JMCE Activities 2010/11
Research on Europe and the EU: Building a PhD Community in the North-West
18 February 2011
Conference at the University of Salford (Clifford Whitworth Library Conference Room)
See Programme [pdf]
At the Cutting Edge of EU Research: Building a PhD Community in Manchester
19 July 2010
Call for papers: 'At the Cutting Edge of EU Research' is a Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCE) postgraduate workshop to be held at the University of Salford. It is designed to encourage the creation of a community among Manchester-based PhD students researching any aspects of Europe and its member states, including politics, languages, and economics. This workshop will provide an excellent opportunity for research students with similar interests to meet, exchange ideas, and present their work in a friendly and supportive academic environment. Additionally, a number of selected papers from the conference may be published in the JMCE yearbook. We invite 200 word abstracts for papers. These will be peer reviewed, and successful applicants will be invited to present their papers in a panel alongside researchers in related areas. In addition, it would be helpful if attendees could indicate two or three areas of research interest to be included with their contact details.
Abstracts should be received no later than 26 June 2010. Full papers will be required one week in advance of the workshop.
Key Dates:
- Closing date for abstracts: 26 June 2010
- Presenters to be notified by: 29 June 2010
- Conference date: 19 July 2010
Submitting Abstracts and Enquiries: Please submit abstracts and any enquiries to Ulrike Hoffmann.
Workshop: 'Imperial Power Europe? The EU's Quest for Supremacy'
27-28 May 2010
The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of Manchester University is organizing a UACES funded workshop titled 'Imperial Power Europe? The
EU's Quest for Supremacy' in Manchester on 27-28 May 2010. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together scholars and
practitioners who would examine the 'External Relations of the EU' from the theoretical lens of the related literatures of 'Imperialism'
and 'Power'. It aims to examine the EU?s purported imperial power projection in its territorial (i.e. Western Balkans; the Black Sea
Region; the South Caucasus; Central Asia; the Middle East and the Persian/Gulf Region; the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group; Central
and Latin America; and South East Asia) and functional (i.e. foreign, security and defence policies; enlargement and neighbourhood policies;
trade, agriculture and energy policies; development policy; environmental policy; education and cultural policy) dimensions. The
workshop will seek to identify the drivers (i.e. Member States, EU Institutions, non-state actors), mechanisms (i.e. overt, covert,
latent; hard/soft forms of power) and consequences (for the Polity and others) of the EU's power projection. It will critically assess the
Union's 'force for good' rhetoric and revisit key questions such as 'what is' the Union, and the associated questions of 'what does' and
'what should' (the Union) be doing. The workshop will also have a comparative dimension in examining and learning from the behaviour of
other such polities (i.e. US, Russia, China). Ultimately, it aims to attract scholars from a range of disciplines including IR, EU Studies,
History, Comparative Politics, International Political Economy and Global Governance.
Paper proposals should be submitted by the 12th of April, 2010 to the workshop convenor, Dr Angelos Sepos (angelos.sepos@manchester.ac.uk), and should include a 250 word abstract. Funding is available for travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses.
The Belonging & Heimat, A Colloquium
20-21 May 2010
The aim of this colloquium was to foster an inter-disciplinary and Anglo-German conversation on questions of place, belonging and citizenship that are of increasing importance across Europe. It brought together researchers and practitioners in theology, philosophy, landscape architecture and regeneration. See report of the colloquium [pdf].
Making European Heritage:
A Chimera Workshop
19-20 March 2010
University Place 6.206/6.207
For further information or to register please contact Sharon Macdonald:
sharon.macdonald@manchester.ac.uk
This workshop explores the making and remaking of ‘European Cultural Heritage’. Through a range of cases, it examines hopes, dilemmas, struggles, negotiations and implications of defining of certain cultural heritage as ‘European’; and some of the consequences of materializing ‘Europe’ through heritage. What kinds of Europe, and what kinds of citizenship, are mobilised through heritage? And what kinds of work do different forms of cultural heritage – e.g. tangible, intangible, exhibitionary, edible – do in making versions and parts of Europe? Alongside considering the motives, assumptions, practices and challenges involved in policy-making, the workshop gives attention to the experience of making and living with European heritage in particular locales. This will allow us to probe the intersections between European, national, regional and local heritage-making; as well as heritage as a lived contemporary and future-oriented practice.
The workshop is supported by funding from the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, CRESC and the School of Social Sciences.
Roundtable:"My beloved sources"
Historians and the Archive in the Nineteenth Century
Friday 9 October 2009
Stefan Berger, Philipp Müller, Elsa Damien, David Laven
Integrating Nation-Building, Diasporas and Regionalism: European and Asian Perspectives
Claire Sutherland and Elena Barabantseva
Religion and right-wing extremism in contemporary Europe
Matthew Goodwin
Developing European social indicators of fairness at work
Jill Rubery
European Identities, Smaller Languages, and Media Technology
Yaron Matras
The Belonging & Heimat Project
Peter Scott
Migration, the State and Nation-Making in the Baltics during the 20th century
Thomas Bakelis and Laurence Brown
Making European Cultural Heritage
Sharon MacDonald
Creating the cosmopolitan city:
Manchester migrants old and new
Wednesday 22 April 2009 and Wednesday 27 May 2009
Creating the Cosmopolitan City: Manchester Migrants Old and New is a series of two workshops that has been developed in order to challenge the view that immigrants and refugees must be integrated into Manchester. Instead, these workshops take the perspective that it is immigrants and refugees that have integrated Manchester into the world. By examining these topics we argue that in the past and present immigrants and refugees have been central in the building of Manchester into an urban society that is linked to the rest of the world. That is to say, immigrants and refugees have and do connect Manchester globally through their contributions to its industry, business, arts, culture, and daily interactions within urban spaces. To the extent that Manchester can claim to be cosmopolitan (open to the world), it is because of these contributions from immigrants and refugees.