Call for Papers for the Panel:
The European Way – Identitarian Representations of Europe in Visual
Arts, Performing Arts and Literature

(As part of The 4th Euroacademia Global Conference 'Europe Inside-Out:
Europe and Europeaness Exposed to Plural Observers', Athens, Greece,
23-24 May 2014)
In contemporary Europe some of the main indicators of the lack of a
unitary identity come from the deficit of symbols, images, artistic
representations or literary writings that would pin-point towards a
unity of sensibility and of artistic perception. Europe appears through
visual representations as a divided continent coming from an extremely
diverse universe of imaginary indicators that act through difference and
often in contra-point to the claimed unity. The creation of national
identities often involved an increasing differentiation through
localized symbols and foundational representations.
However, identifiable traces of Europeaness can be recovered through
specific representations like the visual repetition of European
denominators in paintings, photography and literary characters that are
often considered as part of the European imaginary patrimony. The visual
representations of the Myth of Europa in paintings are a part of the
many signs of looking at a common European inheritance. Sometimes the
European unity of representation and the Europeaness in arts and
literature are better observed from outside Europe by artists that
named, indicated or differentiated from the symbols of Europe. This
panel seeks to bring into discussion the visual and literary
representations of Europe and search into the imaginary universe for
identifiable signs of a real or imagined Europeaness.
The panel welcomes contributions on the following topics (you by no
means limited to):

- Performing a European Identity in Arts and Literature
- Identities and artistic representations of Europe
- What does the label 'European art' means?
- The Divisions of Europe – building national identities through
difference: popular art, visual representations of nations and the role
of foundational myths
- The role of visual arts in expressing a European identity
- Challenges to European traditions through arts
- Expressions of liberation and difference through performing arts
- Visual arts and personal European stories
- Immigrants and the cultural identity of cities
- European history, historicity and its impact on artistic
representations
- European capitals of culture and European identity
- Literature and European narratives, characters and biographies
- Urban cultural heritage as identity-anchor
- Arts and community making in Europe
- Symbols, signs and visual myths of Europe
- The European Imaginary in Arts and Literature
- Ugliness, kitsch and value in shaping contemporary European art
- European ways of portraying the other
- Memory and art in Europe


Please apply on-line or submit abstracts of less than 300 words together
with the details of affiliation by 11h of April 2014 to
applicationeuroacademia.eu

For complete details before applying please see:
http://euroacademia.eu/conference/fourth-europe-inside-out/