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
Breaking the Socio-Cultural Norms: Gender and Identity in Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness and Rita Mae Brown’s Ruby Fruit Jungle
This study aims to discuss the struggles and subjugation that lesbians encounter in the persisting heterosexist milieu. Hall and Brown through their semi-autobiographical works urge the readers to deviate from binary thinking. The paper is a comparative study of the novels with emphasis on the evolution of the queer culture and the changes in attitudes that permeated the society in the twentieth century.Sexual Orientation and Gendered Identity
This paper brings together a range of literature, (including fictional work) that looks at sexuality through a human rights lens. Sexuality has also been shown to be a fluid concept and the way in which it is experienced is dependent on geographical location, gender, race, culture, community, socio-economic and political contexts.Mexican American Women’s Collective Narratives of Melancholia as Building Blocks of a Politicized Identity
This presentation focuses on how Mexican-American women understand and perceive their experiences with mental illness, focusing on the different ways the experience of depression, as a narrative of the self, is along different social positionalities (acculturation status, age, documentation, and language).Re-reading the Archive of a Nobody: On Florence Conard’s War Memories and Disciplinary Shifts
Given that many established theorists have discussed the archive as that which produces the event as much as it records it, or that it is even a fetish, it is important to also focus on what we actually do in and with the archive. For this study, we are using the family archive, a semi-public collection, with a focus on war, personal expression, and changing transatlantic locales.Aristocracy Ex Machina – Processes of Representation in Fiction and the Legitimation of Power in the Reshaping of Imperial Identities
This presentation shall describe the consequences of this growing discursive division to the collective identity of the aristocracy, by arguing that when elites perceive threats to their political power and/or social influence, they tend to create discourses composed by processes of de-identification and re-identification, in order to preserve and to legitimise power, often reshaping their identities.Identity, Place and Non-Belonging in Jean Rhys’s Fiction
Place is considered as a distinguishable factor among Jean Rhys’s novels, most concretely represented by three countries: Dominica, England and France. In locating her outsider and outcast heroines in these places of interconnectedness, Rhys’s fiction responds to a time of crisis in the history of Empire, between the height of imperialism and the beginning of decolonization. It is this sense of having no identity and no place of belonging resulted from a very specific and traumatic colonial experience that best explains the pervasive tone of loss, melancholy, and paralysis of spirit underlying all of Rhys’s fiction.Re-/Righting Her/Story: Renegotiating Gender and Identity in Maghrebian Women Writing
Literature, therefore, became “her-story”, the one which was once erased and silenced whether consciously or unconsciously, became a story to be heard and a power to be reckoned with. Words then became tools of negotiation, survival, and assertion of gender and identity. Thus the Maghrebian women writers’ literary corpus resembled a battlefield of multilayered concepts of self/other, individual/collective, public/ private, center/periphery. Literature has endowed women writers with tools of resistance and empowerment engendering a “rhizome”.Ambivalent Resolute Political Action
While ambivalence is conceived of as paralysing, conflicting attitudes in fact allow people to act, and to understand an action, political action included, we must often identify a cluster of ambivalent attitudes, identities and identifications one maintains, forms and expresses.Identity of Self-Interpreting Animals. Charles Taylor in Contemporary Debate
I focus on cases in which different identities clash within one and the same person. These situations – traditionally treated as moral dilemmas – can be analyzed as cases in which the relation of personal and social identities becomes explicit (the adherence of a person to some of her identities gest fundamentally questioned). In the concluding part, I deal with some major objections against Taylor with special emphasis on the Appiah’s criticism (Taylor failed to recognize the tension between the “subject-centered” and “social-centered” model of interpretation), as this objection targets precisely the very topic of my paper.Trust as Pillar of the Non-Alienated Self’s Identity – A Multi-Theory
This paper aims to address certain concepts on social trust and recognition for the purpose of understanding why some people are more ‘trusters’ while others are rather ‘distrusters’. As a first step, the paper overviews Sztompka’s approach about the individual and collective functions of trust and how these possible outcomes could be beneficial for social interactions. After unfolding how trust/distrust influences social interactions, the paper – still considering the holistic concept of Sztompka – turns to the aspect how trust (or distrust) becomes social, i.e. how it emerges by the interrelation between certain institutional factors, rationality and individual features.
