EUROSPHERE International Project Conference
13 Listopada 2009 - 14 Listopada 2009
Austria
EUROSPHERE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Towards a Diverse European Public Sphere?
Theoretical Puzzles and Empirical Evidences
Date: 13 – 14 November 2009
Host: Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück
Location: University of Osnabrück, Germany
Organiser: The EUROSPHERE Consortium
The EUROSPHERE Project
EUROSPHERE is an integrated project funded by the European Commission within the European Union’s 6th Framework Programme, involving researchers from different disciplines and 16 countries and coordinated by the University of Bergen (Norway). The main objective of the project is to create innovative perspectives on the European public spheres and to identify the conditions that enable or undermine the articulation of inclusive European public spheres. In each participating country, researchers analyse political parties, social movement organisations, think tanks and media, as well as the trans-European counterparts and networks of these, with the aim to create a knowledge base on how organisations contribute to the articulation of different types of public spheres in contexts of complex diversity. After the periods of theoretical and methodological elaboration, followed by the data collection activities, the project will be able to present its first results in this conference.
Aim of the conference
Having reached this point in the project, the first international conference in November 2009 aims to face up EUROSPHERE’s theoretical and empirical approaches to criticism of external experts. The central research topics of EUROSPHERE will be addressed here contrasting EUROSPHERE research and its first results with critical views in theoretical and empirical terms. For this purpose, the conference will focus on two major thematic issues:
– Does a European Public Sphere (EPS) exist and how can it be approached?
– The tension between diversity and unity in the EU as a challenge for a EPS – which are the structural consequences of diversity for EPS (and vice versa)?
Towards a Diverse European Public Sphere?
Theoretical Puzzles and Empirical Evidences
Date: 13 – 14 November 2009
Host: Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück
Location: University of Osnabrück, Germany
Organiser: The EUROSPHERE Consortium
The EUROSPHERE Project
EUROSPHERE is an integrated project funded by the European Commission within the European Union’s 6th Framework Programme, involving researchers from different disciplines and 16 countries and coordinated by the University of Bergen (Norway). The main objective of the project is to create innovative perspectives on the European public spheres and to identify the conditions that enable or undermine the articulation of inclusive European public spheres. In each participating country, researchers analyse political parties, social movement organisations, think tanks and media, as well as the trans-European counterparts and networks of these, with the aim to create a knowledge base on how organisations contribute to the articulation of different types of public spheres in contexts of complex diversity. After the periods of theoretical and methodological elaboration, followed by the data collection activities, the project will be able to present its first results in this conference.
Aim of the conference
Having reached this point in the project, the first international conference in November 2009 aims to face up EUROSPHERE’s theoretical and empirical approaches to criticism of external experts. The central research topics of EUROSPHERE will be addressed here contrasting EUROSPHERE research and its first results with critical views in theoretical and empirical terms. For this purpose, the conference will focus on two major thematic issues:
– Does a European Public Sphere (EPS) exist and how can it be approached?
– The tension between diversity and unity in the EU as a challenge for a EPS – which are the structural consequences of diversity for EPS (and vice versa)?