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
Inter-ethnic Relations in the Republic of Macedonia as a Priority or Deficiencies in the Process of Building Democratic Institutions
After the dissolution of former Yugoslavia and the changes in the economic and political system in Republic of Macedonia, a new democratic system should be established based on equal ethnic and cultural rights, where the human rights and their freedom, as well as the rights of ethnic groups would be respected.
Ethnic Rights and National Personal Autonomy Under Integration
The key goal of this presentation is to present the possibility of new approach to ethnic question on the base of adapted historical experience in order to initiate the discussion on the matter. This approach proceeds from European theoretical and practical heritage. Precisely, it is a question of the concept called “National Personal Autonomy” produced by Austrian School of non-territorial federalism.
Elite-level Use of Ethnic Categories in Post-Socialist Slovakia
This paper is a single-study of post-socialist ethnic identification in today’s Slovakia rooted in post-Barthian approach to ethnicity. It deals with the ways in which ethnic categories, ethnic symbolism and ethnic interpretations were used in elite-level political mobilization during the 2012 electoral campaign focusing on the victorious party SMER-SD.
The Post-Accommodation Stages of Ethnic Relations: Political Structures and Actors as Challenges to Achieving Policy Goals
Using critical discourse analysis and document analysis, the paper look in particular at post-communist Romania and engages in three analytical steps: first, it reviews the key minority claims expressed during the past twenty years and their time sequence; second, it analyzes how political actors have framed minority integration (by identifying key patterns of discourse, and investigating legislative-institutional developments).
The Political Language of Moral Panics: Teutophobia and the Image of a Besieged Romania in 1871
The paper seeks to examine the political vocabulary employed by anti-conservative Romanian journalists who, in the wake of the Prussian victory of 1871, attempted to forge – through fear and suspicion – a greater sense of solidarity among their readers, playing sympathy and loathing toward Western cultural influences against each other, imagining and constructing 'the nation' as a moral community.
Outside the Stadium
The main aim of this paper is to discuss the views and opinions on Euro 2012 articulated in Polish media. Taking into account bitter notions represented by many journalists concerning Polish development disabilities one can conclude there is terrifying lack of self-confidence among Poles.
Exploring the Basic Values Maps of West and East Germany, Czech Republic, and Poland – Findings and Explanations From a Research of Personal Advertisements
The content analysis of personal ads from West and East Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland allowed the ascertainment of basic values and attitudes towards life and partnership. These values and attitudes represented in the personals enabled us to reconstruct for each of the examined cultures a particular concept of life and partnership. We intended to find out, why there is in a culture a particular value-formation and no other.
Eastern, Central, or East-Central Europe? Identity Dilemmas in Contemporary Poland
Firstly, the objective of this paper is to show in what manner Central and East-Central Europe is perceived in Poland, secondly – to point at cultural and historical background and socio-political meaning of particular ideas. Since all these notions are casual and conditioned both politically and historically, and they also correspond with affairs of certain political, business and academic groups.
East – West Reflections On the Shared Values
The paper aims at examining the specificities of the process of consolidation of the EU citizens around certain European values. It is thematically developed in three parts. The point of departure of the first chapter is the understanding that the long lasting process of European consolidation has been historically shaped around certain contradictions - between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, East and West.
Gothic Plots and Political Anxieties: Kapka Kassabova’s Reconnaissance and Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian
My presentation focuses on two novels, Reconnaissance (1999), by Bulgarian-born writer and poet Kapka Kassabova, and The Historian (2005), by US-American writer Elizabeth Kostova.
