CES Dublin 2026 | Mini Symposium Unity & Disunity | EUMERGENCIES

As part of the Council for European Studies (CES) conference in Dublin, the EUMERGENCIES Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence is organizing a two-part mini-symposium focused on the legal, political, and social implications of crisis management within the European Union.

This page provides the full program, speaker details, and scheduling for the panels held on June 17, 2026.

[Download the full program (PDF)]

Our team will lead two pivotal panels exploring the complexities of “Unity and Disunity in Times of Emergencies”.

Panel I: Narratives and Framing

Date: June 17, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Location: O’Connor Building – L2.21 Session

• Chair: Teresa Cabrita (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles; Max Planck Institute)
• Discussant: Florence Delmotte (FNRS; UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)

Permanent State of Emergency at the EU’s Borders: Framing Migration in the Pact on Migration and Asylum

Denis Duez (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)

Who Says It’s Urgent? A Discursive Analysis of “Emergency” Frames in the European Parliament

Samuel Defacqz (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles; Université Laval), Elisa Reymond (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles), and Thomas Laloux (FNRS)

Democracies under Threat: How Emergencies Expand the EU’s Scope of Action

Cecilia Rizcallah (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)

EU Trade Policy In Turbulent Times: The European Parliament’s Responsiveness to Civil Society Framing Strategies

Elisa Reymond (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles) and Laurie Beaudonnet (Université de Montréal)

Panel II: Constructing Communities

Date: June 17, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Session

• Chair: Denis Duez (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)
• Discussant: Juliette Dupont (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)

The Protection of Which Persons in the Event of Disasters? EU Law and the Outer Limits of Solidarity

Teresa Cabrita (UClouvain Saint Louis Brussels; Max Planck Institute)

How Generations and National Communities Frame EU Emergencies: A View from Below

Florence Delmotte (FNRS; UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles) and Katharine Throssell (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)

The ‘Identity Politics’ Crisis and the European Anti-Woke Community

Martin Deleixhe (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

The Voiceless Victims in the EU’s Framing of the Climate and Environmental Emergency: The Case of the 2024 Environmental Crime Directive

Agathe Piquet (Bordeaux University)