Cfp Identity And Cultural Diversity

The Poetics and Politics of Identity deadline for submissions: April 30, 2017 full name / name of organization: The Tunisian Association for English Language Studies (TAELS) contact email: [email protected] The Tunisian Association for English Language Studies (TAELS) www.taels.org organises its 3rd International Conference on: “The Poetics and Politics of Identity” 24-25 November, 2017 Venue: Vincci-Marillia Hotel **** Hammamet – Tunisia

Call for Papers Recent scholarship in Identity Studies has engaged in a passionate debate that captures the proliferation of the concept among various academic traditions, seeking to formulate a balance between the aesthetic representations of identity and its political potential. In sociology, literature, anthropology, arts, linguistics and other related disciplines, the question of identity represents a core investigation area, lending itself to an impressive array of political and aesthetic approaches. Reflecting on the versatility of identity, different research paradigms have sought to elucidate the intricate links between social experiences, cultural practices, political standpoints and literary forms, taking into account the collapse of geographic and cultural boundaries in a world dominated by unlimited and multiplying connectivity. Equally integral to the study of identity is language with its different cultural manifestations. From sociolinguistics to discourse studies, language represents an important venue to examine the relationships of power and to reconceptualize identity within one’s social, political, and cultural contexts. In language teaching and learning, identity has proven to be a central concept in the study of teaching-learning styles, educational policies, and teaching methods and approaches. In the arena of sociopolitical discourses, the overwhelming waves of immigrants and displaced people have led to a pressing urgency of rethinking the chasm between the Global North and the Global South. Election discourses – and results – have been influenced by a popular glorification of nationalist voices weary of the potential threat posed by immigrants and asylum seekers. Studies on the discourses of recent election campaigns have been attentive to the politics of ‘race’, ‘class’ and ‘national identity’ in the light of the unprecedented surge of ‘racism’, ‘sexism’, ‘bigotry’, and ‘xenophobia’ and the mass manipulation of people to vote for the advocates of nationalist supremacy and ‘protectionist’ policies. In culture and literary studies, interest in identity has spurred critical debate among theorists, critics and writers, negotiating the intricate crossovers between the literary and cultural domains, on the one hand, and identity construction, on the other. Novelists, for instance, have been attentive to the representation of identity and have sought to engage creatively in dismantling preset models of racial, ethnic and gender straight-jackets

to celebrate constructionist approaches to identity. Diasporic literature, for instance, bears witness to the growing interest in negotiating identity formation, adopting a transcultural vision that refocuses attention from scripting essentialist norms to more fluid dynamic attitudes to identity. The steering committee welcomes proposals related, but not limited, to the following topics:

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The sociolinguistics of identity Identity in discourse studies Individual/collective identity(-ies) Depictions of identity in the media Identity politics Cultural identity Diasporic identities Gender identity Identity and ethnicity Nationalism and identity Identity and memory Identity and engaged arts TEFL and learner identity(-ies) Submission Guidelines Participants are invited to send their abstracts through the following link no later than April 30th, 2017. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by May 15th, 2017. We accept abstracts and papers written in English, Arabic and French. TAELS editorial board will select a number of papers that will be published after peer-reviewing in a collective volume on the proceedings of the conference. Participation fees Presenters of accepted papers will be required to deposit a participation fee of 200 TND (200 Euros for international participants) to TAELS bank account no later than August 31, 2017. IBAN TN 59 1070 5007 0481 8407 8872 Swift code: STBKTNTT The amount will cover: * For Tunisian participants

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One full accommodation night at Vincci-Marillia Hotel in Hammamet, Tunisia An annual membership in TAELS Conference materials Two copies of the conference proceedings after publication

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Two full accommodation nights at Vincci-Marillia Hotel in Hammamet, Tunisia An annual membership in TAELS Conference materials Two copies of the conference proceedings after publication

For partners accompanying participants, an additional fee of 100 TND (100 Euros for International participants) will be required to cover the one/two-day stay at the hotel. For Tunisian M.A and PH.D students, participation fees have been reduced to 150 TND to cover all benefits listed above. For advice and more details about transportation and accommodation, please send your requests to [email protected]. TAELS team will be happy to assist in making your stay most comfortable. www.taels.org

