Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe 2000-2
CONFERENCES[118
See also the Conference Calendar.
Announcement
Civil Society and Democracy in the New Millennium - 20th World
Congress of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences
Date: 09.08.-13.08.2000 Conference site: Washington, USA Organiser:
The Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU)
Contact: SVU President - Mila Rechcigl
Tel.: 301-881-7222
Fax: 301-881-9667
E-mail: rechcigl@aol.com
Internet: http://www.utoronto.ca/crees/conferences/
czech.htm
Announcement
Approaching a New Millennium: Lessons from the Past - Prospects for the
Future - The 7th ISSEI Conference
Date: 14.08.-18.08.2000
Conference site: Bergen, Norway
Organiser: International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI)
Topics:
* The Progress of Integration - Religious and Cultural Minorities in the New
Central European Democracies
* Democracy in the European Union - Integration trough deliberation?
* The Impact of Political Culture on the Democratization in Eastern Europe -
Theoretical Remarks and Empirical Results
* State Building, Democracy in the Post Soviet States: Risks and Challenges
at the Close of the 20th Century
* Theories of Democracy for Europe: Principles and Preconditions
Contact: Univ. of Bergen, Centre for the Study of European
Civilizations
Haakon Sheteligsplass 11
N-5007 Bergen, Norway
E-mail: ISSEI2000@uib.no
Internet: http://www.uib.no/issei2000/
Announcement
Minorities in a Pluralist Society in the New Millennium
Date: 01.09-03.09.2000
Conference site: Brno, Czech Republic
Organiser: Masaryk University, School of Social Studies, Brno; The
British Embassy, Prague
Contact: Masaryk Univ., School of Social Studies, Dept. of Psychology
Gorkeho 7
CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Tel.: ++420-5-41 61 51 26
Fax: ++420-5-41 61 51 00
E-mail: polaskov@fss.uni.cz
Internet: http://www.fss.muni.cz/psych/romale/conf_2000
Announcement
Building Communication in Europe: People and Organisations
- Seventh European Summer Seminar in Intercultural Studies
Date: 05.09.-10.09.2000
Conference site: Krakow, Poland
Organiser: Institute for International Communication; Amsterdam in
cooperation with Jagiellonian Univ. and SIETAR Europa
Contact: B. van Houten, Institute for Intercultural Communication
Marnixstraat 154-I
NL-Amsterdam
Tel.: ++31-20-624 2212
Fax: ++31-20-624 1513
E-mail: bvhouten@euronet.nl
Announcement
Globalisation and European Integration
Date: 07.09-09.09.2000
Conference site: Univ. of Barcelona, Spain
Organiser: The Council of the European Association for Comparative
Economic Studies (EACES)
Contact: Benjamin Bastida, GATE, Univ. of Barcelona, Dept. Política
Economica
Avenida Diagonal, 690
E-08034 Barcelona, Spain
Tel.: ++34-93-40 21 949
Fax: ++34-93-40 24 573
E-mail: gate2000@eco
Announcement
Ethnic Borderlands in Europe: Coexistence and Conflicts
Date: 09.09-10.09.2000
Conference site: Suprasl, near Bialystok, Poland
Organiser: Univ. of Bialystok, Institute of Sociology
Contact: Anna Borkowska, Univ. of Bialystok, Inst. Of Sociology
Ul. Liniarskiego 3
PL-15420 Bialystok, Poland
Tel.: ++48-85-745 71 04
E-mail: isoc@noc.uwb.edu.pl
Announcement
The Changing Role of Borderlands and Regional Policy
Date: 13.09.-15.09.2000
Conference site: Zgorzelec, Poland
Organiser: Univ. of Lodz, Chair of Political Geography and Regional
Studies; State Scientific Institute "Silesian Institute", Opole;
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Topics:
* European integration and regional policy
* The function of borderlands in view of European Community integration
processes
* Comparing Western practice to the capacities of Poland and Eastern and
Central Europe
Contact: Prof. Dr. Marek Koter or Dr. Marek Sobczynski
Ul. Kopcienskiego 31
Tel.: ++48-42-635 45 90
Fax: ++48-42-635 45 92
Internet: http://www.uni.lodz.pl/ulinfo/sesm23.htm
Announcement
The Anthropology of Southeast Europe - Ten Years After: Socio-Cultural
Aspects of Transformation
Date: 14.09-17.09.2000
Conference site: Sofia, Bulgaria
Organiser: The Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA)
Contact: Prof. Dr. Klaus Roth, Institut für deutsche und
vergleichende Volkskunde
Ludwigstr. 25
D-80539 München
Tel.: ++49-89-16 28 09
