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
Post-Identitarian Subjectivities? Philosophical Anthropology after the ‘End of Man’
More than 200 years after the establishment of philosophical anthropology as a philosophical discipline, its status remains vague and ambiguous. This paper aspires to a recalibration of philosophical anthropology’s research program by reflecting upon its origin in Kant’s philosophical core question: ‘What is Man?’.The One, the Some and the Many: Isaiah Berlin’s Notions of Belonging and Recognition Within His Conception of Pluralism
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the concept and relevance Isaiah Berlin attributes to collective identity — expressed in notions such as the “need to belong” or the “desire for recognition” — within his conception of pluralism, especially amid its universalising and diversifying tensions.Phenomenology of Authority. The Formation of Identity as a Political Aporia
The objective of this paper is to formulate a broad concept of “authority”, whose correspondence with the identity of the contingent “other” to whom Derrida claims to grant an unconditioned sacrifice shows the dangerous lack of effective political difference between Derrida’s attitude and the attitudes, such as dialectics, he intends to deconstruct.
Models of Continuity and Crisis of Perseverance: Contemporary Issue vis-à-vis Selected European Paradigms and Overlooked Notions
The paper addresses the issues of a possible contemporary Crisis of Perseverance, current de-contextualized information and the neuroscience and cognitive research notions of ecology of mind and brain are paired with the historic examples of learning models cited in the paper. It is a proactive starting point for discussion about the contemporary state of mind and learning preparedness and lesser-known European cultural paradigms.How to Differentiate Cultures from One Anther? A Case Study of Hong Kong Culture
I would argue that without our own culture we shall lose our ability of interpretation. When the people in a community shares a similar existential situation (similar history, same geographical location and social-economic interaction), the same language, similar values, similar ways of living and they are linked by a community network, they form a cultural self. Using Hong Kong culture as a case study I am going to demonstrate that the cultural self is emergent when an individual member realises that someone is culturally different from him. The new concept of culture may be applied in not only cultural studies, but also the political theories and social activisms for separatism, nationalism or localism.Self and Other in Podemos Discourse on the EU: A Discourse Historical Approach
The paper examines the discourse of the Spanish anti-austerity party Podemos towards the EU in the context of the Eurozone crisis and its aftermath. The method used is the Discourse Historical Approach, which belongs within the broad field of Critical Discourse Analysis, and which especially focuses on constructions of identity and Self and Other.Federalism (in One Person): An Exercise of Institutional Fantasy for Contemporary Europe
We need to start over the critical mechanism and shape a radically new form of critical theory, trying to invent unprecedented forms of political institutions. My proposal is a sort of hyper-federalism: a territorial and overlapping federalism - perfectly described by Dardot and Laval -, plus an “internal” and personal federalism, adequate to the foamy (Sloterdijk) contemporary panorama. To save space, I will focus now only on the second kind of federalism.Legal Principles and Refugees
I would like to argue that people don't carry moral, religious, or legal principles with them. Rather, stateless people ought to be seen as in possession of Agency, the humanizing principle according to Honneth and Rorty mention, which allows them to acclimate to a country's legal principles transcending whatever previous cultural allegiances they are bound to. At the heart of the issue is a typical conservative argument against the introduction of refugees into the country on the grounds that they are corrupting forces.Diagnosing the European Union’s Present: Chronic Solidarity Disease, Domopolitics and the Migrant Crisis
The paper illustrates that the migrant crisis is a symptom of a greater condition affecting the EU. Due to this wider state of unwellbeing, the EU is engaging in a domopolitical governmentality in order to tame and domesticate migration that could intensify the symptoms of a chronic solidarity disease. Thus, the migrant crisis is a turning point, a moment where it can be either cured, or worsened.The Ontological and Metaphysical Aspects of the World Coordinate System Based on the Limits of Dynamic Equilibrium
This “Being” means that the coordinate system does not just exist, but actively makes itself at every level of the organization of the world. This activity is not the result of the spirit, the mind, the intellect, the will, or life. It is manifested in the fact that "being-essence" and "being-existence" are tuned to the harmonious rhythms of the world and create the cells, which is widespread the presence of the coordinate system at all levels of organization. This bond is the result of self-organization processes and is optimum and sustainable.
