Scientific Programme

Welcoming & Introduction

10:00 – 10:45 (EET)

Eleni Phtiaka, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences (University of Cyprus)

Julien Auboussier, Research Network Discours d’Europe, (University Lyon 2)

Dimitris Trimithiotis, Organising Committee (University of Cyprus)

Opening Talk

10:45 – 11:45 (EET)

‘The New Normal’, COVID-19, and the Recontextualisation of Crisis: Discursive Shifts in European (Right-Wing) Populist Imagination

Michal Krzyzanowski (Uppsala University)

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11:45 – 12:00 (EET)

Discursive (Re)Constructions of Europe in Multidimensional Crisis

12:00 – 13:45 (EET)

Coordination and Discussion: Miranda Christou (Chair) (University of Cyprus), Julien Auboussier (University Lyon 2), Costas Constantinou (University of Cyprus)

Le statut des discours cosmopolitiques à l’époque du Brexit : quelle dicibilité dans quel contexte ? (FR) 

Anna Khalonina (Université de Paris) 

L’Europe des extrêmes, au prisme du ‘Grand remplacement’et autres  théories complotistes (FR) 

Baider Fabienne (Université de Chypre) 

These are not just words: The interplay of economic imaginary and discursive construction of Europe in the League party (EN)

Daniela Caterina (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) 

The visual framing of the EU in political cartoons on the migration crisis (EN) 

Stavros Assimakopoulos (University of Malta) 

The poststructuralist political economy of EU trade. A discourse-theoretical analysis of the construction of political agency in the European Parliament. (EN)

Thomas Jacobs (Ghent University)

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13:45 – 14:15 (EET)

European Integration, Europeanism and Euroscepticism

14:15 – 16:00 (EET)

Coordination and Discussion: Elena Ioannidou (Chair) (University of Cyprus), Valentina Pricopie (Romanian Academy), Adonis Pegasiou (European Institute of Management and Finance)

Europeanism and Euroscepticism: Contexts and discourses (EN)

Nikola Petrović (Institute for Social Research in Zagreb) 

Instrumentalizing Epistemology in Debates on Europe: Realism and Constructivism as Discourse Strategies

Łukasz Remisiewicz (University of Gdańsk) 

Representation of the EU through the use of we and us in British newspapers and parliamentary debates (EN) 

Jenni Räikkönen (Tampere University) 

Reporting the EU Regulation in the British Press:  Bendy Banana, British Humour and Construction of “Silly Europe” (EN) 

Ana Tominc (Queen Margaret University Edinburgh) 

Constructing Europe, fostering austerity, remaking (national) identity. Critical perspectives from the Italian context (EN) 

Adriano Cozzolino (Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli)

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16:00 – 16:15 (EET)

Discourses of Europe

16:15 – 18:00 (EET)

Coordination and Discussion: Sophia Stavrou (Chair) (University of Cyprus), Nicos Trimikliniotis (University of Nicosia), Michalis Moutselos (University of Cyprus)

Le discours tenu par l” Union Européen concernant la pandémie de Covid 19 et la pratique qui l’accompagne : une nouvelle étape dans l’histoire du pouvoir contemporain ? (FR) 

Elena Loizou (University of Cyprus)

Mutating Discourse: The Discourse of the European Commission on irregular migration during the COVID-19 pandemic (EN) 

Floris Liekens (University of Kent)

The discursive construction of Europe in Irish higher education: a knowledge-based economy account (EN) 

Eileen Gillen (Roskilde University College)  

“Resilient” Vs “Compassionate” Europe: The resilience discourses and their ethical implications in the EU policy environment. 

