Research

Project publications

Peer-reviewed book chapters

• Blanco Sío-López, C., "Transitional Margins to Re-Join the West: Spain’s Dual Strategy of Democratisation and Europeanisation", in book: Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe. The Influence of Smaller Powers, Routledge – Taylor & Francis, 2019, ISBN: 9780429425592.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., "The Future that Once Was: 1989, the EU’s Eastward Enlargement, and Democracy’s Missed Chances" in book: 1989 and the West. Western Europe since the End of the Cold War, Routledge – Taylor & Francis, 2019, ISBN: 9781138505070.

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

• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Unveiling Covectors. Correlating Migration and EC Enlargement in the Case of Spain’, Journal of European Integration History (JEIH), Special Issue 2017, vol. 22: Peoples and Borders. 70 Years of Movement of Persons in Europe, to Europe, from Europe (1945-2015), Scopus (Elsevier), pp. 211-236. DOI: 10.5771/9783845277868-210, International History 2017 – Q1.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Dialogues beyond the “Fortress Europe”: The Genesis and Evolution of the “Free Circulation of Persons” Concept through EP Schengen Area Debates, 1985-2015’ in The Borders of Schengen, Brussels, P.I.E. Peter Lang – European Integration History, 2015.

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 and Moderator of the Panel ‘Governing European Education’, Twenty-Eighth International Conference of Europeanists ‘The Environment of Democracy’, organized by the Council for European Studies (CES) at the ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 20/06/2022. 
• Blanco Sío-López, C., Chair of the Panel "When Europe is Constructed from its Outside and Peripheries", CES 27^th 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 27^th 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

• Blanco Sío-López, C.,  ‘Fronteras y Derechos de Movilidad Humana: Los legados históricos de la construcción de una libre circulación de personas en la UE’, II Jornada de la Academia Joven de España (AJE) Cruzando Fronteras: Futuro de la Ciencia, la Cultura y el Conocimiento, Academia Joven de España (AJE) y Centro de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, 28 October, 2022.
• Blanco Sío-López, C.,  Specialisation summer course / Curso de especialización del CSIC: ‘Cómo realizar una propuesta de investigación exitosa como IP’, ‘La carrera investigadora: de los inicios a la consolidación’, Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, 27 October, 2022.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Travelling Inwards: Wellbeing agency as a shifting priority for pandemic-impacted Young researchers’, ReMO COST Action, EU Horizon 2020, 1st Conference of the Researcher Mental Health Observatory ‘Bridging Research and Practice in Fostering Healthy Academic Workplaces’, ReMO COST Action CA19117 and Central European University (CEU), Budapest, 25 August, 2022.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Empowering Historical Legacies of Human Mobility Rights: discursive uses of crises in the building of the EU’s free movement of persons’, RE: MIGRATION – New perspectives on movement, research, and society, The 21st Nordic Migration Research (NMR) conference, Session: ‘Histories of Refugeedom’, Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen, 1 August, 2022.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Kant’s “Perpetual Peace”’ and the Building of a European Integration Process: Blueprints for an Alternate Future’, International Conference on the Future of Peace – The Role of the Academic Community in the Promotion of Peace, Inter University Centre (IUC) Dubrovnik, Croatian Association of the Club of Rome and Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia, 03 August, 2022.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘The Future that Once Was: 1989 and the Eastward Enlargement of the European Union’, Temporalities in History, Association for Global Political Thought (AGPT), Invited Lecturer, Harvard University, 29 July, 2022.