Event date April 18-20, 2013
Short description
Euroacademia cordially invites you to The Euroacademia International Conference ‘Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities’
Conference description:
Identity is one of the crown jewelleries in the kingdom of ‘contested concepts’. The idea of identity is conceived to provide some unity and recognition while it also exists by separation and differentiation. Few concepts were used as much as identity for contradictory purposes. From the fragile individual identities as self-solidifying frameworks to layered in-group identifications in families, orders, organizations, religions, ethnic groups, regions, nation-states, supra-national entities or any other social entities, the idea of identity always shows up in the core of debates and makes everything either too dangerously simple or too complicated. Constructivist and de-constructivist strategies have led to the same result: the eternal return of the topic. Some say we should drop the concept, some say we should keep it and refine it, some say we should look at it in a dynamic fashion while some say it’s the reason for resistance to change.
NEW PANELS:
- Performing Identity: The Relationship between Identity and Performance in Literature, Theatre and the Performing Arts(Panel Proposed by Pollyn Chrysochou, The University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Identity in the Visual(Panel Proposed by Daniela Chalániová, Anglo-American University, Prague)
- External Constitution-building and Ethnic Identity(ies): Between Norm and Exclusion. Looking for Alternatives(Panel Proposed by Nicasia Picciano, University of Flensburg, Germany)
- Memory and Forgetting: The Politics of Group Identity Formation in Conflicts(Panel Proposed by Pinar Kadioglu, University of St. Andrews, UK)
Geographical focus
- Albania
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Croatia
- Danube Region
- Europe
- European Union (EU 27)
- Macedonia
- General/no specific focus
- International; Other
- Kosovo
- Montenegro
- SEE
- Serbia
- WBC
Deadline for Paper Proposals: 1-st March, 2013
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