Co—Chairs: Dr. Domenico Ciancio (Co-Director of Daily "La Sicilia", Italy) and Prof. Ignazio Corsaro (Founder of IMISE and Editor of the Journal "Lo Straniero", Italy)

Chair: Prof. Nicholas Mann, FBA, CBE (Pro-Vice-Chancellor of London/UK Univ., Dean of the Humanities Research Institutes of same Univ., Foreign Secretary of the British Academy, and Chairman of IMISE Advisory Board)

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Chair: Prof. Petermichael von Bawey (Dept. of History and Social Sciences, AUP, France)

*** Social Meeting – Prof. Gerardo Della Paolera (Argentina, President of AUP), invites participants to a Cocktail Party on Wednesday at 18.00 hrs, in the Conference Building, 31 ave. Bosquet.

Chair: Prof. David Lovell (Head of School of Politics, Univ. College UNSW at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia)

Chair: Prof. Lucia Palmer (Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Delaware, USA)

Chair Dr. Giovanni Trezza (Writer, Correspondent of "Lo Straniero", Italy)

Chair: Dr. Ingrid Sonnichsen (Dept. of Theatre, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, USA)

VENUE:

The American University of Paris (AUP), 31 Avenue Bosquet, 75007 Paris. Websites: www.aup.edu, or www.aup.fr. The campus of the university, serving about one thousand students from nearly one hundred countries, is a composite of various buildings and picturesque neighborhood of cafes, restaurants and parks. From a cultural perspective, AUP has attracted international students interested in probing the American Way of education and Americans keen on experiencing the European Style of life in the "City of Light". No wonder such a gifted group of American writers like Ernest Hemingway, Francis Scott-Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound and Sherwood Anderson gathered in Gertrude Stein’s avant-gard salon in Paris, which became the most renowned haunt of artists, painters and writers of the "lost generation", in the 1920s.

WELCOME:

Prof.Gerardo della Paolera, President of AUP, welcomes the participants to the 29th IMISE Conference organized by:

Prof. Petermichael von Bawey, Dept. of History and Social Sciences, AUP, Paris.

Prof. Ignazio Corsaro, Founder of the IMISE and Editor of Lo Straniero, Naples, Italy.

A most relevant characteristic of the IMISE Conferences is the wish to widen all cultural horizons through interdisciplinarity. Thus participants are encouraged to attend all workshops and involve themselves in a stimulating and rewarding interdisciplinary dialogue in addition to the publication of their papers in the journal "Lo Straniero".

REGISTRATION:

Send Name, Curriculum, Address, Paper (or at least Title), and Fees mentioned hereunder. Participants unable to be present at the conference, can still participate as a correspondent and have papers published under same rules as present participants.

PAPERS:

Publication follows registration. Standard size is 1000 words, for longer papers add to abovementioned fees an extra Euro 10 for each group of additional 200 words, which applies to all nationalities. Send paper by email for reproduction of original version, and hard copy by post. Notes should not be written at the end of each page but all must be annotated at the end of paper. Figures should be in brackets, using the same typographical character in the text, and not as the apex.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE:

Englis for presentation of papers and debate. French and Italian are accepted for publication of papers but not encouraged, in order to foster understanding and interdisciplinarity among the majority of participants. If the language you’re writing in is not your mother tongue, please have your paper reviewed by a competent translator before sending it.

Address to: Prof.Ing. Ignazio Corsaro, Piazza Amedeo 8, NA 80121, Naples/Italy, Tel.=0039-081-681238, Fax.=0039-081-7611264, [email protected]

1986, Oct — K18 Gallery, Moritzstrasse, Kassel, GERMANY. 

1988, Apr — Nemi Atelier, Rome, ITALY. 

1989, Feb — "Sale del Bramante", Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, ITALY. 

1990, May — Augustinian Cloister and Town Hall, Campagna, ITALY. 

1990, Nov — Sala delle Mostre, Town Hall, Alessandria, ITALY. 

1990, Nov — "Etabeta" and "La Cartiera", Catania, ITALY. 

1991, May — "Artweek" at Templar Square, Oxford, ENGLAND. 

1991, Sep — "Teatroclub", Catania, ITALY. 

1992, Dec — Sicilian Media "La Sicilia", Catania, ITALY. 

1993, Sep — "Small Press Fair", London, ENGLAND. 

