Saturday, 6 November 2004

9:30 – 10:00 Registration and Coffee/Tea

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Marion Guiral, HEIRS and Dr. Edwards, University of Cambridge

10:15 – 10:45 Bringing History In: Perspectives on the Study of European Integration
Dr. Julie Smith, University of Cambridge

10:45 – 11:45 Panel 1 – The challenges of multinational archival research
Chair and discussant: Linda Risso, HEIRS

Transatlantic policy networks and the founding of the ‘New Europe’ (1950-51): Towards a guideline for archival research
Brigitte Leucht, University of Portsmouth

The illusion of the neutral time: Integrating the Recovered Memory in the Horizons of the Eastward Enlargement of the European Union
Cristina Blanco Sío-López, European University Institute

The High Officials in the High Authority of the ECSC and the Commission of the EEC 1952-1967: A European Élite
Katja Seidel, University of Portsmouth

11:45 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:00 Panel 2 – Do multinational impulses make a difference?
Chair and discussant: Brigitte Leucht, HEIRS

Theorising Preference Formation in European Integration History: Liberal Intergovernmentalism and Christian Democratic Federalism in the Early Postwar Era
Nelson R. González, London School of Economics

A contribution to the sources of European integration: Federalist personalism
Emmanuelle Heriard Dubreuil, University of Cambridge

The EC and the origins of the G7
Giuliano Garavini, University of Florence

The peculiarities of a pro-European youth movement in Austria : a glance at the "Bund Europäischer Jugend"
François-Xavier Laffeach, European University Institute

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 – 15:00 Keynote address
Dr. Piers Ludlow, London School of Economics

15:00 – 16:00 Panel 3 – National foreign policies in a European context
Chair and discussant Dr. George Wilkes, HEIRS

The road to the oil crisis (1958-74)
Rafiki Soilihi, University of Reading

Italy and EPC counter-terrorist considerations
Dr. Ludovica Marchi, University of Reading

Analysis of the European security culture in historical terms
Cigdem Ustun, University of Limerick

16:00 – 16:15 Coffee/Tea break

16:15 – 17:00 Twenty-five years at the European Parliament: The personal experience of an MEP
Mr. Richard Balfe

17:00 – 17:30 Open discussion

Sunday, 7 November 2004
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome and Coffee

10:00 – 10:30 Unveiling the Churchill Archives Centre resources
Mr Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge

10:30 – 11:30 Panel 4 – Weaving Europe by enlargement
Chair and discussant: Lucia Faltin, HEIRS

The constitutionalisation of the EEC/EC: West Germany between legal sovereignty and European integration.
Billy Davies, King’s College London

All the way obstructive? British policy towards German reunification
Pyeongeok An, University of Cambridge

Rediscovering Europe in Romania: The political challenges of the enlargement
Dr. Sorina Soare, University of Oxford

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 – 12:15 The Invention of the European Museum in Brussels
Dr. Véronique Charléty, Centre des Etudes Européennes de Strasbourg

12:15 – 12:30 Closing remarks
Marion Guiral, HEIRS