Why Europe Conference

[J.M. Andrew]

Further to preliminary announcements a couple of months ago, we are pleased
to enclose the more or less definitive programme for our Why Europe
Conference.

The booking form is now available and is available from:
Joe Andrew (mla08 at cc.keele.ac.uk)


        WHY EUROPE?

        PROBLEMS OF CULTURE & IDENTITY

        An International Conference to be held
        at Keele University, UK
        6 September - 9 September 1996

        Organised in cooperation with the Goethe Institut

        Programme


Friday 6 September


11:00-1:00      Registration

1:00    Lunch

2:00    Opening Remarks

2:15    Opening Adress: Nicole Questiaux (Conseil d'Etat)

3:00 Panel 1:   A Europe of Nations

1.      Chris Brewin (Keele): European Identity
2.      Brian Jenkins (Portsmouth): France & Europe: A Crisis of National
Identity?
3.      Jolyon Howorth (Bath): Being & Doing in Europe since 1947:
Contrasting Dichotomies of Identity & Efficiency

4:00    Tea

4:30    Panel 1 (continued)

4.      Jude Bloomfield (London): TBA
5.      Edward Acton (UEA): Redefining Russia

6:00     Official Opening Reception: Mike Tappin, MEP

7:00    Dinner

8:15    Keynote Speech: Bill Cash, MP

9:00 Film: Grosse Fatigue (dir. Michel Blanc)

Saturday 7 September
8:00 Breakfast

9:00    Panel 2: Ideas of Community & Citizenship

1.      Paul Hirst (Birkbeck): Citizens of Europe
2.      Margaret Canovan (Keele): Rethinking Nationhood
3.      Max Silverman (Leeds): Beyond Individualism & Community
4.      Alexandra Ioannidou (Thessaloniki): Another Understanding of
Diversity: Slavophones in Greek Macedonia
11:00 Coffee

11:30 Panel 3: Minority Rights in Europe: Integration & Standardizing
Mechanisms: Coordinator: Patrick Thornberry (Keele)
Papers will be given by representatives of The European Commission, UN Human
Rights Centre, The Council of Europe, & Minority Rights Group

1:30    Lunch

2:30    Keynote Speaker: Robert Picht (College of Europe, Bruges): Cultural
Understanding in Europe & European Culture

3:30 Panel 4: Nineteenth Century Identity & Culture

1.      Martina Lauster (Keele): From Cultural Nation to Political
Civilization: The Revision of the Anti-Western Concept of German Nationhood
between 1830 & 1848
2.      Simon Dixon (Glasgow): The Russians & Eurasia, 1880-1930
3.      Robert Reid (Keele): Ethnotope & C19 Russian Literature
4.      Robert Hudson (Derby): Songs of Love & Hate: the Role of the Serbian
Intelligentsia & Literature in Forging a Serbian Ethnic Identity

5:30    Reception in Bookshop

6:30 Dinner

8:00 Keynote Speaker: Wolfgang Ullmann, MEP

9:00    Film: La vie sexuelle des belges (dir. Jan Bucquoy)

Sunday 8 September

8:00 Breakfast

9:00 Panel 5:   Media Issues

1.      Christophe Texier (Aston): Television as a Vehicle for Cementing
European Identity.  The Case of the Transnational Channel ARTE
2.      Raymond Kuhn (QMWC): Towards a Single European Media Market?
3.      Susan Hayward (Birmingham): Women in the TV Media - France & Britain
4.      Peter Humphreys (Manchester): Regulating for Media Pluralism: the
Challenge facing Europe

11:00 Coffee

11:30 Panel 6:  Film
1.      Alison Smith (Keele): Hitmen, Hate & Grosse Fatigue: the Search for
the French Blockbuster
2.      Keith Reader (Newcastle): Nation - What Nation? (On Belgian Film)
3.      Chris Wagstaff (Reading): Italian Film
4.      Graham Roberts (Strathclyde): Double Lives: Europe & Identity in the
Later Films of Krzysztof Kie lowski

1:30    Lunch

2:30 Panel 7:   Gender & Identity

1.      Susan Bassnett (Warwick): Mapping Gender & Identity
2.      Claire Duchen (Sussex): Sisters under the Skin? Is there such a
thing as International Feminism?
3.      Murray Pratt (Warwick): Determining, Mobilising & Disrupting
Cultural Identity: Public & Published Discourses of AIDS in France &
Britain.

4:00    Tea

4:30 Panel 8:   Women in Contemporary European Societies

1.      Eva Kolinsky (Keele): Women in Germany
2.      Rosalind Marsh (Bath): Women in Russia & the Former Soviet Union
3.      Anna Bull (Bath): Class, Gender & Voting in Italy

6:30 Grand Dinner

8:15 Concert: The Bedford Singers, Songs from Europe


Monday 9 September


8:00 Breakfast


9:00 Panel 9:   Youth & Education

1.      David Coulby (Bath): Education for the New Europe
2.      Hilary Pilkington (Birmingham): Youth Cultural Identities in
Post-Soviet Russia
3.      Elena Omelchenko (Moscow): The Concept of  hestokost' [ ruelty'] in
Post-Soviet Youth Culyure
4.      Chris Warne (Keele): Transnational Affinities in a European Context:
the Case of Contemporary French Youth Culture


11:00 Coffee


11:30 Closing Address: (EK) Hans-Joachim Veen (Director of the Social
Science Research Institute of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation): European
Identity & Culture


12:30 Lunch & Close