1994, Aug — University of Graz, AUSTRIA. 

1994, Sep — Civic Centre BÜZ, Minden, GERMANY. 

1995, Jul — St. Edward’s Theatre, Oxford, ENGLAND. 

1996, Aug — University of Utrecht, HOLLAND. 

1996, Sep — Convitto Vittorio Emanuele, Naples, ITALY. 

1997, Aug — St. Edward’s Theatre, Oxford, ENGLAND. 

1998, May — Freie Europe Hall, Praha, CZECHOSLOVAKIA. 

1998, Jul — St. Edward’s Conference Room, Oxford, ENGLAND. 

1998, Aug — University of Haifa, ISRAEL. 

1999, Jun — Institute of Anthropology, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RUSSIA. 

1999, Aug — Anglican Church of Naples & Annex, and NATO Club, ITALY. 

2000, Apr — British Consulate of Naples, ITALY. 

2002, Jul/Aug — Anglican Church of Naples & Annex, ITALY.

2003, Jul — R.Musil Institute and University of Klagenfurt, AUSTRIA.

The International Movement for Interdisciplinary Study of Estrangement is not affiliated to any religious, political or financial organization.   Adherence solely involves the sharing of an interest in human beings’ cultural values and drives.   Founded in 1985 through Lo Straniero, it keeps urging intellectuals to re-consider Hamlet’s prophetic message: <There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.> Once this message is deciphered by psychoanalysis, uncovering the unconscious aggressive drive in human nature, it turns into: <There is no Party, no Philosophy, no Church either good or bad, but human behaviour makes it so.>;  revealing that no politician of any Party, no philosopher of any Philosophy and no priest of any Church would ever easily admit these Shakespearian conclusions, each wanting to show that his/her own organization is the best and infallible.

We live in the age of estrangement.   Every neighbour is a potential antagonist, every community can harm its members. Estrangement arises from an infinite variety of conflicts caused by divergence of sex, culture, religion, politics, etc., making us strangers to other people and to ourselves.   The only relief we can find is to detach ourselves from the jugglers of political parties, the sacred cows attached to conservative totems, the bullies of revolutionary coteries, and the wizards who rule religious pantheons.

Some negative aspects of estrangement are: selfishness, self-destruction, disassociation from human environment for the exploitation of it, inclination to self-assertion. Some positive aspects are: detachment that minimizes emotional factors and appeases peer pressure, independence that enlarges horizons and increases awareness, mental therapy that discharges inner frustration and revolt, self-defence against other people’s physical or psychological aggression, detachment from the domineering instinct.

Interviewed by Oxford BBC during the "8th IMISE Event 1991" in UK, Lo Straniero’s Editor said: <The mediocre are tied to their native land, while the open minded consider themselves citizens of the world, but only the wise feel a stranger everywhere. Inner rebellion is a never ending process that remains pure, whereas the dirty flag of revolution fights one corruption in order to enforce another. History shows that any kind of human cruelty can also be equalled by the intolerance of the Northerner, the wickedness of the Southerner, the corruption of the Westerner and the hypocrisy of the Easterner. All these calamities might find a remedy in a convinced and convincing education based on estrangement from will to power, fanaticism, selfishness and whatever causes suffering.>

Therefore, before trying to attain happiness, it is wise to abstain from what leads to unhappiness, using estrangement as a shield to protect oneself from humanity’s aggressiveness, and remembering that the word <Truth> is often used as a catch-word.

Nicholas Mann, CBE, FBA, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of London University, Dean of the Humanities Research Institutes of same University, and Foreign Secretary of the British Academy, is Chairman of the IMISE Advisory Board. The majority of the IMISE members are well known academics and scholars of various nationalities, most of whom have already participated in some of the conferences fostered by Lo Straniero, and had papers published in it.

—ALEXEEV Igor (Rus) 528 - Concepts of Power Sacralization in the Islamic World.

—ALPARGU Mehmet (Tur) 559-590 - National History Teaching in the Frame of Globalization.

—AVRAMOVIC Zoran (Yug) 294 - Does Global Democratization abolish the Stranger?

—BENEDIKT Michail (Austria) 535 - Estrangement: Gordian Knot or Ambiguity?

—BERTOLINI Joseph (USA) 451-493-561-592 - Being and Alienation: Martin Heidegger and ...