E-mail: k.roth@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
or:
Dr. Milena Benovska, Sofia
E-mail: milena@tusk.icn.bg
Announcement
Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Ethics, Integrity, and Human
Rights
- Third Biennial International Conference
Date: 21.09.-23.09.2000
Conference site: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Organiser: Univ. of Ljubljana, College of Police and Security Studies
Contact: Milan Pagon, Univ. of L., College of Police and Security
Studies
Kotnikova 8
SL-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel.: ++386-61-172 4678
Fax: ++386-61-302 687
E-mail: milanp@vpvs.uni-lj.si
Announcement
Totalitarianism and Authoritarianism in Europe: short time and long-time
perspective
Date: 28.09-30.09.2000
Conference site: Warsaw, Poland
Organiser: German Historical Institute, Warsaw; Polish Academy of
Sciences, Historical Institute; Italian Cultural Institute
Contact: German Historical Institute Warsaw
Palac Kultury i Nauki (17th floor)
Plac Defilad 1, skr. 33
PL 00-901 Warszawa
Tel.: ++48-22-656-7182, -7185
Fax: ++48-22-693-7006
E-mail: dhi@dhi.waw.pl
Internet: http://www.dhi.waw.pl
Announcement
Czech Political Science at the Beginning of the New Millennium
- The first congress of the Czech political scientists
Date: 29.09.-01.10.2000
Conference site: Brno, Czech Republic
Organiser: Czech Political Science Association in co-operation with
the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk Univ.,
Brno
Contact: Ass. Prof. Dr. V. Dvoakova, Univ. of Economics, Dept. of
Political Science
Nam W. Churchilla 4
CZ-130 67 Prague 3, Czech Republic
E-mail: dvorakv@vse.cz
Announcement
Sixth Nordic-Baltic Conference in Regional Sciences
Date: 04.10-07.10.2000
Conference site: Riga, Latvia
Contact: Dr. Biruta Sloka
E-mail: sloka@acad.latnet.lv
Internet: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/arkleton/events.htm
Announcement
Europe in the 20th Century. Main directions of development
(Ecology, Economy, Culture and Politics)
Date: 10.10.2000
Conference site: Lodz, Poland
Organiser: Univ. of Lodz, Faculty of Philosophy and History, Institute
of History
Contact: Prof. Dr. J. Grobis or Prof. Dr. E. Wisniewski
Ul Kaminskiego 27a
PL-90-219 Lodz
Tel./Fax: ++48-42-678 54 88
Internet: http://www.uni.lodz.pl/ulan/sesa12.htm
Announcement
Women's Memory: Oral Histories from Transition. Theory and Practice
Date: 03.11.-05.11.00
Conference site: Budapest. Hungary
Organiser: Central European University
Contact: Central European University
Nargiza Turgunova
Nador u.9
1051 Budapest, Hungary
Tel.: + 361-327-3296
E-mail: turgunov@ceu.hu
Internet: http://www.utoronto.ca/crees/conferences/
gender2.htm
Announcement
The European Union, The Baltic States and the Northern Dimension
Date: 10.11.-11.10.00
Conference site: London, Great Britain
Organiser: University Association Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
Contact: UACES
King's College, Strand
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7240 0206
Fax: +44 (0)20 7836 2350
E-mail: admin@uaces.org
Internet: http://www.uaces.org/u-info/14.htm
Announcement
Eastern and Central Europe: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the
Future
Date: 17.11.-19.11.00
Conference site: Warsaw, Poland
Organiser: The Graduate School for Social Research (GSRR) at the
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the
School for Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London,
Department of Sociology of the Central European University
Contact: GSSR
E-mail: GSSR_conference@yahoo.com
Internet: http://www.sns.edu.pl
Conference report
Summer School 2000
Summer School 2000 took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 20. till 25. June. It
was organized by UNESCO-Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme,
the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
The topic of the School was International Comparative Research Programmes in
the Social Sciences. The School was attended by 36 doctoral students, young
researchers and university teachers below 35 years of age coming from 24
countries. The students came mostly from Europe but also from Argentina,
Uruguay, Mexico, the USA, Canada, Turkey, Lebanon, Pakistan and the Philippines.
