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
Forced Migration and Politics of Multiculturalism: Lack of Agency or Complacency?
The politics associated with multiculturalism are often problematic for these so-called weakest members of minorities, for example, when considering the degree to which these members of a minority have agency - defined as the ability to act free of external constraints. It can be considered as a constraint any physical, psychological, financial, sexual and emotional pressure. This paper aims to identify the problematic nature of agency in circumstances where women and children use their culture to justify actions, within States adhering to a liberal political model based the recognition of individual rights.Cassidy and the Relief of the Stage Irish Trope: Boucicault’s Critique of the British Empire
oucicault subtly critiques the British Empire by haunting the crucial scene of the siege at Lucknow with the specter of the Irish Famine, which reached one of its nadirs only ten years before this play was first performed. Though Boucicault’s work of refurbishing the Stage Irish trope incorporates the Irish into the whole of the British Empire, he ultimately suggests that any such space for Ireland is ambiguous at best considering the by no means forgotten violence of Ireland’s painful history as a colony.Regaining Original Identity and Change in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Osiris Rising
Identity and change are key issues to Ayi Kwei Armah, a prolific Ghanaian novelist. In his novel Osiris Rising (1995), he shows the interconnectedness between African identity and the reform of the educational system as a cure for the underdevelopment of the African continent. This novel is a continuity of previous attempts of African writers to underscore the relationship of Africa and African-Americans, who were taken into slavery long time ago.Europe And Englishness, Identification And Difference In D.H. Lawrence’s American Writings
Lawrence clearly finds it wrong to impose European consciousness on aboriginal American peoples - the Aztec, the Maya, the Inca. Yet, as my argument will demonstrate, he nonetheless believes that the white and dark modes of consciousness in America resist unification. He emphasizes the differences between the local Americans and the Europeans and thus points out to the themes of individuation, heterogeneity and divergence. The Mexican Indians are different in their concepts of time, distance and money; dance and music and especially in their profound sense of religion. Despite his profound subjective engagement and his strong will to identify, he feels frustrated by "Indian" sensibilities, by what he perceives as unassimilable otherness. Yet he maintains his belief that he finds in America the primal wisdom that Europe has lost. Mexico becomes his own infernal paradise of conflicts and contradictions.Europe Seen through the Eyes of a Hindu
What Gandhi is trying to show us in his book is the picture of Europe seen from India, from a different cultural space. He is calling in question the superiority of the European civilization and trying to stress the risks which are implied in this Western world. The main goal of the paper is to present the Gandhian way of thinking about the European civilization and to try to give an answer to the question if all these ideas written more than 100 years ago got any relevance for Westerners, for the European man of the 21st century?Europe as a ‘Self-Organizing Vertigo’: Patrimonial European Culture and Politicized Identities
If there is a minimal specificity of Europe that could be defended, Castoriadis has argued throughout his work, it is precisely the lack of an unquestionable point from which a European distinctiveness could be reified. By historical contingency, for Castoriadis, it was in Europe that a genuine interest in the others as others emerged in the frame of the project of social and individual autonomy originated in ancient Greece and reasserted by the European modernity. This presentation looks at the patrimonial/instrumental nexus in European identity making practices and narratives.Europe and the West: Two Mutually Exclusive Concepts?
This fusion of the conservative concept of Europe as a cultural community and the liberal concept of the West as a political community was very useful in the context of the early Cold War to justify and consolidate the Atlantic alliance. However, in the long run it put the formation of a European identity and attachment to 'the West' in a competitive relationship. Since both 'Europe' and 'the West' were defined by the same markers, attempts to promote one concept usually came at the expense of the other. European identity formation therefore required, at least, to an extent, a denial that Europe and North America shared the same historical heritage and the same political values.“Europe” in the Minds of Eastern European Intellectuals
I wish to offer a perspective on the idea of “Europe” that is not self-celebratory and self-evident. I argue that scholarly engagements with the notion of “Europe” need to integrate historical phenomena and episodes that are usually marginalized and are more in favor of “discovering” the “true essence” of Europe in an uncritical manner. In my paper, I focus on four intellectual discourses of 'Europe' that can offer a more complicated, nuanced and historically accurate image of what “Europe” has stood for in various contexts and how it was discursively used by its many agents.European Culture as a Mirage
Is there a European culture? For this question research is done in literature about the history of the United Kingdom, France and Germany in the 20th century. How do politicians, journalists and scientists think about Europe? Can we speak of European traditions and mentality? Or, are national traditions still dominating? Which kind of perceptions exist about Europe?
A Discussion of Regional Cooperation in the Southeast Europe Around the Black Sea in the Context of Subregionalism and Interregionalism
The Black Sea regionalisation process is influenced by different but mainly three core regional actors. BSEC is a Turkish initiative in an area which is widely considered to be in Russia’s sphere of influence. Moreover, the region is in the Eastern Neighbourhood of the EU, which has been bidding for a core role. In that regards, this paper will discuss the Black Sea regionalisation process in the context of the relationship among the three core actors: Russia, Turkey and the EU and aim primarily at an empirical assessment of what the EU has done to promote regionalism in the wider Black Sea area.
