Eurozine Timeline since 1983
14 November 2020
31st European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Watch your mouth! Journalism now and tomorrow
Debates with Lukáš Fila, András Földes, Anna Lengyel and Boris Vezjak
Location: Budapest, Hungary & Online
Organized by: Eurozine, ELTE Média and the Center for Media, Data and Society at Democracy Institute of Central European University (CEU CMDS)
15 September 2020
New Partner: Irish Pages
3 August 2020
Launching Gagarin, the Eurozine podcast
14 May 2020
New Partner: De Nederlandse Boekengids (The Dutch Review of Books)
28 April 2020
New Partner: Baggrund
24 February 2020
New Associate: VoxEurop
4 December 2019
New Associate: Public Seminar
11 November 2019
New Partner: Rekto:verso
1-3 November 2019
30th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Europe ’89: The promise recalled.
Keynote debate: Aleida Assmann & Durs Grünbein
Location: Berlin, Germany
Organized by: Eurozine, and partner journals Blätter and Osteuropa
22 October 2019
New Partner: Positionen
21 October 2019
New Partner: Leviathan
19 September 2019
New Partner: Culture&Démocratie
12 June 2019
New Partner: K24
16 April 2019
New Partner: O’r Pedwar Gwynt
14 November 2018
Eurozine publishes Widening the Context: A Eurozine Anthology
2-4 November 2018
29th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
MIND THE GAP
ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND THE CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION
Keynote debate: Claus Leggewie & Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Location: Vienna, Austria
Organized by: Eurozine, partner journals dérive, L’Homme, springerin and Wespennest
1 November 2018
Eurozine launches an anthology: Widening the Context: A Eurozine Anthology , featuring articles by: Slavenka Drakulić, Jan-Werner Müller, Ida Börjel, Jacques Rupnik, Timothy Snyder, Barys Piatrovich, Tatiana Zhurzhenko, Marci Shore, Kenan Malik, Nilüfer Göle, Kathrin Passig and Achille Mbembe. With a short history of Eurozine by its co-founders Carl Henrik Fredriksson and Klaus Nellen. Edited and commented by Carl Henrik Fredriksson, Simon Garnett and Klaus Nellen.
1 November 2018
Réka Kinga Papp assumes the post of Eurozine’s editor-in chief
20 March 2018
New Associate: Internazionale
11 April 2018
New Partner: Atlas
20-22 October 2017
28th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
DEMOCRACY DELIVERED? EUROPE BETWEEN DIGITAL SALVATION AND POST-TRUTH RESIGNATION
Keynote speech: Vladan Joler
Location: Tartu, Estonia
Organized by: Eurozine, partner journal Vikerkaar, the Institute of Social Studies at the University of Tartu and the Estonian cultural organisation SA Kultuurileht
September 2017
New Associate: Arbeitskreis Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschriftenforschung
1 June 2017
James Thomson assumes the post of Eurozine’s editor-in-chief
2 June 2017
New Partner: La Punkt
31 January 2017
Eurozine launches new website and logo design
4-6 November 2016
27th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
MOBILIZING FOR THE COMMONS
10th Conference On Solidarity
Keynote speech: Ugo Mattei
Location: Gdańsk, Poland
Organised by: Eurozine, Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, the European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk and Res Publica Foundation
1 August 2016
New Partner: Symbol
4 April 2016
New Partner: Ny Tid (Norway)
3 Dec 2015
New Partner: Czas Kultury
4 Aug 2015
New Partner: Poeteka
2 July 2015
New Partner: Revue Projet
1 May 2015
Wojciech Przybylski, of longstanding Eurozine partner Res Publica Nowa, assumes post of editor-in-chief
30 Apr 2015
Carl Henrik Fredriksson steps down as editor-in-chief, after more than a decade at the helm of Eurozine
23 Mar 2015
New Partner: Vagant
25 Feb 2015
New Partner: Razpotja
3-6 Oct 2014
26th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
LAW AND BORDER. HOUSE SEARCH IN FORTRESS EUROPE
Opening speech: Carlo Galli
Keynote speech: Serge Weber
Location: Conversano
Organized by: Eurozine, Lettera internazionale and the Fondazione Giuseppe Di Vagno
24 Jun 2014
New Partner: Frakcija
23 Jun 2014
New Partner: A 2
28 May 2014
New Partner: Kultura Liberalna
2 Apr 2014
New Partner: pARTisan