CFP: Art and Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Identity and Cultural Diversity The fourth international conference for PhD students and recent PhD graduates will take place in Tbilisi, 28-30 September 2017. The event will focus on cross-cultural dialogue, identity and cultural diversity in culture and art. The topic itself has been a part of our cultural identity, but has not been thoroughly researched due of its complexity. From antiquity to the present, the history, culture and art of different countries and nations maintains the memory of relations and exchanges of ideas. The reasons for and forms of their relations were different. Whether a peaceful connection, or in some cases invasion and conflict, their coexistence was reflected in different fields of social life, culture and art. In this controversial process, politics, society and people played special roles. The crossroads as a meeting point of many different states, people, religions and cultures was a very vibrant “place” where unique artistic phenomena were created, where the connections reflected societies, cultures, tastes and fashions. In this cultural diversity each element has a special role. At our gathering we would like to discuss this topic in a new way from the most interesting and imaginative angles. We invite proposals with new approaches and new perspectives, rethinking old knowledge in relation to cross-cultural relations, cultural diversity and identity. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: Crossroads as a meeting point of various cultures

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Unexpected encounters: cross-cultural dialogue beyond space and time Where is the border of identity and cultural diversity? Geographical, epochal and cultural borders through the centuries: similarities and differences between them. Historical backgrounds, influences and cultural identity

Art as one of the main expressions of identity

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Coexistence and the process of synthesis through the prism of localcultural traditions

Artists beyond borders Designed structures in open space as carries of cultural identities Cross-roads as a melting point of ideas

Memory and memorials

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Memory, local traditions and foreign influences: idea, content and form Places of shared memory. Sacred space and aspects of cultural and religious heritage and inter-faith dialogue

The role of individuals in the formation of the cultural process through history: rulers, clerics, missionaries, ambassadors and travellers Religious diversity and cultural encounters

What defines identity in the globalisation process?

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Rules of attraction: uniting and dividing cultural principles between idealization and demonization

Global and local in work of art or at art exhibitions Lost in translation: the limits of cross-cultural dialogue

Proposals should include name, contact information (address, phone number, e-mail), title of the paper, short CV(maximum 200 words) and an abstract (maximm 400 words); to be sent by email to [email protected]. For more information, please visit the link: http://phdconference2014.wixsite.com/dmr-ljubljana/copy-of-cfp-2016

The 8th Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research

Call for Papers Call for Papers:

The 8th Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research (NCCPR 2017) Helsinki 23.–25.8.2017

The Foundation for Cultural Policy Research (CUPORE), the Unit for Cultural Policy at the University of Jyväskylä (JyU), and the Scientific Committee for the Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research invite you to submit abstracts for research papers, panel sessions, roundtables, or other types of presentations, to the 8th Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research. The conference will be held in Helsinki on August 23-25 2017. The theme for the 8th NCCPR is Migration, Culture, and Nation. It is our ambition to facilitate discussions on the roles of cultural policy in a time when trends such as globalization, increasing migration, and changes in media and communication influence society and politics in new ways, creating new roles for arts and heritage. The NCCPR welcomes any proposal from any academic discipline, concerning any problem or topic, within the research area of cultural policy research, provided that the proposal makes an original contribution to research on cultural policy in the Nordic countries. The conference provides spaces for parallel sessions with academic papers and other types of presentations in Scandinavian languages and English. Plenary sessions will be held in English. The national conference of the Finnish National Association for Cultural Policy will be organized in connection to the NCCPR 2017, providing a space for discussions also in Finnish.

Deadline for submission of abstracts to the NCCPR 2017 is January 31, 2017 Those intending to present papers, or other types of presentations, at the NCCPR 2017 must submit abstracts for review before January 31, 2017. These should include an introduction of the topic, research objectives or questions, research methodology and theoretical perspectives, findings and conclusions. The length of abstracts should be maximum 2000 characters.

Possible topics for papers and sessions include, but are not limited to, contributions to research in the following areas:

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Access, participation, and audiences

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Artist policy

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Comparative cultural policy

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Cultural and creative industries

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Cultural economy

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Cultural indicators and statistics

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Cultural policy and changing artistic practices

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Cultural policy and civil society

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Cultural policy and cultural heritage

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Cultural policy and diaspora

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Cultural policy and identity

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Cultural policy and intellectual property rights

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Cultural policy and international relations

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Cultural policy and migration

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Cultural policy and new technology

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Cultural policy and religion

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Cultural policy and the Nordic Model

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Cultural sustainability and climate change

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Culture, gender and generations

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Geography and cultural policy

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Identity, diversity and citizenship

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Institutionalisation/de-institutionalisation of cultural policy

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Theory and history of cultural policy The conference is arranged in cooperation with the Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy, the Society for Cultural Policy Research in Finland, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, City of Helsinki, the Center for Nordic Studies CENS (University of Helsinki), Finnish National Gallery (Ateneum), the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, and Kulturkontakt Nord.

