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Outreach Activities

UN Information Sessions for Diplomats

 

  • European Union Delegation to the UN (February 2024)

  • Groupe des Ambassadeurs Francophones (GAF), OIF Francophonie to the UN (April 2024)


Guest Lectures

  • North America:

    • Bertelsmann Foundation (July 2023, Summer Enrichment Fellows seminar): A Transatlantic Career?

    • Harvard University (2022, with Belgian Ambassador to the U.S.): Ukraine’s Relationship with the European Union in Light of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Historical Conceptions of Europe and Path to EU Membership

    • Princeton University (2022): Communicating EUrope: Discourse, Legitimacy, and Crises, EU Program at Princeton seminar

  • Europe:

    • University of Liège (2022, 2023): Analyser la littérature grise Une méthodologie pour la recherche archivistique des discours institutionnels

    • Sofia University (2019): Les interprétations de l’Europe par les institutions de l’Union européenne

    • University of Amsterdam (Oct. 2018): Governing Identity or How the EU Institutions Have Shaped the States’ Europeanness

    • University of Amsterdam (Sept. 2018): In Search of the "European State": Findings, Methodological Approach and Challenges

Conference Presentations 

  • North America

    • APSA (Quebec, 2022)

    • MPSA (Chicago, 2022)

    • EUSA (Pittsburgh, 2023; Miami, 2022; Denver, 2019)

    • SPSA (San Antonio, 2022)

  • Europe:

    • Ma Thèse en 180 secondes (Liège, 2021)

    • CES (Online, 2021)

    • UACES (Online, 2020)

    • ECPR (Online, 2020)

    • University of Amsterdam (2018)

    • University of Liège (2018)

    • Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (Brussels, poster, 2018)

    • Euroacademia (Florence, 2017)

  • Middle East:

    • Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2018)

  • Oceania:

    • IPSA (Brisbane, 2018; Online, 2021)

Organized Conferences, Workshops, and Panels & Chair and Discussant Roles 

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  • Invited ParticipantWorkshop on how to promote Belgium in the U.S., Consulate General of Belgium in New York, 20 May 2025

  • Co-panel Chair (with Professor Thomas Smith), Panel "Institutions and Ideas", EUSA Biennal Conference, Pittsburgh, May 2023. 

  • Workshop Organizer“Working at the European Parliament” workshop with Samia Benbouazza, online, Nov. 2022. 

  • Workshop Organizer“The Blue Blook Traineeship at the European Commission” workshop with Lara Lombard, online, Oct. 2022.

  • Co-panel Chair and Co-discussant (with Professor Matthias Matthijs), Panel "European Crises and Crisis Management", APSA Annual Conference, Montreal, Sept. 2022. 

  • Co-panel Chair and Co-discussant (with Professor Willem Maas), Panel "European Identities", APSA Annual Conference, Montreal, 2022. 

  • Chair and DiscussantPanel "Brexit Fallout: The Consequences of Leaving the EU", EUSA Conference, Miami, 2022. 

  • “How to write a scientific paper in social sciences” workshop” (Liège, 2020)

  • Panel Chair and Organizer, Panel “Identity(ies)-building in the EU: discourse, actors and dynamics”, IPSA World Congress,  online, 2021. 

  • Panel Chair and Discussant, Panel “Les émotions dans le discours (des) politique(s) : construction des identités collectives et individuelles”, “Médias, Emotions, et Politique” Symposium, University of Liège, 2019. 

  • Symposium Co-organizer, “Médias, Émotions et Politiques”, University of Liège, 2019.

  • Workshop Organizer, “Discourse Analysis” workshop, University of Liège, 2019.

  • Workshop Organizer“How to do interviews” workshop, University of Liège, 2018.

  • Conference Co-organizer, 12th “Après-midi de recherche” of the Department of Political Science”, University of Liège, 2018. 

  • Workshop Organizer“Sit down and write!" workshop, University of Liège, 2018. 

© 2024 Annie Niessen

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