About the conference
This international conference was organised by the Prokhorov Centre's Directors, Henk de Berg and Evgeny Dobrenko.
Conference themes
Faced with rising levels of immigration, a struggling currency, and Brexit, the European Union is under increasing pressure.
But behind these political challenges, there lies an older and much deeper question – that of the nature of Europe itself.
What is Europe, where does it come from, and where is it going? And what are the origins of the distinction between a 'Western' and an 'Eastern' Europe, and how has this distinction changed over time?
Download the conference programme (PDF, 3.2MB)
Keynote speech
Nancy Condee: Bespoke modernity (and the thing they once called Europe)
Watch the keynote by Nancy Condee (Inaugural Director at the Global Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh) below.
