The workshop will bring together visiting researchers and PhD candidates from the European University Institute, who will present and discuss their work-in-progress in the nexus of futures, politics, and Europe.
Future-oriented practices of governance, like planning, forecasting, foresight, and futures research have rich histories in Europe. Research in various fields often engages with this subject matter but tends to address different audiences and speak to separate disciplinary traditions. Visiting scholars and EUI researchers will present on these different approaches to futuring Europe in the Alcide de Gasperi Centre workshop, followed by a roundtable discussion.
Participants
Hugo Canihac is an associate professor in European politics at the University of Strasbourg. His research focuses on the historical sociology of European integration, and sociology of economic and legal knowledge. He is currently working on the history of foresight culture in European institutions.
Jonas Elvander is a doctoral researcher in intellectual history at the EUI. His PhD project focuses on the different ways that liberals reacted to and incorporated ideas of economic planning in interwar and early postwar Europe.
Zoé Evrard is a post-doctoral researcher at UC Louvain (Belgium). She holds a PhD in political science from Sciences Po, where she defended a thesis on the redeployment of socio-economic planning in Belgium (from the 1970s-1990s). She is currently developing a new research project that extends her work on planning, expertise, and neoliberalization to the European level.
Margaret Pulk (EUI) is working on a PhD project on the history of futures research in the Commission of the European Communities during the 1970s-1980s. She researches the institutional practices of futuring Europe through the lens of history knowledge. She will present her draft thesis chapter on the Forecasting and Assessment for Science and Technology (FAST) unit, which was set up in the Commission in the early 1980s.
Dimitri Zurstrassen is a lecturer and policy analyst of EU industrial policy at LUISS Guido Carli. He holds a PhD in Contemporary History from Sorbonne University and UC Louvain and has taken part in several research projects of European integration and has published on EU and national industrial policies and competition policy.
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