European Identity & Encounters Research Group

 

Programme 2008-09

To launch this year's reading group, we held an event at the Arts Picture House on Wednesday 15th October  2008 / Fatih Akin's acclaimed 2007 drama 'THE EDGE OF HEAVEN' (Auf der anderen Seite) (Past event).

The group is launching the Lent term (2009)  with the screening of “25 ‘visions’ about Europe in short-film format shot by 25 film directors from each of the respective EU-25 countries. Among them  Fatih Akin, Andy Bausch, C. Giannaris, Theo van Gogh, Peter Greenaway, Arvo Iho, Aki Kaurismäki.

Michaelmas Term 08

During Michaelmas term the group will focus on reading and discussion sessions which will include oral presentations of the pre-selected readings (3-4 presentations per session of approx. 10 minutes each) followed by free discussion between attendants. These reading sessions aim at the development of sets of questions, points of convergence or divergence and issues of critical interest that will prepare the grounds for:
a.) the elaboration of a ‘call for papers’ at the end of Michaelmas term, addressed to graduate students willing to present their on going research
b.) the familiarization with the work of invited speakers who will be visiting during Lent and Spring term.

Wednesday 15 October at 4.30pm
Launch Film "The Edge of Heaven"  by Faith Akim  Arts Picture House

Thursday 30 October at 2.30pm
How many " Europes ?"  The complexities of a concept
See Initial Readings Link (3 Readings for today: Passerini,L./Smith,A. & Stavrakakis,Y)    

Thursday 13 November at 2.30pm
Materializing Europe: artefacts, objects & technologies

Readings:
Rietbergen, P. 1998. Epilogue from Europe: A Cultural History. Routledge?
Kristiansen, K. 2008. 'Do we need an archaeology of Europe'? Archaeological Dialogues 15.1.pp5-25
Readings for this session were available at CRASSH before the discussion:?

Thursday 27 November at 2.30pm
Europe and its Others: (un)making of borders.  

Reading for this session:
Balibar, Etienne. 2004. We, the people of Europe? : Reflections on transnational citizenship. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. pp. 1-10 (Chapter 1).
Delanty, Gerard. 2007. 'Peripheries and borders in a post?western Europe'. Eurozine (online) http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2007-08-29-delanty-en.html
Meinhof, Ulrike H. 2003. 'Migrating borders: an introduction to European identity construction in process'. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Volume(5): 781 - 96. 
Stråth, Bo. 2000. “Multiple Europes: Integration, Identity, and Demarcation of the Other’ in Europe and the other and Europe as the other. Bruxelles; New York: P.I.E.-Peter Lang. pp 385-420)  
Van Houtum, Henk and Roos Pijpers. 2007. 'The European Union as a Gated Community: The Two-faced Border and Immigration Regime of the EU'. Antipode, Volume: 291      

 

Lent Term 2009

To launch this year's reading group, we held an event at the Arts Picture House on Wednesday 15th October  2008 / Fatih Akin's acclaimed 2007 drama 'THE EDGE OF HEAVEN' (Auf der anderen Seite) (Past event).

The group is launching the Lent term (2009)  with the screening of “25 ‘visions’ about Europe in short-film format shot by 25 film directors from each of the respective EU-25 countries. Among them  Fatih Akin, Andy Bausch, C. Giannaris, Theo van Gogh, Peter Greenaway, Arvo Iho, Aki Kaurismäki.

Thursday  22 January  at 2.30pm
Film Screening: “Visions of Europe”  

Thursday   5 February  at 4.30pm (only for this session)
Symbolic Authority, Fantasmatic Enjoyment and the Spirits of Capitalism: Genealogies of Mutual Engagement
Speaker: Dr. Yannis Stavrakakis

Thursday 12 February at  2.00pm  (Venue: Emmanuel College,  Harrods Room)
European integration and a European democracy: a problematic relationship in historical perspective
Speaker Dr Bo Stråth

Thursday   5 March   at 2.30pm
 European identity and the heritage of war: the case of the Western Front
Speaker: Dr Paola Filippucci   

Easter Term 2009

Thursday  30 April at 2.30pm  CANCELLED

Thursday  14 May at 2.30pm
Film: In this World
by Michael Winterbottom

Thursday  28 May at 2.30pm
An open consultation about the next year's conference organized by the group,
provisional title "Complexities of 'Europe'".


Tuesday 2nd June at 3.00pm *

The Unhomely Home and the Legal Uncanny: Expropriation and Affect in Northern Cyprus
 Yael Navaro-Yashin, Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge  

This paper is a study of relations with the built environment and household objects in the aftermath of war and expropriation. The notion of 'the uncanny' is explored and expanded as both a spatial and a legal category.

.*NB A joint session with  the Post-Conflict and Post-Crisis Research  Colloquium 

 

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