*In Poland. Pretty good spot for it.
*You'll have to pay your own way.
From: "Joanna Popielska"
Dear Professors, dear Colleagues,
We request the pleasure in inviting you to take part in the Second
Interdisciplinary Conference: "Disasters, Catastrophes and the Ends
of the World in Sources" which will be held from 25th to 27th of
June 2012 at the Pultusk Academy of Humanities in Pultusk in Poland.
The conference is second out of three. The First Interdisciplinary
Conference: "Seeking Origins and Manifestations of Religion"
took place in June 2011 and the Third Interdisciplinary Conference:
"Thinking Symbols" will be in June 2014.
The application should contain your personal data, scholarly/scientific
title, affiliation, e-mail address and phone number as well as abstract
up to 400 words in English.
The deadline for the abstracts submission is the 31st of December 2011.
Please send your abstract at one of the following addresses:
[email protected] or [email protected]
The language of the conference is English.
All topics concerned with scholarly approach to subject of disasters,
catastrophes and the ends of the world in all its aspects and forms are
welcomed, including papers of ancient as well as contemporary times.
We invite scholars of various specialities, historians, archaeologists,
anthropologists of culture, linguists, scholars studying religion and
culture matters, historians of art, sociologists, psychologists, all willing
to discuss the subject in its broad scholarly sense.
We would like to call your attention to multiplicity of the catastrophic
happenings and their perception. (((Hey yeah. Why, that's a major
contribution to scholarship right there.)))
The following are, however, examples
only:
1.. Global catastrophes
2.. Local catastrophes
3.. Ideologies leading to catastrophes (((are there any other kind?)))
4.. Time as catastrophe (((getting downright Dunsanian here)))
5.. The end of the world as the final catastrophe
6.. Natural catastrophes, e.g.: earthquakes, eruptions of volcanoes,
landslips, floods, fires and conflagrations, climatic catastrophes,
epidemics, astronomical/cosmic catastrophes, famine, droughts; death as
personal, national and/or international catastrophe
7.. Catastrophes caused by people, e.g.: ecological, architectural,
toxins, nuclear, war conflicts, economic, starvation, demographic; air, sea
catastrophes (e.g. Titanic, Gustlof) and land, car catastrophes; politic -
collapses of politic systems, ideologies
8.. Catastrophes in Prehistory, e.g.: extinction of dinosaurs; Thera;
downfalls of civilisations, e.g.: Minoan, Hittite Culture or Rome and other;
epidemics, e.g. Justinian and 1346 year; invasions, e.g. Mongolian invasion
in the 13th century; epidemics in the South America after incoming of the
Spanish
9.. Catastrophes today: Tunguskic meteorite; Spanish epidemic in 1918;
French (1789) and Russian (1917) Revolutions; World War I and II;
genocide;
10. Catastrophes in mythology: deluge in Mesopotamia and the Bible;
epidemics in Egypt; myths on destruction of humankind; Armageddon;
Ragnarök
11. Catastrophes in written Sources
12. Catastrophes in art: paintings; graphics, sculpture; architecture,
literature; film; music etc
13. Aesthetic Catastrophes (((worth the price of admission by themselves)))
14. Catastrophes in popular culture: aliens' attack, meteorite/asteroid
fall; new glacial epoch; damage of river dam; laboratory viruses;
conflagration of skyscraper; nuclear annihilation; eruptions of volcanoes
etc and many other.
The conference participants are also invited to take part in folk art
workshop (((flee the affliction))) on Monday the 25th and the welcome reception with music
on Tuesday the 26th of June 2012.
For more information do not hesitate to contact
Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska at [email protected]
or
Bożena Józefów-Czerwińska at [email protected]
The registration fees are as follows:
Full registration - participants delivering lectures:
50 euro / 200 PLN (all lecturers have meals included: 3 breakfasts, 3
lunches and 2 suppers)
Student (all level students) and audience registration:
20 euro / 80 PLN
You are kindly asked to submit your registration fee for the Second
Interdisciplinary Conference: Disasters, Catastrophes and the Ends
of the World which will be held from 25th to 27th of June 2012 at
the Pułtusk Academy of Humanities in Pułtusk in Poland only from
the 1st of June to the 22nd of June 2012 at the following account:
The Pułtusk Academy of Humanities
BANK PEKAO S.A.
IBAN: PL 46 1240 5282 1111 0000 4896 0964
BIC: PKO PPLPW
with note: Fee for RelConference
The accommodation is in the Academy hostel and fees are as follows:
Single room 50 PLN per night
2-beds-room 45 PLN per night per person
3-beds-room 40 PLN per night per person
2-beds-room as a single room 50 PLN per night
The account number as above; with note: Accommodation for RelConference
There is also possible to choose accommodation in one of the hotels in
Pułtusk.
For accommodation matters please contact Bożena Józefów-Czerwińska
at [email protected]
PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU NEED AN INVOICE TO GET THE
COSTS REFUND BY YOUR UNIVERSITY THE PAYMENT MUST
BE MADE BY BANK TRANSFER FROM YOUR UNIVERSITY
ACCOUNT!
PLEASE BRING CONFIRMATION OF THE PAYMENTS TO
THE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
We would also like to inform the participants of the last year conference
that we have received financial support from the Ministry of Science and
Higher Education and the book will be published before the end of the year
2011. Your proofs will be sent shortly.
As many of you have already experienced Pułtusk offers a lot to be seen.
You are whole-heartedly invited to visit Pułtusk for the first time or
again.
Enjoy the conference and:
the XVth century collegiate church with famous coffered, florally ornamented
ceiling;
the longest cobblestone market in Europe;
Regional Archaeological Museum - with small pieces of the famous Pułtusk
meteorite (bigger pieces exhibited in London and Warsaw museums);
the Pułtusk Castle - presently the Polonia House Hotel and conference
centre, previously the abode of the bishops; inhabited by Napoleon;
one of the oldest Polish High School named after Piotr Skarga - famous
Jesuits' preacher;
canoeing and gondola excursions on the river Narew;
the White Wilderness with becoming extinct species of plants and animals
extending from Pułtusk to Ostrow Mazowiecka.
We always stay
Yours very sincerely,
Władysław Duczko
Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska
Bożena Józefów-Czerwińska
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Faculty of History
Pułtusk Academy of Humanities
17, Daszynskiego st.
06-100 Pułtusk
Poland
phone: +48 23 692 98 93
e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]
