Towards a European Society? Transgressing Disciplinary Boundaries in European Studies Research

The Centre for European and International Studies Research is holding its Flagship Conference at Portsmouth University beginning on 28 June 2012.

This event is a three-day international conference hosted by the University's School of Languages and Area Studies. It will bring together academics and practitioners from a broad range of disciplines including sociology, politics/IR, history, linguistics and gender studies.

Keynote Speakers

Keynote speakers include Head of the London European Parliament Office Professor Michael Shackelton, Professor Didier Georgakakis from the University of Strasbourg and Professor Kiran Klaus Patel from the University of Maastricht (to be confirmed). Read more about our keynote speakers.  

Conference Themes

Conference streams will focus on:

• Liberté, egalité, fraternité: society and state formation in Europe.
• Governing Europe: transnational fields and networks.
• Europeanisation? Changing national and sub-national polities.
• Language: barrier to Europeanisation?
• Inclusion and exclusion: Immigrants and minorities in national and European societies.
• Unity in diversity? The local and regional in Europe.
• Contact and convergence: popular culture as banal Europeanisation?
• Museums, theatres, cinema: transnationalizing high culture in Europe.
• Changing the Other: Europe in the world.

further information:
http://www.port.ac.uk/research/ceisr/europeanstudiesconference/