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
“Visability”. Visual Research on Abilities During the Jubilee of Mercy
Nowadays pictures and video have become more and more popular in capturing, communicating and sharing social happenings with a massive impact on social practices and representation of reality. The research job aims to investigate the spreading of digital devices in a religious event when combined with a consistent presence of sickness and disability. In order to analyse this topic, a visual qualitative research study has been developed during the special Jubilee of Mercy that Pope Francesco dedicated to people affected by sickness and disability − Rome, 10-12 of June 2016 − in a perspective of observant participation. More than 2000 pictures from the researcher and the pilgrims from Catholic countries, note fields and about 70 interviews with pilgrims have been collected and then treated and analysedA European Failure? The European Union’s Policy Towards Transnistria
The paper will argue that the EU can and must become more active in the Transnistrian resolution for several reasons. Firstly, even though the Transnistrian authorities are overtly pro-Russian, the European Union imports more Transnistrian goods than the Russian Federation. As Transnistria’s largest trade partner, the European Union can use economic pressure to influence a settlement between the breakaway region and Moldova. Since 2014, destabilisation in Ukraine has been a concern for the EU. The presence of an unrecognised state in Moldova not only potentially further destabilises the region, but it also brings the destabilisation much closer to Europe. The paper will demonstrate that the EU can and must become more engaged in the resolution process.Optimism in a Contested Region – Forecasting the Future of the European Union and Armenia
This paper will present a forecast of Armenia-EU relations for the near future and new potential areas of cooperation. Most importantly, this paper will detail how the various crises facing the European Union (such as Eurozone instability, the spread of populism, and the fraying relations with Turkey) may jeopardize this relationship, and what policies may be enacted to alleviate this threat. This paper will include a brief review of relations between Brussels and Yerevan since 1991 alongside which policy areas that would conflict with Russian interests in the South Caucasus. The main legal basis of this study is the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA), a treaty signed in late 2017 that is based on the cancelled 2013 Armenia-EU Association Agreement.Assessing the Eurozone Crisis: Perspectives from the North-American Media
This paper evaluates the prevailing narratives of the crisis as they are presented in the North American media. It assesses editorials and articles in four major newspapers (two American and two Canadian) in order to identify the similarities and differences in narratives presented in all four. Among other issues, the single market and the Euro created a power imbalance between European Union institutions such as the European Central Bank, market forces, and the political institutions of Eurozone members. The treatment of this imbalance by each of the four newspapers is of particular interest because such treatment defines who or what the North American media blames for the crisis and the solutions it suggests.The (De)Politicization of Europe through the Migration Crisis
Within this paper we will demonstrate this inherent heterogeneity of the word “people” which was one of the reasons of the Euro-crisis. In this sense, do we need to form a European people, a European demos, who will accomplish the European project? If Europe is in crisis, this is also because of the paradox of legitimacy and democratization : in order to achieve legitimacy, we need to subordonate it to a democratization process and not a simple institutional objective. In other words, the distinction between input oriented legitimacy (legitimate political choices because they reflect the will of the people) and output oriented legitimacy (government for the people) shatters the foundation of the European identity.Avoiding a Legitimacy Crisis Despite the Quarrels: The EU in the Emissions Trading System Negotiations
For a decade, the European Union (EU) has been struggling through different crises: it has difficulty recovering from the financial crisis; it seems unable to deal with the migration waves; and it has now to face Brexit. If it has been shown that the EU thrives in times of crisis, it is also true that the EU has never been faced with so many challenges at once and many scholars have concluded that the EU is currently facing a legitimacy crisis. This paper argues otherwise. Indeed, it shows that legitimacy and legitimacy crisis are distorted concepts that have lost their operational power.The Media Reception of the Refugee Wave in the European Countries Outside the Schengen Area
The phenomenological research of the media reception of migrants is an interesting challenge in itself, especially when it is limited to the area that brings its own specificities. Relating to the not so distant experience of the war on its own territory with numbers of its own refuges and relatively short-term membership in the European Union (while still outside the Schengen borders), the media reception becomes a key to the creation of a media audiences' attitude. The Croatian survey results regarding the various reporting methods on refugee problem and their influence on diverse perception of refugees, can help to understand the polarization of attitudes about the perhaps most problematic issue of the European Union.Migration Outsourcing Management: Challenges and Perspectives of Usage in XXI Century
The proposal to offer migrants some legal opportunities to apply for visas or asylum in transit and origin countries out of the EU “frontline” states (so-called outsourcing asylum) seems to be a real pathway, gate-keeping mechanism, political and legal instrument to reduce the increasing flow of migrants and asylum seekers but not to stop migration to Europe. This gate-keeping mechanism might help to sort wanted migrants from unwanted not inside the EU, but in non-EU “frontline” states. This case is about national sovereignty and state security, but about human rights protection as such.Contemporary Art Exhibitions as a Tool for the Democratisation of Europe Between 1989 and 2004
This presentation will seek to problematise the use of contemporary art as a presumably neutral platform of dialogue between Eastern and Western European states, which supported the process of socio-political Europeanisation of the former East. At the same time, it will situate the aforementioned projects within the broader debates on the attempts to construct the post-ideological socio-political landscape of democratised Europe post-1989 through the means of contemporary art.EU’s Civil Society Bias in the Neighbourhood: A Case Study on Culture
The analysis seeks to provide a case study with a thematic focus. It looks at EU cultural relations with Neighbourhood countries and in particular at EU’s financial and technical support to their cultural actors. The EU has developed a sound experience in supporting the cultural sector in ENP countries. However, this study seeks to enquire whether the boundaries of what cultural sector means for the EU are mostly based on a Eurocentric understanding of CS or rather on a more inclusive definition mediated with the nature of societies in partner countries.
