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
Clashing Geographical Imaginaries: The Strange Co-Presence of Christian Bulwark and Eurasianism in Hungary
A few years ago, the far right explicitly announced a Dugin-inspired Hungarian Eurasianism as its foreign policy program. The Hungarian government invoked Ottoman invasion to justify keeping refugees out in 2015 and has been using a harsh rhetoric and policy against Muslim immigrants ever since.The paper’s preliminary conclusion is that these two orientations can today co-exist for two reasons. As elsewhere, Christian traditions and symbols in Hungary have maintained some pre-Christian (in this case Turanian) elements in order to remain popular among the wider masses. Secondly, and more important for today, the image of a liberal/multicultural West serve as a shared enemy for Hungarian Eurasianism and (political) Christianity alike.Looking towards East on 16th Century Maps
The geographic encyclopedias and atlases of the 16th century are giving us some of the first systematic representations of the borders of Europe. We will explore some of the most influential geographic publications of the 16th century that appeared in western and central Europe. Following a classical model of Ptolemy, these first Atlases of the world always start from west so that the discussion of Eastern Europe comes towards the end of the book. And the descriptions given to the people occupying these territories are not always flattering.
Political Change in the EU, Brexit and External Perceptions
UPLOAD IN PROGRESS ...One Belt One Road Initiative Nexus to the European Union and China Relations: A New Economic Debunching?
China’s willingness to make a substantial contribution to the so-called Juncker Plan made the OBOR Initiative more tempting for the EU. Last but not least, it comes across at a time of seeking for new-age partnerships so as to respond the deadlock of the multilateral trading system. The aim of this paper is to quest the conformity of the OBOR Initiative with the respective demands of the EU and China for their economic development and well-being. In this respect, prospective bridging role of the OBOR Initiative in enabling the economic connectivity between EU and Asia is evaluated. So as to conclude, probability of the OBOR Initiative in giving a fresh blood to the multilateral trading system via foreign direct investment veins is elaborated as a whole.Ordine Nuovo and the Idea of Europe
There is still no examination of all the press produced by 'Ordine Nuovo', that is the major European neo-fascist movement of the second half of the 20th century. Through an analysis conducted between 2015 and 2019 with a critical-descriptive approach that considers all the articles published in over two decades in the newspapers connected to 'Ordine Nuovo', the aim of this paper is to detect similarities between the «battle for Europe» (Franco Mazzi, 1960) conducted by the militants of that movement and today’s radical right in Europe.A Paper Tiger or a Normative Power? The EU’s Construction of Its International Identity in Engaging an Assertive China
This article contributes to ongoing debates on the EU’s normative influence in shaping China as a global actor and challenges those arguments that the EU’s normative foreign policies towards China do not work or those excessively pessimistic perceptions of the normative influence of the self-perceived Normative Power Europe in its relations with China. By examining the EU’s engagement with an increasingly assertive China in two China-sponsored global initiatives—the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this article argues that the EU remains its efforts in diffusing its norms in engaging China in global economic governance. In managing the complexity of its engagement with an assertive China, this paper claims that the EU still can and also has many opportunities to diffuse its norms and construct its normative power identity. Facing an assertive China, the EU is not a paper tiger.The Rise of Far-Right in Europe: Refugees Crisis and the Role of Mass Media
This paper assesses the degree and the channels through which European mass media coverage of random arrivals of refugees to European soil, and in particular in Greece, are associated with the voting intentions of European citizens for far right parties. In the early 2015 enormous random refugee flows have appeared in European Eastern borders mainly due to the civil conflict in Syria. We explore this random shock in arrivals and link it to mass media coverage in European countries and then associate this with voting intentions recorded in rolling polls to assess if cross sectional variation in coverage can potentially explain cross sectional variation in far right voting intentions.#Portichiusi: The Human Costs of Migrant Deterrence in the Mediterranean
Using daily data on forced migration from the IOM and Frontex, I compare trends in flows and mortality across three major migration routes in the Mediterranean, analysing the effects of the introduction of rescue-deterrence policies in Italy. I find that the reduction in refugee migration flows in the Central Mediterranean has been modest, at best. At the same time, these policies have generated a permanent increase in daily mortality rates in the Central Mediterranean, having grown by more than 4 deaths per day. Finally, I investigate whether variations in mortality are sufficient to offset migration flows.European Identity and Citizenship: Challenges, Values and Allegiance in Time of Migration
Depopulation, GDP per capita ranking, frozen arm conflicts, poverty, and unemployment force people to relocate, leave their homes to search for better future, security, and prosperity for themselves and their families. We count more than 20 million refugees globally; however, among them, 3.5 million are staying in the EU (Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, UK, Netherlands). It is not a question of integration and inclusion of newcomers into state and society anymore. It is about the arbitrary change of citizenship, as a genuine and effective link between a person and the state. This movement involves mutual relations between all the major players in the international arena, regardless of their role in it.Visibility Hierarchies: Santiago Sierra and the Homo Sacer
The current article aims to assess the possibility of representing, in a visual scope, the figure of the homo sacer, a juridical term of the Roman law that the philosopher Giorgio Agamben recaptures when addressing biopolitical studies. Milena Tomic argues that any art project that addresses the issue of bare life, a condition where all the political and ethical representation was extracted by a non-mediated action of the State, must deal with its ubiquity, in the sense that Agamben sees the camp as both an anomaly of the past and the hidden matrix of the present. Tomic also argues that there is an unavoidable unrepresentability in the core of bare life, a dimension that this article aims to explore confronting it with the project of the artist Santiago Sierra who hires illegal workers, migrants or refugees in his installations and performances. The economical and ethical influence that this modus operandi creates among the figure of the homo sacer will constitute one of the axes of this paper, as well as its consequences within the process of the identity construction.
