Workshop on the Cultural Politics of Globalization and Community in East Central Europe

面对全球化，试图影响社会变革进程的社区的价值观、身份和表现形式是如何形成的？这些文化政治如何影响不同阶层、群体和民族的命运？ 这些都是社会科学家在一个以中东欧为重点的研讨会上要解决的问题，这个地区由于共产主义的结束、周边的战争以及加入北大西洋公约组织、欧盟和其他跨国组织而发生了巨大的变化。来自美国和欧洲经委会的研讨会参与者将考虑全球化如何在不同规模的不同社区中被理解和代表，特别是在该地区的多样性，不平等与和平的全球化的各种表达。通过探讨全球化的文化政治在男女、族裔社区和宗教团体、政党和阶级以及国家本身之间的社会关系中的实践，我们期望更好地了解变革的推动者在何种条件下对往往被认为是任何人都无法控制的全球变革产生责任感并参与其中。 这项研究的广泛影响包括以下几点。 计划中的讲习班将通过召集学者，特别是年轻学者和一些资深学者，并将研究人员跨越国界和跨群体联系起来，促进围绕这一主题建立一个新的社会科学合作网络。除了对参与者的好处之外，希望研讨会前后的在线宣传将有助于产生一个新的社会科学研究领域。讲习班的重点是全球化和文化，这将为决策者和公众提供一个不同的框架（超越政治经济学），以思考个人和群体如何塑造全球社会变革的轨迹。

How are the values, identities, and representations of communities facing globalization shaped by attempts to influence the course of social change, and how do these cultural politics affect the fates of different strata, groups, and peoples? These are among the questions to be addressed by social scientists at a workshop focusing on East Central Europe (ECE), a region of extraordinary changes occasioned by communism's end, wars on its periphery, and entry to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, European Union, and other transnational organizations. Workshop participants from the US and ECE will consider how globalization is understood and represented in different communities of varying scale, looking in particular at globalization's various articulations in this region with diversity, inequality, and peace. By addressing the practice of globalization's cultural politics in social relations among men and women, ethnic communities and religious groups, political parties and classes, and nations themselves, we expect to understand better the conditions under which agents of change develop a sense of responsibility for, and engagement with, global transformations frequently perceived to be beyond anyone's control. The broader impacts of this research include the following. The planned workshop will facilitate development of a new network of social science collaboration around this subject by assembling scholars, especially younger but also some more senior scholars, and linking researchers across national boundaries and across cohorts. Beyond benefits to participants, it is hoped that on-line publicity preceding and following the workshop will help generate a new area of social scientific inquiry. The workshop's focus on globalization and culture will provide a different framework (beyond political economy) for policymakers and publics to think about how individuals and groups can shape the trajectories of global social change.