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>                     NEWSLETTER
>           Sozialwissenschaften in Osteuropa
>                     Dezember 97
>
>                    Teil 9 von 13
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> TAGUNGEN
>
> Ankuendigung
> Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Osteuropakunde e.V.:
> Staatenbildung und Gesellschaftswandel im neuen Osteuropa
> Zeit: 12.-14.3.1998
> Ort: Bremen
> Veranstalter: Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Osteuropakunde e.V.
> Themenschwerpunkte:
> * Kategorien und Begriffe in der Diskussion (Referenten: W. Eichwede, K.
> von Beyme)
> * Die staatliche Dimension (Referenten: D. Geyer, S. Holovatyi)
> * Machtstrukturen und Verfassungsordnungen in Ostmitteleuropa und Russland
> (Podiumsdiskussion: Moderation G. Brunner)
> * Die gesellschaftliche Dimension (Referenten: C. Machos, M. Tatur)
> Kontakt:
> Herr Bremer
> Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Osteuropakunde e.V.
> Schaperstr. 30
> 10719 Berlin
> Tel.: +4930-21478412
> Fax: +4930-21478414
> E-mail: dgo at zedat.fu-berlin.de
>
> Ankuendigung
> Religions, Rights, and Public Policy: European and North American
> Perspectives
> Zeit: March 15-18, 1998
> Ort: Krakow, Poland
> Veranstalter: Human Rights Center and the Research Center on Jewish History
> and Culture in Poland at Jagiellonian University
> Sponsoren: The Center for the Study of Human Rights, The Harriman
> Institute, and The Institute on East Central Europe at Columbia University
> in the City of New York
> Themenschwerpunkte:
> 1. Religion and Contemporary Theories of the Social Order
> 2. The Protection and Rights of Religious Minorities
> 3. State Regulation and the Rights of Old and New Religious Organizations
> 4. Restitution and Reconciliation: the Role of the State in Property and
> other Disputes
> 5. Religious Advocacy, Proselytism, and Tolerance: Alternative Responses
> 6. Educating for Tolerance
> The conference will also include workshops on advocacy and education.
> Weitere Informationen direkt beim Veranstalter:
> Dr. Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, European Co-ordinator
> Miedzywydzialowy Zaklad Historii i Kultury Zydow w Polsce
> Uniwersytet Jagiellonski
> ul. Batorego 12
> 31-135 Krakow, Poland
> Fax: +4812-344593
> E-mail: uwambros at if.uj.edu.pl
>
> Ankuendigung
> The Economic, Social and Political Problems of European Integration.
> 2nd International Ph.D. Student Workshop
> Zeit: May 14-16, 1998
> Ort: Prague
> Veranstalter: Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE)
> at Charles University
> Themenschwerpunkte: Themes of special interest for the workshop include:
> * estimation of costs and benefits of the European integration
> * institutional reform of the EU
> * governance of the EU
> * monetary integration in the EU
> * comparative studies of EU enlargement candidates
> * lessons from previous enlargements.
> Weitere Informationen direkt beim Veranstalter:
> Jana Pestova CERGE-EI
> Politickych veznu 7, P.O.Box 882
> 11121 Praha 1, Czech Republic
> Tel.: +4202 24230280
> Fax: +4202 24227143, 24211374
> E-mail: workshop at cerge.cuni.cz
>
> Ankuendigung
> Culture and the Politics of Identity in modern Romania
> Zeit: May 27-30, 1998
> Ort: Bucharest, Romania
> Veranstalter: University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of History
> Themenschwerpunkte:
> 1. Modernity and the Construction of National Identity
> 2. Religion and Identity
> 3. Historiography and Historic Myths
> 4. Culture, Identity and the Multiethnic Polity in Interwar Romania
> 5. Engineering National Identity: Cultural Institutions
> 6. Interwar Intellectuals and Politics
> 7. The Women Questions and Feminism
> 8. Ideologies and Theories of Economic Development
> 9. Intellectuals and Communism
> Weitere Informationen direkt beim Veranstalter:
> Irina Livezeanu, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
> Pittsburgh, PA 15260-7403 USA
> Tel.: +412 648-7451
> Fax: +412 648-9074
> Internet: http://www.pitt.edu/identity
>
> Ankuendigung
> Call for papers: First announcement
> The Research Section "Social Stratification" of the Bulgarian Sociological
> Association and the Department "Communities and Social Stratification" at
> the Institute of Sociology (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), announce the
> Conference
> "The Middle Class as a Precondition of a Sustainable Society",
> to be held on June 3-5, 1998 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
> Co-ordinator of the Conference is Dr. Nikolai Tilkidjiev, who is presently
> Chairman of the two organizing institutions.
