Conférence : “The Idea of Europe in Literature, Philosophy and the Arts: History and Current Debate”, Londres, King’s College, le 5 mars 2020
Conférence : “The Idea of Europe in Literature, Philosophy and the Arts: History and Current Debate”, Londres, King’s College, le 5 mars 2020
About this Event
The London Arts and Humanities Partnership cross-disciplinary conference The Idea of Europe in Literature, Philosophy and the Arts: History and Current Debate will take place in the Yellow Room, 18 Leather Lane (venue changed from KCL, due to strike action), with a keynote given by Dr. Alex Drace-Francis (University of Amsterdam).
The conference aims to explore how the idea of Europe has changed throughout history, in literary and philosophical writings, as well as in artistic representations. It will seek to facilitate discussion across different areas of study, aiming to produce a diachronic perspective on various European questions, with a particular focus on the concept of “European identity”. We also invite special attention to the role that migration (broadly defined as movements of people, objects and ideas) has played and continues to play in shaping such an identity. The urgency of such a discussion, both in the context of UK scholars working on the question of Europe, and of European scholars, is evident in a moment of precipitous change in various areas of Europe.
Please Note: Unfortunately, the venue is only accessible via a staircase. Please contact the organisers (available via email at theideaofeurope@gmail.com) if you have any access issues in order to make arrangements.
The programme for the day is as follows:
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-11:00 Session 1. Chair: Francesca Masiero (University College London)
Francesco Vitali (La Sapienza, Rome), Behind the Origin of Idea of Europe: the Historia dell’ Europa of Pierfrancesco Giambullari
Rui Luis Rodrigues (Campinas State University), Orbis minima pars est Europa: Erasmian Humanism, Respublica Christiana and the non-European Roots of Europe
David Salomoni (University of Lisbon), Early Modern Nautical Rutters and the Idea of Europe: New Trends in Global and Digital History
11:00-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:40 Session 2. Chair: Jack Hayes (University College London)
Peter D. Morgan (University College London), Stretching the Old Continent to the New: Domingo Sarmiento’s Use of ‘Europe’ in 1840s Argentina
Martina Morabito (University of Genoa), Valentin Serov’s Oriental Europa in 1910
Kasia Szymanska (Trinity College Dublin), Experiments on Eastern Europe: Literary Imagination during Cold War
12:40-13:40 Lunch
13:40-15:10 Session 3. Chair: Frederick Carnegy-Arbuthnott (University College London)
Michael J. Nixon (University of Oxford), From the Ruins, Our Common European Heritage: Music, Reconciliation, and Christian Discourses of Europe in Early Post-war Britain and Germany
Lefteris Spyrou (Institute for Mediterranean Studies), Promoting the Idea of Europe after WWII. The Council of Europe’s Art Exhibitions in the 1950s and 1960s
Megan Hoetger (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden), Screening Internationalism. Brussels and the Postwar International European Film Festival
15:10-15:20 Coffee Break
15:20-16:50 Session 4. Chair: Paolo Gattavari (University College London)
Stefano Bellin (University College London), The Conflictual Archipelago: On Massimo Cacciari’s Idea of Europe
Alexis Radisoglou (Durham University), On the Precarity of an Idea: Towards a Postfoundational Narrative of Europe
Anna Chichi (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Comparative Literature Stands for Europe
16:50-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:00 Keynote speaker: Alex Drace-Francis (University of Amsterdam), Cultural History and the Idea of Europe: Prospects and Challenges for Research
Chair: Sarah Coviello (The Warburg Institute)
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louiseboursier (4 mars 2020). Conférence : “The Idea of Europe in Literature, Philosophy and the Arts: History and Current Debate”, Londres, King’s College, le 5 mars 2020. Collectif d'Historiens de l'Art de la Renaissance. Consulté le 23 mai 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mo86