Europe in Discourse2 n d I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e

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08:30 REGISTRATION Hellenic American College, 22 Massalias St., 1068009:40 - 09:50 OPENING – WELCOME SPEECH, Leonidas Phoebus Koskos, Esq., President, Hellenic American University, Auditorium09:50-10:20 OPENING ADDRESS, Dimitris Avramopoulos, Commissioner, Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Auditorium10:20-11:05 KEYNOTE 1 – Michał Krzyżanowski, Örebro University, & University of Liverpool, ‘Crisis’ in/as European Social and Political Imaginary:

Discursive Shifts, Populism, and the Normalisation of Exclusion, Auditorium11:05-11:50 KEYNOTE 2 – George Prevelakis, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, A room with a view. Europe and the sea. Auditorium11:50-12:20 DISCUSSION12:20-13:30 LUNCH (Roof Garden 8th floor, Hellenic American College)

13:30-14:45 PLENARY PANEL 1 – Values-based Reform, from enlargement to legitimization, AuditoriumHenri-Giscard Bohnet - Konrad-Adenauer-StiftungEffie Pedaliu - LSEFranco Zappettini - University of LiverpoolChair: Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, University of Athens

14:45-15:10 COFFEE BREAK (FOYER)

Room Room 304-305 Room 308-309 Room 504-505 Room 508-509 Conference Room 6th floor

Gkika Gallery

15:15-15:35 Socially-mediated right-wing populism: A study of Golden Dawn’s political discourse on Twitter

Katerina Diamantaki, Emmanouil Takas, Dionysis Panos

Digitalized communities – comparative analysis of contemporary local communication structure

Ilona Biernacka-Ligieza

Representation, Brexit and the threat of Populism

Vassiliki Christou

The European Union and Islam: an intercultural agenda of reform inspired by Romantic literary and linguistic passion, Goethe’s educational efforts, contemporary cultural cosmopolitanism, and mindful multilingual mastery

Konrad Gunesh

The European Union versus national independence - a discourse of the Polish right-wing press

Agnieszka Kampka

Viewpoints of Vandalistic Style Graffiti in Crisis-Ridden Athens: Implications for European Reform

Barbara Kondilis, Anna Nikolaou, Theodora Kalapothaki, Chrysoula Kakampakou

15:35-15:55 New Greek Identity (cards). Implications for the Greek identity. Kyriaki Kondylopoulou

From Energy Security to ‘Green’ Energy Security: Tools the EU could use to assure uninterrupted supply of energy resources

Georgia-Akrivi Panagopoulou

Values and Ideals as Tools of Legitimation in EU and UK Brexit Discourses

Samuel Bennett

‘Always a part of Europe’: interpretations of the past in the construction of Romania’s collective identity

Raluka Levonian

Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe: The EU-Turkey agreement

Christiana-Ariola Vranistai

Rethinking through redescribing EU policies with Hannah Arendt

Nicole Dewandre

15:55-16:15

The case for sustainable, values-based reform of the EU’s approach to external migration management

Zoe Gardner

Supporting vulnerable youth across Europe through Rehabilitation for Empowerment, Natural supports, Education, and Work (RENEW)

Maria Agorastou, Sophia Protopapa, John Nikolaides, Valentini Andreoula, Joanne Malloy

Revisiting and reviving European values to ensure a sustainable future for the EU: the case of the Erasmus+ project “Europa: ti vedo e ti vivo”

Sofia Kitsou

Ordoliberalism and European Governance

Kyriakos Mikelis

Discursive Heroes: Recontextualizating Greek Folktales in a Period of Austerity

Nora Peterman

Sensitive Economic Personae and Functional Human Beings: Critical Metaphor Analysis of EU Policy Documents between 1985 and 2014

Orsolya Gulyas, Nicole Dewandre

16:15-16:30 Q & A Q & A Q & A Q & A Q & A Q & A

16:30-17:00 COFFEE BREAK (FOYER)

17:15-17:45 INTERLUDE PLENARY SPEECH -The American perspective, Web-based live speech, Auditorium Ambassador Nicholas R. Burns - Harvard University

18:00-19:30 PLENARY PANEL 2 – Completing the EMU, Auditorium George Pagoulatos - Athens University of Economics and Business Kevin Featherstone - European Institute, LSE Giorgos Moschovis - Representation of the European Commission in Greece Gilles Noblet - European Central Bank Chair: Leonidas Tzonis - Hellenic American University

