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Apr15Wed
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11th HEIRS Conference: Narratives of European Integration08:00 – 23:00
“Europe needs a societal paradigm shift – in fact, nothing short of a ‘New Renaissance’.” With this bold statement, made in March 2014, a group of artists, intellectuals and scientists who called themselves the “Cultural Committee”, answered appeals from the European Parliament and European Commission president José Manuel Barroso. They had called for a new narrative for Europe, as they signaled that the old narratives of peace and prosperity, that once drove European integration, had lost their validity and were in need of replacement.
The statement of the Cultural Committee underlines the notion that narratives are powerful phenomena. They can serve to legitimate or contest regimes, facilitate or undermine social and cultural cohesion, and influence notions of identity and otherness. They are cultural constructs, created by state and societal actors, individuals and groups, sometimes deliberately with a political goal in mind, sometimes unintentionally and implicitly. Narratives thus are a very fruitful subject for analyzing the history of European integration.
This conference will explore the various forms in which European integration is and has been narrated, be they discourses or exhibitions, speeches or symbolism. We invite PhD candidates to submit abstracts for papers.
For full details see: http://hum.port.ac.uk/heirs/conferences.html
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11th HEIRS Conference: Narratives of European Integration23:00 – 18:00
“Europe needs a societal paradigm shift – in fact, nothing short of a ‘New Renaissance’.” With this bold statement, made in March 2014, a group of artists, intellectuals and scientists who called themselves the “Cultural Committee”, answered appeals from the European Parliament and European Commission president José Manuel Barroso. They had called for a new narrative for Europe, as they signaled that the old narratives of peace and prosperity, that once drove European integration, had lost their validity and were in need of replacement.
The statement of the Cultural Committee underlines the notion that narratives are powerful phenomena. They can serve to legitimate or contest regimes, facilitate or undermine social and cultural cohesion, and influence notions of identity and otherness. They are cultural constructs, created by state and societal actors, individuals and groups, sometimes deliberately with a political goal in mind, sometimes unintentionally and implicitly. Narratives thus are a very fruitful subject for analyzing the history of European integration.
This conference will explore the various forms in which European integration is and has been narrated, be they discourses or exhibitions, speeches or symbolism. We invite PhD candidates to submit abstracts for papers.
For full details see: http://hum.port.ac.uk/heirs/conferences.html
23:0011th HEIRS Conference: Narratives of European Integration
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Apr24Fri
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Re-Inventing Eastern Europe (The Fourth Edition) (all-day)Apr 24
The Fourth International Conference
Re-Inventing Eastern Europe’
24 – 25 April 2015
Krakow, Poland
With a visit of Auschwitz – Birkenau on 26th of April
Call for Panels and Papers
Deadline: 15 March 2015
Re-Inventing Eastern Europe (The Fourth Edition) (all-day)
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Re-Inventing Eastern Europe (The Fourth Edition) (all-day)Apr 25
The Fourth International Conference
Re-Inventing Eastern Europe’
24 – 25 April 2015
Krakow, Poland
With a visit of Auschwitz – Birkenau on 26th of April
Call for Panels and Papers
Deadline: 15 March 2015
Re-Inventing Eastern Europe (The Fourth Edition) (all-day)
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Re-Inventing Eastern Europe (The Fourth Edition) (all-day)Apr 26
The Fourth International Conference
Re-Inventing Eastern Europe’
24 – 25 April 2015
Krakow, Poland
With a visit of Auschwitz – Birkenau on 26th of April
Call for Panels and Papers
Deadline: 15 March 2015
Re-Inventing Eastern Europe (The Fourth Edition) (all-day)
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Deadline for Paper Proposals: The Fourth Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions Again (all-day)Oct 4 – Oct 5
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fourth Global Forum of Critical Studies
Asking Big Questions Again
13 – 14 November 2015, Lucca, Italy
Palazzo BernardiniDeadline for Paper Proposals: 5th of October 2015
The Fourth Euroacademia Global Forum of Critical Studies aims to bring into an open floor the reflexive and questioning interaction among academics, intellectuals, practitioners and activists profoundly concerned with evaluative understandings of the world we’re living in. The focus of the forum is to initiate an arena where no question is misplaced and irrelevant as long as we acknowledge that evaluation, critical thinking and contestation are accessible trajectories to better understand our past, present and alternative scenarios for the future.
