The 2nd Annual Interdisciplinary
Conference on Totalitarianism for PhD Students – “Re-thinking the Central
and Eastern Europe Totalitarianisms: Challenges, Entanglements and
Reassessments” is a forum for the presentation of the PhD students’ research
results in the fields of history, political sciences, sociology, arts,
literature, etc.
The conference encourages an
international and cross-disciplinary exchange between PhD students engaged in
research on Central and East-European totalitarianisms, the history of
communism and post-communism, Holocaust studies. The goal of the conference is
to support networking and collaboration between PhD students who work on
specific topics related to the aforementioned research themes.
We
welcome papers from research areas dealing with different aspects of Central
and East-European totalitarianisms. The papers selecteby a jury will be
presented and discussed in several panels under the supervision of
distinguished Senior Academics.
Target group:
PhD students specialized in
anthropology, cultural studies, ethnology, history, media studies, philosophy,
political science, social geography and sociology.
Topics of interest for
submission include, but are not limited to:
·
Communism / communisms of Central and Eastern Europe
·
Intellectuals, culture, and art in a totalitarian state
·
Ideology and propaganda
·
History of science
·
Memory and identity
·
Individual or collective biographies under totalitarianism
·
Repression and social control
·
Resistance and dissidence in a totalitarian society
·
Gender
·
Daily life under communism
Abstract submission:
Interested participants should
send abstracts of 300 words and short CVs to phdconference@iiccmer.ro, by
Sunday, September 15, 2013. All submitted abstracts should report original,
previously unpublished research results.
Abstracts should be in Word
(.doc, .docx) format with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation,
c) e-mail address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10
keywords.
The authors of accepted
proposals will be informed by September 22, 2013.
Paper submission:
Full papers should be
submitted by October 13, 2013 to be circulated among conference participants,
the chairs and the discussants. The papers which will be presented during the
Conference should meet these criteria.
There will be no registration
fee. Lunches and coffee breaks will be provided by the organizers.
Accommodation will be covered by the organizers. Funding for travel is
available on an individual basis based on request.
Organizers: The Institute for
the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile;
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung; „Lucian Blaga” University – Sibiu
Informations from IICCMER’swebsite.
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