International Conference on Social Transformations and Education "Change and Resistance"

The conference will create a forum for debates on current processes of learning, adaptation and resistance taking place in rapidly changing societies. The suggested issues to which the debates will be devoted are as follows: - Gdansk and other places: local geographies of change - New social structures, new social divisions - What and how we learn: meanings of social transformations - Post-communism as a global condition: The world with no alternatives? - Populism - The discourse of post-communism: Who speaks and why? - The missing language? Marxism and social critique after the fall of Berlin Wall - Living in post-socialist states: Hope, disillusion, post-communist nostalgia... - Art and the aura of change - Representations: insider's and outsider's perspectives on social change