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
“Le tenebroso est à la mode”. The Prado Museum and the Italian Baroque Exhibitions in the Economic Golden Age of Western Europe
In 1957 Europe would live a very important moment for its unification: the signing of the Treaty of Rome which established the new EEC. And the best way to celebrate it was with an exhibition à la mode about Il Seicento europeo. This mostra pointed a new geographic dimension in the historiography: beyond the construction of national histories of art was gradually forged a new history about an artistic Europe with a coherent identity. But Spain –and therefore the Prado– was a resounding absence. The museum gave up its loans policy and this involved a turning point in the construction of the Spanish Art History in the European context.The Borders of Europe
The aim of this paper is to show how Europeanisation should not be seen as a standing element, but rather as one of the main knots in which the global flows of culture, images and ideas crossing the European’s imagination are entangled. Europeanisation is to be considered as a discursive process through which the European identity (the so-called Europeanness) becomes part of a wider narration that includes other symbols, values, imagines etc. The paper is based on an ethnographic research carried out on the island of Cyprus after the economic and financial crisis of 2013. It analyses the rhetorical use of the adjective European by Greek-Cypriots when asked to define their ethnical and national identity as well as the way it changes depending on the different “Other” Cypriots want to distinguish from.Fortress Europe: The Dangers of Democratic Insecurities
European Community begs for a deepened reflection regarding the drivers and determinants of these phenomena and decide whether radicalisation of European politics is a temporary occurrence or will it become a permanent feature of European political landscape due to structural reasons. This paper argues that the crisis of societal security (Buzan et al. 1998) manifests itself through a crisis of representative democracy (Rosanvallon 2008) institutions and mechanisms visible in “radicalisation of politics” taking forms of anti-establishment initiatives (radical parties, social movements, and vigilante groups) and various forms of direct democracy (referenda, manifestations, demonstrations).Politicisation of the EU During European Crises – Example of the German Post-Communist Left
This paper is concerned with the radical and its reaction on the three recent crises: The Euro Crisis, The Ukraine conflict and the Refugee crisis. Here the German party Die Linke is examined. The party is from interest because it presented in all of the crises rather views off the main stream. In the center of the analysis is the question how the party responded to the crisis and used them. It should also be considered if the decisions taken on European level are pushing the party to new programmatic ideas or policy proposals. In order simplify it the paper is concerned with the politicization of the EU within the party.The Role of Civilizational Identity in Shaping Public Attitudes on Foreign Policy
Following the constructivist route, this study aims to analyze the role of identity on individual attitudes on foreign military interventions. More specifically, drawing from the literature on democratic peace theory and clash of civilizations this paper investigates to what extent culturally and ideologically similar countries will be labelled as 'we' by the public and perceived positively whereas dissimilar countries will be perceived as 'others' which will be followed by a negative reaction in foreign policy attitudes.Europe and the Last 30 years – Consequences of Abandoning Qualitative Distinctions
The paper outlines the concepts prevailing during the passage from "European Community" to "European Union", also Great Britain's changing role in the Community. Observing economic crises not as individual events, but as continuously increasing developments of ever increasing frequency and amplitude, the paper also focuses upon the principal errors leading to such ever accelerating downturn and its consequences for society, in order to outline what, instead, as prerequisites, leads to sustainable development, employment and prosperity.Politicization and Crises of European Integration: For a Re-Politicization of the European Union
The paper argues that the negative impact of such politicization has been over-estimated by Hooghes and Marks while its positive impact has been under-estimated. In other words, the possibility of a re-politicization of the EU integration project. The condition, however, to capitalize on its positive impact lies in the need for the EU to change its approach, from technocratic one to what we call a more pragmatist one.The Brexit Vote: Conceptualizing European (Dis)Integration
This paper will take stock of the emerging literature on European (Dis)integration (Schmitter and Lefkofrid 2015; Scheller and Eppler 2014; Vollaard 2014; Oliver 2015) and will apply it to the outcome of British EU referendum. In particular, the contribution will explore the Brexit vote by comparing and contrasting Neo-functionalism's concept of "spillback" and "countervailing forces" with the six hypothsesis of the New Intergovernmentalism.Theorizing European Disintegration in Times of Complexity
The paper makes three central claims. First, the European subject is polymorphous. Europe is realized in multitudinal assemblages and practices. Second, European integration is essentially relational rather than unidirectional. Third, the European subject is both symbolic and material. Europe is enacted by speeches, monuments, flags but also documents, technologies, financial instrument, architectural artefacts, or agricultural land. In the context of redefining European integration as multitudinal, disintegration is debunked as a useful concept and events widely referred to as disintegration are consequently re-examined via the actor-network theory.
The Never Ending Trail of Folly – Europe Before and After the 2008 Crash and Draghi’s 0% Interest
This presentation argues that the real factors influencing economy are outside the scope of their search: in culture, moreover, in the way people and societies deal with qualitative diversity. Egalitarian reduction of all and everything as well as everybody to merely quantitative criteria leads directly to crisis. Fostering and serving qualitative diversity with truly diverse offers, instead, leads to full employment, prosperity for all and independent self determined society and peace.
