[ecrea] CfP 7th International Conference 'Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers'

*The 7th International Conference *
*‘Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers’*
*28^– 29 April 2017, **Porto, /Portugal/*
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CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS
DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: *15^th of March 2017*
Conference Description
Europe became in the 20^th century an elaborated yet contested notion as 
the particular field of European studies emerged while extensive and 
diverse research was directed recently towards an intensified search for 
what Europe is about. The creation of the European Union made things 
even more specialized and increased the stake of methodological rigor as 
more and more Europeans are affected by the decisions taken in Brussels. 
The number, diversity and quality of research projects focused on 
European issues is unprecedented, yet, as it is usually the case with 
specialization, it gradually led to discursive communities that rarely 
meet and debate their approaches in open floors together with peers from 
other continents, academic traditions and cultures. It is the aim of 
this conference to build a bridge among specialists from different 
regions, academic traditions and cultures that share a common interest 
in studying and addressing Europe as a reflexive concern.
The 7th Global Conference ‘Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness 
Exposed to Plural Observers’ aims exactly to refresh a broader approach 
and understanding of Europe by enlarging the platform of regular 
conferences and workshops for a wider arena of participants and 
disciplinary backgrounds in order to put on stage a worldwide monadology 
for such concerns. The conference aims also to enable critical 
alternatives to the disciplinary orthodoxies by creating a framework for 
interaction and dissemination of diversity that has to become once more 
a European trademark.
What is Europe and its place in the world? Is there something particular 
that sedimented in time and through a controversial history a European 
way? How does Europe see itself and how do others see it? Is Europe 
inclusive or club-based exclusive? Is Europe becoming a normative power 
or just envisages itself as one? Is the European multiculturalism a fact 
or an ideal? Is the European Union a reflection of Europe or an 
appropriation of it? Is Europe becoming a post-national cosmopolitan 
order or a persisting community of national states? How does the current 
political context after the US presidential elections challenges Europe? 
Is the EU able to resist the rise of populist and nationalist movements? 
These are just few questions out of an enormous space for inquiry that 
are to be addressed and confronted within the topic of the conference. 
Join us!
*The conference is organized yet by no means restricted to the following 
orientative panels: *
Theorizing Europe: Thinking Europe and Europeanness ~ Europe as would be 
world power ~ Europe and its internal and external others/outsiders ~ 
Europe and identities ~ Fortress Europe? ~ EU and appropriations of 
Europe ~ Europe and the Mediterranean assortment ~ Europe and the 
inclusive/exclusive nexus ~ Europe and the US ~ Europe and 
anti-Americanism ~ Europe as seen from its Eastern neighbors ~ Europe as 
viewed from far away: narratives of the Europeans outside ~ Europe as 
viewed from Asia ~ Europe and Africa ~ Non-familiar faces of Europe ~ 
Knowing Europe in a different way: from Latin America to Australia ~ 
Europe and the EU as a normative power ~ EU regulatory practices in 
context ~ The multiple faces of Europeanization as a process ~ Europe 
and the persistence of the East-West Slope ~ Europe and crises ~ Europe 
and cosmopolitanism ~ Europe and the post-national orders ~ Europe in 
the world ~ European narratives of the past: the mnemonic/amnesic 
nexuses ~ Europeanization versus globalization ~ Europe and conflict 
resolution ~ European social models: welfare states and neoliberal 
suspicions ~ Europe and innovation ~ The politicization of Europe ~ 
Europe and the Trump ‘Era’ ~ Assessments of the European security
*Participant’s Profile *
The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and professionals 
with a particular research interest on Europe from all parts of the 
world. Post-graduate students, doctoral candidates and young researchers 
are welcome to submit an abstract. Representatives of INGOs, NGOs, Think 
Tanks and activists willing to present their work with impact on or 
influenced by specific understandings of Europe are welcomed as well to 
submit the abstract of their contribution. Euroacademia favors 
multidisciplinary approaches, critical thinking and new research 
methodologies.
The conference will take place in the conference premises of the 
exclusive 5 stars Hotel Infante Sagres, centrally located in the 
historic heart of Porto, within a walking distance from many major 
cultural attractions.
*Deadline: 15^th of March 2017*
For on-line applications and complete details of the event before 
applying please see the conference website:
http://euroacademia.eu/conference/7th-eio-conference/
Applications are reviewed regularly by the Selection Committee and in 
order to facilitate best travel arrangements, an answer to an 
application is provided in maximum 5 working days.


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