The European Science Foundation will fund 10 PhD students from contemporary
history, political science/International Relations, sociology and social
science-informed law to participate in an ESF Exploratory Workshop on
Transnationalism in the European Union to take place at the University of
Portsmouth in England from 20-22 June 2003. The workshop bursary will cover APEX
flight, accommodation and subsistence at Portsmouth. PhD students from Southern
Europe and East-Central European applicant states are especially encouraged to
apply.
The workshop bursaries will be allocated on a competitive basis. Interested PhD
students should send a short e-mail explaining their interest in attending the
workshop, together with (as attachments in Word for Windows) a) a short CV (1
page) and b) short description of their PhD project (1 page, including subject
area and supervisor) to
Wolfram.Kaiser@port.ac.uk (copied to
Peter.Starie@port.ac.uk) by 15
March 2003. The successful applicants will be informed by 20 March 2003 and will
then receive further instructions.
Draft Workshop Programme
Friday, 20 June 2003
14.30-15.00 Introduction
Wolfram Kaiser and Peter Starie (Portsmouth)
15.00-15.30 Transnationalism in Western Europe after 1945
Wolfram Kaiser (Portsmouth)
15.30-16.00 Transnational Co-operation of Trade Unions in the EC 1958-1972
Patrick Pasture (Leuven)
16.00-16.45 Discussion
16.45-17.15 Coffee Break
17.15-17.45 Transnational Networks in the European Union
Peter Starie (Portsmouth)
17.45-18.15 Christian Democrat and Conservative Party Networks in Europe
Karl Magnus Johannson (Stockholm)
18.15-19.00 Discussion
20.00 Dinner for ESF-funded participants
Saturday, 21 June 2003
09.00-09.30 Class and Power in European Transnational Economic Relations
Bastiaan Apeldoorn (Amsterdam)
09.30-10.00 The Eurogroup as a Generator of Informal Resources:
Transnational Economic and Monetary Policy-Making
Uwe Pütter (Belfast)
10.00-10.45 Discussion
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-11.45 European Public Space, Socialisation and Social Learning
Frank Schimmelfennig (Mannheim)
11.45-12.15 Party Foundations, Social Learning and the Europeanisation of
Spain and Eastern Europe
Peter Zervakis (Bonn)
12.15-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.30 Buffet Lunch
14.30-15.00 Transnational Legal Governance in the EU: Problems and
Perspectives
Antje Wiener / Guido Schwellnus (Belfast)
15.00-15.30 Transnational Police Cooperation in Europe
Monica den Boer (Brussels)
15.30-16.15 Discussion
16.15-16.30 Conclusion and end of conference
17.00-18.30 Discussion of future collaboration (paper-givers only)