Conference Description:
Some say that the 21st Century or modernity altogether made humans more concerned with doing rather than being. As the classical Greek civilization valued the most reflexive thinking as a form of freedom from natural necessities, contemporary times profoundly involve individuals and the imaginary accompanying social practices in a restless logic of consumption, competition and engagement that profoundly – or some would say, radically – suspends or indefinitely postpones the autonomous capacity of human beings to question and reflect upon the social order and the meaning of social practices. The fast advancement of the logic of post-industrial societies, the gradual dissolution of alternative models to the capitalist logic and a multitude of other alerting factors pushed ahead a global spread culture of one-dimensional productions of meaning that advances a closure rather than a constant reflexive re-evaluation of cultural/social practices.
Many alternatives at hand are often condemned to marginality or lost in the plural practices where everything goes as long as it’s part of an intellectual market. The ‘fatal strategies’ of post-industrial societies to keep individuals captive, busy and seduced by contingent social arrangements and economic practices minimized the questioning detachment required to evaluate and give meaning through reflexive criticism and unlimited interrogation. Various labels were given to our unfolding times from apocalyptic ones to some more comforting yet not by chance lacking some vital optimism. Despite a wide-spread discontent and suspicion towards the daily realities of our current societies, most of the big questions are often left outside by the self-involved active pursuit of an imagined well-being that is no longer transgressed by harsh critical evaluation of its meaning. The academic arena itself also advances, supports, integrates and promotes limited particular methodologies that generate an effect of mainstreaming and often keeps researchers or practitioners out of the battle-ground for big questions.
The ongoing economic crisis made reality even harsher and pushed ahead the need for more thinking as many habitual categories lost their meaning or relevance. New ways of thinking could transgress some inappropriate conceptions or misconceptions that preserve their centrality due to the mechanics of habits. This is a time when a call to thinking is well-placed. This is a call to arms for critical studies that promotes alternative, questioning and multi-dimensional thinking.Panels:
When it’s about critical thinking and critical studies there is intrinsically an unending open list of topics to be included. The Fourth Euroacademia Forum on Critical Studies proposes the 5 sections (that are by no means exclusive):
Theory/Philosophy
Politics
Cultural Studies
Political Economy
Arts and PerformancePapers on the following topics (and not only) are welcomed:
Diagnostics of Our Times: Where Is the 21st Century Heading? ~ Our Societies Are As Good As It Gets: How to Escape the Closure of Meaning? ~ Consumerist Societies and the Captivity of Thinking ~ The Being/Doing Nexus ~ Assessing Models of Capitalism ~ Markets, Capital and Inequalities ~ The Remains of Individual Autonomy ~ How Plural Our Societies Truly Are? ~ Debating Ideal vs. Real Multiculturalism ~ Social Narcissism and Consumerism ~ The Role of Critical Thinking: Proposing Alternative Methodologies ~ Are There Any Alternatives to Capitalism Left? ~ Social Causes and the Pursuit of Social Beliefs ~ Protest and Social Change ~ Re-Thinking Revolutions ~ Hegemony and the Remaining Possibilities for Social Criticism ~ Loneliness and Isolation in the Era of Mass Communication ~ Living Low Cost: Values, Meaning and Market Exchange ~ Ideology and Other Dominant Narratives ~ Critical Economics ~ Post-Modernism and the Critique of Modernity ~ Marx and the 21st Century ~ Debating the End of Communism ~ Non-Oppositional Societies ~ Consolation, Complicity and Passivity Today ~ Who Still Waits For A Revolution? ~ C. Castoriadis and the Project of Autonomy ~ French Thinking and Alternatives for Thought ~ Eastern Europe and the Enrollment to the School of Capitalism ~ China and the Logic of Growth ~ Crises of Culture ~ Left and Right: Political Spectrums and Pluralism Re-Discussed ~ Art as an Exchange Value ~ Originality and Complacency ~ Literatures and Authors ~ Heroes and Heroines in Electronic Literature ~ Fiction and the Fictionalization of the Contemporary World ~ Film and the Persisting Hunger for Heroic Imagination ~ The Illusory Charity and Imagined forms of Contemporary Humanisms ~ The Growing Social Irrelevance of Philosophy ~ Replacement of the Logic of Becoming by the Logic of Earning ~ How Do We Look Back at Tradition? ~ Just Wars or Unjust Thinking? ~ The Myth of Cosmopolitanism ~ Facing the Self ~ Communication, Media and Simulacrum ~ Science, Pragmatics and Vocation: Who Pays What We Can’t Sell? ~ Is There Still a Postmodern or Any Other Kind of Condition? ~ Post-Marxist Way of Looking at Facts ~ The School of Suspicion and Evaluative Thinking ~ Feminist Readings of Our Contemporary World ~ Post-Colonialism and the Refurbished Other(s) ~ Theory and Power ~ Queer Theory and Living After the Sexual Revolution ~ Subaltern TheoryFor complete information before applying see full details of the conference at:
http://euroacademia.eu/conference/fourth-forum-of-critical-studies/
You can apply on-line by completing the Application Form on the conference website or by sending a 300 words abstract together with the details of contact and affiliation until 5th of October 2015 at [email protected]
Deadline for Paper Proposals: The Fourth Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions Again (all-day)
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Deadline for Paper Proposals: The European Union and the Politicization of Europe (Fourth Edition) (all-day)Oct 14 – Oct 15
Call for Papers
Euroacademia and the School of International Relations and Diplomacy from Anglo-American University in Prague, cordially invites applications for:
The Fourth International Conference
The European Union and the Politicization of Europe27 – 28 November 2015
To be held at Anglo-American University, Prague, Czech Republic
Deadline for Paper Proposals: 15 October 2015
See full details at: http://euroacademia.eu/conference/european-union-and-the-politicization-of-europe-4th-edition/
Conference Description:
The European Union was described by Jacques Delors as an unidentified political object and by Jose Manuel Barroso as the first non-Imperial empire. The descriptors assigned to the European Union are creative and diverse yet the agreement on what is the actual shape that the EU is taking is by no means an easy one to be achieved. Historical choices shaped and reshaped the size and functioning of the EU while the goal of an emerging ‘ever closer union’ is still in search for the paths of real and not ideal accomplishment. The agreement seems to come when it’s about the growing impact of the decisions taken in Brussels on the daily lives of the European citizens and the increasingly redistributive outcomes of the policy choices inside the EU. These dynamics created the framework for the politicization of Europe and opened a vivid debate about the direction and proportions of such a process.The politicization of Europe takes various shapes and addresses significant puzzles. While it is clear that the EU doesn’t resemble a state it is less clear if the decisions that shape its policies are configured by Pareto efficient outcomes or by dynamics that are intrinsic to political systems and defined by emerging party politics within the European Parliament. The democratic problem or the democratic deficit issue was and continues to be one of the main challenges facing the European Union in any terms or from any position is understood or described. The problem of accountability for the decision making inside the EU was there from the beginning and it emerged gradually as more emphatic on the agenda of vivid debates as the powers of the EU have grown after the Maastricht Treaty. This was concomitant with a growing disenchantment of citizens from member states with politics in general, with debates over the democratic deficits inside member states, with enlargement and with a visible and worrying decrease in voters’ turnouts in both national and especially European elections. The optimist supporters of EU believe in its power to constantly reinvent and reshape while the pessimists see either a persistence of existing problems or a darker scenario that could lead in front of current problems even to the end of the EU as we know it.
