Dear all,
the students from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the Central European University would like to invite you to the 2nd annual Graduate Conference "Framing Struggles: Critical Approaches to Sociology and Social Anthropology. "
The conference will take place on the 13th and 14th of June 2008 at CEU, Popper and Gellner room.
Please find the program below, and feel more than welcome to attend our sessions if you are around!
Kind regards
Mariya
Mariya Ivancheva
PhD Student
Dept Sociology &Social Anthropology
Central European University
9 Nador utca
Budapest H-1051 Hungary
ivancheva_mariya@ ...
+36-30-952-51- 54
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FRAMING STRUGGLES:
CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY.
2ND CEU Sociology & Social Anthropology Graduate Conference
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Central European University
Nador utca 9, H-1051 Budapest
Hungary
Until recently, most social research has focused on political and
economic struggles to the detriment of understanding cultural struggles.
But an undue focus on culture tends to ignore the contested nature of
economic and political interactions that provide the structural
underpinnings to cultural form and content. Anthropology can contribute
equally to understanding frames of struggles, and framing the relevant
problematic that needs to be exposed to public scrutiny, while sociology
is able to situate and analyze these struggles in a broader perspective
through its focus on macro-micro interactions.
The main purpose of this trans-disciplinary conference is to investigate
how cultural, political, and economic struggles are framed, both by
actors and scholars. By framing struggles we mean the ways in which
participants themselves construe and delimit the meanings of their
actions in an era of accelerating global changes, as well as the manner
in which scholars and researchers select their own frames of reference
to make sense of these social upheavals. Regarding social phenomena in
an integrated and multifaceted perspective, the conference will reflect
on and mediate between broad, distant, and sometimes seemingly
incompatible research fields and approaches e.g., religious studies,
studies of popular culture, as well as social movement studies and the
scholarship on migration and informal economy.
Concentrating on a variety of issues concerning struggles, we seek to
encourage critical ethnographic/ sociological research enriched by
theoretical grounding. The conference will tackle the issue of framing
struggles from four main perspectives in the following panels:
Panel I: Borders, Economy, Conflict
Panel II: Approaching Religious Modernities: Constructions,
Contestations,
Mobilizations
Panel III: Performing and Representing Culture, Ethnicity and Gender
Panel IV: Activism in (Post-)Socialist Contexts
The conference will take place 13-14 June 2008, at the Central European
University in Budapest, Hungary, 1st floor Monument Building. No
registration fee required. Please address any further inquiries to
Mariya Ivancheva, ivancheva_mariya@ ...
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
DAY 1 FRIDAY 13 JUNE
Location: Popper Room,
1st floor, Monument Building
10:00-13:00 Conference Registration (Foyer in Front of Popper & Gellner
Room)
13:00-13:30 Introduction/ Opening Session
13:30-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-17:00 Panel Session 1
Panel III: Performing and Representing Culture, Ethnicity and Gender
Nichole Arnault (University of Georgia) "Maternal Protest:
Performing Motherhood, Performing Opposition"
Alexandra Nacu (Institut d´Etudes Politiques de Paris)
"Ethnic medicine or medicine for the poor? Healthcare for Roma
migrants in Paris"
Emira Ibrahimpasi´c (University of New Mexico) "The veil,
the state, and women of Bosnia and Herzegovina"
Mahiye Secil Dagtas (University of Toronto) "Bodily
Transgression: Conflicting Spaces and Gendered Boundaries of Modernity
and Islam in Contemporary Turkey"
Monica Stroe (Central European University) "Sibiu European
Capital of Culture 2007 �" Reconstructing ethnicity through
culture
Discussant: Prof. John Hutnyk, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Chair: Leo Couacaud (University of Melbourne/CEU)
17:00 -17:30 Coffee Break (Foyer in front of Popper & Gellner Room)
17:30 -19:00 Keynote speech: "Framing Struggles or Containing Fears? -
Performative Paranoia and the Manufacture of Demons", Professor
John Hutnyk (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Chair: Dr. Alexandra Kowalski, CEU
19:00 �" Wine Reception
DAY 2 SATURDAY 14 JUNE
9:00-11:00 Panel session 2
Location: Gellner Room and Popper Room,
1st floor, Monument Building
Gellner Room
Panel II (part 1): Approaching Religious Modernities: Constructions,
Contestations, Mobilizations
Sorin Gog (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca; Marie Curie SocAnth
Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle)
">>It would´ve been better for him not to be born at
all<<: religious conversion and dying in a post-socialist Lipovenian
village"
Ann Trappers (Catholic University of Leuven) "Romanian Orthodox
Christians in Brussels and Stockholm"
Zofia Pazitna (Central European University) "Mediation of
Religious Experience in a Faith Church in Budapest"
Anderson Jeremiah (University of Edinburgh) "Cross, the Bible,
and Palm Sunday Procession: Utilisation of religious symbols and ritual
performance in a Tamil rural `Paraiyar´ village for social
change"
Discussant: Dr. Vlad Naumescu (CEU)
Chair: Simion Pop (CEU)
Popper Room
Panel IV (part 1): Activism in (Post-)Socialist Contexts (Popper room)
Theodora Vetta (EHESS/ IRIS Paris; Marie Curie visitor fellow, CEU)
"Promoting grassroots Democracy in Serbia: From moral discourse
to technical practices or the political operations of an >>apolitical
model<<"
Volodymyr Ishchenko (National University of Kyiv �" Mohyla
Academy) "Is >>the vanguard< < ready? Transformations of leftist
framing in post-Soviet Ukraine"
Aline Sierp (University of Siena) "Framing of collective and
individual memory in processes of political transition"
Aleksandar Banjanac (University of Belgrade) "Tito from
Neighbourhood"
Discussant Dr. Marc W. Steinberg (Smith College, MA)
Chair: Luisa Steur (CEU)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:30 Panel Session 3
Gellner Room
Panel II (part 2): Approaching Religious Modernities: Constructions,
Contestations, Mobilizations
Claudia Nef Saluz (University of Zurich)"Configurations of
Islamic Modernities in Indonesia: Transformations of Youth Identities in
Yogyakarta"
João Rickli (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) "Making
Differences: the Production of Cultural Boundaries in the Religious and
Secular Discourses of the Protestant Churches in the Netherlands"
Toby Matthiesen (University of London) "Framing Cultural Politics
in the Middle East"
Discussant: Dr. Mathijs Pelkmans (LSE)
Chair: Serra Hekyemez (CEU)
Popper Room
Panel I (part 1): Borders, Economy, Conflict
Erella Grassiani (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) "Moral
boundaries at the checkpoint: the case of Israeli soldiers and
Palestinian civilians"
Steven Parham (University of Berne) "The Local Renegotiation of
Borderland Loyalties at the Chinese �" Central Asian
Frontier"
Julie Kleinman (Harvard University) "France and the World through
the Train Station Prism: Itineraries in the Gare du Nord"
Cosmin Radu (University of Manchester) "Dis-locating the state
from the border post: Reflections of doing ethnography with bureaucrats
on Romania-Serbia border"
Discussant: Dr. Madeleine Reeves (University of Manchester)
Chair: Florin Poenaru (CEU)
13:30-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-17:00 Panel Session 4
Gellner Room
Panel IV (part 2): Activism in (Post)Socialist Contexts
Tadas Å arunas (Public Policy and Management Institute, Vilnius)
"The influence of new media on the structure of the social
movement: the case of public space preservation movement in
Vilnius"
Grzegorz Piotrowski (European University Institute, Florence)
"Framing the environmental protest over the Rospuda valley in
Poland"
Ágnes Gagyi (University of Pécs) ">>Preserving the
future<< Dimensions of a globalization- critical ethnic community
building project in Transylvania"
Discussant: Prof. Don Kalb (CEU)
Chair: Gabor Halmai (CEU)
Popper Room
Panel I (part 2): Borders, Economy, Conflict
Calin Goina (University of California) "Border peasantries,
border ethnicities: a social history of an ethnically mixed rural
settlement in Eastern Hungary/Romania"
Julia Maria Wittmayer (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) "Conserving
conflict? Transfrontier conservation and local conflicts between South
Africa and Lesotho"
Norbert Petrovici (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) �" Anca
Simionca (Central European University, Budapest) "Business
circles and network building in Cluj. The politics of scale re-working
in an emerging economy"
Michalis Moutselos (University of Oxford) "Violent Specialists:
The Rise and Role of Serbian paramilitaries in Bosnia, 1992-95"
Discussant: Prof. Prem Kumar Rujaram (CEU)
Chair: Andrea Weiss (CEU)
17:30-19:30 Roundtable Discussion, Chair Professor Don Kalb (CEU)
20:00- Final Dinner
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