[Commlist] Call for Papers | Notes on Europe. The dogmatic sleep

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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Issued by
Art and Critical Studies research group - Axis: Europe
CEAA | Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo [Arnaldo Araújo Research Center]
Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Portugal


/"In fact, the question of the essence of Europe is not mysterious or 
unanswerable. (...) But let us not worry about sterile questions about 
the true borders and ethnic entities of Europe. There is no doubt that 
Europe has neither a substantial popular base nor strong borders to the 
east and the southeast, nor an unequivocal religious identity (...) The 
question should not be: who, according to what criteria and what 
traditions, belongs to a "true Europe"? (...) but: which scenes do 
Europeans play in their decisive historical moments? What are the ideas 
that animate them, the illusions that mobilize them? How has Europe 
achieved its driving history and by what means does it keep moving? 
Where does Europe's power and unity run the risk of failing?" / [Peter 
Sloterdijk | If Europe Awakes]


/?"Let this new Europe keep its luminous memory this way: philosophy, 
democracy, the Enlightenment, and even what is called, in a very dubious 
way, "secularization". May it also keep its nocturnal memory, the memory 
of all the crimes it committed in history and which were committed in 
its name, all these forms of hegemony, of colonialism, and, in the 
course of this century, all the monstrosities of European 
totalitarianism: fascism, nazism, stalinism (...) But I still appeal to 
you, to a Europe that (...) proposes a "new international" and not a 
"cosmopolitanism". /  [Jacques Derrida | Letter to Europe]

The notion of "Europe" has been questioned since the last decades of the 
twentieth century, especially in the territory of the so-called European 
Studies. Since World War II, Europe has lost its visionary project of a 
privileged race of the human kind, thanks to the consequences of its 
policy of self-destruction, already present in the first half of the 
last century, to the effects of decolonization and the loss of 
ethnocentrism. The convulsions at the level of world politics and 
geopolitics definitely change the course of history. What Europe is left 
after the great historical controversies that have crossed and continue 
to cross it? What critical framework is possible to outline today so as 
to understand the various interactions and disseminations that make 
Europe fundamentally a kind of financial and commercial brand? What 
place can there still exist in the world for a Europe that does not 
yield to the imperialist tradition? As Sloterdijk critically questions, 
is this commonplace that tries to formulate Europe as a "unity of 
differences" or "a set of contradictions" a empty one? What is the 
possibility of a heterotopic becoming for Europe? How to wake it from 
the dogmatic sleep as did Kant in respect to Reason? Since the modern 
age, in which European cartography has practically reduced the 
terrestrial globe and the representation of the world to Europe, until 
today, the old continent loses its enchantment, its mystical character, 
being increasingly challenged as a paradigm. If it is true that it will 
continue to be privileged, this fact can not prevent us from thinking 
about what we are as history, from establishing a dialogue with 
ourselves, a kind of personal archeology. Similarly, in the territory of 
art, Europe has been the subject of complex debates, in the domain of 
which some artists have been called in to participate, questioning both 
the political reorganization of post-Second World War, recent political 
decisions, or artistic mapping based in geopolitical strategies in a 
global context. If European art was regarded as the world’s art, its 
protectorate seems to have been emptied. Will those who Sloterdijk calls 
"the second-rate artists" be the ones who continue to overestimate 
heterogeneity and otherness, making efforts to maintain the myth of the 
European dream?

 From this critical framework, we propose to open the debate on the 
multiple political, social and artistic representations of Europe that 
we had in the past, that we have now or that we want to have in the 
future and that configure some of the discussions.

We welcome proposals for 20-minutes presentations in English, which 
should include:

Title of the proposal Applicant’s identification (name, institution, 
country, position and email), Abstract (up to 300 words), Short 
curriculum vitae (up to 100 words)
Proposals must be sent in Word (.doc format) by email to 
(ceaaeuropa /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(ceaaeuropa /at/ gmail.com)>

*Important dates:*

Deadline for abstract submission – April 19, 2019
Notification of acceptance of abstract – April 30, 2019
Deadline for full paper submission – June 30, 2019
Papers review – July 31, 2019
Final full paper submission - September 30, 2019
Conference - October 29-31, 2019

Visit the conference website here 
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*CEAA | Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo*
Escola Superior Artística do Porto
Largo de S. Domingos, 80; 4050-545 Porto - Portugal
Tel: (+351) 223 392 130; Fax: (+351) 223 392 135
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