Dear Colleagues ,

I would like to draw your attention to the workshop “Fading nation-states? The impact of European integration on Central and Eastern Europe” which the  Centre for European Studies of Jagiellonian University along with ARENA Center for European Studies, University of Oslo is organizing in March 2011. The details are included below. Please also feel free to disseminate it among potentially interested parties .

 

Best wishes,

Katarzyna Zielińska

 

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Dr Katarzyna Zielińska

International Programmes Coordinator

Centre for European Studies

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31-131 Kraków

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Workshop: Fading nation-states? The impact of European integration on Central and Eastern Europe

Krakow, 18-19 March 2011

 

Rationales:

Six years after the ‘Big Bang’ enlargement of the European Union new questions are emerging in the social sciences  which deal with assessing the effects of enlargement on the member states and the structure and way of functioning of the EU. One of the major, overarching questions is the transformation of stateness and the future of the nation-state in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. A vast amount of literature on European integration is questioning the possibility of nation-states in Europe functioning in an unchanged form, particularly their autonomy and problem-solving capabilities. This debate is not given sufficient attention in CEE countries, where the move towards European integration was perceived as a way to reestablish sovereignty and independence and to reconstitute as liberal-democratic nation-states. The major aim of the workshop is to investigate how the new member states seek to consolidate as nation-states in relation to European integration and how state autonomy is at the same time challenged by European integration. 

 

Contributions are encouraged related to the following broad topics:

1. Democracy after the enlargement. The EU was for many years perceived in the CEE countries and their elites as the ultimate guarantor of democracy with the conditionality policy stressing the role of democratic standards for prospects of enlargement. How does the EU today – six years after the enlargement – contribute to democracy in the new (and also old) member states? What are the positive and negative effects of the enlargement and European integration on the functioning of democracy, civil participation in European societies, functioning of the public sphere, and quality of civil society?
2. Society beyond the nation-state. The following areas will be of particular interest: What is the impact of the EU enlargement and its consequences on the transformations of collective identities in CEE countries? What is the impact of migration in Europe on the CEE countries? How does transnationalisation influence the activities and strategies of social actors? What are the main stakeholders in the process of communication and norm diffusion within the EU (between local and regional, national and supranational level)? How is the image of Europe present in collective memories in CEE?
3.  Questioning the east-west divide after enlargement. Emphasis will be placed on both the regional groupings of states and endurance of political projects such as the Visegrad Group for the cooperation within the EU but also the potential cooperation and divisions within the EU institutions such as the Council of the EU etc. How do actors from various levels (national, regional, local) from the CEE countries participate in the multidimensional reality of European integration? What are the differences between the actors in the EU? Does the east-west divide explain the differences?

 

Proposed time: 18-19 March 2011

Venue: Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

ul. Garbarska 7a

Kraków, Poland

website: www.ces.uj.edu.pl

 

Deadline for abstracts (300 words including name and academic affiliation, in addtion short academic CV): 30 September 2010. Notification of the list of participants will be made by 30 October 2010.

A selection of the conference papers will be published in an edited volume immediately after the workshop. For this reason we will expect prospective participants to submit papers before 20 February 2011. The workshop will have an interactive format with invited commentators for each panel discussing the submitted papers.

 

The organisers will cover the costs of bursaries and maintenance during the conference. For selected paper-givers from CEE countries the provision of additional support for travel costs is foreseen.

 

Organisers: Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland; ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo.

The workshop will be organised as part of the wider project ‘Europeanisation and Governance in Central and Eastern Europe'.

 

Organizing committee:

Dr Katarzyna Zielińska

Institute of European Studies and Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University

Dr Magdalena Góra

Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University

Prof. Zdzisław Mach

Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University

Prof. Hans-Joerg Trenz

ARENA Centre for European Studies,

 

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http://www.ces.uj.edu.pl/events/FSSworkshop.html

 

The project is supported by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway with a grant received from the Norwegian Financial Mechanism and the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism through the Scholarship and Training Fund.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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