BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Third Euroacademia International Conference ‘Re-Inventing E astern Europe’ - Speaker to be confirmed DTSTART:20140328T090000Z DTEND:20140328T200000Z UID:TALK51024@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:36859 DESCRIPTION:Dear Colleagues\,\nPlease find below the Call for Papers for T he Third Euroacademia International Conference ‘Re-Inventing Eastern Eur ope’\, to be held in Berlin\, Germany in 28th and 29th of March 2014. Fe el free to forward and disseminate this call to all your colleagues\, peer s and collaborators who might be interested. Thank you in advance!\n\n\nEu roacademia cordially invites you to The Third Euroacademia International C onference \n‘Re-Inventing Eastern Europe’\n\nCall for Panels and Paper s\nThe Third Euroacademia International Conference: Re-Inventing Eastern E urope\n28 – 29 March 2014\, \n4* Superior Berlin Hotel\nBerlin\, Germany \n\n\nDeadline for Panel Proposals: 10 February 2014\nDeadline for Paper P roposals: 25 February 2014\nhttp://euroacademia.eu/conference/third-reinve nting-eastern-europe/ \n\nConference Description:\n\nThe Third Euroacademi a International Conference ‘Re-Inventing Eastern Europe’ aims to make a case and to provide alternative views on the dynamics\, persistence and manifestations of practices of alterity making that take place in Europe a nd broadly in the mental mappings of the world. It offers an opportunity f or scholars\, activists and practitioners to identify\, discuss\, and deba te the multiple dimensions in which specific narratives of alterity making towards Eastern Europe preserve their salience today in re-furbished and re-fashioned manners. The conference aims to look at the processes of alte rity making as puzzles and to address the persistence of the East-West dic hotomies.\n\nNot a long time ago\, in 2010\, a British lady was considered bigoted by Gordon Brown upon asking ‘Where do all these Eastern Europea ns come from?’. Maybe\, despite her concern with the dangers of immigrat ion for Britain\, the lady was right in showing that such a question still awaits for answers in Europe. The ironic thing however is that a first an swer to such a question would point to the fact that the Eastern Europeans come from the Western European imaginary. As Iver Neumann puts it\, ‘re gions are invented by political actors as a political programme\, they are not simply waiting to be discovered’. And\, as Larry Wolff skilfully sh owed\, Eastern Europe is an invention emanated initially from the intellec tual agendas of the elites of the Enlightenment that later found its peak of imaginary separation during the Cold War.\nThe Economist\, explicitly c onsidered Eastern Europe to be wrongly labelled and elaborated that ‘it was never a very coherent idea and it is becoming a damaging one’. The E U enlargement however\, was expected to make the East – West division ob solete under the veil of a prophesized convergence. That would have finall y proven the non-otologic\, historically contingent and unhappy nature of the division of Europe and remind Europeans of the wider size of their con tinent and the inclusive and empowering nature of their values. Yet still\ , 20 years after the revolutions in the Central and Eastern European count ries\, Leon Mark\, while arguing that the category of Eastern Europe is ou tdated and misleading\, bitterly asks a still relevant question: ‘will E urope ever give up the need to have an East?’\nEastern Europe was invent ed as a region and continues to be re-invented from outside and inside. Fr om outside its invention was connected with alterity making processes\, an d\, from inside the region\, the Central and Eastern European countries go t into a civilizational beauty contest themselves in search of drawing the most western profile: what’s Central Europe\, what’s more Eastern\, w hat’s more Ottoman\, Balkan\, Byzantine\, who is the actual kidnapped ki d of the West\, who can build better credentials by pushing the Easterness to the next border. A wide variety of scholars addressed the western narr atives of making the Eastern European other as an outcome of cultural poli tics of enlightenment\, as an effect of EU’s need to delineate its borde rs\, as an outcome of its views on security \, or as a type of ‘oriental ism’ or