Peace and War: Cultural Contest of Social Aggression

Location: St. Petersburg - Kronstаdt - Vyborg
Period: 21.-24. October 2007

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

Igor Ermashenko: igerm@yandex.ru
Stefano Maria Capilupi: s_capilupi@yahoo.it