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
The Role of Social Media in the Spread of a New Ethnic Concept. Inclusion and Exclusion Processes in Transition
Social media, with its interplay with traditional media and its ability to construct and maintain networks and issue publics with political agendas, and to provide attention data cannot be overlooked when attempting to understand how scientific knowledge is circulated, framed and reframed in society.Conceptualising Gender and Mobile Subjectivities: The Case of Women’s Driving Practices in Contemporary Delhi
The paper argues that driving practices and the construction of women’s subjectivities are intertwined in mutually transformative processes that can provide insights on women’s intimate negotiations with power and its declinations around modernity/tradition, contesting models of womanhood, class inequality, and ethno-religious affiliations.Say It with Flowers: Negotiating Urban Collective Memory in National Monument Park
This paper highlights the process of re-constructing collective memory of Jakarta people on the National Monument Park through a silent counter-movement using flower-boards as a medium of negotiation. This paper questions: who takes what part and how in the making of the 'new' collective memory; who are in(ex)cluded from collective memory by whom and how.Disinformation of Historical Stratification Through Reconstruction
Because of this tangled relationship between object, memory, and history; the history of architecture witness reconstruction activities after major traumas. Reconstruction, as a societal battle tool against pain through the attachment of memories to physical objects, obstructs overcoming the traumas that can only be beaten through confrontation and lead to the manipulation of the historical layers defined by the historian.A Certain Brazilian Identity in the Itamaraty Palace
In this way, we intend to reflect on the material culture and its communicative use in the elaboration of a concept of identity desired by the Brazilian diplomatic corps of this period. The translation into materiality of an image of modern Brazil inserted in an international context is presented by the promenade architecturale in the palace that, in a certain way, becomes a museum with political intentions, due to the institutional character of the building.Banks and Urban Image in Neoliberalism: Study of the Intentional Symbolism and Perceived Impact of Banks’ Headquarters Buildings in Hong Kong
Drawing inspiration from David Harvey’s conceptualization of the neoliberal city and Antonio Gramsci’s definition of hegemony, this research aims to provide a better understanding of how the employment of banks' headquarters buildings as corporate symbols affects the image of the neoliberal city, with reference to Hong Kong as a case study.Brave New Urban World: The Emergence of Urban Identity in Medieval Europe, c. 1000-1300
The study takes its theoretical starting point in a model of regional identity, developed by the Finnish geographer Anssi Paasi. The model uses the theory of institutionalization as an analytical tool to describe the growth, development and reproduction of regions. The emergence of a new urban identity in the High Middle Ages was, according to Paasis model, shaped by the successive establishment of defined boundaries, the use of common symbols and the makeup of corporate institutions.Building Identities: Architectural Approaches to Integration
This paper looks into relevant urban interventions that attempt to maintain or develop the identity of the city, in light of the emergence of unfamiliar identities that arrive together with migration. Emergency situations result to the need for both short and long term solutions. The integration of immigrants in the city deals with a shift in patterns, both for the newcomers and in context of the already defined urban fabric.Camera Illuminate. Arab Photography Post Arab Revolutions
Photography can be considered as a visual discourse on identity where the choice of photographic subject is telling of the ways in which Arab photographers deal with their social, political and physical environments.The Powerful Whispers Project: A Box of Family Photographs as Archival Site of Post-Memory and the ‘Trace’
The Powerful Whispers Project considers the remembered object and the remembered image of post-memory in relation to discourses on the concept of the surreal object and the phantasmagoria of memory, informed by Derrida’s ‘undeciderability’ of the archive.
