The summer conference season 2021 opened for me with this year’s annual conference of the Refugee Law Initiative, ‘Ageing Gracefully? The 1951 Refugee Convention at 70‘. What a splendid event, with an enormous variety of speakers from all parts of the world, inspiring keynotes and in-depth discussions! I was happy…
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Talk on the roles attributed to the EU in German and Swedish regulation of asylum seekers’ and refugees’ access to health care
Following my presentation on the (construed) role of the EU in national policies on asylum seekers’ and refugees’ access to health care at the “Health in Europe” discussion forum hosted by the Centre for Law and Society, Lancaster Law School (UK), in late March, I worked further on the underlying…
Continue ReadingConference talk: ‘Democratisation through Deliberation’
The European Parliament’s (EP) primary raison d’être is the representation of the EU citizens, providing its members with the necessary argumentative basis to claim: There is no democratic legitimacy in EU politics without us! – Whereas this claim is the same today as it was almost 70 years ago, the…
Continue Reading“National values” in asylum and health policies: Presentation at the RESPOND Conference in Cambridge (17-19 Oct 2019)
From 17 to 19 October 2019, I had the opportunity to be among a wide range of scholars from a variety of disciplines – political science, sociology, law, anthropology, history etc. – who gathered at Newnham College, Cambridge University, to discuss recent developments and new insights in the field of…
Continue ReadingCfP deadline coming up: Second Graduate Conference on European Integration History, Florence
Our Second Annual Graduate Conference on the History of European Integration will take place on 10-12 September 2018 at the European University Institute in Florence. You can submit an abstract until 31 March 2018. The Annual Graduate Conference on the History of European Integration is a joint initiative between the…
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