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 Latvian National Museum of Art: Dialogues on the Basis of European History
In 2014 Riga will become the European Capital of Culture, and the various events that are being planned will offer a unique opportunity to reveal the fact that Latvia and its capital city belong to the common values of European culture. One of the projects of the Latvian National Museum of Art will be an exhibition, “1914,” which will be dedicated to World War I and the countries which gained independence during that period.
The EUPM Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Is the EU a Human Security Provider?
The paper seeks to shed light on the EU as a human security provider, an emerging issue-area of enquiry that records a relatively growing academic literature.
EU – LEX Kosovo: Alterity Shaping Capability Questioned?
While going through the extensive literature on state - building, the author aims at providing new hermeneutic lenses for a better understanding of why EU civilian missions are incapable of addressing the complexity of an ethno - politicized environment Kosovo - like, and how they may better equipped to deal with it.
Me and You and Europe: A Metaphorical Analysis of Eastern and Western European Countries’ Relationship with the European Union
The goal of this paper is to interpret and compare the Eastern and the Western, the old and the new members’ relationship with the European Union, based on a metaphoric analysis of political cartoon discourse in Czech Republic, Slovakia, United Kingdom and Germany.
Party Discourse about European Future: Political Parties, Elections, Manifestos and Metaphors
This paper opts for a different approach to study the party positions on European integration, an approach based on the analysis of metaphors used by political parties in the discourse about the future form of European integration.
Citizens Without Names: What is the Impact of the Runevič – Vardyn Litigation on European Integration in Poland and Lithuania?
The paper seek to establish how EU law can overcome the challenges posed by Eastern Europe’s different constitutional realities by focusing on EU citizenship and its potential role as a catalyst for integration.
The Bektashi Order: The Development of Bektashi Order among the Albanian Speaking Population in the Balkan Region
While referring to Albanians, many politicians and journalists in Europe and abroad have a tendency to mention that Albanian population in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia are more or less Muslims. Unfortunately nowadays the world understands that to be a Muslim for sure means the same as the orthodox Muslims in Iraq or Afghanistan. But the reality is absolutely different.
The ‘Foreign Enemy’ in the Archives: Constructing the ‘Communist’ Enemy in the Discourse of Political Detention in Romania
This paper is not about the history of communist political detention in Romania per se. I am not after finding and establishing ‘facts’ about the way the detention system functioned. Instead, I examine how historical ‘facts’ about communist detention are constructed and how ethnic and gender categories are produced and reproduced along the way.
Communism and Social-Democracy in Search for a Common Vision of Europe
Drawing on recently declassified archives, this paper argues that Nicolae Ceausescu, leader of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR), adopted the Italian theses and tried to approach Socialists and Social-Democrats in Western Europe, much to Moscow's discontent.
Imagining Post-World War II East-Central Europe from the Perspective of Romanian Diplomacy
The paper approaches East-Central Europe from the perspective of Romanian diplomacy. Caught between East and West during the World War II and with the perspective of a Soviet occupation regime looming ahead, the Romanian Government formed a body of experts to prospect the future setting of Europe.
