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
BETWEEN YOU AND I. The Aesthetic of the Real: A Contribution to a Holistic Art Reception
“What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all the four of them to me? And me to you?” All his life, Gregory Bateson was on a quest to find the “pattern” that everything connects. I really cannot say at this point if he found a final answer to this question. In any event, it would have been his answer.
Staging the Modernist Self: The Self-Portraits of William Orpen
One of the most financially successful and honoured painters of the twentieth century, William Orpen’s reputation, now diminished, rests predominantly on his accomplished society portraits and war paintings. Yet Orpen (1873-1931) also produced an extensive body of compelling self-portraits, depicting himself in a variety of guises that mark diverse performances of his ‘self’. This neglected area of Orpen’s production stands apart from his distinctly official works as the painter of the British establishment and war artist and as such merits attention for its singular engagement with the modernist self.
The Multiplicity of the Lyrical Subject in the Construction of Identities: Poetry and Visual Arts
We will pay a particular interest to those activities which worked around the poetic individual decentralization which allowed the rupture of space and time necessary to gather at the same artistic form all those personalities we were and we are being at the moment of creation. Our goal is to compare and check the procedures followed in the operation, both in literature and visual art.
Social Accessibility: Relationally You, Relationally Constructed
American black art is consistently interpreted as a political, economic, social and psychological response to slavery and racism. Art historical scholarship on American black art has a tendency to celebrate the lone, token black artist: the artist of rare genius by virtue of minority and marginality. Apart from the infrequent editor, curator and academic, black artists and their production have been denied universality by such codified statements masquerading as criticism.
Transgressive Figures: Performance Art in China. A Case Study from 1985 until Today
The focus of the following paper is an investigation on performance art presented between its appearance in the year 1985 and 2010 in mainland China. The actions discussed are closely related to socio-political upheavals in the country. They can be seen as a reflection and reaction to those socio-political events in which the abject 1 body becomes a site of identification. For this wave of shock art the art historians Thomas Berghuis and Cheng Meiling coined out the terms flesh art2 and animalworks3. The time frame suggested by both scholars is the decade between 1994 and 2004.
Translocal Dynamics of Contact. Reactions to Steven Cohen’s Performances in Africa and Europe
Performance art positions itself as potentially contestable, democratic and open to and curious about disagreement. Its ephemeral and often erratic character seems to be exemplary for any description or scrutiny of the dynamics of contact. Most of these contacts of the performer's body, identity and intention with an audience in a specific space and time have occurred within the ambit of a genuinely art-friendly community - galleries, museums or city centres.
Assessing the Convergence After Enlargement
The argument in the current literature goes that through the enlargement strategy, the EU determined the convergence for the new members both in terms of substantive democratization as also in terms of attachment to western democratic values as community making factors. The present study aims to assess such claims in the current post-enlargement environment. While most of the convergence arguments were built within the literature before the effective enlargement took place, there was no post-enlargement follow up yet many assumptions regarding the expected convergence as political dynamic entered the common usage and are now taken for granted.
Politicization, Issue Salience and the Consumer Policy Output of the European Commission
In empirical terms, the paper focuses on European consumer policy. Based on novel politicisation and salience indicators and an analysis of regulatory proposals between 1999 and 2008, it shows that the Commission alters its consumer policies to the advantage of the diffuse mass of European consumers when high levels of politicisation and issue salience meet.
Securitizing the Euro? Crisis Rhetoric between Silence and Dramatization
In 2011, the euro debt crisis intensified on a rapid scale. Numerous emergency measures were adopted in order to maintain stability and to avoid a collapse of the single currency. Among these measures were ad-hoc EU summit decisions and rescue packages, unprecedented actions by the European Central Bank (ECB) to ease government bond interest rates of indebted crisis states, the disempowerment of parliaments, austerity programs and fiscal surveillance measures. This paper strives to explore how the above named emergency measures could be adopted so quickly and how they were justified by EU- and national actors.
The Prospect of a European Federation. How the Euro Crisis is Pushing the EU towards Federalism
The current crisis, made federalism an unavoidable milestone for the future of Europe. Nevertheless, the main debate of the coming years will be centered on the nature of this federalism. Will one vision prevail over the other, or eventually a combination of different types will shape the European Union for the next century. The aim of this paper is to outline the major federalist projects that are proposed today in the EU and which one is most likely to materialize. It will also deal with the role of the single currency, the restructuring of EU institutions, and the place its founding values will have in the sui-generis construction of a transnational federation.