Efi Kyprianidou & Yiannis Christidis (Cyprus University of Technology) 

The Twelve-Starred Banner. The idea of Europe in pan-European movements DiEM25 and Volt Europa

Matteo De Toffoli (University of Pisa)

How Europe Sounds

18.00-18:10 (EET)

Digital foyer

Coordination and Discussion: Yiannis Christidis (Cyprus University of Technology)

How Europe Sounds: Selected soundworks on the construction of the European Identity by the CUT Department of Fine Arts students. (Cyprus University of Technology)

What does the construction of the European Identity sound like? What does it mean to be European? 3rd year students of the Department of Fine Arts of Cyprus University of Technology, enrolled in the ‘Sound and New Media’ module, after being encouraged to think of the formation of the european identity, and after having recorded everyday sounds of their city, edited their conceptual ideas into sound-based digital artworks, to be presented in the digital foyer of the conference. Selected works are featured on this playlist. (Use of headphones is recommended)

Comparative Perspectives

10:00 – 11:45 (EET)

Coordination and Discussion: Giorgos Charalambous (Chair) (University of Nicosia), Corinne Gobin (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Rachele Raus (University of Turin)

Translation practices of EU crisis management. How economic expert discourses (re)contextualize the European Union in Italy and Germany in the course of the corona pandemic (EN) 

Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta (Charles University) & Jens Maesse (University of Giessen) 

Images of Europe in (Left- and Right-wing) Populist Discourses: The Cases of France and Germany (EN)

Alexander Alekseev (National Research University Higher School of Economics), Dmitry Svirchevsky (National Research University Higher School of Economics) & Ivan Fomin (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

L’européanisation au travers du discours médiatique de commémoration (FR)

Axel Boursier (CY Cergy Paris Université) & Hedwig Wagner (Europa-Universität Flensburg)

Représenter un même temps : le discours de commémoration et sa représentation sociale et médiatique en quête d’une mémoire collective européenne (FR)

Alida Maria Silletti (Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro)  

Le Brexit et la figure du citoyen dans les discours médiatiques français, britanniques et allemands (FR)

Leroy Clémentine (Université Lyon 2) 

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11:45 – 12:00 (EET)

Constructing Europe in the Media Discourses

12:00 – 13:45 (EET)

Coordination and Discussion: Dimitra Milioni (Chair) (Cyprus University of Technology), Juliette Charbonneaux (Sorbonne Université), Venetia Papa (University of Cyprus)

European Concerns and the EU institutions. Discourse and representation in the Romanian online news media outlets. (EN) 

Andreea Alina Mogos (Babeș-Bolyai University) 

Conceptualization of Europe in Turkish Newspaper Opinion Articles in Pro and Anti- Government Newspapers (EN)

Elçin Esmer (Mersin University) 

Tweet for Peace through Europe (EN) 

Christiana Karayianni & Charis Psaltis (University of Cyprus) 

The Migration and the (de-)construction of European values in news portals in Greece (EN) 

Dimitris Serafis & Stavros Assimakopoulos  (University of Malta) 

European Multilevel Public Opinion at the Pandemic Test 

Stefania Adrana Bevilacqua (University La Sapienza of Rome)

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13:45 – 14:15 (EET)

Nationalism, Populism and Securitization

14:15 – 16:00 (EET)

Coordination and Discussion: Nayia Kamenou (Chair) (University of Cyprus), Giorgos Charalambous (University of Nicosia) Rachele Raus (University of Turin), 

White (inter)nationalism? Race, nation, and constructions of Europe on a far-right YouTube channel

Scott Burnett (University of Gothenburg)  

Nationalism and Hegemony: The Social and Political Consolidation of “the Nation” 

Michaelangelo Anastasiou (University of Cyprus) 

Cyprus: a land of no populism? 

Giorgos Venizelos (Scuola Normale Superiore) 

La réinterprétation du concept de « law enforcement » dans le discours contraignant européen (FR) 

Francesca Bisiani (Université Catholique de Lille)

 Concluding Remarks – Roundtable Discussion

16:00 – 16:45 (EET)

Julien Auboussier, Juliette Charbonneaux, Rachele Raus, Sophia Stavrou, Dimitris Trimithiotis 

 Network Meeting

 16.45-17.30 (EET)