19th International Conference of Europeanists: A Europe of Diversities
19th International Conference of Europeanists: A Europe of Diversities
March, 2012 - 24 March, 2012，Boston, United States
Europe is a zone of tremendous diversity. Migration within and to Europe has generated multicultural societies across the continent. Europe’s citizens are ruled though an intricate maze of multi-level governance structures and institutions that range from the local to the pan-European to the international. In the realm of political economy, corporations, industries, and states operate in distinct waysin a variety of different settings, and while the former Eastern Europe has been reunited with the West, the backgrounds of these two regions often dictates dissimilar trajectories into the contemporary era. Historians have focused on exploring not only distinct national paths to democratization, but also European countries? connection to former colonies and to minorities within their borders.
Given this extraordinary context, for its 19th International Conference of Europeanists the Council for European Studies is interested in having participants reflect on and explore the variety of diversities within Europe: political, administrative, legal, geographic, economic, social, cultural, intellectual, and
identitarian. How do these differences operate as sources of conflict, of exciting ideas, of growth, or of misunderstanding? To what extent does thinking about Europe?s diversities enhance our understanding of Europe as a whole?