
Zoltán Simon (ELTE, Budapest): Newcomers’ prospects in and around the political arena – The case of Hungary Employment opportunities and career models for young political science graduates in and around the political arena in Hungary [View ]
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Workshop 13: GELLNER ROOM
Roundtable: Women in the Profession
Discussants: Kalliope Agapiou-Josephides (University of Cyprus) and Irina Michalowitz (European Platform of Women Scientists) |
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Coffee Break |
16:00 - 17:30
Auditorium
Open Forum: Debating the Project
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