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CALL FOR PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
"HUMAN DIMENSION IN THE CULTURES
OF THE EAST AND THE WEST:
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH"
Moscow, Russia
31 May - 3 June 1998
The Convenor:
Gregory TKACHENKO, Director of the Institute of Cultural
Anthropology
Conference Secretary:
Olga KHRISTOFOROVA,
Russian State University for the Humanities
6 Miusskaya Ploshchad (Korpus 2, Etazh 2)
Moscow 125267
RUSSIA
FAX: +7 (095) 250 5109 (c/o Institute of Cultural
Anthropology)
EMAIL: andrei@rsuh.ru
The Institute of Cultural Anthropology (Russian State
University of Humanities, Moscow) is organizing in
May/June 1998 International Conference "HUMAN DIMENSION
IN TRADITIONAL CULTURES OF EAST AND WEST:
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH".
The Institute of Cultural Anthropology (InCA) has been
established in 1997 as a reserch and teaching institution
within the framework of the Russian State University for
the Humanities in order to coordinate the efforts of
those scholars and teachers whose professional interests
are connected with the study of the peoples and their
activities (Cultural Anthropology, Linguistics,
Museology, Religion Studies, Arts &c). Its aim is to
provide conditions for the formation of a new education
environment.
One of the Conference objectives is to provide the
possibility of the information exchange among the
anthropologists, the coordination of the research
projects and the discussion of the recent trends in
Anthropology in order to optimize the research and
teaching activities of the anthropological
institutions.
The Program Committee welcomes proposals on all topics
but is
particularly interested in proposals that address one of
the
following THEMES:
1) "Cultural Universals":
- it is possible that notwithstanding all the diversity
of the cultural codes any tradition has a limited set of
the immanent terms ("cultural meanings", key concepts
&c) which form its conceptual space: "ultimate contexts"
of culture, moral values &c. Is there any sense in the
attempts to define the list and contents of culture
terms ("cultural meanings")? Could such attempts lead to
the discovery of the foundations for the cultures
typologization or to the discovery of their absence?
2) "Culturally Determined Behaviour Patterns":
- in the past the reconsideration of the problem of the
human agency and autonomy often led in the European
tradition to the interpretation of the non-European
cultural agents and selves as "quasi-" (- personality, -
rationality, - subjectivity) &c. Is the multiculturalism
possible in the environment of the remaining latent
europocentrism of the studies in Cultural Anthropology?
3) "Symbolical Representation Systems":
- what is the impact on the cultural message of the media
of its translation? Historical systems of semiotic codes
(from the knot writing to the WWW): contextual coherence,
or contextual freedom?
In addition to the three plenary sections we are planning
to organize a few panels ("Teaching of Anthropology",
"Socio- Cultural Evolution: Anthropological Approach",
"Anthropology of South Arabia", "Pre-colonial Tropical
African Anthropology: Genesis of the Complex Political
Organization" &c). Any new panel proposals are strongly
invited.
Fax or e-mail proposals for panels (or single
submissions) and a
short vita for each participant to:
Gregory TKACHENKO, Director
Olga KHRISTOFOROVA, Learnt Secretary
Institute of Cultural Anthropology (InCA)
Russian State University for the Humanities
6 Miusskaya Ploshchad (Korpus 2, Etazh 2)
Moscow 125267
RUSSIA
FAX: +7 (095) 250 5109 (c/o Institute of Cultural
Anthropology)
EMAIL: andrei@rsuh.ru
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
IS 1 JANUARY 1997.