CPE RN conference Frankfurt 2011
CPE RN conference ‘The Eurozone in Crisis: Challenges and Controversies in the European Political Economy(ies) and in Political Economy Research’. Friday 18 – Saturday 19 February 2011, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Funding for this conference is kindly provided by the European Sociological Association, the Frankfurt University’s association of Freunde&Förderer and the IPC Graduate School at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt.
FRIDAY 18 FEBRUARY
Session 1: Plenary: Global governance and/or the internationalisation of the state 1315-1430
Chair: Ian Bruff (University of Manchester)
- Bettina Stark-Watzinger (House of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt) & Andreas Nölke (Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt) – Welcome
- Ulrich Brand (Chair of International Politics, University of Vienna) – ‘The Internationalisation of the State and Global Governance: competing or complementary concepts?’
Break 1430-1450
Session 2: Thinking about the consequences of the crisis 1450-1620
Chair: Thomas Sablowski (Goethe University Frankfurt)
- Joachim Becker (University of Economics and Business Vienna) & Johannes Jäger (University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna) – ‘The eurozone in crisis: a regulationist perspective on a failed process of integration’
- Mònica Clua-Losada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) – ‘Spain’s goose chase: the flexibilisation of the labour market and the reduction of its public deficit under Zapatero’s presidency’
- Laura Horn (VU University Amsterdam) & Angela Wigger (Radboud University) – ‘Into the institutions! A critical political economy of EU state formation’
- Fabien Tarrit (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne) – ‘A double transfer of the economic crisis: within countries and within classes’
Break 1620-1640
Session 3: International developments 1640-1810
Chair: Christian May (Goethe University Frankfurt)
- André Broome (University of Birmingham) – ‘The everyday politics of monetary (dis)integration: the IMF and the eurozone’
- Arolda Elbasani & Seimir Elbasani (Social Science Research Centre, Berlin & University of Applied Sciences, Berlin) – ‘Contagious effects of the Greek crisis in the Balkan region: the case of Albania’
- Miguel Otero-Iglesias (Oxford Brookes University) – ‘Is the Eurozone ready to bury the flexible-dollar-standard?’
- Henrik Plaschke (Aalborg University) – ‘An international strategy for the euro?’
Drinks/Check-in at hotels 1810-1930
Meal 1930-
SATURDAY 19 FEBRUARY
Session 4: Assoziation für kritische Gesellschaftforschung (Association for critical social research) panel on critical theory and/of ‘Europe’ 0930-1100
Chair: Mathis Heinrich (Lancaster University), discussant: Hans-Jürgen Bieling (University of Applied Sciences Bremen)
- Niko Huke (Phillips-University Marburg) – ‘Obstinate practices and communist horizons: towards a post-operaist theorising of European integration’
- John Kannankulam (Goethe University Frankfurt) – ‘Europe: the material condensation of a relationship of forces? Preliminary remarks for a historical materialist policy analysis‘
- Bob Jessop (Lancaster University) – ‘Is the eurozone a compossible or incompossible regime (and how would we know)?’
Break 1100-1120
Session 5: Problematising democracy, society and economy 1120-1250
Chair: Mònica Clua-Losada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
- Alexander Gallas & Jörg Nowak (Liverpool John Moores University & Independent Researcher) – ‘Electoral autocracy, class politics and ethnicization: the crisis of democracy after the financial crisis’
- Eva Hartmann (University of Lausanne) – ‘The state in a post-neoliberal era’
- Marina Kaneti (New School for Social Research, New York) – ‘Unity at the crossroads? The politics of social segregation in the European Union’
Lunch 1250-1350
Session 6: The political economy of risk, debt and regulation 1350-1520
Chair: Angela Wigger (Radboud University)
- Lucia Quaglia (University of Sussex and Max Planck Institute, Cologne) – ‘The “old” and “new” politics of financial services regulation in the European Union’
- Matthias Thiemann (Columbia University) – ‘The political economy of risk: the regulation of special purpose entities in the EU’
- Zbigniew Truchlewski (Central European University, Budapest) – ‘The political economy of “depoliticisation”: the case of fiscal policy in CEE’
- Eleni Tsingou (University of Warwick) & Hubert Zimmerman (Philipps University Marburg) – ‘Why me? The eurozone as first line of defense in the sovereign debt crisis’
Break 1520-1540
Session 7: Eastern Europe: from the transition to the crash 1540-1710
Chair: Thomas Purcell (University of Nottingham), discussant: Jane Hardy (University of Hertfordshire)
- Marko Bojcun (London Metropolitan University) – ‘The social impact of the international financial crisis in Ukraine’
- Adam Fabry & Gareth Dale (Brunel University) – ‘Hungary, the global financial and economic crisis and problems in political economy research’
- Jeff Sommers (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee/Stockholm School of Economics in Riga) & Janis Berzins (Riga Stradins University) – ‘Development without development: the case of Latvia’
Discussion of CPERN’s future activities 1710-1730
Drinks & Meal for remaining participants 1730-
