Solidarity, Memory and Identity
The following list of suggested conference topics is open:
I. Contemporary World
- America and Europe in the face of the “Arab Spring of Nations” 2011
- solidarity after September 11th
- the rage and the pride: the world in the face of terrorism
- difficult coexistence: Islam, Judaism, Christianity
- post-communism: being European in Eastern Europe
- solidarity and violence
- solidarity and multiculturalism
- solidarity and globalization
- solidarity and political correctness
- solidarity and nationalism
- solidarity and racism
- solidarity and propaganda
II. Memory and Oblivion
- the Holocaust: righteous among the nations
- genocide: the solidarity of the perpetrators, the solidarity of the victims
- post-war coexistences: between memory and vindictiveness
- memory and trauma: solidarity of the expelled
- postmemory: solidarity of late grandchildren / solidarity with the forebears / solidarity with the dead
- the terror of memory
- solidarity and amnesia
III. Forms of Identity
- cosmopolites and patriots
- local communities
- solidarity as a generational experience
- solidarity of women / solidarity of men
- solidarity between genders
- identity of the minorities (ethnic, religious, sexual)
- professional solidarity
- solidarity and individualism
- solidarity and identity crises
IV. About Ideas
- homo solidaritus
- solidarity and postmodernity
- solidarity with the Other
- solidarity and tolerance
- solidarity and resentment
- solidarity and loneliness
- solidarity and betrayal
- solidarity and irony
V. About Literature and Art
- novels/ films/ performances that shook the world
- literature, art, film, theatre as memory “media”
- solidarity as a literary motif
- solidarity and representation
- solidarity and fiction
- in the realm of spectacle: the solidarity of spectators and participants
- socially engaged art: artists in defense of human rights
VI. Everyday Life
- solidarity and the free market
- solidarity and the media
- support groups
- strikes, rallies, demonstrations
- equality parades
- silent marches
- solidarity and mourning
- solidarity in the animal world
- solidarity and environmentalism
- solidarity and lobbying
- solidarity of sports fans
- solidarity of the mediocre
Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of proposed 20-minute presentations, together with a short biographical note, until 30th April 2012 to:
Prof. Wojciech Owczarski, University of Gdańsk, Poland: wowczarski1@tlen.pl
and
Profa Maria Virginia Filomena Cremasco, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil: mavicremasco@hotmail.com