2010 Divided Societies XIII: Emotions and Structures

About the Course

The course, which is be entering its thirteenth year in 2010, is a seven-day, interdisciplinary workshop that combines conference-oriented presentation of scholarly research with an intensive and rigorous academic program for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. In addition, the course offers personal inter-cultural experience of students and faculty from other contexts in the unforgettable setting of a city that was itself the target of a destructive societal conflict.

2009 Program

Proceedings of our past conferences demonstrate our interdisciplinary approach and topical themes:

• Program from 2004
• Program from 2005
• Program from 2006
• Program from 2007
• Program from 2008

Although many of the papers have concentrated on former Yugoslavia, the organizing directors are especially interested in contributions with cross-country comparisons that include Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Call for Panels

Deadline: March 1, 2010 (earlier submissions will receive preference.)

Conference organizers invite proposals for panels from faculty and advanced graduate students on any of the topic areas discussed in the program description that investigate divided societies. Panels should contain 2-4 speakers and may also include a discussant. Please include the following:

1. A brief abstract (250 words) detailing the theme, rationale and individual paper topics,
2. Brief (250 word) educational and publication records for each panelist, and
3. A list of four to six related background texts that might help prepare scholars from other disciplines

Call for Papers

Deadline: March 15, 2010 (earlier submissions will receive preference.)

Conference organizers will also accept individual paper proposals from faculty and advanced graduate students on any of the topic areas discussed in the program description. Papers may focus on the experience of particular countries or regions (not limited to the former Yugoslavia) or broader multi-national and historical comparisons. Please include the following text:

1. A brief (250 word) abstract detailing the theme, and rationale of your paper
2. A brief (250 word) educational and publication record
3. A list of two to three related background texts that might help prepare scholars from other disciplines

Call for Student Participation

Deadline: April 1, 2010 (earlier applications will receive preference.)

Conference organizers invite participation from graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Past conferences have included student participants from western, central and eastern Europe, as well as North America and South America. Student activities include daily seminars and lectures, films, dinners with fellow students and excursions in southern Croatia. Participating students may apply for academic credit through Wayne State University.

Deadlines

• Panel proposals are due on March 1, 2010.
• Paper proposals are due on March 15, 2010.
• All participants must register on-line by April 1, 2010.
• Participant applications arriving after April 1 may not be accepted due to lack of space.

Funding Opportunities

Unfortunately the program organizers have no direct funds available to support attendance. There is, however, some limited funding available for panelists, paper-givers and students who are citizens of Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, or Serbia. Those eligible for one of these scholarship will be directly contacted by one of the organizing directors. In past years participants have obtained funding from their own local universities, institutes, firms and civil society organizations may and participants should apply broadly for assistance. In some cases the conference directors are available to write letters of support that may be used to obtain local grants.

More About the Course:

For those who would like a better sense of the setting, content and group interaction within the course, we offer the following resources:

• View the brief video on the course prepared in 2002 (the video requires software compatible with the Real Player, which is available online at www.real.com):

  http://streaming.lib.wayne.edu:8080/ramgen/special/Deegan-krause/dubrovnik.rm

• A radio interview about the course is can be found at: http://www2.bc.edu/~niebuhro
• The course blog: http://dividedsocieties.blogspot.com

For additional information, contact:

dividedsocieties@gmail.com