19:30-20:30 WELCOME RECEPTION - Wine & Cheese (FOYER)

20:30 PLENARY PANEL 3 – Greece and the EU – NIGHT OWL, AuditoriumPanelists: George Katrougalos - Alternate Foreign Minister for European AffairsKostis Hatzidakis - Vice-President, New Democracy partyAnna Diamantopoulou - President, DIKTIO- Network for Reforms in Greece and EuropeDiscussants: Jens Bastian - Independent Economic ConsultantPanagiotis Ioakimides - University of AthensKevin Featherstone - European Institute, LSE Chair: George Prevelakis - Panthéon-Sorbonne University

Day 1 SEPTEMBER 21ST

09:00 REGISTRATION Hellenic American College, 22 Massalias St., 10680

09:30-11:00 PLENARY PANEL 4 – Franco – German Relationship, AuditoriumHans-Jürgen Heimsoeth - Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Kingdom of Sweden Daniel Schlosser - Université de Sorbonne Karin Liebhart - University of ViennaChair: Juliane House – Hellenic American University

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK (FOYER)

Room Room 304-305 Room 308-309 Conference Room 4th floor Conference Room 6th floor Gkika Gallery

11:45-12:15 Constructing identities in social media: refugee Facebook posts in Europe.

Penelope Gardner-Chloros, Lisa McEntee-Atalianis, Mohammed Ateeq

The Greek state at a time of austerity

Georgios Nikolaidis

The European Union as a “LoveMark”

Konstantinos Boutelis,Aikaterini Saich

“You should have known better”. German official narratives and perceptions regarding the Greek financial Crisis and Europe.

Emmanouil Takas, Neofytos Aspriadis, Athanasios N. Samaras

Reforms in the news media

Yorgos Tahtsidis

12:15-12:45 Framing left-wing populism in Greece: a communication perspective

Themis Kaniklidou

The actorness of the EU and the Western Balkans: towards permanent liminality?

Dejana Vukasovic

And Then There Were Twenty-Seven... Analyzing the Impact of Brexit on European Attitudes towards the European Union

Michaela Ivanescu, Luiza-Maria Filimon

Greece and the European Union: Border Issues from the Standpoint of the European and International Press

Despina Symeon

The Franco-German Relationship: Has the “tree of life” blossomed in the media sector?

Michaela Elena Balis

12:45-13:15 Transforming Europe starting from the ‘bottom’: peripheries as new semantic spaces

Cinzia Colaiuda

Paris-Bonn axis in the triangle of Anglo-French-German relations? Representations of Franco-German relations in West German quality newspapers from 1958 to 1962.

Dorothea Merk

Establishing common ground and raising cultural intelligence within the borders of Europe

Natalia Emmanouil

Geography and Geopolitics: the history of the Old Europe/New Europe concepts and their current significance

Cristina Mihalteanu, Plopeanu Emanuel

Hybrid War in 21st century- A Security Challenge for Europe

Theodora Papadopoulou

13:15-13:45 Q & A Q & A Q & A Q & A Q & A

13:45-14:45 LUNCH (Roof Garden 8th floor, Hellenic American College)

15:00-16:30 PLENARY PANEL 5 – The Transatlantic Dimension, Auditorium Alexandros Dimitrakopoulos - NATO Policy Planning Unit James Ellison - Queen Mary UniversityMichał Krzyżanowski - Örebro University, Sweden & University of Liverpool, UK Alexis Papachelas - I Kathimerini Chair: Ino Afentouli - NATO Public Diplomacy Division

16:30-16:45 COFFEE BREAK (FOYER)

20:00-23:00 CONFERENCE DINNER SPEECH, Georgios Koumoutsakos, MP, Shadow Foreign Minister, New Democracy Party (Roof Garden 8th floor, Hellenic American College)

Day 2 SEPTEMBER 22ND

Europe in Discourse2 n d I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e

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09:30 REGISTRATION Hellenic American College, 22 Massalias St., 10680

10:00-11:30 PLENARY PANEL 6 – EU Security and Defense, AuditoriumIno Afentouli - NATO Public Diplomacy DivisionGeneral Mikhail Kostarakos - European Union Military Committee Harry Papasotiriou - Institute of International RelationsChair: George Prevelakis - Panthéon-Sorbonne University

