ESAANZ Conference 2026

Europe in a Reordering World: Power, Resilience and Transformation

Tuesday 17 November 2026

ANU Centre for European Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra

Hybrid format

PROPOSED PANELS

8:30am – 8:45am Registration

8:45am – 9:00am Welcome address

9:00am – 11:00am Concurrent sessions

Panel 1A: The EU Foreign Policy in a Geopolitical World: Interdisciplinary Intersections – University of Canterbury PD-PCF panel (Chair: Natalia Chaban) Room: TBC | Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/82192858724?pwd=Lr400g8YPJMHAULGv5v87P9pJjbFWq.1

Mads Raun Østergaard (University of Oslo) (format tbc) “A Positive Offer for Whom? The EU’s Global Gateway Strategy”

Kim Alexa Steffens (DA Academy Vienna / University of Vienna) (format tbc) “EU Actorness in Multilateral Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Regimes in an Era of Geopolitical Pressure”

Natalia Chaban, Ole Elgström and Malena Rosén Sundström (University of Canterbury; Lund University) (format tbc) “The Friend Effect? The Role and Importance of Like-mindedness in the Era of Geopolitics”

Andrii Chernousov, Natalia Chaban and Natalia Zemzyulina (University of Canterbury; Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy) (format tbc) “Listening in Heritage Diplomacy: Ukrainian Heritage Experts’ Perspectives and Ukraine’s Digital Diplomacy Narrating the EU”

9:00 – 10:15 Panel 1B: The EU and Canada in a Reordering World (Chair: Gosia Klatt) Room: TBC | Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/84553646013?pwd=qgFRB9aINspP6BasbyzvkoeDsg9yYP.1

Yan Cimon (Université Laval, Canada) (online) “Europe as a Strategic Safe Harbour: U.S. Policy Volatility, Global Supply Chain Reconfiguration, and Canada’s Pivot toward the European Union” [9:00 AEDT = 5:00pm Mon 16 Nov, Québec]

Boyka M. Stefanova (University of Texas San Antonio) (online) “Similar but Different? The Meeting Place between Strategic Partnership, Comprehensive Trade Agreement, and Associate Member Status in EU–Canada Relations” [9:20 AEDT = 4:20pm Mon 16 Nov, Texas]

Matt Harvey (Victoria University) (format tbc) “EU Beyond Europe?” Discussion – 15 min

11:00 – 11:15 Morning Tea

11:15 – 12:50 Panel 2: EU Trade, Economic Security and Strategic Autonomy (Chair: Hazel Moir)

Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/82192858724?pwd=Lr400g8YPJMHAULGv5v87P9pJjbFWq.1

Serena Kelly (University of Canterbury) “Title TBC (trade)”

Rémy Davison (Monash University) (format tbc) “De-risking not De-coupling: Strategic Autonomy and EU Trade”

Nathan Gray and Peter Draper (Adelaide University) “Defending Openness? The EU’s Response to Chinese Overcapacity and Economic Coercion”

Hazel Moir (ANU Centre for European Studies) “The EU’s Sui Generis Intellectual Property (IP) Regulations: Transforming Balance at the WTO”

Discussion – 15 min

12:50 – 13:20 Lunch

13:20 – 14:55 Panel 3: Russia, Ukraine and the War in Europe (Chair: Kasia Williams)

Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/82192858724?pwd=Lr400g8YPJMHAULGv5v87P9pJjbFWq.1

Ludmilla A’Beckett (University of the Free State) “Forging Ukraine: State Consolidation and Fragmentation in the Discourse History of a Wartime Trope”

Anna Taitslin (University of Canberra) “Russia and ‘Europe’: Forever Hostilities and Total War?”

Dilnoza Ubaydullaeva (ANU National Security College) (online) “Russian Narratives on the Indo-Pacific: Discursive Construction of the Quad States in the Region”

Roderic Pitty (Independent scholar) (online) “Putin’s Power, Ukraine’s Resilience and Europe’s Prospects for Ending Impunity”

Discussion – 15 min

14:55 – 15:10 Coffee break

15:10 – 17:05 Concurrent sessions

Panel 4A: The EU as a Global Actor: Trade, Security and the Indo-Pacific (Chair: Serena Kelly) 15:10 – 17:05 Room: TBC | Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/82192858724?pwd=Lr400g8YPJMHAULGv5v87P9pJjbFWq.1

Julian C.H. Lee and Nikkola Mikocki-Bleeker (RMIT University) (online) “Normative Power Europe in a Faltering Rules-Based Order: Trade for Stability and Sustainability”

Agnese Fallica (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa) (online) “The Untapped Potential of the EU Indo-Pacific Strategy: Exploring the Limits and Constraints of the EU’s Role as a Security Actor”

Jannis Baur (Australian National University) “The Global Gateway in the Pacific: Geostrategic Interests and the Quality of Pacific Aid Delivery”

Hazem Ammar (Sun Yat-sen University) “From Humanitarian Diplomacy to Maritime Security? Recalibrating EU Policy towards the Yemen Conflict, 2015–2026”

Bruce Wilson (RMIT University) (format tbc) “City and Regional Knowledge Exchange: EU Sub-National Diplomacy at Work” Discussion – 15 min

Panel 4B: Migration, Citizenship, Culture and Identity (Chair: Gosia Klatt) 15:10 – 16:45 Room: TBC | Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/84553646013?pwd=qgFRB9aINspP6BasbyzvkoeDsg9yYP.1

Eva Hussain (Polaron; Austrian Consulate General in Victoria) “Citizenship across Generations: Reclaiming European Belonging in a Reordering World”

Diana Tung (University of Barcelona) (online) “Migration, Sustainability, and Resilience in the European Food Supply” [15:30 AEDT – after 3pm as requested]

Matthew R. Keynes (University of Melbourne) (format tbc) “Enacting Truth and Reconciliation in Sápmi: Higher Education and Social Transformation in the Nordic Arctic”

Andrea Bendini (affiliation TBC) (online) “Architectures of Deflection: Comparative Accountability Loss in Frontex and Australia’s Nauru Framework” Discussion – 15 min

17:05 Concluding Remarks

Event Information

Start Date:

November 17, 2026

Time:

8:30 am

5:15 pm

Event Cost: