We have been organizing our virtual workshops since 2020 to substitute for the missing opportunities of academic interactions and debates due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We are keen on continuing the conversations and allowing for maximal participation and inclusion. For these reasons, we will continue holding virtual sessions on topics focusing around our project outputs: democracy, EU policies, party politics, parliaments, and gender. Many sessions will be devoted to presenting EUGenDem project research and findings.
Session 1: Contestations of gender equality in contemporary Europe: Anti-equality politics and East-West tensions
6 September 2022, 10.15 – 12.30 (EEST)
Speakers:
Izabela Desperak (University of Łódź, Poland): From Poland with love… Anti-abortion and anti-LGBT+ movement and policies in CEE countries
Barbara Gaweda and Johanna Kantola (Tampere University, Finland): Political dynamics in the European Parliament around precarity of gender equality
Session 2: The politics of EU social policy in the European Commission and in the European Parliament
13 September 2022, 13.00 – 14.30 (EEST)
Chair: Barbara Gaweda (Tampere Universtiy, Finland)
Speakers:
Paul Copeland (Queen Mary University of London, UK): The Juncker Commission as a Politicising Bricoleur and the Renewed Momentum in Social Europe
Anna Elomäki (Tampere University, Finland): Politics of EU social politics in the European Parliament: work-life balance, minimum pay, and pay transparency (paper co-authored with Paul Copeland and Barbara Gaweda)
Discussant: Beryl Philine ter Haar (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Session 3: Book launch of ‘European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times’
13 September 2022, 15.00 – 16.30 (EEST)
Speakers:
Petra Ahrens, Anna Elomäki, and Johanna Kantola (Tampere University, Finland): Introduction: European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times
Edoardo Bressanelli (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy): The Political Groups as Organisations: The Institutionalisation of Transnational Party Politics
Ariadna Ripoll Servent (University of Salzburg, Austria): Party Competition between Centre-Right and Eurosceptic Radical-Right Parties in the European Parliament
Session 4: Equality and Democracy in Europe: Gendering the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE)
14 October 2022, 10.00-16.00 (CEST)
Hybrid Workshop at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy
Speakers:
Gabriele Abels, Johanna Kantola, Emanuela Lombardo, Ulrike Liebert, Alvaro Oleart, and Ruth Rubio.
More events and details coming soon!
For inquiries about the workshop series, please contact Barbara Gaweda (barbara.gaweda@tuni.fi).
