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
Institutionalised Identity
This article analyses the recent trend in cultural politics in Poland oriented towards various commemorations of the past, which form a clear strategy of politics of memory. The key elements described are as follows: ministerial programmes, the phenomenon of the Warsaw Rising and its institutional representation, and the narrative of the “Cursed Soldiers” and its application in official and non-official structures.European Cities and New Inhabitants: A Heritage Contribution by Migrants
A heritage exchange is important for the European cities to be able to make the new citizens part of an existing community. Understanding each other and learning from each other is key for success. It is very important that the European cities are a community not a series of ghettos where the newcomers settle and live in isolation. Are we prepared for this exchange?
Exploring Arts Based Ways to Counter Radicalization Among Youth
A team of three Muslim women co-organized BreakWord, a spoken word gathering during the fall 2010 term. This event was executed as an assignment for a Trauma and Healing event. The underlying need the event aimed to address was the traumatization of Muslim youth as a group due to the current geo-political trends. The assumption behind BreakWord was that communication about identity issues and encouraging civic engagement can help to decrease the tendency towards violent radicalization.Fiscal Consolidation, Shadow Economy and the Sustainability of Private Consumption: Further Evidence from Selected Eurozone Economies
This research uses an alternative growth of private consumption approach using dynamic panel data regression analysis of 17 (14 excluding Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) Eurozone countries and endeavors to shed light on these issues. Empirical findings show that consolidation periods experience a marginal lower private consumption growth, questioning the generality of neoclassical theory implication. Furthermore, as expected, informal economy leads to a higher private consumption, but with a high cost for public economicsScale Economies in European Trade
Using the gravity framework, I investigate the existence of economies of scale in trade costs for European international trade. 26 manufacturing sectors exhibit such scale economies: a 10% increase in trade volume corresponds on average to a 0.64% decrease in trade costs. It appears that the EU expansion affected these economies of scale, though this happened for some sectors only: trade with an EU partner entails scale elasticities 50% lower than trade with a non-EU member for 11 sectors out of the 26 considered. I also investigate whether scale elasticities can be rationalized by the existence of informational asymmetries.Adjustment In The Us And European Monetary Unions: The Cases Of Puerto Rico And Greece
Form an Optimum Currency Area perspective this paper provides a comparative analyzes between the (ongoing) Puerto Rican and Greek debt crisis and between the United States and European monetary unions. More specifically, the thesis engages with two of OCA’s criteria required to sustain monetary unions in the long run: the Insurance Principle and homogeneity of policies. The contribution aims to answer the following research question: how to share the cost of adjustment in a monetary union?The Difference Between Art as Propaganda and Art as Cultural Diplomacy
In my paper I would compare the mission of artists as opposed to governments in addressing political issues. The Cold War and the American National Exhibition in Moscow would serve as a prime example of how art was used as propaganda. Exhibitions at the America Houses and at galleries in Austria would serve as further examples to underline the cultural diplomacy of the United States. In looking at Europe and how artists were influenced by this and how their art evolved due to exhibitions viewed by them (Pichler and Attersee for example) I would be able to demonstrate how contemporary Austrian artists and their political expressions are not used as propaganda by any government but as an artistic message from the artist to an audience.Diplomatic Instruments: U.S. Symphony Orchestras And The Cold War
This paper will explore the intersection between classical music and international politics during the Cold War. As part of a larger study I am working on, Dangerous Melodies and Diplomatic Instruments: When Classical Music Mattered in America (W.W. Norton, forthcoming), which explores the relationship between classical music in the United States and twentieth-century world affairs (from the Great War to the Cold War).American Internationalism and Cultural Diplomacy: The Rise and Decline of an idea in the Twentieth Century
Committed internationalists became cultural diplomats in the United States government or as private citizens in the pre-war period spreading mutual understanding and democratic values worldwide. They did battle against other Americans who then as now saw treachery in the outside world and opposed cultural diplomacy as a feeble or dangerous response. This presentation also offers a usable past of Americans who embraced an increasingly integrated globe, but at the same time a sobering reminder of the roadblocks to internationalism. American Internationalism provides insight into a world we should well remember as we grapple with the sometimes disagreeable realities of an interconnected globe.The European Union And The Same Gender Relationship – A Legal View
The paper intends to address the following questioning: what is the current legal treatment given by the European Union law to the same gender relationships and if there is a reglementation’s need to the theme. Considering the European citizens mobility, the European Union foundation on the free movement, the values of non-discrimination and respect for privacy, it is paradoxical the situation that exists in some countries that treat the topic in such different legal positions. This scenario leads to the impossibility to uniformly exercise the individual rights in the EU for those part of a same sex relationship.