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Salvador de Madariaga and the ‘Solidarity of Being’: Echoes of an imagined ‘free movement of persons’ from interwar Europe’, XIII Annual Conference of the Research Network on the History of the Idea of Europe: Rethinking Liberal Europe. Ideas of Europe and Notions of Freedom between 1848 and 1945, Collegio Carlo Alberto (CCA); Fondazione Luigi Einaudi onlus Turin; Stiftung Reichspräsident-Friedrich-Ebert-Gedenkstätte, Heidelberg; Institute for the Study of Ideas of Europe, University of East Anglia, CCA in Torino, 01 July, 2022.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Instilling the Future: Human mobility rights temporalities correlating the EU's Eastward Enlargement and the Free Movement of Persons in the nineties’, 19th IMISCOE (International Migration Research Network) Annual Conference: Migration and Time: Temporalities of Mobility, Governance, and Resistance, Oslo Metropolitan University, 30 June, 2022.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘From Asymmetry to Dialogue? The Conceptual Evolution of the EU Development and Environment Sustainability Agendas’, Twenty-Eighth International Conference of Europeanists ‘The Environment of Democracy, Council for European Studies (CES) and ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 29 June, 2022.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., Specialised summer course / Curso especializado impartido: ‘Diálogos y Transferencias: El rescate (po)ético-práctico de las Humanidades Digitales’, Curso de verano: La inteligencia humana al rescate de la inteligencia artificial, DSLAB-URJC, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, 27 June, 2022.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., Keynote Speaker, ‘Striking a balance that is already there: Knowing, feeling and the ‘poetry of science’, Session: ‘How much is Creativity valued in your area of Science’, 2022 International Conference and Annual General Meeting of the Global Young Academy (GYA) ‘Harmonising Reason with Sensibility’, Global Young Academy (GYA), Young Academy of Japan, Kyushu University and the Science Council of Japan (SCJ), Fukuoka, Japan, 15 June, 2022.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Mirrors and Triggers: Historical approaches to printed press cartoons on the COVID-19 pandemic’, Session: ‘Visual Semantics in History’, 4th National Conference of the Italian Association of Public History (AIPH), Italian Association of Public History (AIPH), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Museo del 900 (M9), Venice, 27 May, 2022.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Charting the Intangible: Bridging Temporalities and Human Mobility Rights in Contemporary History’, Young Academy of Europe (YAE) 10-Year Anniversary Seminar Series, Young Academy of Europe (YAE), 27 April, 2022.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Emotions as triggers to uphold Human Mobility Rights: Discursive uses of crises in the building of the EU’s Free Movement of Persons’, as part of the panel 'Emotions and norms in EU crisis diplomacy’, European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions of Workshops 2022, University of Edinburgh and European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), 19 April, 2022.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., Speaker at the panel ‘After the MSCA fellowship – What’s Next?’, Presentation: ‘Future Pathways: Building the Present’, 2022 Marie Curie Alumni Association Conference and General Assembly ‘Sustainability and the Post-Pandemic Workplace’, Lisbon, 27 March, 2022.
• 51. BLANCO SÍO-LÓPEZ, Cristina, ‘Rediscovering Empowering Historical Legacies on the EU’s Free Movement of Persons, 1985-2015’, Invited Lecture, ‘Transformative Seminar’, Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), University of Vienna, 18 November, 2021.