11:30-12:15 COFFEE BREAK (FOYER)

12:15-13:45 PLENARY PANEL 7 – EU and Islam, AuditoriumKonstantinos Filis - Institute of International Relations, Panteion University Magda Shahin - American University in CairoAngelos Syrigos - Panteion University Sotiris Roussos - University of PeloponneseChair: Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, University of Athens

13:45-14:45 LUNCH (Roof Garden 8th floor, Hellenic American College)

Room Room 304-305 Room 306-307 Room 308-309 Room 506-507 Conference Room 4th floor Conference Room 6th floor

14:45-15:15 The Greek society’s response towards the migration flows

Vasileios Stavropoulos, Dimitrios Stavropoulos

Common defence policy and concepts of public spirit

Häkkinen Teemu, Miina Kaarkoski

“From Politicisation to Securitisation: Fluidity of the energy discourse in Europe”

Roxana Andrei

Shaping the Islamic Enemy. Anti-Islamic Discourse on the Facebook Page “Anti-Islam Alliance”

Meggi Veraj

THEMATIC PANEL 1

Framing the Crisis: Public Discourses and Attitudes on EU and Germany in Greece during the Crisis

Convener: Dimitrios Katsikas

• Readers’ online comments during Chancellor Merkel’s visits to Greece

Cissy Theodosiou and Maria Zafiropoulou

• The parliamentary discourse of political elites

Maria Zafiropoulou and Mary Xenou

• Framing Germany: the role of the Media

George Tzogopoulos

• The attitudes of elites towards Greece, Germany, and the EU

Dimitrios Katsikas

Discussion

THEMATIC PANEL 2

“For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health: Europe, its Citizens and Non-citizens in times of crises. Convener: Berna Numan

• Securitization of Multiculturalism or Departure from Democratic Principles in Europe?

Alina Muhabbat Rozmamedova

• Transnational Citizenship? The European Union and Political Participation of its Non-Citizens.

Berna Numan

• What Patients’ Expectations in the European Union tell policy makers

Mevhibe Hodjaoglou

• Turkish-EU relations in an era of mass movement of refugees

Dilek Kalayci

Discussion

15:15-15:45 To Handle the Future

Mona Lija, Eva Lilja

Aesthetic and Intercultural Reflections on Islamic Issues. A French Novel on the Stage of the Latvian Theater

Ojārs Lāms

Europeanization or European Integration? Europe at a crossroads in the 21st century

Spyridon Makris

European and global identity through the scope of Palaeolithic Archaeology

Panagiotis Zervoudakis

15:45-16:15 Fighting Islamophobia, while maintaining EU “values”Kleanthis Kyriakidis

British Referendum and the Decision to Leave the EU (Brexit): British Politicians Interviewed by World Media: An examination of Apologetic Rhetoric

Aspriadis Neofytos, Athanasios Samaras, Giasemi Georgaliou

“Europe” οn National Greek Television: Forging the agenda of reform for Europe through media discourse

Iouliani Vroutsi

Islam in Europe: Reform or (mis)inform?

Marinos Argyriadis

16:15-16:45 Xenophobic, right-wing, “anti-genderism” and manifold and messy forms gendered resistance: How do feminists “do” Europe

Michael Baaz, Mona Lilja

Centre - Periphery Relations in EU: Discursive Practices in the Representation of Greek Debt Crisis

Evangelos Intzidis

When text mining meets discourse analysis: “digging” in the European populism via automatic methods

Katerina Mandenaki, Konstantinos Mourlas

Return in the origin country via the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) program: Informing third-country nationals not in contact with the authorities

Theodoros Fouskas

16:45-17:00 Q & A Q & A Q & A Q & A

17:00 CONFERENCE CLOSING (Auditorium)

Day 3 SEPTEMBER 23RD

Europe in Discourse2 n d I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e

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CONFERENCE VENUE

Hellenic American College, 22 Massalias Str., Athens, 10680

Gkika Gallery – 1st floor Auditorium – 2nd floor

Foyer -2nd floorRoom 304-305 – 3rd floorRoom 306-307 – 3rd floorRoom 308-309 – 3rd floorRoom 504-505 – 5th floorRoom 506-507 – 5th floorRoom 508-509 – 5th floorConference room 4th floorConference room 6th floor

Library - 4th floor Reading space & Media centerRoof Garden - 8th floor