The Unifying Aspects of Cultures
SECTION:
Universal and National Concepts in Historical Perspective
Chair of the section/Suggestions, Abstracts, Papers to:
Email: Valery
Timofeev (St. Petersburg)
Email: Alexandr W. Belobratow
/ Elena Apenko (St. Petersburg)
> Speakers
ABSTRACT: Proposals for this panel should include issues exploring
changes in National cultural concepts that occurred during the
last 100 years through a variety of approaches - historical, sociological,
cultural, ideological, comparative, etc. Papers might consider
cultural concepts and their representation such as State, Nation,
People, Wealth, Power, Family, Individual, the Figure of the Hero,
Health, Neighbors (including Citizens of Neighboring States),
Authority, Work, Freedom, Security, Nature, Leisure, etc. We propose
to discuss how the concepts change or remain stable as well as
how their roles and the places they occupy in the National system
of values shift over time. European civilizations might be regarded
as a major melting pot for these concepts, and thus close examination
of particular institutions and structures that impact the concepts
(some fostering changes while others maintain their stability)
would be of special interest.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SECTIONS
- Stefanie Ortmann (London school of Economics): Russian concepts
"Gosudarstvennost" and "Derzhavnost" in public
political discourse from tsarism via the Soviet Union to present-day
Russia
- Michal Jankowski (Institute of Philosophy, Warsaw University):
Europeanism: A Universal or Ethnocentric Concept?
- Boulat Khalitov (Kazan State University): The historical
development of national concepts of "father" and "mother"
- Olga Mitrofanova (St.Petersburg State University): Cognitive
Model of Thinking: Linguaculturological Scenarios of Cogitation
in Russian and English
- Elena Fiveiskaya (St.Petersburg State University): Semantic
Roles in Derivational Description of the Russian Language
- Anna Sinopalnikova (St.Petersburg State University): Evolution
of Emotive Concepts in Russian: Analyzing Word Association Norms