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- The Issue of Legitimacy – EU Action in Selected Policy Areas
  The paper will explore aspects of legitimacy in the two policy areas and examine whether insights can be gained from a parallel investigation despite differences in the institutional setup and whether a combination of different sources could ensure legitimacy which is essential for the long term viability of policies at European level.
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- Between the Imagination and the Reality: The Muslim Converso Identity in Iberia During the 16th and 17th Centuries – New Artistic and Literary Approaches
  Peter Wenreich in his article “Psychodynsamics of Personal and Social Identity” stressed that “Identity has become a catch-all term that promises much, yet disappoints profoundly”. It is true that, in the last years, terms and expressions like “the other”, “otherness”, “ethnicity”, “identity” have been used in the titles of several papers of History, History of Art and Anthropology. These words are like “trending topics” in the 21st century historiography related to the necessity of define or re-define all the members of the multicultural societies who lived together in one period. In our paper we are going to show how was created the Morisco (Muslim converso) identity (or identities) in order to condemn or expel him from Spain, using several literary excerpts and Iberian altarpieces.
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- Locating the Museum or Locating the Collective Memory: The Role of the Izmir Museum in Izmir’s Nationalization
  he museum of the city was very functional in this nationalizing process and the locations chosen for the museum were not arbitrary at all. This paper will try to explore and narrate significance of the locations of Izmir Museum, which served in three different building in the nationalizing of Izmir’s urban topography and the contribution of the museum in the construction of a nationalized collective memory in connation to locations of the museum.
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- Anatole Kopp: The Communist Utopia of a French Modernist
  I would like to offer the analysis of the oeuvre of Anatole Kopp (1915-1990), a French historian of architecture. He was the first to introduce the Soviet avant-garde architecture to the history of International Modern movement and one of the first Western authors to write about Soviet architecture of the 1920s. After a carful study of Kopp’s archives, I claim that the initial impulse of Soviet studies in architectural history was political, not aesthetic.
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- Art and Identity: Western Old Masters in 1860s Saint Petersburg
  This paper outlines some reflections upon the variety of the concept of ‘identity’ within the 1860s artistic milieu of Saint Petersburg. New light on the cosmopolitan system of art of the city will be cast by the analysis of the Baltic journey (1865) of the renown Old Masters expert Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle. Research has been lacking so far in providing a global analysis of the consequences regarding identity of the presence in Petersburg in middle of the XIX Century of some majestic Italian, Flemish and Spanish artworks of the Renaissance and Baroque, together with Protestant or Catholic figures of artists, dealers, collectors, connoisseurs and curators.
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- Updating Perspectives on the Child Protection System: Case Study- Cluj County
  In this paper, I will aim to answer several questions about the Cluj county child protection system, a building block of the overarching Romanian child protection system, with the hopes of updating our knowledge on Romania and its child welfare efforts, as well as the direction in which it may be headed. This study may also serve individuals with a stake in the child protection systems of other Eastern European countries, whose child welfare experiences have arguably been parallel to Romania’s in recent years.
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- Bringing Fraternity Back in Europe – Learning from Rawls
  In this paper I want to argue that if we want to rescue the European project we must activate and translate into practices the articulation between these three ideals, having as larger background a strong conception of justice, which cannot be defined in a strictly legalist manner. In order to do so, I will start by presenting Rawls’ account of the importance of the ideal of fraternity, an ideal which is the necessary (even if not sufficient) condition for the consolidation of a democratic project. I will then move to a critical analysis of current European state-of-affairs that suspend the fraternity ideal, therefore putting in check the success of the European project. Finally, I will reflect upon recent challenges Europe faces today and look for its possible (re)solutions.
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- Securing Hegemony for Finance-Led Export-Oriented Accumulation? Recent Struggles and Transformations of French Capitalism
  In this paper, I use a discourse-focused Neo-Gramscian concept of hegemony in order to shed light on the changes of accumulation strategies and their modes of regulation as conceptualised by French regulation theory. My analysis focuses on the case of France and I argue that during the crisis years, a shift in the accumulation strategy is taking place which we can deduct from the discourses of social forces.
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- The Grexit Through a Defensive Neorealist Lens
  Although realism has been traditionally discussed in terms of hard power and exertion of power upon other states, I argue aspects of realism can be construed towards a soft power argument. That is, Tsipras is evoking defensive neorealism, popularised by Kenneth Waltz, in dealing with the Eurozone crisis. The key tenets of neorealism utilised by Tsipras include the European Union as a system being anarchic. In general, I will look at these facets of neorealism and apply them towards Tsipras and other Prime Ministers of the recent past to show the changing dynamic of the Greek leader at the time and how it influences the potential Grexit.
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- Silent Sequential Narratives: Bearing Witness to a Unique Form
  The article will look closely at two of the ‘silent’ graphic novels represented in the exhibition; ‘A-Z’ by Lars Arrhenius and Eric Drooker’s ‘Flood!’. Though each illustrator’s visual signature is distinct they invite the viewer to wander, inhabit and dwell in spaces and places that causes these to linger in the memory long after they are encountered. What is it about this particular form of narrative that compels us to look? What are the unique qualities of this cross cultural form that hold the viewer’s attention?
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