—BLACK Percy (USA) 285 - Informality, the Pervasive Disdain of Humanship.

—BLAKE James (USA) 342 - Irish Gaelic Theatre in the 1990s: Estrangement, Contention, Success.

—BONDARENKO Dmitri (Rus) 522 - Sacralization of the Ruler and Sociopolitical Processes.

—BOWMAN Glenn (UK) 477 - Anthropological Meditation on the Events of 11 Sep 2001.

—BRONK William (USA) 260 - Life Supports.

—BROWNING William (USA) 548 - Borchert’s Expressionism: Resurrecting the Ancient Greek Chorus.

—BUCENIECE Ella (Lat) 258 - Individuation of Life-Forms and Estrangement from Forms.

—BUDZIAK Anna (Pol) 441 - Sublimity and Estrangement in E.M.Forster’s The Story of the Siren.

—BURROUGHS Ernest (USA) 235-252-280 - On Estrangement in Heidegger.

—CARRARO Libera (Ita) 568 - Exhibition on Estrangement.

—CHUTE Edward (USA) 315 - Estrangement in Shakespeare’s Othello and Stoppard’s Arcadia.

—CIUCA Aurora (Rom) 510-570 - The New European Framework of Refugees’ Protection.

—CIUCA Valerius (Rom) 427-509-571 - For a Hermeneutics of Comparative and Civil Law.

—CORSARO-AGRO’-PIRANDELLO Concettina (Ita) 17 - Luigi Pirandello’s Letters with Dedication ...

—DEMETRIOU Spyros (Switz) - 361, Achieving Viable Statehood in Divided Societies.

—DEVERA Ramiro (Ita) 9 - The (Estranged) Epigrams of the Duke of Maddaloni.

—DIACONU Madalina (Austria) 525 - Touch, Smell, Taste: Temporal Structures and Aesthetic Values.

—DONATI Alberto (Ita) 99 - Considerazioni sulla Enciclica Veritatis Splendor.

—ERICKSON Stephen (USA) 236-280 - On Strangeness and Estrangement.

—FISHTA Iljaz(Alb) 289 - The Economy of Albania on the Road of Transition.

—FREIBERGA Elga (Latv) 258 - Otherness, Estrangement, Irony.

—GANDLER Stefan (Mex) 344 - Difference and Identity.

—GIANNINI Natalia (USA) 497 - Naples and Food: A Counter Paradigm of Modernity.

—GIOVANELLI Emanuele (Ita) 428-449 - Naples Traditions and Superstition.

—GLOWACKI Andrzej (Pol) 102 - Some Causes of Alienation from Political Life in Poland.

—GOLUBEVA Yulia (Rus) 367-506 - Masks, Dolls and Marionette: The Problem of Cultural Estrangement.

—HAKOPIAN Levon (Rus) 372 - Symbolism of Alienation in Soviet Music.

—HAUS Heinz-Uwe (USA) 337-341-364-405/6-410/1-458-499-549-578

—HEEP Hartmut (USA) 160-250-255-284-369

—HELMETAG Charles (USA) 341-400 - Learning by Doing: Oedipus Rex.

—IKIEL Cercis (Tur) 560 - Is Globalization an Uninterrupted Process?

—IRMSCHER Johannes (Ger) 223/5-255-28/8-321-339-375 - On the Roman Concept of Dictatorship.

—IVANOVA Ekaterina (Rus) 565 - Hostages: Strangers or not in Governmental Legal Space?

—KAUL Ashok (Ind) 251 - The Cultural Decentring, Progressive and Retrogressive.

—KELLY Alan (USA) 450-556-572-595/6 - Alienation from Father and God in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens.

—KIMBALL Jack (USA ) 242-259 - William Bronk, the Alien.

—KOGLER Susanne (Austria) 564 - Alienation as a Starting Point, Compositional Procedure and Aim.

—KRIEGER Uwe (Ger) 385 - Making Theatre Masks (Meeting a Stranger).

—LANG John T.F. (Can) 495 - Recognition in and of Estrangement: Hegel's Lordship and Bondage...

—LOVELL David (Austra) 422-466-507-584 - Political Cynicism in Liberal Democracies.

—LOZANOVA Sasha (Bul) 479-496-532-566 - The Ethnic Peace in the Silent Town.

