Each year, the project will organise a workshop to present its ongoing work and discuss its core topics with other prominent scholars in this field. Please find an overview of them and all related news below.

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The project's book was presented at a release event on 5 May 2017 at Söderbokhandeln in Stockholm attended by Swedish scholars, journalists and of course the authors' friends and family. All six authors discussed their key findings within an informal panel discussion and shared some of their research-based ideas about the current situation in Europe.

The "Narratives of Europe" team has just finished work on the project book that is due to be published by Intellect Press in spring 2017. Europe Faces Europe: Narratives from Its Eastern Half has been edited by project leader Johan Fornäs and contains contributions from all of the subprojects that sum up the research the authors expect will shed light on lesser known discourses from what lies East of Western Europe.

"Europe Faces Europe, the publisher's annotation reads, examines Eastern European perspectives on European identity. The contributors to this volume map narratives of Europe rooted in East Europe, examining their relationship to philosophy, journalism, social movements, literary texts, visual art, and popular music. Moving the debate and research on European identity beyond the geographical power center, the essays here explore how Europeanness is conceived of in the dynamic region of Eastern Europe. Offering a fresh take on European identity matters, Europe Faces Europe comes at an important time, when Eastern Europe and European identity is in an important and vibrant phase of transition

Johan Fornäs is professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies in the School for Culture and Education at Södertörn University, Sweden. His previous books include Signifying Europe, also published by Intellect Books".

Narratives of Europe II: Philosophy, Politics and Media

Second workshop of the “Narratives of Europe” project, funded by the Baltic Sea Foundation (Östersjöstiftelsen), co-organised with the higher seminars in Media and Communication Studies and Philosophy, took place Monday 10 February 2014 from 09:00 to 12:30 in room PC 249 at Södertörn University in Flemingsberg.

This year, the workshop themes included: the role of media in the ongoing protests in Ukraine in comparison with Russian and Polish media; idea of Europe in the philosophy of Jan Patočka; the problems of the "Occupy" protest movements in Sweden and Estonia.

Carl Cederberg, Roman Horbyk and Anne Kaun presented their subprojects, followed with comments by Stefan Jonsson.

The participants discussed the presented work-in-progress. Some highlights of discussion comprised the definition of what is Europe, which implications it has for the presented projects and how it can be integrated into them in the best way, whether the concept of public sphere retains its productivity etc.

The programme offered the following staples:

09:00-09:15 Johan Fornäs: Introductory project presentation

09:15-10:00 Carl Cederberg: “Philosophical Narratives of Europe”

10:00-10:40 Anne Kaun: “When Narratives Travel: the Occupy Movement in Latvia and Sweden”

10:40-11:10 Coffee break

11:10-11:50 Roman Horbyk: “Ready for Use: Europe in the ‘Public Spheres’ of Poland, Russia and Ukraine”

11:45-12:15 Stefan Jonsson: Commentary on the texts

12:15-12:30 Conclusion