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Blog Update: "The Schizophreneia Issue "
holars who are interested in the history of world cultures and related global issues.
Your Invitation to the
2010 Conference in Provo, Utah
By Michael Andregg
As program chair for the 40th annual conference of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations I want to welcome the world to beautiful Provo, Utah and to the flagship campus of the Mormon community there, Brigham Young University. We have met at many attractive places on this earth including the Hermitage in St. Petersburg Russia, Reitaku U in Japan, at the Ecole's in Paris, Dublin Ireland, Jamaica, St. John Canada and at many other excellent venues. But few can rival the Wasatch Mountains with the clear spring water of the Rockies all about for natural beauty. We will be discussing perennial issues that have occupied civilizationalists for a long time: just what constitute civilizations, how they are distinct from nations and empires, what role religions play, whether civilizational encounters and transformations are necessarily traumatic, and whether ours is in exceptional trouble or not.
But our main theme this year will be an unusual one: "Civilizational Futures". Therefore we invite the world of scholars and deep thinkers to consider submitting an abstract of a paper to our program committee, and possibly coming to a great university in Central Utah, USA, next June 15 - 17 (2010) to think with us about civilizations past, presently clashing and transforming, and possibly getting some glimpses of their futures to come.
Michael Andregg, 2010 ISCSC Program Chair
Send abstracts by March 15, 2010 to mmandregg@stthomas.edu
The 2009 Conference Proceedings are now available!
