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
History Rewritten in Stone: The Revival of Castile’s Visigothic Past in the Funerary Chapel of Cardinal Gil de Albornoz in the Cathedral of Toledo
De Albornoz’s chapel thus emerges as a prime manifestation of art’s ability to create and shape identities through grounding the present in imagined historical narratives. It demonstrates that objects necessarily exist, or are made to exist, in constant conversation with the past, which, rather than being stable, is constantly forged by them. Sources referred to in the course of the argument comprise both primary documents, consulted in the cathedral of Toledo and in the Spanish National Library, and secondary literature on the arts and social relations of medieval Iberia. Theoretical issued considered include history making, multitemporality, and inter-religious and inter-cultural contact.Europeanness in the Imaginary of Turkish Humanism
This paper examines the role of European humanism in the nation-building project of a secular elite aspiring to sovereignty but looking West for an image of self. Its central claim is that the Turkish intellectual elite of the 1930-40s adopted a regime of translating, reading, adopting, and circulating the European canonical works as 'reference culture'; that is, a source culture that is recognized as a high authority and an iconic signifier by the recipient culture.Between the Intercultural City Ideal and the Reality of the New Wars
The paper follows the glocalization of the Intercultural Cities Network principles in various European Cities in the years 2015-2017. It included interviews with heads of integration departments or mayors in various cities which are members of the ICC, as well as observations in trainings and other meetings held by the network.14 Cities by Claude Aubriet and Joseph Pitton Tournefort
In this paper I will discuss if Aubriet’s compositions exemplify the utility of transcultural model as landscape depiction: Aubriet’s depiction reminds of 16th century city-atlases of Georg Braun the cartographer. Aubriet, highlights architecture and topographical elements. Thus, they exhibit a similar cartographic method with some European city depictions. Also, they are general views, portraying the city as a whole, as if it were one of the local people Tournefort narrated about. Aubriet’s cities are supposed to illustrate the text however the compositions of the landscapes are different then the text. Are they a dual representation of the same land in the same book, by European scientist/artist/traveler?Architectonic Design as Mediator for Archaeological Hypotheses
Contrasting the geometric abstraction of the model, strictly based on the verbal hypotheses, our way of depicting the scenery uses traditional methods of realistic architectural photography. Leaving out any staffage, the emphasis lies on the timeless qualities of European architecture as shared patrimony, yet contributing to architecture as European Heritage. The presentation aims to demonstrate and illustrate this method by several projects developed by the authors in cooperation with archaeological research institutions like Cologne Cathedral and its Predecessors, The Metropolis of Pergamon, The Palatine Palaces.Including Parking Lots in the New Urban Imaginary
Parking lots belong to that kind of lost spaces that have a secondary role within the urban machine but are mandatory to make it work. Forgotten from a design point of view due their lucrative character, their great impact on land use, their capacity to relieve the city of the increasing presence of cars and their importance within an ecological and sustainable framework where the proper use of its materials can help reduce impervious surfaces, fight heat islands, and contribute to the control of water runoff and effective groundwater recharge, make them claim our economic investment and our attention as designers of our urban environment.Why Populism and Captured States are Not Failing (Yet)? The Case of Slovakia
On the long-term continuous populism, systemic corruption and the degeneration of democracy is likely to lead to relative fallback in economic growth and convergence (compared to CEE competitors) as some examples (notably Hungary but partially also Slovakia) already demonstrate.Populism and Contested Articulations of National and European Identities: Argumentation and Art
he paper focuses on the discursive and non-discursive construction of the opposition between the people and “the other” in terms of values, which is elaborated in reference to the concept of the “heartland” (P. Taggart). The key points are exemplified by the Hungarian case, and, in particular, the analysis of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speeches, memory politics and cultural policy.Europe from the East and the West Regarded from 1968 and 1989 Moments
An irony of history, that 1968 which is an emblem for the radicalism and revolution in Western hemisphere and certain extent in the Eastern bloc too, for Hungary went into the history as associated with a “good bargaining” giving autonomy in foreign policy to the Soviets for receiving internal autonomy –for a while- in economic and social affairs, so a moment of world history of radicalism is a momentum of reformism and of clever opportunism in Hungarian history.The Fundamental Incompatibility of the European and Soviet Identities
In my presentation, I will briefly talk about the identity model which emerged in the creative works of Eduardas Mieželaitis and Sigitas Geda. Miezelaitis was the founder of Soviet modern poetry and presented the form of free poetic language within the context of the Soviet within the context of the Soviet internationalism regime.
