Boundaries of European Identity

ÖFFENTLICHES SEMINAR im Rahmen der gleichnamigen Fachtagung. In englischer Sprache.

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PROGRAMM

Eröffnung:
Elisabeth Tietmeyer, Direktorin des Museums Europäischer Kulturen – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Kaius Tuori, EuroStorie, University of Helsinki

Moderatiom: Reetta Toivanen, EuroStorie, University of Helsinki

Vortrag:
Sebastian Conrad, Freie Universität Berlin: European history after the global turn

Podiumsdiskussion:
Sebastian Conrad, Freie Universität Berlin
Ana Ivasiuc, Universität Marburg
Marta Bucholc, Universität Warschau
Ville Erkkilä, Universität Helsinki
Daria Krivonos, Universität Helsinki

anschließend Empfang

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More than thirty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the East-West divide remains significant, but one can no longer claim that it constitutes the major cleavage in European identity. The great recession and the sovereign debt crises in the early 2010s showed that divisions between North and South have become at least equally important. Europe’s status as a destination of transnational migration reminds us that the geographical markers North-South and East-West not only stand for meaningful differences and divisions within Europe, but also point towards Europe’s role in producing global inequalities whose historical legacies stretch back to the ages of European colonialism and imperialism. This seminar offers a nuanced approach to the question of European identity. Through an interdisciplinary panel discussion and Q&A, we intend to stimulate thinking on how issues of class, gender, race and ethnicity, but also differences in ideological, religious and ethical outlooks, come to complicate standard accounts of European diversity. Rethinking European identity requires us to take these differences seriously, as a precondition for engaging in the challenging and yet necessary political task of treating them fairly.