The organizer proposes discussion of the following broad themes in contemporary and historical perspective, but the organizer also welcomes proposals for panels with a different focus which nevertheless – importantly – transgress disciplinary boundaries: Liberté, egalité, fraternité: society and state formation in Europe; Governing Europe: transnational fields and networks; Europeanization? Changing national and sub-national polities; Language: barrier to Europeanization?; Inclusion and exclusion: Immigrants and minorities in national and European societies; Unity in diversity? The local and regional in Europe; Contact and convergence: popular culture as banal Europeanization?; Museums, theatres, cinema: transnationalizing high culture in Europe; Changing the Other: Europe in the world