Interdisciplinary Approaches to Discourses, Social Groups
And Agency in Central and Eastern Europe
CEU Graduate Conference in the Humanities and Social Studies
• Central European University •
12th -14th of May 2006
THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK
The First Annual CEU Graduate Conference is dedicated
to an interdisciplinary approach to cultural and political discourses, social
groups, and institutional/individual agency in relation to the concepts
of ‘power,’ ‘state,’ and ‘society.’ The theme of the conference is
broadly designed in order to address the various fields of study from the
humanities, as well as social sciences.
This year’s applicants are encouraged to address the concepts of ‘power,’ ‘state,’ and ‘society’ by concentrating on the interplay of the political and cultural discourses, the social groups, and individual, economic and bureaucratic agency. Both case studies and comparative approaches are welcomed.
Panels may be organized with the following possible themes (please, note that the list is open to change):
• Memory and history: the role of representations and interpretations;
• Entangled histories: identities, sites of memory, social change;
• Society and economy: diffusion and reception of goods (e.g. merchant histories);
• Gender and citizenship;
This year’s applicants are encouraged to address the concepts of ‘power,’ ‘state,’ and ‘society’ by concentrating on the interplay of the political and cultural discourses, the social groups, and individual, economic and bureaucratic agency. Both case studies and comparative approaches are welcomed.
Panels may be organized with the following possible themes (please, note that the list is open to change):
• Comparative approaches to
the past and/or society: diffusion and reception of ideas e.g. the discourse
of nationalism;
• Technologies of ruling: frameworks of thinking, forms of governamentality, institutions for policing and/or isolation;
• State, church and society;• Technologies of ruling: frameworks of thinking, forms of governamentality, institutions for policing and/or isolation;
• Memory and history: the role of representations and interpretations;
• Entangled histories: identities, sites of memory, social change;
• Society and economy: diffusion and reception of goods (e.g. merchant histories);
• Gender and citizenship;