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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 (4x4 = 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 (6x4 = 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 (3x4 = 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)