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
Changing Identities of the Baltic States: Three Memories in Stone
This paper aims to inquire the nation-building processes in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since their breakaway from the USSR. To do so, I will use the analysis of one of the important components of the identity - the sense of place or, more specifically, the role of the statues and monuments in its construction. Disputes around the removal of the ‘Bronze Soldier’ can be seen as one of the many examples of the ability of monuments (and statues) to evoke particular kinds of feelings in people when only few remained indifferent to the whole matter.
I Could Be Your Hero, Baby! Political Cartoon Representations of the European Union as Part of the Community Construction Narratives
The aim of this paper is, with the help of political cartoons collected across EU member states over five years, to answer the question: ‘Who binds Europeans together?’ Is there a collective European consensus on its leaders suggesting collective identification of/with the leaders? Do EU member states collectively exploit the same past and myths to describe the political reality of today? And if so, what does it say about collective construction of a European identity?
Cities Across Nations
This discourse on transnationalism from the architectural point of view served as an important vehicle for the postwar project of European integration. In the search for a European peace after the Second World War, architectural visions emerged that promised to provide a no-man´s land of international cooperation.
“Wassup in Lisbon?” – Urban Art as City Marketing
This paper objectives an extensive analysis of GAU’s involvement with these artistic practices according to two vectors: the promotion of non curated or spontaneous urban art as legalized and validated artistic practices; and, on the other hand, the marketing strategies to promote the city as a hub or a laboratory for artists and even, tourists.
Local Practices of Accommodation and Immigrants’ Civic and Political Participation in Reggio Emilia, Bologna, and Florence
The study offers an in-depth study and a comparison of three cities in Northern Italy: Reggio Emilia, Bologna, and Florence. It uncovers variations in the accommodation practices in these cities and shows that, when local stakeholders support practices of inclusion, they encourage significant levels of civic and political participation by immigrants and immigrant associations.
Groupuscular Identification In Informational Network of Estonian Far Right
Our main contribution would be the complementation of the concept of groupuscule with the ideas of Tartu-Moscow school of cultural semiotics. By the essential theoretical frameworks of cultural semiotics – autocommunication and core/periphery – we would like to demonstrate the communication of different units of groupucsular network and the formation of temporary inter- and intra-groupuscular hierarchies.
Cosmopolitanism and World Culture as the Psychological Expressions of Supra-National Identities
We claim that cosmopolitan tendencies are determined by the structure of our psyche and throughout this are the congenital aspirations of people all over the world and the basis for supra-national identities to form.
Storytelling: The Virtuous Circle of Narrative Contributing to Identity Building and Transmission
I will emphasize that the individual shapes himself in relation to the other and to other people, relying on Ricoeur’s work. But at the same time, these different individuals constitute a same group and approve a common tale, constituted by elements that form the popular imagination. I will demonstrate that we are in a "narrative virtuous circle" at the disposal of the identity, both in its building and in its transmission. A virtuous circle formed by collective and individual narratives nourishing and building each other, to the benefit of collective and individual identity. Our question, concretely, how does story build individual identity?
The Subject of Politics: The Non-Identificational Aspects of Occupy Wall Street
In the paper I will examine how and if the protesters have managed to hold on to their non-identitarian, generic and evental positions. I will use the theories of Alain Badiou (especially the concept of ‘event’) and Giorgio Agamben (the biopolitical structure of inclusive exclusion). As an almost perfect example of emancipatory political movement, Occupy Wall Street could enable us to evaluate Badiou’s and Agamben’s concepts when put in an empirical context.
‘Theology’ of Liberty: Identity Politics to Methodological Individualism
I argue that we need a qualitative intellectual leap, moving away from methodological nationalism to a new mode of thinking, which for the sake of an argument I metaphorically label ‘theology’ of liberty - a healthy bias in favor of individual liberty. I argue that part of the problem is that Western social scholars and policy makers continue thinking in the 20th-century categories of ‘big is beautiful’(statism and collectivism).
