Identities and modernities in Europe
Identities and modernities in Europe: European and national identity construction programmes and politics, culture, history and religion
- Project acronym: IME
- Project number: SSH-CT-2009-215949
- Project starting date: 1 May 2009
- Duration: 36 months
- Project budget (EU contribution): €1,447,773.00
Consortium
- Kingston University
- Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
- University of Helsinki
- Fondation Nationale des Sceinces Politques (Sciences Po)
- University of Duisburg-Essen
- The Institute for Ethnic and National Minority Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- International Centre for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations (IMIR)
- Istanbul Bilgi University
- University of Zagreb
Project outline
IME investigates European identities. European identities in this project refer to a wide range of definitions of 'us, the Europeans' proposed and acted upon by various actors in and around the current European Union (EU), in particular in nine cases: Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
The project addresses three major issues regarding European identities: what they are, in what ways they have been formed and what trajectories they may take from now on.
IME first investigates the diversity of European identities as it manifests in the nine cases. It then examines the various ways in which these diverse self-definitions have been formulated and maintained in different societal, cultural and systemic settings and in which they have been interacting with various processes and forces. It then aims to identify commonalities among diverse European identities in the nine cases as the basis of grounded projection of possible trajectories European identities may take as the processes of European integration continue.
News and events
- Second project meeting: 19-20 November 2009, Athens
- First project meeting: 29-30 May 2009, Kingston University
Perceptions of Europe
The video below from ELIAMEP Blogs shows Professor Anna Triandafyllidou, Senior research fellow at ELIAMEP, in discussion with Atsuko Ichijo, Project Coordinator and Senior Fellow at Kingston University, Bo Strath, Distinguished Professor at University of Helsinki and Ayhan Kaya, Associate Professor at Bilgi University, on their views on how Europe is defined and debate what Europe and the European Union mean in different contexts.
Links
Advisory board
- Professor Johann Arnason, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Dr John Hutchinson, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
- Professor Juan Diez Medrado, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain
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