Graduate Research Workshop: The Changing World and Europe

The study of Europe has traditionally generated academic interest from a wide range of disciplines, including from within the social sciences, humanities and law. PhD students pursuing research on the topic are often attracted to work across academic disciplines, which raises challenges regarding the incorporation of differing, and at times competing, frameworks, concepts and methodologies.

The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for emerging scholars at any stage of their PhD (or equivalent) whose projects engage with issues facing Europe and whose work (ideally) spans academic disciplines. As the research focus of the ANU Centre for European Studies is particularly focused on ‘Europe and the Law’ this year, proposals (max. 300 words) including a legal aspect concerning Europe are particularly welcome. However, abstracts covering any subject relating to Europe are also welcome and presentations may cover the overall parameters of a presenter’s research project or a particular aspect.

Suggested topics may include (but are not limited to):

Europe’s relations with other regions
Europe’s relations with international institutions
EU integration and enlargement
European integration and globalization
Europe’s export and import of values, norms and culture
Representations of Europe in art and history
Europe and ideology, identity and allegiance
Security challenges for Europe in a changing world
Europe, the environment and climate change
Europe and population movements
Europe and global economic processes

Participants who have been selected will be asked to give a twenty-minute presentation at the workshop, which will be followed by a discussion period of twenty minutes. Presentations should outline the nature of the project (or the particular aspect chosen) but focus especially also on the challenges and rewards of working between disciplines and why an interdisciplinary approach was chosen.

Academic specialists invited to the workshop will give presentations at the outset of each session, outlining their own research, reporting particularly on successes and challenges they may have encountered with the interdisciplinary nature of their work, why they have chosen to work between disciplines and ways to navigate interdisciplinary spaces effectively. They will then continue attending the session and provide commentary following each student presentation.

Assistance to cover travel and accommodation expenses will be made available to selected participants where necessary.

For further information or to submit a proposal, please contact Fanny Thornton (thorntonf@law.anu.edu.au)

Proposal Deadline: Monday, 23 August 2010

Please click here to see the Program or to view the flyer for this event please see: Graduate Research Workshop: The Changing World and Europe

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