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November 25, 2009

Russia and Modern World: Problems of Political Development, 04/15-17/2010, Moscow

Deadline: December 31, 2009

VI International Interuniversity Scientific Conference
"Russia and Modern World: Problems of Political Development"
15-17 April, 2010
Institute of Business and Politics, Moscow

It is suggested to discuss the following issues within the framework of 12 sections:

Section I: Civil Society and Law State: Problems of Establishment
Section II: Reforming of the Political System of Russia: Experience and Perspectives
Section III: Modern Russia: World Policy Challenges
Section IV: Integration of Ecological, Economic and Social Politics
Section V:Legal Aspect of Political Development of Russia: History and Contemporary
Section VI: Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): Problems and Prospects of Interaction
Section VII: Image of Russia in the Design of Identities
Section VIII: Religion in the System of Political Culture: History and Modern Trends
Section IX: Cultural Aspects of the Globalization
Section X: Modern Elites: Identification Problems
Section XI: Literature of the XX-XXI Centuries in Social-Political Aspects
Section XII: Models of University Education in the Modern World

For further definition of the themes, see: http://www.ibp-moscow.ru/eng/science

The panel discussion involving known scientists, politicians, pressmen will take place within the framework of the conference. The topic of panel discussion will be informed in the next informational letter.

Conference languages: Russian, English

The abstracts (300 words) should be submitted with participation application form to the Organizing Committee by e-mail:
ibp-polit@post.ru
Deadline for the abstracts: 31st December 2009.
The Organizing Committee shall reserve the right to select papers. The confirmations about the inclusion in the Program of VI International Interuniversity Scientific Conference will be sent during February 2010.

Please note that the Organizing Committee does not have funds to provide help with travel or accommodation cost. But there is no registration fee on the Conference. Also the Organizing Committee proposes free publication for participants.

Please address for more information by e-mail: ibp-polit@post.ru
or on the phone: (495) 912-06-46 (ext. 157)

Organizing Committee
Natalia Kuznetsova,
candidate of philology (Ph.D.),
the secretary of the Organizing Ñommittee,
Scientific Department
of the Institute of Business and Politics
Moscow, Russia

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Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2010

Deadline: March 30, 2010

CFP- EDB Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2010

EDB Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2010

Call For Papers for the Summer 2010 Issue of the Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2010

The Eurasian Integration Yearbook is pleased to invite submissions for its Summer 2010 issue (No. 3) to be published respectively in June 2010. Submission guidelines can be viewed at:
http://www.eabr.org/media/img/eng/research-and-publications/IntegrationYearbook/2009/a_n2_2009_23.pdf

The EDB Eurasian Integration Yearbook is an annual English-language publication of the Eurasian Development Bank. The Yearbook provides a dynamic overview of integration processes in the post-Soviet "Eurasian" space and, in particular, improves access of the global community to the best thinking on regional development published in the Russian language during the year.

The EDB Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2009 is available at:
http://www.eabr.org/eng/publications/IntegrationYearbook/index.wbp?article-id=F591B688-BF0D-45FC-9EFD-B31E0E1E4DD7

The EDB Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2008 is available at:
http://www.eabr.org/eng/publications/IntegrationYearbook/index.wbp?article-id=9E46ABF8-34FB-4B34-9366-217D35BF9FFE

We accept a wide range of articles and other materials on the theory and practical aspects of Eurasian integration: theories of integration; economic integration (trade, investment and financial institutions); institutional integration; other cooperation issues in the post-Soviet space; and experience of regional integration in the other macro regions of the world.

EDB Eurasian Integration Yearbook is published in English. Certain high quality papers in Russian may also be published in the Yearbook (they will be translated into English at the expense of the Board).

Deadline for submissions is March 30, 2010. Authors are requested to give a brief biographical note in a footnote on the first page of the paper. Submissions must be accompanied by a cover email containing contact information: postal address, telephone number and e-mail address for each author (if the paper is co-authored). Papers should be emailed as an attachment in Word to: editor@eabr.org

Gulnaz Imamniyazova
Senior Analyst
Economic Analysis Unit, Strategy and Research Department
Eurasian Development Bank
imamniyazova_ga@eabr.org
56, Abdullinykh St.
Almaty, Kazakhstan, 050010.
+7 (727) 2444044 (ext. 6905), +7-777-4700443 (mob.), +7 (727) 2911473 (fax)
www.eabr.org

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November 23, 2009

Eurasian Economic Integration

Deadline: October 10, 2009

Call For Papers
Autumn 2009 Issue of The Eurasian Economic Integration

The Eurasian Economic Integration Journal is pleased to invite submissions for its Autumn 2009 issue (No. 5), to be published in November 2009, and respective issues. Submission guidelines can be viewed at:
http://www.eabr.org/media/img/eng/research-and-publications/information_eng.pdf

The Eurasian Economic Integration Journal is a quarterly academic and analytical journal published in Russian by the Eurasian Development Bank. The Journal brings together academic and analytical articles as well as book reviews related.

The Eurasian Economic Integration Journal is available at: http://www.eabr.org/eng/publications/Journal

We publish materials on a wide range of issues relevant to regional integration. The editors welcome original research on such issues as theories of regional integration applied to the post-Soviet arena; economic integration (trade, investment and finance); institutional integration; international experiences of regional integration; and other relevant issues.

EDB Eurasian Integration Yearbook is published in Russia. Certain high quality papers in English may also be published in the Journal (they will be translated into Russian at the expense of the Board).

Deadline for submissions is October 10, 2009. Authors are requested to give a brief biographical note in a footnote on the first page of the paper. Submissions must be accompanied by a cover email containing contact information: postal address, telephone number and e-mail address for each author (if the paper is co-authored). Papers should be emailed as an attachment in Word to: editor@eabr.org

Gulnaz Imamniyazova
Senior Analyst
Economic Analysis Unit, Strategy and Research Department
Eurasian Development Bank
imamniyazova_ga@eabr.org
56, Abdullinykh St.
Almaty, Kazakhstan, 050010.
+7 (727) 2444044 (ext. 6905), +7-777-4700443 (mob.), +7 (727) 2911473 (fax)
www.eabr.org

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Performance, Revolution, Pedagogy: Theatre and Its Objects

Deadline: March 15, 2010

Issue 4 “Performance, Revolution, Pedagogy: Theatre and Its Objects”
Ontario, Canada

It has been suggested by performance scholar Phelan that, “‘the equation of performance with empowerment and visibility with liberation is ‘a meeting of profound romance and deep violence’” (in Kruger 2005: 782). At the same time, as has been noted by artists and theorists from a wide range of disciplines, performance represents an important oppositional, revolutionary and transformative public forum through which people respond to forms of political, economic, and social/cultural domination.

Performance and politics intersect in the staging and contestation of gendered, sexualized, racialized, colonial, neo-colonial, local, national, and global hierarchies and inequalities. Performativity, as emerging from linguistic theories and then interpreted by Judith Butler (1993) in relation to gendered identities, involves the iteration of acts, the embodiment of those acts, and the historical processes of exclusion that already shape those embodied acts. But iteration too can be turned on its head. Since social roles and power relations can be reproduced and challenged in their enactment, performance can be both liberating and tyrannical. As such the potentiality of performance as a social practice and as a scholarly framework can only emerge in a close consideration of the culturally and socially constructed world of, what scholar Diana Taylor (1991) has called, “the politics of theatricality,” where the past, the present, the future, the “real” and the imagined become common referents for performers and their audiences in particular spaces. Performance as a form of analysis may carry a theatrically-based Western bias of the not real (Schieffelin 1998), but it also works productively against any easy disciplining of the arts (Taylor 2003: 26).

In commemoration of this year’s passing of Augusto Boal, the editors of Issue 4 “Performance, Revolution, Pedagogy: Theatre and Its Objects” invite scholars and artists whose work deals with the theatricality of power, corporealities of structural violence, and sensory regimes to contribute to a dialogue related to the potentiality of theatre and performance as a critical social practice applied to broad artistic, political and cultural contexts. The editors welcome pieces that engage with the politics of performance practices, broadly conceived within and beyond the theatre, as well as those submissions that address performance as a mode of analysis.

Papers, interviews, reviews, and artistic works that wish to be considered for publication should be emailed to guest Editors Dr. Michelle Bigenho mlbSS@hampshire.edu Hampshire College and Dr. Alberto Guevara aguevara@yorku.ca York University. Style and submission guidelines can be accessed and downloaded at http://www.yorku.ca/intent/submissions.html

Submission deadline: March 15th, 2010.

Michelle Bigenho, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Anthropology

School of Social Science

893 West Street

Hampshire College

Amherst MA 01002

Alberto Guevara, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Fine Arts Cultural Studies

York University

Toronto, Canada

Email: aguevara@yorku.ca

Visit the website at http://www.yorku.ca/intent

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Diasporas and national consciousness between Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond in the long 19th century, 05/30/2010, 09/10-11/2010 UK

Deadline: November 30, 2009

THE PATRIOTISM OF THE EXPATRIATES.
Diasporas and national consciousness between Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond in the long 19th century
United Kingdom

Call for Papers

A common feature of several European national movements of the nineteenth century was their development outside the territorial space of the state or states they aimed at creating. National consciousness was often developed and elaborated within the circles of diaspora intellectuals and patriots living in exile. The aim of the conference is to explore the role intellectual and revolutionary diasporas played in creating, disseminating and negotiating ideas, and in producing shared values, principles and discursive patterns among patriots of different national origins. It seeks to study how ideas are shaped, how they circulate, and the contribution that diasporas themselves gave to the main ideological currents advocating change in the post-revolutionary world: patriotism, republicanism, liberalism, etc. It will focus on the interaction between the intellectual communities of the European and Mediterranean centres and these diasporas, as well as contacts and exchanges between different diasporas. It hopes to look not only at displaced intellectuals from Europe and the Mediterranean, but also at those coming to these regions from other continents. By looking at trans-national exchanges and trans-national civil societies, it seeks to de-nationalize the study of national consciousness, encourage comparative analysis and study the connections, relations and exchanges between different intellectual traditions and currents. It is hoped that the conference will represent an opportunity to discuss, question and revise some of the theoretical frameworks used by historiography to explore and interpret the circulation of ideas between Europe, the Mediterranean and the rest of the world, and that it will provide an opportunity to improve our understanding of the intellectual and cultural dynamics facilitated by the cross-border and cross national encounters.

The conference will be held in two parts:

a) A one-day workshop to be held in Nicosia (University of Nicosia).

Date : 30 May 2010

b) A two-day conference to be held in London (Queen Mary College, University of London) Date : 10-11 September 2010

Dr. Maurizio Isabella, Hist. Dept., Queen Mary College, University of London

Mile End Road, London EI 4NS, UK

Dr Konstantina Zanou, University of Nicosia, Cyrpus, czanou@gmail.com

Email: m.isabella@qmul.ac.uk, czanou@gmail.com

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November 18, 2009

Untitled: What's in a Name?, 04/15-17/2010, Glasgow

Deadline: November 09, 2009

Untitled: What's in a Name?

Student Session

Association of Art Historians Annual Conference

University of Glasgow 15-17th April 2010

Call for Papers

As art historians, critics, and researchers we are surrounded by titles, names, and classifications. Names secure and give substance to our critical operations; but names can also constrain investigation if one relies on given solutions without reassessing historical objects and methods.

But what happens when the title is questionable, anachronistic, or purposely absented? From collaborative works that lack designated authors to the untitled work, the enquiring viewer is prematurely left alone to fill in the blanks ¨C a productive insecurity in the face of that which cannot be named, grasped, or conveyed that leaks into, and has an impact upon, the doing and teaching of art and its histories. We would like to invite papers on naming as a activity shared by art historians, critics, curators, and artists; thereby also addressing questions of authority, validity, critique, and resistance that become integral to the act of giving ¨C or retracting ¨C titles. Possible areas of enquiry can include: measuring the name: navigating classification and reconfiguring value; the untitled work as a site of frustration, opportunity, and challenge; the function of names and classifications in reception, historiography, and methodology; legitimising nomenclature: claiming and re©\claiming the utility of art and history; and choosing names and choosing sides: the vocabulary of cross©\disciplinary studies.

With this session, we hope to open up a space for critical reflection on the work of art history, wherein the validity and function of the name/title must be constantly kept in check, while navigating research through identification and classification that we see ourselves reconfiguring.

If you would like to offer a paper, please contact the session convenor directly (Catriona McAra c.mcara.1@research.gla.ac.uk) providing an abstract of your proposed paper in no more than 250 words, your name and institutional affiliation (if any) by 9th November 2009.

Catriona McAra

History of Art

8 University Gardens

University of Glasgow

Glasgow

G12 8QH

Email: c.mcara.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Visit the website at http://www.aah.org.uk/photos/Annual%20Conference%202010.pdf

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Untitled: What's in a Name?, 04/15-17/2010, Glasgow

Deadline: November 09, 2009

Untitled: What's in a Name?

Student Session

Association of Art Historians Annual Conference

University of Glasgow 15-17th April 2010

Call for Papers

Catriona McAra

History of Art

8 University Gardens

University of Glasgow

Glasgow

G12 8QH

Email: c.mcara.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Visit the website at http://www.aah.org.uk/photos/Annual%20Conference%202010.pdf

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Post-graduation Forum for Music and Dance Studies, 12/04-05/2009, Portugal

Deadline: October 22, 2009

Call for Papers

Post-in-progress: 1st International Post-graduation Forum for Music and Dance Studies – Aveiro, Portugal December 2009

The Institute of Ethnomusicology - Centre for Music and Dance Studies (INET-md) and Department of Communication and Art (DeCA) of the University of Aveiro, Portugal, are pleased to host POSTIP an international scientific meeting open to all post-graduation students in music and dance.

Post-in-progress will be held in Aveiro, Portugal, from Friday 4 to Saturday 5 December 2009 and aims to create a debate and presentation space for scientific research within the following INET-md research sub-themes:

• Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies

• Western Art Music from the Perspective of Cultural Studies

• Ethnochoreology and Cultural Studies on Dance

• Creation, Theory and Music Technologies

• Performance Studies

Jorge Castro Ribeiro

Departamento de Comunicação e Arte

Universidade de Aveiro

Portugal

phone: +351 234370389

fax: +351 234370868

e-mail: jcribeiro@ua.pt

Email: postip@ca.ua.pt

Visit the website at http://cms.ua.pt/postip/

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Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies

You can find the 'Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies', which is a fully peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal at:

http://www.criticalglobalisation.com/

We are looking for full articles (up to 10,000 words) and polemics (short articles up to 5000 words) for our next issue on 'Globalisation and War'.

Published contributions will be available free online and included within our limited-run print edition.

Didem Buhari Gulmez

Associate Editor, JCGS

Royal Holloway, University of London

Email: m.d.buhari@rhul.ac.uk

Visit the website at http://www.criticalglobalisation.com

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Infinity

New peer-review graduate and young professionals journal on war and peace

Infinity Journal is switching to the peer-review process and will focus on the topics of war and peace, and all of the issues in between - from humanitarianism to terrorism. The peer-review process begins after Volume 1 ends, which will be in February 2010. Those interested in submitting to Infinity Journal (peer-review) can begin submitting papers now. Visit the site for more details or contact Adam for more information, including submission guidelines.

There will also be a $1,000 award for best piece.

This is for those wishing to publish in a peer-reviewed journal.

Adam Stahl

Executive Director

Email: adam@infinityjournal.com

Visit the website at http://www.infinityjournal.com

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Red River Valley Historical Journal

Call for Articles - Red River Valley Historical Journal

The Red River Valley Historical Journal (RRVHJ) invites the submission of articles for publication in upcoming issues. Articles are solicited on any historical topic, era, or geographic region of the world. The RRVHJ publishes articles of general interest to the academy.

Articles should be 8,000-9,000 words in length. Authors are required to send two typed, double-spaced copies of the manuscript to the address below. A self-addressed, stamped envelope should be included if the manuscript is to be returned. The author's name, mailing address, email address and telephone number should appear on the title page and nowhere else in the manuscript. Notes should appear as endnotes using the Chicago Manual of Style. Once the manuscript has been accepted for publication, authors will be required to provide the RRVHJ an electronic copy in WordPerfect or Word’s Rich Text Format (RTF).

For inquiries on articles, please contact the editor:

Vernon L. Williams, Ph.D., Editor

Red River Valley Historical Journal

ACU Box 28130

Abilene Christian University

Abilene, Texas 79699-8130

(325) 280-3399

vwilliams@acu.edu

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November 16, 2009

Association of American Geographers, Neoliberal projects and postsocialism,04/14-18/2010, MS

Deadline: October 11, 2009

Annual meeting
Association of American Geographers
Washington DC
April 14-18 2010

CFP:
How do basic concepts shift in neoliberal projects? Evidence from the post-socialist world and beyond

The neoliberal experiment across the globe has involved the dissemination of knowledge about rational ‘best practices,’ geared towards the promotion of efficient market economies, seen as deeply intertwined with liberal democratic polities. In doing so, international financial institutions, academics, and the media have promoted not only concrete policies, but also specific languages and set of meanings that, albeit vague, support the rationale of neoliberal projects. Generally accepted by elites worldwide (and contested by their opponents), those concepts are also constantly reworked when they meet diverse and locally specific sets of meaning and institutional frameworks.

For example, Central Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union are areas where the symbolic component of the neoliberal project has been particularly evident, because of the transformation from communism to capitalism. Such transformation entailed the production – and from the Western standpoint, also the transfer – of a whole set of values, institutions, and forms of governance. However, when exported into the region via the embodiment in concrete policies, local elites used ‘Western’ modernizing (neoliberal) concepts in ways that the “Western” concept-makers did not even anticipate. Basic concepts such as ‘democracy’ and ‘capitalism’ in some cases assumed new meanings. Institutional and symbolic legacies from the past(s) (communist, and in some cases pre-communist) produced unexpected results when they met with the ‘Western’ version of supposedly neutral concepts.

For example, officials in Brussels considered the idea of having quotas for women and minorities in government an obvious democratic practice. Instead, it met opposition in post-communist states, because many East Europeans considered it a “communist” practice, with all its negative connotations. The geographical literature has just begun to analyze such conceptual shifts from ‘West’ to ‘East.’ Eastern European elites use Western rhetoric and mannerisms as tools to attract foreign aid (Kuus 2004, 2008); the very idea of ‘social networks’ assume a different structure in Georgia (Mitchneck and Pickles, in preparation) In Bulgaria, the government actively shifted the concept of ‘regionalism’ (Hirt 2007), ‘civil society’ (Caedmon and Cellarius 2002), and ‘clusters’ (Sellar et al. forthcoming) from the meaning devised in Brussels.

This session invites opinion pieces aimed at discussing how shifts in fundamental concepts may be affecting the social, political, and economic dynamics of ‘modernizing’ (neoliberal) projects in post socialist Europe and the Former Soviet Union. We encourage submissions concerning ideas sucha as ‘state,’ ‘democracy,’ ‘economy,’ ‘market,’ ‘public spaces,’ ‘region,’ and ‘corruption.’ We would like to keep the session as broad as possible, open to contributions from a wide range of regions in the postsocialist world and beyond. What kinds of shifts in meaning did you encounter in your research? What kind of new concepts emerged when pre-existing understandings met the values/meanings taken for granted by ‘Western’ modernizers? How did these differences/encounters reflect in specific policies? How did they impact on the structure and findings of your research? How did they impact on and inform your relationships with colleagues from the region? How could theory help us to understand those conceptual shifts in a broader sense?

