9.00-9.20 Coffee
9.20 Opening and welcome: Johanna Rainio-Niemi/Johanna Kantola
9.30-10.30 Keynote:
10.45-11.45 Plenary panel: Critical perspectives to current EU politics and law
11.45-12.45 Lunch (self-financed and self-catered)
12.45 – 14.00 Parallel panels I
14.00-14.30 Coffee
14.30-15.45 Parallel panels II
16.00-17.15 Plenary panel: The European Union Responding to Power Politics
17.15 Join us for drinks in Thirsty scholar (own expense)
Catherine E. de Vries is Vice Dean and Professor of Political Science at the School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs (SPEGA) at IE University in Madrid. Previously, she held professorships at Bocconi University, Oxford University, Free University (VU) Amsterdam and visiting posts at UCLA.
De Vries is a leading scholar and voice in the field of European politics. She has published important and widely read books about the complexities of democratic politics and political economy, focusing on themes like populism, public service provision, political corruption and migration. Her keynote is based on her forthcoming Oxford University Press monograph on the challenges and future of European integration.
Chair: Juha Jokela (Finnish Institute of International Affairs)
Johanna Kantola (University of Helsinki): The European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen: Gender, Leadership, Policies, and Crises
Päivi Leino-Sandberg (University of Helsinki): European Integration in the Constitutional Borderlands: Why is critical scholarship needed more than ever
Annastiina Kallius (University of Helsinki): Far-Right Integration Against All Odds: The European Legacy of the Orbán Era
Chair: Minna van Gerven (University of Helsinki)
Salla Mikkonen (University of Eastern Finland): Everyday practices of representation and accountability: Mystery of spokespersons and symbolic power in transnational EU lobbying
Laura Nordström (University of Helsinki): Big Tech Lobbying in Germany
Katri Havu (University of Helsinki): Suing the Union: Damages Liability as a Tool of Contestation in Climate and Migration Governance
Iiris Annala (University of Helsinki): How do social security statistics govern the European Union mobility regime Statistics as instruments for learning and visibility
Chair: Johanna Rainio-Niemi (University of Helsinki)
Kaius Tuori (University of Helsinki): How did Europe and Rights Talk Unite? The uses of the past in histories of European human rights law
Ilana Hartikainen (University of Helsinki): The story behind the system: A mnemonic and semiotic approach to democracy and the threats facing it
William King (HCAS, University of Helsinki): Alternative Paths: Petitioning the European Parliament, 1975-94
Chair: Päivi Leino-Sandberg (University of Helsinki)
Juha Kilponen & Jarmo Kontulainen (Bank of Finland): From a single currency to a union of states?
Antti Ronkainen (University of Helsinki): Agriculture, competitiveness and the re-allocation of EU financing in the new multiannual financial framework
Simon Fleckenstein (University of Freiburg): The EU as a Green Normative Power? Unpacking Dynamics of Norm Diffusion in Forest Biodiversity Politics
Jussi Jaakkola (University of Turku): European emancipation entrapped? How the basic contradictions of democratic capitalism re-emerge in EU fiscal integration
Chair: Annastiina Kallius (University of Helsinki)
Szilvia Howart (University of Helsinki): The rise of the Tisza Party in Hungary: Challenging the illiberal social contract and constructing an alternative discourse
Valentine Berthet, Matti Pihlajamaa and Johanna Kantola (University of Helsinki): Towards Intersectional Democratic Futures? Constructing Democracy and Feminism in the EU in Times of Anti-Gender Politics
Alexander Alekseev (University of Helsinki): Together—against the EU? Exploring the Transnational New Right through International Conferences
Olena Siden (University of Helsinki): Rearticulating Europe from the Right: French Sovereigntism, Europeanness, and the Russo-Ukrainian War
Chairs: Tyyne Karjalainen & Tuomas Iso-Markku (Finnish Institute of International Affairs)
Manuel Müller: Not a good time for universal values? EU purpose narratives and their implications for foreign and enlargement policy
Marco Siddi & Federica Prandin (Finnish Institute of International Affairs): Changing EU institutional discourses on the Green Deal: An Analysis of the second Von der Leyen Commission
Saila Heinikoski (Finnish Institute of International Affairs): Migration as part of the EU’s external relations: conditionality and externalisation as migration diplomacy tools
Hanna Tuominen (University of Helsinki): Nordic approaches to the EU as a global actor
Chair: Sami Koskelainen (University of Helsinki)
Tuomas Häkli (Jamk University of Applied Sciences): European Union sport policy: between hard law and soft policies
Sami Koskelainen (University of Helsinki): Integrating into a rigged but redistributive union? European football’s structures and regulations from a Finnish perspective
Joel Hakkarainen (University of Helsinki): Constructing ‘Modern Hooliganism’ in Finland: Media Representations of Football-Related Disorder
Chair: Ville Erkkilä (University of Helsinki)
Joonas Timonen (University of Helsinki): Between representation and manipulation: Far-right challenges to the state-society relationship in Finland
Minna-Kerttu Kekki (University of Helsinki): Law versus morality in Soviet Estonia
Ville Erkkilä (University of Helsinki): Rural Rights and Political Change: The Reorganization of Property Relations in East Central Europe after the Second World War
Emmi Kujanpää (University of Helsinki): From a National Symbol to Transnational Artivism: Contemporary Bulgarian Folk Singing and Gendered Forms of Agency
Chairs: Lina Klymenko & Kolar Aparna (University of Helsinki)
Kolar Aparna (University of Helsinki): Politics and Place of Ethnography from europes in margins
Kristina Jacobsen (University of Helsinki): Sing Me Back Home: Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics
Tiina Seppälä (University of Helsinki): Feminist Ethnography and Decolonial Solidarity
Cherry Miller (University of Helsinki): Gendering the Analysis of Inter-Parliamentary Activities: Video Analysis from the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly
Lina Klymenko (University of Helsinki): Ethnography in International Relations and Foreign Policy Research
Chairs: Tyyne Karjalainen & Tuomas Iso-Markku (Finnish Institute of International Affairs)
Katariina Mustasilta (Finnish Institute of International Affairs): Shifting fundamentals: What follows the liberal peacebuilding paradigm for the EU as a peace actor?
Tomi Kristeri (Finnish Institute of International Affairs): Balancing Against Weaponized Interdependence: Understanding the EU’s Geoeconomic Power
Sanna Salo & Juha Jokela (Finnish Institute of International Affairs): Whose norms? Enlargement policy and contestation on democratic norms in the European Union
Tyyne Karjalainen & Marco Siddi (Finnish Institute of International Affairs): From role change to policy change: EU member states and change in EU foreign policy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine