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NEW STAKES AND NEW CHALLENGES
The ‘Mediterranean’ can be
conceived of as a topos that generates ‘differences’, and a ‘difference’ that
generates topoi. As such, it poses both intellectual, political and cultural
challenges and rewards. It poses challenges both to ‘Europe’s’
self-definition and to those countries considered ‘Mediterranean’. These
challenges are of a serious nature, not merely of identity or taxonomy,
important those these are in influencing public perceptions that are attended
to by politicians and policy makers. They include demographic and migratory
factors, geopolitical issues, political and economic questions, and challenges
to identity and cultural issues. But the relationship between ‘Europe’ and the
‘Mediterranean’ if analysed carefully also offers new rewards. This Conference,
« Betwixt and Between » Europe and the Mediterranean : New Stakes and New
Challenges, is intended to explore the mutual and reciprocal challenges that
Europe and the Mediterranean pose for each other, as well as the challenges
posed to our intellectual understanding of the categories themselves,
« Europe » and the « Mediterranean ». But before this can be teased out, we
need to examine the structural and processual factors that link and
reciprocally transform the two topoi. These are demographic and migratory,
geopolitical, political and economic, and finally those of idenity and
culture.
Friday 2 July 2004. Morning
Session. 9.30-13.00
CHALLENGES TO CULTURES AND IDENTITIES / LES DEFIS IDENTITAIRES ET
CULTURELS
Reflections on the national/identity
question / Réflexions sur la question nationale/identitaire
Maria
Couroucli (University of Paris-Nanterre)
COFFEE
BREAK
Palestinians in the Lebanon. /
Les Palestiniens au Liban, un autre regard
Michel Meier( Institut
Universitaire d'Etudes du Développement - Genève 21)
Déplacer le regard. L’exemple
des pèlerinages inter- religieux / The Displaced Gaze. The example of
Inter-religious pilgrimages
Dionigi Albera, MMSH.
Aix-en-Provence
LUNCH : COLLINGWOOD COLLEGE
13.00-14.15
Friday 2 July : Afternoon Session
14.30-19.00
GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGES-I / LES DEFIS GEOPOLITIQUES-I
The US, the Greater Middle
East and the Mediterranean / Les Etats-Unis, le Grand Moyen Orient et la
Méditerranée
Martyn Bond
( Special
Advisor, Publications and Enlargement. VisitingPprofessor of European
Politics and Policy at Royal Holloway, University of London. Former Director
of the Federal Trust and former Head of the European Parliament's UK
Office)
COFFEE BREAK
Le partenariat euro-
méditerranéen, un processus en panne, une réponse inadaptée ? / The
Euro-Mediterranean Partenariat : a process in difficulties or an inadequate
response ?
Thierry Fabre
Les outils multimédia au
service du réseau REMSH ( Le site Périples, doculine, REMSH News…) / The use
of Multimedia Tools for the REMSH Network
Abdelmajid Arrif
Working Meeting for members of REMSH1 to discuss :
1. The Current State of the
Network
2. The Bibliotheque de la Mediterrannee
3. The 6th Framework Programme
19.00 : RECEPTION AT ORIENTAL
MUSEUM.
20.00 : CONFERENCE DINNER AT
COLLINGWOOD COLLEGE.
Saturday 3 July : Morning Session,
9.30-13.00
GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGES-II / LES DEFIS GEOPOLITIQUES-II
Turkey : within or outside
Europe ? An Historical perspective / La Turquie en Europe ou hors d’Europe ?
Une perspective historique (PDF
format)
Hakan Yilmaz (Bogazici
University)
An analysis of the state of
play and the challenges posed by enlargement or non-enlargement of the
European Union/ Une analyse des enjeux et des défis de l’élargissement ou du
non élargissement
Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Oxford
Univesity)
COFFEE BREAK
La construction de l’Europe et
son élargissement vus du Sud, un défi, une menace ou une chance ? / The
construction and enlargement of Europe as seen from the south : a threat or an
opportunity ?
Jean Robert Henry,
L’élargissement vers le Sud, scénario alternatif d’un
partenariat en crise?
(format pdf)
LUNCH AT COLLINGWOOD COLLEGE
Saturday 3 July :AFTERNOON
SESSION : 14h30-19h.
DEMOGRAPHIC AND MIGRATORY CHALLENGES / LES DEFIS DEMOGRAPHIQUES ET
MIGRATOIRES
Demographic transitions within
and between Europe and the Mediterranean. Some introductory remarks / La
transition démographique, entre Europe et Méditerranée, remarques
introductives. (
Pdf or
Power Point format). For the Power point format,
you mlust click on the page to access to the next pages.
Chris Wilson, Max Planck
Institute
L’Europe a-t-elle besoin de
nouvelles migrations ? / Does Europe need new immigrants ?
Catherine de Wenden
COFFEE BREAK
Les défis de la politique
d’asile, entre construction européenne et histoire nationale / The challenges
posed by assylum policies. Between Making Europe and National Histories.
Sylvie Mazzella
DISCUSSION AND SUMMARY OF EACH
OF THE SESSIONS BY A RAPPORTEUR
Academic matters (papers, etc).
Please address all communcations to :
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