As of February 2015, the CEEAMS Steering Committee has the following members:
Dorottya Nagy (president)
Anne-Marie Kool (vice-president)
Peter Penner (vice-president, treasurer)
Gheorghe Petraru
Scott Klingsmith
Levente Horváth
Valentin Kozhuharov
Vladimir Ubeivolc
Ivan Rusyn
Ruslan Zagidulin
Pavol Bargár (secretary)
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Call for papers Beyond the Iron Curtain: Being Church in Central and Eastern Europe twenty five years after the political changes Heiligenkreuz, Austria, 10-13 February 2015
The Central
and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies organizes the conference:
Beyond the
Iron Curtain: Being Church in Central and Eastern
Europe twenty five years after the political changes
Through the
metaphor and the experiences of 'Iron Curtain', Europe
has been conceptually divided in west and east for more than four decades.
Christian communities from both sides were challenged to deal with the reality
of barbed-wired borders. Therefore the fall of the communist systems had
consequences both for east and west. The collapse of the Iron Curtain does not
mean it has disappeared, as its rusted pieces continue to influence the life of
those who ‘step’ on it. This conference seeks to provide an opportunity to
theologians-missiologists to reflect on the questions of the extent and the
ways in which the communist experiences continue to influence the life of
Christian communities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and what it means to
be or become church in the post-1989/1990 period?
Often focus
is only given to the changes in former communist countries. The present
conference departs from the understanding that both west and east are standing
on the remnants of the Iron Curtain and therefore it is important to reflect
together on the complexities which have been shaping the life, position and
form of the Christian communities in Central and Eastern
Europe in the last twenty five years. The conference seeks to
bring together theologians-missiologists, Master and PhD students researching in mission studies as well as
reflective practitioners coming from different confessional backgrounds.
Papers should
focus on the following topics (though other relevant proposals will be
considered as well):
-
Churches
(re)defining their identities in the post 1989/90 CEE
-
Understandings
of mission within CEE Christian communities
-
Models
of reconciliation in processing the past, facing up to the present challenges
and envisioning the future
-
Understanding
and conceptualizing culture in post 1989/90 CEE
-
Church
and State in the post-communist space
-
Meaning
of the concepts of east and west in post-communist
conditions
-
Church
partnerships between east and west beyond the Iron Curtain in post 1989/90 CEE
-
Changes
in missionary engagement(s) to and from Central and Eastern Europe- Being
Church
-
Ways
of facing new missional challenges in post-communist times.
Deadline
for abstract submission: 1 December 2014.
Abstracts
should be sent to ceeams@gmail.com. and should not be longer than 300 words.
Notification
of the acceptance of the proposal will be sent by 15 December 2014.
Conference
papers should be restricted to 20 minutes of presentation time.
Date of the conference:
Arrivals
10 February 2015, conference starts in the afternoon
Departure
13 February 2015 after lunch
Conference Venue:
TCM
International Institute
Haus Edelweiss
Sattelbach #16
A-2532 Heiligenkreuz N.Ö.
Austria Europe
Phone: +43-2258-8752
Fax: +43-2258-8727-45
Haus Edelweiss
Sattelbach #16
A-2532 Heiligenkreuz N.Ö.
Austria Europe
Phone: +43-2258-8752
Fax: +43-2258-8727-45
Language of
the conference: English.
Conference costs:
conference
fee EUR 25
Accommodation
in one person bedroom, meals, and coffee break drinks and snack: EUR 135
Accommodation
in shared (two persons) bedroom, meals, and coffee break drinks and snack: EUR
112,5
Scholarships:
Participants, especially those whose
abstract will be accepted, may apply for partial or full coverage of the
conference costs. Travel expenses cannot be reimbursed.
Papers
presented at the conference may be submitted for publication in the CEEAMS´
journal.
Organizers:
Dr. Pavol Bargár
Prof. Dr. Scott Klingsmith
Prof. Dr. Anne-Marie Kool
Dr. Valentin Kozuharov
Dr. Dorottya Nagy
Prof. Dr. Peter Penner
Prof. Dr. Gheorghe Petraru
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