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
Old Prejudice vs. New Paradigms: Eastern Europe – From the Frying Pan into the Fire? The Key to Stable Economy & Prosperity
with the fall of the "iron curtain", the impetus of US-American influences in Eastern Europe has promoted "new concepts" quickly adopted as misleading rules, which serve none of Europe's and its citizens interests. Less: Any of the long repressed interests, identities and individual social developments of East European peoples, based on the long repressed riches of their own ethnic and cultural identities: their own uniqueness and, thus, qualitative diversity.
Geobiosocial instead of Geobiopolitical Re-Inventing of Europe: New Approach to the Sociology of Europe
Re-inventing is necessary for the construction of Europe instead of its destruction. Eastern Europe can not be the periphery of the Western Europe, in the function of submission of the global capitalism system; old concept in the new form of the ultimatum of Western Europe towards Eastern Europe; EU-Directives demand re-inventing of the colonisation (attaching to the Western Europe, based on the power gained between the first and twenty-first centuries.
The Demystifying of the European Politics on Enlargement: The Case With the Republic of Macedonia
Even though the agreements are considered as a key determinant for the existence and functioning of the Union, the European practice shows that their influence is not as big as it is usually assumed.
Why “Yes” and Why “Not” Can Albania Be Europeanized. Actors and Factors
Why ‘yes’ and why ’not` can Albania be Europeanized? This paper seeks the answer by identifying and analyzing the actors and factors that errand the process of Europeanization in the country. Hence, while the net advantages of EU membership have an important systemic impact on the international and domestic performance of Albania, Europeanization associates with major problems in the country.
Bulgaria’s Inclusion into the Eastern Enlargement of the EU
The EU neglected Bulgarian slow progress in a few occasions and stated its position as equal as the other candidate states of Central and Eastern Europe. In this context, the political rhetoric about double standards in the EU Eastern enlargement is incorrect. The purpose of the presentation will be to survey Bulgarian inclusion in EU Eastern enlargement regardless of the delay in Bulgarian first step to Community.
Security and Integration Issues in the Relations between the European Union and the Western Balkans
This paper, therefore, aims to build a state of art about the question if the EU’s enlargement towards the Western Balkans may be seen as an example of the EU’s normative power with hegemonic content. This study does not ignore that there is major advantages of replacing the normative power concept by the concept of hegemony. Indeed the very meaning of the normative concept implies some hegemonic extent.
Diverging Security Belongings in Eastern Europe: Is a Security Community Possible?
The paper will examine the concrete outputs of the security belonging perception of these countries by analyzing their alliances with the other countries in the region, their membership of international organizations and their approach to the specific security challenges in a comparative perspective.
Presence, Absence, Distance and the Identity Manipulations – Berlin After the Wall
In my paper, I will tackle the issue of how public space and architecture are means, tools, witnesses and strong forms of expression in the political and social struggle. Just a few very strong but special examples show the powers, sides, interests that express many interesting and actual phenomena nowadays.
Budapest (Re)imagined: Creatively Examining Urban Street-Poster Aesthetics in Hungary’s Capital
My art practice involves exploring the city’s walls and urban spaces, photographing and collecting scraps of torn posters. I then use this documentation as a starting point for exploration: I recontextualize the collected information, often by using traditional poster-printing techniques such as lithography, or silkscreen-printing. Then I reintroduce this transformed information back into the urban environment by pasting my own posters or photographs back into the environment, or by installing larger works or performances in urban settings.
The Colored Democracy of Edi Rama: Art and Beauty as Forms of Political Action
Rama, first an artist, second the mayor of Tirana and last the Prime Minister of Albania, chose the color, art and beauty as devices to renew the hope among his people and he was right. Through this policy of the arts Edi Rama has been able to give new life to Tirana: citizens, surrounded by beauty, feel now safer and they have found their civic identity as well as they have developed a strong sense of belonging to the urban community.
