Join International Conference: Practices And Narratives Of Globalization And Memory

Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology Students’ Club (Zagreb) invites you to participate in the international conference. The conference is interdisciplinary with its main purpose to address, discuss on contemporary processes of globalization, manifestations of social memory and the contemporary practices and narratives of globalization and social memory in an effort to better understand contemporary society and culture. The event will be held from 11th to 14th of in Zagreb. Deadline to apply is September 1st.

With this conference the aim is to establish a platform for the exchange of experiences and knowledge as well as presentation and dissemination of student, young researcher and expert papers. Official languages at the conference are Croatian and English.

Some of the suggested topics include:

Globalization

  • Transformation of power;
  • Global market and economic interdependence;
  • Migrations;
  • Ethnography of disappearance;
  • Salvage ethnography;
  • Medicine and medical systems;
  • Religion in a globalized world;
  • Identity, etc.

Memory

  • Places/Creating/Politics/Transformation  of memory;
  • Material and non-material monuments;
  • Oblivion;
  • Childhood;
  • Censorship;
  • The war and the myth;
  • Body;
  • Nostalgia.

Main criteria

  • Fellow ethnologists and anthropologists;
  • Students, experts and young researchers from other fields of social sciences and humanities (sociology, philosophy, political science, history, economics, geography, journalism).

Participation in the conference is free. Presenters will be provided with accommodation. Travel expenses should be covered by the participants themselves.

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