Workshop on contemporary issues in European Regionalism

On May 30, a workshop "Regionalisms at Europe's Margins: Ruptures, Sutures, Representations" takes place at the University of Tartu. The workshop focuses on the discussion of border regions and border issues in today's Europe and the explanations regionalist approaches could provide. The event is co-organised by the UT Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies and Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.

Programme:

Regionalisms at Europe's Margins:
Ruptures, Sutures, Representations

May 30, 2016
University of Tartu, Lossi 36-305

10.00 Welcome

10.15 – 12.00 Session 1: Suturing the Ruptures: Seams and Stitches in the Baltic Sea Region
Book presentation and project conclusions

Chair: Andrey Makarychev (University of Tartu)

Panelists:
Thomas Linsenmaier (University of Tartu)
Kjetil Duvold (Dalarna University)
Alexandra Yatsyk (University of Uppsala)

Discussants: Heiko Pääbo, Vassilis Petsinis and Olaf Mertelsmann (University of Tartu)

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.15-14.30 Session 2: Mobilities and Borders in the South Caucasus
Chair and discussant: Stefano Braghiroli (University of Tartu)

Panelists:
Tomas Hoch (University of Ostrava)
Gevorg Avetikyan (European University, St Petersburg)
Andrey Makarychev

14.30-15.00 Coffee break

15.00-17.00 Session 3: Far-Right Parties and the Refugee Crisis: Regionalist Optics
Chair: Thomas Linsenmaier

Panelists:
Marja Vuorinen (University of Helsinki)
Olga Gulina (Institute of Migration Policy, Berlin)
Aliaksei Kazharski (Comenius University, Bratislava)
Peter Balogh (Södertorns University)
Stefano Braghiroli
Florian Hartleb (Tallinn)
Vassilis Petsinis

Commentator: Kjetil Duvold

17.15-18.00 Session 4: Regionalism and Federalism: Subnational Dimensions

Vadim Shtepa (Tallinn)
Andrey Makarychev
Alexandra Yatsyk

18.00 Sketching the lines for further research

For more information, please contact the workshop organiser, Professor Andrey Makarychev, [email protected].