Abstracts should be sent to the session conveners by Sunday, October 11
Convenors:
Craig Young (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Christian Sellar (University of Mississippi)
Sonia Hirt (Virginia Tech)

Please send abstracts to:
csellar@olemiss.edu

Christian Sellar
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Policy Leadership
University of Mississippi
University MS 38677

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November 11, 2009

Travel, Trade and Ethnic Transformations, 06/16-20, Hungary

Deadline: November 15,2009

7th Biennial MESEA Conference
The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas
Travel, Trade and Ethnic Transformations
16-20 June 2010
University of Pécs, Hungary

Call for Papers

Travel, movement and mobility are essential in human life: they shape individualities, histories and the stories people tell. In particular, labor, commerce, exile, tourism, transnational and transcontinental migrations have led to the socio-political and cultural production of dominant images of subjectivities and nationhoods. People's identification with "imagined communities" and their experience with "encountered ones" has determined ethnicity's and diaspora's infinitely variable socio-political and cultural content. However, neither panethnicity nor transmigrant/postcolonial hybridity can resolve the crisis of a liberal commodified polity. Ideologies of difference and subjectivity need to be critically regrounded in the realities of global capitalism, political economy and the changing structures of institutional and disciplinary power. This conference, then, aims to focus on the ways that travel and trade contribute to the definition and redefinition of ethnic subjectivities in the realms of culture, politics, history, and sociology, economics and law, language, literature and the arts in Europe and the Americas.

Proposals can be submitted to our website between August 15 and November 15, 2009. Submitters will receive notification of acceptance or rejections by December 15, 2009.

Inter/transnational and inter/transdisciplinary proposals as well as complete panels will be given preference.

Note that MESEA will award two Young Scholars Excellence Awards. For more information and a list of suggested topics, please see: http://www.mesea.org

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Nation and Charisma, 04/13-15/2010, London School of Economics

Deadline: November 6, 2009

CFP- Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism,
London School of Economics and Political Science.
April 13-15, 2010

Call for Papers

The conference will offer opportunities for young and established scholars from various disciplines to examine the relationship between nationalism and charisma in a series of panel sessions. Please see Call for Papers attached for more information. Further enquires are welcome at asen.conference@lse.ac.uk

Please see the ASEN website http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/ for more information and to submit your proposal.

ASEN 2010 Conference co-Chairs
ASEN
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6801
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 6218
Posted by: ASEN Conference <asen.conference@lse.ac.uk>

The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is holding its 20th Anniversary Conference entitled "Nation and Charisma", on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 13 - 15 April 2010 at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Must nations have 'founding fathers', and nationalist movements charismatic leaders? Does nationalism differ in this respect from any other mass movement? If nationalism is a species of secular religion, is it also therefore a cult of the hero or heroine? How important is leadership for the national cause, and what are its effects for good or ill? These are some of the questions which the ASEN's 20th Anniversary Conference seeks to address.

The conference will include keynote addresses from leading scholars in the field, along with opportunities for scholars from various disciplines to examine the relationship between nationalism and charisma in a series of panel sessions. Suggested themes include:
Charismatic Authority and Oratory
Charisma, Cultural Nationalism and the Arts
Religious Charisma and Secular Nationalism
Iconography and Personality Cults
Popular Mobilisation vs. Elite Manipulation
Charismatic Leadership from Above and Grass-root Movements from Below
Political Transformation of Charisma

The 2010 Conference Committee is now calling for papers to be presented at the conference. The application is open to any researcher who is interested in the study of nationalism, and PhD students and young scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. The abstracts of the proposed papers should not exceed 500 words and are expected by Friday, 6 November 2009.

Suggestions for panels and additional themes are also welcome. The Committee will notify applicants with its decision in December 2009.

Papers submitted to the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN).
Please note that ASEN cannot cover travel and accommodation costs.

Presenters are expected to register for the conference.

The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN), London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6801 Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 6218

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The Socialist 1960s, 06/24-26/2010, IL

Deadline: October 15, 2009

Call for Proposals
The Socialist 1960s: Popular Culture and the Socialist City in Global Perspective

2010 Fisher Forum, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
June 24-26, 2010

The 1960s witnessed an explosion of cross-cultural fertilization in a time of world competition for the hegemony of two enduring "systems" -
capitalism and socialism. As a moment when decolonization created immense possibilities for liberation movements throughout the world, the 1960s became the heyday of the "Second World" appeals to the newly decolonized societies of the "Third World," as well as the reemergence of a European "First World" as a postwar consumer society in reaction to American hegemony. This was the moment when the "orderedness" of the three worlds was arguably the most prominent in popular discourse and culture, and a moment when that order was contested and destabilized. The patterns that first emerged in the 1960s - cultural contest, political mobility, urbanization and the rise of urban youth movements, women's rights, the hegemony of popular over "high" culture driven by technology - form the bases of today's discussions of globalization, its challenges, dangers, and contestation.

The purpose of this conference will be to use the Second World, the socialist societies of the 1960s, as the center from which to explore global interconnections and uncover new and perhaps surprising patterns of cultural cross-pollination. This forum will be structured around cities as the units of analysis, and it will focus on the arena of popular culture as played out in these city spaces. More specifically, we invite paper proposals that focus on one of three realms of urban popular culture - media (including cinema, television, popular music); material culture (including spaces and
their uses as well as commodities), and leisure (including tourism and other activities). We consider these exemplary of the circulation of objects, images, sounds, and impressions on a level different from political programs, literature and "fine arts." Several thematic threads will tie together this consideration of the circulation of popular culture around and through the Second world: mobility and cultural transmission; youth cultures and student movements; gender; consumerism and hedonism; the state and cultural exchange; technology and cultural dissemination; cosmopolitan political mobilization. Our aims will be to consider what the "1960s" meant in socialist countries, and to discuss the balance in the 1960s between cultural global integration and continuing political differentiation.

The core of the forum will be the socialist societies of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, but the forum would be enriched by participation from scholars who study other socialist societies. We anticipate that the conference will result in a published volume: submissions should be original work, not previously published.

The conference organizers are Diane P. Koenker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (dkoenker@illinois.edu) and Anne E. Gorsuch, University of British Columbia (gorsuch@interchange.ubc.ca). We welcome advance inquiries..

Please send proposed paper title and abstracts to each of the organizers by October 15, 2009. Proposals should indicate which of the conference themes the paper addresses, and the term "Sixties" or "1960s" should be explicit in the paper title. Selection of participants will be made by November 30, 2009, and conference papers should be submitted by April 1, 2010.

The Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum is held in conjunction with the Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. The conference is made possible by Mary and Hal Zirin's generous gift to the Ralph and Ruth Fisher Endowment Fund in honor of Professor Ralph Fisher and his wife Ruth. Ralph Fisher is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois and founder of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Summer Research Lab.

Tracie L Wilson, PhD
Associate Director
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
104 International Studies Building
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
217.333.6022
wilsont@illinois.edu

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November 09, 2009

MID-ATLANTIC SLAVIC CONFERENCE 2010, 03/20/2010, PA

Deadline: December 15, 2009

MID-ATLANTIC SLAVIC CONFERENCE
a regional conference of the AAASS
Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA
Saturday, March 20, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Panels and papers are welcome on any appropriate scholarly aspect of Slavic and East European Studies. Proposals must include the following to be considered:
the paper's title and a very brief abstract;
any requests for technical support (especially important for our planning);
the surface and email addresses of the presenter;
his or her institutional affiliation and professional status (professor, graduate student, etc.)

Room assignments for the panels are based in part on knowing the need for technical support when the Executive Board meets in mid-January.
Undergraduate students under the guidance of a faculty mentor may present a paper at the Conference if the faculty mentor submits the information outlined above.

Keynote Address by Professor Sibelan Forrester, "Reverse Colonialization: Bringing the Other into the Slavic Studies Classroom"

Please send your proposals no later than December 15, 2009 to me by email at theis@kutztown.edu and/or by sending them on hard copy to Dr. Mary Theis, MASC Executive Secretary, Department of Modern Language Studies, Kutztown University, PO Box 730, Kutztown, PA 19530.
My home address (503 Friendship Drive, Fleetwood, PA 19522) should be used for mailing the hard copy after that date, but I need to have all proposals at least by December 15th. My home email is maryetheis@mac.com in case of emergencies.

As always, we encourage professionals in the field to volunteer to serve as chairs and/or discussants at the Conference itself. Much of the benefit of the Conference depends on active participation and informed commentary by those taking part.

A juried award of $200 is made annually for the best graduate paper judged according to these elements in our rubric: clarity of main research question and the response to it, importance to the profession of main research findings, amount of support for their argument, use of primary sources as well as adequate and interesting content, readiness for publication, correct use of English, and readability/style.
Please remind your students that they should provide the necessary visuals or materials to make a valid evaluation. Of course, the paper must be presented at our MASC to be considered and will differ somewhat from the written paper. The winning paper is then entered in the national AAASS competition, where the rewards are more significant. A second place prize of $175 is also awarded.

Mary E. Theis
Executive Secretary, MASC

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Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana, 08/11-15/2010, Yasnaya Polyana

Deadline: February 10, 2010

Tolstoy and World Literature 2010

The Seventh International Academic Conference Leo Tolstoy and World Literature will take place August 11-15, 2010, at Yasnaya Polyana, the Leo Tolstoy Museum-Estate, home of Tolstoy's Personal Library, which contains books in 39 foreign languages.

This conference celebrates the 100th anniversary of Tolstoy's death, and topics related to this subject will be especially welcome. The new academic edition being prepared at IMLI at the Moscow Academy of Sciences is ongoing, and we also welcome reports on the early reception around the world of Tolstoy's works. New editions on Tolstoy will be presented at the Conference. Yasnaya Polyana will publish the conference papers.

For more information about the conference and how to apply to attend it, please contact Donna Tussing Orwin of the University of Toronto at donna.orwin@utoronto.ca, or Galina Alexeeva of Yasnaya Polyana, at gala@tgk.tolstoy.ru

The announcement of the Conference will be on the Yasnaya Polyana web-site (www.yasnayapolyana.ru) on October 1st.

Applications must be received by February 1, 2010.

Donna Tussing Orwin, Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
University of Toronto
President, Tolstoy Society
Alumni Hall 415
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, ON
Canada M5S 1J4
tel 416-926-1300, ext. 3316
fax 416-926-2076

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Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, 03/25-27/2010, Gainesville, Florida

Deadline: January 15, 2010

The 48th annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) will take place in Gainesville, FL on March 25-27, 2010. The conference, hosted by the University of Florida, will be held at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center. The special conference rate is $135 per night. The hotel can be reached by phone at: 1-352-371-3600. In addition to the regular panels, there will be a special plenary roundtable session on Friday afternoon devoted to:

"Gas Wars, Colored Revolutions, and Virtual Politics in Russia and the "Near Abroad": A Post-election Assessment"

Leading scholars of Russian and Ukrainian politics will gather to assess the state of and prospects for relations between Russia, Europe, and the Russian "Near Abroad."

Roundtable participants include:
--- Andrew Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies and Senior Policy Fellow for the European Council on Foreign Relations.
--- Paul D'Anieri, Professor of Political Science and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at University of Florida.
--- Lucan Way, Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Toronto.

Following the plenary session, Professor Mark von Hagen will deliver the keynote address, "History Wars: Memory and Geopolitics in Eastern Europe," at the Friday night banquet.

The deadline for panel and paper proposals for the conference is January 15, 2010. Papers from all humanities and social science disciplines are welcome and encouraged, as is a focus on countries other than Russia/USSR. Whole panel proposals (chair, three papers, discussant) are preferred, but proposals for individual papers are also welcome. Whole panel proposals should include the titles of each individual paper as well as a proposed title for the panel itself and identifying information (including email addresses and institutional affiliations) for all participants. Proposals for individual papers should include email contact, institutional affiliation, and a brief (one paragraph) abstract to guide the program committee in the assembly of panels.
Email (preferably) your proposal to Sharon Kowalsky at sharon_kowalsky@tamu-commerce.edu, or send it by conventional post to:
Dr. Sharon Kowalsky
Department of History
Texas A&M University-Commerce
PO Box 3011
Commerce, TX 75429

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November 04, 2009

Yale Journal of International Affairs

Deadline: October 23, 2009-10-23

The staff at the Yale Journal of International Affairs is pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions for our Winter 2010 issue, to be published this coming January.

Double-spaced, 3,000 - 5,000 word research articles can be submitted for consideration for publication in our Winter 2010 edition. YJIA also considers 1,000 - 2,000 word book reviews on recent works of scholarly importance. All submissions should conform to the conventions of the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition. Citations should take the form of endnotes, and should be formatted according to the Yale Journal of International Affairs Style Guide.

*Graduate students, in particular, are encouraged to submit high quality book reviews on international development and aid.*

Submissions for the upcoming issue should be submitted electronically (as Microsoft Word documents) to jason.warner@yalejournal.org no later than October 23, 2009. Accepted authors will be contacted shortly thereafter to coordinate further editing with YJIA staff.

Authors should also include a cover letter indicating his/her name, institutional affiliation, contact information (including email address and phone number) as well as a brief bio. Additionally, a 100 word abstract should accompany all submissions.

Jason Warner

Yale University

Visit the website at http://yalejournal.org/current-issue

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Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Sciences, 03/26/2010, Grand Rapids

Deadline: November 30, 2009.

Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Sciences

Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, 2010

Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan

March 26, 2010

Call for Papers

Accepting panel & paper proposals on any topic in the social sciences. Special interest in interdisciplinary studies and in studies that discuss/employ humanities and/or natural sciences with social sciences.

Abstracts are due by November 30, 2009. Abstracts should be submitted on line at the Michigan Academy website: www.alma.edu/michiganacademy

See full call at http://www.alma.edu/repository/michiganacademy/Interdisciplinary_Studies_in_Social_Sciences_Call_10.pdf

Section Leader/Chair: Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Ph.D., Oakland University (Michigan) | 248 854 8340 | bennettc@oakland.edu

Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Ph.D.

Oakland University

113 O'Dowd Hall

Rochester Hills, Michigan 48309

248 854 8340

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European Architectural History Network, 06/17-20/2010, Portugal

Deadline: 30 October 2009

EAHN First International Meeting

17-20 June 2010

Portugal

Call for Papers

The deadline for the call for papers for the First International Meeting of the European Architectural History Network, Guimarães, Portugal, 17-20 June 2010 is now approaching. Papers are sought for the twenty-five sessions and roundtables at the conference which will cover architecture of all periods, from antiquity, medieval, and early modern, up through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as topics from allied disciplines such as urban history and garden history.

The call for papers can be viewed on the conference website: http://www.eahn2010.org

or downloaded at the following URL: http://www.eahn2010.org/EAHN2010_CPF.pdf

Complete details for submissions are included in the CFP, with proposals and supporting material to be sent directly to the chair(s) of each session or roundtable.

EAHN: European Architectural History Network

c/o TU Delft

RMIT - Faculty of Architecture

P.O. Box 5043

2600 GA Delft

The Netherlands

Email: office@eahn.org

www.eahn.org

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November 02, 2009

Critical Studies in History

Deadline: October 15, 2009

Critical Studies in History Journal Call for Papers

Founded in 2008, _Critical Studies in History_ (ISSN 1943-0795) publishes essays, position papers, research articles, and critical perspective pieces that explore the role of critical theory in history and the place of history in theoretical critiques. Intervening beyond the philosophy of history, the journal particularly favors studies that illuminate specific historical problems or make innovative historiographical interventions. The editors invite submissions of manuscripts appropriate to the aims of this open-access online journal. Manuscripts should not exceed 8,500 words and will be peer reviewed in a double-blinded procedure.

We are now inviting submissions for the second issue of the second volume, with the theme "Cultural Values," scheduled to appear in December 2009.

Authors are expected to follow these guidelines:
1. Submit manuscripts to history.theory@gmail.com as an electronic attachment in Microsoft Word.

2. Include a short paragraph of author's biography along with a paper abstract of around 150-250 words.

3. All manuscripts should conform to the footnotes citation system of the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. Do not use the author-date system. Please ensure that all quotations, titles, names, and dates are double-checked for accuracy.

4. Indicate in writing that the submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration for publication elsewhere.

All issues of the journal will be published online in paginated PDF files. The journal is intended to provide more opportunities than traditional history journals in publishing historiographically-oriented pieces that bring critical theory to bear on the practice of historical scholarship.

Expressions of interest in becoming a manuscript reviewer for the journal are also welcome.

Direct any other questions, comments, or suggestions to:

Howard Chiang

Founding Editor, Critical Studies in History

Coordinator, History and Theory Reading Group

E-mail: history.theory@gmail.com

Visit the website at http://history.theory.googlepages.com/csh

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Before and Beyond Auschwitz New conflicts and alternative routes among exclusion, identity and diversity, 01/27-29/2010, Italy

Deadline: September 30, 2009

Before and Beyond Auschwitz. New conflicts and alternative routes among exclusion, identity and diversity

Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italy

27 28 29 January 2010

Call for Papers

Studies and reflections on Auschwitz (seen) as a paradigmatic event concerning the building and the destruction of both historical and political categories have thoroughly inquired into origins and effects far beyond the 20th-century horizon. These study days aim to propose a re-evaluation of those circumstances (historical, social, political, cultural, philosophical) which, even through progressive dissipations of the sense of (human) limits, led to the formation of regimes where everything seemed possible. Together with this analysis aimed at confronting different approaches and disciplines we attempt to look into the Contemporaneity, especially the new conflicts often accompanying forms of identity closure, in the light of those exclusion/discrimination models which frequently concern the tout court differences. The intent to go beyond Auschwitz, revitalizing an idea of remembrance that is not merely conservative but try to link up with the Contemporaneity, leads to study those forms of conflict oppositions, from the peace movements to the non-violence, grown during the 20th century.

Within this more general framework the following topics will be closely discussed:

Minority exclusion and discrimination

Gender violence: woman as subject and object of totalitarian regimes

Peace movements and pacifism

Identity and politics: gender, ethnic and social class

New conflict opposition forms after Auschwitz and Hiroshima

Conflicts in the contemporary world

Biopolitics of field

Who wants to participate in one of the thematic workshops is invited to present an abstract of his/her own speech (max 300 words) not later than September 30, 2009. Proposals must be sent to: csgeneremc@gmail.com or faxed to 0039 0733 258 2551. Only the abstracts in Italian or English language containing name and surname, email address, speech title and a brief curriculum vitae et studiorum (max 2000 characters, spaces included) will be accepted.

Keynote speakers:

Angelo D'Orsi (Università di Torino)

Danielle Levy (Università di Macerata)

Yosefa Loshitzky (University of East London)

Paola Magnarelli (Università di Macerata)

Caterina Resta (Università di Messina)

Andrea Rondini (Università di Macerata)

Anny Dayan Rosenman (Universitè Paris Diderot-Paris VII)

Victor Sidler (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Department of Communication Sciences:

Phone: (0039)0733-2582577

Fax: (0039)0733-2582551

Gender observatory:

Phone: (0039)0733-237107

Fax: (0039)0733-237138

Email: g.calamanti@unimc.it; csgeneremc@gmail.com

Visit the website at http://www.unimc.it/ricerca/dipartimenti/dipartimento-di-scienze-della-comunicazione; www.odg-isrec.com

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Visual Culture & Global Practices, 03/04-06/2010), CA

Deadline: November 16, 2009

45th Annual Comparative Literature Conference
California State University, Long Beach
Visual Culture & Global Practices
March 4-6, 2010

Plenary Speaker:
W. J. T. Mitchell, Prof. of English & Art History, University of Chicago

The contemporary situation in humanities and social sciences is often characterized by the so called visual turn, or the increasing emphasis of theory on the power and scope of the visual in everyday life, science, literature, media and the arts. Visual Culture as well as the formation of the field of Visual Studies stems from this renewed focus upon pictoriality and the power of the image, and its expression through various linguistic, visual and media forms.

Visual Culture & Global Practices seeks to examine literature (across time periods and languages), images, visual objects and mechanisms, and events from diverse cultures, across national boundaries, and within global contexts. Among the questions to be explored are:
What are the visual codes of cultural works?
What is the relationship between these works and their conditions of consumption, production and reception?
How do images function within political, social, and economic forces?
What is the cultural work that images do?
How do we theorize visual culture?
How do we read images?

The conference will take place at California State University, Long Beach, March 4-6, 2010. Plenary Speaker is renowned Visual Culture scholar W. J. T. Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago, whose works Iconology (1986), Picture Theory (1994), and What Do Pictures Want? (2005) focus on media theory and visual culture.

We invite proposals for papers that deal with the power and role of the image and its relationship to literature and other disciplines and methodologies. Participants from different fields - literary theory and philosophy, aesthetics, film studies, art history and theory, theater, fine arts, graphic design, culture studies, visual and media studies, digital media and electronic arts, sociology, psychology, and cognitive science - are invited to submit an abstract.

Given the topic of this conference, you can also or alternatively represent your work in a poster session. Posters are graphic and textual representations of research. This format, more typical in the sciences than in the humanities, allows for research to be presented to audiences in visual formats throughout the conference rather than at single sessions. Posters are welcomed and encouraged on any aspect of visual cultural study or practice.

To propose a PAPER, please send an electronic 250-word abstract along with an attached c.v. no later than November 16, 2009 to Prof. Nhora Serrano
(nserrano@csulb.edu).

Nhora Lucia Serrano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Dept. of Comparative World Literature & Classics
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA 90840
work tele: (562) 985-1589
fax: (562) 985-4863

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Historical Inquiry in the New Century, 06/03-05/2010, DC

Deadline: January 31, 2010

Call for Papers

Historical Inquiry in the New Century

The Historical Society's 2010 Conference

District of Columbia

June 3-5, 2010 George Washington University, Washington, DC

Eric Arnesen, Program Chair

Under this broad rubric, we invite participants to address a wide range of questions and issues, including: Where do particular fields now stand? What are the truly big questions historians face, and are we adequately grappling with them? How do we think historical inquiry will change in the 21st century?

We particularly encourage panel proposals, though individual paper proposals are, of course, welcome also. Please submit proposals (abstract and a brief CV) to jslucas@bu.edu by January 31, 2010.

Eric Arnesen, Program Chair

The Historical Society

656 Beacon St., Mezzanine

Boston, MA 02215

Phone: 617-358-0260

Fax: 617-358-0250

Email: jslucas@bu.edu

Visit the website at http://www.bu.edu/historic/conf_ev.html

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Knowledge: (Trans)Formation, 03/03/2010, Tunisia

Deadline: December 12, 2009

Call for Papers

The Ecole Normale Supérieure of Tunis & The English Department of the Institut Supérieur des Etudes Littéraires et Humaines of Tunis are pleased to announce their second joint conference on

Knowledge: (Trans)Formation

March 3-4, 2010

One of the defining features of our modern life is the unremitting accumulation of knowledge. Indeed, we live in an era governed by a race for knowledge and described by such catchphrases as “the age of knowledge” or “the knowledge society.” In earlier phases of the modern project of Enlightenment, the positive aspects of knowledge were emphasised. Rational knowledge was deemed essential to human liberation and accomplishment. Knowledge, however, has darker sides and may have dire consequences. Francis Bacon’s aphorism, “knowledge is power,” stated some four centuries earlier, operates at its best now. For knowledge, like any other type of power, can be transformed into a tool of coercion.

In our age of impressive development of cognition, it is significant to interrogate the role of knowledge and its effects on individuals, societies and humanity in its entirety. This conference, therefore, will focus on knowledge as a cultural form, liable to produce meanings and construct new socio-political practices as well as modes of resistance. It will attempt to engage a debate on the formation and transformation, uses and abuses, origins and consequences of different types of knowledge.

Participants are invited to bring their contribution to the following thematic areas:

Knowledge and artistic production: how can art (literature, painting etc.) construct, manipulate and reorient our knowledge of the world?

Knowledge and postmodernism: does the world provide us with a foundational reality? Is it possible to authenticate any form of knowledge as ‘truth’?

Knowledge and Feminist thought: how can a feminist informed critique destabilize the hierarchal organization of knowledge and the oppressive structures within which it is assembled and propagated?

Knowledge and language: does language mediate knowledge? What is the role of discourse in the production, deployment and development of knowledge? Cross-cultural knowledge and interlanguage.

Knowledge, education and digital technology: how is knowledge produced, disseminated and legitimized in the Academia? How does the electronic revolution affect prospects of human knowledge? How can e-learning and the Virtual Divide reshuffle traditional concepts of education? Can we speak now about efficient education with the chasm separating Digital Natives from Digital Immigrants?

Knowledge and multimedia: what is the role of media, cinema and cyberspace in creating culturally-determined knowledge constructs?

Knowledge and Globalization: what are the consequences of the growing worldwide economic, political and cultural interdependence? How to cope with the uneven distribution of knowledge?

Knowledge, history and representation: how do issues of identity, community, time and ideology infiltrate knowledge systems?

Indigenous or “subaltern” knowledge (memory, heritage, folklore, myths, proverbs, dances etc): how can the revival of indigenous knowledge be a form of resistance?

Submission Instructions:

Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Abstracts should have about 250 words.

Contact Information:

Please fill in the registration form below and send it to Hager Ben Driss, e-mail: hagerbendriss@yahoo.com

1- Title of paper

2- Section (thematic area)

3- Name

4- Affiliation

5- E-mail address

6- Abstract

Schedule:

Deadline for submitting abstracts: December 12th, 2009.

Acceptance of proposals will be notified no later than January 9th, 2010.

Hager Ben Driss

Institut Supérieur des Etudes Littéraires et Humaines.

Email: hagerbendriss@yahoo.com

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Articulation(s), Amsterdam

Deadline: September 30, 2009

The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) Location: Ontario, Netherlands

The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) invites proposals for paper submissions and panel sessions for its yearly International Workshop.

How do we analyze, understand, and participate in the world? What are the ways in which we can think through concepts such as aesthetics, identity, politics, and space to articulate the object(s) of our inquiry? These are a few of the questions the 2010 ASCA International Workshop, "Articulation(s)," seeks to explore. The workshop offers a space in which we can reflect upon such questions and the methodological nuances, theoretical consequences, and political implications that arise when we interrogate (trans)national theories, disciplines, and contested object(s).

With its double meaning, to express and to connect, articulation(s) highlights the contingency of the unities of meaning and of discourse(s) that we ascribe to our object(s) in question. Articulation(s) is a generative concept that has been prominent in shaping theory for decades. Working (inter)disciplinarily in the humanities, articulation(s), as a travelling concept, refers to the engaging of objects, concepts, and theories and the (im)possibilities of interrogation.

In this workshop articulation(s) is presented in relation to four distinct themes that we will (re)articulate and/or interrogate to see whether they help us express the relationships between theories, discipline, and object(s) from our various fields.

These issues will be discussed in four panels:

National Identity

Migratory Aesthetics

Space

Politics of Mourning

For further information on the panels, visit the website at http://www.hum.uva.nl/asca/news.cfm/2F204DAB-1321-B0BE-A40047342B0FC94F

In keeping with the spirit of tradition, this workshop has been inspired by the 2008-2009 ASCA Theory Seminar entitled "Articulations": Theoretically Speaking.

Participants are welcome to submit proposals from any discipline and will be subjected to peer review. Please submit a short autobiographical sketch (150 words) and your proposal (300 words) to Dr. Eloe Kingma, Managing Director of ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis) via email or post. Please indicate which of the four themes you would like to participate in, and if your presentation will include video, projection, or performance.

Those selected to participate will be asked to provide a 3000 word paper (excluding bibliography) by January 4, 2010, so that the papers can be distributed in advance of the workshop. In order to allow for a sufficient amount of discussion time, papers will not be read. Instead, participants will be asked to provide a short summary of their argument or to respond to another panelist(s)'s paper for a maximum of 10 minutes.

Proposals should be sent to:

Dr. Eloe Kingma (Managing Director)

Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis

Email: asca-fgw@uva.nl

Visit the website at http://www.hum.uva.nl/asca

Lara Mazurski

University of Amsterdam

Email: l.e.mazurski@uva.nl

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The Author-Translator in the European Literary Tradition, 06/28-07/01/2010, Swansea

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Author-Translator in the European Literary Tradition
Swansea University, 28 June - 1 July 2010

Confirmed keynote speakers include:
Susan Bassnett, David Constantine, Lawrence Venuti

The recent `creative turn´ in translation studies has challenged notions of translation as a derivative and uncreative activity which is inferior to `original´ writing. Commentators have drawn attention to the creative processes involved in the translation of texts, and suggested a rethinking of translation as a form of creative writing. Hence there is growing critical and theoretical interest in translations undertaken by literary authors.

This conference focuses on acts of translation by creative writers. Literary scholarship has tended to overlook this aspect of an author´s output, yet since the time of Cicero, authors across Europe have been engaged not only in composing their own works but in rendering texts from one language into another. Indeed, many of Europe´s greatest writers have devoted time to translation - from Chaucer to Heaney, from Diderot and Goethe to Seferis and Pasternak - and have produced some remarkable texts. Others (Beckett, Joyce, Nabokov) have translated their own work from one language into another. As attentive readers and skilful wordsmiths, writers may be particularly well equipped to meet the creative demands of literary translation; many translations of poetry are, after all, undertaken by poets themselves. Moreover, translation can have a major impact on an author´s own writing and on the development of native literary traditions.

The conference seeks to reassess the importance of translation for European writers - both well-known and less familiar - from antiquity to the present day. It will explore why authors translate, what they translate, and how they translate, as well as the links between an author´s translation work and his or her own writing. It will bring together scholars in English studies and modern languages, classics and medieval studies, comparative literature and translation studies.

Possible topics include:
individual author-translators: motivations, career trajectories, comparative thematics and stylistics;
the author-translator in context: literary societies, movements, national traditions;
the problematic creativity of the author-translator;
self-reflective pronouncements and manifestos;
the author-translator as critic of others´ translations;
self-translation: strengths and weaknesses;
authors, adaptations, re-translation and relay translation;
the reception and influence of the work of author-translators;
theoretical interfaces.

Proposals are invited for individual papers (max. 20 minutes) or panels (of 3 speakers). The conference language is English. It is anticipated that selected papers from the conference will be published.

Please send a 250-word abstract by 30 September 2009 to the organisers, Hilary Brown and Duncan Large:
Author-Translator Conference
Department of Modern Languages
Swansea University
GB-Swansea SA2 8PP
E-mail: author-translator@swan.ac.uk
Fax: +44 (0)1792 295710
Web: http://www.author-translator.net

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The Enigma of the Homeland

Deadline: June 1, 2010

Call for Papers

The Enigma of the Homeland
Editors Catherine Gomes & Olivia Guntarik, RMIT University, Australia

We invite contributions for an edited collection of reflective essays, creative writings and poems that reflect on the meaning of home.

The notion of ‘the homeland’ connotes soothing images of a place deeply rooted in the past. It can refer to the nation as a ‘home’ or a domestic space through the use of familial tropes. The homeland is inextricably tied to the discourse of diaspora and exile – and to ideas of loss, longing and nostalgia. The homeland is one’s birthplace, one that you were uprooted from and perhaps still desired, but could never truly return. Salman Rushdie writes about the idea of ‘imaginary homelands’ to evoke the concept of home in terms of displacement and its instability. Homeland also implies a complex historical connection, a shared memory of the past tied to the land itself. Indigenous cultural knowledge, for instance, often emphasizes a relationship with place and the ancestral beings that created it.

The homeland is an enigma and has become a fluid concept which is not necessarily exclusively associated with country of birth due to the transnational movements of people. Such movements of individuals occur for a variety of reasons that include work, business, lifestyle, study, family, trauma, humanitarian and human rights. Both permanent and temporary migrants have been subject to a wealth of experience that confuses the concept of ‘home’. The fluidity of the concept of home usually lies with the experiences of the migrant both in the home and host country. Some migrants are forced to leave their birth countries because of personal or national trauma (eg. human rights violations, politics, war and natural disasters), while others leave out of choice and for less traumatic reasons (eg. lifestyle, work, study and family). While some migrants settle in their host countries with minimal discomfort, others encounter challenges in settlement such as hostility and suspicion. Some migrants more easily integrate into their host society by perhaps assimilating into already established ethnic or cultural communities. Others find assimilation more difficult because of the lack of community support. However, joining an established ethnic or cultural community can also result in less assimilation into the wider community, therefore creating a dissonance in the concept of home for the migrant.

These different notions of home and homeland constitute salient and evocative spatial metaphors, illustrating the ways our lexicon can produce a range of meanings, interpretations and political uses around these concepts. While such ideas and tropes remain pertinent, the extent to which the homeland provokes counter discourses around deterritorialisation, displacement, dispossession, travel, migration and mobility, remain less certain. Such uncertainty invites an urgent call to re-evaluate the meanings attached to the concept of the homeland or what constitutes ‘home’ for people today.

This collection aims to highlight the often ignored intersections between issues of home and host country, the foreign and the familiar, and imaginary and concrete homelands. State-centred views of what constitutes the homeland continue to dominate, but what is apparent is that these limit our perspectives to understanding the connections between home, citizenship, displacement, migration, belonging and identity.

We invite reflective essays, which may address questions such as the following in order to develop new perspectives on concepts of home and homeland.
What are the cultural connotations and semantic implications of the word ‘homeland’?
In what ways is the concept of ‘the homeland’ an enigma?
What does it mean to think of our respective nations/countries of citizenship or birthplaces in the current context of mobility and flux?
What does it mean to desire a lost homeland?
In what ways does homeland embody a sense of nostalgia?
In what ways does the homeland provide a new paradigm of national identity?
What does homeland mean when it is threatened or destroyed by military occupation, invasion, war, genocide, terrorism or natural disaster?
In what ways has travel shaped new ideas about ‘self’ and ‘home’?
If dispossessed people share pasts that are fragmented, is a classical notion of ‘home’ necessary to sustain who they are?
Where is there room for migrants in the space of the homeland as a site of indigenous origins or ethnic homogeneity?
How do migrants find inclusion in the homeland? How are they excluded from the discourses of homeland?
How do migrants and their families identify with their adopted homeland, even if they relocate their homelands elsewhere?
What does it mean to go back and forth between two homes?
How have indigenous, migrant, refugee or settler communities conceptualised the notion of homeland?

We also encourage a variety of types of contributions, including creative submissions, such as storytelling, poems and other alternative formats. Creative submissions may include reflections on the above or following questions:
What is the meaning of home?
Is home associated with the birth country or is it associated with the place of settlement?
What does it mean to return home?
What does it mean to live in exile?
What are your experiences when you return home?
What does it mean to be connected to different cultural spaces?
What are the experiences that you face in terms of identity and belonging when you return to your birth country?
Can you identify with the culture of the place that you left upon returning?
Why leave or choose not to leave home?
Why return or choose not to return home?

A 300-word abstract for academic papers, along with a short biography, should be sent by 30 November 2009 to catherine.gomes@rmit.edu.au

Please send all completed submissions by 1 June 2010.

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October 28, 2009

Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop, Harvard

11th Annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop
Harvard

The Kokkalis Program, in collaboration with the Southeast European Study Group of Harvard's Center for European Studies in 1999 launched the annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop on Southeastern Europe. The Workshop takes place every February and is a forum for graduate students and scholars who are focusing their studies on Southeastern and East-Central Europe.

The goal of the Workshop is to bring together graduate students from around the world and of all disciplines of social science to present papers on issues related to Southeastern Europe. It is an exciting opportunity for students, faculty and others interested in the region to meet and exchange views on issues such as foreign policy, security, civil society, human rights, media, crime and corruption, economic reform, public administration and policy. Graduate students submit proposals for papers to present and then are sponsored to travel to Cambridge and participate in the Workshop.

More information about the workshop, including this year's topics and how to apply

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/kokkalis/gsw/2009/workshop_2009.html

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Eastern Europe in Crisis, 05/13-14/2010, Scotland

EASTERN EUROPE AND THE CRISIS

Greetings. I write to let you know that we are proposing to organise a small conference here in May 2010 on EASTERN EUROPE AND THE CRISIS, with a focus on the political implications of the economic changes that have taken place since late 2008 in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (and of course elsewhere). We’ve chosen the dates Thurs 13 and Friday 14 May 2010, from 2pm on the Thursday to 5 or so on the Friday, followed by a dinner.

We’re inviting papers (on top of those already promised), and we expect to be able to meet all local costs and at least to make a contribution to travelling costs where these cannot be met from other sources. We may include a concluding panel that will give an opportunity to those who would like to make a contribution but not necessarily in the form of a written paper, and you are welcome to propose your services as chair (we don’t expect to have discussants as such).

Subject to agreement and obviously to the comments of reviewers, we would hope to make the papers available for consideration as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies (and probably as a separate book).

Do please let us know if you would be able and willing to attend, and if you would wish to offer a formal paper, what its title would be. We will be in touch again at a later stage with more specific arrangements.

Stephen White
Valentina Feklyunina
Department of Politics, University of Glasgow
12 September 2009
s.white@socsci.gla.ac.uk

The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.

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Slovo

Deadline: 25 October 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS Volume 22.1 (Spring 2010)

Contributions, including research articles, book and film reviews, and review articles are welcome from all research students and academics. Submissions to the Board of Editors may be sent via e-mail attachment (slovo@ssees.ucl.ac.uk) or on a CD in Microsoft Word format. All research articles must include a 100-200 word abstract and adhere to the MHRA Style guide in advance of submission (available for download for free from the MHRA website).

All manuscripts are refereed and undergo a review process. Contributions submitted must not be under consideration by other publications at the time of submission. The editors reserve the right to make any changes thought to be necessary or appropriate to typescripts accepted for publication. A duplicate should be retained by the author. No disks or hard copies shall be returned.. The maximum length for consideration of an article is 6,000 – 7,000 words (including footnotes), and 700 words for a review.

Slovo is a fully refereed, twice-yearly journal, edited and managed by postgraduates of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. This journal aims to discuss and interpret Russian, Eurasian, Central and East European affairs, covering the fields of anthropology, economics, film, geography, history, international studies, linguistics, literature, media, politics and sociology.

The deadline for article submissions for Volume 22.1 is the 25 October 2009.

If you have any queries about becoming a contributor for Slovo please do not hesitate to get in touch with us via slovo@ssees.ucl.ac.uk and we will be happy to assist.

Not ready to submit an article? Then why not write a book or film review? Contact Slovo for more details

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Social Science Research, 12/0 9-11/2009, Nashville, TN

Deadline: 10/15/2009

4th International Conference on Social Science Research

http://www.socialscienceconf.net/index.htm

December 9-11, 2009 · Gaylord Resort, Nashville, TN
Submit a paper proposal;
Offer to be Chair or Discussant for Panel;
Travel & Conference Info

This interdisciplinary conference will draw together faculty members, research scientists, and professionals from the social sciences, and provide them with the opportunity to interact with colleagues from the same field and from other, related fields. Cross-disciplinary submissions are particularly encouraged as is participation by international scholars.

The disciplines represented will include:
Anthropology,
Area Studies (Asia, Latin America, Europe, etc.),
Communication,
Economics,
Geography,
Gender Studies,
History,
International Studies
Political Science,
Policy/Public Administration,
Psychology,
Race/Ethnic Studies,
Sociology, and
Urban Studies.

Gaylord Opryland Hotel. The Gaylord Hotel is located on the banks of the Cumberland River, a short drive or riverboat cruise from downtown Nashville. The Gaylord offers more than any other Nashville hotel, with nine acres of indoor gardens, cascading waterfalls and an indoor river with its own Delta flatboat. Within this lush landscape, you'll discover fine dining and casual restaurants, unique shopping experiences, and a 20,000-square-foot spa and fitness center. And for late-night excitement, check out the latest entertainment adventure, Fuse Nightclub. Every room features high-speed wireless Internet access and two phones, including one cordless.

