Call for papers

 

 

The Council of the doctoral candidate of the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw has the pleasure to invite doctoral students and junior researchers to take part in:

The International Interdisciplinary Conference

“Order confronting problems of changing times”

that will be held on 7-8 June, 2013 at the University of Warsaw.

The notion of order is regarded by many scholars as fundamental for every civilization. Its meaning goes far beyond the usual visions of structures, norms and mathematical precision. This idea constitutes the basis of all conceptual grids through which people describe the world, it is reflected in language and other symbolic systems, in ideologies and social practices, in the design and planning of space, in the management of time, in history. The very process of producing scientific knowledge that always together with ideas brings about postulates concerning symbolic orders is an expression of ordering and rule-setting potential of every culture.

The conference is envisaged as a forum of discussion on the concept of order including the widest possible range of its meanings. We invite scholars from the disciplines of history, social sciences, law and related fields in the humanities. We are particularly interested in innovative and interdisciplinary approaches.

The conference will include, but not be limited to the following topics:

● Structures of state administration and control;
● Social order. Social groups and organizations as carriers of the order;
● The idea of ​​social order in the history and culture;
● Creation and systematization of memory and ways of organization of past. History as a narrative;
● Normative orders and relations between them, including legal systems;

● Creating order in space. Symbolic order and its manifestations in public space;
● Language as an order and its relations with order;
● Creation and functioning of institutions and structures which order reality and memory;
● Reproduction of order. Amusement and games as a form of education;
● Rhetoric order: standard and deviation, governance and conflict;
● Conflicts between chaos and order in different cultures;
● Order and orders in different historical periods.

Applications be submitted to: doktoranci.wh@uw.edu.pl, deadline:  8 May  2013.

The application should include:

·         information about academic affiliation and title

·         contact information (e-mail address, telephone)

·         a presentation abstract (500-1000 words)

Wherever possible, the organizers will try to provide accommodation for participants from outside Warsaw.

The languages of the conference are Polish and English.

Publication or the conference papers is planned.