INTERNATIONAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
Paris and Le Havre, February 12-14, 2020

CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference is open to individual and group paper presentations. Those willing to present their papers are invited to submit their abstracts before October 31, 2019. The selected abstracts will be communicated to their authors in October-November 2019.

QUESTIONS
65 years after the historical 1955 Bandung Conference, is there any change in global order in all its dimensions (cultural, ecological, economical, political and spiritual dimensions)? In what sense Bandung constitutes a rupture and a continuity of historical global order? Is colonialism dead and decolonisation completed? Is the position of centre and peripheries of capitalism stable or moving? Does development means following the centre? Did multipolarism replace bipolarism? Does Bandung constitute a bifurcation in the trajectory of historical world system? Is the notion of division East-West and North-South still relevant? Is the notion of class struggle still useful? Does the end of Cold War mean the end of potential World War? Did new hegemons replace the old ones? Why does the armament technology continue to develop? Who do take benefit of the armament industries and trade? What is the place of individual living being, human as well as animal and vegetation, in this changing world? Is there any chance for the poor, the weak, the disadvantaged, to improve their state of being in peaceful way? Is there any role of humanities, art, culture, architecture, literature, religion, spirituality in directing the global change?

TOPICS
Special sessions/Roundtables/Workshops/Panels will be organised on the following topics in connection with THE RISE OF ASIA:

Africa
Art and Literature
Asia
Central & Eastern Europe
Central & South America and Caribbean
BRICS
Digital Development
Ecology, Urbanisation, Architecture
Gender and Women Issues
Religious Issues
Social and Solidarity Movements
Western World

GUIDELINES
See more details at http://www.bandungspirit.org/