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Subject: [balkans] CfP: History of Communism in Europe - Intellectuals
under Communism- CEVIPOL - ULB Brussels [May 1, 2011]
From:    "by way of Damiana-Gabriela Otoiu" <dotoiu at ulb.ac.be>
Date:    Tue, December 14, 2010 8:54 pm
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CALL FOR PAPERS FOR 2011

Avatars of Intellectuals under Communism

History of Communism in Europe, new series, vol. II/2011

The forthcoming issue of History of Communism in Europe will focus on
the Avatars of Intellectuals under Communism. The very relationship
between intellectuals and the totalitarian State is of outstanding
importance for anyone willing to understand the fate of academia and
culture under Communism. The circulation of ideas in the public space
and its subsequent shaping of the political and social bodies depended
upon the aforementioned interaction. The Communist states witnessed
very diverse reactions towards the ideological monopoly of the Party:
outspoken resistance, quiet refusal, forced exile, passive
collaboration, vocal support, and many other intermediary approaches.

The next issue of the HCE welcomes original contributions on this
topic. Ideally, the authors should address the role of the
intelligentsia from a comparative viewpoint. The editors encourage
young scholars, in particular, to assess the recent historical,
cultural, and political findings within the former Soviet Bloc:
Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, former
GDR or various states of the former USSR or Yugoslavia. Equally, we
welcome any contribution that describes the attitude of Western
intelligentsia towards the birth, the growth, and the historical decay
of the Communist utopia.

Senior scholars, researchers and PhD students are invited to submit
their proposals on one of the following topics:

--Intellectuals and the Communist Party: doctrinaires, utopian
revolutionaries, critiques, and dissident thinkers.

--Dissidence vs. collaboration. Case-studies and overarching
narratives about the relationship between intellectuals and the Party
nomenclatura and the Secret Police. In particular, we welcome
discussions prompted by the recent archival revelations (responses
formulated under pressure in terms of personal voice, voluntary
betrayal, blind loyalty, etc)

--Eastern European intellectuals and the civil society. How was the
1989 event prefigured by the cultural circles of Poland, Hungary,
Russia, and Czech Republic? Which were the first nuclei of civil
society under communism and how did the Eastern European intellectuals
coined the concept of civil society along their pursuits of an
alternative political praxis?

--The alternative culture vs. official culture under Communism (this
may also include reference to recordings and archival documents about
the activities of various literary and artistic bodies).

--The phenomenon of samizdat. The grassroots strategies eluding
state-imposed censorship on intellectual products.

--Readings of Western intellectuals in relation to Communist utopia.
How did various philosophers, writers, and journalists justify the
works of the authoritarian and totalitarian States behind the Iron
Curtain?
Fellow travelers in Communist countries. Stories about organized trips
to Soviet Union and other communist countries, presented to Western
guests as morally neutral, if not benevolent societies (subsequent
topics in epistemology: the construal of the Other, the culture of
Self-Hatred, etc).
Media and intellectuals under communism. This may include references
to powerful alternative media vehicles (i.e. Radio Free Europe), but
also to the widespread phenomenon of sponsored journalism.

--Reading the past after 1989 through intellectual lenses
(recollections, mémoires, diaries, personal archives). The
contributors are kindly asked to write abstracts that do not exceed
500 words. Deadline: May 1st, 2011. You may submit your proposals at:
office at iiccr.ro.

Selected authors will be notified by May 15th. The deadline for the
final draft of the paper is June 15th, 2011


Damiana OTOIU
CEVIPOL - ULB
Institut de Sociologie
44, Avenue Jeanne
1050, Bruxelles
Tél: +32(0)26503449


http://www.cevipol.site.ulb.ac.be/fr/membres_otoiu-damianagabriela.html




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