PhD Students’ Conference “Revolutions and Upheavals in History”, 4th and 5th of May 2018 in Zagreb
The conference will be held on May 4 and 5 2018 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, within the festival of history “Kliofest.” Participants can submit abstracts of their papers by February 16 2018.
The wide subject of revolution and upheaval will be considered in the conference, in the context of history, cultural theory, humanities and social sciences and political science. Revolutions and upheavals as points of discontinuity within the historical narrative acquire a large cultural significance from ancient to modern times: they are feared, mystified, and their participants in official ideologies often receive the aura of martyrs or egotistical terrorists and criminals. The controversial subject of revolution and upheaval, therefore, deserves more scholarly attention.
Since revolutions and memories of revolutions touch on multiple domains of society, this subject requires a multidisciplinary approach and the conference will therefore be open to those students who regard revolutions and upheavals from the viewpoints of other disciplines within the humanities and social sciences such as sociology, political science, media studies, art history, literary history, cultural anthropology and other related disciplines.
The suggested subjects for papers include:
Revolutions and identities – revolution and gender, revolution and race, national and (inter)national revolutions, revolutions and colonialism
Participants – biographies of the participants of revolutions, political parties, revolutionary organizations, the military and the police
Revolutions and the culture of memory – memorials, revolution in works of art, testimonies of revolutions, historiography on revolutions and upheavals
Revolution and culture – the influence of revolution on everyday life, societies of upheaval, mythologization and imagery of revolutionary and subversive movements, revolution in the media
Thought of revolution – political ideas, the revolutionary worldview, utopias and dystopias, the intellectual history of revolutionary movements
The conference will be held on May 4 and 5 2018 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, within the festival of history “Kliofest.” Participants can submit abstracts of their papers (400 words maximum, Times New Roman 12) to the e-mail address revolutionhistory596@gmail.com by February 16 2018. The organizational board will choose the papers and in the period of one week will inform the participants on whether their papers were accepted. The official languages of the conference are Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Macedonian and English.
“Revolutions and Upheavals in History” Organizational Committee
PhD Students’ Conference “Revolutions and Upheavals in History”, 4th and 5th of May 2018 in Zagreb