Virtual Conference Indiana University Bloomington: What's to come for Europe in the post-COVID era?

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The Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence and the European & Eurasian Studies Program at FIU would like to share this virtual conference from The Hamilton Lugar School's Russian & East European Institute, Institute for European Studies, Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center, and Polish Studies Center at Indiana University Bloomington.

What's to come for Europe in the post-COVID era?

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is a crisis whose effects will ripple on for years to come, but how will it impact Europe? A mere five weeks since the World Health Organization declared Europe the active center of the pandemic, we are bearing witness to the increased erosion of democracy in East-Central Europe, newly exposed weaknesses in the EU's political and financial structure, and new social and political challenges for migrant communities.

The Hamilton Lugar School's Russian & East European Institute, Institute for European Studies, Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center, and Polish Studies Center will host a virtual mini-conference examining Europe and the existential challenges illuminated by COVID-19.

Conference panels

10:00am: Introduction

Ambassador Lee Feinstein, founding dean of the Hamilton Lugar School and former US Ambassador to Poland, will open the day with short remarks.

10:05am - Panel I: Democracy on Paper: COVID-19 in East-Central Europe

  • Elena Korosteleva, University of Kent
  • Jarosław Kuisz, Kultura liberalna Poland
  • Nick Thorpe, BBC

Interviewer: Péter Krekó, Political Capital Institute

12:00pm - Panel II: Fraying at the Seams? Europe, the European Union, and the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Maryna Bazylevych, Luther College
  • Anna Diamantopoulou, DIKTIO Network for Reform
  • Evi Hatziandreou, IU O'Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs

Interviewer: Frank Hess, IU Hamilton Lugar School

2pm - Panel III: Outsiders & Quarantines: Migrants in COVID-19 Europe \

  • Maurizio Albahari, University of Notre Dame
  • Olena Fedyuk, Central European University
  • Priyali Sur, The Azadi Project

Interviewer: Elizabeth Dunn, IU Department of Geography
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