23 Sep 2009: YOUNG RESEARCHERS CONFERENCE: East and West together: Twenty years after the fall of communism in Europe

A conference for post-graduate students and early career researchers with research focus on contemporary Europe organised by the Monash European and EU Centre

  Wednesday 23^rd September 2009

Monash University – Caulfield campus, Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, Melbourne, Australia

 Keynote address on ‘The Czech Presidency of the EU’ will be delivered by His Excellency Dr. Juraj Chmiel – Ambassador of the Czech Republic

 Draft programme:

Updated: 08 Sept 2009 [pdf: 271 kb]

Guest speakers include:

• Dr Matt Killingsworth, La Trobe University
• Professor Jan Zielonka, Oxford University

Topics include:

1. Political, economic, social and cultural transition of Central and Eastern European states
2. Common challenges (for both Western and eastern states): gas, energy, migration, tackling climate change, terrorism, corruption etc
3. Relations between East and West, perceptions of the East in the West and the West in the East
4. European relations with third countries.

Selected papers from the conference will appear in a refereed publication.

For registration and further information please email  Dr Eva Polonska
Caulfield campus directions [pdf: 148 kb]

Posted on 3 September 2009