post-colonialism. Most of these types of approaches are still us eful in analyzing the persistence of a East-West slope. The region is unde rstood now under a process of convergence\, socialization and Europeanizat ion that will have as outcomes an ‘ever closer union’ where the East a nd the West will fade away as categories. Yet the reality is far from such an outcome while the persistence of categories of alterity making towards the ‘East’ is not always dismantled. The discourse on core-periphery\ , new Europe/old Europe is rather gaining increasing ground in the arena o f European identity narratives often voiced by the EU. \n\n\nThe conferenc e is organized yet by no means restricted to the following orientative pan els::\n\nThe Agenda of the Enlightenment: Inventing Eastern Europe ● Eur ope East and West: On the Persistence of the Division ● Reviewing Altern ative Modernities: East and West ● Writing About the East in West ● Wr iting about the West in East ● The Eastern European ‘Other’ Inside t he European Union ● Mental mappings on Eastern Europe ● People-ing the Eastern Europeans ● Geopolitical views on the East-West Division ● Po st-colonial readings of Eastern Europe ● Making Borders to the East: Gen ealogies of Othering ● Inclusion/Exclusion Nexuses ● Myths and Misconc eptions on Eastern Europe ● Core Europe/Non-Core Europe ● Central Euro pe vs. Eastern Europe ● Reading the Past: On Memory and Memorialization ● Eastern Europe and the Crises ● Assessing Convergence in Eastern Eur ope ● Explaining Divergence in Eastern Europe ● Central and Eastern Eu rope and the EU ● Scenarios for the Future of Eastern Europe ● Eastern Europe and asymmetries of Europeanization ● Axiological framings of Eas tern Europe ● Eastern Europe in Western Literature ● Re-making Eastern Europe: Pushing the Easterness to the Next Border ● From the Ottoman Em pire to Russia: Cultural Categories in the Making of Eastern Europe ● Go West! Migration from Eastern Europe and Experiences of ‘Othering’ ● Lifestyles and the Quotidian Peculiarities of the Invented East ● Visua l Representation of Eastern Europe in Film: From Dracula to Barbarian King s ● Guidebooks for the Savage Lands: Representations of Eastern Europe i n Travel Guides ● Urban Landscapes in Eastern Europe ● Changing Politi cs and the Transformation of Cities ● Eastern Europe and Artistic Moveme nts\n\nParticipant's Profile\nThe conference is addressed to academics\, r esearchers and professionals with a particular interest in Eastern Europe from all parts of the world. Post-graduate students\, doctoral candidates and young researchers are welcome to submit an abstract. Representatives o f INGOs\, NGOs\, Think Tanks and activists willing to present their work w ith impact on or influenced by specific understandings of Europe are welco med as well to submit the abstract of their contribution.\n\nAbstracts wil l be reviewed and accepted based on their proven quality. The submitted pa per is expected to be in accordance with the lines provided in the submitt ed abstract.\n\nSelected papers will be published in an electronic volume with ISBN after the confirmation of the authors and a double peer-review p rocess based on an agreed publication schedule. All the papers selected fo r publication should be original and must not have been published elsewher e. All participants to the conference will receive a copy of the volume.\n \nDEADLINE FOR 300 WORDS ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION IS 25TH OF FEBRUARY 2014\n\n \nThe 300 word abstracts and the affiliation details should be submitted i n Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats\, following this order:\n1) author(s )\, 2) affiliation\, 3) email address\, 4) title of abstract\, 5) body of abstract 6) preferred panel or proposed panel\n\nThe abstract and details can be sent to application@euroacademia.eu with the name of the conference specified in the subject line or through the on-line application form ava ilable at www.euroacademia.eu \n\nWe will acknowledge the receipt of your proposal and answer to all paper proposals submitted. \n\nFor complete inf ormation before applying please see: \nhttp://euroacademia.eu/conference/t hird-reinventing-eastern-europe/ \n LOCATION:Hotel Berlin\,Lützowplatz 17\, Berlin\, Germany END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR