Who is European? Inclusion and Exclusion within and without Europe
13th Annual EU Studies Conference
April 13–14, 2023
European Union Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Center for European Studies, University of Florida
Department of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
All panels will take place in Room 306, Coble Hall. All events listed are free and open to the public.
Thursday, April 13
8:30 Breakfast and Opening Remarks
9:30—10:30 Panel 1 – Europe before the European Union
Chair: John Randolph, Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Fascism and the Project of European Unity in the Interwar Period"
Emanuel Rota, Associate Professor of French & Italian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Europeans Before Europe: The Idea of Europe in the Context of the EU"
Murad Gafarov, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Florida
Coffee Break
10:45—12:00 Panel 2 – Legal Perspective on European Identity
Chair: José Luis Gómez-Barroso, Professor, Department of Applied Economics and Economic History, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
Monica Eppinger, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Law, St. Louis University
"Independence in the European Union"
Francisco Pereira Coutinho, Associate Professor with Habilitation, NOVA School of Law, Portugal
Lunch
1:45—3:30 Panel 3 – Race and Europe
Panel co-organized with the International Forum for U.S. Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chair: Jane Desmond, Professor of Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Syrians in Germany: Challenges and Lessons for the Social Inclusion of Migrants in the 21st Century"
Günther Jikeli, Erna B. Rosenfeld Professor in Jewish Studies, Indiana University
"Before Osimhen: Notes on the Circulation of Blackface in Naples, Italy"
Vincenzo Bavaro, Associate Professor, U.S. Literature, University of Naples-L’Orientale
"Brown, Spanish and Catalonian? Questioning and Revindicating Inclusion in the Works of Rocio Quillahuaman and Miss Raisa"
Lucía Sánchez-Gilbert, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Coffee Break
3:45—5:00 Panel 4 – Round Table – War, Ukraine, and the EU: Responses and Observations
Chair: Emanuel Rota, Director of the European Union Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Tatyana Deryugina, Associate Professor of Finance and Shebik Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Markian Dobczansky, Associate Director, European Union Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Maureen Marshall, Associate Director, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Monika Stodolska, Professor, Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Friday, April 14
8:30 Breakfast
9:30–10:30 Panel 5 – Expanding the Idea of Europe
Chair: Colleen Murphy, Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Revisiting the First Enlargement to Understand Brexit"
Ilaria Poggiolini, Chair Professor of International History, Department of Humanities, University of Pavia, Italy
"Compromise, Complicity, and the Rule of Law: Negotiating European Belonging After the Cold War"
Jessica Greenberg, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Coffee Break
10:45—12:15 Panel 6 – Europe in the Global Order: Politics and Economics
Chair: Cynthia Buckley, Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Rethinking Europeanness through Political Economy"
Matteo Capasso, Marie Curie Global Fellow, University of Venice, Italy, and Columbia University
"Chinese and European Union Methods of Engagement in Global Affairs: Similarities and Differences"
Konstantinos Kourtikakis, Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"French Debt Discipline: The Track Record of the 21st Century"
David Cleeton, Professor, Department of Economics, Illinois State University
Lunch
1:45—3:15 Panel 7 – Political Challenges and Opportunities of EU Enlargement
Chair: Markian Dobczansky, Associate Director, European Union Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Integration into and within the European Union — What the Already Europeans Thought and Think"
José Luis Gómez Barroso, Professor, Department of Applied Economics and Economic History, National Distance Education University, Spain
"Europe versus the European Union in Euroskeptic Discourse"
Lauren Seitz, Ph.D. student, Department of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Democracy in Eastern Europe: Threats and Opportunities for the European Union"
Sorin Nastasia, Associate Professor of Public Relations, Department of Applied Communications Studies, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Saturday, April 15 – EU Day of Art 2023
Lincoln Square Mall, 201 Lincoln Square, Urbana, IL
Illinois Flamenco-Jazz Collective, La Fuerza Flamenca, and special guest artist David Chiriboga
Flamenco Dance Workshop
2:00 pm
Flamenco-Jazz Music and Dance Performance
3:00 pm
The EU Center invites all conference participants and attendees to this free flamenco jazz event!