Events

Forthcoming:

  • In September 2021 our postdoctoral researchers will organize their local workshops, focused on constitutional imaginaries of Europe in the Czech, Estonian, Hungarian and Polish constitutional law and theory
  • 7-8 June 2021, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law and the University of Luxembourg, conference Pescatore’s Law of Integration: Dogma and Critique in the European Union, Jan Komárek will present paper in the panel on the Critique of Integration – MOVED FROM 2020
  • May 2021, Faculty of Law, University of Trento, conference The legitimacy of European constitutional orders: Questioning the revolutionary, establishment and elite pathways, Jan Komárek will present paper From legitimacy to ideology: towards ideology critique of European constitutionalism – MOVED FROM 2020

IMAGINE events:

2020

2019

  • [4] 22 May 2019, iCourts: The First IMAGINE Workshop (programme and agenda available here);

2018

  • [3] Autumn 2018 and Spring 2019, iCourts/CEMES: Lecture Series – Rethinking Law, Democracy and Capitalism – co-organised with Niklas Olsen (CEMES) – more information (including the video recordings of particular lectures) are available here (Autumn 2018) and here (Spring 2019);
  • [2] 1-2 November 2018, Faculty of Law, UCPH: The project unofficially kicked-off with the international conference EU Constitutional Imagination: Between Ideology and Utopia (co-funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and the Dreyers Fund). More information (including the video recordings of the conference presentations) are available here;
  • [1] 8 May 2018, iCourts: The Transformation of Europe: Twenty-Five Years On – Book launch and critical assessment – more information here.

Related events:

Here we list events related to IMAGINE, where the members of the team took part and presented ideas and findings of the project. 

2020

  • [16] 14 December, The Academic Forum of the New University: Revitalization of EU Constitutionalism, Jan Komárek discussed (with Gráinne de Búrca and Neil Walker) Matej Abelj’s IMAGINE Working Paper No. 9; video from the Forum
  • [15] 1 and 2 December 2020, The East-West Divide – Growing Tensions in the EU? online symposium organized by the Studio Europa Maastricht, Jan Komárek gave a paper on “Speaking of and for the Other: (Post-)communist Europe in European constitutional imaginaries” and Petr Agha on “The forgotten voices of the Velvet Revolution(s)”
  • [14] 27 November 2020, Jan Komárek shared his experience with the process of working on the application and applying for the ERC Starting Grant with researchers from the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • [13] 11 November, Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague, Faculty Night Festival (online), Jan Komárek gave a talk on “Freedom and power of the constitutional professoriat: professors as politicians, businessmen and public intellectuals”
  • [12] 16 September, Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague, workshop (in Czech, online) České století v právu a politice [The Czech Century in law and politics], Jan Komárek presented paper “Vídeň-Moskva-Brusel-„Západ“: O nesamozřejmé české státnosti” [Vienna-Moscow-Brussels-“The West”: On the non-selfevident Czech statehood] and Petr Agha “Vzpomínka na hranice – patos, politika a populismus” [Memory of Borders – Pathos, Politics and Populism)
  • [11] 1 June 2020, EUI Law Department, EU Law Working Group, Jan Komárek presented (online) paper Why read The Transformation of Europe today? On Transformation’s constitutional imaginary, Joseph Weiler commentator; video from the seminar; final version of the paper presented;
  • [10] 20 May 2020, WZB Berlin, Center for Global Constitutionalism, Jan Komárek presented paper Why read The Transformation of Europe today? On Transformation’s constitutional imaginary 
  • [9] 25 February 2020, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Jan Komárek presented paper Why read The Transformation of Europe today? On Transformation’s ideology and utopia

2019

  • [8] 14 and 15 November 2019, The Swedish Network for European Legal Studies, Stockholm, conference 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Rule of Law in the European Union, Jan Komárek presented paper The rule of law and liberal legalism in (the post-communist) Europe (more details here);
  • [7] 3 and 4 October 2019, Danish European Community Studies Annual Conference,  Aarhus University, Jan Komárek presented paper European constitutionalism: Towards an ‘ideology critique’ and participated in the round table discussion “Crisis Politics and the Judiciary”, together with Christian Joerges (kick-off speech), Hagen Schulz-Forberg (moderator) and Karen Alter and Graham Butler  (other panelists) (programme here);
  • [6] 19-20 September 2019, IEARN workshop, Giessen – Transformative Constitutionalism in India and the EU, Jan Komárek contributed with a discussion note (programme here-pdf);
  • [5] 25 June 2019, European Law School, Berlin, Jan Komárek presented  – with Alexandra Kemmerer (Max-Planck-Institut) “Futures Past of European Constitutional Imaginaries in the 1950s and 1990s: A Dialogical Exploration” (programme here – pdf);
  • [4] 12-15 June 2019, Mountain Seminar No. 3 – Jan Komárek presented the key ideas of IMAGINE to colleagues from the Mountain Seminar Society (programme here – pdf);
  • [3] 3-4 June 2019, fEUtures conference, Roskilde University, Trajectories and Imaginaries of European integration – Jan Komárek presented (via Skype) paper Constitutional Imaginaries: Utopias, Ideologies and the Other (programme here-pdf);
  • [2] 26 April 2019, NYU School of Law, Jean Monnet Center – Jan Komárek presented the key ideas of IMAGINE to Emile Noël Fellows;
  • [1] 25 April 2019, Yale Law School, The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project
    and the European Law Working Group – Jan Komárek presented paper European constitutionalism: Towards an ‘ideology critique’.