THE EUROTRAIL

RE-THINKING REALITIES

Europe as an Agora of Interactions

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Programme                              

Day of debates, November 29, 2011                                                 

European Parliament, Brussels                                              


Event organized in collaboration with Bogusław Sonik, member of the European Parliament (EPP)


9.00 - Introductory speeches

- Bogusław Sonik, Member of the European Parliament ( EPP)
- Doris Pack, Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education, European Parliament
- Gabriel Fragnière, President of the Europe of Cultures Forum

9.30 - Round Table I – Citizenship, Urbanity, Democracy
- with Floya Anthias - Professor of Sociology and Social Justice, Roehampton University
           "Diversity and integration discourses and practices: the issue of social solidarity"
- Robert Manchin - Managing Director of The Gallup Organisation Europe, Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges
           "How the general crisis is affecting European Identity"
- Siep Stuurman - Professor of the History of Ideas at the Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University
           "Re-inventing Equality in Twenty-First Century Europe"

Convenors: Eric Corijn - Professor Urban Studies V.U.Brussels, and Jody Jensen - Director, International Relations, ISES, Köszeg

10.45 - Coffee break

11.00 - General discussion - Moderator : Steve Austen, Permanent Fellow Felix Meritis Foundation, Amsterdam

12.30 - Lunch Time

14.15 - Round table II – Citizenship, Interculturality, Cosmopolitism

- with Gerard Delanty - Sociologist and Political Theorist, Sussex University
          “From Integration to Interaction:  A Cosmopolitan Approach to the Idea of Europe”
- Włodzimierz Staniewski – Director of the Centre for Theater Practices, Gardzienice - Lublin
       “Setting the stage for an Interactive Europe: theatre practice’s as symbolic interaction in new natural environments for culture”
- Igor Štiks - Writer and Researcher, University of Edinburgh
          "Citizens' rebellion: towards a radical democracy in Europe?"

Convenors: Yolanda Onghena - Senior Researcher Cidob Barcelona, and Rik Pinxten - Anthropologist, UGent

15.30 - Coffee break

16.00 - General discussion - Moderator : Steve Austen

17.30 - Reflections for the future by Ferenc Miszlivetz - Professor Jean Monnet/Director of a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, ISES, Köszeg

18.30-20.00 - Excerpts of films and Comments with the participation of
An van.Dienderen - filmmaker, Margot Vingerhoedt -production/projects assistant, and Ine Pisters - CICI/UGent

                        Followed by Cocktail


Debates in English - Film Comments and reception: Yehudi Menuhin Space

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