Organizer: International Association for The Humanities in partnership with the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
The congress will focus on the humanities and related social sciences as an intellectual practice fundamentally integrated into culture. Being an integral element of our societies, the humanities are not only determined by cultural and historical changes, but also themselves participate in cultural transformation. Culture is understood here in a broad sense as a life world historically shared by a particular community. The humanities and social sciences arose in response to concrete needs of public life and rely on the principles of the European humanistic tradition. Whenever socio-humanistic knowledge acquired the features of ideology, critical scholarly reflection helped unmask such distortions and in so doing revealed a new meaningful horizon for the practical life of people in various fields.
The contemporary institutional crisis of the socio-humanities should be understood in its local specificity and should be analyzed as an important symptom of a certain disruption in relations between different spheres of the life world. Therefore, one of the crucial challenges is how to engender an alternative cultural logic that would take its bearings from the production of meaning carried out in the humanities and social sciences for meaningful and inspiring reflection on social-cultural development.
In this regard, we invite examination of the role socio-humanistic studies have been playing and play in social-cultural transformations in the region. The congress’s agenda assumes a close relation between the humanities and social sciences. Moreover, it requires a revision of this division as well as a revision of interchange between scholarly reflection and public social-cultural initiatives. It is also necessary to focus on possible ways (forms and models) of cultural integration of scholarly reflection and on the related methodological innovations in the humanities and social sciences.
Proposals are welcome for panels, discussions (round-tables, panel discussions, book discussions), and individual papers on any aspect of the Congress theme related to Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Practitioners and scholars in all fields with an interest in humanities and related social sciences are encouraged to participate.
Submissions of pre-organized panels and discussions are strongly encouraged and will be given priority in the selection process. Individual papers are also welcome and selected papers will be assigned by the Program Committee to an appropriate panel with a chair and a discussant.
The deadline for submission of all proposals is: January 20, 2020.
Decisions will be communicated by March 20, 2020.
Contacts: congress2020@mag-iah.com
Full call: http://www.mag-iah.com/news/75#en
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