International Interdisciplinary Student Conference 2012:
“The Others”
When: 16. 11. – 18. 11. 2012
Who: We welcome all students who submit their papers on time (no matter the
level of studies, study, or age)
Where: Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
”The Others”
In submitted
papers we will be looking for constructive thinking which will be focused on the
relationship to and the construction of the
others in any level of humanistic thought.
The goal is
to point out and inquire about the concept of the other or others in
relationship to our own existence.
Questions
like these come to mind: Who or what is the
other? How does the other appear?
What is the role and position of the other
in the process of formation and establishing and keeping our own identity? Why having
others? Why the need for being
different and not diverse? What kind of interactions appear between us and others? How it feels when we become the other? Is this classification apparent in today’s social
climate? Can we learn something about people and their society from the way
they accept others? How are others articulated and what kind of discourse
appears in connection to them? Where are the differences most apparent and why
in those areas? How important is differentiation and where it leads? What is natural
in differentiation, if anything at all? Is differentiation good or should it be
avoided?
We are interested
in the others in relationship with
gender, religion, continent, country (nationality), culture (subculture and contra
culture), ethnicity, sexual orientation, world view (values), family,
individual, and also others; others in media, school, work place,
everyday life, social difference, literature, history, etc.
Who is being
addressed with the term other;
society or nature, foreigner or enemy, us or them?
Other info:
All interested parties
should send their abstracts in English language (up to 300 words) to this
address: drustvo.apriori@gmail.com no later than
16. 9. 2012, Subject:
IISC2012.first name.surname.the title of the paper.
Please let us know
your information (first name, surname, e-mail, faculty/department, university, a short biography and an address to which you will receive the post-conference volume with selected
papers short biography) in the same document.
You are provided with:
2x sleeping with breakfast, 1x conference dinner, 1x lunch between sessions,
snacks and refreshments during the conference, working material and a copy of the
post-conference volume. Travel expenses are covered by participants themselves.
All the
applications will be read by the organizing committee who will let the
applicant know their decision by 26. 9. 2012. The participants will then, with
a conformational e-mail, register until 5. 10. 2012 or his/her position in the
conference will be passed on to the next willing applicant.
The
conference will be held in the English language. Each participant has been
allocated 20 min to present his/her paper, plus 10 min for discussion.
The best
papers will be selected and published in the post-conference volume.
We kindly ask you to send the invitation to all who you find
could be interested and help them gain new experiences, and at the same time to
make the confernece even better. Thank you!
We are looking forward to work with you!
Event is
organized by A priori, society for humanities, art and cultural theory (A priori, društvo za humanistiko,
umetnost in kulturološka vprašanja). Project leader is Nika Škof.
