The European Studies Council at The MacMillan Center at Yale University hosts the second annual international conference of the European Studies Graduate Fellows, “Europe Today: Challenges & Opportunities,” to take place virtually on April 16-17, 2021, at Yale University.
This conference will bring together graduate students from across disciplines - social sciences, history, humanities - to discuss the most pressing challenges facing Europe, Russia, and Eurasia today.
Register to Attend the virtual conference: http://bit.ly/EuropeToday_Conference
Day 1 of virtual conference | Friday, April 16 (all times in EDT)
9:00 AM | Welcome Remarks by Julia Adams, Professor of Sociology and International & Area Studies; Acting Chair of the European Studies Council (Yale University)
9:10 am | Panel I: Protest and Contentious Politics in Europe
Co-Chairs: Lisa Sophie Fenner, University of Cambridge & Jacqueline Georgis, Yale University
Yelyzaveta Monastyrova (University of Glasgow)
Gabriel Rosenman (École Normale Supérieure (ENS) and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) (Paris, France))
Abigail Skalka (Harvard University)
Discussant: Maria J. Hierro, Lecturer in Political Science (Yale University)
10:30 am | Panel II: The Thin Line Between Democracy and Authoritarianism: Europe 2020
Chair: Nadia Kalisiak, University of Cambridge
Anna Dobrawa Kicińska (University of Cambridge)
Carla Montigny (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies; and Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia))
Céleste Pagniello (University of Cambridge)
Discussant: Milan Svolik, Professor of Political Science, Yale University
12:00 PM | Keynote Address by Radosław Sikorski, Member of the European Parliament
Register to Attend Keynote Address: http://bit.ly/Keynote-RadosławSikorski
1:30 pm | Panel III: European Economic Recovery
Chair: Aniket Sangwan, University of Cambridge
Despoina Georgiou (University of Cambridge)
Dan Mocanu (University of Cambridge)
Discussant: David Cameron, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the EU Studies Program
3:00 pm | Panel IV: Europe and Global Governance
Chair: Ryan Nabil, Yale University; Sciences Po (Paris, France)
Ivana Damjanovic (Australian National University)
Ryan Nabil (Yale University; Sciences Po (Paris, France))
Pedro Schilling de Carvalho,( University of Cambridge; Harvard Law School)
Discussant: Richard Balme, Professor in Political Science (Sciences Po (Paris, France))
Day 2 of Virtual Conference | Saturday, April 17, 2021 (all times in EDT)
9:00 am | Panel V: EU and Great Power Diplomacy
Co-Chairs: Marc Ibáñez Díaz, Yale University & Jesslene Lee, National University of Singapore
Alessia Caputo (University at Albany, State University of New York; Bocconi University (Milan, Italy)) and Martina Spatuzzo (Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at the University at Albany; Bocconi University (Milan, Italy))
Claude Ewert (University of Cambridge)
Senni Mut-Tracy (University of Helsinki)
Discussant: Julio Guinea Bonillo, Professor (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid, Spain))
10:30 am | Panel VI: Buds of Research: New Directions in European Studies
Chair: Orel Beilinson, Yale University
Tamar Todria (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia))
First Year Yale European & Russian Studies MA Students: Mourad Boumlik, Giorgi Buzaladze, Peter Chen, Zachary Cho, Meagan Ford, Elijah Plyat, Ali Salmenbayev, and Casey Smith
12:30 pm | Panel VII: Eastern European Migration to Central Europe
Chair: Marguerite Bertheau, University of Cambridge
Daniel Gebel (Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE), Oldenburg (Germany))
Cristiana Lucchetti (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Fernando A. Remache Vinueza (University of Glasgow)
Discussant: Jannis Panagiotidis, Professor and Scientific Director of Research Center for the History of Transformations (University of Vienna)
2:00 pm | Panel VIII: Urban Sustainability and Governance in the North: Perspectives from Europe and Eurasia
Co-Chairs: Elena Adasheva-Klein, Yale University & Morgan Forde, University of Cambridge
Kelsey Jones (George Washington University)
Masha Monakhova (Arizona State University)
Elena Adasheva-Klein (Yale University)
Morgan Forde (University of Cambridge)
Discussant: Robert W. Orttung, Research Professor of International Affairs; Director of Research, Sustainable GW (George Washington University)