Faced with the great wave of global planetary globalization and the boiling pot of world cultures, Europe is still searching for its references and models.
The Discussions on European Identity, organized for 7 years by the City of Nice in collaboration with the European International Training Centre and the General Council of the Alpes-Maritimes, aim to contribute to the ever-open debate on European identity.
This event brings together researchers of great university renown who share their thoughts on the permanent values that make Europe, beyond any geographical, political, or economic consideration, a cultural and spiritual reality, the recognition of which by Europeans themselves is the irreplaceable foundation of an authentic institutional construction.
Program:
Monday, April 8 ● 2:30 PM: Opening of the proceedings followed by discussions on the following themes: “The French state’s aversion to the idea of region, European integration or local democracy,” “The regional imagination between tradition and post-modernity: the example of the Languedoc-Roussillon region,” “Regions against States: is regional identity soluble in European identity?” “A European bandage for the Catalan identity wound,” “The complex situation of Belgium and its comparison with other European regions or states,” “Ireland facing the Disunited Kingdom,” “The diversity of regional attitudes in Belgium towards Europe,” “Moldova, identity adrift or drift of identity,” “Can a Swiss identify with both his canton, the Confederation, and Europe?”
Speakers: François Dieu, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toulouse I, Director of the Center for Police Studies and Research (CERP), Patrick Tacussel, Professor at Paul Valéry University Montpellier III, Elena Carantona Alvarez (Spain), Adviser on European Affairs for the regional government of the Principality of Asturias, former Regional Finance Minister, Michel Hermans (Belgium), Professor at the University of Liège, Pierre Joannon (France), Consul General of Ireland, Philippe Lausier (Belgium), Honorary General Inspector of the Cultural Pact, Office of the Prime Minister, H.E. Oleg Serebrian (Moldova), Moldovan Ambassador to Paris, Ernest Weibel (Switzerland), former Dean of the Faculty of Law and Sciences at Neuchâtel.
Tuesday, April 9 ● 9:00 AM: Continuation of the conferences: “The regions of Europe: an extreme institutional diversity,” “From identity to identifications: place as link,” “The identity of Europe,” “The enlarged Europe after 1989: how to reorient in thought?” “Europe of regions – Europe of nations?”
Speakers: Rector Gérard François Dumont, Professor at the Sorbonne, Michel Maffesoli, Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Jean-François Mattei, Emeritus Professor at the University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis and at the Institut Universitaire de France, Stella Ghervas, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux.
