konferencia jelentkezes

[Peto Andrea]

TEN YEARS AFTER 1989
EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE'S ROAD TO THE NEW WORLD.
A FIRST BALANCE SHEET


Call for Papers

The Hungarian Sociological Association is pleased to announce  its
Memorial Conference dedicated to social studies of the First Decade in
the Post-Socialist transformation process, to be held on September
22-24, 1999 at the Hungarian Academy's headquarters in Budapest,
Hungary. APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Abstracts for papers should be about 300 words in length. Proposals
for other types of contributions are also encouraged. The deadline for
abstracts and other proposals is extended to 1 May, 1999 but
pre-register and mention your preliminary title as soon as possible!
For  the section 14. Sociology of Gender,  New Feminist Movements
(Peto Andrea) send your application to petoand@ ceu.hu CEU Budapest,
Nador u. 9. 1051, Hungary

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
CSEH-SZOMBATHY Laszlo, Budapest, Chairman
CSAKO Mihaly, Budapest
FALTAN Lubomir, Bratislava
FIRSOV Boris, St. Petersburg
GAAL Erno, Cluj
GENOV Nicolai, Sofia
ILLNER Michal, Prague
JADOV Vladimir, Moscow
KOVACH Imre, Budapest
NEMEDI Denes, Budapest
PLESU Andrei, Bucharest (?)
SEKELJ Laslo, Belgrade
SIK Endre, Budapest
SKAPSKA Grazyna, Cracow
SZELENYI Ivan, Los Angeles (?)
TAMAS Pal, Budapest
WESOLOWSKI Wlodimierz, Warsaw
WIESENTHALHelmut,Berlin

OVERVIEW

The conference aims at bringing together researchers from a wide range
of backgrounds to discuss the present and future directions of the
East and Central European transition. The key challange for this
conference is how we can rethink traditional concepts about the
performance of social, economic and political order and social
relations in the process of radical transformation of the region. We
are interested in examining pivotal issues in the analysis of social
transformation (transition studies)  from an inter-disciplinary
perspective. We welcome papers that explore the following questions
either from a theoretical perspective or through current research:

. From protocapitalism to postsocialism - transformation of concepts
about transformation. . From organized disorder to disorganized order:
Social frames and social strategies in the New Central and Eastern
Europe. . What holds the new society in place? . Dilemmas of
periodization - do they have any sense in the late 90s? . If
(post)modern societies are able to survive on much less structure,
cohesion or foundation than the social theorists have generally
assumed, how much cement, how much "existence" do the social needs
require? . Social mobilization and demobilization: what are the
theoretical/methodological advantages of using a historical
perspective in studying patterns of social mobilization? . New
perspectives on power and social difference often rattle existing
understandings of anti-systemic agency. In what ways? This set of
questions has been reduced in the past to a debate between
"evolutionary" and "revolutionary" positions. How can we best analyze
such debates as artefacts of world-historical processes? Are there
alternative ways of posing these questions that suggest innovations in
the study of long-term, large-scale social change? . Old and new
markers and division lines between economics and politics.

The Conference Organisers plan to invite those social activists,
reformers, political leaders and international experts as well, who
played significant role in the actual transformation processes of the
region in the last decade.

PROGRAM

The conference will be organised in 4 main streams. Inside the streams
the papers and debates will be presented in 19 sections and round
tables (some sections plane one, some more sessions): Theme I:
Elements of the New Social Order (Vision, Prospects and Realities)
Theme II: Structures and Institutions Theme III: Transformations of
Everyday Life - New Styles and Orientations Theme IV: The New World of
Work

SECTIONS AND ROUND TABLES

  1. Social Stratification in the 1990s (Robert Peter)
  2. Transformation in Households and Families (Toth Istvan Gyoergy) 3.
  Institutionalisation of the New Political System, Legitimacy and
  Party System (Bayer Jozsef) 4. National Strategies and the
  EU-Enlargement (Inotai Andras) 5. Social Policies of Post-Socialism
  (Szalai Julia) 6. New Economic Actors and Institutions in Eastern
  and Central Europe (Lengyel Gyoergy)
      7. Organizational Innovation and Organizational Power in the
      Privatized Enterprises (Mako Csaba)
  8. The Role of Trade Unions in the Post-1989 Economic and Social
  Policies (Csako Mihaly) 9. East European Historiography  and the
  Post-1989 Transformation  (Pok Attila)
10. Collective Memories - Strategies of Remembering (Nemedi Denes) 11.
Rural Transformation and Innovation (Kovach Imre) 12. The New
Metropolis - Emerging Structures in the Central European Urban
Networks (Szirmai Viktoria) 13. Post-Socialist Networks (Sik Endre)
14. Sociology of Gender,  New Feminist Movements (Peto Andrea) 15.
Educational Reforms of the 90s (Kozma Tamas) 16. Church and Religion
in the Post-Transformation Central Europe (Tomka Miklos) 17.
Ethnopolitics, the Ethnical Dimensions of Social Inequalities (Csepeli
Gyoergy) 18. Media Transformation,  as Integral Part of Social Reforms
(Horvat Janos) 19. Minority Policies in Central Europe (Szarka Laszlo)