The Addressees of the EU
Internal and External Policy:
De Jure and De Facto
An International Conference Dedicated to the 120th Anniversary of the Sofia University and 50th Anniversary of the Commencement of the European Economic Community. Organized by Department of Logic, Ethics, and Aesthetics at the Sofia University and the Italian Institute of Culture in Sofia
Sofia University, Meeting Hall 1, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., Sofia, September 23-25, 2008
Tuesday, September 23
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30 Official Opening
Greetings from:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexander Dimchev
Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sofia University
Mr. Ezio Peraro
Director of the Italian Institute of Culture in Sofia
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Silvia Mineva
Chair of the Department of Logic, Ethics, and Aesthetics at Sofia University
10:00-10:45
Keynote Lecture "Europe: A View from an Insecure North American Homeland." Prof. Dr. William L. McBride, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University, President of FISP (Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie)
10:45-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-13:00
First Session, Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexander Gungov
11:00-11:30
Prof. Dr. Santiago Sia, Dean of Philosophy, Milltown Institute (a Recognized College of the National University of Ireland), “Education, the Business Model and the Bologna Process: a Philosophical Response”
11:30-12:00
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maria Dimitorva, Department of Philosophy, Sofia University, “Challenges to the Common European Social Space Construction”
12:00-12:30
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nikolay Gochev, Department of Classics, Sofia University, "Josephus Flavius and the Eastern Borders of Roman Europe"
12:30-13:00
Discussion
13:00-14:30
Lunch Break
14:30-17:10
Second Session, Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nikolay Gochev
14:30-14:50
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Valentin Petrusenko, Department of History, University of Plovdiv, “Institutional Framework of the New EU-Latin American Approach; Current Challenges and Strategies.”
14:50-15:10
Assoc. Prof. Fabian Acosta Sanches, Department of Political Science, Colombia National Universityр "Slavery, Emigration, Citizenship: the European Labor Cosmopolitism"
15:10-15:30
Mr. Nicolaos Vlahakis, Press and Communication Counselor in the Secretariat General of Information of the Hellenic Republic, “Federalism versus Intergovernmentalism - Two Competitive Paradigms in the European Integration and the New Perspective in the Globalisation Era”
15:30-15:50
Asst. Prof. Dr. Valentina Gueorguieva, Department of Cultural Studies, Sofia University, “From National Conscript Army to Supranational Defense Structures: the Reform in Bulgarian Army after Adhering to NATO”
15:50-16:20
Discussion
16:30-17:00
Coffee Break
17:00-18:50
Third Session, Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nikolay Gochev
17:00-17:20
Mr. Marco Zagnoli, Italy, “Developing a European Identity: the Role of Education”
17:20-17:40
Mr. Ted Efremoff, USA, “Intercultural Collaboration for Artistic Response to Global Hatred”
17:40-18:00
Mr. Nicola Zambelli, Italy, Post-Graduate Student, Sofia University, “Philosophy of Mirroring in the Bulgarian Context”
18:00-18:20
Ms. Zornitza Grekova, Doctoral Student, Faculty of History, Sofia University, “The East Asia Region as an Addressee of the European Union’s Foreign Policy”
18:20- 19:00
Discussion
Wednesday, September 24
9:30-11:00
Forth Session, Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexander Gungov
9:30-10:00
Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Agius, Dean, Faculty of Theology,
University of Malta, “The Emerging Bioethical Values in European
Institutions”
10:00-10:30
Assoc. Prof. Dr. habil. Dimitar Mirchev, Department of Philosophy, University of Plovdiv, “The Eurasian Idea: Respondents and Recepients”
10:30-11:00
Discussion
11:00-11:30
Coffee Break
11:30-13:00
Fifth Session, Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Valentin Petrusenko
11:30-12:00
Admiral David Shimp, Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy, Sofia University; in Collaboration with Dr. Otto von Habsburg and Mr. Severin Meister, “EU Withdrawal: A Constitutional Necessity before Conferral”
12:00-12:30
Dr. John McSweeney, Milltown Institute, “The European Union as Mediator of the Market-State? Virno and the Subject of Immaterial Labour”
12:30-13:00
Discussion
13:00-14:30
Lunch Break
14:30-16:30
Sixth Session, Moderator: Dr. John McSweeney
14:30-15:00
Dr. Olga Manafova, Deputy Executive Director, Bulgarian Institute for Standardisation, "Free Movement of Goods - Marketing of Products"
15:00-15:30
Ms. Hege C. Finholt, Doctoral Student in Philosophy, Boston University, “The Non-Sovereign Nation-State: A Cultural Interpretation of National Self-Determination”
15:30-16:00
Mr. Gavriil Gavriilidis, Doctoral Student in Philosophy, Sofia University, "Who are the Beneficiaries of the EU Expansion?”
16:00-16:30
Discussion
16:30-17-00
Coffee Break
17:00-18:50
Seventh Session, Moderator: Dr. John McSweeney
17:00-17:20
Dr. Lyubomir Kutin, Administrative Director, Varna Opera House, “From the Restricted Framework of Economic Partnership Towards Universal Messages of Intercultural Dialogue”
17:20-17:40
Senior Assist. Prof. Georgi Marinov, Department of German Studies, Sofia University, “The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily by Goethe as an Attempt to Take a Look at our Contemporary Epoch ”
17:40-18:00 Mr. Darin Drossev, Doctoral Student in Philosophy, Sofia University, “Dismantling of the Nation-State”
18:00-18:20
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexander Gungov, Sofia University, “The Intellectual Isolation in Europe: Some Reflections on the History of Italian Philosophy”
18:20-18:50
Discussion
18:50-19:00
Official Closing of the Conference
Thursday, Sptember 25
Informal Visit to Sofia Historic Sites
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