Programme

Managing Diversity in the Process of European Integration

Cluj-Napoca

21-22 March 2019

 Thursday, March 21     

8.30-9.00 Registration

9.00-10.30 Welcome speech / Keynote speeches

Venue: Room Jean Monnet

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Nicolae PĂUN, Dean of the Faculty of European Studies 

Welcome speech:

  • Prof. Dr. Ioan-Aurel POP, Rector of Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj, President of the Romanian Academy

Keynote speeches:

  • Prof. Dr. Rostane MEHDI, Director of IEP-Aix-en-Provence, Marseille: L’Europe Centrale-Orientale, épicentre d’une crise totale et essentielle?

 10.30-11.00 Coffee break 

Panel 1: The international economic crisis. Long-term implications for the EU project

Venue: Room Jean Monnet

Chair: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mircea Teodor MANIU, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj

Discussant: Lect. Dr. Horaţiu Sorin DAN, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj

  •  11.00   Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tünde RISKÓ CSAPÓNÉ, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zsolt CSAPÓ, University of Debrecen: Attracting, retaining and motivating employees through CSR programmes
  • 11.20   Assoc. Prof. Dr. László ERDEY, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Debrecen: Changes in the patterns of world trade? Consequences for the EU integration and Central Europe
  • 11.40   Assist. Lect. Ádám MÁRKUS, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Debrecen: Trade creating and diverting effects of the eastern enlargement of the European Union
  • 12.00   Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nicoleta Dorina RACOLȚA-PAINA, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj: Social Entrepreneurship Across the European Union – the environmental factors perspective
  • 12.20   Assoc. Prof. Dr. László ERDEY, Assist. Lect. Sándor NAGY, Assist. Lect. Eszter TÓTH, Senior Lect. Dr. Tibor TŐKÉS, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Debrecen: The European integration and the importance of the geo-economic evolution from the end of the communist regime until now
  • 12.40   Assist. Lect. Eszter TÓTH, Senior Lect. Dr. Zsuzsanna TRÓN, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Debrecen:  Any help in enlargement? Development of the outmost regions as potential examples to follow
  • 13.00   Conclusions

13.30-15.00 Lunch – Restaurant “Piramida”

Panel 2: Overcoming the crisis amid populism, radicalism and extremism

Venue: Room Jean Monnet

Chair: Prof. Prof. Dr. Sergiu MIŞCOIU, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj

Discussant: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Diana-Gabriela REIANU, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj

  •  15.00   Assoc. Prof. Dr. Margit CSIPKÉS, Assist. Lect. Sándor NAGY, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Debrecen: Populism research at the University of Debrecen
  • 15.20   Dr. Vladimir GONĔC, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava: Slovak and Czech politics and societies between the Europeanism and the populist
  • 15.40   Drd. Stefan MORAR, University of Montreal: Nationalizing Transnistria: a horizontal approach to nation-building
  • 16.00   Lect. Dr. Paula-Antonela MUREŞAN, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj: Les élections européennes 2014-2019. Analyse du discours-Marine Le Pen
  • 16.20   Assist. Lect. Sándor NAGY, Dr. Margit CSIPKÉS, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Debrecen: Populism and information war
  • 16.40   Lect. Dr. Mihnea STOICA, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communications Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj:  All Work and No Play? Populist Leadership Selection Mechanisms within the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) Group in the European Parliament
  • 17.00   Dr. Orith RISHPI, Israel:  Quality local governance and gender equality in the global world – accelerating
  • 17.20   Conclusions

18.00 Cocktail offered by Acad. Prof. Dr. Ioan-Aurel POP, Rector of Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj, President of the Romanian Academy

Venue: Restaurant “Piramida”

  Friday, March 22  

Panel 3: Quests to re-launch the European project and the prospects of enlargement

Venue: Room Jean Monnet

Chair: Prof. Dr. Michael GEHLER, University of Hildesheim

Discussant: Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Wichard WOYKE, Professor Emeritus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

