MARIE-ÈVE BÉLANGER Mbela097@uottawa.ca Chemin de Colladon, 26 1209 Geneva, Switzerland 0041 22 379 34 67 0041 789 047 593 EDUCATION Ph.D. Political Sciences, Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Specialized in European Studies, School of political sciences, University of Ottawa (with honors), March 2014 Theoretical foundations and origins of the European Union: the recursion of the enlargement process as the ordering principle of the community model http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/fr/handle/10393/30428 Dissertation nominated by the jury for The Governor s General Gold Medal rewarding the best doctoral thesis in arts, social sciences, law and education Master II International Relations, Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg, 2005 2006 Les relations entre le Canada et l Union Européenne : un pont fragile au-dessus de l Atlantique Master obtained with distinction (14.6) and Major of promotion Master I European Studies, Institut des hautes études européennes, Strasbourg, 2004-2005 European Political Studies Certificate, Institut d études politiques, Strasbourg, 2003-2004 Bachelor in humanities, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, 1999-2004 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY RESEARCH GROUPS Associate Researcher, Center for International and Comparative Studies, ETH Zurich (September 2014) Development of a new multi-year research project about EU enlargement and borders in times of crisis Organisation of a section about EU s enlargement at ECPR conference 2015 (Montréal) Publication of a Special issue about enlargement (forthcoming 2017) Visiting Researcher, Global Studies Institute, UNIGE (June 2014 Present) Integration in a research team on EU integration with Pr. Sandra Lavenex Publication of a book about the dissertation Submission and publication of academic articles related to enlargement 1
Post-doctoral Research Associate, ONOUPS (Observatoire des nouvelles pratiques symboliques), University of Ottawa (2013 2014) Organisation of a conference about University and contestation movements in Ottawa Teaching activities Preparation for the publication of a special issue in Les Cahiers de l idiotie (2015) Final research work and submission of dissertation Visiting Fellow, REGIMEN (Réseau d études sur la globalisation et la gouvernance internationale et les mutations des États-Nations), Université de Louvain-Mons, Belgium (2011 2012) Field work in the European institutions and European archives Publication of a book chapter about Europeanization Participation in conferences (France, Portugal, Belgium) Creation of a European Network (IEP Strasbourg, ULB Brussels, European Commission ) Research Associate, ONOUPS, University of Ottawa (2010 2011) Qualitative analysis research skills development Conference and seminar series organisation in Ottawa Participation in the international project Society of Molecules in political philosophy Research Assistant, Chair of Ukrainian studies (2008 20010) Conference organisation with the School of Political Studies in Ottawa and with the Association for the study of Nationality (ASN) in New-York (Colombia University) both years Development of a graduate class on European and International borders Qualitative research about Ukraine in the European Institution (Holodomor issue) TEACHING Lecturer «Comparative politics: Western Europe», Winter 2013 o History of European integration - Institutions, economy, politics, territory, School of political sciences, University of Ottawa Teaching Assistant Understanding Politics, Fall 2007 o Introduction to political science PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Member of the Discours d Europe international research network (2015-2016) Member of l Association Genevoise des Femmes Diplômées (2015-2016) Member of the Swiss Political Science Association (2015-2016) Member of the organizing committee for the 13 th and 14 th (2008 and 2009) Annual World Convention of the Association for the Studies of Nationalities at Columbia University (NYC) (2007 2009) Coordinator, 18 e Annual meeting of the Québec political science association (SQSP), University of Ottawa. Symposium entitled: «Multiples path of political science» (2009) President of the organizing committee of the symposium of student research in political science (Student branch of the SQSP), 12 and 13 February 2009. Symposium entitled "Rooting and uprooting: politics in context" (2008 2009) Member of the SQSP administrative board (2008 2009) 2
PUBLICATIONS PAPERS Bélanger, M-È. (Forthcoming, 2016) Deterritorialization and Europeanization: a Deleuzian Reading of EU s Enlargement, Critical Studies Meet International Relations (Special Issue) in European Journal of Political Research. Bélanger, M-È. (2015) «Trajectoires d actes discursifs politico-esthétiques performant un espace militant féministe», Cahiers de l Idiotie, no.6. Bélanger, M-È. (2014) «L élargissement comme fondement de l ordre communautaire : une étude comparée du discours de l européanité», Politique Européenne, 3 :45, 176-198. Bélanger, M.-È., J.