International Conference
June 20-21, 2019
College of Communication and Public Relations, National University of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest
Thursday, June 20
Room 510
16.00 – 18.00
Opening Session
Professor Alina BÂRGĂOANU
Dean of the College of Communication and Public Relations
Jean Monnet Chair Holder, EU Communication and the European Public Sphere
Responsible for the course on “European identity. Theoretical approaches and empirical insights”
Dr. Loredana RADU
Academic coordinator of the JM Module
Responsible for the course on “Europeanization in Central and Eastern Europe”
Dr. Elena NEGREA-BUSUIOC
Responsible for the course on “Public attitudes in the European Union”
Round table
Fostering the sense of belonging to the EU in the light of the new challenges
Chair: Dr. Flavia DURACH, assistant to the Academic Coordinator
Participants: professors and students, MA in Communication and EU Affairs
Friday, June 21
Room 510
9.00 – 13.00
Panel 1
Chair: Dr. Denisa OPREA
Alina BÂRGĂOANU
Europeanisation and the media: EU regulatory framework for tackling online disinformation
Alina BÂRGĂOANU, Elena NEGREA-BUSUIOC
Europe’s New Battlefield: Central and Eastern European Countries
Raluca BUTUROIU
Somewhere in the East, somewhere in the West. The East-West divide in the European Union
Flavia DURACH
Europeanisation of Higher Education. The Experience of the PROCSEE project
Elena NEGREA-BUSUIOC, Raluca BUTUROIU, Nicoleta CORBU
Media polarization in post-communist Romania and its impact on country’s backsliding to populism and illiberalism
Corina BUZOIANU
Laughing at Europe: An analysis of the 2019 EU elections related memes
Lunch
13.00 – 14.00
Room 510
14.00 – 17.00
Panel 2
Chair: Dr. Georgiana UDREA
Alina BÂRGĂOANU, Raluca BUTUROIU, Flavia DURACH, Nicoleta CORBU
The Migrant Crisis in the EU: A Romanian Perspective
Oana ȘTEFĂNIȚĂ
EU and the Refugee Crisis – Romanian perspectives and the third person effect
Oana ȘTEFĂNIȚĂ, Loredana RADU
Setting the Agenda for the Refugee Crisis in Eastern Europe
Nicoleta CORBU, Denisa OPREA
„A Complicated Relationship”: Young Students and Their Perceived European Identity
Georgiana UDREA
Foreign study sojourns and identity challenges. More Romanian or more European after Erasmus?
Malina CIOCEA, Alexandru I. CARLAN, Bianca Florentina CHEREGI
The articulation of the public problem of migration in the media and institutional spheres in Romania: debates, media representations, problematizations
Georgiana UDREA, Gabriela GUIU
European identity in a changing Europe. A comparative approach between Eastern and Western perspectives