First Announcement and Call for Papers
TEN YEARS AFTER - 1989-1999
A FIRST BALANCE
Memorial Conference
on
EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE'S ROAD INTO THE NEW WORLD
Organised by
the Hungarian Sociological Association
Budapest, Hungary
23-25 September 1999
INVITATION
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
STRUCTURE AND THEMES
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
VENUE
REGISTRATION FEE
HOTELS
CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
PRELIMINARY REPLY FORM
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FORM
INVITATION
The Hungarian Sociological Association is pleased to announce its
Memorial
Conference dedicated to social studies on the first decade in the
post-socialist
transformation process.
The Conference aims to bring together researchers from a wide
range of
backgrounds to discuss the present and future directions of the
Eastern and
Central European transition. The key challenge for this Conference
is how we can
rethink traditional concepts about the performance of social,
economic and
political order and social relations in the process of radical
transformation of
the region.
We are interested in examining pivotal issues in the analysis of
social
transformation (transition studies) from an inter-disciplinary
perspective.
Papers exploring the following questions, either from theoretical
viewpoint or
through current research, are welcome:
From protocapitalism to postsocialism - transformation of
concepts about
transformation
From organised disorder to disorganised order: Social frames
and social
strategies in the New Central and Eastern Europe
What holds the new society in place?
Dilemmas of periodisation - do they have in the late 19ies any
sense?
If [post]modern societies are able to survive on much less
structure,
cohesion or foundation than social theorists have generally
assumed, how
much cement, how much "existence" does the social order
actually need?
Social mobilization and demobilization: what are the
theoretical/methodological advantages of using a historical
perspective in
studying patterns of social mobilization?
New perspectives on power and social difference often rattle
existing
understandings of anti-systemic agency. In what ways? This set
of questions
has been reduced in the past to a debate between
"evolutionary" and
"revolutionary" positions. How can we best analyse such
debates as artifacts
of world-historical processes? Are there alternative ways of
posing these
questions that suggest innovations in the study of long-term,
large-scale
social change?
Old and new markers and division lines between economics and
politics?
The Conference Organisers plan to invite also social activists,
reformers,
political leaders and international experts playing significant
role in the
actual transformation processes of the region in the last decade.
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Laszlo CSEH-SZOMBATHY (Budapest), Chair
Mihaly CSAKO (Budapest)
Lubomir FALTAN (Bratislava)
Boris FIRSOV (St. Petersburg)
Erno GAAL (Cluj)
Nicolai GENOV (Sofia)
Michal ILLNER (Prague)
Vladimir JADOV (Moscow)
Imre KOVACH (Budapest)
Denes NEMEDI (Budapest)
Laslo SEKELJ (Belgrade)
Endre SIK (Budapest)
Grazyna SKAPSKA (Cracow)
Ivan SZELENYI (Los Angeles)
Pal TAMAS (Budapest)
Wlodzimierz WESOLOWSKI (Warsaw)
STRUCTURE AND THEMES
The Conference sessions will take place in four main streams. The
streams will
accommodate the sections and round-tables (some of these plan one,
others plan
more sessions):
Theme I: Elements of the New Social Order (Visions, Prospects and
Realities)
Theme II: Structure and Institutions
Theme III: Transformations of the Everyday Life - New Styles and
Orientations
Theme IV: The New World of Work
Sections and Round Tables (organisers)
1. Social stratification and mobility in the 1990s (Peter Robert)
2. The distribution and re-distribution of incomes, consumption
and wealth
(Istvan Gyorgy Toth)
3. Institutionalisation of the new political system, legitimacy
and party system
(Jozsef Bayer)
4. National strategies and EU-Enlargement (Andras Inotai)
5. Social Policies of the post-socialism (Julia Szalai)
6. New economic actors and institutions in Eastern & Central
Europe (Gyorgy
Lengyel)
7. Organizational innovation and organizational power in the
privatized
enterprises (Csaba Mako)
8. The role of trade unions in the post-1989 economic and social
policies
(Mihaly Csako)
9. The East European historiography and the post-1989
transformation (Attila
Pok)
10. Collective memories - strategies of remembering (Denes Nemedi)
11. Rural transformation and innovation (Imre Kovach)
12. Social change and urban restructuring in Central Europe
(Viktoria Szirmai)
13. Sociology of gender, new feminist movements (Andrea Peto)
14. Educational reforms of the 90ies (Tamas Kozma)
15. Church and religion in the post-transformation Central Europe
(Miklos Tomka)
16. Ethnopolitics, the ethnical dimensions of social inequalities
(Gyorgy
Csepeli)
17. The media transformation, as integral part of social reforms
(Janos Horvat)
18. Minorities in Eastern Europe: a hidden dimension of
transformation (Laszlo
Szarka)
19. The R&D system: a resource for the catching-up societies and
economies (Pal
Tamas)
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Abstracts not exceeding one page (size A4) should be submitted in
English as
soon as possible but by 15 May 1999, at the latest. Proposals for
other types of
contributions (to: [log in to unmask]) are also encouraged.
Abstract submission is possible via
internet (preferred)
e-mail to: [log in to unmask] (less preferred)
fax to: +361 386 9378 (worst case)
The abstract should clearly contain the title of the paper, the
list of
author[s] (including snail mail, e-mail, fax number of the
corresponding author)
and session designation (number and name).
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the Conference is English.
VENUE
The Conference will be held in the magnificent premises of the
Hungarian Academy
of Sciences, situated on the bank of the Danube near the Chain
Bridge (called
Lanchid in Hungarian). The address is: 1051 Budapest, Roosevelt
ter [square] 9.
The Conference venue is within walking distance from the Budapest
Downtown.
REGISTRATION FEE
The registration fee for the Conference is USD 70. The approx.
rate is: 1
USD=230 HUF (Hungarian forint).
Please pre-register on the enclosed Preliminary Reply Form.
HOTELS
Should you need hotel reservation, please find below a list of
recommended
hotels and contact the preferred one directly.
Hotel Taverna****
H-1052 Budapest, Vaci u. 20.
Phone: +361 485 3100
Fax: +361 485 311110-minute walking distance from the
Conference
venue
Hotel Erzsebet***
H-1053 Budapest, Karolyi Mihaly u. 11-15.
Phone: +361 328 5700
Fax: +361 328 576315-minute walking distance
Best Western Hotel Art***
H-1053 Budapest, Kiralyi Pal u. 12.
Phone: +361 266 2166
Fax: +361 266 217015-minute walking distance
Buda Center Hotel**
H-1027 Budapest, Csalogany u. 23.
Phone: +361 201 6333
Fax: +361 201 7843by public transport
Radio Inn Budapest**
H-1068 Budapest, Benczur u. 19.
Phone: +361 322 0237
Fax: +361 322 8284by public transport
For other hotel, please visit the "Hungarian Tourism Web Site" at:
www.miwo.hu
CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
"10 YEARS AFTER" SECRETARIAT
c/o SCOPE Meetings Ltd.
Kende u. 13-17
H-1111 Budapest, Hungary
Phone: +361 209 6001, 209 6442
Fax: +361 386 9378
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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