-P. Couture, D. Giroux et R. Lavoie (2009) «Vagins-à-dents», in Inflexions: A Journal for Research-Creation, no.3. Bélanger, M-È. (Submitted) It walks like a State and Talks like a State; how is the EU not a State? Bélanger, M-È (In progress) Is the EU Building Borders? The discursive shift towards exclusion in European territorial construction practices BOOKS Bélanger, M-E (2015) Territoires européens : discours et pratiques de l élargissement, Louvain-La-Neuve : L Harmattan/Academia. BOOK CHAPTERS Bélanger, M-È. (2014) «Europeanization as a foundation of the European construction» in Still in search of Europeanization. Ramona Coman, Thomas Kostera and Luca Tomini (eds.) UK: Palgrave Macmillan. Bélanger, M-È. (2015) Desperate Housewives ou la figure de l exceptionnalisme américain, Sociétés 2 :128, 51-60. CONFERENCES AND COMMUNICATIONS 2016 Panel Organiser: Critically Assessing the Political Decision Process: Discourses and Practices of Influence in International Relations, July 2016, IPSA Has the EU Found its Borders Yet? The Discursive Shift towards Exclusion on European, Territory, July 2016, IPSA Qui a les clés de la maison Européenne? Discours et pratiques de l'hospitalité en Europe, July 2016, IPSA, with Jade Bourdages Of barbed wire and fences: shifts in territorial discourses and practices in the EU, June 2016, Trento, SGEU ECPR conference 3
EU Enlargement in Times of Crisis: Where to Next? January 2016, Bâle, Congrès Annuel de l ASSP 2015 2014 Candidates, Partners or Neighbors? The discursive shift towards exclusion in EU enlargement process, December 2015, Brussels, Colloque Discours d Europe Section Organiser: European Union enlargement: the challenges of geopolitics and integration capacity, August 2015, Montréal, ECPR General Conference The EU s enlargement discourse: between inclusion and exclusion, August 2015, Montréal, ECPR General conference Deterritorialization and Europeanization: A Deleuzian reading of enlargement, July 2015, Milan, 2 nd annual ICPP conference It walks like a state and talks like a state but it s not a state: a contribution to European political order theory, September 2014, Lisbon, 3 rd Euroacademia International Conference Speaking Europe: how is the EU constructed through performative discourse, September 2014, Glasgow, ECPR General conference Le devenir territorial européen : une analyse des discours sur l élargissement entre 1972 et 2012, January 2014, Bern, Congrès Annuel de l ASSP 2008-13 Trajectoires d actes discursifs politico-esthétiques performant un espace militant féministe, Avril 2013, Ottawa, Round Table «L Université vue d en bas» Much confusion : could enlarging mean deepening? A study of Europeanization through discourse, Mars 2012, Brussels, «Europeanization : do we still miss the big picture?» De la naissance et du développement de la communauté politique dans un contexte européen, Avril 2011, Brussels, IVe congrès de l AFSP Enlarging the Union to create the community: an analysis of the enlargement as a vector of the European Order, June 2010, Porto, 5 th Pan-European Conference on EU Politics Creating a European Territorial Order: the Role of the Enlargement Process, December 2009, Science Po, Paris, ESCR conference Building Law, Power and Order in a European Context, June 2009, Brussels, 8e Université d été doctorale du réseau GARNET Redefining the Territory in the EU: The Tension between Law and Imagined Community, April 2009, Columbia University, USA, 14th ASN World Convention Historical Transformations of the Territorial and Cultural Borders in the EU, Mars 2009, Pittsburgh, 4th Conference of EU graduate students De l importance du contexte historique dans la définition du territoire en Union Européenne, February 4
2009, Ottawa, 10e colloque de la Recherche Étudiante en Science Politique Les élargissements de l Union Européenne : au-delà du discours, une matérialisation du mythe européen, September 2008, Edmonton, Canada, European Studies Association Conference (Canada) Les élargissements de l Union Européenne à l Europe de l Est : discours et mythes, March 2008, Ottawa, Political Science Garduate Students Conference SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS Dean s scholarship for early completion of PhD (1500$), 2014 Graduate research scholarship, FQRSC/Québec Government (67 000$), 2009 2013 Admission scholarship, University of Ottawa (72 500$) 2007 2013 Research grant from the faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral studies, UofO (4000$), 2011 Abroad studies grant from the CREPUQ/Québec Ministry of Education (8000$), 2003 POLITICAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Candidate for elections, Liste des Gauches Communes (2012): Municipal elections St- Gilles (1060 Brussels); Conferences/seminars (Fall 2010): Series of lectures about Europe and European integration in international institutions and international relation classes at the University of Ottawa; Pedagogical training (winter 2009): Participation in a pedagogy course offered by the training center at the University of Ottawa; Participation in a conference cycle (2007-2008): Organized by the Ukrainian Chair at the University of Ottawa, this cycle of roundtables and conferences brought together several young researchers and guest speakers on European and Ukrainian issues; Conference of the Canadian Ambassador to the EU (2006): Organization of a lecture at IHEE, Strasbourg European Parliament (2004): Participation in a week of training, conferences and simulation debates in the European Parliament as part of the Certificate of Political Studies at the IEP Strasbourg LANGUAGE SKILLS French: English: Spanish: Dutch: German: Native Fluent Working knowledge Notions Introduction 5