GTGLab Sessions – Spring 2026 Programme
Details of the Spring 2026 programme below
All sessions take place on Mondays, from 12:30 to 14:00, in Room 3G1
Session 1 – Monday, 9 March
Nicolas Levrat, Professor and Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues
Are We Entering the Age of QUASIO?
This opening session explored the emerging role of “quasi-international organizations” (QUASIO) and asked whether new hybrid governance forms may increasingly complement, bypass, or even rival classical international organizations in a weakening multilateral order.
Session 2 – Monday, 23 March
Flore Vanackère, PhD – GSI
The EU as a Complex Adaptive System in Times of Economic Emergency: From the Eurozone Crisis to Next Generation EU
This session explores how the EU has responded to successive moments of economic emergency, from the Eurozone crisis to Next Generation EU, through the lens of complex adaptive systems.
Session 3 – Monday, 13 April
Rosanna Cornec Baldermann – GSI
Reconceptualising EU Citizenship as Legal Position: Towards a Multi-Status Framework for Individuals
This session explores positional citizenship in the EU as a framework for a more rights-based and context-sensitive understanding of how rights are activated.
Session 4 – Monday, 20 April
Laure Rutagengwa, GSI
Article on Civilizational Trap
This session examines
Session 6 – Monday, 18 May
Luiza Chaves Ranuzzi – GSI
Peace and International Security under Pressure: Current Debates and Emerging Challenges
Session 7 – Monday, 1 June
Aline Telle, PhD – ISE
Transboundary Water Governance Beyond EU Borders: Legal Integration, Nature-Based Solutions, and Policy Interactions in Shared River Basins
This session examines how EU water governance principles shape transboundary cooperation between EU and non-EU riparian states, with particular attention to ecological objectives, nature-based solutions, and climate adaptation.
Session 8 – Monday, 15 June
Flore Vanackère, PhD – GSI
Yuliya Kaspiarovich, PhD – IE University/GSI
Can European Judicial Dialogue Safeguard the Rule of Law? A Complexity View
This session examines the interactions between two complex systems of fundamental rights protection, each operating according to distinct institutional identities, legal logics, and normative attractors.