Description

DAY 1 (30/11/2015)

9:00-10:00: Institucional Welcome

• Basque Government (15mins)
• Bilbao's Council (15mins)
• Provincial Council of Bizkaia (15mins)
• Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa (BBK) (15mins)

Chair: Institutional representative from Iberdrola

10:00 – 10:30: Academic Opening

• Daniel Innerarity (Globernance Director) & Jonathan White (London School of Economics).

10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30: Panel I: Governing the paradox: an increasingly Interdependent Europe based on nationstates.

• Alessandro Ferrara (University of Rome Tor Vergata) – Constitutional Narratives and the Future of Europe (20mins)
• Carlos Closa(European University Institute, Florence) – A narrative of disatisfaction. Leaving the Union (20mins)
• Jan Komarek (London School of Economics) – Europe's Existential Question: What is the right conceptual vocabulary to talk about it? (20mins)

Chair: NereaMagallón (University of Deusto) (30mins debate)

13:00 – 14:00: Panel II: Fundamental Rights Protection and Constitutional Integration.

• Maribel González Pascual (Pompeu Fabra University) – Fundamental Rights and EUPowers: opposite forces? (20mins)
• José Agustín Menéndez (ARENA Centre for European Studies) – Which law? Whose law? Which Europe? Whose Europe? (20mins)

Chair: Iñigo Bullain (University of the Basque Country) (30mins debate)

14:00 – 16:00: Lunch

16:00 – 17:30: Panel III: The challenge of a plurality of Demos

• Miguel P. Maduro(European University Institute, Florence) – TBC (20mins)
• Jose Luis Martí (Pompeu Fabra University) – European Democracy and the no-demos thesis (20mins)
• Daniel Innerarity (Globernance Director) – The European Union as a complex democracy (20mins)

Chair: Joxerramon Bengoetxea (University of the Basque Country) (20mins debate)

17:30 – 18:00: Coffee break

18:00 – 19:00: Panel IV: The Democratic Legitimacy on a diverse EU

• Sergio Fabrinni(Director of the LUISS School of Government) – A Post-Teleological Narrative (20mins)
• Neus Torbisco (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)– Building Trust and Solidarity Across Europe: Towards a Pluralist Model of Integration (20mins)

Chair: Beatriz Pérez de las Heras (University of Deusto) (20mins debate)

DAY 2 (01/12/2015)

10:00-11:30: Panel V: Rethinking the post-crisis Legal Framework

• Jonathan White (London School of Economics) –EU Revisionism and the Rise of the Emergency Imaginary (20mins)
• Lina Papadopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) - About the flower of (national) democracy and other European fables:
• Adjusting democracy to economy (20mins)
• Christian Joerges (Heartie School of Governance) – Adjudication in a State of Emergency: The Example of the OMT Litigation (20mins)

Chair: Igor Fibili (University of the Basque Country) (30mins debate)

11:30 – 12:00: Coffee break

12:00 – 13:00: Panel VI: Building up a shared European Socio-Political Framework beyond the legitimacy debate

• Adriana Ciancio (University of Catania) - A new uniform electoral procedure to relegitimize the process of political integration in Europe (20mins)
• Renaud Thillaye (Policy Network) – Europe as a platform (20mins)

​Chair: Katerina Yiannibas (University of Deusto) (20mins debate)

13:00-13:30: Closing Remarks

• Ander Errasti (Globernance Researcher) & Cristina Astier (Globernance Researcher)

​LOGISTICS

• Dates: 30.11.2015 – 01.12.2015
• Venue: Torre Iberdrola Bussines Center, Plaza de Euskadi, 5, 48009 Bilbao, Bizkaia
• Phone: 944 35 43 49
• Dissemination: The event will be broadcasted by live streaming through the Globernance web page.
• Language: The main language of the lectures will be English, although there will be simultaneous translation.