Today's perceptions of security and the narratives on European identity create invisible but existent distinctions and severe physical barriers at the same time. Depending on how we look at the borders of Europe, from an insider or an outsider perspective, we may get very different answers on the implications of these borders for our societies, political systems and individual human beings.
Students and scholars from the Circle U. community, with guest from Istanbul Bilgi University, will elaborate on the various facets of Europe's borders and boundaries, the drivers for migration, inclusion or delimitation, together with three distinguished guest speakers.
The seminar takes place at Humboldt Universität Berlin as an activity organized by the Circle U. Climate and Democracy Hubs, and you can follow it online!
Programme
| 14:15-14:30 |
Welcome and introduction Claudia Matthes, HU Berlin, Circle U. Chair for Democracy and Gökçe Yurdakul, HU Berlin, Circle U. Chair for Climate Hubs at HU Berlin |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Anti-migrant and anti-refugee sentiments and the growing Islamophobia within right-wing populism in Germany and France Ayhan Kaya, Istanbul Bilgi University and DAAD-Fellow at the Berlin Institute of Migration and Integration Research, HU Berlin |
| 15:00-15:45 | Discussion led by Gökce Yurdakul |
| 15:45-16:00 | Break |
| 16:00-16:20 |
The changing meanings of periphery and centre and its implications for political dynamics inside the European Union Alexander Clarkson, King's College London, Circle U. Chair for Democracy |
| 16:20-16:45 | Discussion led by Claudia Matthes |
| 16:45-17:05 |
Facets of EU enlargement and how this has reflected and shifted the notions of Europe's borders Vincent Laborderie, UCLouvain |
| 17:05-17:30 | Discussion |
| 17:30-17:45 | Final remarks by Gökce Yurdakul and Claudia Matthes |
