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
Piety in Classical to the Contemporary East Asian Fictions
This article analyzes the unique aspects of the Confucian notion of piety and how the value continues to serve as a literary theme. Three classical literary works in Japan, Korea, and China are selected to critically analyze “piety” as a literary archetype. Many studies have focused on the Confucian notion of piety from a comparative philosophical perspective. However, few studies have approached Confucian piety within the literary context. This article is to present a neglected link between Confucian value of “piety,” “benevolence,” and “virtue” reflected in the core classical Asian literature and how the values persist in the post-modern Japanese, Korean, and Chinese fictions.The Construction of Urban Space in Honoré Daumier’s Caricatures
This paper discusses Honoré Daumier’s construction of urban space in his caricatures. Throughout his career Daumier drew hundreds of scenes that took place in the city. I argue that in many of these images, the access to urban space is mediated by the gaze of an observer. I will show that whereas in many cases Daumier depicts the bourgeois urban spectator as struggling to make sense of the city, he presents the comic artist as the one who owns the gaze over the city, who can decipher its meaning, and represent it in image.Identity and Urban Image between Developmentalism and Neoliberal Policies
The paper aims to show the mutations of the urban image and identity between the consolidation of cities during the ideas of the developmentalism of the fifties and sixties, and the subsequent transformations arising from the neoliberal policies applied since the eighties. It is inquired about how the transformations of the urban image proposed new forms of identity for the city as a whole and for its inhabitants. Arica, in the north of Chile, in the middle of the desert, between the high plateaus of the Andes and the Pacific Ocean, is an exceptional study case to show the ways how urban expansion fostered by development according to a diffuse city, changed the image and the identity of the city.Museu do Amanhã: The Emergent Cultural Industry in Brazil
The main aim of this study is to explore the emergent state of the cultural-creative industry in Brazil, using Rio de Janeiro’s Museu do Amanhã as a case study. The Museu do Amanhã, as a pillar of social interaction, knowledge, and sustainability, stylised as an urbanistic and cultural project, needs to fully engage with the understanding of how to completely integrate itself into the city and its socioeconomic reality.CRAFT – An EU Strategic Partnership that Works with the History, Heritage and Urban Change of Venice
In CRAFT we work with a new interdisciplinary educational concept focusing on the cross-examinations of traditions of sitting. The chair embodies as artefact and functional object. The anonymous chair, the Monobloc, has a unique role in the world heritage creating a tie between different cultures. Our paper focuses on how the research on cultural identities of the city, and we question the various transitional processes affecting identities in the urban context in its global-regional-national-local interplay.The Monstrous Woman Goes Grey: Film, Performance and Feminism
The older woman has been “shut off”, to quote lacy (2010, 154), from cinematic, and thus socio-cultural, representation. Filmmakers such as Agnes Varda and Chantal Akerman, who reasserted the presence of the female gaze in cinema, have engendered an increasing shift towards inclusive on-screen representation over the last fifty years. However, it is necessary to examine, building upon the writings of Laura Mulvey, to what extent cinematic language can be used to challenge patriarchal, humanist notions of the subject, time and transition.Contemporary Artistic Practices and Women’s Reproductive Rights in Romania
In a country with a history of state-controlled natality, how are present-day artists and curators responding to recent initiatives to restrict women’s reproductive rights? In order to determine this my research proposes not just a documentation of artists and art organizations concerned with gender inequalities and reproductive rights, although the visibility of such practices is critical, but also a bridge between such art practices and social and personal narratives. My interest in auto-ethnography in art history seeks to connect the personal story to the official history.“The Revolution Will Be Feminist or It Will Be Nothing”: Consciousness Raising and Sexual Liberation in the Sixties and Seventies
The main instrument of this liberation is consciousness raising, a practice of active and proactive resistance in contrast with the Marxist-workerist dialectic: a meeting between women, a reconquest of physical and intellectual spaces that opens the possibility of a political comparison – even intimate. The focus of many small groups of consciousness raising on sexuality, with sometimes even physical investigation of female pleasure, leads women to a form of proactive resistance to the sexual revolution: not the refusal nor the passive acceptance of male desires, but a liberation of feelings, a claim of the sexual gender specificity.Who I Call a Mother: A Historical Reading of a Narrative versus Performative Construction of the Identity of a Mother and Motherhood in the Mughal Culture
The paper aims to provide the modern readers with a historical perspective to understand that the meaning of a mother and motherhood could be quite different from its narrative representation; and that mother or motherhood are not a given and naturalised state or trait but a performative relation, constituted continually and interactively yet circumscribed historically and socially.Legacy of Culture: The Spectacle as ‘Placemaker’
This paper uses official and own field research to analyse the impact of the City of Culture programme on the reinvention of Hull and questions the ambitious remit of the programme against such engrained systemic issues. European City of Culture 2008, Liverpool, provides a longer legacy with which to consider the lessons of cultural programmes in UK cities with similarly depressed identities. These insights make salient how Hull’s transformation may further develop, and offer insight for how future title winners, such as Coventry, could provide a more meaningful legacy.
