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The 18th International Conference IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC 2023) was held in Paestum, Salerno, Italy from October 22-25, 2023. The conference focused on research advances in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology and provided a platform for researchers worldwide to showcase their work. The conference had 351 attendees from 39 countries and featured plenary talks, keynote speeches, invited talks, contributed talks, and poster presentations. The conference also included a pre-conference event on the utilization of machine learning in science and technology. The conference offered opportunities for networking and informal interactions among researchers. [Extracted from the article]

This article critically describes and compares intraregional geopolitical imaginaries as they appear in the official discourses of two groups of states in EUrope: Soft Eurosceptic discourse of Hungary and Poland vs. Europhile discourse of France and Germany. The analysis is carried out through application of pragmatic analysis and language games analysis of official speeches of the leading politicians of these states delivered in the year 2018 on the theme of 'Future of Europe'. The theoretical framework of Rule-oriented Constructivism and the analytical framework of Critical Geopolitics guide this research. This research complements existing literature on geopolitical imaginaries highlighting the importance of linguistic practices, spatial understandings and intersubjective spaces in EUropean integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]