Conference registration includes two breakfasts, two lunches and one reception. Conference registration is lower if you stay in the conference hotel. See the Conference Registration form for prices, which start at $275 for students and $350 for faculty/professionals. Prices are higher if you register on-site. All attendees and presenters are expected to register.

Sponsored by the Centre for Policy and Practice, 900 E. Seventh St., #202, Bloomington, IN 47405
www.centreforresearch.net

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The Birch (undergraduate)

Deadline: October 14, 2009

Call for Papers: The Birch - Fall 2009

The Birch, the nation's first and only undergraduate journal for Eastern European and Eurasian studies, is calling for submissions for its Fall 2009 issue.

Undergraduates may submit any of the following:
Creative writing
Literary criticism
Cultural and political essays
Original photography and illustrations

This will be a special 1989 anniversary issue, so we encourage writers to submit exceptional pieces related to 1989. Non-1989 content is also welcome.

Submit pieces by the deadline, October 14, 2009. E-mail all submissions to the Editor in Chief, Rebekah
Kim, at <thebirchjournal@gmail.com>.

Please also visit our Web site (www.thebirchonline.org) and peruse some of the excellent interviews, essays, and photography we have featured in the past.

Thank you,

Rebekah Kim
Editor in Chief

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Beyond Cold War Linearities: Entangled Histories and Interactive Ideas, 12/04-06/2009. Budapest

Deadline: October 15,2009

CFP
Beyond Cold War Linearities:
Entangled Histories and Interactive Ideas
4-6 December 2009
OSA Archivum, Arany Janos utca 32, 1051, Budapest

The anniversary of 1989 regime change brought about a wide range of discussions about Communist legacies and Cold War impact on the transitions in the Eastern European countries. In this respect, one can detect a tendency of approaching Communism by underlying the institutions which influenced its demise, or of analyzing transitions as a socio-political struggle for European (re)integration. In either way, the destinies of the ex-Communist countries are subjected to linear narratives, converging towards the vision of a teleological (self-)liberation. The interest in the past's influence paradoxically cohabitates with a series of epistemological local reticences regarding applied research on recent history. This can be correlated with a general scarcity concerning meta-reflections on Cold War studies paradigms and - implicitly - with an empirical inaccessibility of the archival documents related to Cold War propaganda. One intriguing case is in this sense that of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, theimportance of which is still emotionally evoked and scientifically underexplored because of the persistence of traumatic views about the past and because of unavailability of the sources.

We invite therefore proposals related to social sciences and humanities to evaluate the current state of area studies, Cold War history and media theories in order to enhance not just a meta-critical view about Cold War and Communism, but also to spur national historiographies to analytically appropriate their past forged by international policies and still made obscure by a plethora of undigested documents. In order to enhance the formation of truly critical and inter-cultural frameworks on teaching and conducting research on recent history, we also invitecontributions with courses aiming at providing systematic introduction to the study of totalitarian societies by combining post-totalitarian theoretical frameworks with local narratives pertaining to social and oral history. By bringing together the history of ideas, psychohistory, symbolic interactionism, social history and media anthropology, the conference seeks in this way to concretely aggregate an interdisciplinary framework for the study of a period characterized by complex intellectual mobility, the intricate interplay of fantasies about the "Other", different societal accommodations, generational changes and conceptual imbrications between East-European traditions and Western cultural and political models.

The conference is organized by OSA Archivum in cooperation with CEU History (Karl Hall and Ioana Toma) and IRES (Irina Papkov) Departments, CEU CRC and International Alternative Culture Center (Olga Zaslavskaya).

The conference will be held in 4-6 December 2009 in Budapest and is designed to prepare an edited volume. Paper givers will be asked to present first drafts of their book chapters for precirculation among participants and for intensive discussion at the conference. Limited fellowship funds might be available for non-EU participants. Please contact Olga Zaslavskaya zaslavsk@ceu.hu This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it at your earliest convenience.

Interested scholars should submit:
(1) title and one-page abstract of their paper;
(2) CV and list of publications;
(3) institutional affiliation or place of residence.
Please submit materials by 15 October to
Olga Zaslavskaya
OSA Archivum, Budapest
zaslavsk@gmail.com

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Socialist 1960s: Popular Culture and the Socialist City in Global Perspective, UIUC, 06/24-26/2010, IL

Deadline: OCTOBER 15, 2009

Call for Proposals
The Socialist 1960s: Popular Culture and the Socialist City in Global Perspective
2010 Fisher Forum, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
June 24-26, 2010

The 1960s witnessed an explosion of cross-cultural fertilization in a time of world competition for the hegemony of two enduring "systems" - capitalism and socialism. As a moment when decolonization created immense possibilities for liberation movements throughout the world, the 1960s became the heyday of the "Second World" appeals to the newly decolonized societies of the "Third World," as well as the reemergence of a European "First World" as a postwar consumer society in reaction to American hegemony. This was the moment when the "orderedness" of the three worlds was arguably the most prominent in popular discourse and culture, and a moment when that order was contested and destabilized. The patterns that first emerged in the 1960s - cultural contest, political mobility, urbanization and the rise of urban youth movements, women's rights, the hegemony of popular over "high" culture driven by technology - form the bases of today's discussions of globalization, its challenges, dangers, and contestation.

The purpose of this conference will be to use the Second World, the socialist societies of the 1960s, as the center from which to explore global interconnections and uncover new and perhaps surprising patterns of cultural cross-pollination. This forum will be structured around cities as the units of analysis, and it will focus on the arena of popular culture as played out in these city spaces. More specifically, we invite paper proposals that focus on one of three realms of urban popular culture - media (including cinema, television, popular music); material culture (including spaces and their uses as well as commodities), and leisure (including tourism and other activities). We consider these exemplary of the circulation of objects, images, sounds, and impressions on a level different from political programs, literature and "fine arts." Several thematic threads will tie together this consideration of the circulation of popular culture around and through the Second world: mobility and cultural transmission; youth cultures and student movements; gender; consumerism and hedonism; the state and cultural exchange; technology and cultural dissemination; cosmopolitan political mobilization. Our aims will be to consider what the "1960s" meant in socialist countries, and to discuss the balance in the 1960s between cultural global integration and continuing political differentiation.

Please send proposed paper title and abstracts to each of the organizers by October 15, 2009. Proposals should indicate which of the conference themes the paper addresses, and the term "Sixties" or "1960s" should be explicit in the paper title. Selection of participants will be made by November 30,
2009, and conference papers should be submitted by April 1, 2010.

The Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum is held in conjunction with the Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. The conference is made possible by Mary and Hal Zirin's generous gift to the Ralph and Ruth Fisher Endowment Fund in honor of Professor Ralph Fisher and his wife Ruth.
Ralph Fisher is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois and founder of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Summer Research Lab.

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Western Association for Slavic Studies, 04/14-17/201, Reno

Deadline:December 1, 2009

Western Association for Slavic Studies (WASS)Reno, Nevada, April 14-17, 2010

Plan to join us for the annual Western Association for Slavic Studies (WASS) conference.
Reno, Nevada, April 14-17, 2010

We invite proposals for individual papers, complete panels, and roundtable presentations in all areas of studies on Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Central Asia. The topics may include any aspect of economy, politics, and culture with a broad chronological span from the Middle Ages to present.

Contributions are encouraged from disciplines including (but not limited to): anthropology, archeology, architecture, arts, communication, cultural studies, demography, economics, education, environment, ethnic and minority studies, film, gender studies, geography, history, international relations, Jewish studies, law, linguistics, literature, political science, psychology, religion, sociology, theatre, travel and tourism.

For more information regarding the conference site, registration and submitting a proposal, go to our website http://wssa.asu.edu/conferences and follow the link.Or, go to the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies website:http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/organizations/wass.html

The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2009. Please include the following information: Title of Presentation; Name, Affiliation, and Email Address; Other Authors; Abstract (not to exceed 200 words).

The WASS encourages graduate students to attend the conference. The best graduate paper presented will win a $100 prize and will be eligible for the graduate student paper prize sponsored by the AAASS.

Evguenia Davidova, Program Coordinator (2009-2010)Portland State University,University Studies Program,Portland, OR 97207,Tel: 503-725-8992; Fax: 503-725-5977 evguenia@pdx.edu

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October 12, 2009

Security Situation of Roma in Europe, 10/12-13/2009, Bucharest

Deadline: November 2, 2009

Migration, Theory, and Subaltern Agency
November 24th-25th, 2009
Roskilde University, Denmark

Emphasis will be on the meeting between various theories currently used with the interdisciplinary field of migration studies and the practical experiences of migrants.

Doctoral students are encouraged to submit papers in English on a relevant topic and to receive feedback from experienced readers during the seminar.

Please consult our website for further details http://www.ruc.dk/cuid/phd_skole/phd_kurser/migration/

Deadline for registration and paper submission: Nov. 2nd, 2009

Paper submission: hbojsen@ruc.dk

Admittance is free of charge.

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September 30, 2009

Transcultural mappings: emerging issues in comparative, transnational and area studies, 04/09-11/2010, Sydney

Deadline: November 30, 2009

University of Sydney
Transcultural mappings: emerging issues in comparative, transnational and area studies
09.04.2010-11.04.2010

The idea of transculturation was coined by Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz in 1940, to describe a process of transition from one culture to another. It has come to the fore once again in our third millenium, where concepts such as international and crosscultural, based on an idea of nations and cultures as relatively stable and clearly delimitable entities, have become, if not obsolete, then inadequate. The ideas of the transnational and transcultural have been put forward in recent years as conceptual frameworks that enable us to develop new interdisciplinary (or indeed transdisciplinary) epistemologies of the global, the local, and the "glocal".

This conference aims to track why and how such debates have gained prominence in transnational, area and comparative cultural studies as well as the methodological and ideological implications of such theoretical reworkings.

The development of postcolonial and crosscultural studies concepts such as the interstitial and the hybrid have begged the question of how these notions are determined (e.g. interstitial between what and what?). Technically all cultures are hybrid, so when we discuss border crossings and hybridities (in relation, for example, to postcolonial or area studies or to comparative cultural studies), on what cultural, political and historical premises are we basing such discussions? Are we positing some mythical idea of an original cultural homogeneity as a mooring from which we embark towards intercultural discovery? Does this then in turn render the idea of cultural mappings, or the discussion of an identifable "culture" associated with a language, nature or region, superfluous? In which case, how can we continue to have intelligible conversations about distinctive locations of groups and individuals, constructed historically, geopolitically, culturally, socioeconomically and indeed ideologically? Assumptions about such constructions and their impacts, even as we challenge them, continue to inform our analyses and debates.

In short, we continue to map the world, sociopolitically and culturally as much as physically. Indeed, physical mappings still largely inform our geopolitical and cultural mappings, through identification of nations and subnational or supranational (and sometimes transnational) regions.

What conceptual tools, then, might emerge from an exercise of "transcultural mappings"? Can it represent a possible way through a certain postmodern and postcolonial impasse? What factors might determine how these mappings occur and how they evolve? On what assumptions and consenses (or questionings and discords) might they be based? The term itself is paradoxical: mapping is an exercise in plotting, delimiting, demarcating. The transcultural, like its cousin the transnational, destabilises the certainties of maps, much as Peter has destabilised Mercator. It fuzzes the edges, shifts the foci, changes the shapes.

Specific themes of presentations might include:
Locating culture in the glocalised third millennium: can it be done?;
Mapping and culture: complementary or mutually exclusive terms?;
Cultural identity, hybridity and border(zones);
"Trans-", "post" "inter-" and academic discourse;
Postcoloniality and postmodernity: is the discussion over?;
The geopolitics of culture / culture and globalisation / hegemonic cultures;
Culture, translation and the production, trafficking and negotiation of meanings;
Ethics, power and the challenges of conceptualising culture;
The South/North debate and the West/East debate;
Diasporas and comparative cultural studies;
Identity politics and area studies;
Interdisciplinarity, pluridisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity: definitions and demarcations.

We invite scholars to submit 200 word abstracts for individual presentations (20 minutes) or panel proposals (90-120 minutes) that address these issues either theoretically or through case studies.

Abstracts, along with your affiliation, contact information and a short biography should be sent as an email attachment in Microsoft Word by 30 November, 2009 to tcm.10@usyd.edu.au. Enquiries should also be sent to this address. If you wish your paper to be considered for refereed publication, it should be submitted by 1 March 2010.

Conference organising committee: Bronwyn Winter (convenor), Mary Crock, Stephanie Donald, Jennifer Dowling, Kiran Grewal, Fernanda Peñaloza, Blanca Tovias.

Email: tcm.10@usyd.edu.au

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Reading the (Re)Presented Past: Literature and Historical Consciousness, 1700-present.

Deadline: November 11, 2009

Reading the (Re)Presented Past: Literature and Historical Consciousness, 1700-present.

Since the emergence of self-consciously fictional forms in the late seventeenth century, the boundary between literary and historical techniques for representing the past has been both permeable and contested. Readers have long been the focus of rhetoric about the dangers of representing history in fiction, but their agency in negotiating this borderland has been largely overlooked.

Reading the Past is an edited collection of essays that investigates the relationship between representations of the past and their real or imagined readers. Focusing on readers of literary texts from the long eighteenth century to the present day, the collection considers the intersection of historical representation, fictional techniques, and reading practices. While the collection considers generic boundaries, the focus is upon readers and reading itself as an act of historical recollection. It explores the way in which the reader’s response to the past is mediated by the text, shaped and structured by the relationship between past and present postulated within it. The collection examines, too, how readers themselves conceptualise, enact and/or embody the relationship between past and present as they read. To what extent does reading perform cultural memory? How does the reader contribute to the production of historical meaning? Can reading itself be understood as a form of history production? Taken together the essays gathered in this collection will examine the continuities and shifts from the eighteenth century to the present in the reader’s relationship to a represented past.

Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:

The role of affect in reading the past;

Collective, cultural, or embodied memory;

The writer as history’s reader: how do authors use the past in their fiction?;

Temporality – literary and historical time;

Writing and re-membering lives;

The imagined reader: how do texts position the reader in relationship to the past they represent?;

The relationship between fiction and history in the secret history, or roman à clef; the historical novel; historiographic metafiction;

Reading communities, or reading as sociability;

Questions of epistemology in reading the past in the literary text;

Reflections on reading history / the history of reading;

Questions of genre: how do different narrative strategies position the reader in relation to the past? How does genre affect history-writing, and reading, in literature?;

Representations of readers in literature, including amateurs and professionals reading the past .

Please send an abstract of 500 words along with a brief biographical note to Kate Mitchell (Australian National University) kate.mitchell@anu.edu.au or Nicola Parsons (University of Sydney) nicola.parsons@usyd.edu.au by 11 November 2009.

Dr Kate Mitchell
The National Europe Centre
1 Liversidge Street (Bldg 67C)
The Australian National University
Canberra 0200 Australia

61 (0)2 6125 6603
61 (0)2 6125 2438

Email: kate.mitchell@anu.edu.au

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Studies in Social Justice

CFP: Studies in Social Justice

The Editors of Studies in Social Justice invite submissions all year round. Studies in Social Justice is published twice yearly by the Centre for Studies in Social Justice, University of Windsor. This electronic journal publishes articles on issues dealing with the social, cultural, economic, political, and philosophical problems associated with the struggle for social justice. This interdisciplinary journal aims to publish work that links theory to social change and the analysis of substantive issues. The journal welcomes heterodox contributions that are critical of established paradigms of inquiry.

The journal focuses on debates that move beyond conventional notions of social justice, and views social justice as a critical concept that is integral in the analysis of policy formation, rights, participation, social movements, and transformations. Social justice is analysed in the context of processes involving nationalism, social and public policy, globalization, diasporas, culture, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, welfare, poverty, war, and other social phenomena. It endeavours to cover questions and debates ranging from governance to democracy, sustainable environments, and human rights, and to introduce new work on pressing issues of social justice throughout the world.

To learn more about this journal, visit our webpage: http://www.studiesinsocialjustice.org

Nicole A. Noël
Journal Manager, Studies in Social Justice
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4

tel: 1 519 253-3000 ext. 3492

Email: nnoel@uwindsor.ca

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Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century, 03/26-27/2010, Sheffield (15.12.2009)

Deadline: December 15, 2009

Call for Papers

Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century
26 and 27 March 2010
University of Sheffield

From 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' to 'The White Man's Burden', from Honoré Daumier's lithographs to the Chartist poetry of the Northern Star, the politics of the nineteenth century both shaped and were shaped by poetry and images.

This interdisciplinary conference at the University of Sheffield will address such questions as: how do the images and poetry of the nineteenth century reflect or challenge British and European politics of their day? How do nineteenth-century politics intersect with aesthetics to create new theories and practices of art? What kind of correlation might there be between political representation and the representation of politics in word and image?

We welcome papers from across the humanities. Topics might include, but are not limited to:
Worker poets and their political context
Illustrated and illuminated poems
Pre-Raphaelite or Nazarene painters and poets
The poetics and aesthetics of socialism
Political cartoons, their production and their uses
Poetic and visual representations of war
Theories of art and their intersection with poetic practice
Advertisements and the politics of empire

Contact email: poetrypoliticspictures@sheffield.ac.uk
Conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/poetrypoliticspictures/

Speakers include: Cornelia Pearsall (Smith College), Malcolm Chase (University of Leeds), Lindsay Smith (University of Sussex), Michael Perraudin (University of Sheffield), Danny Karlin (University of Sheffield)

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words, along with details of your institutional affiliation, to the contact email, by 15 December 2009.

Organizing committee: Ingrid Hanson, Erin Snyder, Jack Rhoden, Marjorie Cheung, Kirsten Harris and Barry Orr. With the kind support of the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies, University of Sheffield.

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September 28, 2009

Sociology of Religion, 07/11-17/2010, Sweden

Deadline: October 31, 2009

XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology
11-17 July 2010
Gothenburg, Sweden

Call for Papers
Research Committee on Sociology of Religion RC22

Programme Coordinators
Adam Possamai, University of Western Sydney, Australia, a.possamai@uws.edu.au
Sinisa Zrinscak, University of Zagreb, Croatia, sinisa.zrinscak@zg.t-com.hr

Please send your proposed paper for any of these sessions (except sessions 3, 4, and 13) to the session chair(s) by the 31st of October 2009. Please include with your proposal, a title, a 100-200 words abstract, your name (family name first), your affiliation and your e-mail address. Do not send the same paper to more than one session.

For information on each session, see: http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/rc/rc22.htm

Session 1
Religion on the Move: Religion in the Context of Global Migration
James V. Spickard, University of Redlands, USA, jim_spickard@redlands.edu
Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh, U.K., a.adogame@ed.ac.uk

Session 2
Religion and Power: Observing Catholicisms from the Global South
Eloisa Martin, Brasilia Federal University, Brazil, eloisamartin@hotmail.com

Session 3
RC22 Keynote Address: Power, Religion and Social Theory with Enzo Pace and Bryan Turner

Session 4
RC22 Presidential Address. The Sociology of Religion on the Move: What has changed in religion and what has changed in sociology of religion?

