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
Exoticism, Nature, and Homosexual ”Coming out”. Exile and the Establishing of New Subjectivity in the Works of Witold Gombrowicz
The paper is an examination of how the experience of exile/migration was reflected in the diaries and novels of Witold Gombrowicz. I focus on two of Gombrowicz`s strategies for coming to term with the feeling of ‘being removed’ from his home country Poland (which was subjected to extremely traumatic historical oppression: Nazi terror, holocaust, Soviet deportations): a)homosexual „coming out” (in the novels „Trans-Atlantyk” and „Pornografia”) as well as b) admiring the exotic Latin American nature („Diary Rio Parana”).A Satrean Account of the Role of Social Narratives in the Identity-Formation and Self-Conception of the Queer and Intersex Subject
This paper will show the two to be inextricably interlinked, and in so doing endorse Judith Butler’s view that the material comes to us already seeped in social meaning. The interactive relationship between the discursive and the material will be illustrated by examining the phenomenon of intersexuality, in which the prevailing narrative of a dichotomized two-sex system has, through surgical, hormonal, and psychological procedures, become written into the flesh of non-binary individuals.The Fluency of ‘Self’: Classical Yoga Philosophy and Performance Identity
Through the scope of their work, the artist-performers may assume the identity of activist, advocate, or peacemaker. The freedom to assume any given identity is facilitated through the practice of classical yoga, the intentional direction of one’s consciousness through which the experience of an ultimate identification with intrinsic Self arises.The Body on Display: Visualizing and Constructing Criminal Identity in the Dutch Republic
My paper examines examples of images that recorded the liminal spaces outside the city walls and considers the manner in which the criminal body came to be framed in relation to the land. In so doing, it shall interrogate the use of unsanctioned actions at the gallows as a means by which civic identity could be negotiated or transformed.Intervention – Working the Body
Short intervention about the discipline of working the body in female bodybuilding competitions by Isabel Fontbona Mola. With a sports career as a natural bodybuilder competitor she will illustrate the discipline of performing the sculptural body in female bodybuilding competitions.Performing Femininity by Building a New Corporal Prison. The Female Bodybuilding Body on Stage
This paper addresses the muscular woman’s body, and if it can be considered a subversive act trying to break the patriarchal structure internalized by our society. A structure that in the sphere of passivity limits non-action, submissiveness and so on from women’s perspective. Looking for this new identity becomes a transgressive act, due to building a new body with which to be identified by stepping into a territory limited to the male.A Brief History of the Inhumanities and Contemporary Humanities Studies
What is needed, then, is a supplement to the history of the humanities: contemporary humanities studies, or studies that articulate why the principles of humanistic study are preferable, in this present moment, to those of the inhumanities. This paper provides an East-West (Zhang Longxi) approach to the history of the inhumanities, and concludes with thoughts toward contemporary humanities studies.Biomedical Hegemony: A Critical Perspective on the Cultural Imperialism of Modern Biomedical Perspectives on Human Life
Modern biomedical perspectives are currently moving towards a cultural hegemony, granted by society at large. In Gramscis words, it is “the 'spontaneous' consent given by the great masses of the population to the general direction imposed on social life by the dominant fundamental group” – in this case medical doctors – that leads to cultural hegemony. To evaluate the legitimacy of the moral crusade of biomedical system, critical perspectives on medical dominance is needed.Autophagy: Science, Technology, Economics, Arts, Metaphor
The paper will trace how different disciplines adopt autophagy as a metaphor of positive growth or health. The disciplines then make a further metaphorical leap to scale up the processes and effects of autophagy—essentially moving from a cellular to a larger structural level—to show how each discipline is similarly beneficial in terms of “growth” or “health.”A (Really) Big Question: Which Is The Proper Political Subject?
he aim of this paper is to gain clarity (and charity) about the following controversy: Given the scenario in which a not misleading set of citizens of a territory of a sovereign state intends for the secession of the territory at stake, while the fundamental law of the state does not permit the unilateral democratic secession of any territory of the state, is it due the prominence of democracy or the prominence of law?
