Dear Colleagues!
INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
OF SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER
«REGIONAL HISTORICAL HERITAGE AND CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION»
DIVISION FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND INTERNALIZATION
OF SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY
International Science Conference
«WEST TO EAST, EAST TO WEST: CROSS-CULTURAL RELATIONS, MUTUAL PERCEPTIONS AND HISTORICAL MEMORY»
(Saratov, 27 May 2016)
27th May, 2016 International Science Conference will be organized on the topic «West to East, East to West: Cross-cultural relations, mutual perceptions and historical memory».
The issues of discussion of the following problems:
- The image of the West in Eastern societies;
- The image of the East in Western societies;
- Westernization and traditionalism in the societies of the East;
- Mutual perception of the East and the West in the collective memory;
- The Middle East and the Caucasus in the regional and global politics;
- Forms and mechanisms of historical memory and the politics of memory: the institutional dimension;
- Historical memory as the element of state and social discourse;
- Political myth and historical memory: problems of interaction;
- Historical politics and politics of memory: the limits of politicization.
Applications (and abstracts) are to be send until May 15, 2016 at the following addresses: и
The abstracts will be selected on the basis of expert reviews. The maximal size of an abstract is 5 000 marks (Word 93-2003, 2007, Times New Roman, 14 type size, 1.5lines, automatic page - links). At the beginning of an application, please, indicate the following pieces of information:
· the title of the paper
· the author(s) information, including:
o full name
o affiliation
o degree or educational status
o phone number
o e-mail address
Accommodation and travel expenses are to be covered by the sending organizations.
The registration of participants: 09.30
The conference begins: 10.00
Venue: 72/74 Zheleznodorozhnaya Street, Saratov,