29 Nov – 2 Dec 2013
25th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: OPINION, DEBATE AND ACTIVISM IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Opening address: Jean-Louis Fabiani
Keynote speech: Jill Cousins
Location: Oslo
Organized by: Eurozine, Syn og Segn and the Norwegian Association of Journals
1 Jul 2013
Return of Partner: Nuori Voima
22 Apr 2013
New Partner: Prostory
8 Feb 2013
New Partner: New Eastern Europe
4 Feb 2013
New sister online platform: Time to Talk
21 Dec 2012
New Partner: Spilne
5 Nov 2012
New Partner: Il Mulino
14-16 Sep 2012
24th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
ARRIVALS/DEPARTURES: EUROPEAN HARBOUR CITIES
Opening address: Jan Philipp Reemtsma
Keynote speech: Saskia Sassen
Location: Hamburg
Organized by: Eurozine, Mittelweg 36 and Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung
30 Jul 2012
New Partner: Schweizer Monat
26 Jun 2012
New Partner: Krytyka Polityczna
26 Apr 2012
New Partner: Zarez
26 Apr 2012
New Associate: Free Speech Debate
20 Feb 2012
New Partner: RozRazil
19 Jan 2012
New Associate: Dublin Review of Books
1 Dec 2011
New Partner: Letras libres
17 Oct 2011
New Partner: La Revue nouvelle
13-16 May 2011
23rd European Meeting of Cultural Journals
CHANGING MEDIA, MEDIA IN CHANGE
Opening speech: Khaled Hroub (director of the Cambridge Arab Media Programme, Centre of Islamic Studies, UK)
Location: Linz
Organized by: Eurozine and Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
26 Apr 2011
New Partner: Beton
24 Mar 2011
New Associate: Einstein Forum
15 Feb 2011
New Partner: GAM
10 Jan 2011
New Associate: Transfer
6 Aug 2010
New Associate: ICORN
31 May 2010
New Partner: New Literary Observer
11 May 2010
New Partner: Syn og Segn
19 Apr 2010
New Partner: Studija
25 Feb 2010
New Partner: Sarajevo Notebook
10 Feb 2010
New Partner: Dziejaslou
17 Dec 2009
New Associate: NAQD
8 Oct 2009
New Associate: openDemocracy
29 Sep 2009
New Partner: Soundings
18 Sep 2009
New Partner: Intellectum
8-11 May 2009
22nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals
EUROPEAN HISTORIES
Opening address: Valdas Adamkus, Antonin Liehm
Keynote speech: Timothy Snyder
Location: Vilnius
Organized by: Eurozine and Kulturos barai
4 May 2009
New Partner: Polar
3 Apr 2009
New Associate: Historein
3 Feb 2009
New Partner: Revue Internationale des Livres et des Idées
26-29 Sep 2008
21st European Meeting of Cultural Journals
crosswords X mots croisés [multilingualism and networking]
Opening address: Michel Deguy, Overture to mono/multilingualism
Location: Paris, France
Organized by: Eurozine, Sens Public, Multitudes, and Esprit in cooperation with Ent’revues
5 Sep 2008
New Partner: Dilema veche
30 Jun 2008
New Partner: Res publica nowa
20 Feb 2008
New Partner: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik
31 Jan 2008
New Partner: The Hungarian Quarterly
20 Dec 2007
New Associates: Sens public and Caffè Europa
13 Nov 2007
New Partner: New Humanist
21-24 Sep 2007
20th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
CHANGING PLACES (WHAT’S NORMAL ANYWAY?)
Keynote speech: Mircea Vasilescu (Bucharest), Normality or normalities? From one transition to another
Location: Sibiu, Romania
Organized by: Eurozine, Euphorion, and Lettre International Romania
Mircea Vasilescu’s opening speech “Normality or normalities? From one transition to another” confirms that Eurozine has become an all-European network.
25 May 2007
New Partner: A Prior Magazine
8 May 2007
New Partner: Krytyka
4 May 2007
New Partner: Mute
2 May 2007
New Partner: Artistas Unidos Revista
2 Apr 2007
New Partner: Lettera internazionale
31 Jan 2007
New Partner: Edinburgh Review
26 Jan 2007
New Partner: 2000
11 Dec 2006
New Partner: Fronesis
27-30 Oct 2006
19th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
FRIEND AND FOE – SHARED SPACE, DIVIDED SOCIETY
Keynote speech: Kenan Malik (London), Free speech in a plural society
Location: London, UK
Organized by: Eurozine, Index on Censorship, and the European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam
Kenan Malik, who had addressed the issue of multiculturalism already in Copenhagen 1996, provokes many of the participants with his radical defence of “Free speech in a plural society”.