Session 5
Immigrant Religion and Gender
Inger Furseth, KIFO Centre for Church Research, Norway and Center for Religion and Civic Studies, University of Southern California, USA, inger.furseth@kifo.no

Session 6
Religious Freedom and Religious Rights - Different Contexts, Different Concepts?
Sinisa Zrinscak, University of Zagreb, Croatia, sinisa.zrinscak@zg.t-com.hr

Session 7
Religion and the Sociological Imagination
Grace Davie, University of Exeter, UK, G.R.C.Davie@exeter.ac.uk

Session 8
Religion and Modernity
Dick Houtman and Stef Aupers, Erasmus University, The Netherlands, aupers@fsw.eur.nl and houtman@fsw.eur.nl

Session 9
New Religious Movements and the Secular State
Martin Geoffroy, Université de Moncton, Canada, martin.geoffroy@umoncton.ca
Susan J. Palmer, Concordia University, Canada, spalmer@dawsoncollege.qc.ca

Session 10 (A Joint Session with RC34)
Youth and Religion
Sebastian Nastuta, "Petre Andrei" University of Iasi, Romania, sebastian.nastuta@gmail.com

Session 11
Miscellaneous Aspects of the Sociology of Religion
Adam Possamai, University of Western Sydney, Australia, A.Possamai@uws.edu.au

Session 12 (A Joint Session with TG04)
Risk Society and Religion
Jens O. Zinn, University of Melbourne, Australia, jzinn@unimelb.edu.au
Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, University of Western Sydney, Alphia.Possamai@uws.edu.au

Session 13: Business Meeting

XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/

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Cultural Histories: Close Readings, Critical Syntheses, 05/26-30/2010, Finland

Deadline: October 30, 2009

Cultural Histories: Close Readings, Critical Syntheses

ISCH Annual Conference

May 26th to 30th, 2010

Turku, Finland

Cultural historians’ enquiries often encounter a tension between the need to build up holistic interpretations and syntheses and the need for close reading, for dense microhistorical analyses. The Conference investigates the ways in which today’s cultural historians perceive “the grand narratives” and holistic interpretations. It explores the challenges that are involved in combining micro- and macro levels, and asks what kinds of new viewpoints the cultural historian’s investigations can open.

The Conference is thematically open. Original papers addressing theoretical and/or methodological questions or suggesting new interpretations arising from empirical analysis are welcomed. The papers may discuss for example the following topics:

What kinds of metanarratives and models of narrative have been used or are used by cultural historians?

In what ways do our new interpretations challenge established narratives? For example: Does the history of emotions undermine a history which is based on the idea of progress? How does the history of corporeality or bodiliness negotiate with Norbert Elias’s civilization theory? Does gender history challenge the narrative of the birth of the individual?

What kinds of syntheses can cultural history construct by changing the vantage point? What will the world look like, for example, when seen through the eyes of a reading or a writing person of the past?

What is the relationship of the narrated cultural history to the narrator’s own culture?

How do the narratives of cultural history relate to the understanding of epochs? In what way does our research take into account the people’s understanding of their own time, their past and their future? Is our perception, for example, of a Victorian culture a Victorian creation?

Does cultural history have a canon or several canons?

Who has the right to make cultural historical interpretations? At whom is cultural history aimed?

Is cultural history colonizing? How broad is the concept of culture? Do the micro- and macro levels recognise a similar concept of culture?

How can we identify the general in the particular?

In what ways can we challenge “the grand narratives” or established interpretations with new or different kinds of sources?

Does today’s cultural history relate to the history of civilizations, universal history or Weberian comparative history?

In what ways do media culture and popular memory challenge cultural historical interpretations? How do new media, television, cinema, theatre, and literature build up cultural history?

How does a cultural historian as a teacher make syntheses: what – and how – do we teach in the foundational or introductory courses on cultural history?

We welcome proposals for individual papers and complete sessions. Presentations should be 20 minutes in length. The deadline for abstracts is 30 October 2009. The length of the abstracts is 250 words. Abstracts can be submitted at http://isch2010.utu.fi/

The language of the conference is English, but full sessions in other languages can be proposed. Presentations in languages other than English should be accompanied by hand-outs or projector presentations of main points in English and discussion in English should be possible. All abstracts should be in English.

Keynotes:

Carlo Ginzburg, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (pending)

Sir Christopher Frayling, Royal College of Art, London

Jacques Revel, École des hautes études en sciences socials (EHESS), Paris

Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, University of London

Marja Tuominen, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi

Riitta Laitinen
Department of Cultural History
University of Turku
20014 Turku
Finland

Email: isch2010@utu.fi

Visit the website at http://isch2010.utu.fi/

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MPSA Political Science Conference, 04/22-25/2010, Chicago

Deadline: October 9, 2009.

Call for Papers

68th MPSA Political Science Conference

April 22 - 25, 2010, Chicago

Submit your proposal here, www.mpsanet.org/submitmyproposal

Please remember to submit a proposal to present at the 2010 Midwest Political Science Association National Conference.

More research papers are presented here than any other political science conference.

Hundreds of interdisciplinary panels, including Latin American Politics, European Politics, African Politics, Asian Politics, Mass Media, Political Philosophy, Law, Public Policy, Public Administation, Sociology, Religion, Anthropology and more. For a full list, http://www.mpsanet.org/Conference/tabid/75/Default.aspx

New Opening Reception on Wednesday night, as well as the Exhibitor Reception on Thursday evening and the President's Reception on Saturday night.

Everything happens in the newly restored Palmer House Hilton in Downtown Chicago.

Founded in 1939, the MPSA is located in Bloomington, Indiana (320 West 8th Street, Suite 218).

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War Perspectives. Architecture and Planning in Italy and beyond (1937-1945), 01/21-22/2010, Milano

Deadline: September 30th 2009

Call for papers

War Perspectives. Architecture and Planning in Italy and beyond (1937-1945)

Milan, Italy

The build-up to war, but more particularly the period 1937-1945 that coincided with the dramatic years of the conflicts in Europe and elsewhere in the world, meant professional practices and disciplinary knowledge had to contend with the war machine. This challenge - which can be seen as a clash or as an opportunity for exchange and reorganization - was marked by a speeding-up of the processes of modernization involving architecture, the city and the territory. This colloquium will be structured in two parts: the first proposes to investigate the period through case studies focusing on the Italian example (1940-1945); the second part will deal with the European and international panorama (1937-1945).

The conference is aimed at scholars of history of architecture and planning, history of art, social history, economic history; history of institutions and history of technology.

Proposals should be sent by email in Italian or in English to the addresses alessandro.demagistris@polimi.it and patrizia.bonifazio@polimi.it

no later than September 30th 2009, and should be accompanied by email address, mail address, phone and fax number, an abstract of no more than 500 words describing the subject considered in the paper and a short CV. Notification of the papers that have been accepted will take place on October 15th 2009. The deadline for the completion and first sending of the papers will be December 15th 2009.

Patrizia Bonifazio
DiAP-Politecnico di Milano
Via Bonardi n. 3
20133 Milano - Italia

phone: 02.23995232
fax: 02.23995435

Email: patrizia.bonifazio@polimi.it

Visit the website at http://sites.google.com/site/warperspectives/

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Creating Bridges, Spanning Environments,04/16-17/2010, MO

Deadline: December 4, 2009

Creating Bridges, Spanning Environments: The Eighth Annual MU-KU Conference on History Location: Missouri, United States

This conference will explore the interrelationship of different environments with the construction, advocacy and appropriation of ethnic, national, religious, racial and gender identities. We invite scholars, especially graduate and undergraduate students, to submit one-page abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on these topics. Panel proposals, which should include a chair and/or commentator, are strongly encouraged. Each member of any full panel proposed for the conference will receive a partial remission of their registration fee.

Please submit with your abstract a short CV that includes your home or office mailing addresses, e-mail address, and phone number. Panel sessions should include a CV for all participants, including the chair/commentator, along with the abstracts for each paper. The deadline for submitting these is Friday, December 4, 2009, and papers accepted for presentation will need to be submitted in full by Friday, March 12, 2010.

The conference will be held Friday-Saturday, April 16-17, 2010 on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia.

MU History Graduate Students Association
2010 Conference Submissions
Department of History, 101 Read Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211-7500

Email: umcashistorygrad@missouri.edu

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WWI, Brill

This is a call for contributors. We are especially interested in transnational comparisons. Here are some possible themes that Julian and I have worked out. We are more than open to suggestions for themes that we have overlooked.

Censorship and the war
Presenting the war in the Colonies and Neutral Countries
1. Near East
2. Africa
3. Far East
4. The Commonwealth
5. Neutral Countries
6. The United States

Propaganda perspectives
Possible chapters:
1. Gendering the war
2. Domestic Mobilization
3. Justifications for fighting/the "Will to Fight"
4. The war in occupied territory
5. Keeping Russia in the war
6. Culture (Art/Music/Literature) and propaganda
7. Propaganda and the Peace(s) [Versailles, Brest-Litovsk, ...]
8. Recording Victory and Defeat: Frontline reporting and the military
9. Propaganda and peace movements

The items above are not meant to be exhaustive, nor are we committed to having all of them in the volume. They are simply examples of the types of contributions that would be appropriate for the volume as we have conceived it. The language of the volume will be English, but there is some money for translating (possibly three chapters).

Once enough potential contributors have signed on to the project, Julian and I will create a proposal for a contract. Once the contract is in hand, contributors would have 14-18 months to complete their contribution. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Best wishes,
Troy Paddock
Professor of History
Southern CT State University
paddockt1@southernct.edu

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Romani mobilities in Europe: multidisciplinary perspectives, 01/14-15/2010, Oxford

Deadline: September 25, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference: Romani mobilities in Europe: multidisciplinary perspectives
14-15 January 2010
Oxford

Convened by Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) at the University of Oxford is organizing an international conference on the theme of /Romani mobilities in Europe: multidisciplinary perspectives/. The conference is part of ‘Mapping Romani mobilities in Europe’, a two-year research project funded by the John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund.

The main aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students from across a variety of disciplines to discuss the multiple dimensions and impacts of Romani mobilities in Europe. We invite proposals for papers which investigate the variety and directions of contemporary Romani mobilities into, out of and within the EU and locate them in the broader political, social, historical and cultural context. We welcome in particular proposals that focus on one or more of the following areas:
- Provide historical perspectives on policy and practice aimed at governing Romani mobilities;
- Interrogate, through the Roma case, the concept and practice of freedom of movement in the EU;
- Investigate broader demographic trends or specific migratory movements of Roma in the EU;
- Explore the relationship between different legal statuses and patterns and directions of Romani mobility;
- Explore Romani politics in the enlarged EU and the process of Europeanisation of the Roma issue, looking in particular at international NGOs, Roma elite and grassroots activism;
- Investigate the relationship between indigenous and long-established Romani communities and newly arrived Roma migrants;
- Discuss continuities and discontinuities in public discourses and social policies for Roma, Gypsies and Travellers in the EU;
- Explore settlement and resettlement issues in the context of widespread anti-Gypsyism;
- Analyse the impacts of migration on identity and cultural production.

The conference will take place on 14-15 January 2010 and will feature a range of plenary and panel sessions and a keynote lecture by Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP.

Those wishing to present a paper are invited to submit an abstract (max 300 words) and a brief CV (max 150 words) to the conference organisers by Friday 25th September 2009. For full details see the Call for Papers (attached).

A limited number of bursaries are available for presenters of papers.
The bursaries will cover the registration fee and accommodation in Oxford. To apply for bursaries, applicants must accompany their abstract and CV with a one-page cover letter stating why support would be beneficial to them, and name and contact address of a referee.

For full details see the Call for Papers: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/

EMAIL: nando.sigona@qeh.ox.ac.uk
WEB: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/conf_conferences_140110.html
BLOG: http://romanimobilities.wordpress.com/

Nando Sigona
Research Officer
Refugee Studies Centre
Oxford Department of International Development (ODID)
University of Oxford
3 Mansfield Road
OX1 3TB Oxford
United Kingdom
Tel: +44(0)1865281703
Fax: +44(0)1865281730

Web: RSC www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/Sigona.html
Young Undocumented Migrants [YUM] website www.staff.city.ac.uk/yum

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September 23, 2009

'Russian History'

Russian History's mission is the publication of original articles on the history of Russia through the centuries, in the assumption that all past
experiences are inter-related. Russian History seeks to discover, analyze, and understand the most interesting experiences and relationships and elucidate their causes and consequences. Contributors to the journal take their stand from different perspectives: intellectual, economic and military history, domestic, social and class relations, relations with non-Russian peoples, nutrition and health, all possible events that had an influence on Russia. Russian History is *the* international platform for the presentation of such findings.

MANUSCRIPTS
You are invited to submit your paper to the journal. Manuscripts may be sent directly and electronically to the Editor-in-Chief at the following address:
RUSSIANHISTORY@UCONN.EDU

Submission guidelines can be downloaded here:
http://www.brill.nl/downloads/RUHI-submission-guidelines-final.pdf

For other queries, please contact the publisher directly at:
ROMEIN@BRILL.NL

Brill, Academic Publishers since 1683
Ivo Romein
Slavic & Eurasian Studies
P.O. Box 9000
2300 PA Leiden, Holland
www.brill.nl/slavic

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Religious Parties in Processes of Democratic Consolidation, 03/18-20/2010, Princeton

Deadline: September 31, 2009

Call for Papers

Religious Parties in Processes of Democratic Consolidation – Revisiting the Inclusion-Moderation Thesis
Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., USA
March 18-20, 2010

The salient appearance of religious parties after recent democratic transition processes raises important questions: Under what conditions do religious groups eschew radical stances and unconditionally abide by the democratic rules of the game? Do the core features of liberal-democracy─ multiparty electoral contestation, respect for basic freedoms, the rule of law ─ reinforce and mutually support one another in democratic consolidation processes, or may the inclusion of religious parties actually endanger liberal politics in the short, medium and long term?

Comparison
While geographic comparison of party politics is well-established in the field of Political Science, the benefits of diachronic comparisons are still less often realized. Our conference seeks to combine geographic and diachronic comparison by including case studies from the second and third wave of democratization (post-1945 and post-1974) as well as from recently democratized states.

Case Selection
To ensure that we consider political parties in democratic consolidation processes, and not in electoral processes in liberalized authoritarian regimes, only case studies of religious parties in countries that at the time of the investigation score 6 or higher on Polity IV index (and for the contemporary cases 6.0 or higher on the Bertelsmann Democracy Status Index) will be included.

Combination of Qualitative and Quantitative Data
We particular welcome submissions from scholars who combine ethnographic studies of religious political parties and deep historical knowledge of the respective societies in which these parties emanate, with quantitative analyses of public opinion and electoral data.

Questions of Inquiry
Ideology and behavior of religious actors are conditioned by the institutional setting under which they operate. Political competition can create strong incentives for religious political parties to pursue vote-maximization strategies. Under certain conditions, vote-maximization strategies entail developing moderate platforms and jettisoning the religious-motivated goal of restructuring society.

To take the already well-established literature on the inclusion-moderation debate forward, four interrelated questions shall guide the geographic and diachronic comparative inquiry at the conference:
1) how does the competition for votes with secular parties and other religious parties affect the policy positions and strategies of religious parties?
2) how does participation in electoral politics affect intra-factional struggles within religious parties?
3) how does participation in electoral politics affect the internal organization of the party, and vice versa, how does internal party organization affect strategies and policies of religious parties?
4) What types of moderation of religious parties contribute to democratic consolidation? In which policy realms is moderation more consequential for democratic consolidation processes than in others?

We invite experts on specific political parties to elucidate one or several of the questions raised above. While the evolution of religious party politics in Israel, Western Europe, Indonesia and Turkey provide particularly fruitful settings as these countries have undergone and are undergoing democratic consolidation processes, we call for abstracts on religious parties in all countries that meet the case selection criteria outlined above.

Please send an abstract of 500 words by September 31, 2009 to the two organizers. Abstracts should specifically mention the methodology the
paper will employ.

Professor Manfred Brocker
mbrocker@princeton.edu

Professor Mirjam Künkler
kuenkler@princeton.edu

Thanks to a grant by the German Science Foundation (DFG), we will be able to cover all travel and lodging expenses of invited participants.

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Reading the (Re)Presented Past: Literature and Historical Consciousness, 1700-present

Deadline: November 11, 2009

Call for Papers
Reading the (Re)Presented Past: Literature and Historical Consciousness, 1700-present

Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:

The role of affect in reading the past; Collective, cultural, or embodied memory; The writer as history’s reader: how do authors use the past in their fiction?; Temporality – literary and historical time;

Writing and re-membering lives; The imagined reader: how do texts position the reader in relationship to the past they represent?; The relationship between fiction and history in the secret history, or roman à clef; the historical novel; historiographic metafiction; Reading communities, or reading as sociability; Questions of epistemology in reading the past in the literary text; Reflections on reading history / the history of reading; Questions of genre: how do different narrative strategies position the reader in relation to the past? How does genre affect history-writing, and reading, in literature?;

Representations of readers in literature, including amateurs and professionals reading the past.

Please send an abstract of 500 words along with a brief biographical note to Kate Mitchell (Australian National University) kate.mitchell@anu.edu.au

or Nicola Parsons (University of Sydney) nicola.parsons@usyd.edu.au by 11 November 2009.

Dr Nicola Parsons
Department of English
John Woolley Building (A20)
University of Sydney
NSW 2006

Phone: +61 (0)2 9036 7229
Fax: +61 (0)2 9351 2434

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Europe Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall The New Europe, New Europes, 10/14-15/2010, Geneva

Deadline: October 30,2009

Europe Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall The New Europe, New Europes? Location: Switzerland
Call for Papers Deadline: 2009-10-30
Date Submitted: 2009-09-10
Announcement ID: 170524

Call for Papers

Europe Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall The New Europe, New Europes?

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Fondation Pierre du Bois pour l’histoire du temps présent
Geneva, October 14-15, 2010

The organizers of this conference wish to provide a framework for reflection on developments and realignments in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Eastern enlargement of the European Union. The conference proposes to explore changes and continuities by analyzing the transformations in Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain and by contextualizing EU Eastern enlargement within the long-term development of European integration up to the present. The conference will also examine the interaction between these transformations, Eastern enlargement and other changes that have occurred in international politics since the early 1990s.

The impact of these changes will be explored within the following themes:

The emergence of a European political space, within the EU and beyond its borders: Russia and Europe, the Caucasus and Europe, the Balkans and Europe, but also the role of other European organizations, notably the Council of Europe, as well as EU member-states in Europe or Europe in the world;

The internal functioning of the EU: the impact of the accession of new member-states on European institutions and relations between member-states, the impact on the role of non-state actors and civil society;

The development of EU external relations: relations with the United States – within NATO and beyond – and Russia as well as with the EU’s new neighbours in the East and the countries of the Mediterranean region, relations with the rising powers of India and China and less developed states, also in the context of globalization;

Visions and expectations regarding Europe and the European integration process: perceptions of an enlarged EU and its long-term development expressed by intellectuals as well as official discourse and public opinion. This perspective will allow us to address a number of issues including the impact of the communist heritage or the rise of Euro-scepticism.

Researchers interested in participating in the colloquium and presenting a paper that fitted within these themes are invited to submit an abstract of the proposed contribution (500 words maximum) to colloque2010@fondation-pierredubois.ch until 30 October 2009.

The organisers encourage contributions by researchers at all stages of their academic career. For younger researchers, they may however request a letter of recommendation from the supervisor or an example of written work.

Pierre-Etienne Bourneuf
International History and Politics Department
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva
Case postale 136
1211 Genève 21 - Suisse

(+41) 022 908 58 03

Visit the website at http://www.fondation-pierredubois.ch

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Council for European Studies, 04/15-17/2010, Montreal

Deadline: October 15, 2009

Call for Papers

Council for European Studies

Seventeenth International Conference

April 15-17, 2010

A recent crisis of confidence has unsettled paradigms for economic, social and political governance: political identities, social allegiances, parameters of markets, cultural truisms, and religious truths are all in flux. Europe has long served as a model for the rest of the world - whether as object of admiration, forced exemplar, foil, or cautionary tale - and the present vacuum of certainty presents yet another moment of opportunity for scholars of "the old world." Are European experiments in economic coordination the solution to the excesses of unregulated capitalism -- is this the moment for the revenge of the European model?

