THE 7TH ISSEI CONFERENCE: APPROACHING A NEW MILLENNIUM: LESSON FROM THE PAST - PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE, BERGEN-NORWAY 14-18 AUGUST 2000
THE 7TH ISSEI CONFERENCE
The University of Bergen, Norway, is in cooperation with ISSEI (International Society for
the Study of European Ideas), staging the seventh ISSEI conference Approaching a New
Millenium: Lessons from the Past - Prospects for the Future, in Bergen from the 14th to
the 18th of August 2000.
TOPICS-SECTIONS
We expect 1500 participants who will take part in about 150 different workshops. The
workshops will be grouped into five sections:
I. Democracy: Possibilities, Problems and Challenges at the Close of the 20th Century.
Section coordinator Professor Lars Svĺsand.
II. Law, Civilised Societies and Collapse - State Powers and the Rule of Law.
Section cooridinator Associate Professor Terje Einarsen.
III. Europe in Search of Identity: Multi-Ethnicity, Migration and the Challenges of
Integration.
Section coordinator Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
IV. European Identity and its Expression in the Philosophy, Science, Literature and Art.
Section cooridinator Professor Ezra Talmor.
V. European Education - Decline, Market Adaption or Critical Continuity.
Section cooridinator Associate Professor Daniel Apollon.
CALL FOR CHAIRS
There is a section coordinator for each section. If you are interested in chairing a
workshop within one of these sections please submit a workshop proposal of 1-2 pages
describing the purpose of the workshop before medio July 1999. Please send us your
workshop proposal by e-mail or on a disc (standard file format). You can also use the form
at our website on http://www.uib.no/issei2000.
This gives you the opportunity to submit the proposal online. The chairs will be selected
by the scientific committee, which consists of the sections coordinators.
CALL FOR PAPERS
If you are interested in participating in a workshop, the official announcement of call
for papers will be ready in August/September 1999 - but a preliminary list of all the
workshops will be established on our website during the summer.
GRANTS
ISSEI 2000 has grants available for participants from Eastern Europe. Detailed information
about the grant program will soon be available on our website.
LINKS TO THE CITY OF BERGEN
The Bergen Guide http://www.bergen-guide.com/
Bergen through foreign eyes: an alternative travel guide http://home.sol.no/~vals/
Conference secretariat
ISSEI 2000
Centre for the Study of European Civilization
University of Bergen
Haakon Sheteligsplass 11
5007 Bergen
Norway
E-mail: ISSEI2000@uib.no