Contradictions: Envisioning European Futures

22nd International Conference of Europeanists

Congres

Paris, France • July 8-10, 2015. Organized by the Council for European Studies (CES).

In many historical moments Europe’s futures have seemed not simply open and uncertain, but replete with contradiction. In the contemporary juncture,the responses both of ordinary Europeans and of the continent’s collective actors and institutions to the challenges posed by crisis again constitute a series of contradictions—many of which reiterate large questions from Europe’s past, while also impinging upon the ability of social forces to imagine possible futures.