> Philosophy of the Conference:
> The successful transformation of postcommunist societies into political and
> economically sustainable and democratic societies is dependent on the
> formation and prosperity of a stable middle class, embracing numerous
> social categories, groups and strata. This is a widely shared view, but
> there is no clear, well considered conception of the essence of the middle
> class and of the mechanisms of its formation in the postcommunist social
> reality.
> The general aim of the Conference is to discuss the questions related to
> these issues, both for a better scientific understanding of the problems
> and for practical purposes.
> The specific aims of the Conference:
> * To carry out a useful and productive scientific exchange among
> sociologists in the field of the study of middle class formation and
> development - in Bulgaria and other European countries, especially from
> postcommunist Eastern-Europe.
> * To create a new regional network of sociologists and sociological
> institutions, sharing common interests in the study of the middle class.
> Such a "Middle Class Network" (MICNET) will intensify the inter-regional

> communication and co-operation between social scientists in
> Eastern-European countries and sociologists from Central and Western
> Europe. More regular contacts are much needed and exceptionally useful for
> both sides.
> * To stimulate the interest of Bulgarian social scientists in this field
> and encourage Bulgarian politicians to take practical steps to facilitate
> and support the formation, re-creation and development of the middle strata
> in society.
> Main themes and problems of the Conference:
> The Conference will include 5 sessions:
> 1. Theoretical and conceptual problems regarding the understanding of the
> middle class and middle class formation: what is the middle class and its
> societal significance? What are the main ways it is formed and reproduced?
> The internal differentiation of the middle class: old and new middle class;
> entrepreneurs, managers and professionals; small busines persons and
> self-employed.
> 2. Methodological issues: elaborating classification schemes, basic
> indicators, measurement instruments and data needs in middle class surveys.
> Problems of comparative (cross-temporal and cross-national) research on the
> middle class.
> 3. The middle class in comparative context: comparisons of historical,
> regional and national differences; settlement differences: the middle class
> in cities, towns and villages.
> 4. The middle class and economic stability: work activity, ownership,
> incomes, additional work. Middle class and household and informal
> activities.
> 5. Cultural and political identity of the middle class: educational
> achievements and mobility patterns. Cultural consumption and value systems.
> Prestige and lifestyles of middle class segments. Political values and
> attitudes, preferences and behaviour.
> During the Conference a Round Table on "Mechanisms to stimulate the
> formation of middle strata" will be held with participation of Bulgarian
> politicians, MPs, trade union leaders and businessmen.
> Conference deadlines:
> January 27, 1998 - for applications.
> February 27, 1998 - for abstracts.
> May 15, 1998 - for papers.
> Conference site:
> Plovdiv is the second largest city in Bulgaria. About two hours by train
> from the capital, Sofia, Plovdiv is located in the center of the country,
> on Maritza River. Average temperatures in June are 18-23deg.C. During its
> long and interesting history, the city has gone by twelve different names,
> including Philipopolis in honour of the father of Alexander the Great, and
> there are many significant remains from Roman times through the
> Renaissance. Every May and October an international industrial fair takes
> place in Plovdiv.
> Conference expenses:
> The conference fee is $100. Costs for accommodation and meals will be
> announced as soon as they have been determined. Participants are encouraged
> to obtain funding from sponsoring agencies in their home countries.
> Participants arriving in Sofia by air may travel to Plovdiv by train or
> bus. Taxi fare from the Sofia airport to the central train station is
> approximately $3 (by buses - $0.5); the round-trip train fare from Sofia to
> Plovdiv is approximately $2-3; the ticket from Plovdiv train stations to
> the hotel is $0.5; the taxi fare from Sofia to Plovdiv is $60-65; the hotel
> accommodation per night is $100-150.
