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.

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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.