—MACKEY Theresa (USA) 234 - Literary Measures of Alienation.

—MAROTTA Giuseppe (Ita) 409 - A Sunny Morning with Alfonso Corsaro’s Paintings.

—MARTINENKO Alexander (Rus) 474-523 - Social and Cultural Aspects of Regional Islam in Russia.

—McANEAR Michael(USA) 557-569 - Alienation and Right-Wing Extremism in Austria.

—MEZZANOTTE Paolo (Ita)) 432482 - Destino Madrid (Novel)

—MIGNECO Friedericke (Ita) 208-254-272-298-374 - Lo Straniamento di Erwin Chargaff.

—MIGNECO Gaetano (Ita) 207-254 - Erwin Chargaff’s Unconceivable Secret.

—NEMTCHINOV Victor (Rus) 192-282 - Changing Identity Structures for the New Generation in Russia.

—OYABU Tsutomu (Jap) 475 - Freedom in the Cultural Context (Anthropological Linguistics).

—PALMER Lucia (USA) 364-424-487/8- 553-600 - Philosophy and Alienation.

—PANESAR Jasbir (UK) 438-481-547 - Migrant Women: Strangers or Citizens.

—PAPASTEPHANOU Marianna (Cypr) 404 - Alienation and Externalization in Lukacs’s Thought.

—POLLIACK Lily (Isra) 335-340 - Jerusalem: The Holy City of Conflict and Estrangement.

—POPLAK Dudley (UK) 238 - Healing through Estrangement.

—REMELE Kurt (Austria) 316 - The Psychoterapeutic Ethos, Alienation from the Common Good?

—RUBENE Mara (Lat) 222-258 - Estrangement, Responsibility, Justice.

—RUOKONEN Floora (Fin) 258-269 - Schillerian Solutions to the Problem of Estrangement.

—RYNELL Eric (Fin) 551 - Tracing the Action.

—SARCA Ioana (Austria) 546 - The Linguistic Exile: Emil Cioran and the Writing Experience ...

—SELVI Haluk (Tur) 559 - National History Teaching in the Frame of Globalization.

—SHILOV Nikolai (Rus) 523 - Social and Cultural Aspects of Regional Islam in Russia

—SHISHIN Alex (Jap) 359-389-390-435 - The Superfluous Man in Russian Literary Tradition and its Influence.

—SILVERMAN Victor (USA) 323 - Insider, Outsider, No-sider: The Life and Death of Rose Cohen.

—SLAWSON Douglas (USA) 552 - Coercing Conformity: Progressivism and Catholic Resistance in the 1920s.

—SONNICHSEN Ingrid (USA) 445-459 - Dialect as a Factor in Alienation.

—SOSNOVSKAYA Alla (Isr) 439-498-511-567-583 - Utopia and Vsevolod Mejerhold.

—STEGMANN Vera (USA) 457-467 - Exploring Identities through Narrative Strategies: G.Bruno and B.Brecht.

—SVECE Artis (Latv) 258 - Estrangement from Oneself and Deliberate Self-Deception.

—TOLSTOI Andrei (Rus) 263-270 - "Les Vagues de l’Emigration Artistique de la Russie au XX Siecle".

—TSUBAKI Andrew (USA) 343 - Workshop on Kyogen: Comedy of Medieval Japan.

—TREZZA Giovanni (Ita) 554 - Italian Concordats: Profiting from Power Sacralization for Acquiring Privileges.

—VANSTAPEL Maryse (Belg) 109-283 - Alienation in the Everyday Culture.

—VASILENKO Irina (Austral) 456-514-603 - Pathways of Privatisation of Education in a Transitional Society.

—WAILEY Anthony (UK) 438-481-547-579 - Migrant Women: Strangers or Citizens.

—WARKENTIN Erwin (Can) 395 - Metaphor and Alienation in the Information Age.

—YOSHINAGA Mitzuaki (Jap) 475 - Freedom in the Cultural Context (Anthropological Linguistics).

—YASSOUR Avraham (Isr) 155-187-216-252-307-338-376-425 - The Kibbutz, Vision and Daily Life.

—ZAZZALI Peter (USA) 460-575-576 - Medea Fragments (A. S. T. Company, partner John Pasha).

—ZHELEVA-MARTINS Dobrina (Bulg) 479-496-531 - The Ethnic Peace in the Silent Town.