On the occasion of the constituting sessions of the European Parliament, a group of students of the MA European Studies at European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) travelled to Strasbourg between 14 and 17 July 2024. The set out to explore settings, procedures and actors involed in European parliamentary work while being in the field themselves.
This first academic workshop of ValEUs, co-organised by Kolja Lindner at University Paris 8 and Amelie Kuter at European University Viadrina, aims to clarify the foundations of a constructive critical perspective on European values, engaging with their immanent critique, performativity and historical contextualisation.
Which Europe do we vote for? What is on offer for the voting population? This lunch lecture presents ad-hoc analysis of election campaign manifestos of German parties and their European party families that students of the class prepared.
The panel ‘Peripheralization and Peripheral Selves in Liminal Zones of the 21st Century’ will be hosted by Dr Amelie Kutter and Dr Gautam Chakrabarti at the…
At the students’ conference on ‘European peripheries’, hosted by Amelie Kutter at European University Viadrina on 18 July, 2023, students presented their collaborative work on trends of peripheralisation in EU border regions.
The European Union has started to align its cohesion and investment policies with sustainable development goals, and so have the federal German government and the government of the State Brandenburg. But, how are sustainability agendas understood and implemented locally, by actors who have commited to specific projects of sustainable transition, so-called change-makers? What sense do they make of multilevel sustainability governance? Students of European University Viadrina address these questions in a series of classes on sustainable transition in the State Brandenburg designed and directed by Amelie Kutter.
Panel convened by Amelie Kutter at the ‘Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines’ (CADAAD) conference at University of Bergamo, Italy, on 6 July, 2022. Panelists:…
On 20 July, 1-2pm, you will have the occasion to discuss, with CriDis editors, including Dr Amelie Kutter, Dr Christiane Barnickel and Dr Elena Dück, the just-launched Crisis Discourse Blog (CriDis) and its Covid-19 special edition. Feel cordially invited to join…
This call invites blog posts that investigate phenomena of recent crisis debate from a discourse-analytical angle. The call addresses discourse scholars and students of discourse studies, who currently research discourses of the Covid-19 pandemic and related aspects of multiple crisis and who specialise in a specific discourse approach. We invite researchers to share initial or consolidated insights of their ongoing work with the specialist community and the wider audience, preparing blog posts for the Crisis Discourse Blog.
At this panel, Amelie Kutter (IFES / Euroean University Viadrina) will present her book and Vivien Schmidt (Boston University) and Nicolas Hubé (University of Lorraine), who both worked and published extensively on the EU’s legitmation, will then review it, facilitated by Timm Beichelt (IFES / European University Viadrina).