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 Right of Resistance as the Struggle for Recognition: Reading Hegel Against Hegel
The present analysis examines Honneth’s exploration of intention in the context of the right of necessity, and its subsequent implications on the yet-unsolved problem of the rabble in Hegel’s theory of the State. By drawing on Honneth’s and Hegel’s writings, I offer a reading of the rabble centered in the conflict between State and civil society that Honneth himself neglects, predicated on a right of resistance that I argue is embedded within the Hegelian right of necessity.
Germany, Heidegger and Decolonisation: A Critique of Cosmopolitanism and the Place Europe in a Pluriversal World Order
By exploring and analysing the significance and emergence of the phenomenological project of Heidegger, it aims to show that phenomenology is a unique discipline that emerged in confrontation with “the West” in the spirit of a decolonial project from the very outset. Decolonial here refers to the place-oriented (topological) studies which articulates the concept of place as that in which meaning and human beings historically come to one another.The Curse of Exemplarism Edmund Husserl on the German Nation and Europe
Contrary to what is mostly taken for granted, i.e. that nationalism and universalism mutually exclude each other, one can observe here a very peculiar marriage between two seemingly opposed positions. In my paper, I want to investigate this problematic relationship mainly through Max Scheler and Edmund Husserl.European Historicism Out of Fashion?
Instead of discounting the European historicism as an obsolete “fashion”, I will try to make use of it in the analysis of the concept of “culture” in contemporary European philosophy. I will focus on the particular version of historicism, imbedded in the neo-Kantian philosophy of culture. This version which I term as “cultural historicism” appeared in the 20th century political philosophy thanks to Sergius Hessen, one of the intellectual inspirers of the so-called “Warsaw School of Historians of Ideas” (Walicki 2010).Understanding National snd Political Identity in Germany and Soviet Russia through Theatre
This paper critically evaluates the role theatre plays in forming or constructing identity in the nation states of Russia and Germany, from the early Soviet period to the Second World War. The playwrights throughout this piece formed their theatrical practice during times of conflict and social upheaval. This clash of politics and art forms the basis of this paper.Performing Identities: The Case of Helena Almeida
Our aim is to provide a comprehensive analysis of Almeida's work through a careful selection and description of some of her most representative images. Simultaneously, we propose to offer contextualization and engagement with Almeida's own statements on her intentions, critically examining several positions taken by the artist in different occasions.Legibility of Non-Normative Body Images in Theater
My research focuses on the role of the body in the formation of an identity; and more specifically on non-normative body images. How do we read gender-specific body images, both in theater and in daily life? What reflexes have we developed in the interpretation of these body images? How can we break through normative frameworks of gender representation to achieve new interpretations of gender-specific body images? How do I, as a performer, respond to these interpretative reflexes and expectation patterns? I would like to exemplify these topics in a performance-lecture, based on the gender neutral character of my latest performance 'Always The Tragic'.A Genealogy of Violence and Its Image
This paper explores a genealogy in the role of violence and the image. The main focus of this paper considers both the moral insights found in phenomenological perceptual experiences from Maurice Merleau-Ponty and postphenomenological reflections of violence and its image through Jean Luc Nancy. Rather than tracing a steady curve and the evolution of violent images from an art historical sense, the translinguistics of Mikhail Bakhtin guide the genealogy in examining the isolation of various scenes of violence and its different roles within original carnivalesque themes and motifs and their transformation into new scenes with new roles in the modern, existential image.Identity, Migration and Displacement in Art: Tracing the Articulation of Franco-Belge and Franco Colonial Trauma through Architecture in Art
Through examining the creation of meta-historical narratives of trauma in the artwork of two artists, I seek to understand the condition of colonialism expressed in contemporary art in the Franco context. With a specific interest in architectural motifs, this proposed contribution looks at constructed spaces in transgressing the colonial experience and the making of a post-colonial identity.Troubles in Paradise: Heritage Between Urban Developers and Post-Transitional Amnesia
In my presentation I’d like to tackle the subject of de/re/constructions strategies that Croatian artists (Renata Poljak, Jasenko Rasol, Bojan Mrđenović, Ana Opalić) are using in order to negotiate certain visual myths and stereotypes of local identity formation forced upon by dominant visual representation of “Croatian urban heritage”.
