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 Mask and the Symbol
I will refer to J.P. Sartre and his concept of Subject (being-for-itself) and Object (being-in-itself), in connection of course with being-for-others. Thanks to the connection of Nietzsche’s and Sartre’s philosophy I will show that the new identity taken on by the superhero creates a new meaning of the world.Caricature’s Refusal of Identity: Difference without Otherness
I’ll analyze Gillray’s scenes of meetings of difference without otherness, of love and friendship, of kissing, hugging, slapping, swallowing, and screwing, not only in the context of their making, but also in dialogue with the writings of Elsa Cayat, a columnist and psychiatrist, the only woman killed in the Charlie Hebdo massacre of early 2015.Art, Law and Unstable Corporate Identities
A stark opposition of art with the law is too simplistic. Art is able to open an engagement with the violence of the law as exemplified in the ways it structures and forecloses the ways that identities may be created and perpetuated.Identity and Belonging at the European Court of Human Rights
Identity provides a strong instrument for the Court to place greater responsibilities on and reduce the margin of appreciation of states, and on the other hand, the ambiguities relating to the term identity prove a fascinating forum for witnessing the indeterminacy of human rights law and how the Court attempts to thread a way through these tricky debates.What’s in a Name? The Identity of Market Participants in the Legal Rhetoric of the US and Germany
This paper focuses on the cultural perception of work in an individual's life, and how it is captured in different legal systems. It contrasts two models, based on the works of Adam Smith and GWF Hegel: "human capital" and "vocation." The paper inquires how these models are reflected in legal regulations and judicial rhetoric in the US and Germany.Environments and Raw Materials of Identity Construction Processes? A Communication-Theoretical Account of Politicized Uses of Collective Identities
The paper traces the politicized uses of collective identities from a communication-theoretical point of view. Identity construction is depicted as composed of emergent social processes with communicative, pre-communicative, and non-communicative episodes that distill their components from different environments, such as emotional, technical, institutional, discursive and spatial environments.Identity in Political Discourse: The Return of Class
First, as class is a relational category, what are the counter-parts to the “middle class” (working class, bourgeoisie, other) and what is the relationship between them? Secondly, how do class categories in contemporary political discourse fit with those which, for so long, were seen to supplant class identities (individuals/ families, race, etc.)? And finally, how is the category of class being used to explain/ critique/ legitimate the new populism manifest in (but not limited to) events such as the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency?
On Being European
When discussing the European Identity -whatever that might be- in relation with the European Union, we hold, there are three countries that require particular attention: Russia, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The issue lying underneath the questionable participation to the European identity of these states is sometimes geographical, historical and legislative. Thus, the first question to ask is this: Is Europe a geographical construct?The Cacophonic Concert of Europe: Between Nationalism and Grand Strategy
With today’s apparent endless succession of international crises, we need to bring fresh insights to bear on the political conversation in our less-than-golden age. The problems and crises concerning self-determination and strategy, as well as the state and its various forms, have become ever more relevant, fundamental, and far reaching. This paper will discuss these multifaceted challenges, and explore whether there is a future for "self-determining Europe," and whether this could serve as a vision for a new, regional, grand strategy.The European Union Crisis as a Crisis of Equality
he 2008 economic crisis weakened the regional political design but also revealed that Europe is a social union (a common world), that faces shared problems that require the equal participation of the people involved so as to implement legitimate collective decisions. The core of my argument is that such a common world requires the transfer of political sovereignty to a regional level in the form of a state or a federation to face common challenges with real common decisions.
