CALL FOR PAPERS

XIII INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

"ETHNICITY AND POWER:

POLITICS OF MEMORY AND CULTURAL-SYMBOLIC RESOURCES

OF ETHNO-POLITICAL

MOBILIZATION"

May 20-25, 2014

Yalta, Livadia (Crimea, Ukraine)

ORGANISED BY

TAURIDA NATIONAL V.I.VERNADSKY UNIVERSITY (Ukraine)

IVANE JAVAKHISHVILI TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY (Georgia)

NETWORK OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE AND INTERETHNIC TRUST (Ukraine)

Our discourse shall include the following topics:

- Collective Memory as a Socio-Political Phenomenon;

- Politics of Memory and Metamorphosis of Historical Truth in the Post-Soviet Society;

- Ethnic Identity as an Object of Manipulation Technologies;

- Historians and their Role in Shaping the Politics of Memory;

- Conflict of Values ​​as a Factor of Ethno-Political Mobilization;

- Construction of a European Identity and New Challenges of the Post-Secular Society;

- Political Myths and Ethno-Cultural Stereotypes;

- Social Networks and Social Capital as Factors of Sustainable Development of Multiethnic Communities;

- Ethnicity and Politics in the Cultural/Symbolic Space;

- Politics of Memory and City life: Problems and Prospects of Political Urbanistic studies;

- Virtualization of the Life-World and Generational Conflict in a Divided Society;

- Minority Rights: European Standards and the Post-Soviet Reality;

- Management of Ethno-Political Conflict: Theoretical and Applied Problems;

- The Limits of Tolerance in Interethnic Relations as a Problem of Political Theory and Practice;

- The Role of Media in Ethno-Political Mobilization;

- Linguistic Aspects of Intercultural Communication.

The list of issues is open for continuation.

Two Round tables will be held within the framework of the Workshop:

·  “Rethinking the Future through the Prism of the Past: Cultural and Symbolic Heritage of Orthodox Civilization” (in commemoration of Alexander Panarin);

·  “The Political Mobilization of the Arab World and the Geopolitical Development Strategy in the Middle East”.

Chairs of the Workshop:

Dr. Tatiana Senyushkina, Professor , Department of Political Science and International Relations, Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University (Simferopol, Ukraine), Director of the Network of Cultural Exchange and Interethnic Trust (Ukraine).

Dr. Malkhaz Matsaberidze, Professor, Head of the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi, Georgia).

Coordinator of the workshop:

Dr.Federico D’Agostino, University of Rome III, University of Napoli, Professor of Sociology, Roma, Italy.

Abstracts will be published before the workshop.

Registration fee: € 100 EUR to be paid upon arrival, for an accompanying person – € 50 EUR.

The price for virtualparticipationis € 50 EUR.

Registration fee includes conference materials (badge, program, abstracts book, list of participants), coffee breaks, welcoming dinner and concert,
publication (3 pages abstract) and certificate of participation.

Languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian

Accommodation:

The Bristol Hotel, 10 Roosevelt St., Crimea, Yalta

http://bristol.ua/en/

+38(0654)27-16-06

Prices: € 75 EUR – € 250 EUR per room per night.

The price includes accommodation, breakfast, swimming pool, fitness hall, luggage service, WI-FI, VAT, beach-solarium.

To find out about other, cheaper options of accommodation, please feel free to contact the Organizing Committee.

Guided Tours: The Livadia Palace of the last Russian Tzar Nikolay II in Yalta; The Palace of Alexander III in Massandra (Massandra Palace); The Alupka Palace-Park Complex (Vorontsov Palace); The Nikitsky Botanical Garden; The Chekhov House-Museum in Yalta; The Orthodox churches of the Southern coast of the Crimea; The Crimean oldest winery Massandra: the largest wine collection (about a million bottles) on the globe and Famous Wine Tasting.

To participate in the Workshop, please send your application form no later than January 25, 2014 on the following address:

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More information about the Workshop is on the web-site: http://nce.sevhost.net

and on the Facebook page of the Workshop: https://www.facebook.com/EthnicityandPower

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XIII INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

"ETHNICITY AND POWER:

POLITICS OF MEMORY AND CULTURAL-SYMBOLIC RESOURCES OF ETHNO-POLITICAL MOBILIZATION"

May 20-25, 2014

Yalta, Livadia (Crimea, Ukraine)

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If you wish to participate in the Workshop, please send your application no later than January 25, 2014 on the following address: ,

More information about the workshop is on the web-site: http://nce.sevhost.net and on the Facebook page of the Workshop: https://www.facebook.com/EthnicityandPower