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
Building European Citizenship through Architecture: The Case of the “Hellenische Renaissance” in Theophil Hansen
This paper probes this phenomenon of contradictory receptions of Hansen's work and relates the respective causes of it to its arresting representational aspect as opposed to its deeper philosophical ties to the multivalent concept of hellenism. Having been himself naturalized in neither of the two countries – i.e., Greece or Austria – Hansen granted through his architecture a sense of belonging to citizens of both. This was owing to the particular resilience of Hellenic architecture of adapting itself to diverse contexts and still remaining astonishingly new; also to its cosmopolitan basis in the multicultural hellenistic world of the Mediterranean.European Photographic Surveys and Man-Altered Landscapes
I will take as a starting point some European surveys of the 80s-90s to focus on this French project and on a similar kaleidoscopic vision provided in Italy by the public surveys Atlante 003 and 007 (Risk landscape, portrait of a changing Italy), in order to see how urban and suburban transformations are redefining European identities in the contemporary “glocal” context.Contesting the European Union in Times Of Crisis
Due to its role in the crises management, the EU has become a matter of political conflicts and a very salient theme in the media. Thus, the aim of the proposed paper is to analyse how the EU is contested in social media during the Greek bail-out crisis, as an episode of the Eurozone crisis, and during the peak period of the refugee crisis.The “Other” Outside the European Borders: EU, Turkey and Refugees
Thus, this paper aims at analyzing the content of the deal signed between Turkey and the European Union, contextualize it in the light of international conventions, and relate it to a possible momentum in the accession process of the country, as well as with Turkey’s performance in terms of respect for Human Rights. Furthermore, it will be explored the way this strategy has been shaping European identity and the otherness of Turks and refugees outside the European border.A Critical Realist/Discursive Institutionalist Approach on Europeanization
This paper, based on an elaborated conceptualization, tries to combine top-down and bottom-up aspects of the complex, multilevel EU policy and governance structures, yet it does not aim to go beyond the institutionalist frame, therefore it sees Europeanization as a normatively devised institutional project.Globalization and Foreign Policy in Southern Europe
Following a brief overview on the interaction between globalization theory and FP, as well as between FP studies and globalization, we will explore the analysis model, analysing these challenges on two different levels. Our claim is that Foreign Policy studies could be rendered more valuable and specific if they adapt to include globalization in its studies as a relevant variable, particularly if they do so in a systematic and comparative fashion.The European Union Law Implementation
The implementation and enforcement of EU law is a challenge that requires greater emphasis on implementation in order to serve the general interest. The aim of this analysis is to demonstrate that, as the Member States are primarily responsible for the implementation of EU legislation, there is still a way forward in the efficiency of European law enforcement procedures.Rethinking European Identity and Muslim Diasporas
By examining the different discourses in which religion is articulated in the European public space, my paper aims to reveal how religion enters today’s European public and how this entrance is regulated and redefined by the age old Islamophobic discourses. The discourses, which articulate the fear of Islamic religiosities, render a new border between Europe and its Islamic Others. It is usually the Christian values and the heritage of Europe that is either implicitly and in many cases explicitly evoked to proclaim the externality of European Muslims to Europe.Geographies of Orientalism
My consideration of Islamophobia and Orientalism will take up the convergence of imperial expansion and state-building as it pertains to the figure of the Muslim in Europe. By tracing these discursive continuities and the ways in which Islam and Muslims are thought of, spoken about, and studied we can begin to parse through the connections between colonial projects, Orientalism, and Islamophobia, as well as the production, durability, and adaptability of such discourses.Europe and Its Non-Familiar Faces: A Study of Ghanaian Women Migrants’ Use of New Media for Identity and Belonging in Hamburg and London
New communication technologies are essential in navigating gendered, diasporic-cosmopolitan identities, and creating sites of belonging in the context of everyday life where many face racism, and exclusion from the broader society. New media open up possibilities of cultivating social networks, which are crucial in sustaining diasporic identity, and community, as well as creating alternative spaces for inclusion. However, little is known about the role of new media such as the internet in the maintenance, expression and advancement of identity especially when it comes to empowerment in marginalised communities.
