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
Turkish National Identity and the EU under the AKP: A Discursive Approach
In a broadly constructivist context, the article uses Foreign Policy Discourse Analysis, a form of analysis based on Foucault's conception of discourse, in order to examine the discourse of the ruling AKP (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi - Justice and Home Affairs Party) on the Turkish accession process to the EU in the context of broader discourses on state and nation and on discourses of self and other vis a vis Europe.How to Be or Not to Be an Iraqi Kurd? Processes of Identity Consolidation beyond National and Ethnic Rhetoric in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan in Northern Iraq
This paper aims at presenting the ways both main actors (regional and federal government in Iraq) have nurtured various discourses on identity and on the different types of identities for political purposes and the enforcement of the collective’s own interests.The ‘Indispensable Nation’ in a Post-American World: American Exceptionalism and President Obama’s Post-American Vision of Hegemony
This paper explores the discursive performance and political significance of American exceptionalism under the Obama presidency, and its consequences for US foreign and security policy. It examines how American exceptionalism represents a key identity construct that is intertextually constituted and reconstituted between the language of political decision-making, the intellectual expertise in America’s strategic community of think tanks and policy experts, and reflections in popular media.The Role of Secession in the Theory of Anarchy: Deconstruction of Collective Identities
In this paper I will analyze the concept of secession in the contemporary theory of political anarchy, as suggested by Murray Rothbard and his followers, as a concept of deconstruction of wider collective identities. Secessionist movements have a fundamental support from the anarchistic theory, because any case and situation of secession leads to reduction of the state sovereignty as a consequence.National Identity and Public Goods Provision
The paper proposes theories examining the interplay between national identity and public goods provision, then shows empirically that the most nationalistic countries excel" in poor provision of public goods. It challenges the conventional wisdom on the role of national identity, suggesting that most of the cases it is used as a tool to divert the attention of citizens from most pressing issues such as provision of elementary public goods.Contested Identities among Japanese-Bolivians Pre-War and Post-War Descendants
How is Bolivian Nikkei identity defined by whom, how and why? What are the discourses of inclusion and exclusion, where are intersections with class identification and what does that mean for the creation of a Bolivian Nikkei community?Defamiliarizing the Familiar and Moving the Immovable: Exile, Return, and the Journey in Ḥussein Barghoutī’s The Blue Light, and I Will Be Among the Almond Trees
This paper aims to show how the modern Palestinian author, Ḥussein Barghoutī, provides new definitions of the notions of exile, return, and journey that go beyond their traditional definitions in the Palestinian literary context.Transcending Borders: Sheila Mysorekar’s Reflections on Transnational Identities
The Indian-German essayist, poet, and journalist Sheila Mysorekar is a strong voice in debates about racism, multiculturalism and transnational identities in Germany. She consistently addresses human rights and minority concerns in her writing and uses satire as an effective strategy to underscore her arguments. For her identities are political.Constructing Hindu Identity in Textbook Narratives: The Concept of Decontextualization
This paper takes as its point of departure the main priority of the BJP within the field of education: the decision to publish new history textbooks. I examine these textbooks as integral to BJP’s identity political agenda, and ask in what ways they defined and invoked Hindu identity.Progenies of Priam:The Trojan War and the Propaganda of Identity and Belonging
Told through visual culture and artifacts scattered throughout the world, this paper explores the quest for legitimacy and belonging in nation-building and propaganda as related to the Trojan War and its participants, and how the myth-historical event continues to resonate with a modern artists and leaders.
