During the workshop we will analyse and investigate concepts of liminality and dealing with rites of passages in a historical perspective, with a particular focus on social changes in modern industrialised societies.
Thus we are interested, among others, in the following questions:
- how do modern, especially pluralist, societies deal with the above mentioned liminal stages at the beginning and end of human life;
- which factors and processes have influence on changes in understanding and interpreting these stages;
- how do modern societies and their diverse subgroups react to social change, shifts in values, and scientific innovation with regard to the liminal stages of conception, birth(-giving), and dying;
- which notions, ideas, and (legal) traditions influence the legislative regulation of these stages?
The workshop will be held at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw on 1 and 2 September 2022 and is organised by Michael Zok (zok@dhi.waw.pl) and Florian Greiner (florian.greiner@ebert-gedenkstaette.de).