> Contact addresses:
> Dr. Nikolai Tilkidjiev
> Dept."Communities and Social Stratification"
> Institute of Sociology
> 13A, Moskovska str
> 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
> Tel.: 359/2-980-90-86
> Fax: 359/2-980-58-95
> E-mail: nick at sclg.uni-sofia.bg
> or
> Natasha Mileva
> Agency for Social Analyses
> Macedonia sq. 1
> 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria
> Tel.: 359/2-866-455
> Fax.: 359/2-800-121
> E-mail: asa at mbox.cit.bg
>
> Ankuendigung
> Gender & Multiculturalism
> The second Women's Studies Research Course for PhD students from Nordic and
> Baltic countries and Northwest Russia
> Zeit: June 7-13 1998
> Ort: Jurmala, Latvia, Resort Center "Baltija"
> Veranstalter: Christina Institute, Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and
> Gender Research, Univ. of Oslo, Norway & Karelian Research Institute,
> Joensuu, Finland
> Course supervisors: Aili Nenola, Christina Institute for Women's Studies,
> University of Helsinki; Irina Novikova, Dep. of English, University of
> Latvia; Kaija Heikkinen, Karelian Research Institute, University of Joensuu
> & Aino Saarinen, Nordic Institute of Women's Studies and Gender Research,
> Univ. of Oslo, Norway
> Themenschwerpunkte:
> * Research methodology and theories concerning the interconnecting problems
> of studying ethnic groups and gender relations in multicultural contexts
> * Problems related to women in migration or refugee situations
> * "Old" & and "new" ethnic groups in the Baltic countries and NW Russia;
> representation and interpretation of gender roles and relations
> * "Old" & "new" ethnic groups in the Nordic countries and related gender
> problems
> Planning for multidisciplinary research and postgraduate study programs in
> ethnic and gender relations in the Nordic and Baltic countries
> The course is aimed at PhD students with research on themes relevant to
> this area of study. The number of participants is limited to 20.
> Tagungskosten: The course is financed by NorFA.
> Bewerbungsschluss: January 1, 1998
> Weitere Informationen direkt beim Veranstalter:
> Aili Nenola, Christina Institute, University of Helsinki
> P.O.Box 4
> FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
> Tel.: +358-9-191-23394
> Fax: +358-9-191-23315
> E-mail: aili.nenola at helsinki.fi
>
> Ankuendigung
> Women's Presence & the Democratic Institutions in Times of Transition
> (A postgraduate course)
> The course is aimed at PhD students and post-docs: social scientists,
> historians, legal scholars -15 from the Nordic countries, 5 from the Baltic
> countries and NW Russia.
> Zeit: August 25-31, 1998
> Ort: Sostrup Castle in Denmark
> Veranstalter: Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research,
> Univ. of Oslo, Norway; University of Aalborg, Denmark; Univ. of Coventry,
> U.K.; Univ. of Kingston, U.K.
> Themenschwerpunkte: The objective of the course is to bring together
> research that is concerned with past, present and future developments of
> democracy from a perspective of double democratization - the
> interrelatedness of political and social citizenships. The key question
> that will be addressed concerns women's presence/ absence in politics and
> the difference this makes in changing Nordic and European contexts and in
> various periods from the late 19th century to the advent of the 21st
> century. We will also analyse how the ongoing internationalization
> undermines the nation-state as the centre for power and authority and as
> the basis and context for political identities and mobilization. How
> principles of modern democracy can be preserved and developed further
> within multilevel political systems (e.i. the EU) will also be addressed.
> Special attention will be paid to divergent feminist discourses and to
> different explanatory strategies, cross-cultural and cross-historical
> comparisons, and to methodologies and materials adequate to transition
> problems.
> Bewerbungsschluss: April 1, 1998
> Weitere Informationen direkt beim Veranstalter:
> Aino Saarinen, Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research,
> University of Oslo
> P.O.Box 1156 Blindern
> N-0317 Oslo, Norway
> Tel.: +47-22-858921
> Fax: +47-22-858950
> E-mail: nikk at nikk.uio.no
>
> Ankuendigung
> Call for Papers:
> Vom 14.-18.9.1998 findet, in Kooperation mit den soziologischen
> Fachverbaenden aus OEsterreich und der Schweiz, der 29. Kongress der Deutschen
> Gesellschaft fuer Soziologie in Freiburg/Breisgau zum Thema "Grenzenlose
> Gesellschaft?" statt. Im Rahmen des Kongresses wird die Sektion "Ost- und
> Ostmitteleuropa-Soziologie eine Sektionsveranstaltung unter dem Titel
> "Osteuropa: Offenheit und Grenzen" durchfuehren. Interessenten sind hiermit
> ausdruecklich aufgerufen, sich um einen der Vortraege zu diesem Rahmenthema
> fuer die Sektionsveranstaltung zu bewerben. Eine Jury, bestehend aus Prof.
