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