The new European Union Centre of Excellence at York University is hosting its first graduate conference, “Ever Closer Union?/Union sans cesse plus étroite?” on March 11/12, 2010 in Toronto. The purpose is to showcase graduate student work and promote debate on topics relating to the European Union and EU-Canada relations.

The conference will be opened at noon on March 11th with a lecture by Maurizio Cellini, Chef, affaires économiques et commerciales, Délégation de l’Union européenne au Canada / Head, Economic and commercial affairs, Delegation of the European Union to Canada. Mr Cellini will speak on “Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Negotiations”. The lecture will take place in room 519, York Research Tower on York’s Keele campus (building #95 on the map found here) and all are welcome.

The remainder of the conference program can be found at the bottom of this page.

This bilingual conference is organized by York graduate students and faculty and aims to include contributions from graduate students in various disciplines such as law, political science, public & international affairs, gender studies, economics, public administration, geography, history and sociology, among others, and from universities across Canada and beyond.

For more information, please contact <euconf@yorku.ca>

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

«Union sans cesse plus étroite?» / “Ever Closer Union?”
Conférence des étudiants diplômés / Graduate student conference
Université York University, Toronto, 11 & 12 mars/March 2010

Jeudi/Thursday: 519 York Research Tower

12:00   Bienvenue / welcome, graduate organizers & Prof Willem Maas

12:05 – 13:05  “Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Negotiations / Les négociations en vue d’un accord économique et commercial global entre le Canada et l’Union européenne,”  Maurizio Cellini, Chef, affaires économiques et commerciales, Délégation de l’Union européenne au Canada / Head, Economic and commercial affairs, Delegation of the European Union to Canada.

13:05 – 13:30   Light lunch / déjeuner léger

13:30 – 15:00   Panel #1: Institutions

Anthony Imbrogno (PhD Political Science, McGill University) Canada’s federal system of governance in the context of the politics, history and institutions of the European Union

Tristan Vellinga (PhD Political Science, University of Florida) Enlargement studies enlarged: An EU-US comparison

William T. Daniel (PhD, Political Science, University of Pittsburgh) Sticking Around: the Effect of Legislative Professionalization on Ambition in the European Parliament

Discussants Prof Heather MacRae, Prof Dagmar Soennecken

15:15 – 17:15   Panel #2: Politiques / policies

David Kline Jones (PhD Political Science and Public Health, University of Michigan) Politiques de Santé: The Territorial Politics of French Health Care Reform

Cristina Onose (MA European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto) The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and its socio-economic implications for the rural communities in new member states

Ania Zbyszewska (PhD Law, University of Victoria) Unveiling the Politics of Gender in the EU Working-Time Regulation: a Recipe for Social Reproduction in Crisis or Crisis in Social Reproduction?

Samuel Field (PhD, International Relations and Public Administration, University of Utah) “How Do National Center-Left Parties Respond to Europeanization”

Markus Kip (PhD Sociology, York University) Labour Migration and the Europeanization of Trade Unions – Developments in Germany and Sweden

Discussants Prof Edelgard Mahant, Prof Heather MacRae

Jeudi 19h30 il y a le Conférence Annuelle Jean-Gabriel Castel sur le droit international et les organisations internationales: «La Navigation dans les eaux arctiques du Canada: Y a-t-il un problème? », par Armand de Mestral, Professeur de droit et Chaire Jean Monnet, Université McGill. Il y a un navette au campus Glendon, départ de campus Keele à 17h30.

Vendredi/Friday: salle du sénat / Senate chamber, Glendon
(building #9 on the map found here http://www.yorku.ca/yorkweb/maps/glendon/index.htm )

08:30 continental breakfast

08:40   Bienvenue / welcome, Prof Kenneth McRoberts, Principal, Glendon

08:45 – 10:30   Panel #3: l’Intégration, l’économie, l’information / integration, economy, information

Adrienne Novak (MPIA, York University) Deeper Integration of the Baltic Sea Region: the Strategies of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Vincent-Henri Comte (maîtrise en droit international et politique internationale, UQAM) L’Europe et la régulation «régionale» de la société «globale» de l’information

Marie-Christine Morin (Doctorat en science politique et droit, Université du Québec à Montréal) L’Évolution de l’antitrust: le cas d’étude de Microsoft

Philip Giurlando (PhD Political Studies, Queen’s University) EMU and Italy

Discussants Prof Can Erutku, Prof Bruce Morrison

10:45 – 12:30   Panel #4: La cohésion et l’élargissement / Cohesion and enlargement

Frédéric Gagnon (Maîtrise en droit international, Université de Montréal) La politique de cohésion prise entre les effets de la mondialisation et des élargissements successifs: vers la croissance ou la solidarité

Antonio Redfern Pucci and Bojan Ratkovic (MA Political Science, Brock University) An uneven playing field: European Enlargement, Inequality and Double Standards: the Case of Serbia

Christina Cindric (MPIA, York University) European Union Motivations for the Accession of Serbia

Simeon Mitropolitski (Doctorat en science politique, Université de Montréal) European enlargement as a maker or breaker of the democratic political culture

Discussants Vice Consul Ivana Stefanovic (Consulate General of the Republic of Serbia, Toronto), Prof Willem Maas

12:30 – 13:30  Lunch, salon des professeurs / Senior Common Room
(Space is limited.
Attendees not on the program may join, but are asked to contribute $18 and
rsvp to <euconf@yorku.ca>)

13:45 – 15:30   Panel #5: Migrants et migrations / Migrants and migrations

Anne-Lyse Gagné (MA Political Studies, University of Ottawa) European Migration policy: towards securitization of society?

Christopher Leite (MA Political Studies, University of Ottawa) Battle of the Banlieues: Resisting the Secure

Karina Pogosyan (MPIA, York University) Roma EU Realities Today: The case of Romania and Bulgaria

Nancy Spina (PhD Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto) Bounded Inclusion: Racialization and Community-Building in the EU Discourse on ‘Immigrant’ Education.

Discussants Prof Alexander Caviedes, Prof Sabine Dreher

15:45 – 17:30   Panel #6: Relations extérieures / External relations

Christine Maydossian (MPIA, York University) Les Nouvelles Initiatives Economiques entre l’UE et le Canada

Michelle Collins (MPIA, York University) A Union of Firsts: Why the EU is the world’s first supranational global power

Evgeny Postnikov (PhD Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh) Europeanization and Foreign Policy: Assessing the Impact of EU Membership on French and German policies towards Russia

Discussants Prof Matthew Light, Prof Jean Yves Haine