Short description
The conference titled “Terrorism, migrations, refugees- contemporary challanges on cultural identities, heritage, economy, tourism and media" will take place in Ohrid 17-19. January 2016 and is organised by Institute for Socio-Cultural Anthropology of Macedonia, Skopje, FRY of Macedonia in partnership with MIRAS- Social Organization in Support of Studying of Cultural Heritage, Baku, Azerbaijan and Centre for Integration and Intercultural Communications, Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
Description
Terrorism, migration and refugee flows are contemporary challenges in all part of our life. Researching, analyzing and exchanging of knowledge among the scholars and experts about the influence of these challenges on the identities, cultural heritage, economic development, tourism and media, particularly, interdisciplinary or holistically is very urgent task. Bearing in mind that a lot cultural heritage monuments and cities are destroyed, some of cultural, religious, ethnic and other identities are bases for undertaking violation and terrorist acts, the role of media are extremely important on spreading the xenophobia or tolerance, meetings of scholars and experts in this period for discussing and exchanging of knowledge is with high priority. Under such circumstances, economic development and tourism should be considered and analyzed from the perspective of abovementioned contemporary challenges.
Topics of interests
We invite scholars, PhD and MA students, researchers and practitioners in anthropology/ethnology, political science, economy, tourism sciences, media, archaeology, history, art, history of art, philology, literature, folklore, ethnomusicology, architecture, museology, archiving, audio-visual arts, information sciences/ technologies, geography, sociology, psychology 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 cultural heritage, economy, tourism, media, cultural identities, terrorism, migration, refugees etc.
Deadline: 14 December 2015