The Center for Austrian Studies' International and Interdisciplinary Symposium and Workshops "CREATING THE OTHER:

the causes and dynamics of nationalism, ethnic enmity, and racism in central and eastern europe. Universiy of Minnesota

6-8 May, 1999.

The Center's 1999 symposium will be interdisciplinary, consisting of both the presentation and discussion of papers, as well as workshops. The central aim is to foster an interdisciplinary, comparative inquiry into the root causes and dynamics of nationalist, ethnic and racist enmity.

The primary regions to be examined will be Austria; the Habsburg Monarchy and East-Central Europe; and the Balkans. The symposium will be part of an ongoing project concerning the sources and resolution of national, ethnic and racial conflict in the region.

The major themes for papers and discussion will be:

• The Basic Causes of National, Ethnic and Racist Enmity: theory and practice - the historical experience
• The functions of nationalism: psychological, cultural, political and economic.
• The functions of the Other: psychological, cultural, political and economic
• The dynamics of viewing the Other : changes over time in particular regions and among different groups in the functions of nationalism and images of the other.
• Imagining the Other: The creation of images of the Other; literature and discourse.
• Comparative aspects of the problem; transnational comparisons. Central and Eastern Europe and other world regions.

Papers from the conference, as well as some of the discussion, will be published.

If you are interested in participating, please send a brief curriculum vitae (if you are interested in presenting a paper please send a 100 word abstract as well).

Deadline: 15 APRIL 1998

Quelle = Email <H-Soz-u-Kult>

From: Anita Eichinger <eichi002@tc.umn.edu>
Subject: CFP: Creating the other (Minneapolis 6.-8.5.99)
Date: 23.02.1998

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