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
European Foreign Policy Has Already ‘Saved’ the Foreign Policies of Small States. Now it is Saving the Foreign Policies of the Large Ones Too
Considering that the foreign policies of small states are already ‘saved’ , this paper seeks to explore the pattern of large ones. By looking at the Europeanization in the context of national foreign policies, by describing ‘salvage’ cases of small and big states within the EU area, the research also argues why in the latter‘s case European Foreign Policy (EFP) is ‘saving’ itself.Euroscepticism in the Turkish Press
The study looks at 5 national Turkish dailies by gathering the news reports from the PRNet online database. Both opposition and pro-government papers will be included. Findings are analysed within the context of the history of Turkey-EU relations, Turkey’s own internal and regional issues in recent years, and the ongoing political clashes inside the EU.Populist Tribes: Protest Voting as a Collective Action
We claim that economic grievances mature in localised social context. Hence, we frame protest vote as a collective action problem, where voting decisions emerge from the interplay between economic loss and in-group solidarity. Individuals suffering economic grievances engage in the individually costly action of protest voting if the expected collective reward is sufficiently high, i.e. if they expect that a critical mass of protest voters can be achieved. As a result, for a given level of individual economic loss, the share of protest vote is higher in communities experiencing high levels of social cohesion, with the latter acting as a mechanism enforcing the mutual norm of voting for a protest party.Brexit and the Democratization of the EU Regime
In this paper, I advance that Brexit has at least two different dimensions: a ‘British Brexit’ that is the culmination of the UK’s long-term awkward position in the EU and a ‘European Brexit’ that reflects an EU-wide rise of Euroscepticism. Focusing on the latter, I then argue that, by transferring competences to the European level, European integration tends to weaken democratic accountability at the national level. Moreover, citizens’ loss of power at the national level is not compensated at the European level due to the absence of a European popular mandate.Vote for the Far-Right Parties in the 2014 European Elections
Since the recent European elections were conducted amid a multilevel crisis, it was expected that the outburst of the Great Recession in conjunction with the decline of the mainstream political system would create more political opportunities for the right-wing family. To investigate the factors that tend to determine the positive electoral presence of these parties, we will focus on the aspects of the bidirectional relationship between the demand and supply-side theory. To illustrate that, according to the demand-side perspective, we will discuss the extent of immigration and unemployment salience, issues that monopolized the policy agenda of the recent European elections.Antidotes to Brexit and Nationalist Populism: Social Europe and Transformative Change
The presentation will seek to outline a vision of a rekindled European Project and the antidote to Brexit and populism. The presentation will draw upon my forthcoming book Britain and Europe at a Crossroads: The Politics of Anxiety and the Future of Radical Democracy (Policy Press)What is the ‘Wright’ Modernism of the Mid-Century Cold War? American Design in Mid-Century Cold War Propaganda
This paper researches the mid-century Cold War propaganda design debate over the ‘true American Style’ in the U.S. between the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) curator, Edgar Kaufmann Jr., House Beautiful magazine’s editor, Elizabeth Gordon, and the designer, Frank Lloyd Wright.Internationalism and the European Cultural Public Sphere :The Heritage of the European Intellectual History of the Late Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Century
Through examples, I demonstrate how this European republic of letters worked, in exchanging ideas and sharing universal ideals in the era before the rise of nationalism in the First World War. I especially depict how nationalism can play a significant role in the activities of intellectuals in small nations. In the periphery, being a cosmopolitan also meant having enough symbolic capital to fight one’s corner in the national sphere. An important way intellectuals could do this was by allying themselves with foreign writers and their work. Since we are currently experiencing the revival of nationalism, this heritage of European intellectual history is worth discussing in the contemporary situation as well.Please, Do Not Forget Eugenio Montale!
In the new publication, 'Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Eugenio Montale' in Milan in 1976 (Blake Press 2015) we are able to look back at events of the past and can apply them to politics today. Great insight is present for all to see in Eugenio Montale’s Nobel Prize Lecture in 1976, presented in both English and Italian in this new book, along with his conversation with Melinda Camber Porter on art, journalism, politics, poetry and society (Montale and Camber Porter 2015).Paris as a Scenery of Rebelliousness During the Inter-War Period (1918-1933)
The Great War simbolised the crystallization of the social, economical and political changes and these changes were known by writers as the crisis of the middle class consciousness, or crisis of the bourgeois society. At the same time, Paris became the meeting point of different artistic and literary movements that represented new perspectives. To a new generation of young men, the war meant the beginning of an era, signed by the deception of the liberal society that were the origine of that war. This Generation of writers, such as Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Francis Scott Fitzgerald give a portrait in their work of a new way to see the European Society, and so Paris became the scenery where this new Generation of writers give a main role to the rebelliousness, as an ethos that becomes the heart of the literary production of the decade.
