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2018

Geneva

Call for papers - History

Divided memories, shared memories: Poland, Russia, Ukraine

History mirrored in literature and cinema

In Central and Eastern European countries, memorial questions appeared right after the demise of the communist regimes in 1989–1991, revealing long-denied processes. The phenomenon of the rise of repressed memories along with the rewriting of history, and the political uses of the past are noticeable in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine, three countries whose histories are as often shared as their memories are divided. The “memory wars” in which these three states have sometimes been engaged since the end of the 1980s have been the subject of an abundant historiography.

Geneva

Conference, symposium - History

Women in Educated Elites of Pre-Socialist and Early Socialist East Central European Societies

The opening up to modernity of East Central Europe since the late 19th century was marked – among other things – by a triple process generating structural transformations of established post-feudal societies and affecting often radically the status of women. Due to post-feudal conditions of competition for social standing, positions of influence and prestige, hitherto unknown forms of inequalities appeared in the very process of accumulation of political, economic, professional, cultural an educational assets henceforth necessary for the access to the elites. Female professionals, though they could rarely achieve advanced careers in the ruling elites in the old regime, so much so that they often encountered even various forms of public rejection and discrimination on intellectual markets, significantly participated in the framing of the way of life of the new middle class. This workshop will adopt a gender-focused perspective cocentrating on the place of women (training, education, professions) and bringing to light the differences and inequalities existing between male and female members of educated elites.

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2012

Geneva

Call for papers - History

Women in Educated Elites of Pre-Socialist and Early Socialist East Central European Societies

The two and a half day workshop will take place at the European Institute of Geneva University in October 2012. The exact dates will be announced in early July 2012. The official language of the workshop will be English. Interested scholars are asked to submit a paper proposal (not more than 750 words) to the organisers (Victor Karady : karadyv@gmail.com; Natalia Tikhonov Sigrist : nat.sigrist@gmail.com) by 10 June 2012.

Geneva

Conference, symposium - Language

Usages of the Time

Philosophy and Literature in France and Russia in the XXth Century

Décrypter l’énigme du temps : telle fût l'une des principales préoccupations du modernisme. Dans la littérature et la philosophie, les arts plastiques et les arts du spectacle, les tentatives de saisir le temps, de le faire travailler ou d’expérimenter ses structures internes furent nombreuses. Organisé par l’unité de russe de l'Université de Genève, ce colloque veut confronter deux cultures littéraires du XXe siècle, russe et française, mais aussi explorer les croisements entre deux champs disciplinaires, la philosophie et la littérature.

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2012

Geneva

Conference, symposium - Geography

Cities and litterature

Metropolises' image and experience

La ville, et la métropole en particulier, ont suscité une littérature qui a contribué à fonder leur mythe, forger leur image, à relater les expériences vécues en leur sein. Notre journée d’étude vise à mieux comprendre la relation entre l’image et l’expérience de la ville, et s’appuiera sur des textes allant de l’essai documenté sur une ville à la fiction romanesque en passant par le récit de voyage et la promenade.

Geneva

Conference, symposium - History

Historical Development of National Systems of Elite Formation in Eastern and Central Europe

This workshop is bringing together specialists from mostly Eastern Europe together with some West European partners, capable and liable of sharing their localised research expertise in the study of the birth and initial development of national systems of elite training in a number of (mostly but not exclusively) small East Central European societies. All of them have very concrete empirical research agendas and records in these fields, but separately, applied to their own national societies. The idea of the meeting is born from the need of and the interest in comparing – in many thematic issues term by term – research findings, insights and questions gained from studies of the training, career and activities of various East European elite groups during the decades up to the Soviet take-over.

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