20 de Janeiro de 2012

Program

9h30-10h00. Welcome & Introductory Remarks

• António Firmino da Costa, Vice-Rector for Research of ISCTE-IUL
• Fernando Luís Machado, Director of CIES-IUL
• Tobias Schumacher, CIES-IUL

10h00-11h30. Area studies between local designs, regionalisation and globalisation: what relevance, what added value?

Chair: Marc Renaud, CIES-IUL

• Bert Hoffmann, GIGA Hamburg
• Raquel Freitas, CIES-IUL
• Andrés Malamud, ICS-UL

11h30-12h00 Coffee Break

12h00-13h15. The comparison and area studies: analytical challenges revisited

Chair: Catherine Moury, CIES-IUL

• Dennis Zuev, CIES-IUL
• Beatriz Padilla, CIES-IUL
• Sarah Mahler, Florida Int. University, Miami

13h15-14h45 Lunch Break

14h45-16h15. The many faces of transnationalism in area studies: comparing actors, structures, policies and disciplines

Chair: Angela Movileanu, CIES-IUL

• Jörn Dosch, University of Leeds
• Ioannis Grigoriadis, Bilkent University, Ankara
• Britta Baumgarten, CIES-IUL

16h15-16h30 Coffee Break

16h30-18h00. From area studies to global studies? Analysing the latest trends of an emerging discipline in a cross-regional perspective

Chair: Ana Maria Evans, ICS-UL

• Ronald Holzhacker, University of Groningen
• Remus Anghel, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College
  

18h00 End of conference

Organisation: Beatriz Padilla and Tobias Schumacher, CIES-IUL