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
Invisible Face and/in Black Square: Strategy of Self-expression and Identity of Malevich’s Suprematism
This article aims to clarify the evolutionary process of "replacing iconic face with black square" by Malevich, as well as to explore the philosophical, religious and scientific synthetically motivations behind this phenomenon, namely how the fourth dimension and theosophy, doctrines that were extremely popular in avant-garde circle then, influenced on Malevich's strategy of self-expression and identity.Performative Writing as a Subversive Act: Hybrid Identities in Olga Grajsnowa’s Texts
Olga Grjasnowa’s writings have primarily been read as so-called migration literature and have as such been fixed as a marginalised, ‘other’ genre in the literary discourse. I introduce an alternative reading: I understand both texts as subversive forms of writing that perform the rejection of metaphysical identity concepts and the rejection of fixed identities in their own writing.Theatre as a Laboratory for Altering Identity: Cases of Theater of Cruelty and Sobornyi Theatre
The object of this research is theater as an inframedium between life and art within the context of Artaud’s and Ivanov’s lifeworks, and how theatre can function as a laboratory for alteration of everyday life.Politicizing Refugees’ Identities: Performance, Theatre and the Body
I argue that the politicization of refugees’ bodies continues elsewhere, as long as the political takes over the human, moral and legal dimensions of migratory movements, denying the human need to live in safe and free spaces.The “Other” City—Varanasi and the Reintegration of Western Identity
This paper intends to study the postcolonial literary and cultural representations of Varanasi and analyse the ways in which the sanitized modern Western self, predicated on the disciplining of bodily functions, gets destabilized and remolded.The Troublesome Interaction of Two Languages: On the Way to School
My paper first provides a historical background for the construction of Turkish national identity, its representation in cinema, and then analyzes the abovementioned film which incites the spectator to question this problematic issue.Shadows on the Wall: Power, Politics and Propaganda in Emir Kusturica’s Underground (1995) and Black Cat, White Cat (1998)
As Pankaj Mishra sees colonialist identity politics boomeranging in the European wars of the last century and reads their resurgence along a trajectory leading to a fatal conclusion, Kusturica’s analysis of the shadows of Balkanization that the West casts on the wall of Otherness should invite reflection.European Identity in the Making: EU Cultural Heritage Policies between Demos and Ethnos
The paper points out how the founding aspiration of the European political project to foster a European demos (Balibar 2009) – namely a civic community of rights (Eriksen and Fossum 2004), beyond dynamics of cultural differentiation – is hardly reflected in the current EU cultural policies, based on an essentialised understanding of the concept of culture and easily challenged by national resistances and rhetorics.Expression of a Culture of Resistance through Images: Kashmiri Freedom Activists in the UK
This paper focuses less on the specific grievances of freedom activists which can contribute to rational choice actions to protest and more on how images influence the discourse surrounding resistance which act as more subjective calls to action.Emergence of an “Unauthorized Generation”: Challenges of Political Culture, Identity and Belonging in Contemporary Iran
Using the concepts of power-resistance in everyday life of Iranian youth, as well as the space encroachment by Asef Bayat, I will try to trace the challenges of hegemonic political culture and the society’s reaction(negotiation) for recognition through some of the highlighted rituals over the last decade.
