MFJMCE Conference:  Reimagining and Reforming  European Foreign Policies

For any further information, please contact Christine I. Caly-Sanchez, Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence at calyc@fiu.eduTel: 305-348-5949

Miami-Florida Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence

Two-day EU Conference | March 11-12, 2024

Florida International University

March 11-12, 2024 | Two-day EU Conference | in personThis conference explores ways to make European foreign policy more inclusive and less Euro-centric. After a keynote reflecting on the overall theme on day 1, three academic panels revolve around the question of how to de-center Euro-centric foreign policy prescriptions so to make them more inclusive-participatory and less interventionist. This also entails a critical re-evaluation of existing EU foreign and multilateral policies, especially as it relates to questions of race and migration, gender and sexuality, postcolonial relations, environmental protection and democracy and human rights promotion. These are not only considered in relations to other major actors and challengers, such as the US, Russia or China, but also revisited in the contexts of global (UN) governance and importantly, include non-state actors.PROGRAMMEMonday, March 11 | 5:00 - 6:30 pm | Marc Pavilion (2nd floor) Keynote Speaker : Michael Curtis, EU Deputy Ambassador, Delegation of the European Union to the USAEU-US relations and the EU’s foreign policy priorities· 6:30 - 8:00 pm: Reception (by invitation only) Tuesday, March 12 | 9:00 am - 4:45 pm | Conference | Graham Center- GC 243 (2nd floor) <ul><li>9:00 am Welcome &amp; Opening Remarks </li><li>9:15 am - 10:45 am Panel I: Decentering &amp; Reimagining European Foreign Policies: Concepts &amp; Contexts </li><li>11:00 am - 12:30 pm Panel II: Feminist Foreign Policies—an inclusive way to move beyond Eurocentrism? </li><li>12:30 - 1:45pm: Lunch (by invitation only) </li><li>2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Consular Roundtable: National Views on Reimagining &amp; Reforming European Foreign Relations </li><li>3:00 pm - 4:45 pm Panel III: Rethinking European Foreign policy Practices</li></ul>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Detailed program, <a href="https://miamieuc.fiu.edu/events/general/2024/mfjmce-conference-decentering-and-reimagining-european-foreign-policies/detailed-program-decentering-and-reimagining-european-foreign-policies_march-11-12-2024.pdf" title="https://miamieuc.fiu.edu/events/general/2024/mfjmce-conference-decentering-and-reimagining-european-foreign-policies/detailed-program-decentering-and-reimagining-european-foreign-policies_march-11-12-2024.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">click here </a>► Bios Panelists, <a href="https://miamieuc.fiu.edu/events/general/2024/mfjmce-conference-decentering-and-reimagining-european-foreign-policies/bios_march-11-12-2024.pdf" title="https://miamieuc.fiu.edu/events/general/2024/mfjmce-conference-decentering-and-reimagining-european-foreign-policies/bios_march-11-12-2024.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">click here </a>► To view flyer, <a href="https://mailchi.mp/fiu/the-metaphysics-of-good-and-evil-thursday-nov-16-at-11-am-6271609?e=3da416d1f3" title="https://mailchi.mp/fiu/the-metaphysics-of-good-and-evil-thursday-nov-16-at-11-am-6271609?e=3da416d1f3" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">click here</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ► This event is free and open to the public and all FIU Students.For more information, contact Christine I. Caly-Sanchez at calyc@fiu.edu-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sponsored and presented by the Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence Co-sponsors : Steven J. Green School of International &amp; Public Affairs • The Green School's Dorothea Green Lecture Series • Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Distinguished Lecture Series • European &amp; Eurasian Studies Program • Dept. of Politics and International Relations • CWGS Center for Women’s and Gender Studies • Dept. of History • Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany • Delegation of the European Union to the United States Made possible through generous support from the European Commission

MARCH 11: AGENDA

Michael Curtis, EU Deputy Ambassador, Delegation of the European Union to the United States in Washington D.C. will deliver the keynote address "EU-US relations and the EU’s foreign policy priorities." The address will provide an overview of EU-US relations and EU foreign policy priorities, reflecting on the ambitions, as well as challenges, of current global EU external relations.                                                                                 
Biography: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/united-states-america/about-ambassador_en?s=253



MONDAY, MARCH 11 - 5-6:30 PM| MARC BUILDING - MARC PAVILION | KEYNOTE SPEAKER

MARCH 12: AGENDA

TUESDAY, MARCH 12 - 9:00 AM-4:45 PM | CONFERENCE | Graham Center - GC 243

The panel will focus on the concept of de-centering European foreign policies, contrast it to decolonizing approaches, and highlight the ways in which racialized, gendered, sexual, religious, and other diverse populations encounter exclusions and Eurocentric perspectives in European foreign relations. What are the historical, socio-political, and global contexts that led to a need to provincialize and reform existing European foreign policies and practices?  

9:15 am - 10:45 am Panel I: Decentering & Reimagining European Foreign Policie

PANEL II: Feminist Foreign Policies – an inclusive way to move beyond Eurocentrism? Feminist foreign policy (FFP), with its focus on gender and human security, peace building, anti-racism, climate justice and international collaboration, originated in Europe, but has gained attention and a following around the world. Can Feminist Foreign Policy, with its holistic yet broad ambitions, be a sustainable way to move beyond paternalistic Euro-centrism in foreign policy making across the world? 

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Panel II: Feminist Foreign Policies

Consular Roundtable: National Views on Reimagining & Reforming European Foreign Relations 

Consular Roundtable

This panel focuses on other critical foreign policies that the EU pursues with its member states, and that are important focal points for more inclusive and reflective relations with the Global South: human rights promotion, climate change policies, and European Foreign & Security Policy. How can these be normatively and strategically (re)formulated and reconstructed to do justice to Europe’s historical and contemporary obligations as a powerful actor-especially as those are contested by Europe’s growing far-right forces? 

3:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.  Panel III: Rethinking European Foreign policy Practices

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