On 15 February, 2024, Dr Amelie Kutter gave a talk at the conference ‘Higher Education Teaching with Critical Friends’ at European University Viadrina, on the subject…
The project, titled “ValEUs. Research & Education Network on Contestations to EU Foreign Policy,” has secured 1.2 million euros in funding from the EU Commission as part of a Jean Monnet Policy Network (JMPN) for a three-year period starting from January 2024. This ambitious venture, involving 20 partner institutions from 17 countries across five continents, focuses on scrutinizing the foreign policy of the European Union and the challenges posed to its values.
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 contributions in this special issue explore the intersection of discourse, crises and the political during the Covid-19 pandemic. By focusing on ‘the political’, the contributors go beyond understandings of ‘politics’ as procedures and processes of decision-making. Instead, they explore the nuanced ways in which pandemic discourses shape struggles over the normalised socio-political order and its legitimate subjects.