Theme 7

 

THE GEOPOLITICS OF EUROPE

Preliminary session proposals (March 26th, 2002)

 

 

 

Coordinators:             Luiza Bialasiewicz (Luiza.Bialasiewicz@durham.ac.uk)

                                    Fujio Mizuoka (fmizuoka@econgeog.misc.hit-u.ac.jp)

 

 

 

 

Based on the expressions of interest and topic submissions of participants who have contacted us thus far, we have compiled the following list of possible session headings. 

 

Please let us know which session (or sessions) you would like to participate in, and indicate whether you would like to table a paper. Please remember that we are trying to avoid read-paper sessions, and would like to encourage, rather, roundtable discussions and panels. Also, please let us know the specific topic of your presentation, if you did not indicate it on the registration form.

 

 

1. EU enlargement: fears and hopes

Sandor Illes: “Foreigners in Hungary. Migration to and from the EU”

Balint Csatari: “European Accession from the viewpoint of Hungary’s rural population”

Heinz Nissel: “Contesting EU expansion: the case of Temelin”

 

2. “Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Europe?” Inscribing the boundaries of the new Europe

Laimis Briedis: “Creating Vilnius as a European city”

Ilona Szoro: “Changes in the Geopolitics of Central Europe”

Andrea Szekely: “Hungarian cross-border cooperation”

 

3. Writing the Balkans

Elena dell’Agnese: “Commodifying Sarajevo’s image”

Alex Jeffrey: “Democratisation in Bosnia”

 

4. Spatial justice in the transition

 

 

5. Comparing transitions: a panel debate on democratisation and free-marketisation in East Central Europe and Asia

Fujio Mizuoka

Lan-Chih Po 

 

6. Regions and regional ideologies in Europe: panel discussion

Sebastian Schroder: “EU regional policy”

Joe Painter: “Regions and European citizenship”

Luiza Bialasiewicz: “The regional ideal in Europe”

Jozsef Benedek: “New meanings of regions in Romania”

 

7. Visions of Europe: a panel debate on the meanings of the European project, from the single currency to a European citizenship

 

 

8. New world orders/orders for a new world: a panel debate on geopolitical world-views after September 11th 

Peter Mayall

 

 

 

-         A  suggested reading on EU available in the Web:   http://www.mirhouse.com/ce-review/Empire.pdf

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