Conference Themes
In 1999, our fascinating conference papers addressed collective memory, education, advertising, music, literature, and economic cultures, among other topics. We watched a theatrical performance of the issue of child sexual abuse together and discussed the emerging public discourse over such private problems, and listened to the strains of Jewish klezmer music.
The 2015 Conference Invitation: For 2015, we invite any and all subjects related to cultural change, from social sciences, humanities, and other related fields, as well as cultural professionals.
Potential panel topics may include, but are not limited to:
In 1999, our fascinating conference papers addressed collective memory, education, advertising, music, literature, and economic cultures, among other topics. We watched a theatrical performance of the issue of child sexual abuse together and discussed the emerging public discourse over such private problems, and listened to the strains of Jewish klezmer music.
The 2015 Conference Invitation: For 2015, we invite any and all subjects related to cultural change, from social sciences, humanities, and other related fields, as well as cultural professionals.
Potential panel topics may include, but are not limited to:
- new communications media (social media, internet, email)
- the museum world, monuments, cultural landscapes, collective memory (museums in crisis, reconstructing monumentation, new anniversaries, recovered histories)
- gender (Women’s and LGBT cultures and movements)
- literature, drama/theater, music, film, new media (arts after censorship, new visions and content, ways of narrating achievements and failures of history )
- academia (changing role/s of intellectuals, educational norms, new disciplines, alternative developments, cross-national relationships, intellectual trends, primary and secondary education)
- journalism
- popular culture, advertising, everyday life
- political ideologies, nationalism, human rights, citizenship, cultures and civil war / conflict
- economic cultures, culture of home and housing, neoliberal policies and the new austerity
- immigration and multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, transculturalism, diasporic cultures (ethnic cultures and rights, new cultural mixes, minority cultures and languages)
- religious communities and expressions, intersections with ethnic cultures and political ideologies
- indigeneity within European cultures: rediscoveries (context of performance and theater), folklore and folklorism, archeological discoveries
