All panels will take place at CEU downtown campus:

Popper Room (Monument Building)

Central European University

Nádor utca 9

Budapest, 1051 Hungary

 

For info on individual panels please look below summary table

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

15-Aug

16-Aug

17-Aug

8:45-9:00

Arrival / Registration

9:00-10:30

Panel V: Challenges of Integration

9:00-10:30

Panel VII: Building a Home, Building an Identity

9:00-9:30

Welcome address

10:30-11:00

coffee

10:30-11:00

coffee

9:30-11:00

Panel I: Securitization I: Speech Acts & Identity

11:00-12:30

Panel VI: Nationalism, the Rise of the Far Right, and the Role of Parties

11:00-12:30

Panel VIII: Looking beyond the European Union

11:00-11:30

coffee

12:30-13:30

lunch

12:30-13:30

lunch

11:30-13:00

Panel II: Securitization II: Biopolitics & Borders

13:30-20:00

Trip to Szentendre

13:30

Farewell

13:00-14:00

lunch

14:00-15:00

Welcome to CEU: Campus tour and information about our programs and scholarships

15:00-16:30

Panel III: EU Coherence & Migration Governance

16:30-17:00

coffee

17:00-18:30

Panel IV: Immigration & Labour

19:00-

Conference welcome reception in Japanese Garden

 

 

August 15

8:45-9:00              ARRIVAL & Registration at CEU

9:00-9:30              Welcome Words by Robert Sata and Jenna Althoff

9:30-11:00           Panel I: Securitization I: Speech Acts & Identity

  • Samuel Hyravý (Slovakia) – Who are “we”
  • Stevan Tatalovic (Serbia) – Securitization of Migration: European ban-opticon and the new border identity
  • Bahar Albayrak (Turkey) – Pursuing Ontological Security: A Critical Analysis on the Issue of Migration to Europe
  • Bienvenue Gracia Tiendrebeogo (Burkina Faso/Canada) – Refugee crisis: do we choose to fear or fight courageously against the sources of immigration?
  • Discussant: Dagmar Kusa, Professor, BISLA, Project: APVV-​15-0682 FIANS 

11:00-11:30         Coffee break

11:30-13:00         Panel II: Securitization II: Biopolitics & Borders

  • Margaret Kerry Gasser (USA) – National Security Risks Incited by the Refugee Crisis in Europe
  • Krisztina Borbála Zálnoky (Hungary) – Refugee crisis: Lack of interdependency in Europe
  • Lora Yordanova (Bulgaria) – Securitization of Borders and the need of a common policy
  • Discussant: Celine Cantat, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Center for Policy Studies 

13:00-14:00         Lunch (for conference participants)

14:00-15:00         Welcome to CEU: Campus tour and information about our programs and scholarships

15:00-16:30         Panel III: EU Coherence & Migration Governance

  • Anna Hornakova (Slovakia) – The Asylum Crisis in Europe: Designed Dysfunction
  • Barbara Kelemen (Slovakia) – Refugee crisis facing Europe vs. Europe facing refugee crisis
  • Inva Nela (Albania) – The Challenge of The Refugee Crisis And Its Consequences for the European Continent
  • Vesa Bashota (Kosovo) – The Refugee Crisis: A Turning Point for Europe
  • Discussant: Jenna Althoff, PhD Candidate

16:30-17:00         Coffee break

17:00-18:30         Panel IV: Immigration & Labour

  • Brittany Ebeling (USA) – Gracias a los Inmigrantes: The New Economics of Labor Migration and Human Rights at the Margins of Southern Spain
  • Jonas Goldman (USA) – A New Deal for Migrants
  • Francesco Tassi/Dante Goffredo (Italy) – Fulfilling Mutual Interest: European Civil Society Integration Capacity and the Redefinition of Indefinite Encampment
  • Discussant: Imre Szabo, PhD Candidate 

 19:00-         Conference Welcome Reception in the Japanese Garden

August 16

9:00-10:30           Panel V: Challenges of Integration

  • Charlotte Marie Kurz (Germany) – In what way do governments and voluntary organisations communicate with each other in terms of investing and operating integration programs for refugees with a focus on Germany and Sweden?
  • Iana Geidrovich (Russia) – Unexpected challenges of Europe
  • Pavol Fukatsch (Slovakia) – Towards a Common European migration policy
  • Jessica Topper (USA) – The Politics of Refugees: A Comparative Study on Receiving Syrian Immigrants from Conflict
  • Discussant: Magdalena Ulceluse, PhD Candidate 

10:30-11:00         Coffee break

11:00-12:30         Panel VI: Nationalism, the Rise of the Far Right, and the Role of Parties

  • Michael Nawrocki (Poland) – Cognitive Biases in Social Knowledge about the Migrants and the Refugee Crisis
  • Giorgi Chapizde (Georgia) – Refugee crisis and reawakening of nationalism across the European Union
  • Breandán Ó Conchúir (Ireland) – The Enemy at the Gates: the Migrant Crisis and the Re-Entrenchment of European Ideas of the Other
  • Selna Bilibashi (Albania) – Migration and the rise of the far right in Europe
  • Discussant: Martin Mölder, PhD Candidate 

12:30-13:30         Lunch

13:30-20:00         Boat trip to Szentendre

 

August 17

9:00-10:30           Panel VII: Building a Home, Building an Identity

  • Daniel Gardijan/Mateja Horvath (Croatia) – From Nearby vs. Faraway: Media Representation of Syrian Refugees in Croatia
  • Tomáš Badin (Slovakia) – Behavioural study of Greece’s refugee camps
  • Sara Abdel-Rahim (USA) – Egyptian immigrant Integration in Italian Society
  • Thomas Jackson (USA) – The European Refugee crisis: Can We change the Image?
  • Discussant: Felix Bender, PhD Candidate 

10:30-11:00         Coffee break

11:00-12:30         Panel VIII: Looking beyond the European Union

  • Biliana Popova (Bulgaria) – The Responsibility Towards the "Other" in Post Arab Spring Europe
  • Mónika Márton (Romania) – Turkey as a safe third country
  • Petr Pespišil (Czech Republic) – The Legal Imbroglio Explored: How can migrants enter the EU?
  • Zoe Beynon-MacKinnon (Canada) – Global Responsibilities to Regional Conflict: Analysis of the European Refugee Crisis
  • Guram Ptskialadze (Georgia) – Turkey`s role in Migrant crisis and its policy on the issue
  • Discussant: Magdalena Smieszek, PhD Candidate (confirmed)

 

Tabled presentations

  • Islam Ahmed (Egypt) – Migration and Security: In Search of Reconciliation [Poster Presentation – during lunch break?]
  • Roman Manukyan (Georgia) – Construction of Identity of refugees [Poster Presentation]
  • Bjorn Kamberi – The migration challenge to the European Community - Integration and Enlargment as possible strategies [Poster Presentation]