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Peace and War: Cultural Contest of Social Aggression
Location: St. Petersburg - Kronstаdt - Vyborg
Period: 21.-24. October 2007
Program
First section
War: representation in the spatial structures
- "In the sky, on the earth, on the sea": the three elements images in the military traditional narrative
- firing line and the second line: polarity and continuity
- trench and headquarter: spatial and hierarchical places in the wartime life
- enemy space and the conquered land: images of space between reality and rhetorics
- neutral zone: a peaceful island in the wartime
Second section
War: tempoarlity and memories
- begin and end of wartime as boundaries of mass and individual conscience
- war seasons: the days and the seasons as features of war reality and its representation
- victory as an example of world perception: level of memories and its semiotic representation
- cristallized war: spatial memories in the memorial places
- war future: science - fiction, essays, science
Organizer and Partners
- Russian Society of Intellectual History
- Kronstadt Museum of History, Art, City Architecture
- State Museum at Vyborg's Castle
Information and Contacts
Igor Ermashenko: igerm@yandex.ru
Stefano Maria Capilupi: s_capilupi@yahoo.it
PECOB: Portal on Central Eastern and Balkan Europe - University of Bologna - 117, c.so della Repubblica - Italy
