Reimagining Europe’s Futures: Connectivity, Creativity, and Care in a Changing World 

Time

Activity

9:00 – 9:15 

Arrival with coffee/tea

9:15 – 9:25 

Conference opening 

9:30 – 11:00 

Workshop Session I – Creativity I: Imagining Europe’s Futures 

Chair: Margriet van der Waal

• Imagining Europe after Catastrophe: Climate Dystopia in  Contemporary Polish Literature - Svetlana Baranova (Jagiellonian University Krakow) 

• Worlds Worth Keeping: Crafting a Cultural Canon in an Ominous  Historical Moment - Brian Palmer (Uppsala University)

• Inspiration or Illusion? EU Cultural Policy and the Idea of Europe - Aurélie Villanueva (University of Groningen) 

• Heritage and Gentrification in Vincenco Latronico’s ‘Perfection’  (2022) - Astrid van Weyenberg (Leiden University) 

11:00 – 11:15 

Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45 

Workshop Session II – Creativity II: Cultural Institutions, Heritage, and Publics

Chair: Margriet van der Waal

• Changing Public, Changing Theatres: Public Theatres in Germany and  Flanders between Populism and Postmigration - Lily Climenhaga (University Ghent / Freie Universität Berlin) 

• Creativity as Governance: Cultural Policy and Europe’s Political  Futures - Roberto Farneti (University of Bozen-Bolzano; online) 

• Does ‘Creativity’ Generate Capacities for Survival in Challenging Times? An Analysis of European Union Cultural Policy, 2010-2025 - Bożena Gierat-Bieron (Jagiellonian University Krakow) 

• Crossing and Dwelling in Everyday Europe: The Polish Catholic Mission  in Sweden as a Space of Care and Cultural Memory - Ana Angelika Drigo (Uppsala University) 

12:45 – 13:45 

Lunch

13:45 – 15:15 

Workshop Session III – Connectivity: Borders, Archives, and Geopolitical Infrastructures

Chair: Marek Neuman

• Archives of Speculative Futures - Senka Neuman Stanivukovic (University of Groningen) 

• The Temporality Paradoxes of EU Enlargement: EU-South East Europe  Relations among the Multiple Temporalities of the EU Accession  Process - Magdalena König (Max Planck Institute; online) 

• Crises and critical junctures as drivers of meaningful and effective  institutional change in the EU - Herman Voogsgeerd (University of Groningen) 

15:15 – 15:30 

Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00 

Workshop Session IV – Care: Migration, Solidarity, and Everyday Europe 

Chair: Senka Neuman Stanivukovic

• Social Democracy and Migration Politics: Explaining the Solidarity  Temporalities of the Center-Left across Europe - Ruben van Dijken (University of Groningen) 

• Civic Ecosystems on the Sidelines of War: A Case Study of Civic  Mobilisation for the War in Ukraine and Ukrainian Forced Migrants in  Poland - Karolina Czerska-Shaw (Jaggielonian University Krakow) 

• The Gendered Context and Consequences of Migration across Borders  - Aparna Rayaprol (University of Hyderabad) 

• Reimagining Lisbon: Global South Mobilities, Lifestyle Migration, and  Europe’s Futures of Care - Johanna von Pezold (University of Amsterdam; online) 

17:00 – 17:15 

Closing remarks