25. 02 - 27. 02. 2010 г.

XIX INTERNATIONAL ROUND TABLE

THE WORLDS OF THE BALKAN STREET

INVITATION

The street in the modernization projects on the Balkans. The functions of the public space.

The street as a space of political jargons, gestures, practices. The street and the social change.

Anthropology of the Balkan street: street walkers, street children, street criminals. 

The commercialization of the present society and street:

1. advertising, window-shops, market place;
2. culture for selling, mass society and mass culture;
3. body culture, street sports;
4. communication and misunderstanding;
5. underground as an alternative to the mass culture.

 The language of the street and the street jargons.
The poetics of the Balkan street; the street as a metaphor in the Balkan literature.
The history of the Balkan street – diachronic and synchronic dimensions:

• the rural and   the urban;
• foreigners, emigrants, and strangers;
• European and Oriental;
• official and underground.