The European Union and State Building: Lessons For And From The Balkans
Friday, May 8th, 2009
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, May 8, 2009 | 9:30AM - 6:00PM | The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, 'Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place |
Description
Friday, May 8
9:30 AM
Welcome Remarks
Randall Hansen, Acting Director, Institute of European Studies, University of Toronto
Andrew Gilbert (University of Toronto)
10:00 AM -12:00 noon
Panel 1 Exploring the Contradictions of EU State-Building
Florian Bieber (University of Kent)
Building Conditional States: The EU as a State-Builder in the Western Balkans
David Chandler (University of Westminster)
The EU and State-Building in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Discussant: Kristof Bender (European Stability Initiative)
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Lunch break
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Panel 2 The Power of Categories and the Politics of Classification I
Keith Brown (Brown University)
The Politics of Counter-Centralization in the former Yugoslavia
Andrew Graan (University of Chicago)
The Politics of Carrots and Sticks: “International Community” Publicity in Post-Conflict Macedonia
Discussant: Robert Austin (University of Toronto)
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM
Coffee Break
3:45 PM – 5:45 PM
Panel 3 Participatory Paradigms, Political Culture, and State-Society Relations in the EU State-Building Encounter
Paula Pickering (College of William and Mary)
Comparing the EU Model of State-Building to Other Models: The Case of Local Democratic Governance in the Western Balkans
Larissa Vetters (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Doing Democracy the Bosnian Way: Mostar’s Local Community Offices as a Site of Circulating Ideologies and Practices of Local Participatory Democracy
Discussant: Zsuzsa Csergo (Queen’s University)
Saturday, May 9
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Panel 4 The Power of Categories and the Politics of Classification II
Jessica Greenberg (Northwestern University)
Serbia versus Transition: The Impact of “Europe” on Serbian Political Practice and Discourse
Andrew Gilbert (University of Toronto)
Foreign Authority, Europeanization, and the Politics of Impartiality in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
Discussant: Kimberly Coles (University of Redlands)
11:30 AM Concluding Remarks
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