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Call for Papers. Conference: Urban Jewish Heritage and History in East Central Europe
The physical and cultural legacies of the Jewish civilization in Central and Eastern Europe largely destroyed by the Holocaust have long been neglected in post-Holocaust and postwar Eastern and Central Europe. With the end of the Soviet Union and the fundamental liberalization of politics and society, which has accompanied it, however, the region’s Jewish heritage, too, has entered processes of remembering, rediscovery, and reconstruction. In particular with respect to urban space, the regeneration or revitalization of historic Jewish quarters has become one main focus of attention, where several complex and challenging fields of theory and practice overlap: The relationship between the past, memory, and history; questions of reality, authenticity, and virtuality; urban-planning and economic aspects of regeneration. At the same time, these questions of space, its imaginary and practical meanings and uses, need to be contextualized within Jewish history in Eastern and Central Europe in general.
The Center for Urban History seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary as well as international group of scholars and practitioners for a conference on 26 to 28 October 2008 in Lviv – formerly Lemberg and Lwów, now in western Ukraine, formerly the capital of the Habsburg province of Galicia as well as major urban center in interwar Poland – a city, which used to be a main site of Jewish urban life in East Central Europe but which is also still marked by the neglect of this past.
Graduate student participation is also encouraged. Conference languages are English, Polish, and Ukrainian. Please send a brief (300 word) synopsis of your proposed paper as an electronic attachment to the Academic Director Dr. Tarik Cyril Amar by 31 May 2008 t.c.amar@lvivcenter.org).
The Center may be able to offer some travel and accommodation support for conference participants.
Tarik Cyril Amar
Academic Director
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
Phone: -38 - 0322 - 75 17 34
Fax: -38 - 0322 - 75 13 09
Email: t.c.amar@lvivcenter.org
Visit the website at http://www.lvivcenter.org
Call For Papers. 24th World Congress of SVU
The attached pdf includes the call for papers for the 2008 conference of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences celebrating "SVU: 50 Years of Promoting Czech and Slovak Culture and Science Worldwide" September 8th and 14th, 2008 Catholic University Ruomberok, Slovakia.
Deadline for Abstract Submission (by e-mail ONLY) will be May 31, 2008 to Zdene(k David: zdenek.david@wilsoncenter.org.
Details of 2008 SVU Congress are available at www.svu2000.org
Call for Papers. Self-Representation and Public Culture of the Balkan Urban Classes
A session at the IXth International Conference on Urban History, Comparative History of European Cities. European Association for Urban History, Lyon, 27th, 30th August 2008.
The 19th century is known as the period when modern discourse was established in European societies, promoted initially by urban “middle classes”. A similar process can be observed in Balkan cities, even though it is also well known that it happened in a different context and from different starting conditions.
The Balkan urban classes had to negotiate more and/or other differences than was the case in western cities what was specific in the Balkans, was the urge to negotiate a stigmatized past and perceived yet experienced peripherality. These issues of difference were attributed to the Ottoman legacy, and came in addition to class, gender and race.
This session is open to contributions that discuss the ways in which Balkan elites established a new social hegemony under the pretext of Ottoman legacies in the urban environment, putting an emphasis on lived ways of self-representation: rituals, consumption, networks, societies, communication, media, cultural life, and the built environment.
Topics may include but do not have to be limited to: literary communication, audiences, societies and leisure clubs, processions, festivities and monuments, theatre life, sports and negotiations of the Ottoman heritage, such as the re-design of the cityscape. The time period is the “long” 19th century.
Contributions addressing the differences between cities within a country or of different countries are especially welcome.
For full information, including session titles and session abstracts, visit the conference web site.
