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
Femininity as Performance in Carson McCullers’ ‘The Ballad of the Sad Café’, ‘The Member of the Wedding’ and ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’
Relying on Judith Butler’s theory of femininity as performance, the paper is concerned with highlighting the disparity between gender and sex, femininity and femaleness, in the Southern author’s fiction.
Deviant Behaviors in the Albanian Society
this perspective tends to contribute to explain deviant behavior of Albanian society during the transition period.
Identity and Antagonism in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
This paper examines the assumptions and qualities attached to Azerbaijan and the future of Nagorno Karabakh in the newspaper Respublika Armenia during four crucial periods for the conflict in the last decade.
Shedding Critical Light on Italy’s Labour Market Reform 2012 – A Historical-Materialist Policy Analysis
This contribution stems from a broader research project dealing with how the crisis in its various developments (economic and financial crisis, sovereign debt crisis, Eurozone crisis) has been discursively construed and politically managed in Italy. Its aim is to investigate the controversial labour market reform passed in 2012 as a concrete political project instrumental to the (re-)production of hegemony in the Italian crisis context.
The “Bilbao Effect” – Closer Look Behind Transition and Change in an Urban Image and Reality: The Conceptual Base Behind the Turnaround of the Basque Economy and Society
The paper and its presentation shall underline the economic theory aspects together with an outline of the concepts co-ordinated as a holistic approach to sustainable economic development – plus the narration of "how it all happened" and how easy the same approach can be applied – and improved everywhere by tailoring it to local culture and pride as resource of distinction.
Identity and the Call to History in Contemporary Novels: The Arabian Gulf Novels as a Model
This paper is an attempt to examine the features of historical writing in the contemporary Arabic novels by focusing on identity.
Purism: Meta-Politicized Concrescence and Critique
This paper culminates in an attempt to recuperate Purism from the traditional Modernist perspective according the subject an objective socio-political structure through the Post-Modernist critique of specialization asserted by Jürgen Habermas.
Performing the Abject: Volatile Moments of Identity in Sarah Kane’s ‘Phaedra’s Love’
Kane’s plays open up possibilities to theatrically overcome the fragmentation of the subject in the acceptance of its abject condition as “mortal and speaking” and for audiences to perceive identity through the means of performance on stage.
Re-imagining Identity: Revisiting Hanif Kureishi´s ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’
My article invites the reader, then, to conceive contemporary identity -and consequently the nation-in affective terms, namely as a “space of linkages, synchronicities and equivalences that far surpasses the solipsism of cultural diversity.
Against Precarity, Towards Real Democracy. Kaleckian Perspective on Basic Income
The paper investigates the potential influence of universal basic income on national Gross Domestic Product and the level of income inequalities. It uses Michał Kalecki's equations that show relations between fundamental macroeconomic factors in the national economy (like GDP, wage/profit share, budget deficit, private investment, etc.) to verify and refute some of the common objections to basic income.
