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
Nostalgia for a Great Past
Tarkovsky in person repeated this assessment not less bluntly in interviews and discussions. Notwithstanding this apparent scepticism, he endeavoured to create a true artistic unity between an important Italian work of art and an important Russian work of poetry: the “Madonna del Parto” (c.1465) by Piero della Francesca and the poem “Ptichka – Little Bird” by Aleksander Pushkin.
Merging the Political into the Personal: Identity Formation Narratives in Anayurt Oteli (The Motherland Hotel)
This presentation focuses on analyzing multi-layered narrative structure of the novel in order to discuss how Zebercet's personal story is transformed into the realm of discussing how political symbols of social transformation demarcate personal identities and how the personal becomes a metaphor to understand the formation of political collective identities.
A Review of Andrzej Stasiuk’s Image of Europe
Stasiuk designs his personal Central Europe, his mała ojczyzna, in the sense of a mental map. He prefers peripheral border areas between Poland and ist Eastern neighbours to centres like Warsaw. Although Stasiuk doubtlessly adds some interesting aspects to the discourse about Europe, his ideas can only serve as an intermediate stage in it. Those who look for seminal ideas will be disappointed.
The Unexpected Persistence of Stereotypes: On the East-West Distinction in the Work of Dubravka Ugrešić
My argument is that Ugrešić’s critical writings and by extension many other cultural representations – despite the sophisticated attempts to subvert the East-West distinction and the concomitant stereotypes – reinforce the very stereotypes they try to deconstruct. In conclusion, this paper sheds new light on the concrete functioning and persistence of stereotypes in texts where these very stereotypes are undermined by critical, anti-essentialist intellectuals. Indeed, precisely there where we would not immediately expect them.
European Market Integration and the Determinants of Firm Localization – The Case of Poland
The paper analyses empirically the determinants of firms’ localization in Poland. We use regional data of the sixteen Polish administrative regions over the period 2003 to 2010 to examine which role agglomeration forces and other factors played in explaining the choice to operate in a certain location. Our results suggest that agglomeration economies stemming in particular from the R&D sector, as well as human capital and the infrastructure positively influence the regional localization of firms. Poland’s accession to the European Union had a positive impact for the location decision of new firms in the Polish economy.
Central East European Countries’ Accession into the European Union: Role of the Extensive Margin for Trade in Intermediate and Final Goods
We study the effect on trade in intermediates and final goods of the Central East European countries’ (CEECs) accession into the European Union (EU) for the period 1999-2009. In doing so, we estimate a gravity model that incorporates the extensive margin of trade and accounts for firm heterogeneity. We capture the importance of production networks by including imports of intermediates as a determinant of a country’s exports of final goods. We find a positive and significant effect of the CEECs-accession on EU trade in intermediate and final goods.
FDI, Growth and Structural Change in Eastern Europe
In this paper we look at the growth enhancement and growth retardation of major Central and East European countries (CEEC) during the last decade or so. We observe large advances in growth rates, in the early part of the 2000s, and then a rapid contraction after 2008. This rise and fall in economic growth is mirrored by the corresponding rise and fall of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).
Production Networks in Europe: A Natural Experiment of the EU Enlargement to the East
This paper focuses on the 2004 enlargement of the European Union to the East and treats it as a natural experiment to investigate two issues:first, whether there has been a trade creation effect in final and intermediate goods and second, to what extent this effect has been more pronounced for final or for intermediate goods.
Strategies of Cultural Resistance to EUropeanisation in Eastern Europe and its Margins
The paper discusses the strategies of cultural resistance to EUropeanisation in Eastern Europe (the cases of Romania and Poland) and its margins (the case of Georgia). Based on the in-depth interviews and focus groups with Romanian, Polish and Georgian youth, the author argues that the EUropeanisation discourses display ambivalent identities that constantly negotiate between the EUropeanising forces and the national.
Qualitative and Quantitative Changes in Migration from the Countries of the Former Soviet Union to Germany and Norway
The migration from the countries of former Soviet Union brought to Germany and Norway thousands of migrants between 1990 and 2013. The report is based on the results from field research on Russian speaking migrants in Norway and Germany, conducted by the authors during 2008-2010 (qualitative and quantitative), continuing of this research in 2012-2013 (qualitative), as well as the data from the relevant statistical and empirical sources.