The truly international group was selected from 146 applications. Distinguished
researchers from 11 countries delivered lectures and participated in the
debates. .
The major results of Summer School 2000 can be summarized as follows:
1. Knowledge dissemination. The keynote lecture on strategies of
comparative research in the social sciences was delivered by Mattei Dogan,
France. The participants received first hand information about projects of the Management
of Social Transformation Programme - ETHNO-NET Africa (Paul Nkwi, Cameroon),
RISK (Nikolai Genov, Bulgaria), MOST's Clearing House (Petra Van Vucht Tijssen,
the Netherlands). The Comparative Research on Poverty Programme of the
ISSC was presented by Blandine Destremau (France-Yemen). Jill Jaeger
(Austria-Germany) analysed achievements and problems of the IHDP Programme of
ICSU-ISSC. Wolfgang Glatzer (Germany) introduced to the students the long-term
international project on Comparative Charting of Social Change. Kjell
Nilsson (Sweden) explained the background, the content and the logistical
concept of the project for developing a MA course on Internet on European
transformations in a comparative perspective. Christian Giordano (Switzerland)
drew some parallels between social processes in Eastern Europe and in East Asia.
Iannis Kinnas (Greece) and Hisayoshi Mitsuda (Japan) discussed comparative
aspects of environmental studies in the social sciences. A Round Table
discussion on the processes in South-Eastern Europe fostered the understanding
of regional processes in the global context.
2. Networking. In the course of the intensive debates during the
sessions of the School and in various less formal meetings, intensive
interactions facilitated the exchange of experience and the mutual
understanding. The inter-generational exchange of scientific and everyday life
experience came about in the most natural way. The discussions among young
colleagues paved the way to future scientific cooperation. Joint research
projects were discussed already during the Summer School. There is no doubt that
the communication between the participants will continue. There will be various
follow-ups of the School.
3. Capacity building. The knowledge acquired during the Summer School
opened new vistas for professional development and realization of the
participants. More specifically, they learned about new approaches to their
research subject field, which are truly comparative, interdisciplinary as a rule
and practically oriented in most cases. An important part of capacity building
was the development of skills for participation in international debates and in
international scientific networking. Young colleagues were especially encouraged
to chair sessions of the School thus taking the role of leaders in debates and
in networking.
The positive reactions to Summer School 2000 by the participants are
overwhelming. This is a clear signal that there is a genuine need of this type
of professional frameworks fostering knowledge dissemination, networking and
capacity building. It is the major responsibility of international organizations
to actively initiate and support them. Thus, the accumulated experience urges to
institutionalise an International Summer School on Comparative Research in
the Social Sciences.
Prof. Nikolai Genov
Local organiser, Institute of Sociology
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
[118] The printed information on
conferences is an extract from the Internet conference calendar of the GESIS
Branch Office. The calendar is updated every two weeks, it also contains
information on events in the German-speaking area. ]
CONFERENCES[118
See also the Conference Calendar.
