The European Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ESAANZ) 1-day conference

Date: Friday, 6 December

Venue: Level 9, 100 Leicester St

Registrations: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/esaanz-conference-2024-tickets-1007302136807?aff=oddtdtcreator

Contact: Gosia Klatt

GENERAL PROGRAM OVERVIEW

8:30am – 9:00am       Registration

9:00am – 9:15am       Welcome address by the EU Ambassador to Australia, H.E. Gabriele Visentin (TBC) 

9:15am – 10:30am    Panel 1: Jean Monnet Policy Network “Challenges and opportunities for EU heritage diplomacy in Ukraine (HER-UKR)” (Chair: Kasia Williams)

The “battle of narratives” in uncertain world: Communicating Ukraine and its historical and cultural heritage in global media. Focus on the Global South.

• Dmitry Romanenko, “Who’s narrative China tells about Ukraine’s cultural heritage?”
• Daniela Grimberg, “Framing of Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage in Brazilian Mainstream News”
• Mia Angeline, “Indonesian Media Perspectives on Framing Ukraine’s Heritage”.
• Shalabh Chopra, “Whose narrative are we reporting? Destruction of Ukraine’s cultural heritage, Russia-Ukraine Conflict, and battleground Indian media”
• Francesca Harrison and Natalia Chaban, “Narratives of Ukraine in Global South: Case of South Africa”

10:30 – 10:50               Morning Tea

10:50 – 12:00               Panel 2: EU strategy and leadership (Chair: Anne McNaughton)

• Roderic Pitty, “Who lost Crimea? The EU and the background to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine”
• Matt Harvey, “Prospects of Georgian Accession after the October 2024 Parliamentary Election”
• Rémy Davison, “Sovereign capacity: Building EU Strategic Autonomy”
• Bruce Wilson, “European Union Leadership: A Crisis in Legitimacy?”

12:00 – 12:30               Lunch

12:30 – 13:45               Panel 3: The European Education Systems (Chair: Gosia Klatt)

Perspectives of the Erasmus + Master of Education students on the European Education Systems: Bolor Jamiyandagva, Javaria Ismail, Ananya Rao, Yujie Li

13:45-14:45                  Panel 4: Migration policies and border control (Chair: Serena Kelly)

• Kelly Soderstrom, Bridging Humanitarian Protection and Sovereignty: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of EU Member State Responsibilities in Asylum Governance
• Cong D. Nguyen, On the Pursuing Justice and Hope of Migration in the SDG 2 and SDG 10 Implementation (online)
• Louis Everuss, Comparing border digitisation in the EU and Australia

14:45 – 15:00               Coffee break

15:00 – 15:45               Panel 5: Australia and New Zealand in the World (Chair:Matt Harvey)

• Serena Kelly & Matthew Doidge, “New Zealand, AUKUS and the Anglosphere: perceptions of AUKUS amidst great power rivalry in the Indo-Pacific”
• Binoy Kampmark, “Setting Norms on Human Rights: PACE, Political Prisoners and the Assange Case”

15:45 – 16:30               Panel 6: Migration history – discussion (Chair: Kasia Williams)

• Lucyna Artymiuk, Destination Australia: Polish Soldier Migrants (1947-48), 2019
• Gosia Klatt, The Poles in Australia, 2014

16:30                              Concluding Remarks