Shifting Power from Europe’s Margins?

Arrival and light lunch

Venue: Gallerian, Faculty of Law, 4th Floor

Welcome and information, short round of presentations

Marja-Liisa Öberg and Elsa Hedling

Session I: Shifting Power: New Voices and Changing Positionalities

Chair: Elsa Hedling, Lund University

1. Didier Georgakakis, University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne
   What prosopography tells us about the position of women in the institutions and policies of the European Union
   
   
2. Jessica Guth, Leeds Trinity University
   Shifting Power: Women, Semi-peripheries and Human Rights as EU High Politics
   
   
3. Hillary Briffa, King’s College London
   Performing Vulnerability, Shifting Power: Women Leaders from Small and Semi-Peripheral States in EU Governance

Session II: Gender, Norms and Threats: Reconfiguring the CEE in EU High Politics

Chair: Marja-Liisa Öberg, Lund University

1. Monika de Silva, University of Gothenburg
   Gendered Construction of CEE Women in the EU Bubble
   
   
2. Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň* and Míla O’Sullivan, Institute of International Relations Prague
   The Limits of Europeanisation? Czech Foreign Policy between Feminist Norms and Masculinised Politics
   
   
3. Elsa Hedling, Lund University
   From the Margins to the Core: Gendered Disinformation and Semi-Peripheral Contestation in EU High Politics 

Session III: Semi-Peripheral Shifts and Gendered Geopolitics

Chair: Elsa Hedling, Lund University

1. Magdalena Góra, Jagiellonian University (online presentation)
   Shifting Gravity Eastwards? Perceptions and Contestation of CEE Women’s Leadership in the European Commission
   
   
2. Judita Krasniqi and Labinot Hajdari*, Public International Business College Mitrovica
   From the EU’s Margins to Its Power Centers: Women, Power, and the Western Balkans
   
   
3. Maryna Shevtsova, KU Leuven and Mila O’Sullivan, Institute of International Relations Prague
   Gender as Geopolitical Capital: Ukraine, War, and Shifting Power from Europe’s Margins