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
Who is an Istanbulite? Changing Patterns of Urban Citizenship
Cities have become political spaces where the meaning, scope, content and practice of citizenship are created and transformed. The city provides us with new ways of being a citizen. This paper aims to illustrate how rural migrants from different generations exercise, practice and experience citizenship in Istanbul. A generational study among rural migrants will provide us insight on how changing national, social and political dynamics influence norms, practices and meanings concerning citizenship. It will also shed light upon how rural migrants’ own experiences of citizenship affect their feelings of inclusion, exclusion and belonging.Anamnesis: Dialogues of Art in Public Spaces
“Anamneses…” is a critical inquiry of the culture of space and of economic exploitation of public spaces in order to show a wide span of art practices that enable citizens to become co-creators of public spaces. Croatian contemporary art in public spaces creates a particular point of view on collective culture and its affirmation in urban life. It explores ways in which art interventions and practices transform and symbolically shape public spaces; ways in which they participate and change the meaning of public spaces, where users could feel in a different way experimental character of sensory experience; where interactions of artists produce opinions, ideas, values and practices that show and enhance new models of place existence and art production.Performing Cultural Diplomacy: The Art School as Future Incubator
In this paper, I will explore ways in which teaching critical thinking to final level undergraduates and taught masters students can deconceptualise and actuate this learning goal within the context of the Art School (Freire 1968). Furthermore I will show how the destabilisation of power offers a moment of cross cultural integration between staff and students, art and STEM, those who believe in the power of education and those who decry experts (Foucault 1976).Cultural Diplomacy, Photography and Biblification in Late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine
The process of biblification can be read as cultural producers making the Palestinian landscape legible to Western cultural consumers by excising Palestinian modernity and, of course, the potential market of Palestinian consumers who might be interested in Palestine’s modernity. In considering the role of such production, the object of cultural diplomacy effectively becomes vested in a circular model that saw European photographers producing images in Palestine for European cultural consumption. This highlights the colonial subtexts of this circular model of cultural diplomacy, and its utilisation of biblification, as a tool indigenous erasure.Cultural Diplomacy and Global Exhibitions of Modern Arab Art from the Barjeel Art Foundation
With exhibitions in Singapore, Iran, France, the UK, US, and other locations, Barjeel has become a significant player in international art. This paper will summarise an extensive research project underway at the Barjeel Art Foundation. This paper also offers a theoretical and contextualised discussion of the history of Arab art diplomacy as seen in Barjeel’s collection, including the works of the Egyptian diplomat and painter Muhammad Naghi (1888-1956).Performing Lecture: Practice as Research (PaR)
Evidence and impact from audience feedback of the performances of 'The Tin Ring' provides examples of how specific first-hand witness testimony (delivered as solo performance) to wide ranging audiences between 2011 and 2018 can contribute to the private day to day performative archiving of witness testimony. The performance has been witnessed in fourteen countries, France will be the fifteenth, demonstrating how creative representation of an eye witness account contributes to an audience’s understanding of history.#Got_no_other_xv_century_left_for_u”: The Negotiations of Belonging in the Communities of XV Century Reenactors in Russia
“#got_no_other_xv_century_left_for_u” [rus. #ДругойПятнахиУнасДляВасНет] – this phrase appeared at the end of the Living history event “L`Ultima Frontiera Taurica 2016”. At that time, this phrase had a direct meaning - although everyone was tired, it was the only living history event in 2016 in the medieval re-enactment. In 2017 this hash tag became especially popular, but it acquired a new meaning. There were alternative events of this format and re-enactment direction, so it started to mean: "Our fifteenth century is the only correct one, and all alternatives are not worthy for existence".In the Space of the Screen: Cinema and the Political Subject
Changing expectations and behavioral patterns, Hollywood and its mutants reconfigure emotional and mental structures, undermining not only concepts of personal autonomy, but, in its wake, also of the liberal political subject and democracy. My paper juxtaposes the Hollywood aesthetic, which after the demise of the Eastern bloc has become globally dominant, with that of media from the former East. Using East German Cinema as an example to show how media could function as an intersection of studio-produced Autorenfilm with a revolutionary intent, I will highlight an aesthetic that sought to interpolate the spectator as an autonomous subject.Performing Gender: The Contemporary Gender Agenda
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the discussion about gender politics which is not solely focused on women’s oppression but also on trans liberation. Transgender and gender fluidity is nothing new. There is a complexity to the debates and I will try to outline them in this paper. In particular, it is the threat of trans rights to the struggle for rights that some feminists speak about. The paper also looks at how concepts such as cis, transgender, gender fluidity, non-binary and gender dysphoria have emerged in our vocabulary.The Bold Feminist
My paper revolves around ‘identity as a performative and political tool and/or as a site of political resistance and change.’ I will use the concept ‘popular feminism’ to critically evaluate the current feminist momentum, characterized by its proliferation in pop culture and fashion, and its impact on the feminist movement with regards to empowerment and resistance. Popular feminism can be characterized as the increasing visibility and popularity of feminism within mainstream popular culture. This form of feminism is increasingly incorporating a more intersectional approach, but I would still argue that the current feminist identity is problematic through its exclusionary attitude.
