The main purpose of the EU3D concluding conference is to shed new light on EU3D’s main research question: under what conditions is differentiation politically acceptable, institutionally sustainable, and democratically legitimate; and under what conditions does differentiation engender dominance? This undertaking is a necessary prerequisite for reaching EU3D’s main aim, namely, to come up with a critical theory of political differentiation.
Programme (pdf)
Streaming and recording of the sessions (YouTube)
Monday 22 May
The conference is divided into two parts. Day one will be project internal and focused on summing up, synthesising and reflecting on main project findings of specific relevance for the development of a critical theory of political differentiation.
10.15 – 11.45 | Part I. Conceptual clarifications. Differentiation and dominance
reconsidered
12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch
13.00 – 14.30 | Part II. Internal and external challenges: differentiation and
dominance
14.45 – 16.15 | Part III. Citizens’ views on reforms of democracy in the EU
16.30 – 18.00 | Part IV. What future for EU democracy?
Tuesday 23 May
Day two is open for the public and will be devoted to discussing the findings with external commentators and guests along the key problems European democracy is facing today.
09.00 – 10.00 | Keynote speech: Challenges to democracy
- Klaus Welle (Former Secretary General of the European Parliament, Visiting Professor at KU Leuven and Guest Professor in Practice, LSE)
10.00 – 11.30 | Panel discussion: “Prospects of European democracy”
- Brigid Laffan, EUI (Emeritus Professor, European University Institute)
- Albena Azmanova (Professor of Political and Social Science, University of Kent)
- Adam Jasser (Deputy editor Visegrad Insight and Res Publica Nowa)
Chair: Asimina Michailidou (Senior researcher, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, EU3D)
11.30 – 12.00 | Coffee break
12.00 – 13.30 | Panel discussion: “Populist and sovereignist threat to the EU. New trajectory for the EU?”
- Jonathan White (Deputy Head of the European Institute and Professor of Politics, LSE)
- Natasza Styczyńska (Assistant professor, Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, EU3D)
- Sergio Fabbrini (Professor of Political Science and International Relations, LUISS, EU3D)
- Hans-Joerg Trenz (Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore)
Chair: Zdzisław Mach (Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Jagiellonian University, EU3D)
13.30 – 14.30 | Lunch
14.30 – 16.00 | Panel discussion: “External threats to European democracy”
- Joanna Skoczek (Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations, New York)
- Marzenna Guz-Vetter (Head of the Representation of the European Commission in Warsaw)
- Emilian Kavalsky (Professor of International Relations, Jagiellonian University)
- Matteo Bonomi (Senior fellow in the “EU, politics and institutions” programme at Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome)
Chair: Sabine Saurugger (Director of Sciences Po Grenoble, EU3D)
16.15-16.45 | Closing remarks
- John Erik Fossum (Professor, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo and scientific coordinator of EU3D)
- Comments from members of EU3D International Advisory Board
Practical information and questions
Contact Magdalena Góra, Associate Professor Jagiellonian Unviersity, or eu3d@uj.edu.pl for practical questions.
