During the six years of IMAGINE (thanks to the extension granted due to Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing restrictions on the activities that we hoped to pursue), we have organized one major conference in Copenhagen (6-7 October 2022, Copenhagen: Constitutional imaginaries of Europe), which followed an unofficial kick-off conference that took place already in 2018 (1-2 November 2018, Copenhagen: EU Constitutional Imagination: Between Ideology and Utopia). They each resulted in publications that we hope will outlive our project and inspire others to use the framework and methodology that we developed.

The 2022 conference was preceded by four “local workshops”, each concerning the country we wanted to study in close: Hungary, Estonia, Poland and the Czech Republic. They each built foundations for our second book, which followed the 2022 conference, as they helped to identify the key themes which then framed the agenda of the conference – and the book.

In addition to these workshops, we had four general ones, each concerning a different issue concerning constitutional imaginary as a theoretical concept. The first workshop (22 May 2019) contributed to the work on our first book: some of the chapters were conceived there, others were discussed and further refined as a result. The second (24-25 November 2020) engaged intellectual historians (Michal Kopeček, Balázs Trencsényi and Natasha Wheatley) that each inspired our work. We met for the third one on “Freedom and power of European constitutional scholarship” online (Covid-19 still ruled Europe) in five sessions between 21 and 25 June 2021. The last and fourth workshop took place in Prague, Jan Komárek’s home country, on 6 January 2025. It engaged Paul Kahn’s cultural study of law, which gave the final impetus to Jan’s work on his monograph, which will close the whole project – but not his thinking on the topic.

Apart from these and other more traditional formats (we hosted six speakers in our series and had five meetings of our reading group), we came up with something more innovative perhaps: IMAGINing Together, where we hosted (or got connected online) other research teams or centres, which pursue research on topics of shared interest. We had four such meetings.