Research

Project publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Peer-reviewed book chapters

Published research posters / Book of Abstracts

  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Poster of the MSCA EU H-2020 ‘NAVSHEN’ project for the Book of Abstracts of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Annual Conference 2021 ‘Research in Times of Crisis’, Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts Poster Section, p. 76.

Preliminary project publications

Project research activities

Convened international research conferences

  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Co-Convenor and Coordinator of the International Conference "Mobility and Human Rights in European Integration: Perspectives from the Past", European Studies Center (ESC) – Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence of the (JMEUCE) at the University of Pittsburgh, 22 April, 2021.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Convenor and Chair of the International Workshop "The Transatlantic Relation from 2021: Where do we go from here?", as Chair of the North America Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA-NA). Speakers: Prof. Garret Martin, Sr. Professorial Lecturer at the School of International Service of the American University (AU); Prof. Michael J. Williams, Associate Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs at Syracuse University and Prof. Billy Davies, Associate Professor at the Department of Justice, Law & Criminology of the American University (AU), 18 March, 2021. 

Chair and discussant in international research conference panels and lectures

  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Chair of the Panel "When Europe is Constructed from its Outside and Peripheries", CES 27th International Conference of Europeanists ‘Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias’ 2021, Council for European Studies (CES) at Columbia University, 21 – 25 June, 2021.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Co-Chair (with Randall Halle, ‘Klaus W. Jonas’ Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh) and Discussant of the panel "Formation of Europe: Borders", CES 27th International Conference of Europeanists ‘Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias 2021, Council for European Studies (CES) at Columbia University, 21 – 25 June, 2021.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Co-Convenor and Co-Chair of the panel "Science and Arts: Dialogues between the languages of the mind", 2021 International Conference of Young Scientists and Global Young Academy (GYA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the German Academy of Sciences ‘Leopoldina’, 3 June, 2021.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Discussant of the paper ‘Recognition through Dialogue: How Transatlantic Relations Anchor the EU's Identity’, EU Jean Monnet "Network on Research and Teaching in EU Foreign Affairs" (NORTIA) project Research Days 2020, 7 – 8 December, 2020.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Discussant of the Film Screening and Round-Table on "The Silence of Others" at the European Studies Center (ESC) – Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence (JMEUCE) of the University of Pittsburgh, within the program ‘2020 European Studies Center's (ESC) Year of Memory and Politics Series’ at the University of Pittsburgh, 2 April, 2020.
    Discussion by Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Senior Global Fellow at the European Studies Center (ESC) of the University of Pittsburgh. Event chaired by Prof. Jae-Jae Spoon, Director of the European Studies Center (ESC) at the University of Pittsburgh.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Discussant of the paper ‘No Culture – No EUrope: The Initiative ‘Soul for Europe’ and the Politics of Affect’, Critical European Culture Studies (CECS) Workshop 2019 "The Critical Methods of European Culture Studies", University of Pittsburgh, 6 – 7 September, 2019.

Selected speaker at international research conferences and invited lectures

Preliminary research activities 

  • Transient Traces? Lessons from EC/EU Enlargements and the Schengen Area to address the Global Governance Challenges of Multiculturalism’, 'The Multicultural Question in a Mobile World', European University Institute (EUI), Florence, 8 April 2016.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘ Dialogues beyond the ‘Fortress Europe’: A Social-Network Approach to the Genesis and Evolution of the ‘Free Circulation’ Concept through EP Schengen Area Debates’, 2015 IHC/FCSH-UNL International Conference 'Schengen: People, Borders and Mobility', New University of Lisbon (NOVA), 16 June 2015.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘EC Migrants' Integration Measures and Political Culture Spillover in the midst of the Community's Southern and Eastern Enlargements’, International Conference ‘Peoples and borders: Seventy years of movement of persons in Europe, from Europe, to Europe (1945-2015), EU Liaison Committee of Historians, University of Padova, 6 November 2014.