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*FYI*
The History Department of the New Bulgarian University organizes an
International Conference on
*
*
*Intellectuals And/In Politic*s
New Bulgarian University, Sofia, April 29-30, 2011
The problem of intellectual attitudes and relation to politics and power has
existed ever since a specific group of people has engaged in the creation
and propagation of knowledge, and intellectual labor has become
differentiated and professionalized.
A number of related questions remain for critical inquiry: Do
intellectuals need
to be active in politics, and is it necessary for them to associate
with different
forms of power? Do they have to become members, or leaders of political
movements, and parties, and place themselves in service of political regimes
or is it better that they retain their independence, and take impartial or
critical stance instead? Are intellectuals to be seen as carriers of certain
messianic powers, as spiritual leaders of their societies, or are they mere
political opportunists who sometimes appear on the political scene, and are
often subsequently assumed by power or marginalized as political
oppositions? What has happened in historical instances when intellectuals have
assumed position of power? Did they have and enact their specific interests
as a social group, or did these interests coincide with the interests of the
other groups and society as a whole? And, lastly, how does the rest
of society see intellectuals, and why are anti-intellectual sentiments so
persistent?
The conference sets itself the goal to discuss these and related aspects of
intellectuals' link to politics in past and present cases as these of
Bulgaria, Eastern and Western Europe, and on a global scale.
The conference will be carried out in the following panels:
* Intellectuals, politics, and political parties;
* Intellectuals, political elites, and the exercise of power
* Intellectuals between messianism and conformism;
* Intellectuals and anti-intellectual attitudes.
There will also be a special graduate and doctoral students’ panel.
Please, submit your *a**bstracts with a summary of the paper and a
short biountil February
20, 2011. **Contact person: Dr. Roumen Genov
<[log in to unmask]<http://us.mg2.mail.yahoo.com/dc/genov%40nbu.bg>
>*
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