Date:
18-19-20 November 2009
Organiser:
Eusko Ikaskuntza - Basque Studies Society
17th Eusko Ikaskuntza Congress.
Innovation for sustainable social progress
1. THEMES
2. OBJECTIVES
2. Facilitate interdisciplinary activities, intergenerational dialogue, equality of opportunities, linguistic diversity and the presence of new languages.
3. Encouraging innovation is among the theoretical and practical proposals, and encouraging innovation is also within the very way in which proposals are to be presented. Encouraging innovation thus becomes a transversal line of the Congress.
4. Promoting an ample and diverse participation of people or social agents who wish to participate in the work promoted as from within Eusko Ikaskuntza as well as of all the members of this entity.
5. Propitiate the emergence of contextualised ideas and practices that would enrich the diversity of tasks carried out within Eusko Ikaskuntza.
3. PUBLIC TARGETTED
People and entities that constitute Eusko Ikaskuntza as well as those people interested in the knowledge and advancement of Basque studies and in critical reflection thereon both in the Basque Country and in other parts of the world. Cultural and political institutions in charge of incorporating results proceeding from scientific reflection that have benefitted from public contrast in participational processes.
4. DIMENSIONS
INNOVATION IN THE STARTING POINT AND IN TRANSVERSALITY:
- Network societies or the role of networks in the current world
- Participational processes and new forms of organisation and governance
- Vanguard and creativity in the 21st century: creative processes, levels of application, tendencies, protagonists
- Transformation as from the margins: empowerment processes for individual and social change
GLOBALISATION
- The identity debate in a globalised world: Homogeneity and dissolution or diversity and cultural sustainability?
- Hybrid societies and cultures: do they exist? Are they possible?
- Transformations in space and time: processes of migration and other nomadic forms of life (delocalisation, tourism, travel, etc.)
- Contested globalisation: resistance, alternatives and critical views
SOCIAL TENSION
- Societies in conflict: political violence, economic crisis, others
- Creativity applied to conflict: alternative resolution experiences
- Social movements and the challenge of peace
- Violence in the private sphere and personal relationships: keys for comprehension and mechanisms for solutions
SOLIDARY SOCIETY
- Migration processes and projects: immigration stories
- Migration and host societies: the management of diversity
- Evolution of cooperation for development and its current situation: theoretical, ethical and practical debates
- The other globalisation: old and new forms of social marginalisation and exclusion
- Sustainability of Social Services in the context of the Welfare State: guaranteed rights
GENDER SYSTEMS
- Ruptures and permanencies in masculinity/femininity models
- Personal, social and working life the impossible puzzle?
- Power is neither distributed nor shared: limits to women’s access to positions of responsibility
- New socialisations for the exercise of power
JUSTICE
- Forms and formulas of communication between the justice administration and the citizenry: current situation and future challenges
- Between justice and society: alternative justice; the role of “ombundsmen” and other types of mediation
QUALITY OF LIFE
- Space and habitability are our towns and our villages habitable?
- Consumption as a synonym of quality of life: until when?
- Abilities for a lifetime: how are the new generations prepared for a more healthy society?
- Demography, quality of life and vital cycle (childhood, youth, maturity, old age): different perceptions and expectations
- Innovation in health from an ethical point of view
- Criminality and urban context
- Alternative urban models
REVALUATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE
- Criticism of the public sphere/private sphere dichotomy: experiences and occurrences of appropriation of the public sphere and publication of the private sphere
- Citizens’ implication in the management of the public sphere: analyses of methodologies, processes and experiences
- The public sphere as a field of expression, demonstration, creation and criticism
- Public property as the link between the city and the citizens
SOCIAL MEMORY
- The role of transmission in contemporary societies
- Memory as heritage, heritage as the store of memory
- Silences and processes of memory recovery
- Memory and every-day life: How are our towns and villages remembered?
