International Conference "The world is composed of stories: the relationship between discourses and their transformations"

International Conference "The world is composed of stories: the relationship between discourses and their transformations"

You can send your applications till June 15. 

The set of the articles arranged on the basis of conference material is going to be published by prestigious foreign publishing office.

SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR THE CONFERENCE

  • Relation of theoretic and artistic (literature, art, music, dance, etc.) discourses with reality
  • Theoretic idea and artistic narration as congenial works of humane culture
  • Criteria, determining the popularity and legitimacy of various areas of culture
  • Cultural hierarchies of the narratives: criteria and legitimation
  • Correlations of different narrative and interdisciplinary tendencies in humanitarian sciences
  • Differences and similarities of Eastern and Western narratives
  • Visual communication as post-modern narrative
  • Mutual correlations of sociological narratives of literature, art and other arts
  • Interdisciplinary dispersion of narratives: borrowings and translations
  • Influence of ethnological narrative to the nation’s psychology; cultural imagination and national discourse
  • Influence of interdisciplinary humanitarian studies on technological innovations: synergy and gaming of the fairy-tales
  • Other topics, close to the main topics of the conference, are also possible.

International languages of the conference: Lithuanian, English, Russian.

Presentation and approbation of the applications.

The applications with the titles of the articles and short annotations (up to 500 symbols with spaces) are to be sent in Lithuanian and English languages till the 15th of June: rutabru1@gmail.com,  kkk@mruni.eu,  ilonac@mruni.eu, the replies will be sent till the 20th of June.

Registration fee is 60 € (EUR) (including the publication fee)

Is to be paid till the 15th of July. Article, satisfying the requirements for the treatises, will be published in scholastic reviewed publication.
Travelling and accommodation expenses Unfortunately, there are no funds available at the time to cover the
accommodation- or travel-expenses.

Scientific committee of the conference:

prof. PhD A. Mickūnas, chairman, (Ohio University, USA), assoc. prof. dr. R. Brūzgienė (MRU), prof. dr. Y. Caballero Aceituno (University of Jaén, Spain), assoc. prof. dr. P. Aleksandravičius (MRU), prof. dr. N. S. Bochkareva (Perm National University, Russia), prof. dr. A. Jurgutienė (ILLF), assoc. prof. dr. A. Juzefovič (VGTU), prof. dr. N. Kašelionienė (LEU), prof. dr. V. Martinkus (LEU), prof. PhD R. Menon (Liberal Arts Department Berklee College of Music, USA), prof. PhD J. Murphy (University of Miami, USA), assoc. prof. dr. S. Norvaišas (MRU), dr. R. Stanevičiūtė (LMTA), prof. PhD F. Y. Seif (Antioch University Seattle, Centre for Creative, USA), prof. dr. V. Rudaitienė (MRU).

Organizational committee of the conference:

s. r. ass. dr. I. Čiužauskaitė (MRU), S. Masalskienė (MRU), assoc. prof. dr. A. Budriūnaitė (VMU), assoc. prof. dr. N. J. Bartosh (Novosibirsk National University, Russia), assoc. prof. dr. I. Čekmonienė (MRU), assoc. prof. dr. Ž. Kolevinskienė (LEU), assoc. prof. dr. J. Lavrinec (VGTU), ch. s. ass. dr. Y. Lyutskanov (Institute for Literature, Bulgaria), V. Mažeikienė (MRU), s. r. ass. PhD I. Modebadze (Shota Rustaveli Literary Institute, Georgia), assoc. prof. dr. Nedzinskaitė (MRU), r. fell. dr. I.. Povedák (Bálint Sándor Institute for the Study of Religion, Hungary), s. r. ass. dr. T. Riazantseva (T. Shevchenko Institute of Literature, Ukraine), Elena Sakalauskaitė (TTVAM), R. Valienė (MRU), assoc. prof. dr. A. Žemienė (MRU).

Information is provided:

Mykolas Romeris University, Department of Language Culture of the Institute of Humanities kkk@mruni.eu;  Urtė Kalmantaitė, (85) 2714583; assoc. prof. dr. Rūta Brūzgienė, rutabru1@gmail.com,  +37060087503 (mob.); s. r. worker dr. Ilona Čiužauskaitė ilonac@mruni.eu,  +37069918643 (mob.).

THE CONFERENCE WILL TAKE PLACE IN MYKOLAS ROMERIS UNIVERSITY, ATEITIES ST. 20, VILNIUS, LITHUANIA

More detailed information can be found in the appendix.