  • 9.00     Lect. Dr. Horaţiu Sorin DAN, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mircea Teodor MANIU, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj: Territorial development in today’s Romania: the strenuous quest for a European patterned regionalization
  • 9.20     Lect. Dr. Dorin-Mircea DOBRA, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj: European model – between embracement and adjustment (Central and Eastern European shades)
  • 9.40     Assoc. Prof. Dr. Laura HERŢA, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj: The European Union and Western Balkans – Complex prospects of enlargement
  • 10.00   Prof. Dr. Werner MÜLLER-PELZER, Professor Emeritus, University of Dortmund: The Regeneration of the European Model of Civilization
  •  10.30-11.00     Coffee break
  • 11.00   Dr. Jacques C. BAZEN, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Enschede, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Florin S. DUMA, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj: Role of international educational projects in supporting European integration in the context of Romania
  • 11.20  Dr. Oana POIANA, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj:The Three Seas Initiative between economic interconnection and geopolitical delineation
  • 11.40   Assit. Lect. Dr. Elena RUSU, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj: Juncker’s silence on enlargement – discourse analysis
  • 12.00   Assist. Prof. Dr. Ewa SZCZEPANKIEWICZ-RUDZKA, Jagiellonian University, Krakow: L’influence normative de l’Union Européenne en Méditerranée: l’approche critique
  • 12.20   Conclusions

12.45-14.30     Lunch in the “Club” of Babeş-Bolyai University

 Panel 4: Europe, where to?

Venue: Room Jean Monnet

Chair: Prof. Dr. Sylvain Schirmann, Université de Strasbourg

Discussant: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Laura HERŢA, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj

  •  14.30   Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anna SKOLIMOWSKA, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw: Perception of the European Union’s role as a normative actor among neighbouring countries
  • 14.50   Assoc. Prof. Dr. Georgiana CICEO, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj: The principle of subsidiarity and the need to reconcile EU and local action: fresh perspectives on an old debate
  •  15.10  Lect. Dr. Anjo G. HARRYVAN, Prof. Dr. Jan van der HARST, University of Groningen: The Netherlands and the objections to Romania’s Schengen entry, 2011-2018
  • 15.30   Assoc. Prof. Dr. Valentin NAUMESCU, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj: Towards a “sovereign” EU but without security guarantees?
  • 15.50   Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fruzsina SIGÉR, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Debrecen: GRÖXIT: The case of Greenland with the European Community
  • 16.10   Lect. Dr. Ovidiu VAIDA, Simona SÎRBU, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj: Eurosceptics in the European Union before the 2019 EP election: recent year’s developments and some predictions
  • 16.30   Conclusions
  • 16.45   Coffee break

 17.00   Final remarks

Venue: Room Jean Monnet

  • Dr. Rostane MEHDI, Director of IEP-Aix-en-Provence, Marseille
  • Dr. Michael GEHLER, University of Hildesheim
  • Prof. Dr. László ERDEY, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Debrecen
  • Dr. Nicolae PĂUN, Dean of the Faculty of European Studies

 PhD Students’ Workshop: Progress Reports

Venue: Room ICE

Chair: Prof. Dr. Ovidiu PECICAN, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj

Discussant: Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Reinhard MEYERS, Professor Emeritus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

  •  14.30   Drd. Arnon BAREKET: Artificial intelligence for predicting stock market indices
  • 14.50   Drd. Bianca BOSOANCĂ: European Union and United Kingdom relations after post-Brexit
  • 15.10   Drd. Eyal BUVILSKI: Intercultural economic diplomacy and cross-cultural encounters in Central Africa after the discovery of natural resources – the case of Equatorial Guinea
  • 15.30   Drd. Ioana CONSTANTIN-BERCEAN: European Union between its wounded homefront and a new geopolitical dilemma – case study: the Iranian nuclear file
  • 15.50   Drd. Guy DEMARAY: Cooperation between the central authority and the local authority in the development of national economic policy and municipal economic policy to strengthen small and medium-sized business: between EU policy and Israel
  • 16.10   Drd. Dana DANIEL HOROWITZ: Globalization influencing the assimilation of ICT in education
  • 16.30   Coffee break
  • 16.50   Drd. Yaron KLEIN: Municipal policy regarding the gap between urban  development and the ‘blue lung’.  The case of Tel-Aviv Yafo in a globalized era
  • 17.10   Drd. Maria Ioana RUS: A historiography of Romanian-Italian diplomatic relations between 1933-1940
  • 17.30   Drd. Emilia Nicoleta SCHIOP: Turkey between the European Union and the Eurasian Union
  • 17.50   Drd. Yaacov VIDAL: What Do Managers Think? – Exposure to Damage from the CV Fraud Phenomenon in the process of screening and recruiting Applicants for work
  • 18.10   Drd. Fănel ŞUTEU: “Hieroglyphic history” (1705) of Dimitrie Cantemir: the historiographical paradigm
  • 18.30   Conclusions

19.00   Concert

Venue: Philharmonic Concert Hall

Programme:

 Ingmar Beck conductor
Daniel Petrică Ciobanu piano

Răzvan Metea:  Ballet suite Învierea
Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto no. 4 for the piano, in sol major, op. 58Johannes Brahms: Symphony no. 1 in do minor, op. 68