EISA Young Researchers’ Workshops

22 September 2015

Department of Political and Social Sciences, Aula 21 Marzo - Second Floor Via Vittorio Emanuele II, 49 - Catania

Programme

H. 8:45 - Welcome and introductory remarks

Stefania Panebianco, University of Catania

Tanja Alberts, EISA Secretary, VU University Amsterdam

Zlatko Šabič, YRW Director, Ljubljana University

YRW on: The European Union in Multilateral Negotiations (EISA co-funded workshop) Aula 21 Marzo- Second Floor 9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks by Lisanne Groen and Iulian Romanyshyn

9:15-10:45 Session I: Multilateralism, diplomacy and EU delegations

One mandate, many voices? The European Union’s varying success

at multilateral conferences, Philipp Schroeder and Stefan

Jagdhuber

Actors in their own right? On the representational function of the

EU Delegations in the multilateral negotiation context, Sanderijn

Duquet

The conduct of EU diplomacy post-Lisbon in Eastern Europe: a

case of EU multilateralism in action?, Dorina Baltag

YRW on: (Re)Constructing Violence: Norms, Knowledge and International Legal Discourse (EISA co-funded workshop) Meeting Room -First Floor 9:00-9:45 Opening Remarks by Maj Grasten and Filipe dos Reis

Keynote: ‘Reconstructive Methodology and the Politics of

International Law’ by Oliver Kessler

9:45-11:15 Roundtable I: The Historicity of Law, Regulation and Violence

The “Expansion” of International Law and Society and the

(Re)Ordering of Violence in the Middle East, Janis Grzybowski

Decolonial Reading of the Constructions of ‘Violence’, Zeynep

Gülşah Çapan

Violating Regulation or Regulatory Violence: How the Increasing

Complexity of Financial Regulation Makes You Suffer, Benjamin

Discussant: Robert Kissack

10:45-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Session II: EU performance in multilateral peace and security

negotiations

The EU in multilateral negotiations of the Non-Proliferation

Treaty review cycles: Shaping the Process or Outcome? Iulian

Romanyshyn

The E3 initiative toward Iran: a study of EU informal groups in

action, Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi

Discussant: Rosa Rossi

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Session III: The EU’s role and influence in multilateral

environment and trade talks

The European Union’s effectiveness as a negotiator in the

Convention on Biological Diversity over time, Lisanne Groen

EU performance in the United Nations Forum on Forests, Pauline

Pirlot

The European Union in the WTO Doha Round Negotiations

2001- 2015, Eva Mareike Schmitt

Discussant: Jamal Shahin

15:30-15:45 Coffee break

15:45-17:00 Session IV: EU actorness and coordination in the Gx

The relevance of internal EU coordination for the EU’s

Wilhelm

Discussant: Tanja Aalberts

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Roundtable II: The Construction of Order and Violence

Killing Individual Human Beings: Drones and Targeted Killings,

Sassan Gholiagha

Radical Uncertainty: The Return of the Sovereign? Nina Boy

The Lure of Law: On the Violence of International Law and Its

Political Semantics, Maj Grasten

Discussant: Oliver Kessler

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:45 Roundtable III: Contestedness and Knowledge

Taming the State? Responsibility to Protect, International

Criminal Law and the Politics of Humanity, Filipe dos Reis

The State of Financial Exception: The Symbolic Violence of

Permanent Crisis Management of Financial Security, Timo Walter

“Call Me Again If You’re Ever Ready to Begin Answering the

Questions”: On the Construction of Authority in the Cyberwar

Debate, Lianne Boer

Financializing the Bundesländer: Marketizing Neoliberalism or

Bolstering the German Model? Matthieu Hughes

Discussant: Anna Leander

participation in the Gx (G7, G8, G20), Peter Debaere

Redefining European Union actorness in the G8 summit: a

practice turn, Judith Huigens

Discussant: Jamal Shahin (1 paper) and Robert Kissack (1 paper)

17:00-17:15 Concluding remarks by Lisanne Groen and Iulian Romanyshyn

Participants

Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, King’s College London

Dorina Baltag, Loughborough Univerisity

Peter Debaere, Ghent University

Sanderijn Duquet, University of Leuven

Lisanne Groen (co-organiser), Institute for European Studies, Vrije

Universiteit Brussel

Judith Huigens, University of Amsterdam

Pauline Pirlot, Université Catholique de Louvain

Iulian Romanyshyn (co-organiser), IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca

Eva Mareike Schmitt, Justus Liebig University Giessen

Philipp Schroeder and Stefan Jagdhuber, Ludwig Maximilians University

Munich

Discussants

Jamal Shahin, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Robert Kissack, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals

Rosa Rossi, University of Catania

15:45-16:00 Concluding Remarks – Discussion on Follow-Up

Participants

Lianne Boer, VU University Amsterdam

Nina Boy, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

Zeynep Gülşah Çapan, European Union Institute, Marmara University

Filipe dos Reis, University of Erfurt

Sassan Gholiagha, Centre for Globalisation and Governance, Hamburg

University

Maj Grasten, Copenhagen Business School

Janis Grzybowski, University of Helsinki

Matthieu Hughes, University of Sussex, University of Erfurt

Timo Walter, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies,

Geneva

Benjamin Wilhelm, University of Erfurt

Discussants

Tanja Aalberts, Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law, VU University

Amsterdam

Oliver Kessler, Chair for International Relations, University of Erfurt

Anna Leander, Dept. of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen

Business School

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YRW on: IR’s feelings – Exploring avenues for theorizing the processes that render emotions political (Workshop without EISA co-funding) Sala Microfilm- First Floor 09:00-09:45 Opening remarks by Katharina Höne and introduction

09:45-11:30 Session I: Interpersonal relations and group processes

Telling them how they should feel: emotional framing in Islamist

groups ́discourses, Maéva Clément

Friendship in world politics: assessing the personal relationships

between Kohl and Mitterrand, and Bush and Gorbachev, Yuri Van

Hoef

11:30-11:45 Coffee Break

11:45-13:30 Session II: Utilizing, arousing, manipulating and negotiating

emotions

Theme park strategies and tourist choreographies at wartime

heritage sites: sense ¦ affect ¦ consumption, Audrey Reeves

Critically exploring empathic stories in IR, Katharina E. Höne

Talking about violence: negotiating emotions during fieldwork,

Sorana Jude

13:30-14:45 Lunch

14:45-16:30 Session III: The role of emotions in security policies, security

narratives, and the framing of violence

Narrative, humanitarianism, and affect: representations of gender-

based violence, Lydia Cole

The role of emotions in U.S. security policy towards Iran, Sybille

Reinke de Buitrago

"The fearless, the fearful and the fearsome": emotions and

everyday security, Clara Eroukhmanoff

16:30-16:45 Coffee Break

16:45-17:30 Concluding remarks and discussion of next steps

Participants

Maéva Clément, Versailles University and Goethe University Frankfurt

Lydia Cole, Aberystwyth University

Clara Eroukhmanoff, St Andrew University

Yuri Van Hoef, University of Leeds

Katharina E. Höne (organiser), Aberystwyth University

Sorana Jude, Aberystywth University

Audrey Reeves, University of Bristol

Sybille Reinke de Buitrago, IFSH & ITHF, Hamburg