Conference Programme

CERC Postgraduate Conference 2006

Europe: New Voices, New Perspectives

Friday 8th December 2006

to be held at

CONTEMPORARY EUROPE RESEARCH CENTRE
Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence
The University of Melbourne
Level 2, 234 Queensberry St, Carlton

Program pdf version (as at 3 Dec)

Abstracts and Bios (pdf version)

Friday 8th December 2006.

9.15 – 9.45 REGISTRATION
Level 2, Grand Foyer, 234 Queensberry Street

9.45 – 10.00 WELCOME
A/Prof Philomena Murray (CERC, The University of Melbourne)

10.00 – 11.00 SESSION 1: Us and Them - Emotional Issues, Extremist Views and Identity Politics

Chair: Dr Stefan Auer (La Trobe University)

Kiran Grewal (University of Technology, Sydney)
Representations of the Banliue in French Popular Discourse

Julie Thorpe (University of Adelaide)
Austrofascism and Pan-Germanism in Interwar Austria: Towards a Process-Oriented Approach to Fascism and Nationalism in East-Central Europe

11.00 - 11.30 MORNING TEA BREAK

11.30 – 12.30 SESSION 2: Continuity and Disruption: Literary Insights into the "European" Experience

Chair: A/Prof Judith Armstrong (The University Melbourne)

Anna Dimitriou (Deakin University)
Diasporic Greek-Australian Writing Deconstructed: Challenging Europe

Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya (The University of New South Wales)
Some Characteristic Features of the Contemporary Russian Literary Process

12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH BREAK


13.30 – 15.00 SESSION 3: Law, Belonging and Protection in the EU

Chair: Dr Michael Longo (Victoria University)

Maria Randazzo (The University of Sydney)
The Jurisprudential Syncretism of European Courts for the Protection of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms in the EU’s Legal Order

Madeleine Byrne (The University of Melbourne)
Mechanisms of Control: Asylum Policy in Poland, Slovakia and the EU "Buffer Zone"

Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi (The University of Melbourne)
Media and Identity in Europe: The Perspective from Poland

15.00 – 15.30 AFTERNOON TEA BREAK

15.30 – 17.00 SESSION 4: Security in Europe: New Threats and Perspectives

Chair: Annabel Anderson (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade/ DFAT)

Margherita Matera (The University of Melbourne)
How the European Union Is Strengthening its Global Role through the ESDP

Cara Garnaut (The University of South Australia)
Uniting Europe: The Role of Non-Military Threats in European Union Enlargement

Nicholas Manganas (University of Technology, Sydney)
Narratives of Terror in Spain since 9/11: Histories and Discontinuities

17.00-19.00 CESAA ESSAY PRIZE & RECEPTION
Level 2, Grand Foyer, 234 Queensberry Street

On behalf of the Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia (CESAA), Dr Matthew Harvey will award the winners of the annual 2006 Europe Essay Competition.

CERC’s National Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference 2006 on “Europe: New Voices, New Perspectives” is part of the programme of University's Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence activities supported by the European Commission.
The organisers of the conference would also like to thank the Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia (CESAA) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) for their support of this event.