BALKANSTIC WORLDS, 2027, Volume 1
GENDER, AGE, AND AUTHORITY
-
Authority, power, and age.
-
Women as “(in)visible authorities”;Transformations and manifestations of female hierarchies and leaderships.
-
Masculinity, male power, and male power networks.
-
Youth rebellions, groups, and leaders: structures, forms of communication, and languages.
-
Old age: authority, privilege, or stigma. Conservatives, elders, chiefs, revolutionaries, and heroes.
E-mail: bforum1992@gmail.com, bf@balkanistica.com
Please submit an abstract in English of up to 300 words by 30 November 2026.
BALKANSTIC WORLDS, 2027, Volume 2
(IN)VISIBLE AUTHORITIES
-
Traditional patriarchal authorities and charisma in their cultural and historical context. Legitimacy and questioning authority.
-
The Rise of religious leaders, chiefs, heresiarchs.
-
The transformation of authority into an institution.
-
Expertise, Technology, and New Media Authorities.
-
The power of knowledge, the power of professionals: Craftspeople, experts, teachers, doctors and others.
-
Authority and authoritarianism.
E-mail: bforum1992@gmail.com, bf@balkanistica.com
Please submit an abstract in English of up to 300 words by 30 March 2027.
BALKANSTIC WORLDS, 2027, Volume 3
THE SHADOWS OF AUTHORITY: CRISES, NEW MEDIA, AND INVISIBLE FORCES
-
This issue will bring together studies on behind-the-scenes power, secret societies, artificial intelligence, influencers, and marginal figures (holy fools, madmen, the “holy fool” in Christianity, the Allah’s man in Islam, shamans, and others).
-
Secret Societies and Languages, Behind-the-Scenes Power, and Myths – Conspiracy theories, clandestine circles, secret societies, the “behind-the-scenes” as a myth; fortune-tellers and diviners.
-
Crisis of Authority and Marginal Power – Crisis, rebellion, aggression, anarchy, nihilism, and “fallen idols”; marginal and “underground” authorities (mafia bosses, oligarchs).