Announcement
Civil Society and Democracy in the New Millennium - 20th World
Congress of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences
Date: 09.08.-13.08.2000 Conference site: Washington, USA Organiser:
The Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU)
Contact: SVU President - Mila Rechcigl
Tel.: 301-881-7222
Fax: 301-881-9667
E-mail: rechcigl@aol.com
Internet: http://www.utoronto.ca/crees/conferences/
czech.htm.
Announcement
Approaching a New Millennium: Lessons from the Past - Prospects for the
Future - The 7th ISSEI Conference
Date: 14.08.-18.08.2000
Conference site: Bergen, Norway
Organiser: International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI)
Topics:
* The Progress of Integration - Religious and Cultural Minorities in the New
Central European Democracies
* Democracy in the European Union - Integration trough deliberation?
* The Impact of Political Culture on the Democratization in Eastern Europe -
Theoretical Remarks and Empirical Results
* State Building, Democracy in the Post Soviet States: Risks and Challenges
at the Close of the 20th Century
* Theories of Democracy for Europe: Principles and Preconditions
Contact:
Univ. of Bergen,
Centre for the Study of European
Civilizations
Haakon Sheteligsplass 11
N-5007 Bergen, Norway
E-mail: ISSEI2000@uib.no
Internet: http://www.uib.no/issei2000/
Announcement
Minorities in a Pluralist Society in the New Millennium
Date: 01.09-03.09.2000
Conference site: Brno, Czech Republic
Organiser: Masaryk University, School of Social Studies, Brno; The
British Embassy, Prague
Contact: Masaryk Univ., School of Social Studies, Dept. of Psychology
Gorkeho 7
CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Tel.: ++420-5-41 61 51 26
Fax: ++420-5-41 61 51 00
E-mail: polaskov@fss.uni.cz'
Internet: http://www.fss.muni.cz/psych/romale/conf_2000
Announcement
Building Communication in Europe: People and Organisations
- Seventh European Summer Seminar in Intercultural Studies
Date: 05.09.-10.09.2000
Conference site: Krakow, Poland
Organiser: Institute for International Communication; Amsterdam in
cooperation with Jagiellonian Univ. and SIETAR Europa
Contact: B. van Houten, Institute for Intercultural Communication
Marnixstraat 154-I
NL-Amsterdam
Tel.: ++31-20-624 2212
Fax: ++31-20-624 1513
E-mail: bvhouten@euronet.nl
Announcement
Globalisation and European Integration
Date: 07.09-09.09.2000
Conference site: Univ. of Barcelona, Spain
Organiser: The Council of the European Association for Comparative
Economic Studies (EACES)
Contact: Benjamin Bastida, GATE, Univ. of Barcelona, Dept. Política
Economica
Avenida Diagonal, 690
E-08034 Barcelona, Spain Tel.: ++34-93-40 21 949
Fax: ++34-93-40 24 573
E-mail: gate2000@eco
Announcement
Ethnic Borderlands in Europe: Coexistence and Conflicts
Date: 09.09-10.09.2000
Conference site: Suprasl, near Bialystok, Poland
Organiser: Univ. of Bialystok, Institute of Sociology
Contact: Anna Borkowska, Univ. of Bialystok, Inst. Of Sociology
Ul. Liniarskiego 3
PL-15420 Bialystok, Poland
Tel.: ++48-85-745 71 04
E-mail: isoc@noc.uwb.edu.pl
Announcement
The Changing Role of Borderlands and Regional Policy
Date: 13.09.-15.09.2000
Conference site: Zgorzelec, Poland
Organiser: Univ. of Lodz, Chair of Political Geography and Regional
Studies; State Scientific Institute "Silesian Institute", Opole;
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Topics:
* European integration and regional policy
* The function of borderlands in view of European Community integration
processes
* Comparing Western practice to the capacities of Poland and Eastern and
Central Europe
Contact: Prof. Dr. Marek Koter or Dr. Marek Sobczynski
Ul. Kopcienskiego 31
Tel.: ++48-42-635 45 90
Fax: ++48-42-635 45 92
Internet: http://www.uni.lodz.pl/ulinfo/sesm23.htm
Announcement
The Anthropology of Southeast Europe - Ten Years After: Socio-Cultural
Aspects of Transformation
Date: 14.09-17.09.2000
Conference site: Sofia, Bulgaria
Organiser: The Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA)
Contact: Prof. Dr. Klaus Roth, Institut für deutsche und
vergleichende Volkskunde
Ludwigstr. 25
D-80539 München
Tel.: ++49-89-16 28 09
E-mail: k.roth@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
