Eurozine Timeline since 1983

2025 

New partners: Gerador, Voxfeminae, Kapitál

7–9 November

33th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Translating cultures – Cultures of translation

Keynote speech: Marci Shore
Location: Gorizia/Nova Gorica, Italy/Slovenia
Organized by: Eurozine and partner journal Razpotja

2024

11-13 October

32th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Sustaining Journalism

Keynote debate: John Keane, Ivana Dragičević, and Radosław Markowski
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Organized by: Eurozine

2023

New Partner: Transitions

2020

14 November

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)

New Partner: Irish Pages

Launching Gagarin, the Eurozine podcast

New Partner: De Nederlandse Boekengids (The Dutch Review of Books)

New Partner: Baggrund 

New Associate: VoxEurop

New Associate: Public Seminar 

2019

New Partner: Rekto:verso

1-3 November

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 

New Partner: Positionen

New Partner: Leviathan

New Partner: Culture&Démocratie

New Partner: K24

New Partner: O’r Pedwar Gwynt

2018

Eurozine publishes Widening the Context: A Eurozine Anthology

2-4 November

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

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.

Réka Kinga Papp assumes the post of Eurozine’s editor-in chief

New Associate: Internazionale

New Partner: Atlas

2017

20-22 October

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

New Associate: Arbeitskreis Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschriftenforschung

James Thomson assumes the post of Eurozine’s editor-in-chief

New Partner: La Punkt

Eurozine launches new website and logo design

2016

4-6 November

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

New Partner: Symbol

New Partner: Ny Tid (Norway)

2015

New Partner: Czas Kultury

New Partner: Poeteka

New Partner: Revue Projet

Wojciech Przybylski, of longstanding Eurozine partner Res Publica Nowa, assumes post of editor-in-chief

Carl Henrik Fredriksson steps down as editor-in-chief, after more than a decade at the helm of Eurozine

New Partner: Vagant

New Partner: Razpotja

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

New Partner: Frakcija

New Partner: A 2

New Partner: Kultura Liberalna

New Partner: pARTisan

2013

29 Nov – 2 Dec

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

Return of Partner: Nuori Voima

New Partner: Prostory

New Partner: New Eastern Europe

New sister online platform: Time to Talk

2012

New Partner: Spilne

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

New Partner: Schweizer Monat

New Partner: Krytyka Polityczna

New Partner: Zarez

New Associate: Free Speech Debate

New Partner: RozRazil

New Associate: Dublin Review of Books

2011

New Partner: Letras libres

New Partner: La Revue nouvelle

13-16 May

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

New Partner: Beton

New Associate: Einstein Forum

New Partner: GAM

New Associate: Transfer

2010

New Associate: ICORN

New Partner: New Literary Observer

New Partner: Syn og Segn

New Partner: Studija

New Partner: Sarajevo Notebook

New Partner: Dziejaslou

2009

New Associate: NAQD

New Associate: openDemocracy

New Partner: Soundings

New Partner: Intellectum

8-11 May

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

New Partner: Polar

New Associate: Historein

New Partner: Revue Internationale des Livres et des Idées

2008

26-29 Sep

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

New Partner: Dilema veche

New Partner: Res publica nowa

New Partner: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik

New Partner: The Hungarian Quarterly

2007

New Associates: Sens public and Caffè Europa

New Partner: New Humanist

21-24 Sep

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.

New Partner: A Prior Magazine

New Partner: Krytyka

New Partner: Mute

New Partner: Artistas Unidos Revista

New Partner: Lettera internazionale

New Partner: Edinburgh Review

New Partner: 2000

2006

New Partner: Fronesis

27-30 Oct

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”.

New Partner: Greek Political Science Review

New Partner: Host

New Partner: dérive

New Partner: Cogito (Greece)

New Partner: Revolver Revue

New Partner: L’Espill

New Partner: Lettre Internationale, Denmark

New Partner: Merkur

2005

New Partner: Le Monde diplomatique (Oslo)

New Partner: Akadeemia

4-7 Nov

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…”

Eurozine‘s new design goes online

2004

New Partner: Rigas Laiks

New Partner: Gegenworte

New Partner: Krasnogruda

New Partner: Osteuropa

14-17 May

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.”

New partner: Multitudes

New Partner: Genero

New Partner: Diwan

New Partner: springerin

New Partner: Esprit

New Partner: Cogito

New Partner: The New Presence

2003

24-27 Oct

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”.

New Partner: Roots

New Partner: L’Homme

New Partner: Arche

New Partner: Balcanis

New Partner: Sodobnost

New Partner: Nuori Voima

New Partner: Kulturos barai

2002

New Partner: Reset

18-22 Sep

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

New Partner: Samtiden

New Partner: Vikerkaar

New Partner: Neprikosnovennij Zapas

New Partner: Zeszyty Literackie

2001

New Partner: Passage

Eurozine‘s new design goes online

New Partner: Nova Istra

New Partner: Index on Censorship

New Partner: Critique & Humanism

New Partner: Varlik

New Partner: Lateral

New Partner: Kulturbuch quadratur

2000

9 -12 Nov

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.

New Partner: Mehr Licht!

New Partner: Arena

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.

New Partner: Ji

New Partner: Glänta

New Partner: Magyar Lettre Internationale

New Partner: du

1999

New Partner: Helicon

New Partner: Semicerchio

Partner section for Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, one of the co-founders of Eurozine, available online

8-12 Sep

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

New Partner: Dialogi

Partner section for Kritika & Kontext, one of the co-founders of Eurozine, available online

New Partner: Le Monde Diplomatique (Berlin)

New Partner: Euphorion

New Partner: FA-art

New Partner: Ny Tid

New Partner: Belgrade Circle Journal

1998

First Eurozine homepage available online. Founding partner magazines Mittelweg 36, Ord&Bild, Transit, and Wespennest are the first partner sections.

27 Aug

Establishment of the registered society “Eurozine” in Vienna.

12-15 Jun

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.

1997

5-6 Sep

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”.

1996

21-24 Nov

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”.

1995

14-17 Sep

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”.

1994

20-23 Oct

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

1991

1-2 June 

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

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

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