ARCHETYPES AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: FROM IMAGINARY TO TECHNOLOGIES OF POSTMODERN MODERNITY

June 23-25, 2022

Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

Contacts:

Ukraine – France – Greece 

2022

INFORMATION LETTER

Dear colleagues, 

Khortytsia National Educational Rehabilitation Academy (Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) and the Ukrainian School of Archetypes (Kyiv, Ukraine) on behalf of the TMS 2022 International Organizing Committee invite teachers and students of educational, professional and scientific-educational levels of Ukrainian and French universities and educational research centers of other countries specializing in research on archetypal issues of public administration, archetypes of social institutions and everyday life, to participate in the annual events of the Ukrainian School of Archetypes: TMS 2022: XIII International Theoretical and Methodological Seminar and X International Competition for Young Scientists, which will take place on June 23-25, 2022 in Zaporizhzhia on the theme: “Archetypes and Public Administration: From Imaginary to Technologies of Postmodern Modernity”.

Organizers of the TMS 2022. The current scientific events for the fifth year in a row will be held in co-organization with representatives of the French School of Archetypes: the Center for the Study of Modern and Everyday Life and the LERSEM-IRSA EA4584 Laboratory of Sociology of the Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier 3; on the Ukrainian side, the Ukrainian Academy of Technology, the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the All-Ukrainian Assembly of Doctors of Science in Public Administration, the Institute of Social and Political Psychology of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, and the Ukrainian Society for Social Innovation are also co-organizers.

The TMS 2022 software framework will determine the research issues of public administration, social institutions and postmodern everyday life, which will be considered in the range from the theory of the imaginary to technologies of postmodern modernity. 

The purpose of the TMS 2022: To unite interdisciplinary efforts of representatives of social and humanitarian knowledge around solving theoretical and practical problems of public administration, social institutions and postmodern modernity based on the Gilbert Durand methodology.

Experts say that postmodernism, which is increasingly replacing modernity and fully embraces the world space, plunges us into the abyss of uncertainty that keeps modernity in its current state of crisis. This, in particular, it puts the issue of returning to the tradition that focuses our attention on the past on the agenda of the Euro-Atlantic countries. At the same time, tradition fills postmodern modernity with the spirit of radical renewal, because the novelty in tradition is not temporal but ontological. It is not connected with the gradual improvement of something transient, but with the assertion of absolute perfection. 

Therefore, tradition by virtue of its self-inheritance belongs more to the present than to the archaic past or even to the future that has not yet been constructed. This is not a dried-up heritage passed down from generation to generation along the historical ‘horizontal’. Through tradition, a man tries to comprehend the infinite space, all the fullness and diversity of ways of understanding and cognition of the existence of ancient man, and therefore: looking for himself/herself in the present. Therefore, the tradition that originates from the ‘vertical’. In fact, the archetypal one, which is known intuitively and outside of any layer of time, does not belong to the past, but to eternity. 

Thus, in the context of this year’s scientific format TMS 2022, the following questions are quite relevant. 

• Does postmodernism with its total deconstruction become an era of “destruction of traditions”? 
• Does postmodernism become a time of renewed manifestation of traditions, or on the contrary? 
• How do traditions and innovations relate? 
• What sociocultural factors determine the success of the implementation of an innovative life trajectory in the postmodern era?
• How do archetypes determine the actualization of human psychosocial resources at different stages of ontogenesis?
• Is it possible to use the deep emotional and motivational potential of archetypes in the educational process, directing the socialization of children and youth to socially significant models and worldviews of individual creativity?
• Do myths and superstitions rule the modern world? 
• Is it necessary and how to “revive”/’restore’ traditions in the Postmodern Era?
• What are the mental, cultural and customary features of the communities and the historical experience of the people in the postmodern era? 
• How to combine traditional and innovative mechanisms of cooperation and unity of people?
• What is the “archive” of the modern: postmodern era? 
• Who, after all, are the subjects who care about the fate of modern traditions: the postmodern world? 