or:
Dr. Milena Benovska, Sofia
E-mail: milena@tusk.icn.bg
Announcement
Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Ethics, Integrity, and Human
Rights
- Third Biennial International Conference
Date: 21.09.-23.09.2000
Conference site: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Organiser: Univ. of Ljubljana, College of Police and Security Studies
Contact: Milan Pagon, Univ. of L., College of Police and Security
Studies
Kotnikova 8
SL-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel.: ++386-61-172 4678
Fax: ++386-61-302 687
E-mail: milanp@vpvs.uni-lj.si
Announcement
Totalitarianism and Authoritarianism in Europe: short time and long-time
perspective
Date: 28.09-30.09.2000
Conference site: Warsaw, Poland
Organiser: German Historical Institute, Warsaw; Polish Academy of
Sciences, Historical Institute; Italian Cultural Institute
Contact: German Historical Institute Warsaw
Palac Kultury i Nauki (17th floor)
Plac Defilad 1, skr. 33
PL 00-901 Warszawa
Tel.: ++48-22-656-7182, -7185
Fax: ++48-22-693-7006
E-mail: dhi@dhi.waw.pl
Internet: http://www.dhi.waw.pl
Announcement
Czech Political Science at the Beginning of the New Millennium
- The first congress of the Czech political scientists
Date: 29.09.-01.10.2000
Conference site: Brno, Czech Republic
Organiser: Czech Political Science Association in co-operation with
the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk Univ.,
Brno
Contact: Ass. Prof. Dr. V. Dvoakova, Univ. of Economics, Dept. of
Political Science
Nam W. Churchilla 4
CZ-130 67 Prague 3, Czech Republic
E-mail: dvorakv@vse.cz
Announcement
Sixth Nordic-Baltic Conference in Regional Sciences
Date: 04.10-07.10.2000
Conference site: Riga, Latvia
Contact: Dr. Biruta Sloka
E-mail: sloka@acad.latnet.lv
Internet: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/arkleton/events.htm
Announcement
Europe in the 20th Century. Main directions of development
(Ecology, Economy, Culture and Politics)
Date: 10.10.2000
Conference site: Lodz, Poland
Organiser: Univ. of Lodz, Faculty of Philosophy and History, Institute
of History
Contact: Prof. Dr. J. Grobis or Prof. Dr. E. Wisniewski
Ul Kaminskiego 27a
PL-90-219 Lodz
Tel./Fax: ++48-42-678 54 88
Internet: http://www.uni.lodz.pl/ulan/sesa12.htm
Announcement
Women's Memory: Oral Histories from Transition. Theory and Practice
Date: 03.11.-05.11.00
Conference site: Budapest. Hungary
Organiser: Central European University
Contact: Central European University
Nargiza Turgunova
Nador u.9
1051 Budapest, Hungary
Tel.: + 361-327-3296
E-mail: turgunov@ceu.hu
Internet: http://www.utoronto.ca/crees/conferences/
gender2.htm
Announcement
The European Union, The Baltic States and the Northern Dimension
Date: 10.11.-11.10.00
Conference site: London, Great Britain
Organiser: University Association Contemporary European Studies
(UACES)
Contact: UACES
King's College, Strand
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7240 0206
Fax: +44 (0)20 7836 2350
E-mail: admin@uaces.org
Internet: http://www.uaces.org/u-info/14.htm
Announcement
Eastern and Central Europe: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the
Future
Date: 17.11.-19.11.00
Conference site: Warsaw, Poland
Organiser: The Graduate School for Social Research (GSRR) at the
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the
School for Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London,
Department of Sociology of the Central European University
Contact: GSSR
E-mail: GSSR_conference@yahoo.com
Internet: http://www.sns.edu.pl
Conference report
Summer School 2000
Summer School 2000 took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 20. till 25. June. It
was organized by UNESCO-Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme,
the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
The topic of the School was International Comparative Research Programmes in
the Social Sciences. The School was attended by 36 doctoral students, young
researchers and university teachers below 35 years of age coming from 24
countries. The students came mostly from Europe but also from Argentina,
Uruguay, Mexico, the USA, Canada, Turkey, Lebanon, Pakistan and the Philippines.