For the 2010 conference, the Council for European Studies (CES) welcomes proposals for panels, roundtables, book discussions and individual papers on the study of Europe broadly defined. We encourage proposals in the widest range of disciplines; in particular, we welcome panels that combine disciplines, nationalities, and generations. The Committee will accept only two submissions per person. Members may also participate in a maximum of two sessions.

The Council for European Studies fosters and recognizes outstanding, multidisciplinary research in European studies through a range of programs, including conferences, publications, special events, and awards. The Council´s international conferences bring together scholars from a multitude of countries and a variety of fields for discussion and interdisciplinary exchange.

Proposals may be submitted from August 1 to October 15, 2009 via the URL:http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ces/ces10/

More information on the conference will be available in upcoming issues of the CES newsletter. You may subscribe to the newsletter here: www.ces.columbia.edu/members/indiv_members.html

Participants will be notified of the Committee's decisions by December 1, 2009.

Cathie Jo Martin, CES Chair
Boston University

Sophie Meunier, Conference Co-Chair
Princeton University

Phil Nord, Conference Co-Chair
Princeton University

Marion Fourcade
University of California, Berkeley

Peter Hall
Harvard University

Martha Lampland
University of California, San Diego

Patrick Leblond
University of Ottawa

Peter Mandler
Cambridge University

Marla Stone
Occidental College

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the archaeology of things from the early modern, modern and contemporary world, 10/16-18/2009, Oxford

Modern Materials: the archaeology of things from the early modern, modern and contemporary world

Friday 16-Sunday 18 October 2009.

KEBLE COLLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY

How does the study of material things contribute to our understanding of the early modern, modern and contemporary world? What is the distinctive contribution of archaeology in these studies?

The 7th annual meeting of the CHAT conference group focuses on the archaeological study of ‘Modern Materials’ – from ‘small things forgotten’ to large and complex technological artefacts; and from discrete, single objects to large, disparate assemblages.

The full programme is online at http://www.contemp-hist-arch.ac.uk/news.htm

Delegate registration is £40, including tea, coffee and reception. Registration forms are online at http://www.contemp-hist-arch.ac.uk/news.htm

Keynote Speaker: Prof Nick Shepherd (University of Cape Town)

Discussants: Prof Mary Beaudry (Boston University), Prof Laurie WIlkie (University of California, Berkeley), Dr James Symonds (Sheffield University), Prof Chris Gosden (Oxford University)

Concluding remarks: Hedley Swain (MLA)

Dan Hicks
School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
36 Beaumont St, Oxford.

tel: 44 (0)1865 613011
Email: dan.hicks@arch.ox.ac.uk

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Literature and Madness

Deadline: April, 4, 2010

Literature and Madness

Call for Papers

Seeking papers on psychological aspects of literature or film with a special emphasis on the "madness" aspect of a character or theme.

Branimir Rieger

English Department

Lander University

Greenwood, South Carolina 29649

Phone: 864-3888389

Email: brieger@lander.edu

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Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture, 04/16-18/2010, UK

Deadline: January 1, 2010

Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS

University of Hertfordshire, UK

April 16-18 2010

The irony of creatures with no reflection becoming such a pervasive reflection of modern culture pleases in a dark way. Since their animation out of folk materials in the nineteenth century, by Polidori, as Varney and in Le Fanu and Stoker, vampires have been continually reborn in modern culture. They have stalked texts from Marx’s image of the leeching capitalist, through Pater’s Lady Lisa of tainted knowledge, to the multifarious incarnations in contemporary fictions in print and on screen. They have enacted a host of anxieties and desires, shifting shape as the culture they are brought to life in itself changes form. More recently, their less charismatic undead cousins, zombies, have been dug up in droves to represent various fears and crises in contemporary culture.

The aim of the conference is to relate the undead in literature, art, and other media to questions concerning gender, technology, consumption, and social change. It will provide an interdisciplinary forum for the development of innovative and creative research and examine these creatures in all their various manifestations and cultural meanings.

Keynote speakers (to be confirmed)

Prof. David Punter, University of Bristol (The Literature of Terror, 1996)

Prof. Fred Botting, University of Lancaster (Gothic Romanced: Consumption, Gender and Technology in Contemporary Fiction, 2008) Dr Stacey Abbott, University of Roehampton (Celluloid Vampires, 2007, Angel, 2009) confirmed

Teen writers: Daniel Waters (Generation Dead, 2008) and Eden Maguire (Beautiful Dead, 2009)

Possible topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- sexuality and the (living or undead) body
- identity politics
- Goth culture
- new technologies
- the metaphor of reflection
- celluloid vampires: adaptations and incarnations
- teen vampire/zombie fiction
- undead TV
- blood, money, and circulation
- parasitism, production, and consumption
- decomposition and decadence
- the Undead as Other (nationality, class, gender, etc.)
- vampiric art and/or the artist as vampire
- Marx and the vampire

Abstracts (200--300 words) for twenty-minute papers as well as proposals for one and a half hour panels should be submitted as an email attachment to Dr Sam George, s.george@herts.ac.uk by January 1st 2010.
Abstract should be sent in the following format: Surname as the document title. (1) Title (2) Presenter(s) (3) Institutional affiliation (4) Email (5) Abstract. Panel proposals should include (1) Title of the panel (2) Name and contact information of the chair (3) Abstracts of the presenters. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by the end of January 2010.

For more information, contact Dr Sam George at s.george@herts.ac.uk

Dr Sam George
School of Humanities,
University of Hertfordshire
De Havilland, Hatfield,
Herts

AL109AB

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The fighter along the History: identity, perception, representation, 04/01-02/2010, Spain

Deadline: October 15, 2009

The fighter along the History: identity, perception, representation.
Cantabria, Spain

Call for Papers

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences are inviting abstracts for a conference to be held at the University of Cantabria, Spain, 01-02 April 2010.

This conference aims to be a forum for presentation and discussion of studies related to the phenomenon of war from an interdisciplinary perspective. Professors and graduate students from history, literature, art history, political science, anthropology and sociology, are strongly invited to this symposium focused on the fighters community, frontgemeinschaft. Study of sociability in war, psychological states of soldiers, mentality and ideology of combat units, military indoctrination or behaviour in "us" versus "them" are some of the topics in which the Conference is interesting in. The languages of the Symposium will be Spanish and English.

People interested must send a brief bio and an abstract (200 words) before 15 October 2009 to:

Daniel Macías Fernández (M.A. History) maciasd@unican.es

José M.Aguilera Manzano (Ph.D. History)aguilerajm@unican.es

Jose Maria Aguilera Manzano
University of Cantabria
Avenida de los Castros S/N

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Racial Profiling: International, Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Deadline: Oct0ber 2, 2009

Call for Chapters: Racial Profiling Collection Call for Papers)

Additional chapters are required for a collection entitled Racial Profiling: International, Interdisciplinary Perspectives to be published in 2010. This new collection provides an important multi-national perspective on an issue of great and growing concern, particularly but not exclusively in the context of corporate globalization and neo-liberal governance. Despite the growing significance of regimes of racial profiling, surveillance and tightened border controls in the post-9/11 period, there have been very few extended analyses of racial profiling in different eras and contexts (particularly at borders). The work examines the issue from a transborder perspective, with comparisons, connections and intersections of policy and practice.

Chapters already included examine topics including reframing racial profiling as a human rights rather than civil rights issue, racial profiling and implications for inter/national and human security, racial profiling along borders in the US and the construction of “terrorists” and “illegal aliens,” racial profiling and internment in Canada during WWII, racial profiling and problems of proof and movements opposing racial profiling, among others.

Please submit chapters by (or preferably before) October 2 to the editor:

Dr. J. Shantz
Jeffrey.Shantz@kwantlen.ca

Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Vancouver, B.C.
Canada

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September 21, 2009

Balkan & South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore Conference, 04/15-18/2010, OH

Deadline: November 23, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstract Submission

The 17th Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore Conference will take place at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA,
April 15-18, 2010.

The conference will feature the Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture in South Slavic Linguistics on Friday April 16. This year's Naylor Lecturer will be Eric P. Hamp, Professor Emeritus from the University of Chicago. The conference will also be held concurrently with the Midwest Slavic Conference.

The conference organizers are now accepting proposals for papers that treat some aspect of Balkan and/or South Slavic linguistics, folklore, film studies, literature or culture. Abstracts should be maximum one page, including examples and bibliography if needed (12-point font, at least 1" margins). Abstracts should be anonymous.

Abstracts should be submitted, in PDF format, by email to Andrea Sims (sims.120@osu.edu)
The paper title, author name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information should be given in the body of the email.

More information is available at http://bss17.osu.edu

Questions about the conference may be directed to Brian Joseph (joseph.1@osu.edu) or Andrea Sims (sims.120@osu.edu)

==========================
Andrea D. Sims
Assistant Professor of Slavic Linguistics
347 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210 USA
ph: 614-292-0109

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European Roma and Travellers Forum

Deadline: September 28, 2009

European Roma and Travellers Forum

Call for Papers

Security Situation of the Roma in Europe

Economic Migration vs. Forced Migration

High Level Conference on the Security Situation of Roma in Europe

Bucharest, 12-13 October 2009

The European Roma and Travellers Forum, in partnership with the Committee for Human Rights, Cults and National Minorities Issues of the Romanian Parliament and Partida Romilor Pro Europa (Roma Party for Europe), is organizing a High Level Conference on the Security Situation of Roma in Europe. The two-day conference will bring together the main stakeholders, high level representatives and decision-makers of European and inter-governmental human rights institutions, as well as non-governmental and civil society organizations from Council of Europe Member States. The aim of the conference is to discuss the hostilities against Roma and the rising Anti-Tziganism within Europe.

Background information to the conference
The rising hostilities against Roma, racist attacks and a series of murders, have forced Roma to migrate from Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe toward the more wealthy countries of the European Union. Moreover, relations between Roma communities and the government are increasingly strained, and there is an alarming number of reliable reports suggesting that the police and the para-military groups use disproportionate force and resort to violence that could be qualified as degrading treatment.
Sixty years ago the Council of Europe was set up to rebuild Europe on the basis of the respect of human rights and the dignity of the individual. As the European Union progressed towards European reunification, it was hoped to do away with what characterised the history of this continent for centuries, including racial hatred, pogroms, and the burning down of settlements.
That hope must not be shattered. We must stop the rabid political minorities of today from becoming the governments of tomorrow. States have a responsibility to guarantee human rights protection for everyone. The failure of several governments to guarantee human rights protection for Roma has led to insecurity among Roma within European Union countries. As a result, Roma people, citizens of the European Union, are seeking asylum outside of their country.
The European Roma and Travellers Forum has decided to hold a high-level event on the security issue of the Roma in order to have an in-depth analysis and discussion on this crucial topic. This time, we intend to break away from the well-known, good old thematic areas and try to get to the core of rising anti-Tziganism, the fear-motivated migration, which is a real challenge for Europe. The open labour market of the Western countries was intended to be the solution to overcome poverty for people from the Eastern countries. It was not expected that excluded, marginalized people would seek shelter and safety from persecution in Western countries.

Thematic areas to be discussed

Having regard to the above, the European Roma and Travellers Forum invites proposals for papers which analyze the aspects related to this complex issue, focusing on one or more of the areas listed below:
Historical context: Jewish persecution, racism in South Africa and in the United States of America; Historical parallels with the situation of Roma, identification of possible advocacy tools or mechanisms for the Roma movement to fight anti-Tziganism;
Methodology for identifying economic migration and forced migration, possible legislative and non-legislative responses and the recently applicable standards;
Possible need for establishing minimum standards for the integration of migrants and for ensuring their access to citizenship and equality;
De facto and de iure statelessness of Roma;
Implementation deficits of the Free Movement Directive (2004/38/EC) and how the limitations imposed by member states have affected the Roma;
Mechanisms introduced to fight against xenophobic and racially motivated crimes committed against Roma in Europe;
European Initiatives, National Roma Integration Policies - possible exchange of best practices in Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy, Romania, UK;

Applicants wishing to present their papers are invited to submit their abstract (150 words ) and CV in English to the Secretariat of the European Roma and Travellers Forum by 28 September 2009, at ertf@coe.int.

The Secretariat will inform applicants of the decision by 30 September 2009.

Final version of papers will then be submitted by 7 October 2009. The selected paper will be included in the first panel on 12 October 2009 after the keynote speeches.

The author of the selected paper will be invited to the conference and his/her costs will be covered by the organisers.

The Secretariat

Evropako Forumo e Romengo thaj e Phirutnengo (EFRP)
Forum européen des Roms et des Gens du voyage (FERV)
European Roma and Travellers Forum (ERTF)

DG III - Cohésion Sociale / Social Cohesion
Conseil de l'Europe / Council of Europe
AGORA Bâtiment - 1 quai Jacoutot
F - 67075 Strasbourg

Tel.: + 33 (0)3 90 21 43 31
Fax: + 33 (0)3 90 21 56 58
E-mail: robert.rustem@coe.int
http://ertf.org

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Heritage/Community Language, 02/19-21/2010, UCLA

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
Call for Submissions: Conference on Heritage/Community Language

Call for submissions for the National Heritage Language Resource Center's First International Conference on Heritage/Community Language, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), FEBRUARY 19-21, 2010

We invite submissions internationally from a variety of theoretical and applied perspectives on:
HL research pertaining to demographics, sociology, linguistics, psychology, education;
HL policy; Aboriginal languages;
HL teacher education;
Development of HL instructional resources and materials;
Any other current issues in the HL field.

For more information and proposal submission guidelines:
http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/nhlrc/conference/

Co-sponsors:
UCLA Center for World Languages, UCLA International Institute, UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching, UCLA Confucius Institute, UCLA Center for International Business Education and Research

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Artist involvement in peace and war

Deadline: September 30, 2009-09-30

Call for Papers - Submission to "genre 40: Johnnie Got His Pen"

genre, the publication of the Students of Comparative Literature and Classics at Cal State Long Beach, invites submissions for volume 40: Johnny Got His Pen: Artist involvement in peace and war.

Whether in regards to “war,” oppression, and resolution, the artist plays an important role as interpreter and social commentator. We are particularly interested in the way artists and art engage real and surreal concepts of armed struggle. We invite papers that discuss how literature and the arts depict, incite, criticize, and mitigate political conflicts throughout history or within contemporary societies.

Sample Paper Topics:
- Literary or artistic expressions of current or on-going conflicts (ex. Drug cartel wars in Northern Mexico)
- Representations of War
- Literature as a form of social critique - Marxisms and war
- Artists inciting peace/anti-war
- Artistic Incitement of revolution
- Post-colonial literature and emergent literature about conflict
- War and the artistic psycho, social responsibility
- Artist involvement on the battlefield
- War narratives, from Classical expressions to contemporary
- Education/Academia and its relation to war (ex. Exile literature)
- The artist on urban warfare/urban terrorism

We welcome creative as well as academic writing on the above topics.

Dr. Cheryl Goldstein
Cal State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.

(562)985-1589
Email: cgoldst2@csulb.edu

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Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited

Deadline: October 01,2009

Philosophy as Critical Theory: The Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited

CALL FOR PAPERS: “Philosophy as Critical Theory: The Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited,” The European Legacy, Volume 15, Number 4, 2010. Guest Editor, Daniel White. Themes: Odysseus & the Sirens; philosophy and literature; colonialism & postcolonialism; univocality and polyvocality in philosophic discourse. Submissions due 1 Oct. 2009; double blind peer reviewed; preliminary proposals welcome.

In the proposed special issue I would like to call for a reopening of the meeting between the Odysseus and the Sirens. The key question I would like to address is, “What is the critical role of philosophy today in its relationship to other ‘voices’ in the social sciences and the humanities?” Some questions that contributors might consider are, for example: What are the most important forms which the Sirenic encounter takes now in the 21st century? How has it been transformed by the meeting of Europeans, the “elect,” the “chosen,” the “haves,” et al. with their “others”? What do the Sirens have to say about Odysseus? Is “consciousness” principally a matter of “constraint” or “closure,” as in the case of Odysseus tied to the mast? Is “identity” a matter of self-exclusion from an ecology of “differences,” as when the unitary Odyssean subject travels through the “strange” realm of voices yet remains “himself”? What is the role of philosophy once it has deconstructed what Ezra Talmor has called “the hierarchy of narratives” in which claims of truth and legitimization of power reside (see Talmor, “Hierarchy of Narratives III,” ISSEI Listserv, October-November 1997, as well as my “Comment” and the following exchange, 97 11 02 ff.)? Socratic “Philosophy,” as Nietzsche saw it, arose from the construction and rationalization of subjectivity in Greek texts from Homer through Plato. What is its “fate” or “course” now when it is undertaken as an interdisciplinary critical theory that can no longer assume the hegemony of the “subject” or its “reason”? How does Odysseus fare now that he must traverse the virtual dream-world of The Matrix?

Papers should be 6,000 words in length, submitted by email in MS Word format, and in the documentation style specified by The European Legacy; they should include full contact information at the bottom of the cover page; they should be sent, by October 1, 2009, to Daniel White: dwhite@fau.edu, Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, 5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter, FL 33458, USA.

For more information, see: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/33847

Daniel R. White
Professor of Philosophy

Phone: (561) 799-8103
Fax: (561) 799-8602

Email: dwhite@fau.edu

Visit the website at http://wise.fau.edu/~dwhite

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Memory in the Maritime Museum

Deadline: November 27, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Memory in the Maritime Museum: Objects, Narratives, Identities

Editors: Helen Beneki, Dr James P. Delgado and Dr Anastasia Filippoupoliti

We invite papers for a special double issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies, which will explore the following themes related to maritime museums:
- the representation of maritime past in exhibitions;
- the relationship of the preservation of maritime heritage to the local community;
- the re-invention of past (national, regional, local) identities in today's communities through maritime exhibition narratives; and
- the role of maritime activity in creating ethnically and culturally diverse populations in seaports (local communities).

Manpower, tacit knowledge and related material culture traveled across societies, networking humans and ideas. Thus, maritime collections are inscribed with meanings that are embedded in historical circumstances and, consequently, should be treated as having numerous layers upon them, each one with a different interpretation. But what can these collections tell us about the stories of past seafarers and their communities? Are collections and exhibitions of geographically-spread maritime cultures able to support the understanding of challenging concepts, such as that of insularity, or the concept of seafaring and maritime activities in regard to building or modelling a more diverse community? Also, of interest is the impact of maritime activity on international linkages, both economic and cultural. Could maritime collections reveal issues of how sea was perceived by past and contemporary societies?

With this call for papers we welcome a range of submissions on the following themes:
- Theoretical (and interdisciplinary) perspectives regarding the preservation and reconstruction of maritime heritage;
- Constructing and representing identities of maritime communities;
- Memory in the maritime museum;
- Planning exhibitions of maritime history: problems and opportunities;
- Case studies on the interpretation of maritime past;
- Maritime archaeology in maritime museums;
- Maritime collections/exhibitions and communities;
- Learning activities and the maritime collection: interpretation issues;
- Maritime collections/exhibitions and school groups;
- Using maritime collections in research.

Please submit an abstract (max 350 words) by 27 November 2009 to the guest editors:

Helen Beneki Maritime historian Head of Research & Communication Department Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Athens, Greece e-mail: BenekiE@piraeusbank.gr

Dr James P. Delgado, Ph.D. President and CEO Institute of Nautical Archaeology Texas A&M University, USA e-mail: jpdelgado@tamu.edu

Dr Anastasia Filippoupoliti Museologist Democritus University of Thrace, Greece e-mail: afilipp@gmail.com

*** The Editor, Laurajane Smith http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rjhsauth.asp E-mail: ls18@york.ac.uk

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Things in Common: Fostering Material Culture Pedagogy

Deadline: October 15, 2009

Things in Common: Fostering Material Culture Pedagogy

The guest editors of this special issue of Winterthur Portfolio invite essays that engage object-based teaching and interpretation strategies in a variety of sites, including the secondary and college classroom, the museum gallery, the collection, the historic site, the national park, the archaeological dig, the library, the archive, and the World Wide Web.