1 Oct 2006
New Partner: Greek Political Science Review
18 Sep 2006
New Partner: Host
15 Sep 2006
New Partner: dérive
22 July 2006
New Partner: Cogito (Greece)
7 June 2006
New Partner: Revolver Revue
12 Apr 2006
New Partner: L’Espill
28 Mar 2006
New Partner: Lettre Internationale, Denmark
10 Mar 2006
New Partner: Merkur
1 Dec 2005
New Partner: Le Monde diplomatique (Oslo)
29 Nov 2005
New Partner: Akadeemia
4-7 Nov 2005
18th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
NEIGHBOURHOODS
Keynote speech: Orhan Pamuk (Istanbul), Neighbourhoods
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Organized by: Eurozine, Cogito, and Varlik
A few months before Orhan Pamuk is awarded the Nobel Prize, he delivers the keynote speech in Istanbul: “There is nothing I like more than to grab two or three new issues of cultural journals, withdraw into my study and start to read…”
3 Oct 2005
Eurozine‘s new design goes online
10 Oct 2004
New Partner: Rigas Laiks
8 Jun 2004
New Partner: Gegenworte
27 May 2004
New Partner: Krasnogruda
20 May 2004
New Partner: Osteuropa
14-17 May 2004
17th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS? CULTURAL JOURNALS IN A EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPACE
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Organized by Eurozine and Vikerkaar
Eurozine’s Carl Henrik Fredriksson opens up for a new line of cooperation: “Instead of regarding their little siblings, i.e. the journals, with an odd mixture of envy and disdain, the national newspapers throughout Europe might take the initiative for a collaborative effort that would begin opening the gates to a wider world.”
27 Apr 2004
New partner: Multitudes
15 Apr 2004
New Partner: Genero
2 Apr 2004
New Partner: Diwan
17 Mar 2004
New Partner: springerin
27 Jan 2004
New Partner: Esprit
9 Jan 2004
New Partner: Cogito
6 Jan 2004
New Partner: The New Presence
24-27 Oct 2003
16th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
POLITICS OF TRANSLATION – EUROPE AND THE BALKANS
Location: Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Organized by Eurozine, Belgrade Circle, and the Belgrade Womens’ Studies Center
Russell Jacoby and Dusan Bjelic are among the speakers in the “Center for cultural decontamination”. However, the most momentous speech turns out to be António Sousa Ribeiro’s “The reason of borders or a border reason”.
7 Oct 2003
New Partner: Roots
24 Sep 2003
New Partner: L’Homme
27 Jun 2003
New Partner: Arche
5 Mar 2003
New Partner: Balcanis
28 Jan 2003
New Partner: Sodobnost
15 Jan 2003
New Partner: Nuori Voima
10 Jan 2003
New Partner: Kulturos barai
21 Sep 2002
New Partner: Reset
18-22 Sep 2002
15th Meeting of European Cultural Magazines
SOLIDARITIES – OLD AND NEW
Keynote speech: Saskia Sassen (Chicago), Guests and Aliens
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Organized by Eurozine and Journal 2000
28 Aug 2002
New Partner: Samtiden
23 Aug 2002
New Partner: Vikerkaar
7 Jun 2002
New Partner: Neprikosnovennij Zapas
29 Jan 2002
New Partner: Zeszyty Literackie
3 Oct 2001
New Partner: Passage
1 Oct 2001
Eurozine‘s new design goes online
14 Sep 2001
New Partner: Nova Istra
20 Jul 2001
New Partner: Index on Censorship
15 Feb 2001
New Partner: Critique & Humanism
12 Jan 2001
New Partner: Varlik
9 Jan 2001
New Partner: Lateral
3 Jan 2001
New Partner: Kulturbuch quadratur
9 -12 Nov 2000
14th Meeting of European Cultural Magazines
POLITICS AND CULTURES IN EUROPE: NEW VISIONS, NEW DIVISIONS
Keynote speech: Slavenka Drakulic (Stockholm / Vienna): Who is Afraid of Europe? Between Xenophobic Populism and Multicultural Citizenship
Location: Vienna, Austria / Bratislava, Slovakia
Organized by Eurozine and Kritika & Kontext
Slavenka Drakulic’s keynote speech “Who’s afraid of Europe?” is reprinted throughout the network and in newspapers all over Europe. Print run: well over two million.
6 Sep 2000
New Partner: Mehr Licht!
5 Aug 2000
New Partner: Arena
Aug 2000
Due to the growing number of articles and partners, the first redesign became neccessary – the portal and links are introduced to the site, as well as the “focal points” section.
