25 May 2023, Thursday
9.00-10.30 (Language Center Festive Hall): Opening of the Conference and the first keynote session: Challenges to European democracy and integration
- Chair: Johanna Kantola (University of Helsinki)
- Natasha Wunsch (University of Fribourg): “European integration in the shadow of democratic backsliding”
- Elżbieta Korolczuk (Södertörn University & University of Warsaw): “Right-wing populism and (anti)gender politics in Europe”
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Plenary panel 1 (Language Center Festive Hall): Critical perspectives on the informal in parliamentary politics
- Chair: Johanna Kantola (University of Helsinki)
- Jennifer Piscopo (Occidental College): “Gender and Informal Networks: Lessons from Women’s Strategies for Power and Change in the Americas”
- Georgina Waylen (University of Manchester): "Analysing Legislatures using a Feminist institutionalist lens: what insights can the European Parliament offer?"
- Laura Landorff (Lund University): “Intergroups in the European Parliament: Exclusive Arenas for Informal Civil Society Deliberation?”
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00 Parallel panels
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30- 17.00 Plenary panel 2 (Language Center Festive Hall): Governance and knowledge for equality and democracy
- Chair: Barbara Gaweda (University of Helsinki)
- Ben Crum (VU Amsterdam): “Democratizing Economic Governance in the European Union”
- Stefanie Wöhl (University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna): “Gendered International Political Economy Perspectives on Economic Governance in the European Union – Taking Social Reproduction serious”
- Paul Copeland (Queen Mary University of London): “A step-change in EU anti-poverty policy? Evaluating recent developments”
- Anna Elomäki (Tampere University): “Transformative or ambiguous actor? Where does the European Parliament stand in terms of EU socio-economic governance”
17-18.30 Parallel panels
19.00-21.30 Conference reception Banquet room, Unioninkatu 33
26 May 2023, Friday
9.30-11 Second keynote session (Language Center Festive Hall): European Parliament in turbulent times
- Chair: Anna Elomäki (Tampere University)
- Nathalie Brack (UL Brussels): “The challenge of the Populist Radical Right in the European Parliament”
- Johanna Kantola (University of Helsinki): “Gender, power, and democracy in European Parliament's political groups”
11-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13 Plenary panel 3 (Language Center Festive Hall): Parliamentary and legislative ethnography: Gender, democracy, and practice
- Chair: Petra Ahrens (Tampere University)
- Nadia Brown (Georgetown University): “Doing Ethnographic Research as a Black Woman on Black Women Political Elites”
- Jonathan Chibois (Laboratory of Political Anthropology, EHESS, CNRS): "Doing fieldwork in centres of power: the case of deliberative assemblies"
- Cherry Miller (University of Glasgow): “From Westminster to Brussels: Putting the ‘Parliament’ in Parliamentary Ethnography”
- Sandrine Roginsky (Catholic University Louvain): “A decade of ethnography of the European Parliament: an evolution in the forms of legitimacy construction?”
13-14 Lunch
14 - 15.30 Plenary panel 4 (Language Center Festive Hall): Equality policies in the European Union
- Chair: Valentine Berthet (University of Helsinki)
- Iyiola Solanke (University of Leeds): “Protection from Intersectional Discrimination in EU Law - time for effective action?”
- Petra Ahrens (Tampere University): “Gender mainstreaming in the EU policy framework and strategies in the European Parliament”
- Amandine Le Bellec (Sciences Po Paris): “Shifting equality policies from the margins. The Common European Asylum System and the making of LGBTI rights in the EU''
- Serena D’Agostino (VU Brussels): “Intersectionality Mainstreaming in EU Equality Policies: Reflections on the Promises and Perils of a Novel Approach”
15.30-16 Coffee break
16-17.30 Parallel panels