Since 1974, when E. McClung Fleming published "Artifact Study: A Proposed Model" (consistently one of the most frequently downloaded articles from Winterthur Portfolio), scholars across the disciplines have engaged the art and mystery of teaching the material worlds of the past and the present. In this current revisiting of the topic, we seek essays that examine the interplay between new research and strategies for teaching and intepreting the results of that research. For example, how does recent work in such fields as book history, transnational studies, diaspora studies, or design studies and design history affect what is taught now and how? What is the impact of the new emphasis in material culture studies on such topics as the materialization of memory, the nature of fakes and forgeries, the history of collection and collection policies, the marketplace for artifacts? How do we interpret and teach politicized objects? What are the ethical implications of teaching material culture in a time of environmental consciousness and economic downturn? How can museums enhance, with new technologies or innovative exhibit design, the educational experience of new audiences brought in by cultural tourism?

The essay may be an extended analysis of one of these suggested topics or another topic of the author's choice. It may also be a shorter description of a specific object-based project or assignment or a case study of an object-based approach. In addition, offers to review pertinent new books in the field will be welcome.

Dissertation students as well as scholars and practitioners at any stage of their professional career are invited to submit a brief expression of interest to the guest editors. This should outline the topic and approach and be accompanied by a short biographical statement about the proposer. Final essays will be subject to the journal's peer review process.

Deadlines:
15 October 2009: Expressions of interest due to the editors via email
15 November 2009: Response from the editors
15 March 2010: Draft manuscripts due to the editors

For more information:

Shirley Wajda, stwajda@neo.rr.com

Debby Andrews
Director, Center for Material Culture Studies
Department of English
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716

Email: dandrews@udel.edu

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Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe, 03/26-27/2010, Toronto

Deadline: October 10, 2009

Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe. Interactions between Environmental Settings and Cultural Transformations

International workshop organized by the Department of History of York University and the Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” of Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, to be held in Toronto on 26-27 March 2010.

Landscapes can be understood as the natural environments in which a society is embedded, or as the set of representations with which members of a society observe and describe a region and give it significance.. Modern conceptions of landscapes as aesthetic subjects resulted from a historical evolution that began in Renaissance Europe, whereas other cultures developed different traditions of understanding their environment – in medieval times, for instance, symbolic interpretations were in the foreground: nature was a book in which man could learn about God. Landscapes can be defined, in the words of Denis E. Cosgrove, as “visibly distinct regions.” It is clear that the idea of landscape is dependant on the one hand on the material reality of a given region, on the other hand on the sense attached to it by human beings beholding it.

The workshop will bring together a small group of young scholars (16 papers) from North America and Europe working in the fields of archaeology, history, palaeobotany and palaeozoology. Papers in the fields of history, archaeology and related disciplines are invited. The papers should present a link with parts of Europe outside the borders of the Roman Empire as well as with environmental and/or social history. The main focus will be on the medieval period but papers dealing with Antiquity are invited too. Doctoral students and young scholars will be particularly considered.

See complete announcement at http://eseh.org/landscapeandsocieties

Please send a short abstract (less than one page) and a CV by email to one of the organizers by 20 October 2009.

Invitations will depend upon available funding.

A publication following the workshop is considered.

Sunhild Kleingärtner (skleingaertner@ufg.uni-kiel.de

Sébastien Rossignol (rossigno@yorku.ca

Donat Wehner (donatwehner@gshdl.uni-kiel.de

Visit the website at http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~aklammt/

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Literature and Cinema of the Fascist Period, 04/07-11/2010, Montreal

Deadline: September 30, 2009

41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-11, 2010
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure

Round table
Literature and Cinema of the Fascist Period

During the fascist "ventennio" (1922-1943), the attitude of the regime towards both literary creation and film production was ambivalent, characterized by both censorship and support. This panel seeks to explore this contradictory moment in the history of Italian culture. The ways in which writers and filmmakers gained ground either in spite of or in deference to the political and social circumstances will provide a forum for the discussion of some of the distinctive literary and filmic achievements of that period.

Send a 250 word abstract to Cristiana Furlan (cfurlan@ubishops.ca) and Daria Valentini (dvalentini@stonehill.edu).

Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

The 41st Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. www.nemla.org

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.

Travel to Canada now requires a passport for U.S. citizens. Please get your passport application in early.

Cristiana Furlan
cfurlan@ubishops.ca

2600 College Street, Bishop's University
Sherbrooke, Canada

Phone: (1) 819 822 9600 (ext 2428)

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Magic and the Supernatural, 03/15-17/2010, Salzburg

Deadline: October 2, 2009

1st Global Conference Magic and the Supernatural
Monday 15th March - Wednesday 17th March 2010
Salzburg, Austria

Call for Papers

Bewitched. I Dream of Jeannie. The Exorcist. Charmed. Buffy. Dr. Who. Dracula. Dark Shadows. Twilight and The Twilight Zone. Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton. Dresden Files. Harry Potter. The fascination and appeal of magic and supernatural entities pervades societies and cultures. The continuing appeal of these characters is a testimony to how they shape our daydreams and our nightmares, as well as how we yearn for something that is “more” or “beyond” what we can see-touch-taste-feel.. Children still avoid stepping on cracks, lovers pluck petals from a daisy, cards are dealt and tea leaves read.

A belief in magic as a means of influencing the world seems to have been common in all cultures. Some of these beliefs crossed over into nascent religions, influencing rites and religious celebrations. Over time, religiously-based supernatural events (”miracles”) acquired their own flavour, separating themselves from standard magic. Some modern religions such as the Neopaganisms embrace connections to magic, while others retain only echoes of their distant origins.

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project seeks to examine issues surrounding the role and use of magic in a wide variety of societies and cultures over the course of human history. People with access to magic or knowledge of the supernatural will also be examined.

Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are invited on issues on or broadly related to any of the themes listed at
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/magic-and-the-supernatural/call-for-papers/

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 2nd October 2009. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 5th February 2010. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs: Stephen Morris smmorris58@yahoo.com; Sorcha Ni Fhlainn snf@inter-disciplinary.net; Rob Fisher magsup@inter-disciplinary.net; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

The conference is part of the ‘At the Interface’ programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/magic-and-the-supernatural/

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/magic-and-the-supernatural/call-for-papers/

Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Wroslyn Road, Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR, United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1993 882087
Fax: +44 (0)870 4601132

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September 16, 2009

Military Technology 1000-1600, Denmark

Deadline: November 15, 2009

Trebuchet to Cannon: Military Technology 1000-1600

A conference and workshop to be held at the Danish Medieval Centre, Nykøbing, Falster, Denmark

For the last two decades the Middelaldercentret in Denmark has carried out research into the construction and performance of medieval military technologies. Since 2001, the Ho Group (dedicated to the study of early gunpowder and gunpowder weapons) has met to experiment with gunpowder recipes and reconstructed artillery. The tenth meeting of the Ho Group will be an international conference to discuss all aspects of medieval military technology, including artillery, siege engines, gunpowder and cannon, and other weapons.

The Organizing Committee extends an invitation to all those interested in this area—textual scholars, experimental archaeologists, curators and historians—to attend and present their work and discuss solutions to, and further problems in, the understanding of military technologies in the Middle Ages. The conference will include a series of workshops and hands-on demonstrations by the Ho Group of medieval technologies, including trebuchets, gunpowder and incendiary weapons, and reconstructions of cannon.

The conference will be four days in length, with three days of papers and workshops, one day-long excursion, and a closing banquet with Renaissance fireworks. The venue will be the Middelaldercentret (Danish Medieval Centre) and the adjacent Femern Link Hotel & Conference Centre. The primary language will be English. Presented papers will be considered for publication.

The organizers request a brief abstract for a paper proposal (200 words, along with a brief CV) or an expression of interest to attend without presenting a paper by 15 November 2009. Full details of the conference and accommodation fees will be finalized by the end of 2009, with a registration deadline of 15 May 2010.

Robert Smith
Leeds, UK

Phone: +44 0113 263 7547
Email: hox@basiliscoe.fsnet.co.uk

Visit the website at http://www.middelaldercentret.dk/HoX

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People, Events, & Ideas that Have Shaped the World, 02/27-28/2010, TX

Deadline: November 15, 2009

Divergence & Convergence: People, Events, & Ideas that Have Shaped the World

The 2010 Conference of the World History Association of Texas will focus on historical and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the people, events and ideas influential in globalization. The conference, “Divergence & Convergence: People, Events, & Ideas that Have Shaped the World,” will be held at St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, the 27-28th February, 2010.

Conference organizers welcome proposals that connect world history teaching and research. Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:

The digital age, social networking sites, and the use of information and communication technologies in furthering or resisting political and economic structures;

Shifts in modes of production, consumption, and entertainment;

Prince Shotoku, B.R. Ambedkar, Ho Chí Minh, Nelson Mandela, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, and Margaret Thatcher;

The global impact of religions, ideologies, ethical constructs, trade, commerce and economic theory and practice.

Dr. Christie Sample Wilson
WHAT 2010 Conference
St. Edward’s University
3001 South Congress Ave.
Austin, TX 78704

Email: christiw@stedwards.edu

Visit the website at http://faculty.stedwards.edu/kathyb/WHAT/ConferenceAnnouncement.htm

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performing space and space in performance, 01/21-23/2010, Toronto

Deadline: October 16, 2009

CFP
Festival of Original Theatre: "performing space and space in performance"

University of Toronto
January 21-23, 2010

The Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama at the University of Toronto is now inviting graduate students and new scholars to submit abstracts for papers and performance proposals for its annual conference the Festival of Original Theatre (F.O.O.T) to be held January 21-23, 2010. F.O.O.T seeks papers or performances proposals from all disciplines that explore or discuss the scenographic, the geographic, and/or the spacial and its relationship to theatre, performance, and performativity.

For as long as there has been performance, there has been a space that accompanies it; however, any significant contribution to the discussion of the powers and potentials of the space, place, and geography of the theatre have only appeared in recent years. The long-standing significance awarded to history and time resigned any discussion of space to a secondary role. It has only been in recent years that this “intellectual curse” that accompanies a study of geography has been lifted and replaced with serious and diverse discussions of space and geography becoming more prevalent in theatre and performance scholarship.

Some areas of discussion may include, but are not exclusive to:
- Site specific theatre(s)
- Performances in different locations/contexts,
- Theatre architecture,

The function/effect of space, location, geography on character/actor/identity, Cyber-theatre, virtuality, and performance, The scenographer’s place in designing space; the different ways the designer can create “space,” Staging the globe: different places in one space, Borders, borderlands, and liminality in theatre/performance, Relationship between location and identity/nationality, Performing the city, country, nation, or multi-geographic locations, Staging home, homeland, homelessness, exile, and/or displacement, Staging theatre/performance in difficult locations, Discourse theory, space, and the performing body, The collision between geography and history in performance.

Please send abstracts (300 words) and a brief bio (100 words), along with any questions, to this year’s Artistic Director at: AD.FOOT2010@gmail.com by October 16, 2009.

Artistic Director
University of Toronto

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Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, 03/15-18/2010, Salzburg

Deadline: October 2, 2009

11th Global Conference Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness Location: Austria
Monday 15th March - Thursday 18th March 2010
Salzburg, Austria

Call for Papers

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues surrounding evil and human wickedness. Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are invited on issues on or broadly related to any of the following themes:
- Wrestling with ‘Evil’
- The Nature of Evil
- Explanatory Frameworks
- Understanding Evil
- Representations of Evil
- Confronting Evil

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 2nd October 2009. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 5th February 2010. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; Stephen Morris, smmorris58@yahoo.com; Sorcha Ni Fhlainn, snf@inter-disciplinary.net; Rob Fisher evil11@inter-disciplinary.net; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.

All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for development for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s) or for inclusion in the Perspectives on Evil journal (relaunching 2010).

For further details about the project please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/perspectives-on-evil/

For further details about the conference pleaser visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/perspectives-on-evil/call-for-papers/

Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net

Tel: +44 (0)1993 882087
Fax: +44 (0)870 4601132

Email: evil11@inter-disciplinary.net

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Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century, 03/26-27/2010, Sheffield

Deadline: December 15, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS - Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century

26 and 27 March 2010

University of Sheffield

From ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ to ‘The White Man’s Burden’, from Honoré Daumier’s lithographs to the Chartist poetry of the Northern Star, the politics of the nineteenth century both shaped and were shaped by poetry and images.

We welcome papers from across the humanities. Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Worker poets and their political context;
- Illustrated and illuminated poems;
- Pre-Raphaelite or Nazarene painters and poets;
- The poetics and aesthetics of socialism;
- Political cartoons, their production and their uses;
- Poetic and visual representations of war;
- Theories of art and their intersection with poetic practice;
- Advertisements and the politics of empire.

Contact email: poetrypoliticspictures@sheffield.ac.uk

Visit the website at http://sites.google.com/site/poetrypoliticspictures/

Speakers include: Cornelia Pearsall, Malcolm Chase, Danny Karlin, Michael Perraudin

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words, along with details of your institutional affiliation, to the contact email, by 15 December 2009.

Organizing committee: Erin Snyder, Ingrid Hanson, Jack Rhoden, Marjorie Cheung, Kirsten Harris and Barry Orr. With the kind support of the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies, University of Sheffield.

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Racial and Ethnic Studies, 03/18-20,2010, Berkeley

Deadline: September 10, 2009-09-10

CFP:
The Racial and Ethnic Studies Division (RESD) of the Cultural Studies Association, Eighth Annual Meeting

University of California, Berkeley

March 18, 2010 – March 20, 2010

In specific, we seek papers that explore how race and ethnicity are discursive and performative constructs whose meaning is never fixed but is continually produced, negotiated, contested, and (re)affirmed in various social fields of unequal power distribution.

RESD is looking to sponsor (1) two paper sessions or (2) roundtables/workshops

If interested, please submit the following three items before 10 September 2009 to RESD chair Dr. Matthew W. Hughey, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, at: MHughey@soc.msstate.edu

1) The name, email address, phone number, institutional and departmental affiliation of the author(s).
2) A 500-word abstract plus title for the paper.
3) Any audio-visual equipment needs.

Further information about the CSA meetings can be found at:
http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/cultural_studies/?q=node/2

Matthew W. Hughey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies
Mississippi State University
207 Bowen Hall, P.O. Box C
Mississippi State, MS 39762

Office: 662.325.2495 | Fax: 662.325.4564

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Southwestern Social Science Association, 03/31-04/03/2010, TX

Deadline: October 30, 2009

Call For Papers
2010 Southwestern Historical Association Meeting

The Association conference is held in conjunction with the Southwestern Social Science Association.

Paper proposals may be submitted in the following areas: U.S./Canadian, European/Asian/Middle Eastern, Latin American/African/Transnational/Comparative, Phi Alpha Theta.

The conference will be held in Houston, Texas, March 31 - April 3, 2010.

Please go to www.sssaonline.org for additional information on the conference or to the Association website at www.swhist.org

A copy of the CFP flyer and the Paper Proposal Submission Form can be obtained by contacting Steven L. Sewell, General Program Chair, at ssewell@com.edu

Steven L. Sewell
College of the Mainland
Social and Behavioral Sciences Department

(409) 938-1211 x117
(409) 938-3140

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The State of Social and Cultural History in the 21st Century, 04/23-24/2010, IL

Deadline: February 12, 2010

CFP: Where are they now: The State of Social and Cultural History in the 21st Century

CFP requests for the 6th annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference held April 23-4 2010 at the Loyola University Chicago Lakeshore Campus.

Masters and doctoral graduate students in any field of historical study are invited to submit proposals to present individual research papers at Loyola’s Sixth Annual History Graduate Student Conference. The goal of this conference is to provide an opportunity for students to gain experience presenting original research papers and receiving feedback from their peers on their work.

Proposals should include: submitter’s name, contact information, institutional affiliation(s), a one page abstract of the paper (with a title), and a brief biographical statement indicating your academic status along with a return address and current e-mail address. Please note that submissions will be accepted as time and space permit.

Deadline for submissions is February 12, 2010. E-mail proposals as an attachment to HGSA Vice President Steve Catania at: LoyolaHGSA@gmail.com

or mail to: History Graduate Student Association c/o Steve Catania Loyola University Chicago History Department 1032 West Sheridan Rd. Chicago, Illinois 60660

For more information about the conference, please contact Steve Catania at: LoyolaHGSA@gmail.com

Sponsored by the History Graduate Student Association, Loyola University Chicago

History Graduate Student Association
c/o Steve Catania
Loyola University Chicago
History Department
1032 West Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, Illinois 60660

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Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century, 03/11-13/2010, FL

DEADLINE SEPT. 15, 2009

NCSA 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

31st Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association The University of Tampa, March 11-13, 2010, Tampa, Florida

Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century

Keynote speaker: Michael Fried (Johns Hopkins University) Plenary Event: Exhibition of Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, with a roundtable discussion featuring Margaret D. Stetz (University of Delaware), curator and author of Facing the Late Victorians; Dennis Denisoff (Ryerson University), and Maria Gindhart (Georgia State University)

Dramatic expression and self-conscious performances marked almost every aspect of nineteenth century life and artistic culture, as theatrical turns and performative mindsets introduced in the 17th-18th centuries expanded in the 1780s through the beginning of World War One. We invite paper and panel proposals that explore these themes and subjects in the long Nineteenth Century (1780-1914). Papers might address the theatrical shows—whether serious drama, circus displays, vaudeville, operas, or Shakespearean revivals—that appeared in cities and towns on both sides of the Atlantic (as well as in more distant lands). Or they might investigate how politics, social events, military engagements, domestic affairs, public trials, crime reports, religious rituals, architectural spaces, sculptural moments, exhibition halls, artistic and musical compositions, and the early moving pictures of the cinema, assumed a theatrical sensibility. Welcome also are proposals for papers and panels that bring scholarly and theoretical interests in performativity to bear on concepts of identity, individuality, and audience in the given era.

Please submit abstracts of approximately 500 words along with a brief (one page) c.v. to the Program Co-Chairs, Janice Simon (U of Georgia) and Regina Hewitt (U of South Florida) at the conference address ncsa2010@earthlink.net by Sept. 15, 2009. Speakers will be notified by or before Dec. 15.

Any graduate student whose proposal is accepted may at that point submit a full-length version of the paper in competition for a travel grant to help cover transportation and lodging expenses.

Conference sessions will be held at the University of Tampa, a campus with both a state-of-the-art conference center and the historic late-19th century Plant Hall, site of the Plant Museum where Facing the Late Victorians will be exhibited and a reception will be held. Excursions to the Tampa Bay History Center and the historic neighborhood of Ybor City are also planned.

Accommodations are available at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Tampa, a short walk from campus. For further information, please visit the NCSA website http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/
or contact Elizabeth Winston, Local Arrangements Director (U of Tampa), at the conference address ncsa2010@earthlink.net

Janice Simon (U of Georgia) and Regina Hewitt (U of South Florida)

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Emerging Landscapes: Between Production and Representation , 065/25-27/2010, London

Deadline: November 15, 2009

CFP

Emerging Landscapes: Between Production and Representation

June 25-27, 2010

The past thirty years have witnessed social, geopolitical, technological, and economic change on a global scale. Alongside these shifts, landscape has also changed its nature. Focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on the synergies between the disciplines of photography and architecture, this international and interdisciplinary conference will examine and critically reassess the interface between production and representation in the creation of contemporary landscape.