Abstracts can be submitted from November 30 to January 31 on the following page: https://congress.cc.jyu.fi/nccpr2017/cgi-bin/contact.cgi. The organizers can also be reached via e-mail on [email protected]

2016 Hildesheim: Call for Paper IAHE Сonference 2016 at the University of Hildesheim

Call for Papers The International Academy (IAHE) supports teaching and research in Educational Science and the transfer of scientific knowledge in the world of education between Western, Central and Eastern European countries and countries outside Europe, with a view to the humanization of a free, democratic and socially just educational system. The main aim of the Academy is the furthering of the exchange of knowledge and innovative experience in the world of education between the countries of Europe and other continents. (cf. Para. 2, §1 of the Academy’s Statutes) The task of the Academy is therefore to look for ways in which the humanization of education can be promoted against the background of present-day social change. Although migration is in no way a new phenomenon, it has nevertheless become clear in recent years that the diversity of ethnicities has increased immeasurably through wars, forced migration, dictatorial greed and poverty and has triggered fears for the preservation of the respective nation as a whole. What this will bring in the future in the form of consequences for the individual and society, we do not know. It certainly leads to insecurity and uncertainty with regard to perspectives for the future and poses new challenges to educational systems. The Academy offers a very advantageous platform to exchange views with educationalists, sociologists and psychologists from different countries on Diversity, Democracy and Identity, and thus to arrive at productive insights.

Thus the theme of the IAHE annual conference will be: “Diversity and Democracy – The Search for Identity in Challenging Times” In addition to the main lectures on the conference theme and a panel discussion, three thematic areas have been identified: Block I:Cultural diversity as a challenge to democracy: What can education achieve? Block II: The dialogue between cultures and identity Block III: Diversity as a challenge in educational processes and in educational management

First ideas for topics in Block I: Cultural diversity as a challenge to democracy: What can education achieve?

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living diversity – what does this mean for countries, regions, local communities and institutions?

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the task of education: educating for democracy and openness

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fears of diversity and confusion. Topics preferably avoided in the educational sector.

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democratic rights and openness versus security measures to combat terror

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creativity as a learning target and an aim in life. Encouragement or unreasonable demand for individual orientation in challenging contexts of life

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the role of political education in educational institutions in relation to diversity

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the role of employers viz. a diversified society according to the Charter of Diversity

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the diversity of religions in a democracy

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migration and plurality in modern society

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First ideas for topics in Block II: The dialogue between cultures and identity

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cultural identity as an experience between limitations and their dissolution

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culture und identity: an analysis of two polyvalent concepts

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identity and culture in a globalized world

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cultural understanding as a challenge to formal and informal education

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the relevance of models and values in a diversified society

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living with different cultures between preservation and change

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influencing the individual through transformation

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cultural identity and broadening one’s horizon

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education in the face of the changed self-images of religions in democracy

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First ideas for topics in Block III: Diversity as a challenge in educational processes and in educational management

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Can diversity be managed or lived?

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the contributions of living educational landscapes to an understanding between the social strata and cultures

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education for tolerance

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an inclusive University environment

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inclusion as an opportunity or additional workload

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social disadvantagement, disabilities and discrimination as qualitative educational challenges

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an “index for inclusion” as an instrument to safeguard quality

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gender and diversity as social and educational design aims

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social interaction between cultures, religions and languages

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resilience: giving strength to children and young people

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the importance of subjective theories and stereotypes for dealing with heterogeneity

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consulting and triangulation as features of inclusive educational institutions

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questioning the polarization of individual and common learning – ways towards a respectual education

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Papers can be given in German, English or Russian. As all papers will be translated simultaneously, you should work on the basis of a paper length of 10 minutes (+ 10 minutes translation and short discussion). We would be very happy to receive relevant thematic contributions from IAHE members and other interested parties for the conference in Hildesheim. We should especially like to encourage young academics/scientists to take part in the international conference.

''The Future of Humanities, Education and Creative Industries'' 12-13 October 2017 The International University of Sarajevo in partnership with Deakin University, Australia; University of Zielona Góra, Poland; International University of Novi Pazar, Serbia; and Karabuk University, Turkey is organizing the 3rd International Conference on Education, Culture and Identity (ICECI 2017, www. iceci.ius.edu.ba). The conference will be held at the International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 12-13 October 2017. The topic of the conference is ''The Future of Humanities, Education and Creative Industries''. Since such a conception can hardly be defined and explained by a single academic discipline, this interdisciplinary international conference aims at analyzing it from different perspectives such as educational, psychological, social, cultural, political, historical, literary, visual, artistic and media-related perspectives. This conference will be a platform for personal, scientific and technical relations with the participants from different parts of the world who are interested in these current issues. It will examine contemporary issues related to education, culture, and identity. Streams of the Conference:

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Anthropology Arts Cultural studies Education History International relations Language Literature Media studies Philosophy Politics Psychology Sociology

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Abstract Submission Deadline: Notification of Abstract Acceptance: Full Paper Submission: Registration Ends:

1 July 2017 1 August 2017 1 September 2017 15 August 2017

Conference Date: 12-13 October 2017 We certainly believe that you will be inspired by this program and decide to attend the conference, or encourage others to attend! Sincerely yours,

