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For decades, scholars interested in Europe have concentrated their attention
on state comparisons and on the institutionalization of the European Union. As
the second decade of the second millennium gets under way, we can no longer
neglect the deep transformations in Europe’s society that have followed the
joint processes of globalization and European integration. Transnationalization
is the word that arguably best captures these transformations, for it
encapsulates at once the broadening of the Europeans’ economic, political,
social, and cultural experiences that has taken place in the last two to three
decades. The rise of these transnational pressures and vectors of political
pressure stands in tension with the political organization oriented around
nation-states in Europe. Transnationalization on today’s scale is a recurring
phenomenon in EuropeC’s history, however, and it works as well as a metaphor for
previous periods in which local walls were destroyed and replaced by economic,
political and social re-organization on a greater geographic scale. In examining
today’s transformations we are thus well-advised to revisit previous processes
of transnationalization, so that the analysis of the present helps us understand
the past and the analysis of the past helps us illuminate the present.
For the 2011 conference, hosted by the Institut Barcelona de'Estudis
Internacionals (IBEI) and to be held at Universitat Ramon Llull and IBEI in
Barcelona, Spain, the Council for European Studies (CES) welcomes proposals for
panels, roundtables, book discussions and individual papers on the study of
Europe broadly defined. This year, for the second time, we are also entertaining
the submission of panel clusters around a theme, giving participants the
opportunity to create a mini-symposium within the conference (please no more
than 4 panels per theme). Each panel proposal will be reviewed individually by
the Program Committee, and each panel belonging to a cluster will be
acknowledged as such in the conference program.
We encourage proposals
in the widest range of disciplines; in particular, we welcome panels that
combine disciplines, nationalities, and generations. All panel proposals need to
be submitted stating a chair and a discussant, although they can be the same
person).
The Council for European Studies fosters and recognizes
outstanding, multidisciplinary research in European studies through a range of
programs, including conferences, publications, special events, and awards. The
Council´s international conferences bring together scholars from a multitude of
countries and a variety of fields for discussion and interdisciplinary exchange.
Conference Program
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