'Contesting Europe' Seminar Series, Autumn 2002

Centre for European Political Communications [EurPolCom] University of Leeds	Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence [JMECE] University of Leeds

European integration is becoming an increasingly contentious political issue across member states and candidate countries. The sessions in this seminar series look at how contention over Europe manifests itself as domestic politics and national public spheres become increasingly Europeanised.

Programme

Wed 16 Oct Julie Firmstone & Emily Gray, ICS, University of Leeds
'Conflict over the Euro in UK Media and Politics'

Wed 23 Oct Prof Juliet Lodge, JMECE, University of Leeds
'Combating Terrorism or Controlling Immigration: The EU and September 11th'

Wed 13 Nov Dr Paul Taggart, Sussex European Institute
'Euroscepticism'

Wed 20 Nov Dr Katrin Voltmer, ICS, University of Leeds (tbc)
'The Europeanisation of Political Communication in Germany'

Wed 4 Dec Dr Chris Rumford, Istanbul Kültür University
'The Possibility of European Society'

Wed 11 Dec Dr Neil Gavin, University of Liverpool
'Media, Democracy and European Integration'

Venue: ICS Seminar Room, Roger Stevens Building Level 5, 4pm
All welcome
For further details contact Emily Gray at EurPolCom.

EurPolCom Workshop Seminar Series 2002

The EurPolCom research team hosted a number of workshops in early 2002 that focused on the dynamics of the public sphere, political communications and political mobilisation. These workshop sessions consisted of internal discussion seminars, with the schedule as follows:

Thu 31 Jan 2002, 3pm -- Internal seminar: discussion of perspectives advanced by Tarrow et al in 'Contentious Europeans: Protest and Politics in an Emerging Polity' (2001)

Wed 12 Feb 2002, 3pm -- Internal seminar: discussion of European Public Sphere and the Media, using texts by P. Schlesinger and H. Semetko.

Thu 7 Mar 2002, 3pm -- Internal seminar: discussion of perspectives on international & European civil society advanced by T.Risse/K.Sikkink and A.Warleigh.

Autumn 2002 sees a new seminar series running, provisionally based around the theme of 'Contesting Europe'. This will combine talks from external speakers with papers from researchers at EurPolCom. Details will be available on this page from late summer 2002.

For more details feel free to contact Julie Firmstone .

External activities of EurPolCom staff, 2002

16th January - Paul Statham. Lecture on 'British Race Relations Politics' at the Centre Americain de Sciences Po, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris, France.

21st/23rd Feb - Rosaria Puglisi and Paul Statham. 2nd Project Meeting for EUF5 project UNEMPOL, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

24th/27th Mar - Paul Statham. Paper on 'A Europeanisation of British NGOs in the Asylum Field?' International Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, USA.

12th/13th April - Julie Firmstone, Emily Gray, Paul Statham. 3rd Project Meeting for EUF5 project EUROPUB.COM, University of Barcelona, Spain.

2nd/4th May - Paul Statham. Panel Member of Forum Scholars for European Social Democracy on 'Migration, Multiculturalism and Civil Society', Berlin, Germany.

17 May - Paul Statham. Workshop on the Communitarianism of Migration, School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool.

4-9 Jun - Rosaria Puglisi. Paper on 'Clashing Agendas: Economic Liberalisation, Political Independence and Perspectives of Co-operation Between Russia and Ukraine, 1994-98', presented at the Association for the Study of Nationalities Special Convention, Forli', Italy.

26/30 Jun - Rosaria Puglisi, Paul Statham. 3rd Project Meeting for EUF5 project on the contentious politics of unemployment (UNEMPOL), University of Florence, Italy.

7/8 Jul - Julie Firmstone, Emily Gray, Paul Statham. 4th Project Meeting for EUF5 project EUROPUB.COM, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

8/19 Jul - Rosaria Puglisi. Course in social network analysis, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis And Collection.

21/26 Jul - Julie Firmstone. Panel for Journalism session, 23rd General Conference and General Assembly of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Barcelona.

2/4 Sep - Julie Firmstone. Paper on ''Britain in the Euro?' British newspaper editorial coverage of national interest in relation to EMU', at 'Understanding the Europeanisation of Public Policy', 32nd Annual Conference of the Public Administration Committee, Department of Politics, University of York.

4th September - Paul Statham. Lecture on 'Migration and Ethnic Relations: a Comparative Analysis' at the High Level Conference of the European Doctoral Programme in Migration Diversity and Identities, Ethnicity and Social Policy Research Unit, University of Bradford, UK.

6/7 Sep - Paul Statham. Keynote speaker at European Congress on 'Implementation of Gender Mainstreaming in Europe - a Challenge for Political Education', Bundeszentrale fuer politische Bildung, Leipzig.

26/28 Sep - Emily Gray. Paper on 'Single Currency, Divided Country? Political Mobilisation over EMU in the UK', at 1st Pan-European Conference on European Union Politics, ECPR Standing Group on the EU, University of Bordeaux.

10 Oct - Paul Statham. 'Social Exclusion, Activation and Welfare' conference organised by DG Research European Commission, with DG Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL). Albert Borschette Centre, Brussels.

16/18 Dec - Rosaria Puglisi. Paper on 'The Demographic Crisis and Ethno-nationalism in the Russian Federation', at the British International Studies Association Conference, London School of Economics.