These and other problematic issues will determine the space for understanding the TMS 2022 next topic. The organizers hope that this goal will be well served by the ideas of Gilbert Durand, including his key work “Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary”, a French-Ukrainian translation of which was made by the Ukrainian School of Archetypes (USA) in late 2021 in cooperation with the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Publishing House. This translation can be ordered at 

http://publish-ukma.kiev.ua/ua/katalog/filosofiya-kulturologiya/402-antropologichni-strukturi-uyavnogo.html. 

The organizers also hope that the participants of the forum will benefit from the library of the Ukrainian School of Archetypes, which consists of more than 500 publications by more than 200 authors from 18 countries, since 2010. The library can be found at

As mentioned above, the USA will take place as part of the annual events X ICYC 2022 as International Competition of Young Scientists on the same theme: “Archetypes and Public Administration: From Imaginary to Technologies of Postmodern Modernity”. 

Undergraduates (masters), postgraduates and PhDs under the age of 35 in all professional, educational and scientific-educational specialities are invited to participate in the competition.

The International Competition Commission of Experts from Kazakhstan, Poland, the USA, Ukraine, France will determine the best works of the contestants, which will be awarded with incentive cash prizes: 

1st prize: USD 200

2nd prize: USD 150

3rd prize: USD 100

KEY ELEMENTS OF THE TMS 2022 ANNUAL MEASURES

• Date: June 23-25, 2022 
• Venue: Khortytsia National Educational Rehabilitation Academy, hereinafter referred to as the “Academy”, Ukraine, 69017, Zaporizhzhia, 59 Naukove Mistechko Str., e-mail: info@khnnra.zp.ua, phone/fax: +38 (061) 283 2001. 
• Place of residence: Hostel of Khortytsia National Academy: Ukraine, 69097, Zaporizhzhia, 13 Entuziasty Str.; Hostel Head: Liubov Lazarieva, e-mail: lasareva.lyubov@gmail.com, tel.: +38 (061) 702 3313, tel. (Deskman): +38 (061) 702 3311. Those who wish can book a hotel (via Natalia Hordienko: e-mail: natali_zp_@ukr.net, mob. phone: +38 (096) 233 8832.
  • Used languages: Ukrainian, French, and English.
• Registration fee: Missing. 
• Travel and accommodation expenses will be borne by the participants of the conference or the organization that sends them. Meals and accommodation in the hostel: At the expense of the organizers. Khortytsia National Academy is ready to provide invitations for participants who expect support from their home institution. 
• To participate in the XIII TMS-2022, you must submit:

1. Application to participate: Send until March 15, 2022 to the e-mail address of Eduard Afonin (bpafonin@gmail.com)
2. Ukrainian/English manuscript of the paper + Photo: Until April 15, 2022 to the address of Eduard Afonin (bpafonin@gmail.com).

Requirements for the design of manuscripts of papers are standard (See in the Appendix (Filename: Surname_ТМС-2022.doc).

Quality of portrait photo: Size 3.3 x 4.6 cm, Resolution 600 dpi (over 500 KB), send as a separate file (Filename: Surname_photo-2022.jpeg).

• To participate in the XIII ICYS 2022, you must submit:
  1. Application to participate: Send until March 15, 2022 to the e-mail address of Eduard Afonin (bpafonin@gmail.com) 
  2. Ukrainian/English manuscript of the paper + Photo: Send until April 15, 2022 tothe e-mail address of Eduard Afonin (bpafonin@gmail.com). 

Requirements for the design of manuscripts of papers are standard (See in the Appendix (Filename: Surname_ТМС-2022.doc). 

Quality of portrait photo: Size 3.3 x 4.6 cm, Resolution 600 dpi (over 500 KB), send as a separate file (Filename: Surname_photo-2022.jpeg).

