II CIEPC

The ritual image of power

The Research Group on the History of Legal and Political Thought (GIHPJ-P) of the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Madrid (Spain), announces the II International Congress on Contemporary Protocol coinciding with the X Conference on Protocol of the UNED, which under the motto "The ritual image of power", will take place in the Humanities Auditorium of the UNED, during the days of April 20, 21 and 22, 2016.

Protocol, broadly defined as the set of rules, customs, and practices that determine the order in which a particular act or event is held, with a primarily communicative and relational purpose, finds in ceremony an indispensable element and ritual order for achieving its objectives. This Congress focuses on the ceremony that perpetuates the ritual image of public and private institutions, and by extension, of power itself.

Ten sections will make up the International Congress "The Contemporary Protocol":

1. Protocol as a ritual image of power.

2. Ceremonial as a ritual manifestation.

3. The personification of power.

4. Rituals of access to power.

5. Ritual image of institutions.

6. Symbols in the ritual of power.

7. Spatial organization in the ceremony.

8. The personal ordination of authorities and other publics.

9. Precedence, honors and distinctions.

10. Ritual and ceremony in the specific areas of protocol.