The International Conference ‘The European Union and the Politicization of Europe’ aims to survey some of these current debates and addresses once more the challenges of the EU polity in a context of multiple crises that confronted Europe in recent years. It supports a transformative view that involves balanced weights of optimism and pessimism in a belief that the unfold of current events and the way EU deals with delicate problems will put an increased pressure in the future on matters of accountability and will require some institutional adjustments that address democratic requirements for decision making. However in its present shape and context the EU does not look able to deliver soon appropriate answers to democratic demands. In a neo-functionalist slang we can say as an irony that the actual crisis in the EU legitimacy is a ‘spillover’ effect of institutional choices made some time before. To address the EU’s democratic deficit however is not to be a skeptic and ignore the benefits that came with it but to acknowledge the increasing popular dissatisfaction with ‘occult’ office politics and with the way EU tackles daily problems of public concern while the public is more and more affected by decisions taken at European level.
Is the EU becoming an increasingly politicized entity? Is the on-going politicization of Europe a structured or a messy one? Do political parties within the European Parliament act in a manner that strengthens the view of the EU as an articulate political system? Are there efficient ways for addressing the democratic deficit issue? Can we find usable indicators for detecting an emerging European demos and a European civil society? Does Europeanization of the masses take place or the EU remains a genuinely elitist project? Did the Lisbon Treaty introduce significant changes regarding the challenges facing the EU? Can we see any robust improvements in the accountability of the EU decision making processes? Are there alternative ways of looking at the politicization processes and redistributive policies inside the EU? Is the on-going crisis changing the European politics dramatically? These are only few of the large number of questions that unfold when researchers or practitioners look at the EU. It is the aim of the Fourth International Conference ‘The European Union and the Politicization of Europe’ to address in a constructive manner such questions and to offer o platform for dissemination of research results or puzzles that can contribute to a better understanding of the on-going process of politicization within the European Union.
The conference is organized yet by no means restricted to the following panels:
~ The Crisis of Europe and its Political Challenges
~ The Crisis of European Solidarity
~ Greece and the Questioning of the Factual European Unity
~ Is Euro-enthusiasm Still Possible?
~ The Politicization of Europe: Desirable or Contestable
~ The Neo-medieval EU: Resembling an Enlightened Despotism?
~ The EU as a Political System: Features and Curiosities
~ Differentiated Integration and Club Based Hypotheses
~ Re-distributive Policies Inside the EU Impacting the Medium Voter
~ European Elections and Strategies for Politicization
~ European Parties and Party Politics in the European Parliament
~ Strategies for Bringing European Issues to Public Scrutiny
~ Taking ECB Out of the Political Vacuum: Strategies for Accountability
~ The Democratic Deficit Issue: A Persistent Anomaly?
~ In Search of a European Demos
~ Inclusion/Exclusion Nexuses
~ Looking for a European Civil Society
~ Appropriations and Politicization of Wider European Values and Narratives
~ Persisting Intergovernmentalism?
~ EU and Traces of Imperial Politics
~ EU and Identitarian appropriations
~ Scenarios for Change Inside the EU
~ The Future of EU Enlargement
~ The Europeanization of Balkans
~ Taking Euroskepticism Seriously
~ Assessing the EU External Action
~ Increasing Public Saliency for Supranational Issues
~ Lobbying and Policy Making Inside the EU
~ Cultural Policies and the Politicization of Europe
~ Educational Policies of Europeanization
~ Representations of EUrope
~ Arts and the Imaginary Shape of the EU
~ Mobility and Europeanization
~ Europe 2020 – Scenarios for FutureDeadline:
15 October 2015 – deadline for sending 300 words abstracts and details of affiliationThe 300 word abstracts and the affiliation details should be submitted in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
1) author(s), 2) affiliation, 3) email address, 4) title of abstract, 5) body of abstract 6) preferred panel or proposed panel
The abstract and details can be sent to [email protected] with the name of the conference specified in the subject line or through the on-line application form available at http://euroacademia.eu/conference/european-union-and-the-politicization-of-europe-4th-edition/
We will acknowledge the receipt of your proposal and answer to all paper proposals submitted.The conference is organized by Euroacademia in cooperation with the School of International Relations and Diplomacy from the Anglo American University in Prague, Czech Republic.
