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
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Europe and the ‘Other’ [Pakistan]: Deconstruction of the Dominant Culture by the ‘Other’
In this paper, the short poem, ‘Wasteland’ (1977) selected from her first collection Khushboo (Fragrance 1977), has been chosen for primary analysis. The poem written by Shakir in the twentieth century, under the influence of T.S.Eliot’s poem ‘The Waste Land’ (1971) also written in the twentieth century, gives Shakir a chance to have a dialogue with her own culture on the one hand, and with the English culture on the other. The paper will look at the intertextuality used by Shakir to examine how it connects the ‘Other’ east with the west and bridges the invisible divide of cultures, framing, what Mary Louis Pratt terms as transculturation (1999). The paper will also underline how the dialogic engagement deconstructs the dominance of the European culture when Shakir incorporates English themes into her eastern Pakistani culture and thus contaminates the supremacy of the west. The concept of hybridity, as framed by Bhabha, will also be applied as Shakir merges the western thought into eastern thought in the poem ‘Wasteland’.Synchronicity: Contemporary Europe as a Temporal Project
My proposed paper explores the function of exhibitionary and visual culture in constructing Central European identity. Considering Central Europe not as a defined geographic space but rather what historian Ole Bouman’s calls “a synchronized experience in time,” this paper broadly divides the history of the region into four periods following the end of World War II in order to understand how the region has—and continues to—relate to the West, to the globe and to itself. Using moments of historical rupture—1989, 1999, 2004, and 2013—it is possible to use work by individual artists to visualize the historic construct of Central Europe as a fluid, ever-evolving mode of thinking and identity-constructing that works both in and out of time with the European Union.Why the EU Integration Project is as Much about Emotion as it is about Rationality: An Analysis of EU Member States’ Communication Strategies Before National Referenda
This paper focuses on the communication strategies of EU Member States ahead of the ‘No’ votes in national referenda on EU issues between 2005 and 2016. Its main research question is whether the Member States adopted communication strategies based on both factual and emotional arguments to defend the EU integration process. To answer this question, we adopted a methodology based on the triangulation of data: Literature, Eurobarometer data and 20 interviews (carried out between June 2018 and September 2019) with EU Member State experts and journalists involved in at least one of the referenda.From Legal to Political Constitutionalism? On Paradoxes Surrounding the Practice of Constitutional Adjudication in Newly (Re)Emerged European Democracies
Considering the complex circumstances of a constitutional crisis is especially insightful in the case of EU member states experiencing a relatively quick, and thus more or less turbulent - even if nominally peaceful - transition to democracy from the system of a totalitarian oppression. In my paper I point out, in the first place, the highly politicized process of the creation and adoption of the constitution of the Republic of Poland.Does Liberalism Need a Bit of Despotism?
The traditional notion of sovereignty seems to be overpassed and partially replaced by over-national economic powers, which are far more extended and influencing than the sovereign states. This type of economic, personalistic power has an ill-fated influence on the inhabitants of the global polis. This latter is a kind of power with equal strength as the political one, but without the distinguishing degree of rationality. The order of the political sphere appears to be replaced by the disorder of an uncontrolled economic concurrence, generating in many citizens impotence and other disturbing feelings (nationalism).Europeans by the Polls. What Voter Motivation Tells Us about EP Accountability
In light of conflicting theories and normative implications, we explore the motivations voiced by voters in regards to the 2019 EP elections and assess their meaning for the parliament’s accountability. We conducted 107 semi-structured interviews in France, Poland and Germany on Election Day with broad and open questions to explore voter heuristics, interpretative frames, and recurring themes. This qualitative approach allows us to develop a typology of six kinds of voter motivation. We find evidence of both second-order behavior and polity politicization, but also novel types of voter heuristics much less investigated so farIs the Rise of European Populism a Backlash of Culture or a Backlash of Space?
Changes have gradually been taking place over the last century and have now reached a tipping point. But rather than explain this phenomenon through the traditional socio-political or economic lens of relevant academic experts and commentators, it is told through the unusual and creative perspective of an established practicing artist. The talk will entertain how it might help to see them in terms of art, aesthetics, space and movement. Perhaps it is not a cultural backlash that can explain the rise in populism but a backlash of the physical against the abstract and its movement in space.Aufstehen, Hinsetzen: Why the European Left Needs to Rethink its Pragmatism
The first section of this paper analyses, what I call, the nationalist-argument against migration, put forward by an unsurprisingly astute European right which not only rekindles the old 'we-they-antagonism' between migrant workers and domestic workers, but is now also talking about class struggle; pointing to the recent fiascos of globalization, blaming the ruling elites and the ways they profit from open borders. In the second part of the paper, I expose the structural similarities between pragmatic anti-immigration arguments put forward by Aufstehen and the right nationalist-argument.Does Fake News Affect Voting Behaviour?
In this paper we investigate whether the spread of fake news has affected the results of recent elections, contributing to the growth of populist party platforms. We aim to quantify the causal effect of the spread of misinformation over electoral outcomes in the 2018 Italian General elections. The presence of Italian and German linguistic groups in the Trento and Bolzano/Bozen autonomous provinces offers a unique source of exogenous variation.Politicization of European Integration as a Source of Populism in Europe
This study examines the political architecture of the European Union as sources of populist politics and the debates on democratic deficit within the EU. In this analysis, the dynamics of the politicization process within the framework of regional integration theories are revealed. It is argued that identity politics has become more decisive than economic considerations in a politicized European integration. Identity politics, therefore, is a source of populism through discussions of both sovereignty and democratic deficits in the European Union.