Dr. Wladimir Fischer Institute for Urban History Gasometer D, Guglg. 14, 1110 Wien, Austria +43-1-4000-84875 (office/Tuesdays)
Call for Papers. Diskurszeit - Wendejahre in/für Südost- und Mittelosteuropa
kakanien revisited, Wien, Deadline: 10.01.2008
Ein mögliches Erlebnis oder eine mögliche Wahrheit sind nicht gleich wirklichem Erlebnis und wirklicher Wahrheit weniger dem Werte des Wirklichseins, sondern sie haben, wenigstens nach Ansicht ihrer Anhänger, etwas sehr Göttliches in sich, ein Feuer, einen Flug, einen Bauwillen und bewußten Utopismus, der die Wirklichkeit nicht scheut, wohl aber als Aufgabe und Erfindung behandelt«, ist als Definition des Möglichkeitssinns im Mann ohne Eigenschaften von Robert Musil zu lesen, der vor 65 Jahren starb.
Kakanien revisited möchte mit dem neu zu etablierenden digitalen Themenheft "Diskurszeit - Wendejahre in/für Südost- und Mittelosteuropa" ein Studien, Essays und Rezensionen zusammenführendes Forum für die Diskussion des im Musil-Zitat mitschwingenden konstruktiven Potenzials des Nicht-Mehr und Noch-Nicht einrichten. Die Thematik der Wendejahre soll dabei nicht nur eine kritische Sicht auf die zur Zeit in beachtlicher Zahl kursierenden kultur- und populärwissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen im Bereich der Jubiläen ermöglichen, sondern auch auf die Region Südost- und Mittelosteuropa bezogene (komparatistische) Fallstudien umfassen.
Das Themenheft möchte methodologisch-theoretisch und auf einzelne regional wirksame Fälle fokussierend kulturgeschichtliche Gleichzeitigkeiten und Ungleichzeitigkeiten, Ansätze zur Metaphorisierung von Jahreszahlen und zu den historisch legitimierenden Mechanismen sowie Techniken der Epochenbildungen aufspüren. Kunst- und Geschichtswissenschaftliche Beiträge zu den Bereichen der Denkmalkunst, des Ausstellungswesens, der Feierkultur, der Künstler- und Politikerjubiläen etc. sowie kultur- und politikwissenschaftliche Aufsätze zu Jahrestagen und Wendejahren sind herzlich willkommen.
Wir freuen uns auf Beiträge,
- die methodologisch-theoretisch angelegt sind und sich mit der Problematik der Zäsur, der Ereigniskonstruktion, des historischen Zeitbewusstseins und der Inszenierung des Kollektiven auseinandersetzen
- die als Fallstudien auf speziell südost- und mittelosteuropäische Zeitwenden fokussieren
- die einen Themenkomplex, etwa den journalistischen, kulturpolitischen Umgang mit aktuellen Jahrestagen in der Region essayistisch aufarbeiten
- die einschlägige Neuerscheinungen in Form von Einzel- oder Sammelrezensionen besprechen.
Die Beiträge werden auf der Plattform in einer eigenständigen Rubrik kontinuierlich erscheinen und zusätzlich mit den Weblogs zwecks Kommentieren zusammengeführt. Themenvorschläge und Beiträge sind laufend an die Redaktionsadresse. Texte für eine Zweitveröffentlichung sind ebenfalls willkommen.
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies invites nominations for its seven book prizes:
- Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize -- awarded annually for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences.
- NEW PRIZE - Davis Center Book Prize -- awarded annually an outstanding monograph on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography.
- Marshall Shulman Book Prize -- awarded annually for an outstanding monograph dealing with the international relations, foreign policy, or foreign-policy decision-making of any of the states of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe.
- Ed A. Hewett Book Prize -- awarded annually for an outstanding publication on the political economy of the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe and their transitional successors.
- Barbara Jelavich Book Prize -- awarded annually for a distinguished monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history.
- AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies -- awarded annually for the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs.
- W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize -- awarded biennially (in even numbered years) for an author's first published monograph or scholarly synthesis that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for the understanding of Russia's past.
The deadline for nominations is May 2, 2008.
For detailed rules of eligibility and submission guidelines please see: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/prizes.html