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Accommodation and venues, including maps and travel directions
The conference event is open for a limited number of other participants upon registration to info@plato.uio.no
Programme
The event will kick off with teambuilding activities for the 15 PhDs in the days preceding the academic conference. See the programme for PLATO's PhD researchers (14-17 Oct). The main conference is dedicated to the overall research agenda and the presentation and discussion of each PhD project.
Day I: 18 October
Venue: Toppsenteret, Oslo Science Park, Gaustadalléen 21
09:30 Registration and coffee
10:00 | Welcome
Conference opening by Åse Gornitzka, Vice-Rector at the University of Oslo
10:15 | PLATO's research agenda
Opening discussion: Three 'models' of what it would be for the EU to suffer a legitimation crisis
PLATO Coordinator Chris Lord, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo
12:00 Lunch
13:00 | PLATO PhD projects | Panel 1
Popular understandings of the legitimacy of the EU response to the financial crisis
Joris Melman, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo
Inter-institutional conflicts in the European Union and their impact on national reforms and citizens’ perceptions
Elena Escalante Block, Centre d'études européennes, Sciences Po Paris
Equity and efficiency of the EU's social investment strategy: measuring the impact of labour market and welfare state reforms on citizens' political preferences and voting behaviour
Petra Petan, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
13:30 Q&A
14:45 Break
15:00 | PLATO PhD projects | Panel 2
Contested legitimacies and the rise of ‘Anti-Politics’ in Europe: populist and technocratic challenges to EU’s legitimacy
Jose Piquer, POLIS, University of Cambridge
A transnational judicialization of the Eurozone crisis? The politics of courts and law in EU’s economic governance since 2010
Julien Bois, Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies
New understanding of corruption and EU legitimacy
Emilija Tudzarovska-Gjorgjievska, Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
15:30 Q&A
16:45 Break
17:00 | Speed-dating
18:00 Reception and tapas dinner at the conference venue
Day II: 19 October
08:30 PLATO Supervisory Board meeting (log-in required) - to be held in the room VIA (ground floor, level 0), Oslo Science Park
Venue: Toppsenteret, Oslo Science Park, Gaustadalléen 21
09:45 Registration and coffee
10:15 | PLATO PhD projects | Panel 3
Balancing democratic legitimacy and efficiency in the European Semester: does parliamentary involvement make a difference?
Ivana Skazlić, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
The bureaucracy of asylum seekers in multi-level governance
Radu-Mihai Triculescu, Twente Graduate School, University of Twente
Interest group involvement in the realm of the European Supervision Authorities
Bas Redert, Antwerp Centre for Institutions and Multilevel Politics (ACIM), University of Antwerp
10:45 Q&A
12:00 Lunch
13:00 | PLATO PhD projects | Panel 4
The creation of the banking union: how to explain the delegations of power to the EU in the wake of the financial crisis?
Philipp Lausberg, Antwerp Centre for Institutions and Multilevel Politics (ACIM), University of Antwerp
The legitimacy crisis as a constraint on policy-making: the case of the EU Emissions Trading System
Claire Godet, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo
European Union administration of border controls: A mixed-method investigation of implications for legitimacy
Gil Thompson, Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies
13:30 Q&A
14:45 Break
15:00 | PLATO PhD projects | Panel 5
Trusted or distrusted EU? The impact of variations in the vertical distribution of competences and economic conditions on citizens' trust in the EU
Dominika Proszowska, Twente Graduate School, University of Twente
EU legitimacy crisis and the public sphere
Jan Pesl, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo
Multi-level political identifications in the EU: the impact of a decade of crisis on socio-affective structures
Camille Dobler, Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University
15:30 Q&A
16:45 Break
17:00 | Winding up
18:00 Joint departure for dinner at Brasserie Blanche
End of conference for training partners
Day III: 20 October
Venue: Hagen 1+2 (ground floor, level 0), Oslo Science Park
09:00 | Beginning with the end in mind: Completing a team PhD
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In this session, Katie Wheat of Vitae will guide PhD researchers and supervisors though a discussion of the supervisory relationship within the 'team PhD' context of PLATO. Participants will contribute their ideas to a draft ‘supervision charter’, allowing researchers and supervisors to get off to the best start in their research and their relationships, for successful completion of the 15 projects.
12:00 Lunch
13:00 End of conference for supervisors/partners
13:00 | Reflections
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Through this session, led by Katie Wheat of Vitae, PhD researchers will reflect on their experiences of the PLATO kick off conference, the learning they would like to take back with them to their institutions, and the actions they are going to commit to.
14:30 Break
14:45 | Winding up / conference conclusions
Session with the 15 PhD researchers chaired by coordinator Chris Lord.
15:15 End of conference for PhD researchers
Organiser
PLATO Coordinator Chris Lord, ARENA Centre for European Studies
For any questions, please contact Project Manager Marit Eldholm