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 European Union and the Politization of Europe: A Promise of Regionalisation under a New Common Roof, Caught in New Nationalism?
This paper is an account of historic memories as perceived as a bystander, then a politically active citizen, then as a management consultant, eventually contributing with his expertise to the turnaround of a European regions. In this presentation, the author reviews the history of the European Union. A history survived live. A memory partly fed by information publicly available from the media, and partly received as information from insiders and close bystanders, plus own brief interventions in processes. The narration of the Unification Process as communicated to and perceived and memorized by the peoples is accounted again, in order to hint upon the origins and causes of ill and counterproductive developments further to be investigated.The Vigils of Lights: The Question of Europe’s Universalism and its Philosophical Timelessness as Undecidability of the Human Subject; Jacques Derrida’s Messianism and the Crisis of European Identity as the Debt of Capital and the Time of Liberal Democracy
If the spirit of Europe and its European values is to continue burning its flames, and not turn into ash and cinders, a new 'European subject' is needed in order to prevent a new nihilism since the advent of the Nietzschean death of God and Heidegger's apocalyptic pronouncement of 'only the gods can save us'. What is the philosophical consequence of Deconstruction on the European Enlightenment project of Universalism? The latter set of questions are, what can Derrida's 'messianism without messianism' on his philosophy of time and the democracy to come do to solve this crisis?The Possibility of Philosophy of Nationality through Bertrando Spaventa’s Thought and its Alternative
the question is whether a national philosophy still exists in a national context; if there is a national philosophy what makes it to have a national character. Can we still talk about national philosophy and what makes a philosophy to be a national? The presentation tries to answer these questions. Besides, it tries to suggest a new concept in substitution for national philosophy. This proposed concept is the philosophical-culture, which contains the universal and particular in itself.Passage to a New Europe during the First World War
The outbreak of the war was by many literates understood as a loss of a unified culture, while others kept recognizing a European culture or a common civilization. In the paper, I pay attention to wartime visions of a future Europe, mainly in Central Europe and Britain. Especially is followed the notion of a New Europe and its different implications regarding national self-determination. The paper rounds up with further comments on the outcome of the war and its impact on thinking Europe in a broader sense as well as on the European idea of a shared federation.
LONELINECTED: The Progress of Isolation in a Connected Word
This paper tries to analyze the components of this reality and its possible consequences, especially the ones related to the built environment. The connection of this paradoxical phenomenon with other running paradoxes, such as global-local or democracy-autocracy and their problematic readings, will be explored. The paper concludes with a two directional reflection. From one side, the consequences that this situation could have in the built environment, and from the other, the possibilities that architecture and urbanism have for shifting this trend.Readers through Augmented Spaces
By reflecting on the reconfiguration of comics in the actual space or their combination of codex space with actual space, this paper aims to identify the movements of the reader between spaces, places, and objects as a way of connecting the spaces of discourse. This is, I will consider space not as a static device, but as an agent in which architectural structure and characteristics should be considered in their full potentialities, especially in their capacity of housing or surrounding objects and readers.The Insignificant Girl
This paper highlights the gender polarity and the disparity in story proportion given to the female character vis-à-vis the male. In doing so it addresses how comics were in support of all things patriarchal, and helped propagate a way of thinking that we now understand to be not just dangerous, but destructive. Finally, it considers contemporary female characters from Indian comics now and contemplates the winds of change over generations as India moves from being a ‘third world country’ to a ‘superpower’.Monstrosity, Uncanny Replication, and Family Values in Tom King’s and Gabriel Hernandez Walta’s The Vision
Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta's 2016 twelve-issue limited series The Vision situates the Avenger’s legendary synthezoid and his family in the suburbs of Arlington, Virginia. The dissonance between this sinisterly mundane setting and the increasing fragmentation of his synthezoid children and wife - who instinctively and defensively murders a human attacker in the first issue - serves as the unsettling tempo of a graphic narrative that interrogates the representation of humanity as only sequential art can.Dialectograms and The Architecture of Comics
In this paper, I will discuss how their architectural iconography behave as comics panels except in a non-linear fashion – similar to Chris Ware’s experiments in the graphic novel Building Stories (2012) or Joe Sacco’s The Great War (2014). Through this example of my own practice I will explore Scott McCloud’s argument in Understanding Comics that in comics, ‘time and space are one and the same’ (McCloud, 1993: 100). I will look at graphic narratives as a form of display that shares common traits with the logic of museums and exhibition.Understanding the Trembles of Nature: How Do Disaster Experiences Shape Bank Risk Taking?
This paper examines the impact of natural disaster experiences on banks’ business practices. Using earthquake and banking data for California, we find that banks that have had stronger earthquake experiences change their practices, both as a result of the natural disasters’ effects on local deposit supply and through changes in banks’ risk perceptions.
