Summer University 2016

Thursday, 21.07.2016: Europe

9:30 – 11:30: Plenary Alliance against austerity: debt, euro-zone, for a left alternative
1. Connie Hildebrandt, Transform!
2. Fabio De Masi, MEP Die Linke (Germany)
3. Paolo Ferrero, National Secretary Rifondazione Comunista (Italy)
Moderator: Marga Ferré, Transform!

11:30 – 12:30: Workshop: Communication

13:00: Lunch

14:00: Culture Workshop “Border café” promoted by Ritva Harle (Finland)

16:00 – 18:00: Plenary The future of EU integration: the 5 Presidents’ report and the left
1. Marisa Matias, EL Vice-President – MEP Bloco de Esquerda (Portugal)
2. Matt Carthy, MEP Sinn Féin (Ireland)
3. Maite Mola, EL Vice-President – Izquierda Unida (Spain)
4. Neoklis Sylikiotis, Vice-President of GUE/NGL – MEP AKEL (Cyprus)
Moderators: Fabio Amato, EL – Rifondazione Comunista (Italy) & Roberto Morea, Transform!

18:00 – 20:00: Two seminars
1. EL-FEM Feminists fighting back right-wing attacks on Women’s rights in the areas of Women’s employment and labour legislation, reproductive rights, sexual diversity and family politics
Bärbel Lange et al. (Die LINKE/Germany)
Gitte Pedersen et al. (Red-Green Alliance/Denmark, EL-FEM)
Moderator: Judith Benda, EL – Die Linke (Germany)
2. Europe between hope and fear, the challenge of the left and the nightmare of the far right
Yiannis Bournous, EL – SYRIZA (Greece)
Gilles Garnier, EL – PCF (France)
Joanna Gwiazdecka, Rosa Lux. Foundation Warsaw (Poland)
Moderator: Martin Schirdewan, Rosa Lux. Foundation (Germany)

20:30: Dinner

21:30: “Performing Politics”
Lecture presentation, video screening & theatre workshop

Saturday, 23.07.2016: Peace

9:30 – 11:30: Plenary Migrants, refugees and wars
1. Aslı Aydın, EL – ÖDP (Turkey)
2. Heinz Bierbaum, Die Linke (Germany)
3. Nektarios Bougdanis, member of the Secretariat of the Foreign Policy Department – Syriza (Greece)
4. Stefano Galieni, PRC (Italy)
Moderator: Inger V. Johansen, EL – Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)

11:30 – 12:30: Book presentation “The radical left in Europe”, meeting with the author Marco Damiani, PhD in Political Science, University of Perugia

13:00: Lunch

14:00: Workshop: Migration “Hosting refugees and migrants – solidarity and integration policies vs. Xenophobia”

16:00 – 18:00: Two seminars:
EL-FEM The global humanitarian crisis: women trapped between (civil) wars and European border regimes
1. Sabine Lösing, MEP – Die Linke (Germany)
2. Ioanna Kanavou, Head-coordinator of the Department for Feminist Policy and Gender – Syriza (Greece)
3. Myassa Kraitt, Co-founder and advisor at the Extremist Information Center (Austria-Irak)
Moderator: Birge Krondorfer, EL-FEM, Political philosopher

EU neighbours policy and NATO expansion
1. Claudia Haydt, EL – Die Linke (Germany)
2. Veronika Sušová-Salminen
3. Inna Shupac, EL – MP Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova
Moderator: Giovanna Capelli, EL – Rifondazione Comunista (Italy)

18:00 – 20:00: Plenary: Conclusions of the Summer University & Plenary
For a socialist, ecologist and feminist alternative
1. Pierre Laurent, EL President – National Secretary PCF (France)
2. Alberto Garzón, Izquierda Unida coordinator (Spain)
3. Paolo Ferrero, National Secretary Rifondazione Comunista (Italy)
4. Eleonora Forenza, MEP Altra Europa (Italy)
5. Monica Valente, Foro de São Paulo, Executive Secretary – PT (Brasil)
6. Roberto Musacchio, Altra Europa (Italy)
7. Yiannis Bournous, SYRIZA (Greece)
8. Connie Hildebrandt, Transform!

20:30: Dinner

21:00: Departure to the Thermal Bath “Itheia- the bath of the Etruscans”