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
Not So Ordoliberal after All? Public Management and the Transformation of European Governance
By drawing on the lineage of public management, the paper argues that we should understand the nature of Europe governance today not just as constricting national state action through the deepening of rules (as implied by ordoliberal theory), but rather the reverse: the centralisation of increasingly discretionary power away from established democratic centres and into technocratic and executive bodies.From the SGP to the TSCG through the Lenses of European Integration Theories
Which were the driving forces and key actors of this deepening in economic integration? Are they found at a national or at a supranational level? These are the questions that this paper aims to answer, through the study of the strengthening of the fiscal and economic pillars of EMU. The analysis will be done through the lenses of the two grand theories of European integration: Neofunctionalism and Liberal Intergovernmentalism; as well as a more recent theory: the New Intergovernmentalism approach.Financial Crises snd Plurilateral Discourses
This paper analyses impacts of the Eurozone crisis on the global standing of the European Union (EU) through the failure of the EU interregional approach in the EU-ASEAN plurilateral discourse. It appropriates theoretical models of socialisation, in order to explain the dearth of cooperation in the EU-ASEAN plurilateral partnership during the Eurozone crisis.Spitting on Incapables, Madmen, and Cheats: The NSDAP’s War on Degenerate Art
Drawing on paintings from the period 1918-1945, combined with primary source documents from various Weimar artists and their guilds, juxaposted against official documents from the NSDAP, I explain how the NSDAP used all assets of the State to use art as a vehicle to advance NSDAP propaganda for their political and military programs. My research provides critical insights into how the NSDAP used art as a tool to manufacture public support for their war effort. Furthermore, my paper explores the question how an artificial truth can become manufactured and perpetuated.Old Masters Exhibitions and Fascist Propaganda: Italian Masterpieces in London, Paris and Belgrade (1930-1938)
This paper will investigate the Old Masters exhibitions promoted by the Fascist government during the Thirties, i.e. Italian Art 1200-1900 (London 1930), L’Art Italien de Cimabue à Tiepolo (Paris 1935) and the exhibition of Italian portraits organized in Belgrade in 1938. Italian cultural policy will be considered in relation to its dynamic alliances and rivalries, in order to shed light on the context that involved both physical and symbolical displacements of artworks for propaganda purposes.Postcolonial Art and Critical Discourses at the São Paulo Biennial
I am interested in looking at how the most important contemporary art event of the Global South allows us to think of new power configurations, as for instance, bringing feminist discussions and post-colonial debates to a wider audience. Furthermore, I also argue that Biennials in general contribute to the redefinition of the canon, adding diversity to the contemporary art world.The Role of Critical Thinking in Multicultural Management Programs
I will discuss problems related to teaching critical thinking in multicultural classes. Management and managers already influences Europe in almost every field of expertise and discipline. Thus, it is important critically reviewing how managers are educated. I suggest a balanced multidisciplinary approach in order to improve the level of critical thinking within management programs, finally reflecting upon whether European higher education will succeed in distributing necessary resources if to approve.Post-Truth, Relativism and Music
It has become common to “blame” postmodernism and post-structuralism for our new age of post-truth, alternative facts and relativism. Expertise now appears to be discredited, gut feeling at least as important as facts, and facts themselves no longer valid and reliable. But how did we really get to this point? This early-stage research project pursues the hypothesis that this development has actually been much longer in the making.Troublemakers: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The basic premise of my talk is that summoning young people towards the dominant position of the “good troublemaker” is reproducing uneven symbolic and material effects in the lives of young people, and more broadly, urban life. In particular, I demonstrate how these representations of youth are key to manufacturing new urban consumer economies that traffic in the look and feel of youth, which privilege the aesthetic preferences of upwardly mobile consumers being hailed back to the city.It’s Not Youth, It’s Us. Youth Suicides and Rosi Braidotti’s Post-human Ethics
This paper starts from the alarmingly high suicide numbers amongst the youth in current Western societies, arguing that feelings of loneliness and personal responsibility of our hyper-individualistic neoliberal societies are taking their tolls. This phenomenon sheds a worrisome light on our present-day world: if the youth doesn’t want to live in it, is there a future?
