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
A Social Practice: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern Italy
For my paper, I would like to discuss the culture of collecting as a social practice in early modern Italy. Collecting came to be an important practice for Italian elites in the fifteenth-century courts, from both a cultural as well as a political point of view.
Sculpting a National Identity Abroad: Constantin Meunier (1831-1905) in Paris
This paper elucidates on the case of the Belgian sculptor Constantin Meunier and his success in France, and demonstrates the role and importance of art critical magazines in the reporting and moulding of an artist’s national and international identity.
Fin-de-siècle Frenchness: Discontent and Aliénation Spécifique in the Case of Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
his paper seeks out to discuss Degas’s political and artistic stance and his cultural nationalism in the Parisian Belle Epoque, and argues that, despite the weight of the case against him, Degas’s reputation should be revised in the interests of historical accuracy.
Aesthetics of Identity in Media Art
My paper sets out to investigate the aesthetics of identity representations in works of media art. Starting point is the observation that a considerable number of artists’ videos and experimental films depict the artists’ own lives by retrospectively arranging contingent events into a plot that simulates the coherent development of a self-contained individual.
Capturing the Ordinary? Irena Blühová and Photographic Modernism in Slovakia 1926-1936
This paper assesses the reasons why Blühová could have taken the step to decrease the socio-political angling of her work in favour of more ethnographic motifs- despite the fact that she remained an important activist for the Communist Party in Slovakia.
The Artificial Self/Selves? Unfixed and Manifold Identity in Leonor Fini’s Art and Design
This paper seeks to demonstrate the ways in which Fini challenged normative ideas of the self through an in-depth exploration of two of Fini’s costume projects for the theatre, and the way in which the motifs present in these designs appear across her oeuvre.
Duane Michals, Writing with Photography: Hybrid Prints – A Pun of Text and Images?
The aim of this paper is to state how this historical shift of the sixties made it possible for artists to develop new artistic ways of communication but also to open to today's artistic world.
The Aesthetic Consummation of Identity and the Pleasure of Identification
Using Bakhtin's theory of aesthetic consummation of identity, I will argue that such acts of consumption are ways to be as complete and simple as a fictional character within a postmodern world in which true meaning might be hard to find.
Gestalt, Perception, Distinction, Identity and Identification – Semiotics Applied in the Qualitative Specification of Objectives for Design Processes: The Power of Distinction and Non-Verbal Communication through Gestalt and Facts
Coming from "Information-Aestetics" and "Psychology of Perception", "Gestalt" and, moreover „Gestaltung" as well as "Artefacts" are interpreted as key-words for briefing "Design". As far as "Design as a Management-Tool for Success", the paper hints upon potentials of applied semiotics as methodical techniques and its inclusion in academic and extracurricular teaching. But, moreover, it links qualitative specification of objectives to sustainable management.
Design Education: New Challenges for the 21st Century
The world has become complex, but designers are requested to assume responsibility for the creation of a better world. Any problem of any kind is to be resolved by Design, and Design produces objects. This is why one has to start from scratch, incorporating the humanist focus into Design education. And this is the model, which to which we are dedicated since already 40 years.
