ETHNOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE SASA

AND

CITY MUSEUM VRŠAC

CULTURES AND BORDERS

International Scientific Conference

Vršac, 6th to 8th October 2011

Conference topic

The aim of the conference Cultures and Borders is to envisage processes of individual and collective identification within limits and beyond borders, both symbolic and administrative, as well as issues of migrations and ethnicity, i.e. ethnic minorities, ethnic cultures and their presentations. The goal is to interpret mentioned topics bearing in mind physical borders (political, geographic, administrative) and questions of cross-border cooperation of neighboring communities (inter-ethnic or bilateral national relations, economic cooperation of borderline communities, migrations of labor force, flux of refugees and asylum seekers etc.), or therefore lack of, primarily focusing on borderline regions of Serbia and neighboring countries. Also, we hope to hear discussions which would deal with symbolic borders (cultural, ethnic, religious etc.) segregating particular communities or societies, which would also interpret the character, history or (in)stability of those borders and characteristics of social contacts reaching across them (cultural transfer, intercultural dialogue, intergroup mobility etc.), both through theoretical discourse and case studies from various countries.

Working languages of the Conference

English

Serbian

 Conference venues:

City Museum Vršac

Vršac City Hall

Programme

Book of abstracts

Useful links:

Ethnographic Institute SASA - http://etno-institut.co.rs/

City Museum Vršac – http://www.muzejvrsac.org.rs/

Vršac Municipality – http://www.vrsac.com/

Vršac Tourism Organization - http://www.to.vrsac.com/

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