Euroacademia Conferences
Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers (9th Edition)April 24 - 25, 2020
Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities (9th Edition)June 12 - 13, 2020
8th Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions AgainJanuary 24 - 25, 2020
Re-Inventing Eastern Europe (7th Edition)December 13 - 14, 2019
The European Union and the Politicization of Europe (8th Edition)October 25 - 26, 2019
Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities (8th Edition)June 28 - 29, 2019
The European Union and the Politicization of Europe (7th Edition)January 25 - 26, 2019- 7th Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions AgainNovember 23 - 24, 2018
Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers (8th Edition)September 28 - 30, 2018- Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities (7th Edition)June 14 - 15, 2018
Papers
The European Economic Crisis: Revitalizing National Identity Through Political Cartoons and Images
Does the current Euro-crisis assist in intensifying the conflict between national and Europe' s collective identity by triggering nationalist attitudes? Is there a cultural representation of this conflict in mass media (political images and cartoons) and what is its impact on the attempts for creating a collective Europe and a pan-European public sphere through cultural integration? In detail, the subject of this research questions whether the economic polarization between the PIGS and European northern countries (such as Germany, France, Britain) has also triggered, a cultural polarization and the detachment of Europe into 'two Europes', consisting of poor and rich.
The Eurozone Crisis: Transformative Impact on the European Project and Model(s) of Capitalism
Europe in these days appears to move from one ‘crisis’ to the next. The deep and apparently perennial crisis of the Eurozone has been on the headlines for a couple of years now, and shows signs of a further exacerbation. The crisis raises several issues of interest for students of political science, political economy and international relations. What appears clear is that the problems of the Eurozone are signals of a weakening (if not an outright failure) of European integration as it was envisaged starting from the early 1990s.
Diagnostics of Our Times: Where Is the 21st Century Heading? World Economy And Society on the Road Towards Megacapitalism
“Mega-capitalism” we see as the next stage in the development of capitalism, which will be dominated and led by both mega-corporations and mega-banks. This, in turn, will result with global cybernetic robotization of workers. This process might be supported by neuro-economics, which we would define as cybernetisized neoclassical economics applied under imperfect market conditions.Sure, the process will be followed by the death of the “territorial” state. This process reflects the centralization of capital on a global scale. This process, however, is evolutionary and repetitive since the beginning of the capitalistic way of production.
Market, Capital and Inequality: Lessons from the Peruvian Experience as an Emerging Economy 2000-2011
this paper shows how the lack of long term vision from both business and white-collar public sector, in order to increase the productivity of factors and promote redistribution of the income, is making impossible to build up structural changes for a more egalitarian society. The gap between the richest and the poorest in Peru after a decade of positive macroeconomics indicators should be explained focusing on the pattern of wealth distribution.
The Work In Communities
In this paper, subjective well-being aspects and the needs of overcoming barriers to conquer and to keep quality of life are seeing as a way of reaching states of satisfaction and happiness. The dimension of subjective well-being is respectively integrated with cognitive, affective and social aspects. It is explained the phenomena of the thought as an intermittent succession of images organized by the mind in the field of the memory; images that come from the environment and are registered in our memory thanks to the body's experience of space and time.
Collective Performance as the Verification of Equality: The Case of Arts Against Cuts and the Turner Prize Intervention
This paper seeks to describe the eruption of British anti-cuts activism of winter and spring 2010/11 as an instance of Rancièrian politics. My particular focus will be those performative activities organised under the banner of the Arts Against Cuts collective: marches, occupations and public interventions, in particular the Turner Prize action of December 6 2010 (See: http://artsagainstcuts.wordpress.com/). My objective is to examine how grass roots arts-activism of this sort operates, especially in terms of the pressure it manages to exert on power.
Silence and the Atrophy of Activism
The slogan SILENCE = DEATH, ubiquitous in 1980’s activism, was only possible through the sharing of the legacy of Nazizeit. Widely printed on placards, t-shirts, and a staple at public protests, the slogan combined prevalent symbols of 1980s activism: links with historical persecution, the dangers of a shared communal silence, and a stark reminder of a physical if not societal extermination. I posit that not only is the slogan linked to the narrative of Nazizeit but that it finds its physical embodiment in Berlin’s 2008 memorial to gay victims of the Holocaust. These artifacts represent counter-monuments, rhetorical artifacts with an aim “not to console but provoke … not to be ignored by passerbys but to demand interaction.” This paper explores that interaction and intersection.
Raising Funds At All Costs? Contemplating the Campaign Strategies of Humanitarian Organizations
Focusing on a recent fund-raising campaign used by a 'humanitarian' anti-violence organization based in the UK, I begin by examining how it is designed to appeal to specific emotions. Second, mindful of the increasing fiscal cuts to charitable organizations, I consider how the organization may be required to traffic in particular stories in order to raise the resources needed to offer their services. Lastly, given the widespread desensitization to violence, I consider the need for controversial strategies that attempt to stir (if not shock) public compassion. I argue that by tracing the relationships between the emotions, economies, and ethics behind certain strategies, one can glean important insights about social responsibility.
The Public Opinion Producers
The study contends that two moments of Turkey’s post-1980 democratization condition the consolidation of the democrats’ position within the arena of opinion production: (1) the rise of PKK’s armed contention against the domination of a Turkish ethnic identity; (2) the rise of political Islam as a contender for municipal and parliamentary power. It is argued that these political processes in Turkey have created a cultural atmosphere in which high-profile democratic opinion producers interact (through the exchange of ideas in the media sphere) with rulers in power on matters concerning democratization.
Test of Okun’s Law in Albania During the Period 1995-2010
The main objective if the study is to test the validity of Okun’s law during the period 1995-2010 in Albania and to find a confidence interval for Okun’s coefficient. When the annual real GDP growth and annual unemployment rates are estimated for Albanian economy over the specified period, it is found that one percent reduction in the annual unemployment rate would produce approximately 1.54% increase in the annual real GDP.
