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Rethinking European integration
Purpose
The purpose of this research group is to rethink research on European integration on basis of an interdisciplinary approach. Research on European integration has until recently been dominated by relatively few disciplines - political science, law and economics - which have contributed with a wealth of studies, but at the same time have had a somewhat restricted focus on the EU; its law and policies. Other disciplines such as sociology, ethnology, anthropology, history and cultural studies have made inroads into European integration studies but not managed to become influential enough to contribute to the larger research agenda. Despite the plurality of disciplines now studying the process of European integration, interdisciplinary efforts are few and far between. It is high time that an effort is done to rethink the study European integration on basis of a truly interdisciplinary debate between the many new disciplines that have recently become attracted to European integration studies.
A starting point for the research group is the need to consider the processes of European integration in a much broader social, cultural and historical context than done by mainstream research. Studies of the EU in the narrow sense remain one of the group’s central concerns (if certainly not the only one), but even the nature of the EU cannot be truly understood except when analysed in a broad societal context and as part of the wider European history. On the one hand, processes of European integration play a central role in the history of the European nation state during the twentieth century. On the other hand, regional European integration is both part of wider globalisation processes and a particular response to them. Another interest of the research groups are the various conflict lines in European societies and in the European state system to which integration has been a response, but which at the same time continues to disentangle the central results of integration. The role of identity, historical memory, borders and how these issues interact with the broader social and political developments of European societies are of central importance here.
The research group will be run by the Centre for Modern European Studies and the Centre for Studies in Legal Culture (both Copenhagen University) and led by Morten Rasmussen, Mikael Rask Madsen and Bart van Voeren.
Members:
CEMES
Morten Rasmussen (History)
Karl Christian Lammers (History)
Niklas Olsen (History)
Ksenia Demodova (History)
Jonas Langeland Pedersen (History)
Kristine Maria Berg (Rethoric)
Marie Sandbjerg (Ethnology)
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Arts and Cultural Studies)
University of Copenhagen
Mikael Rask Madsen (Law and sociology)
Hell Krunke (Law)
Anne-Lise Kjær (Law)
Amnon Lev (Law)
Bart van Voeren (Law)
Rebecca Adler-Nissin (Political science)
Danish Universities
Ann-Christina Knudsen (European studies, Aarhus University)
Adrian Favell (European studies, Aarhus University)
Lisanne Wilkens (European studies, Aarhus University)
Jan-Henrik Meyer (European studies, Aarhus University)
Ann Zimmermann (European studies, Aarhus University)
Hagen Schulz-Forsberg (European studies, Aarhus University)
Claske Vos (European studies, Aarhus University)
Ian Manners (Department of Society and Globalisation, RUC)
Mikkel Jarle Christensen (Department of Society and Globalisation, RUC)
Dorte Andersen (Department of Border Region Studies, University of Southern Denmark)
Christilla Roederer-Rynning (Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark)
Mette Buskjær Christensen (Ph.D.-student, European University Institute)
Associated International Members
Antonin Cohen (Political science, Paris)
Michelle Egan (Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University, Washington DC., USA)
Wolfram Kaiser (History, University of Portsmouth)
Nillo Kauppi (Sociology, Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Strassburg)
Peter Lindseth (Professor of International and Comparative Law, School of Law, University of Connecticut
Kiran Klaus Patel (History, European University Institute)
Antoine Vauchez (Political science, European University Institute)
Associated international and national networks and research projects
- RICHIE working Group on the History of European Law ((http://www.europe-richie.org/Groupes/law/index-en.html)
- Polilexes – fransk abseret netværk om europæisk integration og europæisk ret. (http://www.polilexes.com/POLILEXES/PresentationAng.html)
- Centre for Global and Regional Ethnographies at Aarhus University (http://iho.au.dk/glorea)
- Transnational historie, FKK-projekt ved Aarhus Universitet (http://iho.au.dk/instituttet/andreaktiviteter/transnationalhistorie/)
Activities
Research seminars
8) Meeting at the University of Aarhus, April 2011
- Dorte Andersen, Anna Gawlewicz, Carsten Yndigegn, EU edges and
border practices - Slovenian-Croatian, Polish and Ukranian borders as
laboritories of borderwork on post-national level.
- Morten Rasmussen, The First Advocate Generals and the Making of European Law, 1950-1958
7) Meeting at the Saxo Institute, January 2011
Meeting in order to discuss the book project: ’Transdisciplinary
Handbook of European Union Studies’.al Sociology of European Union
6) Meeting at the Saxo Institute, December 2010
- Christilla Roederer-Rynning - “Joint-Decision Traps” in the EU: Revisiting the paradigmatic case.
- Amnon Lev, The Transformation of International Law in the 19th century.
5) Meeting at the Saxo Institute, May 2010
- Claske Vos, Negotiating European Heritage. Practices and Appropriations of European Heritage Policy in Serbia.'
- Niklas Olsen, The Return of Economic Liberalism and the Fight about
the Political Language in Denmark and West Germany from 1970 to 1990
4) Meeting at University of Aarhus, October 2009
- Rebecca Adler-Nissen, The Political Sociology of Sovereignty: Treaty Opt Outs and the Doxa of an Ever Closer Union.
- Ann Zimmermann, Public Sphere, Political Field or Governmentality? Mapping the New Politic.
3) Meeting at the Saxo Institute, April 2009
- Mikael Rask Madsen, Genesis and Evolution of the Charter of
Fundamental Rights: A Structural Analysis of European Treaty-Making
- Marie Sandberg, Performing the Border: Cartographic Enactments of the
German-Polish Border among German and Polish High School Pupils
2) Meeting at the Faculty of Law, January 2009.
- Dorte Andersen, A New Regionalism? Identity-formation, Subjection and European Knowledge-based Economies
- Morten Rasmussen, How to write the early history of the European Court of Justice?
1) Meeting at the Saxo Institute, November 2008
- Adrian Favell and Virginie Guiraudon, Sociology of European Union: An Agenda
- Ian Manners, Normative Power Europe: A Transdisciplinary Approach to European Studies
Public Events
AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS session on Peter Lindseth, Power and Legitimacy -
Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State (Oxford University Press 2010)
Book presentation organised in cooperation with European Research at the
University of Copenhagen (EURECO) on 16 May 2011 at the University of
Copenhagen.
Speakers:
Peter Lindseth, Professor of International and Comparative Law, University of Connecticut.
Mikael Rask Madsen, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.
Morten Rasmussen, Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.
AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS session on Ann-Christina L. Knudsen, Farmers on
Welfare: The Making of the Common Agricultural Policy (Cornell 2008)
Book presentation organised in cooperation with Centre for Global and
regional Ethnographies on 1 October 2009 at University of Aarhus.
Speakers:
Ann-Christina L. Knudsen, European Studies, University of Aarhus
Ian Manners, European Studies, Roskilde University
Morten Rasmussen, European Studies, University of Copenhagen
Christilla Roederer-Rynning, Political Science, Southern Danish University, Odense
International conferences
1) What kind of Europe? Theoretical, methodological and empirical challenges of Europeanisation, Skodsborg Kurhotel, December 2009.
Organised by Morten Rasmussen og Mikael Rask Madsen.
2) Exploring the History of European Law, Københavns Universitet, juni 2010. Organised by Alexandre Bernier og Morten Rasmussen