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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Europe & Europeaness Exposed to Plural Observers,
Vienna, 23-25 June 2011
> H-ASIA
> April 29, 2011
>
> Call for papers: The First Global Conference Europe Inside-Out: Europe
> and Europeaness Exposed to Plural Observers, Vienna, June 23-25, 2011
> DEADLINE 15 MAY 2011
> ***********************************************************************
> Ed. note: Among topics -- Asian views of you know where. FFC
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> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> The First Global Conference Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeaness
> Exposed to Plural Observers
>
> Location: Austria
> Call for Papers Date: 2011-05-15 (in 16 days)
> Date Submitted: 2011-04-26
> Announcement ID: 184830
>
> Euroacademia cordially invites you to The First Global Conference 'Europe
> Inside-Out: Europe and Europeaness Exposed to Plural Observers' to be held
> in Vienna, Austria
>
> SAVE THE DATE: 23rd – 25th of June 2011
> DEADLINE : 15 May 2011
>
> Description and aims
>
> Europe became in the 20th century an elaborated yet contested notion as
> the particular field of European studies emerged and 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 first Global Conference 'Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeaness
> 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 to enable critical alternatives to
> the disciplinary orthodoxy by creating a framework for interaction and
> dissemination of diversity that has to become once more a European
> trademark. The conference also aims to become a constructive
> confrontational space for alternative methodologies, provocative puzzles,
> inter, multi and trans-disciplinary understandings of wider and also for
> thinner specialized issues of concern for or about Europe of today. In a
> way, such a conference aims to become a moment of return to the European
> specificity of critical self-understanding through dialogue and debate
> with all the discursive or narrative traditions that directly or
> indirectly constitute its self.
>
> 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? 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.
>
> The conference is organized yet by no means restricted to the following
> orientative panels:
>
> Europe as a 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 neighbours
> 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
>
> However, if you are willing to propose and/or chair a particular panel we
> welcome you to do so.
>
> Participant's Profile
>
> The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and professionals
> with a particular interest in 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. Abstracts will be reviewed and accepted
> based on their proven quality. The submitted paper is expected to be in
> accordance with the lines provided in the submitted abstract.
>
> A specific spot in the conference program will be dedicated to social
> networking and therefore all the participants interested in setting or
> developing further cooperation agendas and prospects with other
> participants will have time to present and/or promote their project and
> express calls for cooperation. A specific setting for promotional
> materials connected with the topic of the conference will be reserved for
> the use of participants. Books authored or edited by the participants can
> be exhibited and promoted during the whole period of the conference and
> can also be presented within the conference package based on prior
> arrangements.
>
> Selected papers will be published in an electronic volume with ISBN after
> the confirmation of the authors and a double peer-review process based on
> an agreed publication schedule. All the papers selected for publication
> should be original and must not have been published elsewhere. All
> participants to the conference will receive a copy of the volume.
>
>
> Participation fee: 300 Euro
> The participation fee includes: the registration fee, all the materials of
> the conference, a copy of the electronic volume, access to Euroacademia
> discussion group and newsletters, discounted rates for participation in
> the future Euroacademia conferences, coffee brakes with snacks for all the
> duration of the conference, wine reception and a cocktail with buffet
> dinner for 23rd June – the opening day, 3 course lunch on 24th of June,
> optional social program. Discounted rates for specific hotels can be
> arranged by organizers and announced to selected participants.
>
> Participants are responsible for finding funding to cover transportation
> and accommodation costs during the whole period of the conference.
> Official letters can be sent by Euroacademia to the financing institution
> to confirm the selection and participation in the conference upon request.
>
> DEADLINE FOR 300 WORDS ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION IS 15TH OF MAY 2011
>
> The 300 word abstracts and the affiliation details should be submitted in
> Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
> 1) author(s), 2) affiliation, 3) email address, 4) title of abstract, 5)
> body of abstract 6) preferred panel or proposed panel The 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 available at www.euroacademia.eu/ We will acknowledge the
> receipt of your proposal and answer to all paper proposals submitted.
>
> IMPORTANT DATES: If your paper was accepted a notification of acceptance
> will be sent to you by 20th of May 2011. Your confirmation of attendance
> will be expected until 1st of June 2011 and until the 10th of June the
> payment of the participation fee through bank transfer is requested. No
> paper will be introduced in the program without confirmation and payment
> of the participant fee. By 10th of June 2011the full paper is to be sent
> according with the style standards provided to the accepted participants
> by organizers. All papers will be uploaded on the website as drafts
> available for consultation fo r other participants and the public.The
> conference will be held in English and will focus on the discussion of
> 5,000–6,000-word, pre-circulated papers.
>
>
>
> Euroacademia is a non-profit organization, based in Vienna (Austria),
> aiming to foster academic cooperation, networking and a platform for
> dissemination and valorization of academic research results, trends, and
> emerging themes within the area of concern for European studies, political
> science, critical studies, cultural studies, history, anthropology, social
> psychology, semiotics, philosophy, sociology and wider and inclusive
> interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches that contribute to a
> better understanding of the 'self-organizing vertigo' (Edgar Morin) of the
> European realm. Euroacademia's goal is to become a hub for academic
> interaction on and about Europe.
>
>
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>
> Email: office@euroacademia.eu
> Visit the website at http://www.euroacademia.eu
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