Jean Monnet Conference
European Society and the EU: State of the Art and Perspectives
Florence, 22 May 2014
Aula Magna, Rectorate, University of Florence
Piazza San Marco, 4
PROGRAMME
9:30 Opening remarks: Prof. Massimiliano Guderzo, Coordinator, Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, University of Florence
10-12:30 Session 1: Economic crisis and social cohesion. Chair: Prof. Laura Leonardi, Jean Monnet chair, Social dimension and European integration
- Prof. Göran Thernborn (Cambridge University) Social disintegration and geopolitical temptations
- Prof. Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex) Europe in the Vortex of Globalization
11-11:30 Coffee Break
- Prof. Maarten Keune (Amsterdam University) Work and social cohesion in Europe: ideas, paradoxes and sources of
change.
12-12:30 Question time / Discussion
13-14:30 Lunch
15-17:30 Session 2: Borders, social exclusion and conflict. Chair: Prof. Annick Magnier, Jean Monnet Chair, Cities in the European Integration Process
- Prof. Max Haller (Universität Graz) The three Europes. How a process of graded integration could replace the “Fortress Europe”
- Prof. Patrick Le Galès (Institut d’études politiques de Paris) and Prof. Alberta Andreotti (University of Milan-Bicocca) Urban upper middle class, globalisation and transnational mobility: A European class in the making?
16-16:30 Coffee Break
- Prof. Guglielmo Meardi (Warwick Business School) European labour markets, uncertainty and migration
17-17:30 Question time / Discussion
17:30 Concluding remarks: Prof. Franca Alacevich, Head of Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Florence
Conference information and registration contact: Dr. Gemma Scalise, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Florence – Tel. +390552759438 – gemma.scalise@unifi.it
