Europe: Inside Out
Graduate Centre for Europe – 4th Annual Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference
Thursday 25th– Saturday 27th March 2010
Centre for Professional Development, School ofDental and Medical Sciences
University of Birmingham
Conference Programme
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Thursday 25th March
11.00-12.00Registration/Coffee
Introduction and Welcome
Director of Graduate Centre for Europe Dr. Nicholas Martin
and Chair Clare Watters
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SKILLS SESSIONS
12.00-1.00
Professor Frank Lough
Referencing and Bibliographical Software
1.00-2.00
LUNCH
2.00-3.00
Dr Nicholas Martin and Dr Paola Cori
Viva Tips
3.00-3.30
Tea/Coffee
3.30-4.30
Cristina Ivanovici and Sarah Macmillan
Running a Postgraduate Journal
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5.00
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr Eleanor Spaventa – Durham Law School
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6.30
Birmingham Journal for Europe
Launch of the GCfE Online Postgraduate Journal
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7.30
Conference Dinner (for speakers/delegates and guests only)
Friday 26th March
09.00 - 10.30 PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Matthew Frear
Tihomir Topuzovski (Bham) - European Union and the Transformation of the Western Balkans
Agnieszka Bidzinska(Bham) - The EU’s Quest to Spread Norms Outside its Borders - Normative Power Europe Revisited.
Boyan Tanev (Bonn) - Foreign Policy in the Context of EU Membership. Implications from the Eastern Enlargement
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10.30 -11.00 Tea/Coffee ______
11.00 – 12.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
a)Chair: Rachel Slater
Rufat Babayev (Durham) –(title TBC)
Marius Vacarelu (Bucharest) –TheRight to Good Administration – a First Step
Towards a European Administrative Procedure?
Luke Butler (Bham) – The “Communitarization” and “Europeanization” of International Law: Law, Culture, Language and Identity. Or when the EU lawyer Ceased to be the International Lawyer
b)Chair: Tara Windsor
Tamsin Foulkes (Bham) – Jeanne d’ Arc as the Cross-Dressing Warrior in Gravelot’sIllustrations for Voltaire’s La Pucelle d’ Orléans of 1762
Claire Thomas (Bristol) - Charlemagne and Medieval Europe: a United Christendom?
Norah Lorway (Bham)– Networking our Music: Network Music Performance Trends in Europe and Abroad.
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12.30 - 1.30Lunch
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1.30 - 3.00 PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Susanne Thuermer
Luca Malici (Bham)- The Visibility of “Queer” in the EU: Spaces, Bodies and the Media
Enrico Pugliese (Reading)-The Italian Socialist and the European Question
Naomi Wells (Leeds) - Linguistic Minorities and the Nation-State in Contemporary Europe
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3.00 – 3.30Tea/Coffee
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3.30 - 5.00 PLENARY SESSION
Chair: James Green
Mattia Marino (Salford)- Relativism and European Identity in the Literature of ‘Das Parfum’ and ‘Oceano mare’
Eva Bru (Bham)–The Inside In: Bounded Bodies in Mercè Rodororeda’s ‘La mort i la primavera’ – Ideas of the Body in Modern European Fiction
Alan Ashton-Smith (Birkbeck) –Constructing a Balkan Fiction
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5.15
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Gisela Stuart - MP for Birmingham Edgbaston
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6.30Drinks and Buffet Dinner
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7.30Europe Quiz and Evening Entertainment
Saturday 27th March
09.30 - 11.00 PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Clare Watters
Rhiannon McGlade (Bham)– L'Esquella de la Torratxa: a War within a War
Yueh-Po Huang (Reading) - The Creation of A Japanese New Religion in Europe
Lara Cox (Exeter) – Viewing Arthur Adamov’s ‘Off limits’ from the Inside Out: the Changing Face of Theatre Spectatorship in France
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11.00 -11.30 Tea/Coffee
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11.30 – 1.00 PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Katharina Boehmker
Aleksandar Trklja (Bham)– Discourses about the European Union in Croatia and Serbia
Peter Ozoniya (Dublin) – Immigrants and Tertiary Education in the EU
Daniela Stoycheva (Bonn) – Regional Integration and Social Cohesion: Evaluating EU Development Policy towards Latin America
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1.00 – 1.15Closing Remarks
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1.15 - 2.00Lunch
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