[Commlist] Call for Papers: Europe in Discourse III

Hellenic American University announces the 3rd International Europe in 
Discourse Conference (https://europeindiscourse.eu/ 
<https://europeindiscourse.eu/>) which will take place in Athens, 
Greece, September 23-25, 2022. The theme of this year’s Conference is 
Tracing Identity through Values, History and Borders.

Launched in 2016, Europe in Discourse is an interdisciplinary project 
that brings together faculty, students, researchers, early-career 
scholars and professionals to explore what is unique about Europe and 
why “Europeanness” matters.

EID III re-opens the conversation developed in previous two Conferences 
about the future of Europe and its identity. As was the case in 2016 and 
2018, discourse provides an analytical tool to diagnose the multiple 
constructions of Europe across contexts, texts, institutional or other.

The third Conference also remains faithful to the conviction that there 
should be a dialogue between those who talk about Europe and analyze it 
and those who “do” Europe and shape it. The Conference is therefore an 
open call to political analysts, communication experts, diplomacy and 
security experts, public leaders, historians, economists and 
policymakers from a variety of fields to engage with the Conference 
themes and submit a contribution along the formats accepted.

Conference Description

Tracing Identity through Values, History, and Borders foregrounds values 
as an ever-present dimension of European identity. If, within Europe, 
governing also takes place by mobilizing values then there should be 
consensus that to understand European identity becomes fundamental to 
trace those core values it draws on. At the same time, the political 
mobilization of values brought about tensions around what Europeanness 
means and how differing values had a place in the European sphere. 
Questions that arise include: does Europe, exert normative power, does 
it resort to values as functional tools for policy-making (transparency) 
or does it decide to promote political paradigms (governance)? Which 
values have been historically mobilized to unite Europeans and shape how 
others perceive Europe (Europeanization)? How current are the values of 
the Treaty of Lisbon? Can Europe rely only on soft power to increase its 
relevance?

Values, however, cannot be stripped from history as they are clearly 
expressed in social and historical change and transformed through such 
change. Values, therefore, form the backdrop against which a call to 
legitimization of European action is played out.

The topic of borders, invites us to consider European identity 
spatially. This has often been framed in terms of state territorialities 
but there have been calls for a renewed approach with a spatial 
demarcation of Europe that is less “hard”. While the European Union, as 
an institutional space of policymaking, is associated with borders, 
Europeanness, does not necessarily imply a spatial mark. It is not 
identified with a specific location but always draws more on a 
collective archive from a shared values-based past. In the post-Lisbon 
treaty era, therefore, Europe and the European Union may need to balance 
the need for “hard” borders with the recognition that a values-based 
European Union may require “soft” b-ordering.

These three closely intersecting dimensions are informing current 
debates about European identity and raise important questions: Can the 
often-powerful ties between Euroscepticism and populism derail the 
project of European integration? How transformative has Brexit been for 
the European Union? Does the European Union exert a normative 
values-based legitimization (governing by values)? If so, what are the 
linguistic and, therefore, communicative tokens of this? What are the 
diverse values that each nation state contributes to the European Union 
and how are these values discursively reflected? How aligned are the 
so-called imagined and experienced Europe particularly after Brexit?

Conference Themes

The Conference invites contributions from a variety of fields which 
explore Europe across all dimensions that shape it. Contributions may be 
based on theoretical accounts, discourse-driven methodologies, 
ethnographical approaches, case studies and other analytical tools to 
discuss European identity shaping across all aspects.

Contributions are invited across these themes:

•             Europe: super-diverse and globalized

•             European values: from continuity to change

•             Images of crisis and recovery in Europe

•             Political and electoral dimensions in the European sphere

•             Conceptual blending, discourse and metaphors about Europe

•             Austerity, financial crisis and economic narratives in and 
about Europe

•             Borders, border-making and spatial transformations of and 
within Europe

•             Europe as an international actor, the EU in the globe today

•             Political discourses in and about Europe

•             Im/migration, integration and mobility

•             Europe and Populism across left and wing varieties

•             Media constructions of European identities

•             Integration/assimilation/inclusion/homogenization in the EU

•             Historical perspectives in the European project

•             Religious aspects in/about Europe

•             European as democratic/cosmopolitan idea

•             Europe, Europeanness and Enlightenment today

Presentation Formats and Abstracts

Proposals for participation in the 3rd International Conference on 
Europe in Discourse: Tracing identities through values history and 
borders can be submitted in the following formats:

Oral Communications

Oral communications, which consist of a 20-minute presentation will be 
submitted in response to the general theme(s) of the conference 
mentioned below. Abstracts for oral communications should be no longer 
than 500 words and list five keywords.

Please submit your abstract for an oral communication through the 
official Conference website using this link 
https://www.europeindiscourse.eu/cfp/submit-abstract 
<https://www.europeindiscourse.eu/cfp/submit-abstract>

Deadline for oral communications: February 20th 2022

Themed Panels

Proposals for panels must be submitted online as a single document, 
single-spaced in 12-point type. Panel proposals should include a brief 
overview of the theme, a title of the panel, and 4 to 5 abstract of 
papers, each to be delivered within 30 minutes (a 20-minute presentation 
followed by a 10-minute period for questions).

The names of the panel presenters should be omitted from the document to 
enable double-blind review. However, panel organizers should include 
their name.

Acceptance notifications will be sent to panel organizers.

Please submit your panel proposal through the website following the 
guidelines under the SUBMIT YOUR PANEL PROPOSAL through this link 
https://www.europeindiscourse.eu/cfp/submit-panel-proposal 
<https://www.europeindiscourse.eu/cfp/submit-panel-proposal>

Deadline for panel submissions: February 20th 2022

Evaluation Process, Criteria and Notification

All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and ranked by the Conference 
Scientific Committee. Abstracts will be assessed using the following 
criteria.

Scientific strength. Contributions should:

•             offer significant contributions to the development of the 
discipline and point to future research agendas; and

•             present innovative or interdisciplinary approaches, 
including novel collaborations or syntheses across sub-disciplines or 
with other related disciplines.

Integration: Proposals may receive higher priority if they are clearly 
linked to the conference overall theme and are solidly grounded in 
discourse or textual analysis.

Notification of acceptance for oral communications will be sent by May 
20th 2022

Other Policies

One-Presentation Rule

Proponents are entitled to submit only one abstract as a first author. 
Speakers agreeing to present papers in panels also follow the 
one-presentation rule, i.e. someone who is first author or presenter 
cannot also be first author or presenter for another paper.

Scientific Committee

•             Professor Michel Foucher, Foundation Maison des Sciences 
de l'Homme

•             Professor Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, National and 
Kapodistrian University of Athens

•             Professor Juliane House, Hellenic American University

•             Professor George Pagoulatos, Athens University of 
Economics and Business and Director of ELIAMEP

•             Professor George Prevelakis, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, 
Permanent Representative of Greece to OECD

•             Professor Federico Romero, European University Institute

•             Professor Ruth Wodak, University of Lancaster

Speakers

Confirmed conference speakers are listed in the conference website

Registration

Registration fees will be announced through the conference website.

Organizing Committee

President of the Conference: Leonidas-Phoebus Koskos, Esq. President, 
Hellenic American University

•             Professor Juliane House, Hellenic American University

•             Themis Kaniklidou, Hellenic American University

•             Gerasimos Kontaxis, Hellenic American University

•             Androniki Koumadoraki, Hellenic American University

Contact Information: For any questions, please contact the organizing 
committee electronically at: (europeindiscourse /at/ hauniv.edu) 
<mailto:(europeindiscourse /at/ hauniv.edu)>

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