• Blanco Sío-López, C., "Looking back to see beyond: Rediscovering the empowering historical legacies on the EU’s Free Movement of Persons", Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Global Fellow Lecture 2021 at the European Studies Center (ESC) – Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence (JMEUCE) of the University of Pittsburgh, 8 April, 2021.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., "The Historical Legacies of the EU’s Free Movement of Persons: Our Human Mobility Rights in a Post (?) COVID-19 Context", Invited Lecture as part of the University of Florida (UF) Jean Monnet Chair Series "Pandemics in Europe: Political and Social Responses". The lecture was held at the Center for European Studies of the University of Florida by Prof. Amie Kreppel, Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam) and founding Director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence (JMCE) at the University of Florida, in collaboration with the European Studies Center (ESC) – Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence (JMEUCE) of the University of Pittsburgh, the EU Erasmus + Program and the "Jean Monnet in the USA" Program, 20 October, 2020.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., "A Boundary-Breaking Elite Utopia? The EU’s ‘Free Movement of Persons’ as Power-Based Belonging and Displacement Dynamics", 26^th World Congress of Political Science ‘New Nationalisms in an Open World’, International Political Science Association (IPSA), 10–15 July, 2021.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., "Navigating Schengen: Digital Migration History at the Archives of the European Parliament (EP) in Luxembourg", Migration Research Hub – 18^th International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe (IMISCOE) Annual Conference 2021, held at the University of Luxembourg, 7 July, 2021.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., "A Boundary-breaking European Utopia? Norm Setting and Values in the EU’s ‘Free Movement of Persons'", CES 27^th 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., "Salvador de Madariaga and the ‘Solidarity of Being’: Proto-insights into a ‘Free Movement of Persons’", CES 27^th 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., "Mirrors and Triggers: Historical approaches to printed press cartoons on the COVID-19 pandemic", Panel ‘The COVID-19 Pandemic and Art’, 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.
  Presented as Co-Leader of the 'North-South' Global Young Academy (GYA) 2020-2022 Project Grant ‘The COVID-19 Pandemic and Art’ at the German Academy of Sciences ‘Leopoldina’.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., "A Boundary-Breaking European Utopia? The EU’s ‘Free Movement of Persons’ as a History of Belonging and Displacement", Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) Annual World Convention 2021, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 6 May, 2021.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., "Salvador de Madariaga and the ‘Solidarity of Being’: Limits and potential of an imagined ‘free movement of persons’ in Europe", presented as Co-Convenor and Coordinator of the International Conference ‘Mobility and Human Rights in European Integration: Perspectives from the Past’. Event held at the European Studies Center (ESC) – Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence of the (JMEUCE) of the University of Pittsburgh, 22 April, 2021.
  Chaired by Prof. John Lyon, Chair of the German Department at the University of Pittsburgh and supervisor of Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López during her outgoing phase as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Global Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh from 2019 – 2021.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., "Getting or Becoming? The empowering historical legacies on the EU’s Free Movement of Persons", as part of the series: ‘Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) Political History Lectures’. The lecture was organized by the Research Group on Political History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), in collaboration with the Social Science Program at the Amsterdam University College (AUC), 15 April, 2021.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘The Historical Legacies of the EU’s Free Movement of Persons: Our Human Mobility Rights in a Post (?) COVID-19 Context’. Organized by Prof. Michelle Egan for the American University (AU) graduate course SISU-383 ‘Overview of the European Union’ at the School of International Service of the American University (AU) in Washington, D. C, 24 March, 2021.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., "Breakthroughs and Commonalities: Comparative experiences of historical overcoming of mobility barriers", 6^th Annual Meeting of the European Scientific Diasporas in North America, organized by EURAXESS – North America, 10 December 2021.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., "A Boundary-Breaking European Utopia? Norm Setting and Values in the EU’s ‘Free Movement of Persons’", Panel ‘Migration Politics: National and EU Responses’, ECPR 2020 General Conference, European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), 24 – 2 August, 2020.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., "Mirrors and Triggers: The use of printed press cartoons to teach European integration History", Workshop of the Critical European Culture Studies (CECS), Research Network ‘How we Teach Europe’. Event held at the University of Pittsburgh, 11 August, 2020.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., "Positive anxiety? The urge to transform the Schengen Area ‘Free Movement of Persons" into an inalienable human right’, 2020 ‘Max Weber’ Programme conference 'A Time for Anxiety?, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, 18 – 19 June 2020.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Model European Union’ Keynote Speech 2020 "Human Mobility Rights in the Spotlight: Migration Borders in the EU’s Free Movement of Persons", held by the European Studies Center (ESC) – Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence of the (JMEUCE) and the University Center for International Studies (UCIS) at the University of Pittsburgh, 21 February, 2020.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., "Looking back to see beyond: Human mobility rights’ legacies in the evolution and potentialities of the EU’s Free Movement of Persons", Panel VIII: Conflicting Europeanisation, International Conference of the EU H-2020 RESPOND project "Unpacking the Challenges and Possibilities for Migration Governance", University of Cambridge, Newnham College, 17–19 October, 2019.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., "Oral History Assets and Prospects: The Case of European Integration History", Critical European Culture Studies (CECS) Workshop 2019 "The Critical Methods of European Culture Studies", University of Pittsburgh, 6 – 7 September, 2019.

