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 French Mental Mapping of East Central Europe and the Pursuit of France’s Milieu Goals (1871-1925)
The purpose of this contribution is to explain the origins, the main actors and the distinct features of the mental mapping process the led to the reviving of French interest in this region, first through the lenses of dedicated scholars and eventually through the strategies of foreign policy makers.
Between Switzerland and Serbia: An Anthropological Look at Cross Discourses on “Otherness” and Their Epistemological Implications for the Researcher
By problematizing the discourses revolving around my main topic of research, in Switzerland and in Serbia, I will be able to raise some questions (1) about some cross representations between these two countries geographically close but at the same time culturally distant (a persistent dichotomy between the ‘Western’ and the ‘Eastern’ Europes) and (2) about the epistemological implications of the anthropologist’s origins in the anthropological objet construction process.
Voices from the (Semi)Peripheries: East and Central European Debates on European Identity
This (semi)peripheral Europe can offer courageous solutions in the process of building European community not as an exclusive but inclusive model. Let’s look back into (semi)peripheral histories to find voices of the marginalized and to find new Europe.
Regaining Dignity in Europe
Can we talk about regaining dignity in eastern Europe? Is there indeed a collective dignity? In my opinion there are certain political systems in which it is impossible to maintain dignity. The question remains: If such a system is over does dignity reappear automatically?
Have You Ever Travelled on a Polish Passport…?!” – Reflections in Women’s Writing on the Experience of Transnational Movement Post 1989
This paper focuses on Eastern European women’s reflections on the experience of transnational movement post 1989, combining selected examples of women’s writing, such as novels, memoirs and autobiographies.
A “Laboratory of Twilight” Versus a “Pub in Bořivojova Street”: Demystifying the Czech Myth and Decentring Central Europe in Emil Hakl’s Of Kids and Parents (O rodičích a dětech)
Of Kids and Parents exposes the absurdities embedded within the common question in the Czech language “So what’s new?” [“Tak copak je nového?”] and within any attempt to fix and fixate on the “central/periphery” dichotomy as readers.
A Success Story, or How the East Jumped Over Its Economic Shadow
This presentation inquires about the suspicious and deceitful nature of re-inventing of the East as a model for the South. Conflict and poverty still have a strong grip over the REBeLL states, but there is indeed an economic capitalist stake in framing this reality as a success story to be followed by the PIIGS.
Jan Patočka via Jacques Derrida: Phenomenology, Deconstruction and the European Eidos
The paper aims to interpret the critical relation between Derrida’s concept of the appeal ‘to-come’ and Patočka’s pursuit of the ‘soul’ for Europe.
A ‘Greater Europe’ – Constructions of a Collective Identity in the Council of Europe
This paper essentially addresses Europe’s process of self-discovery in the Council of Europe during its first years of consultation, from its founding in 1949 until the establishment of the European Economic Community. By means of a historical discourse analysis the different discourses (de-)constructing a collective identity have been analyzed.
The Politicization of the European Identity
The politicization of European identity in international scientific circles is more of a question as a practical reality versus efforts of the Union for Americanization of the European cultural space that imposes globalization to the values of culture, especially within the media arena.
