Viadrina Institute for European Studies (IFES)
Workshop Understanding EU legitimacy - Program
Understanding EU legitimacy: Cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of the European Union
Hybrid Workshop, September 8-9, 2021
Europa-Universität Frankfurt (Oder), LH 101/102
Organized by Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.
Supported by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation.
September 8, 2021
10:00
Welcome from the director of the Institute for European Studies of the Viadrina University, Timm Beichelt and Estela Schindel
10:10-10:30
Welcome from the Organizers and Introduction to the Workshop, Paweł Lewicki (Frankfurt (Oder)) and Alexandra Schwell (Klagenfurt)
10:40-12:10
Session 1: Legitimation, discourses and policy fields
Chair: Alexandra Schwell (Klagenfurt)
- Christiane Barnickel (Berlin): Understandings of EU legitimacy: Bridging the normative vs empirical divide
- Amelie Kutter (Frankfurt (Oder)): Legitimation in postnational settings: a discursive political sociology perspective
- Andrea Zeller (Koblenz-Landau): Measuring democratic legitimacy in multilevel-governance
12:10-14:00
Lunch break
14:00-15:30
Session 2: Anthropology of EU policies
Chair: Estela Schindel (Frankfurt (Oder))
- Bernd Kasparek (Göttingen): The legitimacy of European Agencies. The case of Frontex
- Tom Widger (Durham): Pesticide regulation, consensus failures, and challenges to EU legitimacy: The glyphosate controversy
15:45-17:15
Session 3: Approaches to EU institutions
Chair: Jürgen Neyer (Frankfurt (Oder))
- Mascha Gugganig (Ottawa): From organic farming, to agroecology, to digitization: uniting divergent approaches in EU policy imaginaries of sustainable agriculture
- Didier Georgakakis (Paris): The ruse of charismatic authority and the paradox of the EU legitimation
19:30
Joint Dinner
September 9, 2021
10:00-11:00
Keynote + Discussion: Christopher James Lord (Oslo), From consent to obligation. Rethinking the indirect legitimation of the EU by member state democracies
Chair: Guido Tiemann (Klagenfurt)
11:10-12:40
Session 4: Encounters with Eurocrats
Chair: Paweł Lewicki (Frankfurt (Oder))
- Tatiana Bajuk Senčar (Ljubljana): Locating processes of legitimation
- Claske Vos/Jamal Shahin (Amsterdam): Building bridges to the Brussels Bubble: Student encounters with the complexities of the EU
12:40-14:30
Lunch break
14:30-15:30
Keynote + Discussion: Jan Kubik (New Brunswick/London), Remarks on the populist legitimation of power: mythologization run amok
Chair: Timm Beichelt (Frankfurt (Oder))
15:45-16:45
Final Session
Concluding remarks, Paweł Lewicki and Alexandra Schwell
Final discussion and further plans
To attend the workshop, please register via email to whk-ifes@europa-uni.de until Sunday, 5 September 2021. Please indicate whether you will join us in person or via Zoom.
