Dear colleagues,
please find attached the call for papers.
Appologies for cross-posting!
Kindest regards,
timofey
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‘Squaring the Circle: The Relationship between Civil Society and Social
Capital in Central and Eastern Europe’?
13-16 June 2008
Vytautas Magnus University
Kaunas, Lithuania
Now that much of post-Communist Europe is part of the EU, should we
expect to see some changes in terms of how civil society works? Should
we expect civil society to be transformed from the one supporting its
members to assisting institutional change? Should we also aspire new
forms of social capital to slowly emerge that are less determined by
structural constraints of the political regime, but rather by individual
choice? Do these circumstances in the EU-15 differ from the ‘new
outsiders’ with respect to potential developments in social capital and
civil society? This conference will address this new relationship
between civil society and social capital in post-enlargement Central and
Eastern Europe.
The conference discussion will run along three analytical axes:
1. Path Dependency – Rational Choice approaches
2. Utilitarian – Idealistic explanations
3. domestic – international factors
The conference organizers call for papers concerning civil society and
social capital in Central and Eastern Europe that fit along at least one
axis. Selected papers will have their travel, accommodation and
subsistence supported by the CINEFOGO Network of Excellence. Please send
name, contact information, title and 150 word abstract to the conference
organizers by Monday, March 10, 2008.
Contact:
Timofei Agarin [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
David Galbreath [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Timofey Agarin, Postgraduate
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen
Edward Wright Building, Dunbar Street, Aberdeen, AB24 3QY, Scotland
skype: timofeiagarin
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