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Conference Announcement "Towards a Diverse European Public Sphere? Theoretical Puzzles and Empirical Evidences" EUROSPHERE International Project Conference Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück Osnabrück (Germany) 13-14 November 2009 __________________________________________________ "EUROSPHERE Diversity and the European Public Sphere – Towards a Citizens' Europe" is a research project situated in the EU Framework 6 programme involving researchers from different disciplines and 16 countries and coordinated by the University of Bergen (Norway). The main objective of the project is to create innovative perspectives on the European public spheres and to identify the conditions that enable or undermine the articulation of inclusive European Public Spheres. In each participating country, researchers analyse political parties, social movements, think tanks and media with the aim to create a knowledge base on how organisations contribute to the articulation of different types of public spheres in contexts of complex diversity. After the periods of theoretical and methodological elaboration, followed by the data collection activities, the project will be able to present its first results in autumn. Having reached this point in the project, the first international conference in November 2009 aims to face up Eurosphere’s theoretical and empirical approaches to criticism of external experts. The central research topics of Eurosphere will be addressed here contrasting Eurosphere research and its first results with critical views in theoretical and empirical terms. For this purpose, the conference will focus on two major thematic issues: Does a European Public Sphere (EPS) exist and how can it be approached? The tension between diversity and unity in the EU as a challenge for a EPS – which are the structural consequences of diversity for EPS (and vice versa)? All interested persons are kindly invited to participate in the conference. Contact: Karin Mackevics Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) University of Osnabrück Neuer Graben 19/21 D-49069 Osnabrück Germany Tel: +49 (0)541 969 4917 Fax: +49 (0)541 969 4380 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.imis.uni-osnabrueck.de/EurosphereConference.htm __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