> Dr. Balint Balla, TU Berlin, Prof. Dr. Ilja Srubar, Universitaet
> Erlangen-Nuernberg und Dr. Ingrid Oswald, Universitaet Magdeburg wird eine
> Auswahl aus den vorgeschlagenen Beitraegen treffen. Schicken Sie bitte bis
> zum 31.1.1998 ein einseitiges abstract Ihres Beitrages an:
> Kontakt:
> Prof. Dr. Balint Balla
> TU Berlin,
> Institut fuer Soziologie,
> Franklinstr. 28,
> 10587 Berlin
>
> Bericht
> Poland: Social and cultural Paradigms
> The three days Conference took place between 6 and 8 November 1997 in
> Berlin. On the first day it was held in the Polish Cultural Institute, and
> the last two days at the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin. The
> conference was possible thanks to the financial support of the Centre Marc
> Bloch, Social Science Research Centre (WZB) and the Robert Bosh Foundation.
> The Polish Cultural Institute made its facilities available. The conference
> program was divided into three sessions:
> * From history to the Present: Identity, Minorities and Ethnic
> Confrontations;
> * New Actors and Strategies;
> * Globalisation: Between Practice and Representation
> >From 18 papers scheduled 17 were presented and only one participant
> cancelled her participation in the last minute (Dr. Frances Pine from the
> Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge), but
> hopefully she will be able to submit her paper for publication. Speakers
> from Poland, Germany; France, the United Kingdom and the United States
> presented their papers based on their research on the contemporary Polish
> society. They represented various fields of the social sciences: sociology,
> social and cultural anthropology and political sciences. Chairpersons came
> from several German, French and Swiss academic institutions: Centre Marc
> Bloch, Social Science Research Centre - Berlin, Free University and
> European University-Viadrina, University of Fribourg. Several people
> interested in the topic took part in the conference and actively
> participated in discussions.
> The conference fulfilled its two major aims. First, it presented an
> interpretation of the changing political, economic, social and political
> situation in Poland in the last decade. Second, it showed how this
> evolution of the structural framework has shaped people's concepts and
> behaviour. All papers were based on recent empirical materials.
> Anthropologists presented several case studies based on long lasting
> fieldwork explorations done in local communities. In this way the
> conference was up-dated and gave a flavour of authenticity of an experience
> of the ordinary people involved in everyday live.
> Presented findings have shown, inter alia, how important the ethnic
> identification for today's groups still. And this takes place in the
> country that for a long time was presented by official propaganda as
> ethnically monolithic. This multiplicity of cultural and social identities
> can be differenciated with reference to several criteria, such as cultural
> minorities, youth culture or community of forced settlers. Changing
> structural context causes several shifts in peoples attitudes and
> behaviours. They criticise, adapt and reshape the reality they face and
> restructure. In the new context new forms of civility and political culture
> emerge. Some social groups, for example entrepreneurs and agricultural
> entrepreneurs, manage the situation well, while the others are visible
> losers in the new economic deal and are in danger of becoming a permanently
> unemployed class depending on social welfare. Capitalism's rules applied in
> newly privatised enterprises have brought new patterns of control, of
> running and managing shop floors and identities. All these phenomena should
> be placed in a global perspective in which multinational companies play an
> important, transnational and unifying role. However, these 'universal'
> patterns are transformed at the local level and acquire new meanings. This
> is a fascinating phenomenon of taming external models to the local
> meanings, the glimpses of which were given during the conference.
> The conference was, in a sense, about junctions and cross-cuttings
> concerning a current situation in Poland. Participants made several
> insights by combining various theoretical and disciplinary perspectives.
> They cross-cut also various aspects of the Polish contemporary situation
> and life, social hierarchy ranging from new rich to poor, groups defined
> both by their social position and shared culture. But first and above all,
> the conference has given a picture of the country in Central Europe in
> which two important analytic factors of culture and society are
> intertwined, i.e. treated as interdependent variables and abstractions from
> the same reality observed with the help of empirical tools available in the
> social sciences. Thanks to this empirical premise, the discussion on the
> situation in Poland could focus not only on intellectual discourses and
> texts on social and cultural paradigms of the country, but on cultural and
> social aspects of the life of people engaged in social practice. This
> should be regarded as the main value of the conference.
