Photo Peter Statmatov Fourth Euroacademia Forum of Critical Studies to be held in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy,23 – 24 October 2015 Deadline: 20 September 2015 Panel Description: Elasticity of the label identity accommodates everything that does and does not surround us, thus finding its place in every discourse on making and re-making, invention and re-invention, destruction and construction. Every transition is synonymous with said processes, be … Continue reading Identities and the Cities: Urban Transformations, Transition and Change in Urban Image Construction

                    “Resilient Europe?” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. • April 14-16, 2016 Organized by the Council for European Studies Resilience is the capacity to survive, to bounce back and to innovate in the wake of extraordinary stress or unexpected crises. Psychologists view resilience as a character trait. Today, researchers and scholars of all stripes are beginning to understand resilience as constitutive of societies as well as of … Continue reading Call for Papers: 23rd International Conference of Europeanists

Culture and Economic Life, Stanford University Press Frederick Wherry, Jennifer C. Lena, Greta Hsu, series editors Jenny Gavacs, SUP editor Diverse sets of actors create meaning in markets: consumers and socially engaged actors from below; producers, suppliers, and distributors from above; and the gatekeepers and intermediaries that span these levels. Scholars have studied the interactions of people, objects, and technology; charted networks of innovation and diffusion among … Continue reading Call for Submissions/New Series: Culture and Economic Life