Euroacademia is a non-profit organization, based in Paris, Brussels and Vienna, aiming to foster academic cooperation, networking and a platform for dissemination and valorization of academic research results, trends, and emerging themes within the area of concern for European studies, political science, critical studies, cultural studies, and wider and inclusive interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches that contribute to a better understanding of the ‘self-organizing vertigo’ (Edgar Morin) of the European realm. Euroacademia is a hub for academic interaction on and about Europe.
For more information visit www.euroacademia.euAnglo-American University is the oldest private institution of higher education in the Czech Republic and provides a personalized and distinctive university education in the English language. Utilizing the best from American and British academic traditions, Anglo-American University educates future leaders and global citizens in a multicultural setting of students and faculty from over 60 different countries.
For more information visit http://www.aauni.edu/Deadline for Paper Proposals: The European Union and the Politicization of Europe (Fourth Edition) (all-day)
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The Fourth Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions Again (all-day)Nov 12 – Nov 13
The Fourth Euroacademia Global Forum of Critical Studies aims to bring into an open floor the reflexive and questioning interaction among academics, intellectuals, practitioners and activists profoundly concerned with evaluative understandings of the world we’re living in. The focus of the forum is to initiate an arena where no question is misplaced and irrelevant as long as we acknowledge that evaluation, critical thinking and contestation are accessible trajectories to better understand our past, present and alternative scenarios for the future. The Forum is also an open stage for sharing existing or ready formed intellectual visions and expose them to dialogue and scrutiny in a critically reflective environment.
The Fourth Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions Again (all-day)
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The Fourth Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions Again (all-day)Nov 13 – Nov 14
The Fourth Euroacademia Global Forum of Critical Studies aims to bring into an open floor the reflexive and questioning interaction among academics, intellectuals, practitioners and activists profoundly concerned with evaluative understandings of the world we’re living in. The focus of the forum is to initiate an arena where no question is misplaced and irrelevant as long as we acknowledge that evaluation, critical thinking and contestation are accessible trajectories to better understand our past, present and alternative scenarios for the future. The Forum is also an open stage for sharing existing or ready formed intellectual visions and expose them to dialogue and scrutiny in a critically reflective environment.
The Fourth Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions Again (all-day)
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The European Union and the Politicization of Europe (Fourth Edition) (all-day)Nov 26 – Nov 27
Euroacademia and Anglo American University, Prague – School of International Relations and Diplomacy
The Fourth International Conference
The European Union and the Politicization of Europe27 – 28 November 2015
Anglo American University, Prague, Czech Republic
Is the EU becoming an increasingly politicized entity? Is the on-going politicization of Europe a structured or a messy one? Do political parties within the European Parliament act in a manner that strengthens the view of the EU as an articulate political system? Are there efficient ways for addressing the democratic deficit issue? Can we find usable indicators for detecting an emerging European demos and a European civil society? Does a Europeanization of the masses take place or the EU remains a genuinely elitist project? Did the Lisbon Treaty introduced significant changes regarding the challenges facing the EU? Can we see any robust improvements in the accountability of the EU decision making processes? Are there alternative ways of looking at the politicization processes and redistributive policies inside the EU? These are only few of the large number of questions that unfold when researchers or practitioners look at the EU. It is the aim of the Fourth International Conference ‘The European Union and the Politicization of Europe’ to address in a constructive manner such questions and to offer o platform for dissemination of research results or puzzles that can contribute to a better understanding of the on-going process of politicization within the European Union.
The conference is organized by Euroacademia in cooperation with the School of International Relations and Diplomacy from the Anglo American University in Prague, Czech Republic.
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