EuroStorie conference: Crises Redux - Europe in a Global Context

Wed, 01 Oct, 2025 at 05:00 pm to Fri, 03 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm UTC+03:00

Helsingin Yliopiston päärakennus | Helsinki

Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives
Publisher/HostCentre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives
EuroStorie conference: Crises Redux - Europe in a Global Context
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The Crises Redux conference will be organized by the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (EuroStorie) funded by the Research Council of Finland in collaboration with the Centre for European studies. The conference will focus on the same themes that EuroStorie has been working on for the last six years: a critical analysis of the narratives that serve as the building blocks of Europe and a reassessment of the idea of Europe in relation to migration and global history. The Crisis Redux conference will focus on the European narratives and explanatory models used to understand crises, exploring how these frameworks draw on the past and envision possible futures to illuminate the reality of the problems facing contemporary Europe and the means to solve them.
We will explore how Europe’s role in the great lines of the global political economy and in the redistribution of wealth after the Second World War has been explained and how this corresponds to reality. We will examine the process of European integration as a phenomenon that has shaped the continents development over the last decades, but which now has to rethink its foundational structures and principles; Who does “Europe” represent, and against whom is it defining itself? Finally, the conference will reflect on the place of the European welfare state in a rapidly changing world. What visions of the past and aspirations for the future underpin this model? How do Europe’s collective experiences and its worldviews function within a shifting global order?

More infromation on our website:
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/law-identity-and-the-european-narratives/crises-redux-europe-in-a-global-context

Event venues
Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, Small Hall
Think Corner, Yliopistonkatu 4, Stage

Registration
We're hoping for registration by the 22nd of September, by doing this we can accommodate to your dietary needs and avoid food waste!
Register through this link:
https://www.lyyti.in/Crises_Redux_Europe_in_a_Global_Context_8721

Programme

Wednesday 1.10.
Think Corner

17.30-19.00: Keynote 1: Jessica Whyte - Economic Coercion and the Crises of the (Neo) Liberal International Order

Thursday 2.10.
Main Building, Small Hall

9.30-9.45: Arrival and registration (coffee/tea)

9.45-10.00: Opening and welcome

10.00-11.00: Keynote 2: Anika Seemann - Law after the ‘Zero Hour’: The Temporalities of Legal Thought in early Postwar Europe

11.00-12.00: Panel 1: Silence and Exclusion in European imagined communities
Miika Tervonen: Deportation, “crisis” and the post-universal welfare state
Reetta Toivanen: History of United Europe: To Remember or to Forget?

12.00-13.30: Lunch Break

13.30-15.00: Panel 2: Shifting temporalities of Crisis in Europe
William King: A crisis of democracy? Counter-narratives and scepticism of direct elections in the UK, 1975-79
Lina Klymenko & Akseli Ahtiainen: Thinking About Historical Analogies Interpretively: What Role Does the Winter War Analogy Play in Finland’s Support for Ukraine?
Mirosław Michał Sadowski: Weaving Narratives of Crises through Law: Lessons and Warnings from Central and Eastern Europe

15.00-15.20: Coffee Break

15.20-17.00: Panel 3: ‘Rights’, ‘Values’ and ‘Europe’ in European History
Leila Brännström: The breakthrough of rights and the battle for the Swedish state in the 1970s and 1980s
Moritz von Kalckreuth: Shall we Simply Return to Value-Universalism? Skeptical Remarks concerning Universalization and Value-Attachments
Timo Pankakoski: Koselleck’s Europe

Friday 3.10.
Main Building, Small Hall

9.30-10.00 Arrival (coffee/tea)

10.00-11.00: Keynote 3: Kiran Klaus Patel - Universalism and After: Narratives and Dynamics of European Integration since the 1980s

11.00-12.00: Panel 4: The Europe of the European Union
Agnė Oseckytė: Once Upon a Legal Order: Constitutional Identity in EU Legal Scholarship
Berfin Nur Osso: A Creeping Crisis of Migration Management? Institutional Responses and Implications for “Access” at the EU’s Physical, Legal, and Social Borders

12.00-13.30: Lunch Break

13.30-15.00: Panel 5: Borders and Movement in Europe
Floris van Doorn: A Redux of What? Some Reflections on Four Years at the EuroStorie Project
Giuliano Fleri: Crisis or Structure? Competing Narratives of Irregular Migration to Lampedusa (1990–Present)
Magdalena Kmak: EU Eastern Border and Europeanisation of the Right to Seek Asylum
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Helsingin Yliopiston päärakennus, Unioninkatu 34, FI-00170 Helsinki, Suomi, Helsinki, Finland

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