UACES: Exchanging Ideas on Europe

Communicating European Citizenship

22 March 2010

Address: Lancaster House, Stable Yard, St James's, London SW1A 1BB [map]

10:00		Arrival
10:30	10:40	Welcome Address Richard Whitman, University of Bath and Chair of UACES
10:40	11:00	FCO's Role in Communicating the EU to Young People Alison Rose, Head of the Europe Communications, Institutions, Treaty and Iberia Group
11:00	11:40	Perceptions of the EU and the Challenge of Communicating with Young EU Citizens Jenny Fairbrass, Co-convenor of project & UACES Treasurer and Stephen Fairbrass, Co-convenor of project & Senior Lecturer in Citizenship Education Feedback from the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and Year 9/10 conferences
12:00	13:15	Round Table Albert Weale, University College London Don Rowe, Citizenship Foundation Jean Lambert MEP Andy Thorpe, Bradford Academy Anna Neale, Longdendale Community Language College Chaired by Alex Warleigh-Lack, Brunel University
13:15	14:00	Lunch
14:00	15:00	Breakout Session 1
		1A: National Dimension and Citizenship Dimitry Kochenov, University of Groningen & New York University Communicating the Mutation of Member States’ Nationalities Beate Kviatek-Simanska, University of Groningen Communicating What to Who: Learning from experience in New Europe James Sloam, Royal Holloway College, University of London Political Participation and Multi-Level Democracy in the EU
		1B: Economic Issues and Citizenship Sue Collard, University of Sussex Lifestyle Migrants or European Citizens? Communicating European Citizenship to British Residents in France Mark Flear, Queen's University Belfast EU Citizenship Discourse as Neoliberal Governmentality Nick Robinson, University of Leeds European Citizenship – is money the path to affection? Understanding the impact of EU redistributive policy on attitudes to the EU
		1C: Participation and Elections Peter Brennan, EPS Consulting Talk2EU Simona Guerra, University of Nottingham Miscommunicating Europe? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe Gulay Icoz What Went Wrong with the EU Citizenship in the UK, and What Should be Done to Correct it?
		1D: Education and Citizenship Maureen Ellis, Institute of Education, London Critical Global Citizenship for Deliberative Democracies Audrey Osler, University of Leeds & Birkbeck College, University of London Education for European citizenship, democracy and antiracism: European policy and political complacency (full paper available on email request to the author) Nicola Savvides, Liverpool Hope University Communicating European Citizenship and Identity: The Role of Interaction and Socialisation amongst Secondary School Students at Three European Schools
		1E: The Media and Citizenship Rose Hackman, Vita Exploring the links between a grassroots movement, social entrepreneurship, journalism and identity building: the Italian experiment of Vita non profit magazine Jackie Harrison, University of Sheffield Communicating the EU to its Citizens: The Civil Power of News Paul Statham, University of Bristol Europe’s Search for an ‘Attentive Public’: Public Communication, Media and Legitimacy
15:15	16:15	Breakout Session 2
		2A: Social and Environmental Citizenship Helen Bicknell, Hochschule Fresenius University of Applied Sciences European Industrial Citizenship –EU Social Policy at Work Lars Hoffmann, Univesity of Tilburg & Elizabeth Monaghan, University of Hull Communicating the EU through debate: opportunity structures for transformation Aine Ryall, University College Cork Communicating European Environmental Citizenship
		2B: Legal Issues Adrian Blackledge, University of Birmingham & Sue Wright, University of Portsmouth Testing for citizenship: Why tests and why now? Theodora Kostakopoulou, University of Manchester European Union Citizenship as an Experimental Institution Michael Saward, Open University Dynamics of anomaly and assertion: enacting European citizenship
		2C: Civil Society Luis Bouza Garcia, Robert Gordon University & College of Europe How could the European Citizens’ Initiative (art. 11.4. TUE) contribute to the emergence of a European public sphere? John Fitzgibbon, University of Sussex The Lesson from Lisbon: Civil Society not Political Parties Hanneke De Bode et. al., Euclid Network Communicating European citizenship without mentioning it
		2D: Active Citizenship and Local / Regional Issues Bryony Hoskins, Institute of Education, London European active citizenship: communicating participation levels through the development of an index Carolyn Rowe, University of Birmingham Meeting communications challenges across the levels: The example of the Charter of Fundamental Rights Jamal Shahin, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Building Europe from the bottom up: Towards an Open Method of Communication for the EU’s institutions
		2E: Communication Strategy and Discourse Cristiano Bee, University of Surrey The EU’s communication under the Barroso presidency: political strategies and European dilemmas Anne Bostanci, University of Surrey Communicating the EU and Citizenship as Identification Albrecht Sonntag, ESSCA Political symbols, citizenship and communication
16:15	16:45	Future Directions Jenny Fairbrass, Co-convenor of project / UACES Treasurer Stephen Fairbrass, Co-convenor of project / Senior Lecturer in Citizenship Education Alex Warleigh-Lack, Co-convenor of project / Brunel University
16:45		Close

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