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
Rescaling Postcolonial Approaches: The Making of Rural Peripheries in Estonian Media Discourse
Following a critical discourse analysis approach, the making of rural peripheries will be discussed on the example of discourses in Estonian national print media. Despite being hegemonic, these can always be brushed against the grain in search for subaltern voices. Therefore, the illustrative analysis will deconstruct the dominant peripheralization discourse as well as its counter-discourses.
Illustration of a Memory: Lustration and Memorialization as Joint Mechanisms for Transitional Justice in Estonia
The purpose of this paper is to evince the juxtaposition of memorialization and lustration; I also question if this was effective in offering redress to a nation in transition. After offering some disadvantages and advantages of these two mechanisms, I aim to defend them and show how they can be instrumental in redressing past wrongs by legitimizing a collective narrative.
The (Baltic) “Near Abroad”: Culture Across Borders or Borders Across Culture?
Based in interviews, ethnographic field work, and study of public discourse and media, this presentation will examine the uncomfortable intersections of (Eastern) Europe and Russian Near Abroad in the geographical imagination of the Baltic region.
Moravian Attempts to Have a National Identity Distinct from that of the Czechs
In our paper we present the ideas of the Moravian separatists on the basis of the archive documents and of the reflections of the old and contemporary Czech and Moravian historians. The purpose is to remember a circumstance not enough researched, concerning an important part of “Central Europe” considered by now, at least from the political point of view, almost invisible.
Escape from Eastern Europe? Czech Identity and Frames of Historical Memory
These analyses of Holý and Todorova will be complemented by analyses of three key frameworks of memory, on the basis of which we shall demonstrate the exclusionary relationship of Czech identity towards Eastern Europe and the ambivalent relationship to the West. These three frameworks are Munich, socialism with a human face and Central Europe.
The Punctum of Lived Experience or an Autobiographic Reading of Herta Muller’s The Appointment (1997)
Through her narrative reflections on communism as a lived personal and historical experience, Muller’s autofiction contributes to “the shaping, and misshaping [of] the new European ‘order’” and of the necessary myth of the united Europe (Judt, “The Past,” 84). Her writings call attention to that “other Europe” and the exigencies of a “new” European identity within the European Union. Remembering a past lived differently, such post-communist narratives impose the necessity for a more nuanced understanding of European memory and of the historical conditions it narrates.
Remembering Mother: (Post)Memory and Archaeology of Subjectivity in Imbi Paju’s Memories Denied
the reading and writing of Imbi Paju’s maternal memories challenges the Soviet politics of destroying memory, intimacy and family ties in the name of a superior, supposedly stable sense of identity. In that, the focus is on how Paju “imagines” a past, a mother, an Estonia and an exile, as well as on how these affect her personal and artistic development.
Carla Serena (1824-84): A Solo Western European Woman Traveller and Her Multifaceted Easts
In addition to the analysis of orientalist elements in Carla Serena’s work, I will show how boundaries between West and East are arbitrarily defined in her writings, and how the Caucasus displays a peculiar status, being considered both as Europe and Asia. In particular, my paper focuses on the analysis of her travels in Eastern Europe, at that time part of the Russian Empire.
Bulwark of Liberty or Backward Savagery? Dispute between Rousseau and the Polish Enlightenment Thinkers Over Eastern Europe
The main purpose of this paper is to analyse and explain the tensions between Rousseau and Polish Enlightenment thinkers as M. Wielhorski or S. Leszczyński and, by clarifying them, to reveal a deeper ambiguity of the Enlightenment discourse concerning the interpretation of Eastern Europe as well as human nature.Legal Aspects of Gender Migration (Ukrainian Perspective)
Ukraine’s strategic goal is to join the EU and it makes this country be more active and persistent in ensuring equal rights and opportunities for men and women. However, these efforts have been very declarative so far and there are no substantially developed legal grounds but a few recently adopted laws. But labor migration from Ukraine to the EU has been rather active since the collapse of the USSR and if not legally regulated it may cause a number of serious social and economic problems both in Ukraine and in the EU. The purpose of the article is to identify the main reasons leading to labour migration from Ukraine, to scrutinize the gender peculiarities of Ukrainian labour migration and its legal aspects both in Ukraine and in the EU where most of the Ukrainian migrants settle.