Preliminary research activities 

• Blanco Sío-López, C., 'The Solidarity Principle and the EU's "Free Movement of Persons": a critical historical analysis, 1985-2015', Oxford Economic and Social History Research Seminar Series - Invited Lecture, St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford, 11 June 2019.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., 'Navigating Schengen. Cultural Challenges and Historical Potentialities of the EU Free Movement of Persons, 1985-2015', 2019 International Conference of Europeanists 'Sovereignties in Contention: Nations, Regions and Citizens in Europe' - Council for European Studies (CES), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 20 June 2019.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Navigating Schengen. Historical Challenges and Potentialities of the EU Free Movement of Persons, 1985-2015 (NAVSCHEN)", Global Young Academy (GYA) Member Lightning Talks, 2019 Global Young Academy (GYA) International Conference of Young Scientists and Anniversary Annual General Meeting, German National Academy of Sciences ‘Leopoldina’, 'Re-Enlightment? Thuth, Reason and Science in a Global World', Halle (Saale), 2 May 2019.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., 'Isolating Points of De-Coupling of Fundamental Rights and Security: Roots and Evolution of the EU Securitisation of Human Mobility,1985-2015', 'EU Migration - Security Nexus' Workshop, British International Studies Association (BISA) Working Group on the ‘International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora’, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 21 February 2019.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Sunken Anchors? Principle Erasure in the History of the EU's Free Movement of Persons [EST]’, International Conference: People on the Move. Migrants, Refugees, and Citizenship Rights [video], School of Governance, Law and Society, Tallinn University, 7-8 February 2019.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Looking Back to See Beyond: Sources of differentiation in the evolution and potentialities of the EU’s Free Movement of Persons’, International Workshop 'Does the future of the European Union depend on differentiation? Sources and effects of the logic of differentiation', Maison française d’Oxford (MFO) and European Studies Centre (ESC) - St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, 29 June 2018. International Workshop organised by the Research Group on the European Union (GrUE) of the French Political Science Association (AFSP), the Maison française d’Oxford (MFO), Nuffield College - University of Oxford, the European Studies Centre (ESC) - St. Antony's College - University of Oxford and the Oxford-SciencesPo Programme (OxPo).
• Blanco Sío-López, C., 'Laboratorio Schengen: Sfide e potenzialità storiche della libera circolazione di persone dell'Unione Europea’, International Conference: 'Cross-border Citizenship and Cultures: History, Law, Institutions', Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Giuridiche, Università degli Studi di Messina, 12 June 2018.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Convenor and Organiser of the Santander Fellow International Conference 2018: 'Belonging and Displacement: European Mobility Labyrinths and Spanish Mirrors', European Studies Centre (ESC) - St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, 21-22 May 2018.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., 'Salvador de Madariaga and the ‘Solidarity of Being’: Limits and potential of an imagined ‘free movement of persons’ in Europe’, as Convenor of the Santander Fellow International Conference 2018: 'Belonging and Displacement: European Mobility Labyrinths and Spanish Mirrors', European Studies Centre, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, 21-22 May 2018.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘The Roots of Inclusion: Re-empowering the EU’s ‘free movement of persons’ through historical analysis’, Oxford Annual COMPAS / TORCH / OMSS Migration Studies conference 2018: ‘Crossing Borders, crossing disciplines: Rethinking, inclusion, exclusion and human mobility’, Worcester College, University of Oxford, 17-18 May 2018.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., Santander Senior Fellow Lecture 2018: 'Navigating Schengen: Spain and the Historical Building of the EU's Free Movement of Persons from 1985' - European Studies Centre (ESC) - St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, 9 March 2018.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., 2017 Jean Monnet EUCE Senior Research Scholar in Residence Lecture: ‘Navigating Schengen: Historical Challenges and Potentialities of the Free Movement of Persons from European to Global Governance’, European Studies Center (ESC) – Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence (JMEUCE), University of Pittsburgh, 10 August 2017.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Forward looking European integration correlations between EC/EU's Eastward Enlargement and the Free Movement of Persons in the nineties’, Workshop '1989 and the West. New Perspectives on the Consequences of the End of the Cold War', Utrecht University, 21 April 2017.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Solidarity Challenges and Potentialities of the Free Movement of Persons from European to Global Governance’, 'New Challenges to European Solidarity', Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 9 March 2017.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Instilling Schengen: The European Parliament Communication Strategies on the Building of the European Community Free Movement of Persons in the Eighties’, 'Machineries of Persuasion' Symposium, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), 19-20 January 2017.
• Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Navigating Schengen: The EP’s Evolving Critiques to the Ethical Crises of the EU’s Free Movement of Persons’, Workshop 'Europe and its crises', Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and Darwin College - University of Cambridge, 1 July 2016.