Dear Sirs,

    It is with great pleasure that "Faculty of Legal and Business studies dr. Lazar Vrkatic" from Novi Sad, Serbia invites you to participate in the fourth international conference, to be held on March 1st 2013, entitled

Multiculturalism and Contemporary Society

    The aim of the conference is to gather scholars, scientists, researchers and people from other professions who are aware of multiculturalism and its significance within the contemporary society.

    In the age of economic and political globalization processes, multicultural environment becomes a common context of overall existence as well as business, which brings about specific challenges and obstacles. Their formal and fundamental resolution is an imperative of the contemporary society. The main idea of the conference is to gather experts from various fields, such as:

• psychology
• law
• security
• management and economy
• philology
• other humanities

whose common goal is to address the positive and negative aspects of multiculturalism through an exchange of academic ideas and knowledge, so as to propose sustainable concepts of coexistence in the complex contemporary societies.

    In the continuation of this initiation please find the topic elaboration for specific fields of study, key information and the registration form.

    On behalf of the Faculty we cordially invite you to take part in the conference and contribute to the quality of the academic discussion.

Chairman of the Program Committee
Milan Živković, PhD          

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** All participants are welcome to the conference dinner (free of charge); please register by writing to conf2013.fpps.edu.rs@gmail.com .

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Topic elaboration for specific fields of study

Psychology

Psychological aspects of globalism and multiculturalism. The world around us is changing faster than anyone could have expected. By means of technology people are becoming closer and at the same time more distant. Traveling to distant countries we encounter elements of global culture that we share with completely unknown people and ethnicities. Our streets host foods, people and customs from distant places. How does the accelerated development of technology affect our attitudes, values and relationships with others? What moral dilemmas are being imposed upon us? What solutions can be offered?

Law

The concept of multiculturalism in the field of law raises a wide range of questions: Which are the legally relevant elements in the concept of multiculturalism; what is the method of legal formulation of its aspects within the internal law; whether international law contributes to dissemination and standardization of this conception and how; how can issues of equality and discrimination be dealt with; how are regulations relevant to the concept of multiculturalism enforced, and so on.

Security

Multiculturalism, security and social safety are of great importance to the reinforcement of human rights, minority rights and liberties of individual members of the community. A timely reaction by the state and society as a whole is of dire importance in instances of endangering of the civil and environmental security, as well as personal and social rights and liberties and endangering of personal and private property.  Such actions require partnerships between state and private subjects within the filed of security in order to provide for full equality in the protection of property, business interests and information security.

Management and economy

In the context of globalization capital invariably erases all kinds of administrative borders and establishes a global market and uniform rules of conduct and evaluation. The processes of globalization inevitably intertwine different business cultures, philosophies, attitudes related to work, employees and capital, and so on. Conflicts of business cultures and philosophies are unavoidable but mustn’t represent an obstacle or hindrance to globalization and the creation of the free market. Apart from the information system development, an important factor that can contribute to the synthesis of different business cultures is management of the risks that are common to the global market and to the development of business in accordance with the global demands.

Philology

Language is one of the primary and inseparable features of a culture, as well as the means of identification with it. The contact between cultures is inevitably reflected in language and literature, which change and diversify accordingly. New conditions and demands require different approach to the study of languages and literatures, both in theory and practice. Papers from all disciplines, such as linguistics, literature, translation, methodology of teaching are invited.

Other humanities

As an objectively complex political community, the Republic of Serbia tends to represent its identity through achievement of highly set goals of multiculturalism, with varying levels of success,  visible in the patterns of public policies, but also in the acceptance of general theoretical framework, which are of essence in the process of understanding this complex problem. This session aims to observe the concept of multiculturalism from the perspective of humanities, such as sociology, philosophy, political science and history, hoping to propose a solid basis for a discussion, and so contribute to the study of different aspects of this, in our region popular, yet understudied phenomenon.

Key information

1. Registration deadline is November 15^th 2012. Please fill in the registration form (found in the continuation of this document). Note that the title of your paper and an abstract of up to 200 words must be submitted at this time. Please email the competed registration form to  conf2013@fpps.edu.rs
2. Finished papers, in accordance with the style sheet, should be emailed no later than December 25^th 2012 to the same email address.
3. Detailed style sheet for the paper will be available at the Faculty’s website (link will be emailed).
4. Papers for publishing will be selected on the basis of abstracts and the finished papers. Information about this will be sent to the authors in due time. Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be distributed to the participants on the day of the conference. It is therefore mandatory that deadlines be met.
5. All participants will be allotted 15 minutes for the presentation of their papers. There will be six parallel sessions during one day. 
6. Official languages of the conference are Serbian and English.
7. Registration fee is 20 Euros (on the basis of paper), which can be paid prior to the conference via money transfer or on the spot on the day of conference.

For additional information do not hesitate to contact us via email conf2013@fpps.edu.rs.

Contact person
Ivana Marić   
Tatjana Glušac

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• Font: Times New Roman
• TITLE: font size 16, block letters, bold. Leave two blank lines between the title and the first line
• Name and surname of the author, affiliation: font size 12, left justified. Include email of the author(s) in the footnote
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• Abstract: font size 12, italics
• Main text and references: font size 12
• Use 1,5 spacing. Leave one blank line between paragraphs and between subheadings and surrounding text
• Margins: left 1,5 inches, other 1 inch
• Indent first line of each paragraph
• Paper length between 10 and 16 pages
• Referencing and citation:  Due to existing differences between various disciplines, we kindly ask the authors to use referencing styles in compliance with good practice of their respective fields (APA, MLA, Harvard, etc)
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR TALKS WITHIN SESSIONS

Participants are kindly requested to prepare presentations no longer than 10 minutes. Time allotted for discussion is 5 minutes following each speaker or following all speakers of the session (no longer than 30 minutes). Classrooms are equipped with computers for PPT presentations. Chairpersons are kindly asked  to monitor the timing so that the sessions can run according to the determined schedule.  Student volunteers will be present at each session to assist the participants.

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