The conference will feature four panels, each one hosted by one of the department's research groups: Contemporary Marxism, Foreign Policy, European Politics & Society, and International Political Economy.

The event will run from 09.30 - 17.30 in the Council Room and will include lunch and refreshments. All are welcome from SPE; staff and PGR students alike.

 

Programme

09.30-09.45 Coffee/Tea

09.45-10.00 welcome

10.00-11.00

Contemporary Marxism Group:
Chair: Diego Macías Woitrin

Can capital deliver the energy transition? A critique of the political economy of renewable energy
André Novas Otero

Cryptocurrency and Money as a Social Form
Catherine Comyn

11.00-11.30 Coffee/Tea Break

11.30-12.30

Foreign policy:
Chair: Michael Higham

Legal mobilisation in EU foreign policy: Comparing the case of Israel/Palestine and Morocco/Western Sahara
Benedetta Voltolini

Future-thinking and future-making in European foreign and defence policy
Christoph Meyer

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.00

European Politics and Society:
Chair: Sofia Vasilopoulou

LGBTQ+ liberation: When and why have political parties in the UK changed their policies?
Isabelle Hertner and Matthew Lloyd

'What's past is prologue' A comparative analysis of the weaponisation of the Classics in the narratives of Italian and American Far Right Groups 1945-2025
Ethan Scanlon

Gender norms and electoral autocracies/ or in hybrid regimes illiberal democracies: Russia and Turkey’s instrumentalisation of traditionalist-modernist dichotomy for the authoritarian consolidation
Sevinc Bermek

15.00-15.30 Coffee/Tea Break

15.30-17.00

International Political Economy: Issues in IPE
Chair: Leila Simona Talani

Do immigrants steal our jobs?
Leila Simona Talani

Stigmatising civil society to silence Womens' Voice: The Effect of "Putin-style" foreign agent laws on IPV justification and policy inaction
Sevinc Bermek

Rethinking the EU’s Crisis Management Performance: The cases of the Global Financial Crisis and Covid-19
Konstantinos Myrodias

17.00-17.15 Closing remarks