[ALBSA-Info] Workshop in Budapest

[Agron Alibali]

The Central European University (Budapest)

announces an international workshop on

Perceptions of "Modernities:"
Emergence of Political Modernity, Social
Transformation and Ideologies
of Modernism in Central and Southeast Europe
in mid-19th-20th c.
(Budapest, May 2000)

Call for Papers
Application deadline,  March 1, 2000


Much has been written about the multiplicity of the
processes and forms
of modernisation in Central and Southeast Europe. It
has become obvious
that projects of modernity that have been construed in
Western Europe,
have been differently understood and implemented in
these regions. In
that sense, some of the features of these cultures,
that are usually
labelled as signs of "backwardness", are not to be
simply disregarded,
just because they are mirroring other cultural
configuration than the
"western" one. Along these lines, it is important to
use more elaborate
historical and geographical perspectives than those
infusing present
scholarship, artificially separating countries into
"Western" and
"ex-Communist" ones. Western scholars have paid some
attention to this
disparity or difference, yet indigenous perspectives
are still to be
proposed. The idea of organising a workshop that would
coagulate new
perspectives of young scholars from these regions was
formulated with
respect to this need.
        The invitation to attend the workshop is open
to graduate
students and
PhD candidates, in social sciences and humanities. In
addition to the
title of the paper, applicants are suggested to submit
a 250-words
abstract, delineating the principal ideas of their
presentation.
Limited
subsidies to cover travel expenses will be available.
Accommodation and
food will be entirely provided.

The problems of divergent visions of modernism in our
region will be
approached from three main perspectives based on three
branches of
disciplines: historical, political/sociological and
cultural studies.
Respectively, papers may correspond to the following
topics and areas
of
studies:

I. Historical approaches:
a.  The protracted emergence of nation-states in the
region
b.  Rejection, assimilation, emulation of
modernity-projects in the
XIX-XXth centuries
II. Sociological/Political science  approaches:
a. Analysis of intercultural and interethnic conflicts
and coexistence
in the region; issues of minority protection.
b. Typologies of social and political transformation
in post-1989
Central and Southeast Europe
III. Cultural approaches:
a. Cultural representations and theories of modernism
b. Transformation of identities: multiplicity of
self-definition,
social
practices, everyday life

Applications should be submitted to the conveyors of
the workshop:

Vangelis Kechriotis (University of Athens, History
Department, Ph.D.
student)
Boyan Manchev  (State University of Sofia "Kliment
Ohridski", assistant
lecturer)
Tanja Petrovic  (Yugoslavian Academy of Sciences,
Institute of
Linguistics, researcher)
Ágota Szentannai (ELTE Institute of Sociology, Ph.D.
student)
Balázs Trencsényi (CEU History Department, Ph.D.
student)
Marius Turda (CEU History Department, Ph.D. student,
hphtum01 at phd.ceu.hu)



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