(De)Constructing Europe: Tensions of Europeanization

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(De)Constructing Europe: Tensions of Europeanization

Organizer
German Historical Institute, Rome
Venue
German Historical Institute, Rome
Funded by
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
ZIP
I-00165
Location
Rom
Country
Italy
Takes place
In Attendance
From - Until
20.03.2024 - 22.03.2024
Website
http://dhi-roma.it/
By
Philipp Müller, Sciences Po Paris

The conference emphasizes the pivotal roles of alternative visions and resistance in shaping European integration history. Contesting European integration cannot be grasped as the ‘Other’ of Europe but needs to be analysed as part of a multifaceted process, marked by conflicts on the legal, conceptual, territorial, and economic boundaries of the EEC/EU.

(De)Constructing Europe: Tensions of Europeanization

The BMBF-financed project, (De)Constructing Europe, led by an international team of scholars from the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and the German Historical Institutes in London, Rome, and Warsaw, has spent the past three years exploring new dimensions of European integration history. Particularly, the project aims to contextualize and measure the emergence, trajectory, and impact of resistance within the integration process.
The focus on resistance contributes to develop current debates within the field of European integration studies further. In this field the concept of Europeanization has recently emerged as a dynamic and flexible framework. Unlike binary classifications such as Europhile or Eurosceptic, Europeanization allows for a more nuanced understanding of integration dynamics. Recognizing the diverse array of positions throughout European integration history, Europeanization acknowledges the interconnectedness of integration and resistance.
The conference emphasizes the pivotal roles of alternative visions and resistance in shaping European integration history. Contesting European integration cannot be grasped as the ‘Other’ of Europe but needs to be analysed as part of a multifaceted process, marked by conflicts on the legal, conceptual, territorial, and economic boundaries of the EEC/EU. Spanning from the post-war era to the present and encompassing diverse geographical contexts, including areas beyond Europe’s traditional boundaries, the conference aims to deepen our understanding of Europeanization. By shifting focus from traditional narratives centered on the EEC/EU to a broader array of societal actors, it seeks to uncover diverse and sometimes conflicting visions of Europe that have influenced integration trajectories.
Bringing together an international group of scholars at the German Historical Institute in Rome, the conference titled “(De)Constructing Europe: Tensions of Europeanization” will delve into the histories of various economic, political, and social actors. The participants will explore together the inherent tensions of Europeanization.

Programm

Wednesday, March 20, 2024
9.30 am : Introduction

10 am – 12 pm: Democracy, populism and the European Parliament

Beata Jurkowicz (Warsaw): The (in)effectiveness of Eurosceptic rhetoric: Polish political parties and their strategies
William King (London): Forms of democratic engagement: Constituencies, MEPs and representing citizens in the European Parliament
Mechthild Roos (Augsburg): Constructing a Europe for and of the people: Idealism and tension in the European Parliament’s conception(s) of integration

1 – 3 pm: European economic alternatives

Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol (Florence): Narrowing down the options: The multiple meanings of European fiscal governance, from programming to the Maastricht criteria, 1957–1992
Lucrezia Ranieri (Siena): Italian economists and European monetary integration
Katharina Troll (Hamburg): European integration re-woven: British and West-German textile employers’ associations and European integration, 1950–1980

3.15 – 5.15 pm : Agricultural resistance to European integration

Carine Germond (Trondheim): Which Green Europe? (Alternative) visions of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and rural contestation
Lisbeth Matzer (Munich): The Europeanization of the region vs. the practice of ‘Euroblending’: Tensions in the Common Market Organization for wine, 1958–1992
Antonio Carbone (Rome): Southern Question on a European scale: The dilemma of the Mediterranean farmers

6 – 7.30 pm: Keynote

Martin Conway (Oxford): The Many Europes or the Anti-Europes? Towards a deconstructed history of European integration

Thursday, March 21, 2024

9 – 11 am: Global perspectives on a different Europe

James Ellison (London): The endurance of alternative visions in Britain’s debate about Europe
Giuliano Garavini (Rome): The EC, the EU, and the changing Eurafrica
Philipp Müller (Paris): Undermining European Foreign Policy: Business representatives in the period of decolonization

11.15 am – 1.15 pm: Transnational networks of alternative visions of Europe

Alan Granadino (Madrid): Iberian socialists and their vision of Europe as an international Third Way in the 1970s and 1980s
David Lawton (London): The transnational remaking of modern British Euroscepticism, 1975–1997

Friday, March 22, 2024

9 – 11.40 am: Right-wing European alternatives

Antonin Cohen (Paris): (De)constructing ‘extreme-right’ in European constructions from Interwar to Postwar
Alexander Hobe (Hamburg): Right-wing radicalism, Europe, and a European right – veterans’ associations in integration history
Andrea Martinez (Rome): A step back or forward for European integration? Italian media responses to the failure of the European Defence Community
Laura Wolters (Hamburg): Between longing and loathing: The intellectual right’s ambivalent take on Europe

11.40 am –12.40 pm: Final discussion

Jan Zielonka (Venice): Concluding remarks

Contact (announcement)

carbone@dhi-roma.it
philipp.muller@sciencespo.fr

http://dhi-roma.it/
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