Ethnic Images and Stereotypes - Where is the Border Line?
Narva College of Tartu University (Estonia) announces third international scientific conference on political and cultural relations between Russia and the states of the Baltic region "Ethnic images and stereotypes - where is the border line?" (Russian-Baltic Cross-cultural Relations)
October 20-22, 2006
The first two conferences took place in Samara (2001) and Narva (2003). At the conference in 2006 will focus on cultural contacts. We intend to pay attention to the problems and interactions of border cultures, and to study how the image of another nation and its culture are formed on historical, literary, folklore materials and other sources. The image of a foreign culture and its people largely determines the cultural strategic behavior chosen by an individual when dealing with a particular ethnos. Reconstructing the keystones of these images and understanding the causes that govern certain elements of these images will help understand many peculiarities of the Russian - Baltic cross cultural relations. The working languages of the conference: Russian and English, simultaneous translation
Contacts:
Ms Jelena Nõmm, PhD (languages: Russian, Estonian)
Lecturer of the Russian and World literature
Tel: +372 35 60 698
E-mail: jelena.nomm [ät] ut.ee
Ms Anneli Roose (languages: Estonian, English, German, Russian)
Senior Specialist, Quality Assurance and International Relations
Tel: +372 35 60608
Cell: + 372 511 44 85
Fax: +372 35 61911
E-mail: anneli.roose [ät] ut.ee