ICECI 2017 team International University of Sarajevo Phone: +387 33 957 321 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.iceci.ius.edu.ba

Possible topics could include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Culture and collective identity: Static vs. Dynamic identity; Identity and national/ethnic belonging; Identity and nationalism; Identity and social inclusion/exclusion; Identity, xenophobia, genocide; Identity and group violence; Identity and national symbols; laws and regulations; identity and the existence/relevance of communal organizations/clubs/groups; Identity and tradition; Identity and religion; Sources of religious authority; Identity and theology; Identity and Memory: Narrative identities; Identity and autobiographies; Identity and cultural heritage; Identity and the museum; Identity and archives; Identity and politics of memory; Ethnography and cultural identity; Identity and rituals; Identity and cult; Identity and globalisation: Identity and migrations; Migrants and flexible identities; Identity and diaspora; Transnational identities; Diaspora and creation of subject; Identity and relationships with the homeland; Identity and cultural assimilation; Identity and cultural hybridization; Identity and multinationalism; Identity and cosmopolitanism, diversity and hybrids; Borders and the negotiation of identities; Challenges and perspective of the return; Narrative of imaginary vs. actual return; Identity and politics: Political identity and ethnic belonging; Nation branding; Identity and diplomacy; Political/state structures and their effect on identity; Political parties and identity; Political culture and factors on identity formation: remaking and re-inventing identities; Multiculturalism and minority rights; The European identity; Transnational identities; Identity and knowledge: Educational institutions and creation of identity; Identity and teaching; Education and identity conflicts; Identity and philosophy: Identity and critical theory; Marxist views of identity; Identity and post-colonial theory; “Ours” and “Theirs”; Prejudices; Identity and history: Historical background of current problems; Historical methodology and identity debate; History, legitimacy, identity; Identity and historical narrative; Identity, space, place: Space, place and discursive practices; Identity, cultural and ritual artefacts; Anchored identities; Meaning of geographic spaces in creation of identities; Identity and tourisms; Imagining the nation through the urban-rural distinction; Identity transformations and transformations of the city; Identity and linguistics: Language as identity formation; Language in multicultural societies; Linguistic imperialism and identity; Linguistic diversity; Identity and literature: The role of literature in the identity-formation; Narratives and weaving of identities; National images used in literature; The Other in literature; Traditions and cliches; Identity, art and architecture: Representations and identity-formation in arts: theatre, film, paining; Identity and (ethnic) music; Identity and architecture; Monuments and symbols in identity-formation; Identity and place brending Identity and media: Identity-formation in societies over-saturated with media; Identity, media, conflict; Identity, media, tolerance; Representations of culture and identity in the media; Identity and new technologies; Identity and virtual reality; Identity and cyber-culture; Identity and the Internet; Institutional and corporate identity; Identity, morals, ethics; Identity and popular culture: Identity and folk culture; Consumer identity and shopping behavior; Fashion and design in identity-formation; Food, culture and identity; Social media and popular culture; Subcultures and identity; Queer identity and popular culture; Identity and lifestyles; The 3rd Annual International Conference of CCCS 2015: “Identity and Culture” welcomes the participation of all researchers of culture, literature, history, philosophy, arts, religion, sociology, media, as well as those from the general public interested in the topic. We welcome reports and creative projects that study the questions related to the Conference’s subject matter.

CALL FOR PAPERS – THE JOURNAL OF CULTURE We would like to inform you about the monothematic issue of The Journal of Culture (2/2016) which is now under preparation, with the following preliminary title: Ethnic process / diversity / identity / conflict We appreciate papers that offer new understanding of the phenomenon of ethnic process, not only in the field of ethnology or anthropology but in other relevant disciplines, such as sociology, history, economics, geography, political science etc. We aim to mediate an international and interdisciplinary debate between recent research projects that focus on social specificity, identity or economic potentials of ethnic process. Our focus concentrates on Central Europe from Baltic States to the Balkans, but we also welcome comparative papers from other regions of Europe as well. Here are some research topics to be addressed by the special issue: 1. Ethnic Processes in Global Society: The Imagined or the Real World? 2. Migration in the Processes of Ethnogenesis 3. Identity Construction and Transformation in Ethnic Processes 4. Processes of Migration and Integration in European Countries 5. Ethnic Identity of Migrants and Processes of Racial/Ethnic Self-Identification 6. Assimilation Models, Old and New: Becoming European 7. Gender at Different Levels of the Ethnic Process Deadline for submitting full papers: 30 May 2016 direct to the editor Barbora Půtová: [email protected] Language: Czech, English, French Figures: only grayscale (black-white), the author should verify the publication rights of maps and photos.