Fwd: CfP: Re-Inventing Eastern Europe, Riga, Latvia, 29 – 30 January 2016
Call for Papers The Fifth Euroacademia International Conference Re-Inventing Eastern Europe 29 – 30 January 2016 Riga, Latvia Deadline for Paper Proposals: 10 December 2015 Conference Description: The Fifth Euroacademia International Conference 'Re-Inventing Eastern Europe' aims to make a case and to provide alternative views on the dynamics, persistence and manifestations of practices of alterity making that take place in Europe and broadly in the mental mappings of the world. It offers an opportunity for scholars, activists and practitioners to identify, discuss, and debate the multiple dimensions in which specific narratives of alterity making towards Eastern Europe preserve their salience today in re-furbished and re-fashioned manners. The conference aims to look at the processes of alterity making as puzzles and to address the persistence of the East-West dichotomies. Not a long time ago, in 2010, a British lady was considered bigoted by Gordon