The truly international group was selected from 146 applications. Distinguished
researchers from 11 countries delivered lectures and participated in the
debates. .
The major results of Summer School 2000 can be summarized as follows:
1. Knowledge dissemination. The keynote lecture on strategies of
comparative research in the social sciences was delivered by Mattei Dogan,
France. The participants received first hand information about projects of the Management
of Social Transformation Programme - ETHNO-NET Africa (Paul Nkwi, Cameroon),
RISK (Nikolai Genov, Bulgaria), MOST's Clearing House (Petra Van Vucht Tijssen,
the Netherlands). The Comparative Research on Poverty Programme of the
ISSC was presented by Blandine Destremau (France-Yemen). Jill Jaeger
(Austria-Germany) analysed achievements and problems of the IHDP Programme of
ICSU-ISSC. Wolfgang Glatzer (Germany) introduced to the students the long-term
international project on Comparative Charting of Social Change. Kjell
Nilsson (Sweden) explained the background, the content and the logistical
concept of the project for developing a MA course on Internet on European
transformations in a comparative perspective. Christian Giordano (Switzerland)
drew some parallels between social processes in Eastern Europe and in East Asia.
Iannis Kinnas (Greece) and Hisayoshi Mitsuda (Japan) discussed comparative
aspects of environmental studies in the social sciences. A Round Table
discussion on the processes in South-Eastern Europe fostered the understanding
of regional processes in the global context.
2. Networking. In the course of the intensive debates during the
sessions of the School and in various less formal meetings, intensive
interactions facilitated the exchange of experience and the mutual
understanding. The inter-generational exchange of scientific and everyday life
experience came about in the most natural way. The discussions among young
colleagues paved the way to future scientific cooperation. Joint research
projects were discussed already during the Summer School. There is no doubt that
the communication between the participants will continue. There will be various
follow-ups of the School.
3. Capacity building. The knowledge acquired during the Summer School
opened new vistas for professional development and realization of the
participants. More specifically, they learned about new approaches to their
research subject field, which are truly comparative, interdisciplinary as a rule
and practically oriented in most cases. An important part of capacity building
was the development of skills for participation in international debates and in
international scientific networking. Young colleagues were especially encouraged
to chair sessions of the School thus taking the role of leaders in debates and
in networking.
The positive reactions to Summer School 2000 by the participants are
overwhelming. This is a clear signal that there is a genuine need of this type
of professional frameworks fostering knowledge dissemination, networking and
capacity building. It is the major responsibility of international organizations
to actively initiate and support them. Thus, the accumulated experience urges to
institutionalise an International Summer School on Comparative Research in
the Social Sciences.
Prof. Nikolai Genov
Local organiser, Institute of Sociology
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
[118] The printed information on
conferences is an extract from the Internet conference calendar of the GESIS
Branch Office. The calendar is updated every two weeks, it also contains
information on events in the German-speaking area. ]
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