Does the EU Have a Past? Narratives of European Integration History and the Union’s Public Awareness Deficit
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Abstract
The history of the European Union suffers from a public awareness deficit. 1 Partly, this has to do with the fact that, until recently, European integration has remained a rather small and self-contained field of historiography, while scholars of collective memory and political narratives have only of late commenced examining historical narratives and the politics of remembrance in an EU context. 2 More importantly, political initiatives have failed to nurture public interest in the topic, so that most citizens in the member states and beyond know little about the process that led to the creation of today's European Union.Even if the EU's importance for economic and other issues in our times is hardly doubted, Europeans themselves rarely feel the urge to study this chapter of history.Recent initiatives, such as the House of European History museum in Brussels and the multi-volume project of a history of the European Commission, try to bring about change, but remain projects that only reach small sections of the population.3 In a time of Euroscepticism, neo-nationalism and populism, this lack of knowledge is problematic.This article aims to make an initial contribution to furthering our understanding of the public visibility and media salience of European integration history since the 1.This article results from the work of the Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence HOMER -From History to Memory Culture: Narratives of the European Council Summits from The Hague (1969) to Maastricht (1991) and Lisbon (2009) which Kiran Klaus Patel and Sophie Vanhoonacker have co-directed between 2014 and 2017.We are grateful to our other two co-directors, Wolfgang Wessels (University of Cologne) and Jürgen Mittag (German Sport University), to our students from the three participating universities, to Hartmut Marhold and to the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.See also: https://www.dshs-koeln.de/en/institute-of-european-sport-development-and-leisure-studies/re-search-projects/ongoing-projects/homer-from-history-to-memory-culture-narratives-of-the-european-council-summits/(last accessed 5 October 2017).2. See, as recent contributions,
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.026 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.019 | 0.015 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".