Program
Challenges of a New Europe
In between local freeze and global dynamics
Inclusion and Exclusion in Contemporary European Societies Edition 2008
IUC Dubrovnik Croatia April 14-18 2008, Provisional Programme
Monday April 14: Moving Europe (in what direction(s)?)
09.15 – 9.45 Welcome and Introduction
Course Directors
9.45 – 11.30 Quo Vadis Europa, moving towards a cold winter or a new spring?
Glocalization, seniorization, multi culturalization and other inconvenient truths.
Bart van Steenbergen (Universiteit Nyenrode & Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
11.45 – 12.30 Inclusion, Exclusion and Challenges for a New Europe: Personal Priorities
Informal Debate in Parallel Workshops
15.30 – 16.45 Romani and Romanians in Rome: the mechanisms of social exclusion
Anna Bleahu (Institute for the quality of life, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)
17.00 – 18.30 Liquid Migration in Europe: In Between Local Freeze and Global Dynamics
Godfried Engbersen (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Tuesday April 15: Enabling Europe
09.00 – 10.30 Disability studies in Europe
Douwe van Houten (University of Humanistics, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
11.00 – 12.30 Adult Education and Knowledge Society
Ladislav Rabusic (Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
15.00 – 16.15 There is no work place for you here; about different kinds of employment discirimination in Croatia
Video and discussion
Jasmina Papa (UNDP, Zagreb, Croatia)
16.30 – 18.30 Participant Presentations in Parallel Workshops (4×4 = 16)
Wednesday April 16: Constraining Europe
09.00 – 10.15 Financial Crime (money laundering) in a Global Theatre
Brigitte Unger (Utrecht School of Economics, The Netherlands)
10.45 – 12.00 Does Europeanization mark the End to Democratic Politics? on the constraints imposed by the EU on local policy choice
Frans van Waarden (University College Utrecht, The Netherlands)
12.15 – 13.00 Information society, Europe computer illiteracy
Horea Todoran (Babes Bolyai University Cluj, Romania)
15.30 – 18.30 Participant Presentations in Parallel Workshops (6×4 = 24)
Thursday April 17: Associating Europe
09.00 – 10.30 Plan D – is Diversity one of the elements in Democracy?
Allison Woodward (Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium)
11.00 – 12.30 Participant Presentations in Parallel Workshops (3×4 = 12)
12.30 – 13.00 Introducing the Dubrovnik Declaration
15.30 – 18.30 Drafting the Dubrovnik Declaration on Social Rights:
The New European Parliament in Action (role play)
Wieger Bakker (Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Friday April 18: Outreaching Europe
09.00 – 10.30 Perceptual Divisions within the Turkish Elites and Social Groups on the Issue of the European Union
Hakan Yilmaz (Bosporus University, Istanbul, Turkey)
11.00 – 12.30 Do you have a word for it in your language?: transnationalism, translation, transformation
Paul Stubbs (Institute of Economics Zagreb, Croatia)
15.00 – 17.00 Interactive workshop events: translating the learned
- · 1. Contrasting Futures: Scenario workshop
- · 2. Improving government performance
- · 3. Deliberative dialogues
17.15 – 18.00 Varieties of Europe: the Exhibition Project „Breaking the Stereotype“
Veronika Bernard (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
18.00 – 18.30 Summary and Conclusion
Wieger Bakker (Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)