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
Alter Identities: The Rise and Fall of the American Superhero in Underground Comix
This paper will explore how the subversive status of the underground comix medium/genre exploited the intrinsic expressive liminality of the superhero genre to comment on and reflect the essential transformational spirit of consumer culture and the inherent malleability of an American identity, both especially potent in the mid to late 1960s.
O Captain! My Captain! Terrorism in Post 9/11 Captain America Comic Serials
his paper will respond to Jenkins’ claims examining both a brief history of the character of Captain America and how the difference between the Captain Americas’ separate narrative histories affect the discussion of terrorism with the same character. Using the continuity, writers and artists can encourage readers to draw specific connections between the current political discourse and events within the serial’s history, both in the comic continuity and actual world.
‘Cultural Anti-Imperialism’: The Influence of American Underground Comics in Britain 1966 – 1980
This paper will look at key British underground magazines , such as Oz and International Times, which first reprinted American underground artists, This led on to the most famous British underground comics of the 1970s, the London-based Cozmic Comics and Nasty Tales, which featured both British and American material, andthere were then many other regional production centres in the UK.
The Influence of East Asian Art and Culture on American Painting, 1880-1920
Visual modernism in America is not a sudden, revolutionary rupture with the past, but a continuous evolution and a multifaceted synthesis, which included the artistic influence from East Asia.
Hybrid Creatures: Examining Identity Politics in Diasporic Art
I seek to investigate how diasporic identities are informed by artworks which are at once deeply rooted in the south-asian consciousness and at the same time lay claims to wider international discourse.
Poetic Self-Experience
My paper, drawn from a larger project, will be about self’s experience of itself in the romantic and the post romantic lyric, and the reader’s experience of selfhood as both self and other in the experience of reading such lyrics.
“Pray Also for the Heathen at Home:” Colonialist Rhetoric in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This essay contextualizes Stowe’s novel within the social and political maelstrom leading to and following the Compromise of 1850.
“(A)n Unfit Medium for the Truth:”Race, Power and the Role of the English Language in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
In my paper I will argue that English language discourse is the basis on which the national power dynamic is established in the post-apartheid South Africa of the novel and that Lurie’s failure to recognize this change of power engenders his misjudgment of Petrus and others characters.
‘Another Biennial Is Possible’: A Study of the Transformations of the 13th Istanbul Biennial
This paper investigates the transformative potentials of a contemporary art biennial through a case study of the 13th Istanbul Biennial. Through a qualitative analysis of documents and in-depth interviews, this study will extrapolate contextual obligations that prompted the thirteenth edition to restructure the exhibition format and discursive platforms in the aftermath of the Gezi Resistance, a widespread social movement.
Art, Christianity, and the Reconstruction of Social Identities in Oyon Area (Lima Region, Peru)
An analysis of the spaces generated by religious networks in the central Andes can give an useful insight into the creation of new social identities (such as ‘Indians’, ‘villagers’, ‘brethren’, or ‘idolaters’) that accompanied the first evangelization of the area and the – often brutal - campaigns for the extirpation of local beliefs.
