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
The Exhibition-Dialogue on Contemporary Art in Europe (Lisbon, 1985) as Part of the Council of Europe’s Cultural Diplomacy
This paper will focus on the Exhibition-Dialogue as part of the COE's cultural diplomacy by positioning it on the series of exhibitions organized until the middle 1990's. Furthermore, it will also discuss the possible relations between the Exhibition-Dialogues' conceptual apparatus and the COE's political program as a first level of pan-European political coordination that precedes the European Union's membership.
David Loewenstein: Art Intervention as Social Practice
This presentation focuses on the use of art as a means of social interventional in the United States, focusing specifically on the writings and practice of Kansas-based community artist David Loewenstein. Loewenstein’s career provides an interesting example of the constant negotiation between private and public interests required of a practitioner in this field.
The Artist-in-Residence as Cultural Mediator
This investigation primarily utilizes theories of Homi Bhabha and Richard Kearney to showcase how the artist-in-residence has potential as a unique catalyst of positive global change, participating in the constitution of inter-cultural subject formation. Then Paul Ricoeur’s concepts of translation capture the deeper process that integrates the artist’s ethical encounter with the “other” by modeling a comprehensive, hermeneutic understanding of inter-subjectivity.
Shaping the European Identity: Convergent Patterns of Memory and Amnesia After 1945/1989 Trademarks
After 1989 Europe was exposed to a double re-evaluation: new memories of war and post-war were on table together with Western ‘confused sentimentality’ towards East. On the other side Eastern European nations had now to revisit their own Second World War history and feelings of abandonment after 1945. Since memory and remembrance are more about identity than about outcomes of institutional politics or realist history my paper is an inquiry about perceived gaps in the so called European identity and discontinuities involved in approaching the past in the “reunified” Europe.
Negotiating Memory Canons: The Issue of Political Violence in Romanian Memory Culture
This contribution argues that the intersection between a local perspective where a moralizing discourse largely informs the rationale of relating to the past and transnational remembrance ethics associated to the European sphere has produced new memorial constructions. By looking at conceptual debates around recent public acts of remembrance and transmission of memory, the paper analyzes “reflexive particularism” (D. Levy 2011) as means of explaining how an apolitical consensus around remembrance and a transnational-oriented configuration of reconciliation have become proper to particular memorial “languages”.
Ethnic Heterogeneity of “Greater Romania”: The Ethnic Element in Romania’s Memory and Identity since the Second World War to the Post-Communist Period
This paper looks at how the ethnic heterogeneity of Romanian society during the inter-wars years had affected the development of the "Romanization Policy" by the Romanian government, and how it subsequently appears at the historical narratives of the Communist and Post-communist research. This paper will analyze the ways in which the Romanian historical research had dealt with the Ethnic heterogeneity of "Greater Romania" after the Second World War during – by focusing on one of the many ethnic groups, which had been subjected to fatal changes by the "Ethnic Policies" of the Romanian Government: The Jewish-Ethnic population.
Notes on Skopje. Hegemonic and Speculative Urban Narratives
The paper deals with the ongoing government-funded reconstruction of the Macedonian capital, dubbed "Skopje 2014". The urban revamp involves erection of numerous government and cultural buildings (in an exclusively "neo-classical" style), (over forty) figurative monuments and equestrian statues of national heroes, bridges and monumental objects (i.e. a Triumphal Arc), reconstruction of facades (in "baroque" style) and other miscellaneous objects, in an attempt to support and provide material illustration of long and continuous Macedonian national narrative, that claims direct descent-line to the ancient hero, Alexander the Great.
Bratislava Castle and Changes to the Methodological Approach of Monument Restoration in Correlation of Modern Europe
Lack of authentic elements and preserved interiors and exteriors as well lead to a question, how to stand up to the methodological matters of restoration of Bratislava castle, which was considered as highly important task even in a context of socialist Czechoslovakia. Task, that was supposed to represent country in the world. What kind of architectural means of expression should define the approach of young socialist nation, according to the state ideology and according to effort of presenting Slovaks as a modern european nation to the preservation of this monument? Modernism.
Katowice’s Urban Transformation: Redefining the Post – Mining Identity through the Arts
My paper addresses the site’s revitalization process in the realm of the city’s aim of a Metropolis and animates the discourse on the local, regional and international significance of the design concept and infrastructure, the implementation of the cultural mining heritage, the arts as creator of belonging and the function of culture in place marketing and sustainable economic development.
The Regional Cooperation Prospects of the Western Balkans: Can the EU’s Pre-Accession Conditionality Work Again?
the paper analyses the EU conditionality in the Balkans as a multi-dimensional instrument that is directed towards reconciliation, reconstruction and reform. As the Union uses both regional and country-by-country strategies for the Western Balkans countries, the paper aims to propose how and what kinds of strengthened regional co-operation in the areas of justice, freedom and security can contribute to fostering their EU integration.
