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
Nikki Lee’s Transgender Performance: The Projects of Drag Queens, Lesbians and Strip Dancers
With a specific focus on Lee’s Projects in association with the formation of gender identity, this paper reconsiders Judith Butler’s conception of 'drag', and examines in what way this mode of drag performativity is practiced in Lee’s playful performance of 'gender trouble', raising questions about the construction and representation of both individual and collective identities in contemporary society.‘Arte Argentino’ in Motion: Moving Through Aesthetic-Political Questions in the Artworks of Luís Felipe Noé and Marta Minujín
Based on the art works of Luís Felipe Noé and Marta Minujín which have been created with hybrid materials, forms and techniques from the sixties until now, I want to demonstrate that 'arte argentino' in its narrative and aesthetic appearance requires a thinking of materials and bodies in motion.(Im)Possible Subjects: The Appearance and Disappearance of Greek Woman Writer Dora Rosetti Performing Forbidden Lesbian Desire and Identity in “Her Lover” and in “My Friend Mrs Dora Rosetti”
In this paper I explore Dora Rosetti’s (1908-1989) appearance and disappearance as a writer, her inscriptions of lesbian desire and subjectivity, and her remaining fragments of writing and performing a queer self. I draw on Judith Butler’s ‘exclusionary matrix’ of gender, compulsory heterosexuality, identity, bodies and desires to make sense of Rosetti’s disappearing subjectivity.Urban Space in Museum Exhibitons
The intention of this article is to undertake an interdisciplinary route by combining a multitude of tools and methods from the humanities for the holistic treatment of the narratives on the legacy of the past and the present of selected European cities in particular representations of spaces and urban exhibitions.The City as a Spectacular Monster and the Hysterical Baudrillardian Flâneur
Propelled by the new kind of capitalism, and aided by a scientific and technological progress that culminates in virtual perfection, the city has now become both the producer and the consumer of spectacle. In fact, the city has become, in itself, a grand spectacle that uses the reification of categories as a differential device that helps perpetuate the spectacle.Mediating the Periphery: Borgata Gordiani from Interwar to Postwar Rome
This presentation examines the trajectory of Borgata Gordiani's development, inhabitation, and degradation through its depiction in photography, oral testimony, and film to reveal how these different types of representation construct a conflicting urban image of peripheral Rome and its transformations.Art Production, Consumption and the Effects of Gentrification: Cultural Capital as Utility for Gentrification
This paper aims to contextualise the emergence and development of socially engaged art through the urban phenomenon of gentrification. Gentrification creates a matrix of accumulation and consumption of cultural expression and social control that changes the nature of the city. Additionally, the rising value of art enhances the value of related factors: the urban forms that grow up around it, the activity of doing it, and the status of consuming it .The Culture-Led Construction of the Urban Image: New Public Libraries in the Netherlands
This paper deals with the role of culture and in particular of the cultural institution of the public library in the (re)construction of the urban identity in a context of an evolving postmodern cultural economy. Paralleling a cultural-turn in post-industrial socio-economics, the production of ‘signs’ of aesthetic contents supports logics of urban branding able to create desire and induce attractiveness through social and spatial identity. Accordingly culture becomes a local asset.Creative Industries in Norway: A Question of Cultural Heritage and Identity
The Heritage Cycle (Simon Thurley, 2005) helps analyzing these elements, and describes how the past can become a part of the future through understanding, valuing, caring and enjoying the cultural heritage. In this context, it could be seen as a resource influencing the awareness and content of a national and/or regional identity. Furthermore, these aspects may be used in linking levels of value creation towards both heritage and identity.The Politics Behind Unbuilt Memory: Memorial to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs, New York /“Topography of Terror” Documentation Center, Berlin
Among the most significant unbuilt architectural projects commemorating the victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust are the unrealized Memorial for the Six Million Jews Martyrs in New York City, designed by American architect Louis I. Kahn (1967-1973), and the planned “Topography of Terror” Documentation Center in Berlin, blueprinted by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (1993-2004). This paper will examine the impact on the formation and preservation of collective identity in the United States and Germany exercised by the two above-mentioned unbuilt masterworks.
