Programme
Monday, 25 September
9.00 - 9.30 Opening addresses
Annamaria Pagliaro, Director, Monash University Prato Centre
Natalie Doyle, Interim Director, Monash European and EU Centre, Monash University
Bo Strth, Professor of History, European University Institute
I. European Perspectives
Session 1: 9.30-11.00
Peter Wagner
Professor of Sociology, University
of Trento
Does Europe have a Cultural Identity?
Kristina Stckl
Researcher,
European University Institute
European Vicinities:
The West and European Orthodoxy
Coffee Break: 11.00-11.30
Session 2: 11.30-13.00
Willfried Spohn
Adjunct Professor of Sociology
at the Freie Universitt Berlin and Visiting Professor
at the Katholische Universitt Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
Multiple Modernities, Religion and Collective
Identities: Cultural Impacts on the Dynamics of European Integration
and Enlargement
Stefan Troebst
Professor of History at the University of Leipzig and Deputy
Director of the East Central Europe Centre
Meso-Regionalizing
Europe: Between History and Politics
Lunch: 13.00 - 14.30
II. The Centre and its Eastern Frontier
Session 3: 14.30-16.00
Michael G. Mller
Professor of
Eastern European History, University of Halle
When
and Where was Central Europe?
Miroslav
Hroch
Emeritus Professor of History, Charles University,
Prague
Nation Formation in Central Europe
Coffee Break: 16.00-16.30
Session 4: 16.30-18.00
M. B. Biskupski
S. A. Blejwas Endowed Chair
in Polish History, Department of History, Central CT State University
Polish Conceptions of Unity and Division in Europe:
The Linkage Between Speculation and Policy
Johann P. Arnason
Emeritus Professor of Sociology,
La Trobe University, Melbourne
Honorary Research Fellow,
Monash University
Interpreting Europe from
East of Centre
Tuesday, 26 September
III. Regions, Borders and Encounters
Session 1: 9.00-10. 30
Marko Pavlyshyn
Head, School of Languages, Cultures
and Linguistics, Monash University
Modern
Literature and the Constitution of National Identity as European:
The Case of Ukraine
Paul Blokker
Research Fellow, University of Trento
Romania
as the Intersection of Different Europes: Implications and Consequences
for the Other Europe
Coffee Break: 10.30-11.00
Session 2: 11.00-12. 30
Natalie Doyle
Interim Director, Monash European
and EU Centre, Monash University
Contrasting
Modernities: The Channel Divide Between Economic and Political Modernity
Bo Strth
Professor of
History, European University Institute
Norden
as a European Region: Demarcation and Belonging
Lunch: 12.30-14.00
Session 3: 14.00-15. 30
Aleksandar Pavkovic
Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Macquarie University,
Sydney
Return to Europe: Balkans and Europe
1804-2008
IV. Foundations and Problems of European Integration
Hartmut Kaelble
Professor
of Social History, Humboldt University, Berlin
Convergences
and Divergences of European Societies after 1945
Coffee Break: 15.30-16.00
Session 4: 16.00-17. 30
John Milfull
Emeritus
Professor of European Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney
The Rebirth of an Oxymoron: The Genesis and Functions
of "Constitutional Patriotism"
Matthew Harvey
Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash
University
Beyond Borders? Taking the EU
out of Europe
Conference Dinner at the Restaurant Baghino: 19.30
Wednesday, 27 September
Session 1: 9.00-10.30
Anna Sophie Krossa
College
of Europe, Natolin/Warsaw
A 'Christian
Europe'? Sociological Models of Integration in an All-European
Perspective.
V. Enlargement: Within and Beyond Europe's Borders
Volker Balli
Researcher,
European University Institute
Eastern Enlargement
as a Situation of the Self-Identification of the European Union
Coffee Break: 10.30-11.00
Session 2: 11.00-12.30
Michael Marino
Saint
John's University, Rome
Back from the
Future: How the Non-Western Cultural Experience Will Change the Trajectory
of the European Union
Ksenija Sabec
Lecturer, University of Ljubljana
National
Stereotypes and the Construction Of European Cultural Identity
Lunch: 12. 30 - 14.00
Session 3: 14.00 - 15. 30
Mehmet Zeki Tolga zhan
Gazi University
European Identification
with its Historical Confusions
Irmline
Veit-Brause
Assoc. Prof. of History of Ideas, Honorary
Fellow, Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Melbourne
Europe
in the Name of Science: The European Dimensions of the Austrian Novara
Expedition