---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [balkans] CfP: History of Communism in Europe - Intellectuals under Communism- CEVIPOL - ULB Brussels [May 1, 2011] From: "by way of Damiana-Gabriela Otoiu" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, December 14, 2010 8:54 pm To: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR 2011 Avatars of Intellectuals under Communism History of Communism in Europe, new series, vol. II/2011 The forthcoming issue of History of Communism in Europe will focus on the Avatars of Intellectuals under Communism. The very relationship between intellectuals and the totalitarian State is of outstanding importance for anyone willing to understand the fate of academia and culture under Communism. The circulation of ideas in the public space and its subsequent shaping of the political and social bodies depended upon the aforementioned interaction. The Communist states witnessed very diverse reactions towards the ideological monopoly of the Party: outspoken resistance, quiet refusal, forced exile, passive collaboration, vocal support, and many other intermediary approaches. The next issue of the HCE welcomes original contributions on this topic. Ideally, the authors should address the role of the intelligentsia from a comparative viewpoint. The editors encourage young scholars, in particular, to assess the recent historical, cultural, and political findings within the former Soviet Bloc: Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, former GDR or various states of the former USSR or Yugoslavia. Equally, we welcome any contribution that describes the attitude of Western intelligentsia towards the birth, the growth, and the historical decay of the Communist utopia. Senior scholars, researchers and PhD students are invited to submit their proposals on one of the following topics: --Intellectuals and the Communist Party: doctrinaires, utopian revolutionaries, critiques, and dissident thinkers. --Dissidence vs. collaboration. Case-studies and overarching narratives about the relationship between intellectuals and the Party nomenclatura and the Secret Police. In particular, we welcome discussions prompted by the recent archival revelations (responses formulated under pressure in terms of personal voice, voluntary betrayal, blind loyalty, etc) --Eastern European intellectuals and the civil society. How was the 1989 event prefigured by the cultural circles of Poland, Hungary, Russia, and Czech Republic? Which were the first nuclei of civil society under communism and how did the Eastern European intellectuals coined the concept of civil society along their pursuits of an alternative political praxis? --The alternative culture vs. official culture under Communism (this may also include reference to recordings and archival documents about the activities of various literary and artistic bodies). --The phenomenon of samizdat. The grassroots strategies eluding state-imposed censorship on intellectual products. --Readings of Western intellectuals in relation to Communist utopia. How did various philosophers, writers, and journalists justify the works of the authoritarian and totalitarian States behind the Iron Curtain? Fellow travelers in Communist countries. Stories about organized trips to Soviet Union and other communist countries, presented to Western guests as morally neutral, if not benevolent societies (subsequent topics in epistemology: the construal of the Other, the culture of Self-Hatred, etc). Media and intellectuals under communism. This may include references to powerful alternative media vehicles (i.e. Radio Free Europe), but also to the widespread phenomenon of sponsored journalism. --Reading the past after 1989 through intellectual lenses (recollections, mémoires, diaries, personal archives). The contributors are kindly asked to write abstracts that do not exceed 500 words. Deadline: May 1st, 2011. You may submit your proposals at: [email protected]. Selected authors will be notified by May 15th. The deadline for the final draft of the paper is June 15th, 2011 Damiana OTOIU CEVIPOL - ULB Institut de Sociologie 44, Avenue Jeanne 1050, Bruxelles Tél: +32(0)26503449 http://www.cevipol.site.ulb.ac.be/fr/membres_otoiu-damianagabriela.html -- Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht" http://oberliht.com . . . . . . . . . . . https://lists.idash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova
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