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Cultural Transitions: from theories to the cultural transitional changes in Southeastern Europe

The lecture was organized around three main points: cultural transformations and transitions in Southeastern Europe, reassessment and redefinition of cultural identities in the processes of transition, and cultural links and cooperation established on the basis of development of cultural industries and new technologies used in the processes of cultural communication. Southeastern Europe underwent major and substantial changes in its 20th Century history. Liberated from the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires in the first quarter of the century, the established states went through the formation of kingdoms, through socialist federation and re-emergence of the national states by the end of the century. The dynamism of changes was particularly reflected in re-definition of cultural identities that have been developing from the pre-modern ethnic into modern, territorial, structured by the state, national and corporate identities, and to the post-modern, trans-territorial and structured by markets and new technologies. Such fast and dynamic developments have enabled the parallel existence of very different types of identities, and of the resurgence of these different identity types at the same time. The spiritual geography of the whole region therefore reflects a horizontal presence of structurally and historically diverse types of cultures and cultural identities. Influences of global information societies are now introducing respect and understanding for the plurality of social and cultural models and for a new kind of multicultural diversity. Although not fully and well established, these appear as new frameworks defining cultural transitions. The specific regional and disciplinary differences produce a specific expression of cultural transitions in Southeastern Europe. All countries of the region are undergoing or have undergone major systemic transitions, and their cultures are re-interpreted now in the frameworks of globalism, Europeanism and information technologies. The spiritual geography of the region has moved from the ethnic myths, heroic epics and destruction of cultural influences of other Southeast European cultures to the rationalization of myths and histories and better understanding of the global integration challenges.

cultural transitions; Southeastern Europe

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