• Planned to be published, namely:

1. Special edition of the professional collection of Category “B”: “Scientific Perspectives” (From specialities: 281 (Public Administration), 081 (Law), 051 (Economy). Papers for the collection can be submitted in Ukrainian or English. Terms for completing manuscripts at http://perspectives.pp.ua/index.php/np/authors. 

Payment for publication is UAH 1,095 for 12 pages. If the volume of the article exceeds this amount, then each subsequent page is paid an additional amount of UAH 85 (Carried out directly to the editorial staff of the magazine: Iryna Zhukova: irina_pravo@ukr.net)

You can make an English translation using the services of a translation agency at a price of UAH 105 per translation page (1800 characters) if any. Responsible person in the translation agency: Oksana Mostovenko, e-mail: antariom.perevod@gmail.com, mob. phone: +38 050 257 2671. 

1. Special edition of the professional magazine of Category “B”: “Ukrainian Society” in specialities 051 (Economics) and 054 (Sociology): https://ukr-socium.org.ua/uk/pro-zhurnal/). Papers are published in Ukrainian or English (Optional). Payment for the publication is free of charge. 
2. Scientific Journal of Category “B” of Khortytsia National Academy (Series: Pedagogy. Social Work) will publish articles in Ukrainian or English. Requirements for article manuscripts at https://journal.khnnra.edu.ua/index.php/njKhNA/about/submissions. Payment: Free of charge. 
3. The collection of scientific papers of the winners and the best authors of the X International Competition of Young Scientists willpublish the articles in Ukrainian or English. Payment: Free of charge. Terms for completing manuscripts at http://perspectives.pp.ua/index.php/np/authors. 

Those interested persons can use the services of a translation agency to translate their articles into French or English. The cost of the English translation is UAH 105 and the French translation is UAH 115 per translation page (1800 characters). Contact person of the translation agency: Oksana Mostovenko, mob. phone: +38 050 257 1671, e-mail: antariom.perevod@gmail.com      

• The XIII TMS 2022 Program 

The full text of the program will be developed and sent out after receiving thematic applications from participants of the annual UASA events (Until May 1, 2022).

Basic elements of the Program: 

1. June 23, 2022: XIII International Theoretical and Methodological Seminar: “Archetypes and Public Administration: From Imaginary to Technologies of Postmodern Modernity”.
2. June 24, 2022: X International Competition of Young Scientists “Archetypes and Public Administration: From Imaginary to Technologies of Postmodern Modernity”.
3. June 24, 2022: General discussion: “On the Way to a Heterogeneous (Multipolar) World” in the format of a two-dimensional dynamic network authored by Taras Plakhtiy from Lviv.
4. June 24-25, 2022: Cultural events from the hosts:

• Theatrical historical and cultural performance: “Legends and Archetypes of Khortytsia”;
• Excursion to the first hydroelectric power plant of the former Soviet Union and one of the largest in Europe as Dnipro HPP (In operation since 1932);
• A tour of the Khortytsia National Reserve, which houses numerous historical and cultural artefacts and monuments: visualizations of the archetypal foundations of the formation of the Ukrainian ethnic group since the Late Paleolithic Era (Late Old Stone Age);
• Memorable gifts and photos from the hosts. 

1. Post-conference bus/Air sightseeing tour: “Myths of Ancient Greece” with a holiday on the Mediterranean coast, which will take place from June 27 to July 7, 2022 from Odessa. The program of the tour will be sent additionally.

• The Ukrainian School of Archetypes at the Internet:

1. The USA publications (Library of Archetypes), available at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1soaitdqqbyNet9ZZitboMAR0Yb136MkZ 
2. Website of the Ukrainian School of Archetype: https://usarch.org/ 

The Ukrainian Scientific School of Pedagogy and Psychology of Life Creation in the Internet:

Chief of the Scientific School: Valentyna Vasylivna Nechyporenko, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Rector of the Khortytsia National Academy. 

Website of the Ukrainian Scientific School of Pedagogy and Psychology of Life Creation: https://khnnra.edu.ua/ (Section: Scientific schools of the Khortytsia National Academy).