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
Collective Memory, Identity and Inter-Group Conflict
The proposed paper aims to explore the extent to which individuals with a common sense of identification are influenced by transgenerational memories of trauma in the presence of intergroup bias and prejudice. Important considerations include the impact of regeneration of negative ‘other’ perceptions in the various generations constructed via transmission of conflict memories.
The Impacts of Transmitted Memories of Conflict in Post-conflict Societies and Dynamics of Reconciliation: The Case of Cyprus
The proposed paper while examining the out-group perceptions of Turkish Cypriots towards Greek Cypriots, tries to give up-to-date information about the impact of transgenerational transmission of traumatic memories on the reconciliation process in Cyprus.
Fear, Anger and Identity. The Dynamics of Forced Social Displacement: The Case of the EU
The paper has two closely related objectives. The first is to present a basic model of the dynamics of humiliation processes, including a range of potential responses to attempted humiliation, both ‘yielding’ and ‘challenging’ in character. The second objective is to explore some of the specific patterns of response found in particular national cases such as Ireland, Greece, Spain and Italy.
The Language of Reification: Mediating Exilic Identities in Post-Yugoslavian Literatures
In this paper, I argue that the negotiation between worlds is realized in exilic literatures which moderate the ways in which language, despite the multiplicities of meaning it engenders, may be used as a self-reflexive testament of exile. My analysis will focus on David Albahari’s Bait, Dzevad Karahasan’s Sarajevo, Exodus of a City, and Dubravka Ugresic’s The Ministry of Pain.
Understanding the Role of Identity Within Processes of Remembrance Using Experimental Approaches in Social and Cognitive Psychology
By acquiring a greater understanding of the factors involved in transmission of memorial renderings between individuals at a group identity level from an experimental psychological perspective, we hope to understand further the implications of these processes for conflict and its resolution.
Phantasy of Sameness of an Other: Impact of Imagination on Collective Memory in Conflict
The paper will suggest strong links between conflict (de)escalation and communication by exploring how groups make sense of the unknown (the new reality of intergroup conflict and its changing dynamics, or appearance of new groups) through known within intragroup communication.
Dream of a Borderless World: The Castaway Identity in a Vortex of Conflict
This presentation engages European converts to Islam as people who cross the river of identity. For some it is a simple process of crossing and not looking back while for others it is rather like standing over the river with each foot on a different bank. Others, however, being pushed and pulled from both sides, end up in the murky waters of uncertain belonging.
Nationbuilding in Nascent South Sudan – How to Remember the War
Processes of national identity formation in post-colonial Africa have typically followed a similar trajectory: (1) state-led top-down proclamations of inclusive nationalism combined with oppression of alternative, mostly ethnic loyalties; (2) resurgence of ethnic sentiment due to the state’s failure to deliver benefits and deserve adherence; (3) rise of discourses of autochthony and exclusionary politics of belonging. In this context, the process of collective identity formation in newly independent South Sudan is a highly intriguing case study of nation-building.
The New Narcissus: Identity Construction through Self-Portraiture
I will address how men and women in the arts represent themselves, and the gender and power implications behind their “portraiture.” For example, men tend to assert notions of power through their visual domination of objects, possessions, or people, which has a long tradition in art history. By contrast, women who have achieved significant professional status tend to portray themselves using signifiers of autonomy, for which there is little visual precedent.
Constructing New Identities: Images of Socialist Realism and Contemporary Fine Art in Post-Communist Bulgaria
Through a comparative case study of two artists whose art spanned the Communist and Post-communist era (Svetlin Rusev and Ivan Georgiev), the paper scrutinizes the interpretations of the work and biographies of ‘official’ and alternative artists as one of the main trends that impede the critical debate on Socialist Realism. Their works are discussed in relation to the new visual modes of articulation and the ‘lost identities’.
