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
Necrological Discourse: Necrological Identity
This paper explores the Lévinasian theory of identities enclosed within their own portraits. In struggling to draw the portrait of an adversary who abandons face-to-face discourse for a necrological discourse devoid of interlocutors, society finds itself perplexed and, perhaps, unable to calculate various factors that require inclusion within the portrait itself. Within the Hegelian and Lévinasian insights of this paper, I expose elements that lead a person to the trace of history, which absences history itself and presences necrological identities.’Wounded Attachments’ and Memory Making in Eastern Europe
Much of the official narratives proposed in these cases employ an 'emphatic unsettlement' that rejects both straightforward linear narratives of recovery and integral systems of truth and reconciliation. The analysis tracks how such instances of public memory engage with politicized identities. How do the double occupation paradigm and anti-communism then work with different intensities of nationalism?Forward an Anthropological Perspective of Alzheimer’s Disease: The Symbolic Meanings of Memory Loss in a Commemoration Society
I would like to demonstrate that the commemoration practice in not really based on the historical objectivity of the past event but rather on a political performance promoting the mythisation of it, in order to reinforce the social cohesion around a dominant system of values at the bottom of collective identity.Intellectuals, Ethnicity, and Nationalism: Evidence from Catalonia
How do intellectuals think about nationalism when that becomes a seriously divisive issue? Do they all converge towards the same view, or is there a polarization of expert opinion? If, as it seems to be the case, there is polarization, what factors explain each individual intellectual’s choice? Our results show that, far from seeking to appease passions, intellectuals are more polarized than the wider public. More worryingly, we find that intellectuals are, like the general public, largely motivated by ethnic considerations.Does Growing Nationalism Trigger Transnational Cooperation Among Cosmopolitans? The Case of the German-Polish Border Towns Frankfurt (Oder) & Słubice
This paper will elaborate at the micro level by assessing transborder conflict dynamics between cosmopolitan and nationalist local deputies from the German-Polish border towns Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice.Maintaining a Japanese Cultural Identity Abroad: ‘Old Japan’ at the Japanese Department Store ‘Shirokiya’ in Honolulu
The existence of the department store ‘Shirokiya’ finds its reasons. Especially for the elderly Japanese Americans, the children and grandchildren of those immigrants, the department store constitutes a crucial role for dealing with their Japanese identity throughout various spheres.Californian Exopolis: Hector Tobar’s and Tim Z. Hernandez’s Literary Interventions
In my presentation I focus on the literary representations of California´s underrepresented communities and their habitats. I interpret these places as zones of disruption of the historical and cultural discourses.A Strategic Modernity on the Shores of the Bosphorus: Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
Istanbul Modern is a win-win collaboration between the private promoters of the museum and the political actors in the context of identity and image making, liberalization, urban planning, and the once-desired Turkish membership into the EU.Embattled Towns – Images of the Balkans in Descriptions and Travelogues of the 17th and Beginning 18th Centuries
Towns in the Balkans were located at the travel routes from Vienna to Constantinople, and were therefore addressed in travelogues as well as in reports on topographical and geographical, historical and political issues.Nova Oeiras Neighbourhood Unit to UNESCO Heritage List: A Strong Case of Civic Identity and Intervention
BRNO´s universal value, as a landscape, architectural and urban paramount, must be emphasized – at the same time, explaining as this site is sustained in an overall manner by the support and adhesion of its living community, showing a strong sense of local participation and initiative.
