Table of Contents
Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney – Introduction 8
Edna Rosenthal – Opening Speech. Monday 11 July 2016 University of Łódź, Poland 12
Stefan Höjelid – Welcome speech at What’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity 2016 ISSEI Conference at the University of Łódź, Poland (11 July 2016–15 July 2016) 17
Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney – Poland and the European Union—Selected Problematics 24
EUROPEAN CULTURE AND ITS MULTIPLE VOICES 34
Agnieszka Miksza – European Culture and its Multiple Voices 35
Section 1 – Education
Fernando Blaya, Silvia Nuere and Manuel Islán – Art and Science: 3D Technologies at the service of Culture 37
Denise Egea – The Challenge of Democratic Education in the European Union 46
Section 2 – Literature, Theatre and Film
Iolanda Maˇnescu – Contemporary Interpretations of Ancient Drama at the National Theatre of Craiova, Romania 58
Per Bjørnar Grande – Th Lomans’ Private Apocalypse in Death of a Salesman 63 Victor Castellani – Making Fun [sic] of Hitler 73
Verita Sriratana – Švejk, Jan Dítě, Samko Tále and the First Thai Adaptation of the (Not So) Good Soldier Sha-Wake: Transnational Significance of the “Small” and
“Childlike” Characters in Czech and Slovak Literature 81
Section 3 – Social Issues
Shala Barczewska – Transforming Post-Communist Societies: The Thin Line between Cultural Competencies and Cultural Values 93
Rolf Hugoson – Cultural Legacy or Capital?: Towards a Theory of What European Capitals of Culture Leave Behind 103
Veronika Planková – Fighting the (Un)hidden “Enemies” of the Slovak Society 112 Jennifer Walden – “Moments of Grace?” The “Dramatic” Representation and the
Aesthetic of Ageing 131
Anthi Dipla – An “Idyllic” World Against War Atrocities; Images of Elegance, Escapism and Liberation in the midst of the Peloponnesian War 138
Hans Rindisbacher – The Lingustic and Cultural Manifestations of War and Terrorism 149
POLITICS IN THE NEW EUROPE 162
Tomasz Fisiak – Politics in the New Europe 163
Section 1 – Referendum as a New Tool of Democracy
Dorota Maj – Local Direct Democracy in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia: A Comparative Study 165
Marcin Pomarański – National Referendums in Hungary and Albania: A Comparative Perspective 173
Wojciech Ziętara – National Referendum as an Example for Legitimizing Authoritarian Rule (the Case of the Republic of Belarus after 1991) 181
Section 2 – New Politics through the Lens of (Modern) History and Philosophy
S. N. Nyeck – Contracting Nations or Status Nations? Evidence of Strategic Bargaining in Nineteenth-Century East Africa 192
Geoffrey Hinchliffe – Politics in a Society of Control 201
Giorgos Kataliakos – Bad Influences from Outside: State Anti-cosmopolitanism in Hobbes’ Leviathan 211
Richard R. Weiner and Iván López – The New Resilience of Pacted Transition in Spain 220
