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
The Power of Naming and Subaltern Identities in Europe: Eastern Europe as Internal Other
The discourse on core-periphery, new Europe/old Europe is rather gaining increasing ground in the arena of European identity narratives voiced by the EU. This paper proposes an unfolding view of the EU as a sort of post-modern neo-medieval empire (Zielonka 2006) in which narratives of othering towards Central and Eastern Europe preserve their salience. The paper advances a research puzzle rather than making definitive statements.
Response to Recession through Life Satisfaction in Europe: One Voice or Many?
It is asserted that economic crises tend to be followed by crises in happiness. However, Europe does not react to crisis in a unified way. Some nations maintained their happiness despite difficult situation. It is hard to predict how countries will react to future events in Europe but it won’t be as “one voice”.
A Locus for European Identity? Understanding the Role of Historical Memory in Attitudes of the MEPs towards the House of European History
This paper explores perceptions of the MEPs towards the HEH, trough lenses of their own 'European identities' understanding to what extent is historical memory important for the construction of European identity. The analysis is based on a distinction between civic, cultural and instrumental components of identity.
A Typology of Political Identity in the Deepening Eurozone
New approaches and a new vocabulary are needed to express this problem in scholarly writing, political discourse and popular engagement. This paper presents a theoretical framework on multiple political identity and European integration developed to analyze variations in how national and European identifications are combined.Theory and Praxis of Romantic Anti-Capitalism
In my paper I would like to argue that the moral critique of capitalist society based on romantic conceptions is leading us nowhere; actually, as Georg Lukács points out, it is working as “indirect apologetics”. Taking the example of romantic anti-capitalism I would like to show that praxis is always based on theoretical assumptions, even if those are not conscious.
Performing Disabled Sensorial Extension and Subversion
What imaginative and metaphorical opportunities can be affixed to current standardized usages of the prosthesis within contemporary art practices if we consider the prosthesis as a sensorial extension in disabled artists’ performances? How do artists with impairments use material and ephemeral body extensions in embodied, performative acts?
The Racial and Ethnical Camp of Želimir Žilnik’s “Kenedi” Trilogy
Žilnik’s artistic strategy consists of fictional additions to the documentary material, through which he highlights the ethnical travesty and shifting of gender roles as survival strategies.
The Audacity of Place
This paper reflects on the performance and commodification of blackness and the translation of ‘cultural identity’ into currency. I propose to speak about 10 works of emerging South African artists whose work is neither placeless nor place bound and explores the trans-national reach of globalization, yet facilitate the stereotypic of black bodies in the harsh laws of spacing that reduce their narrative into fixed and static identities.
The Unbearable Lightness of Persepolis: The Allegorical Register of Melancholy and Nostalgia
This paper argues that the film presents a nostalgic, yet melancholic version of the past that does not seek to be didactic; it does not strive to give history lessons, but trigger critical response.
Social Causes and the Pursuit of Social Beliefs
How do we form beliefs? This is obviously an epistemological, thus philosophical, question. This paper explores the formation of social beliefs in particular, and the social causes that bring them about.