> (Michal Buchowski
> Berlin, Nov. 1997)
>
> Rueckschau
> Second Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe "Values and Norms of Society
> in Change"
> Zeit: August 20-23, 1997
> Ort: Vilnius, Lithuania
> Veranstalter: Vilnius University, Lithuanian Academy of Science, Department
> of Baltic Studies at Stockholm University, Latvian Language Institute,
> Estonian Science Foundation
> More than 200 participants attended the conference, 69% from the Baltic
> countries, about 10% from Western Europe, 9% from outside Europe, 7% from
> Northern Europe, and 5% from Eastern Europe.
> The conference had been organized in nine sections according to the
> scientific discipline that could be assigned to the contribution. 140
> papers were presented, three quarters of them from Baltic authors, very few
> from East European authors (4%), the rest from North America, Western and
> Northern Europe. Strictly social science issues were presented in the
> sections "Sociology" and "Political Science", but social science topics
> were also found in other sections, mainly in History; History and
> Philosophy of Science, Pedagogics. About 20% of the papers can be
> classified as social science papers.
> Weitere Informationen direkt beim Veranstalter:
> Prof. Dr. Ona Voveriene, Vilnius University
> Universiteto 3
> LT-2734 Vilnius, Lithuania
> Tel.: +370-2-634018
> E-mail: BenediktasJuodka at cr.vu.lt
>
> Rueckschau
> EU Adjustment to Eastern Enlargement: Polish and European Perspective
> Zeit: October 23-26, 1997
> Ort: Sopot, Poland
> Veranstalterr: Polish European Community Studies Association; Research
> Centre on European Integration
> Weitere Informationen direkt beim Veranstalter:
> Research Centre on European Integration
> ul. Armii Krajowej 110/121
> 81824 Sopot, Poland
> Tel./Fax: +4858-511613
> oder
> Abt. Informationstransfer Osteuropa
> Dagmar Sucker
> Tel.: +49 30 308-74-263
>
> Rueckschau
> Science in the Front of the Market. Sociological Problems of Science in the
> New Social Reality
> Zeit: 11-12 October, 1997
> Ort: Karpacz, Poland
> Veranstalter: Chair; Prof. Wojciech Sitek
> Themenschwerpunkte: During the conference we have discussed the problem of
> the role science plays in the new social reality and especially the problem
> of functioning of science in the market economy. Experience of different
> countries were compared and was discussed the situation of science in
> Poland. The following problems were deat with: the image of science in
> society, attitudes of public opinion towards science, relationships between
> the institutions of science and their environment, mechanisms of
> functioning of scientific groups, science and the other forms of knowledge
> in the contemporary context.
> Konferenzsprache: Polish and English
> Weitere Informationen direkt beim Veranstalter:
> Institute of Sociology
> pl. Teatralny 8
> 50 - 051 Wroclaw, Poland
> Tel./Fax: 4871-447258
>
> Rueckschau
> Structuring of Identities in 20th Century Europe: East/West Convergencies
> and Divergencies
> Zeit: 20-23 November 1997
> Ort: Konstancin-Jeziorna (near Warsaw)
> Veranstalter: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy
> of Sciences (IFIS PAN)
> Themenschwerpunkte:
> Zygmunt Bauman: Identity - then, now, what for? (Keynote speaker)
> 1. Session: Conceptualising `identity'
> 2. Session: Identity and the difference
> 3. Session: Identity between tradition and globalization
> 4. Session: Identity shaping - producing cultural differences
> 5. Session: National and ethnic identities
> 6. Session: Identities in Europe
> 7. Session: Post-communist identities
> 8. Session: Art and identity
> Roundtable Discussion: Identities and politics in contemporary Europe
> Weitere Informationen direkt beim Veranstalter:
> IFIS-PAN, Prof. Aldona Jawlowska - Prof. Marian Kempny
> ul. Nowy Swiat 72
> 00330 Warsaw, Poland
> Tel.: +4822 8265231
> Fax: +4822 8267181
> E-mail: mkempny at ifispan.waw.pl
>
> Rueckschau
> The Mediterranean: Cultural Identity and Prospects for Intercultural
> Dialogue
> Zeit: December 5-7, 1997
> Ort: Dubrovnik, Croatia
> Veranstalter: Europe House Zagreb
> Konferenzsprache: Croatian, French, English
> Weitere Informationen direkt beim Veranstalter: Europe House Zagreb
> Juriseceva 1/l
> 10 000Zagreb, Croatia
> Tel.: +3851-4813414
> Fax: +3851-4813419, 4813-956
> E-mail: european-movement-croatia at zg.tel.hr
>
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