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European Values and Identity: Multiple Dimensions of Europeanization
October 25, 2016 - October 26, 2016
Venue: Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Organizer(s): Center for Social Sciences, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia Proeuropa, Georgian Community of France
Language: Georgian, English, and French (simultaneous translation will be provided)
Contact: conference2016@css.ge
Info link: georgie-europe2016.tsu.ge; www.css.ge
1. The Political Dimension of Europeanization
• The EU’s normative influence: foreign and neighborhood policy;
• The EU's Enlargement eastward and its impact on member states;
• The EU, Russia and the contested neighborhood - political strategies and security;
• The European Union and the Eurasian Union –prospects for Eastern Partnership countries;
• The impact of Europeanization on the transformation of political systems;
• The impact of Europeanization on political and popular discourses;
• Nationalism and postnationalism: from traditional consciousness to European values;
• Europeanization, open borders, and migration: consequences for member and non-member states.
2. The Economic Dimension of Europeanization
• The EU’s normative influence: trade relations;
• The common market and economic leverages for spreading European values;
• European socio-economic models and the prospects for their export outside the EU;
• The Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement as a tool of Europeanization;
• The current economic crisis and the transformation of European values.
3. The Cultural Dimension of Europeanization
• The role of European literature and philosophy in shaping and spreading European values;
• Linguistic and literary paradigms in the context of European values;
• Cultural and language differences and approaches toward them in EU countries;
• The European Union and the prospects for creating a common “European identity”;
• The imaginary map of Europe: the center-periphery discourse and the imaginary borders;
• The role of the Church in the process of Europeanization: The experience of Eastern Europe and the Eastern Partnership countries;
• European values and the European educational space: the Bologna process and the Europeanization of higher education.
The conference is multidisciplinary, and papers from the following fields will be accepted: social and political sciences, economics, law, humanities, and education sciences.