13 Jun 2000
New Partner: Ji
12 Apr 2000
New Partner: Glänta
27 Mar 2000
New Partner: Magyar Lettre Internationale
3 Mar 2000
New Partner: du
6 Oct 1999
New Partner: Helicon
30 Sep 1999
New Partner: Semicerchio
28 Sep 1999
Partner section for Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, one of the co-founders of Eurozine, available online
8-12 Sep 1999
13th Meeting of European Cultural Magazines
TEN YEARS AFTER 1989 – EUROPEAN IDENTITY REVISITED: THE CONTRIBUTION OF CULTURE TO THE NEW EUROPE
Location: Lipica / Ljubljana, Slovenia
1 Apr 1999
New Partner: Dialogi
24 Mar 1999
Partner section for Kritika & Kontext, one of the co-founders of Eurozine, available online
23 Mar 1999
New Partner: Le Monde Diplomatique (Berlin)
15 Mar 1999
New Partner: Euphorion
12 Mar 1999
New Partner: FA-art
10 Mar 1999
New Partner: Ny Tid
17 Feb 1999
New Partner: Belgrade Circle Journal
Dec 1998
First Eurozine homepage available online. Founding partner magazines Mittelweg 36, Ord&Bild, Transit, and Wespennest are the first partner sections.
27 Aug 1998
Establishment of the registered society “Eurozine” in Vienna.
12-15 Jun 1998
12th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
WRITERS AND INTELLECTUALS IN ALGERIA – FROM MEETINGS TO NETWORKS: DO WE NEED AN INTERNATIONALE OF JOURNALS?
Location: Caen/Paris, France
Organized by L’Association Entírevues, La Revue des Revues, the Revues Parlées du Centre Pompidou, and the IMEC
“Existe t-il un ‘espace européen’ des revues?” and “Les revues aux prises avec Internet” are among the passionately debated issues.
5-6 Sep 1997
11th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
LITERATURE IN THE CONTEXT OF ELECTRONIC MASS MEDIA
Location: Moscow, Russia
Organized by the European Commission, the Embassy of Lithuania to Russia, the Cultural section of the Embassy of Sweden to Russia, the newspaper Delo
The concept for “Eurozine”, a European network of cultural journals and online magazine, is first presented at the meeting by Walter Famler and Klaus Nellen – and future editor-in-chief Carl Henrik Fredriksson delivers a speech on “World Brains and Super Encyclopedias”.
21-24 Nov 1996
10th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
UNDERSTANDING/MISUNDERSTANDING – MULTICULTURALISM IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Organised by Hug Magazine and Tiderne Skifter Publishers
The idea of a joint publication is first discussed among the editors. First suggested working title: “Euro”.
14-17 Sep 1995
9th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
FIN DE SIÈCLE: KULTURZEITSCHRIFTEN AM ENDE DES JAHRHUNDERTS – STANDORTBESTIMMUNGEN
Location: Vienna, Austria
Organized by Wespennest and Transit
The first collective publication is presented: the so-called “Red issue”, including David Applefield’s prophetic contribution “fan duh see-ek’luh. From Vienna to the Web”.
20-23 Oct 1994
8th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
L’IDENTITÉ MÉDITERRANÉENNE
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
1993
7th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Location: Brussels, Belgium
1992
6th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Organized by Ord&Bild
1-2 June 1991
5th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
LES REVUES, AVANT-GARDE D’UNE CULTURE EUROPÉENNE?
Location: Strasbourg, France
Organized by L’association Entírevues and les Musées de Strasbourg
1990
4th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
EXILZEITSCHRIFTEN / GEFAHREN EINES NEUEN RASSISMUS
Location: Budapest, Hungary
March 1989
3rd European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Location: Berlin, Germany
“Dort trat nun zum ersten Mal der Osten in Ersheinung … Die Verzwicktheit der Situation kam am deutlichsten im Beitrag von Sebastian Kleinschmidt zutage. Ich weiss nur dass damals alle †bersetzer vor soviel Hegel die Segel strichen.” (Hans-Götz Oxenius)
1985
2nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals
ZEITSCHRIFTEN ALS KINDER DER HISTORISCHEN AUFKLÄRUNG: AUFTRAG IN DER GEGENWART
Location: Urbino, Italy
1983
1st European Meeting of Cultural Journals
VERHÄLTNIS VON ZEITSCHRIFTEN ZU ANDEREN PRINTMEDIEN
Location: Bossey, Switzerland
Initiator: Hans-Götz Oxenius