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  • April 26-28, 2012
  • Ottawa, Canada
  • ECSA-C Biennial Conference Blog (April 26-28, 2012)

  • The content of selected panels presented at the 9th Biennial ECSA-C conference was blogged between April 26 and 28, 2012. Please follow this link to view the entire blog. For a detailed conference program, please visit  web.uvic.ca/ecsac/biennial2012/program.html The 9th Biennial ECSA-C conference was supported by the CETD and included several panels organized by CETD scholars.

  • Nov. 14, 2011
  • 9 a.m. to 7 p.m
  • Archives nationales du Québec (535 Viger Avenue East), Montréal
  • Invitation Colloquium: The Decline of the European Empire

  • ***Registration Required***
    contact patrick.barrette@umontreal.ca

    Further details, click here

    The spectacular growth of China, the emergence of Brazil and India, and the sudden and dramatic transformation of the Arab world point to a world in which Europe will no longer play the central role that it has played in the past centuries. A number of Europeans feel concerned about this decline. Our objective for this international conference is to situate these recent developments in the longue durée of the “European imperium”, a form of military, political, economic and cultural domination that existed, empirically, until the mid 20th Century and, cognitively, until the turn of the 21st Century. The benefit of a historical approach is to provide us with the necessary hindsight to realize that the European decline is neither as novel nor as inescapable as we might think. Appealing to historical sociology, economic science, international relations theory and postcolonial studies, the speakers in this conference seek to go beyond mere commentary by operationalizing the notion of “power” in its various dimensions: military and diplomatic, of course, but also economic, social, cultural and symbolic. Our interdisciplinary venture is also an opportunity to think about the role of regions and the notion of empire throughout the centuries

    Speakers include:

    Jan Zielonka (Oxford), Europe and the World
    François Foret (ULB), Europe, religion, empire
    Daniel Nexon (Georgetown), The European Empire in Historical Perspective
    Antonio Missiroli (BEPA), Europe in the Global Balance of Power
    Glyn Morgan (Syracuse), The Idea of a European Superstate
    Anand Menon (Birmingham), Will the EU Rescue its Member States?
    Alison Weston (SEAE), the past and Future of European Diplomacy
    Amy Verdun (UVic), Whither the Single Market?
    Marc Helbling (WZB), Quelle immigration pour l’Europe?

    The international colloquium is organised by the
    Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue, the Canadian Network of the EU Centres of Excellence (EUCE)and the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies(CIPSS)

  • Oct. 28-29, 2011
  • University Club University of Victoria British Columbia
  • Conference: Governing Migration and Integration in Europe’s System of Multi-level Governance

  • Bringing together scholars from Europe and North America, the conference will examine how immigration and integration policy, once the exclusive domain of national politics, must now contend with new political and social actors and with competing levels of policy competence. Both the sub- and the supra-national (EU) level of governance have developed into meaningful arenas of political debate and policy formation at which issues of immigration and integration are increasingly addressed. Regions have acquired new competence in recruiting immigrants and on various occasions, major cities have taken the lead in developing approaches to integrating newcomers. These developments are particularly pertinent in Europe, where the EU, its regions and cities have become important laboratories for deliberating, developing and implementing immigration and integration policies. Yet, we currently lack a proper understanding of the dynamic at different levels of government in terms of framing the issue and developing policy responses. Scholarship in the field of immigration and integration almost exclusively operates within a conceptual framework defined by national models. The conference will focus on the political processes/ actors and legislative-institutional arrangements that have allowed for a subtle, albeit crucial shift in addressing challenges related to managing immigration and integration.

    Oct. 28-29, 2011

    University Club
    University of Victoria
    British Columbia

    For full program details, see here:

    Registration

  • November 1, 2011 8:30am - 11am
  • Carleton University, Robertson Hall, Senate Room, 6th floor
  • Managing Migration in the 21st Century: Policy Options for Canada and Europe

  • Moderated Roundtable Discussion

    ****Registration Required*****

    Thank you for your interest. This event is oversubscribed and registration is now closed!

