Conference on Europe

[J.M. Andrew]

Further to an earlier announcement, we are pleased to attach the programme
for a conference on European Identity to be held at Keele University
from 6-9 September.

Please contact me if you would like a booking form.



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 &
                    La Diligation Culturelle Frangaise

                                 Programme


Friday 6 September

11:00-1:00     Registration

1:00 Lunch

2:00 Opening Remarks

2:15 Opening Address: Nicole Questiaux (Conseil d'Etat): Why
     Europe?

3:15 Tea

3:45 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.   Edward Acton (UEA): Redefining Russia

5:45  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.   Margaret Canovan (Keele): Who are "WE"? Populists,
     Democrats & the People
2.   Max Silverman (Leeds): Beyond Individualism & Community
3.   Alexandra Ioannidou (Thessaloniki): Another Understanding
     of Diversity: Slavophones in Greek Macedonia
4.   B. de la Serna-Lopez (London): Europe ... the creation of
     a Nation? A Comparative Analysis of Nation-Building.

11:00 Coffee

11:30 Panel 3: Minority Rights in Europe: Integration &
Standardizing Mechanisms I: 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 4a: Minority Rights in Europe: Integration &
Standardizing Mechanisms II : Coordinator: Patrick Thornberry
(Keele)

3:30 Panel 4b: Nineteenth Century Identity & Culture
1.   Simon Dixon (Glasgow): The Russians & Eurasia, 1880-1930
2.   Robert Reid (Keele): Ethnotope & C19 Russian Literature
3.   Robert Hudson (Derby): Songs of Love & Hate: the Role of
     the Serbian Intelligentsia & Literature in Forging a
     Serbian Ethnic Identity

5:30 Reception in Students Bookshop

6:30 Dinner

8:00 Keynote Speaker: Hans-Joachim Veen (Director of the Social
Science Research Institute of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation):
European Identity & Culture

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

Sunday 8 September

8:00 Breakfast

9:00 Panel 5:  Media Issues

1.   Raymond Kuhn (QMWC): Towards a Single European Media
     Market?
2.   Pam Moores (Aston): The European 'Goal' and the Popular
     Press
3.   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.   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.   Gill Allwood (Nottingham Trent): Representations of
     Feminism in the 1990s: Feminism, Anti-Feminism and Post-
     Feminism
2.   Tom Scharf (Keele): Older Women in the New Germany: Victors
     or Victims of Unification?
3.   Murray Pratt (Warwick): Homosexuality and AIDS prevention
     in France.

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.   Elena Omelchenko (Moscow): The Concept of `zhestokost'
     [`cruelty'] in Post-Soviet Youth Culture
3.   Chris Warne (Keele): Transnational Affinities in a European
     Context: the Case of Contemporary French Youth Culture
4.   Steven Webber (Birmingham): Russia's Identity Crisis: Its
     Effects on the Schools & the Young

11:00 Coffee


11:30 Closing Address: Wolfgang Ullmann, MEP: Citizenship,
Identity & Democracy in Europe


12:30 Lunch & Close