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EuroStorie conference: Crises Redux - Europe in a Global Context

Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives

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Wed, 01 Oct, 2025 at 05:00 pm

Helsingin Yliopiston päärakennus

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Date & Location

Wed, 01 Oct, 2025 at 05:00 pm - Fri, 03 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm (EEST)

Helsingin Yliopiston päärakennus

Unioninkatu 34, FI-00170 Helsinki, Suomi, Helsinki, Finland

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About the event

EuroStorie conference: Crises Redux - Europe in a Global Context
The Crises Redux conference will be organized by the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (EuroStorie) funded by the Research Council of Finland. The conference will focus on the same themes that EuroStorie has been working on for the last six years: a critical analysis of the narratives that serve as the building blocks of Europe and a reassessment of the idea of Europe in relation to migration and global history. The Crisis Redux conference will focus on the European narratives and explanatory models used to understand crises, exploring how these frameworks draw on the past and envision possible futures to illuminate the reality of the problems facing contemporary Europe and the means to solve them.

We will explore how Europe’s role in the great lines of the global political economy and in the redistribution of wealth after the Second World War has been explained and how this corresponds to reality. We will examine the process of European integration as a phenomenon that has shaped the continents development over the last decades, but which now has to rethink its foundational structures and principles; Who does “Europe” represent, and against whom is it defining itself? Finally, the conference will reflect on the place of the European welfare state in a rapidly changing world. What visions of the past and aspirations for the future underpin this model? How do Europe’s collective experiences and its worldviews function within a shifting global order?


More infromation on our website:

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/law-identity-and-the-european-narratives/crises-redux-europe-in-a-global-context


Event venues

Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, Small Hall

Think Corner, Yliopistonkatu 4, Stage


Registration

We're hoping for registration by the 22nd of September, by doing this we can accommodate to your dietary needs and avoid food waste!

Register through this link:
https://www.lyyti.in/Crises_Redux_Europe_in_a_Global_Context_8721


Programme


Wednesday 1.10.

Think Corner


17.30-19.00: Keynote 1: Jessica Whyte - Economic Coercion and the Crises of the (Neo) Liberal International Order


Thursday 2.10.

Main Building, Small Hall


9.30-9.45: Arrival and registration (coffee/tea)


9.45-10.00: Opening and welcome


10.00-11.00: Keynote 2: Anika Seemann - Law after the ‘Zero Hour’: The Temporalities of Legal Thought in early Postwar Europe


11.00-12.00: Panel 1: Silence and Exclusion in European imagined communities

Miika Tervonen: Deportation, “crisis” and the post-universal welfare state

Reetta Toivanen: History of United Europe: To Remember or to Forget?


12.00-13.30: Lunch Break


13.30-15.00: Panel 2: Shifting temporalities of Crisis in Europe

William King: A crisis of democracy? Counter-narratives and scepticism of direct elections in the UK, 1975-79

Lina Klymenko & Akseli Ahtiainen: Thinking About Historical Analogies Interpretively: What Role Does the Winter War Analogy Play in Finland’s Support for Ukraine?

Mirosław Michał Sadowski: Weaving Narratives of Crises through Law: Lessons and Warnings from Central and Eastern Europe


15.00-15.20: Coffee Break


15.20-17.00: Panel 3: ‘Rights’, ‘Values’ and ‘Europe’ in European History

Leila Brännström: The breakthrough of rights and the battle for the Swedish state in the 1970s and 1980s

Moritz von Kalckreuth: Shall we Simply Return to Value-Universalism? Skeptical Remarks concerning Universalization and Value-Attachments

Timo Pankakoski: Koselleck’s Europe


Friday 3.10.

Main Building, Small Hall


9.30-10.00 Arrival (coffee/tea)


10.00-11.00: Keynote 3: Kiran Klaus Patel - Universalism and After: Narratives and Dynamics of European Integration since the 1980s


11.00-12.00: Panel 4: The Europe of the European Union

Agnė Oseckytė: Once Upon a Legal Order: Constitutional Identity in EU Legal Scholarship

Berfin Nur Osso: A Creeping Crisis of Migration Management? Institutional Responses and Implications for “Access” at the EU’s Physical, Legal, and Social Borders


12.00-13.30: Lunch Break


13.30-15.00: Panel 5: Borders and Movement in Europe

Floris van Doorn: A Redux of What? Some Reflections on Four Years at the EuroStorie Project

Giuliano Fleri: Crisis or Structure? Competing Narratives of Irregular Migration to Lampedusa (1990–Present)

Magdalena Kmak: EU Eastern Border and Europeanisation of the Right to Seek Asylum


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