    Migration has always been a politically sensitive, and even emotional, topic for many societies. Today managing migration is posing a great challenge for countries around the world. Canada is often cited as an example of multiculturalism. However, critics have recently labelled parts of the country’s immigration system as being “broken,” pointing to long wait times for potential migrants. There is lively debate about the “right” immigration levels. Europe is facing an aging population. The debate is over the need for migrants to bolster the working age population versus a rise in anti-immigrant sentiment in some quarters.

    What approach should governments take towards migration? How can it be managed? And what can Canada and  Europe learn from each other? Our panelists will tackle these questions by discussing the different migration experiences in Canada and Europe.


    Nov. 1, 2011

    Carleton University,
    Robertson Hall,
    Senate Room, 6th floor

    Program:
    08:30am    Registration
    Coffee and Muffins

    09:00    Welcome
    Helen Morris, Canada Europe Transatlantic Dialogue

    Julia Hurrelmann, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Canada Liaison Officer

    09:15am    Introduction
    Martin Geiger (Moderator), Centre for European Studies, Carleton University

    09:30am    Remarks

    Sebastian Edathy, Member of the German Parliament, Member of the Committee for Legal Affairs, DEP Member of the Internal Affairs Committee

    Mark Davidson
    DG International and Intergovernmental Relations
    Citizenship and Immigration Canada

    James Bissett, Centre for Immigration Policy Reform

    Victor Piché, Dept. of Demography, McGill University, Montreal

    Oliver Schmidtke, Dept. of History and Political Science, University of Victoria

    10:00am Discussion

    Adrian Harewood, CBC Television

    Speakers’ Bios:

    This conference is funded through the Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue, the Centre for European Studies and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

  • October 2011
  • Comparing Modes of Governance in Canada and the European Union: Social Policy Engagement across Complex Multilevel Systems

  • Both Canada and the European Union (EU) are complex multilevel governance systems where authority is dispersed between orders of government ─ local, regional, provincial, national and supra-national ─ as well as across spheres and sectors including markets, stakeholders and citizens. Each political system uses different modes of governance, resulting in different degrees of effectiveness in policy-making and implementation. This international conference held at the University of Victoria, Canada on October 14-15, 2011 brought together scholars, experts, practitioners and stakeholders in comparative federalism and/or multilevel governance in order to draw out governance best practices. The focus of the conference was on social policy, where in Canada responsibility is shared between the federal government and 13 provinces/territories, and in the EU is shared between the EU-level and 27 member states. Click here for more information and the conference papers.

  • June 10-11, 2011
  • Institute for European Studies, University of British Columbia
  • March 28, 2011
  • 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Room 300, Paterson Hall, Carleton University, Ottawa
  • Policy Workshop: The Expanded Powers of the European Parliament: Implications for the EU and Canada

  • Presenters, including panelists and chairs:

    Joan DeBardeleben, Director, Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue, Carleton University
    H.E. Matthias Brinkmann, Ambassador of the European Union to Canada
    Arthur Benz, Professor, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Technical University Darmstadt
    Alain Hausser, Minister-Counsellor and Deputy Head of the Mission of Canada to the European Union
    Achim Hurrelmann, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Carleton University
    Andreas Maurer, Administrator, European Parliament Committee on International Trade – currently on leave from the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute of International Affairs, Berlin) (in absentia)
    Costanza Musu, Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
    Dietmar Nickel, Senior fellow, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik; Director General for External Policies for the European Parliament (2004-2010)

    Conference Report

    Arthur Benz’s Presentation Slides

  • March 3-5, 2011
  • Ottawa
  • October 28, 2010
  • 8.30am - 4.30pm
  • Room 608, Robertson Hall, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
  • June 11 - 12, 2010
  • 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • Institute for European Studies, UBC C.K. Choi Building, Rm. 120 - 1855 West Mall, UBC
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