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
Indeterminate Identities: Body Art, Ritual and the Subject
This paper will explore the seemingly contradictory approaches to subjectivity that are addressed in body art and ritual, proposing a potential solution through British anthropologist Victor Turner's theory of the liminal and the liminoid.Body Talks: Art and Identity in Modern States
In this paper I would like to explore the intersections between performance art and politics in the postcolonial world. Contemporary artists attend actively to the intellectual discussion of migration, construction of national identity and postcolonialismLiterary Art in Digital Performance: The Technological and Digital Evolution of American Identity
The focus of this research is to analyze the relationship between technology and identity in literature, observing how literature, as a mirror of society, portrays the problematization of identity.Early Modern Autobiography and Political Identity: The Case of John Lilburne (1614-1657)
Ultimately, this paper argues the centrality of autobiographical writing in respect of the historical process of identity-making. The different forms of self-writing that emerged in this period hint to the new centrality of the individual within society.The Politicization of Identities: A Life-Writing Perspective
This paper will illustrate how life-writing can shed light on the conscious and unconscious politicization of identities with respect to Europe past and present.Unspoken Trauma: The Dislocated Self in ‘The New York Trilogy’
Drawing on Trauma theory, this essay attempts to examine how The New York Trilogy is an artistic materialization of an underlying trauma leading to a confused definition of identity.British Born Female Caribbean Registered Nurses: Post-Colonialism and the Other
The past and present for British born Caribbean nurses (BBCN) is one that is born out of the long colonial relationship between Britain and parts of the Caribbean. Caribbean women were actively recruited to train and work as registered nurses in the National Health Service in the mid-20th Century. This colonised relationship recognises a 'power identity nexus' of white dominance and supremacy.Crossing Borders: Fluctuating Identities in a Feminist Classroom
The paper presents one unique fragile space/moment of resistance/encounter, a “teaching story” (as I call it) demonstrating a way in which certain behaviors and voices question the established Israeli identity politics that sustain existing rivalries. The story addresses the failed attempt of Abeer, a Palestinian Muslim woman, and Shani, a Mizrachi woman, both from oppressed minority groups in Israel, to cross existing identity-divisions and to initiate an act of solidarity.“Not Man Enough”: Masculinities and Political Conservatism in the United States
Ultimately, this paper unsettles fixed notions of identity politics in the United States. In campaigns, conservative candidates have lost control of their claim to being the party of 'real men'. Because men cannot settle on what masculinity means. Gender is not fixed, and when these candidates pretend it is, it backfires.Anti-Essentialism about Gender: Realist, Constructionist, or Error Theoretical?
In this paper I will argue that anti-essentialist positions do not always fall neatly into the categories provided by the tripartite taxonomy, but that the distinctions made by analytic philosophers about social constructionism can help us to understand exactly what is being claimed by anti-essentialists.
