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
Media Communicative Discourse and Identity Crises: EU and USA
Today one of the most discussed questions is the crisis of identity. This problem is popular both among scholars and publicity, which means that there are a lot of approaches to the question. We suppose that one of the key moments in the research of this crisis is connected with media discourse and two types of identity – ‘open and closed’.
Transformation of German-European Identity in the Euro-Zone Crisis: Empirical Study of Public Opinion in Germany
The main research questions of this contribution are whether the euro zone crisis has already had an impact on the perception of the relationship between national and European dimension of the collective identity in German public opinion and whether this relationship is becoming more or less complementary. The research is based on the quantitative data from attitudinal surveys and its proper interpretation following from the appropriate set of statistical analyses.
The (Re)Construction of Identities in the Diaspora: Religion, Ritual and the ‘Ethnic Package’ of Immigrants from Guinea-Bissau in Portugal
Using as case study death rituals of immigrants from Guinea-Bissau in Portugal, this paper will expand on what takes place in the diaspora, and how the religious cognitive worlds and identities are reconstructed to accommodate a situation where people, goods and spirits travel across the ocean to act in people´s lives.
Politicized Collective Identity of Muslims and Arabs in American Media.
The present study involves a critical discourse analysis of the language used in reference to the Muslim and Arab communities in the programming of two American television stations, CNN and Fox News. As statistical background for the qualitative analysis, a corpus study representing semantic prosody of the tokens 'Muslim', 'Islam' and 'Arab' is added.
The Solomon Islands ‘Ethnic’ Conflict – Considering the Malaitan and Gwale Identities
The aim of this paper is to raise relevant issues pertaining to the use of ethnicity within a Melanesian context, providing a discussion of the historical inclinations towards locally based identity and the problems with wholesale use of ‘ethnicity’ to explain Malaitan identity in Solomon Islands. Overall, this paper seeks to fill a gap within literature to discuss whether the social facts of Malaitan identity align with recent attempts at a universal definition of ethnicity.
Neglected Peripheries: Discovering Hybridity in Transylvania
The aim of the paper is to argue for an alternative perspective which can address the neglected phenomena of ‘ethnic hybridity’ or ‘hybrid identities’ arising from ambiguities of identification and belonging in the ‘peripheries’ of Transylvania.
The Economic Crisis as a Platform for Developing Regional Identity Discourses in the Context of Spain. A Case Study of Andalusia and Catalonia
The present paper aims to analyze the reflexive relation between the regional identity discourse and the rhetorical references to the current economic crisis and social problems. Using the socio-constructivist theoretical approach and the methodological apparatus consisting of the content and critical discourse analysis I will investigate the basic strategies of categorization and identification included in the public speeches of selected Catalan and Andalusian politicians.
In Search of Identity: Burgenland-Croatian Perspective
Our paper aims to give an insight into the strategies of identity construction in this Croatian community. The main issues we are dealing with are “collective” versus “individual” Burgenland Croatian identity, how this identity or these identities are constructed and what lies “beneath”. The corpus comprises materials collected when conducting a study on German-Croatian language contacts in Burgenland, notes and observations made in Burgenland.
Aztec Identity Narratives: From Aztlán to the D.F.
This paper investigates the problematization of Aztec identity (its constant erasure and re-inscription since the Middle Postclassic Period) through a structuralist assessment of ritual in late PostClassic and Aztec colonial manuscripts. It culminates in equally problematic notions of the resultant Mexican identity manifest in the Mexican visual arts of the twentieth century.
Living Together or Next to Each Others? Everyday Ethnicity in the Town of Chernivtsi in Western Ukraine
In my presentation, I want to show why and when ethnicity matters for ordinary citizens of Chernivtsi and how it is connected with the existence of the so-called ‘cosmopolitan myth’ connected with the long, diverse and multicultural history of Bukovyna region and its belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
