The "New Europe"?

With the end of the 90's and ten years after the turnover in Central and Eastern Europe, New Europe is not a concept but a political, social, and cultural reality with seemingly contradictory outcomes. The transformation of Europe since 1989 has been economically motivated, under the context of a neoliberalistic approach to globalization.
European or national identities were historically formed by claiming cultural differences. The current reconfiguration of the European Union, the extension of EU towards East and Southeast causes new borders, new exclusions of people and territories. While the joining nations try to protect or increase there benefit, the countries around Europe, the East and South experience heavy consequences for economic and personal lives. What does not comply with the idea of an economically innovative, flexible and efficent Europe is increasingly being devalued and excluded. Inside fortress Europe the exclusive status creates "Migration problems" as well as racism. Is the EU normalization model really the end of other visions of a trans-national, cultural or social concept of Europe?


18-19.30:
Video presentations: New Borders (Jenny Perlin), Bohemia Docta (presentation by Karel Vachek), Beyond the fencing (Susanna Perin), Seal me with your eyes (Presentation by Abdelali Dahrouch), The Dark Side of the World Petra (Presentation by Procházková, Jaromír Ststina, Pavel Hanus and others), Migrasophia (Zeigam Azizov / Yisia)


20-22:
Video presentation: beauty and the east (Presentation by Jayce Salloum)

Discussion about new borders, the concept of an EU-European or national identity and the contradictions between economical and cultural patterns of society.
Participants: Ivan Vesely (Dzeno Praha), Jayce Salloum (Vancouver), Jan Urban (Praha), Milos Vojtechovsky (Praha), Alena Wagnerova (Saarbrücken), Karel Vachek (Praha), Tomás Zmeskal (Praha), Hillary Binder (USA-Tábor), Chris Rankin (USA-Tábor), Pavel Hlavaty (Praha), Abdelali Dahrouch (France, Maroko) and others, Moderation: Jeffrey Brown