Conference program

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

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]