INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES, KŐSZEG, HUNGARY

MIRAS Social Organization in Support of Studying of Cultural Heritage, Baku, Azerbaijan

AYDIN ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY, TURKEY

GLOBAL PROCESSES JOURNAL, MIAMI, USA 

 

13th Scientific International Conference

“Ohrid-Vodici, 2025”

Ohrid, 17-19 January 2025

 

Call for papers

 

COLLECTIVE MEMORY, MEMORY POLITICS AND CONTEMPORARY IDENTITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF LOCAL, REGIONAL AND GLOBAL CONFLICTS AND ALLIANCES

 

Collective memory, one might plausibly argue, often plays an important role in politics and society. Such claims are by now commonplace in scholarly as well as political discourses. Indeed, the term collective memory has become a powerful symbol of the many political and social transitions currently under way, though there is also something broadly epochal about our seemingly pervasive interest in memory. New regimes seek ways to settle the residues of their predecessors, while established systems face a rise in historical consciousness and increasingly pursue a politics of regret.

According to Benedict Anderson , the nation, and every other group, in particular ethnic group, is imaged (but not invented) community: it is imaged because a member of a large group never will meet all members of a group, but they in his consciousness are there and it takes a certain kind of friendly relationship toward to them. This type of relationship is based on a sense of a strong horizontal friendship and solidarity. Communities differ themselves primarily on the way of how they are imaged"

Collective memories are memories shared by a group that influence their social identity.  Studies tend to focus on either the choice of the past (how memory agents mobilize the past) or the weight of the past (how the past affects the individual or the group).  A “sociomental topography” implies a pronouncedly cognitive focus, and looks at how the past is registered and organized in our minds.  Therefore, a researcher is primarily interested not in what actually happened in history, but in how we remember it. Many experiences are truly forgotten and not everything that occurs is recorded in our mind.

History is not a problem of the past, but is response to the demands of the present: the anthropologist does not concern what really happened; she/he would not like historians to exploring the differences between "real" and "invented" traditions, but wants to uncover how a certain historical content is used in the actual process of construction of identity. 

In empirical work, particularly on questions like that of the role of memory in politics, it means being open to the variety of different forms and meanings of the question. It means remembering both that memory occurs in public and in private, at the tops of societies and at the bottoms, as reminiscence and as commemoration, as personal testimonial and as national narrative, and that each of these forms is important; it also means remembering that these differing forms of remembering are not always equally important for each other (e.g., the personal experience of leaders, under some conditions, is more important than those of “ordinary” people, but not always), though it also means that they are always relevant to some degree; there is, as we have seen, no personal memory outside of group experience and that does not take some stand on “official” and “unofficial” collective versions. We can no more speak of the collective memory than we can speak of a presocial individual memory, even if we include both side by side; an infinity of social and neural networks are constantly in play with each other, meaning that different kinds of structures are always relevant and that their relevance is always changing.

 

TOPICS OF INTERESTS

We invite scholars, PhD and MA students, researchers and practitioners in history, anthropology, sociology, cultural heritage, political science, economy, tourism sciences, psychology, media, architecture, museology, archiving, audio-visual arts, information sciences/ technologies, archeology, history of art, geography, and all related fields to submit papers on any topic related to conference theme. Papers may reflect on a wide spectrum of issues related to identity, collective memories and memory politics etc.

Deadline for Application: 20 December 2024

Notification of Acceptance Decisions: 27 December 2024

Registration: 9 January 2025

Conference: 17-19 January 2025

 

SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS/PANELS or POSTERS

The Conference is open to individual submissions for papers and proposals for panels. All applications for papers and panels must be sent to the e-mail: conference.vodici2025@gmail.com, by 20 December 2024. The papers accepted upon the assessment of the Program Board will be notified via email by 27 December 2024. Application for papers should content: 

 

• Title of the paper/panel or poster

• Abstract (in English only) not more than 300 words for individual papers, including the main argument and conclusions;

• Abstract (in English only) not more than 500 words for panel proposals, including abstracts of panel papers;

• Name and title of the author/s of the paper;

• Short bio of the author(s) of the paper, not more than one paragraph;

• E-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the author(s) of the paper.

• Size for poster has to be 50x75 cm.

 

CONFERENCE LANGUAGE

Conference language is both Macedonian and English. 

 

CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE

All registered participants will be granted a certificate of attendance at the end of the conference.

 

CONFERENCE BOOKLET

All abstracts accepted to the Conference will be published as a conference booklet.

 

VENUE

The conference will be hold in Ohrid Republic of North Macedonia, at the premises of the Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts (House of Uranija). 

 

SCHEDULE

Conference will begin on 17 January 2025 and will end on 19 January 2025.

On 17 January 2025, publication (Conference proceedings) from the 12th Conference Vodici-Ohrid, 2024 ", will be promoted and disseminated.

 

 

PUBLICATION

Publication of papers will be double- blind peer-reviewed. Journal (conference proceedings) will be registered in The Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL).  The dissemination process of content included in CEEOL includes the following discovery systems: Google Scholar, ProQuest´s Serial Solutions, Summon, Primo Central, Alma, EBSCO´s EDS Discovery Service and Knowledge Base, TDNet and OCLC.

Cost for publication will be additionally announced. There is no possibility for publication of articles if the paper is not presented in a conference.   

 

ACCOMMODATION

The participants will cover accommodation costs. Organizing committee may facilitate or propose proper accommodation.

 

TRAVEL

Participants will be responsible for paying their travel expenses.

 

CONTACTS

contact@ceadvre.eu

conference.vodici.2025@gmail.com

Contact person:

Marina Vrvcoska MA (marina.vrvcoska@gmail.com), viber: +38970422287

 

THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Rubin Zemon, Ph.D. Centre for Advanced Researches, Skopje, North Macedonia

Izabela Agardi Ph.D., Institute for Advanced Studies Kőszeg, Hungary

Fariz Khalilli, Ph.D. MIRAS Social Organization in Support of Studying of Cultural Heritage, Baku, Azerbaijan

Ahmet Aytac, Ph.D. Aydin Adnan Menderes University, Izmir, Turkey

Meli Shopi, Ph.D. University Alexander Xhuvani, Elbasan, Albania

Juraj Marushiak Ph.D., Institute of Political Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Valery Engel Ph.D., Global Research Network of CTED of the United Nation

Milica Jokovic Pantelic Ph.D., Institute for Social Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia

Veronika Wittman Ph.D., Johan Kepler University, Linz, Austria

Dejan Metodijeski, Ph.D. University Goce Delchev, Stip, Skopje, North Macedonia 

Ana Chupeska Ph.D., Univeristy St. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, North Macedonia

Mustafa Ibraimi Ph.D., Univesity Mother Theresa, Skopje, North Macedonia

Kubilay Akman, Ph.D., Usak University, Usak, Turkey

Stephan Breu Ph.D., Pestalozzi University, Miami, USA

Jasminka Simić, Ph.D. Editor- in – chief, Radio-Television of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

Zoran R. Vitorovic, DID Ph.D, Editor-in-Chief, Global Processes Journal, Miami, USA 

Emil Gjorgov Ph.D. Centre for Advanced Researches, Skopje, North Macedonia

 

Organization Committee

1. Aleksandar Manasieski, Ph.D. 

2. Ljupco Janevski Ph.D.

3. Marina Vrvcoska M.A.

4. Verica Dzijanovska