Emerging Landscape asks practitioners, writers, critics, artists, and others working in the broad fields of the built environment and the represented environment to reconsider the idea of landscape by interrogating the relationship between space and image; to explore the interactions that exist between representation (i.e., the imaginary and symbolic shaping of the human environment) and production (i.e., the physical and material changes wrought on the land).

University of Westminster
London, UK

Emerging Landscapes Conference
School of Architecture and the Built Environment
University of Westminster
35 Marylebone Road
London NW1 5LS
United Kingdom

Email: emerginglandscapes@wmin.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://emerginglandscapes.org.uk/

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Evil, Law and the State, 03/12-14/2010, Salzburg

Deadline: September 25, 2009

4th Global Conference
Evil, Law and the State: Issues in State Power and Violence
Friday 12th March - Sunday 14th March 2010

Salzburg, Austria

Call for Papers

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference will explore issues surrounding evil and law, with a focus on state power and violence. Perspectives are sought from those engaged in any field relevant to the study of law and legal culture: anthropology, criminology, cultural studies, government/politics, history, legal studies, literature, philosophy, psychology, religion/theology, and sociology, as well as those working in civil rights, human rights, prison services, politics and government (including NGOs), psychiatry, healthcare, and other areas.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to the following themes:
* when and why is law evil or a source of evil?
* state violence and coercion
* enforcement of criminal law and other legal prohibitions
* law, citizenship, and political identity
* justifications for punishment, including capital punishment
* whether and under what circumstances the adversary or inquisitorial models of legal process generate, tolerate, or allow evil outcomes
* issues of equality and distributive justice in law
* the consequences of legal error
* the intersection of law with issues of choice, responsibility, and diminished responsibility
* state responsibility for terrorism, war, intervention, ethnic cleansing, and other problems of international law and international relations

For further details about the project visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-law-the-state/

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-law-the-state/call-for-papers/

Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Wroslyn Road, Freeland, Oxfordshire. OX29 8HR. United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1993 882087
FGax: +44 (0)870 4601132

Email: els4@inter-disciplinary.net

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45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 05/13-16/2010, Kalamazoo

The 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place May 13-16, 2010, in Kalamazoo.

Sponsored Sessions are organized by learned societies, associations, or institutions. The organizers set predetermined topics, often narrowly focused and reflecting the considered aims and interests of the organizing group.

Special Sessions are organized by individual scholars or ad hoc groups. The organizers set predetermined topics, which are often narrowly focused.

General Sessions are organized by the Congress Committee at the Medieval Institute. Topics include all areas of medieval studies, with individual session topics determined by the topics of abstracts submitted and accepted.

Sponsored Sessions are organized by learned societies, associations, or institutions. Planning for these sessions may be well underway. If you wish to submit a paper proposal, you should do so as soon as possible. Submit your proposal directly to the organization’s contact person listed here. http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html

Home Page: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/index.html

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45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 05/13-16/2010, Kalamazoo

The 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place May 13-16, 2010, in Kalamazoo.

Special Sessions are organized by individual scholars or ad hoc groups. The organizers set predetermined topics, which are often narrowly focused.

Home Page: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/index.html

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Political Philosophy

Deadline: September 30, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS
Vol. 5, Issue 1:
Political PhilosophyBetween Tradition and Innovation

CEU Political Science Journal is a peer-review quarterly in the field of Political Science, indexed and abstracted in relevant international databases. The Journal accepts now submissions for its issue on "Political Philosophy". The contributions may focus on any aspects of political philosophy, emphasizing its developments, applicability and challenges faced in a changing political world. This issue also welcomes contributions that focus on the development of new research areas in political philosophy, new interdisciplinary approaches and innovative methodological techniques, as well as on possible extensions of existing boundaries of political philosophy itself.

Details at www.ceu.hu/polscijournal

Submissions at ceu_polsci@yahoo.com.

The Editorial Board
CEU Political Science Journal
www.ceu.hu/polscijournal
Nador ut. 9, 1051 Budapest,
Hungary

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September 14, 2009

Byzantine and Ottoman Civilizations in World History, A Symposium Sponsored by Istanbul Sehir University and the World History Association, Istanbul, 21-24.10.2010

Deadline: October 1, 2009

Byzantine and Ottoman Civilizations in World History

A Symposium Sponsored by Istanbul Sehir University and the World History Association, 21-24 October 2010

Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul Sehir University and the World History Association proudly announce a symposium focusing on the world-historical significance of Byzantine and Ottoman civilizations, 330-1922. The symposium will consist of approximately 30 papers by Turkish and international participants, plus a keynote address and several other plenary sessions. The official languages of the symposium are English and Turkish.

Panel and paper proposals dealing with Byzantine and/or Ottoman civilizations in the context of world history and across all relevant disciplines are invited and should be submitted electronically using this form only no later than 1 October 2009 and submitted to: thewha@hawaii.edu
Delivery time for each paper must not exceed 20 minutes. Panels, each of which is two hours in length, should consist of a chair, four paper presenters, and, if possible and desirable, a commentator. The commentator is not mandatory. Panel proposals may consist of only three papers, but see below regarding that. Please also see below for individual paper submissions. A committee will review all proposals and make its decision regarding acceptances by 15 November 2009. Criteria for acceptance include the proposal's world-historical scope, its originality, and its depth of scholarship. The conference organizers will endeavor to publish selected papers delivered at the symposium.

Successful participants must pay their own travel and lodging expenses. However, Istanbul Sehir University will assist conferees in securing accommodations at nearby 4- and 5- star hotels at deeply discounted conference rates. Moreover participants who are presenting will be hosted daily for lunch and dinner throughout the conference and will enjoy a complimentary city tour to major Byzantine and Ottoman sites. There is no registration fee. Periodic informational updates will appear at http://www.thewha.org/ beginning September 2009.

Persons not presenting a paper may also register for the conference, attend at no fee, and will be eligible for the discounted lodging. On-line registration will be found as early as 15 July 2009 at the WHA web site, www.thewha.org. In order to participate in any capacity, persons must register on-line no later than 15 September 2010.

Questions and inquiries should be directed to A. J. Andrea at aandrea@uvm.edu, Hayrettin Yucesoy at yucesoyh@slu.edu, or Nurullah Ardiç at nurullahardic@sehir.edu.tr.

Hayrettin Yucesoy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of History
Saint Louis University
3800 Lindell Blvd.
Saint Louis, MO 63108
Phone: (314) 977-3397
Fax: (314) 977-1603
www.sc.edu/uscpress/2009/3819.html

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September 04, 2009

: Edited Collection: The Neuroscientific Turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Deadline: October 30, 2009

CFP: Edited Collection: The Neuroscientific Turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences

From economics to English, religious studies to recreation, neuroscience has become the latest theoretical tool for analyzing society and culture. While there has been some backlash against this trend, research continues to emerge in areas of neurotheology, neuromarketing, neuroethics, neuroaesthetics, the neurohumanities, and neurohistory to name but a few. We are seeking essays for an edited collection that analyze and interrogate this recent neuroscientific turn in the humanities and social sciences. We are particularly interested to hear from researchers who apply the neuro- to their own disciplinary work.

Essays might engage with the following questions: why has there been a shift to using neuroscience as an epistemological framework and/or theoretical tool in the humanities and social sciences? What kind of arguments does it allow / foreclose / refute? How is this trend related to the “decade of the brain”? How do visualization technologies like fMRI shape or limit the neuroscientific turn? Is the neuroscientific turn interdiscplinary, cross-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary? What are the rights and responsibilities of such inter/cross/multiple-disciplinary research? Should this neuro- research fall under the purview of neuroethics? What roles do print and digital media play in the development and distribution of this trend? Why and how do the humanities and the social sciences need the neurosciences? What can the neurosciences learn from this trend in the humanities and the social sciences? How might these fields combine into a discipline of their own?

Related fields include:
- Neuroaesthetics
- Social Neuroscience (neuro- anthropology/sociology)
- Neuroethics (philosophy and bioethics)
- Neurohumanities
- Neuroeconomics
- Neuromarketing
- Neurotheology (spiritual neuroscience)
- Neurohistory
- Neuropolitics
- Neuropsychology
- Neuropsychiatry

Deadline:
Please submit a 300 word abstract and a brief (1-3 pg) CV to both editors by Oct 30, 2009

Editors:
Melissa Littlefield, University of Illinois (mml@illinois.edu)
Jenell Johnson, Louisiana State University (jjohn@lsu.edu)

Final versions of the essays will be tentatively due by June 1, 2010

Jenell Johnson
237E Allen Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70805

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4th Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium, 02/18-19/2010, Tampa

Deadline: November 20/2009

CALL FOR PAPERS
4th Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium
February 18 & 19, 2010
University of South Florida Libraries Tampa, Florida

Encountering the “Other” in the Medieval World: Textual Examinations of Resistance and Reconciliation Across the Traditions, 500-1500

Papers are welcome on, but not limited to, Judaism, Christianity or Islam in Europe and Asia during the Middle Ages (500-1500):
- Views of difference, diversity and pluralism
- Expressions of shared identities and common values
- Texts of threat, terror and violence
- Traditions affirming connection, inclusivity and reconciliation
- Patterns of religious, political and cultural imperialism
- Forms of cross-cultural exchange and dialogue
- Delineations of ethnic and vernacular boundaries

Exempla may be drawn from manuscripts and illuminations, critical editions, and portrayals in art and architecture.

The DEADLINE for submission is November 20, 2009.
Presenters will be notified by December 11, 2009.

This year’s keynote speaker and senior scholar is Dr. David Nirenberg, the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor - John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, Department of History, and in the College - The University of Chicago.

Submit papers via email to the attention of:

Elizabeth Tucker, Assistant to the Director
Special & Digital Collections
University of South Florida Libraries
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, LIB 122
Tampa FL 33620-5400

etucker@lib.usf.edu

813.974.1198 FAX: 813.396.9006

For more information about the symposium please visit: http://MedievalStudies.lib.usf.edu

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Transcultural mappings: emerging issues in comparative, transnational and area studies, 04/09-11/2010, Sydney

Deadline: November 30, 2009

“Transcultural mappings: emerging issues in comparative, transnational and area studies”

University of Sydney, 9-11 April 2010

The development of postcolonial and crosscultural studies concepts such as the interstitial and the hybrid have begged the question of how these notions are determined (e.g. interstitial between what and what?). Technically all cultures are hybrid, so when we discuss border crossings and hybridities (in relation, for example, to postcolonial or area studies or to comparative cultural studies), on what cultural, political and historical premises are we basing such discussions? Are we positing some mythical idea of an original cultural homogeneity as a mooring from which we embark towards intercultural discovery? Does this then in turn render the idea of cultural mappings, or the discussion of an identifable “culture” associated with a language, nature or region, superfluous? In which case, how can we continue to have intelligible conversations about distinctive locations of groups and individuals, constructed historically, geopolitically, culturally, socioeconomically and indeed ideologically? Assumptions about such constructions and their impacts, even as we challenge them, continue to inform our analyses and debates.

What conceptual tools, then, might emerge from an exercise of “transcultural mappings”? Can it represent a possible way through a certain postmodern and postcolonial impasse? What factors might determine how these mappings occur and how they evolve? On what assumptions and consenses (or questionings and discords) might they be based? The term itself is paradoxical: mapping is an exercise in plotting, delimiting, demarcating.. The transcultural, like its cousin the transnational, destabilises the certainties of maps, much as Peter has destabilised Mercator. It fuzzes the edges, shifts the foci, changes the shapes.

Specific themes of presentations might include:

- Locating culture in the glocalised third millennium: can it be done?

- Mapping and culture: complementary or mutually exclusive terms?

- Cultural identity, hybridity and border(zones)

- “Trans-”, “post” “inter-” and academic discourse

- Postcoloniality and postmodernity: is the discussion over?

- The geopolitics of culture / culture and globalisation / hegemonic cultures

- Culture, translation and the production, trafficking and negotiation of meanings

- Ethics, power and the challenges of conceptualising culture

- The South/North debate and the West/East debate

- Diasporas and comparative cultural studies

- Identity politics and area studies

- Interdisciplinarity, pluridisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity: definitions and demarcations

We invite scholars to submit 200 word abstracts for individual presentations (20 minutes) or panel proposals (90-120 minutes) that address these issues either theoretically or through case studies. Abstracts, along with your affiliation, contact information and a short biography should be sent as an email attachment in Microsoft Word by 30 November, 2009 to tcm.10@usyd.edu.au

Enquiries should also be sent to this address. If you wish your paper to be considered for refereed publication, it should be submitted by 1 March 2010.

Conference organising committee: Bronwyn Winter (convenor), Mary Crock, Stephanie Donald, Jennifer Dowling, Kiran Grewal, Fernanda Peñaloza, Blanca Tovias.

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The Discursive Space of Artists' Films, 04/15 - 17/2010, Glasgow

Deadline: November 9, 2009

The Discursive Space of Artists' Films,
Association of Art Historians conference,
Glasgow, UK, 2010

More than ever before artists working with the moving image are directly enlisting the attributes of conventional narrative cinema, both in terms of production and exhibition. Such borrowings include direct sampling and imitation, but also exceed an engagement with pre-existing films to develop original scenarios that employ a range of features formerly the preserve of the cinematic. Causal narration, mise-en-scène and working with actors, for instance, are increasingly common aspects of artists’ films.

Gallery-specific screening formats, such as multi-screen, looping and installation practices persist, but now frequently combine with ‘black box’ and large-scale projection, reminiscent of the cinematic spectacle.

Despite the pervasiveness of moving image art, the study of artists’ films (especially those that draw on cinema) sits awkwardly within the academy. Traditionally the remit of art history, this work’s affinity with experimental film and interrogation of dominant cinema has led to an increasing interest from film studies scholars. Indeed, we propose that a fusion of the theoretical frameworks developed separately by film theory and art criticism provides a productive interdisciplinary framework appropriate to the study of this body of work.

We invite papers that advance our understanding of the critical situation of cinema-influenced artists’ films within the academy and the related institutions of art and cinema. This session is linked to a Glasgow International screening event, curated by the session convenors, which presents a number of representative artists’ films to enhance our critical exploration of this prevalent area of contemporary visual art practice.

If you would like to offer a paper, please contact the session convenors directly, providing an abstract of your proposed paper in no more than 250 words, your name and institutional affiliation (if any).

Dr Sarah Smith
Lecturer
Dept of Historical & Critical Studies
The Glasgow School of Art
167 Renfrew Street
Glasgow
G3 6RQ
UK

Email: sa.smith@gsa.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://aah.org.uk/future-conferences/2010.php

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September 03, 2009

Migration - to Europe and/or to Asia? Opportunities and Challenges

Deadline: September 14, 2009

Asia Europe Journal
Intercultural Studies in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Call for Papers
Migration - to Europe and/or to Asia? Opportunities and Challenges

Migration has become an integral part of international relations and of socio-economic developments worldwide. With increased globalisation and a diversification of migration patterns, immigration policies have crept up political agendas as nations are facing the opportunities, but also the challenges of various forms and implications of migration. We are calling for contributions which address migration issues and policies at large across Asia and Europe. The focus for contributions can range from labour migration given the current economic context to a multifaceted account of, for example, how migration is dealt with, integration processes such as the rights and responsibilities of migrants and their families in the new country and/or the role of international institutions and the media, etc.

Papers should be written in English and be preceded by a short abstract. The paper should not exceed 7000 words. Only previously unpublished manuscripts shall be accepted for consideration. Contributions will be subject to an anonymous referee process (double-blind). Upon publication, an honorarium of 300 Euros will be granted.

Deadline of submission: 14 September 2009
For further information, please contact:
Dr Albrecht ROTHACHER, Editor-in-Chief
Ms Leonie SCHNEIDER, Editorial Assistant
Ms Lorivic FRAGATA, Editorial Secretary
T: +65 6874 9736
F: +65 6872 1135
E: asiaeuropejournal@asef.org

The Asia Europe Journal, the quarterly research-based periodical by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), publishes interdisciplinary and intercultural studies and research between Asia and Europe in the social sciences and humanities. Fields of interest include various aspects of bilateral relations, comparative studies, Asia area studies from a European perspective or European studies from an Asian viewpoint. Each volume is intended to focus on, if possible, one major theme (such as security, historical experiences, cultural perceptions, gender issues, civic rights and regional integration).

Find out more about the Asia Europe Journal on the web at www.aej.asef.org or www.springer.com

The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) was established in February 1997 under the framework of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process. It seeks to promote better mutual understanding and closer cooperation between the people of Asia and Europe through greater intellectual, cultural, and people-to-people exchanges. Further information on the Asia-Europe Foundation including its mission and activities is available at www.asef.org

The Asia Europe Journal is published by the Asia-Europe Foundation and Springer.

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National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages

CALL FOR PAPERS - Journal of NCOLCTL

The Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL, http://www.councilnet.org/jnclctl/index.htm) is soliciting articles for publication. As the official journal of the Council, the journal serves the professional interests of teachers, researchers, and administrators of less commonly taught languages in all settings and all levels of instruction. The Journal is refereed and published once a year.

Our general editorial focus is on policy, education, programs, advocacy, and research in the field of less commonly taught languages (all foreign languages except English, French, German, and Spanish). The envisaged segmentation of the Journal is as follows:
a. Methodology and Technology,
b. Academia,
c. Beyond Academia,
d. Social Embeddedness

The first section shall include papers focusing on broader theoretical and technological issues in all fields of less commonly taught languages. The second section will encompass reports about research and teaching in academia, at both K-12 and collegiate levels. The third section shall comprise papers addressing research and teaching in government and industry. Finally, the fourth section will address the issues of a broader social environment, ranging from heritage communities to advancing LCTLs in federal initiatives and legislation.

In preparing the manuscript, please use the latest edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), see
http://www.apa.org/journals/authors/guide.pdf
Manuscripts should be a maximum of 25 pages (excluding references, charts, notes, etc.) and preferably submitted electronically via email attachment. Double-space the manuscript throughout, including notes, references, and tables, using 12-point font with a 1.5 inch left margin. The manuscript should be accompanied by a 150 word (or less) abstract and a cover sheet containing the manuscript title, name, address, office and home telephone numbers, fax number, email address, and full names and institutions of each author. Because the manuscript will be blind reviewed, identifying information should be on the cover sheet only, and not appear in the manuscript.

While submissions are welcome at any point, only papers received by October 31, 2009 will be guaranteed consideration for the 2010 issue of the Journal.

ncolctl@mailplus.wisc.edu
NCOLCTL
4231 Humanities Building
455 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
Tel: 608-265-7903; FAX 608 265 7904.

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Twentieth-century Music and Politics, 04/14-16/2010, Bristol

Deadline: October 1, 2009

Twentieth-century Music and Politics

Department of Music
Victoria Rooms
University of Bristol

14-16 April 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstracts are invited for this three-day conference on 20th-century music and politics. Papers are welcome on all musics and all geographical areas. Current panel themes include: concert life and repertoire; emigration and musical identity; music as propaganda; wartime politics in Europe and America; music in totalitarian regimes.

Please send abstracts of no more than 400 words to:
Pauline.Fairclough@bristol.ac.uk

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 1 October 2009

Dr J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Senior Lecturer
Department of Music
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, Great Britain
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Music/jpeh-s.html

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August 21, 2009

The War Memoir in History and Literature, 11/22-24/2010, Australia

Deadline: June 1, 2010

CFP: War Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature, 22-24 November 2010, University of Newcastle, Australia

From the early modern period through to the present day, both combatants and non-combatants who lived through war have written about their experiences in autobiographical works. Sometimes published, but often not, such memoirs entail not only authors recalling their wartime lives but recasting, re-imagining and reprocessing their experiences. The popularity of war memoirs in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in particular raises questions about why, when and the manner in which conflicts are recalled and remembered, how these texts contribute to or conflict with collective memories, and how they can be read and interpreted by the reading public and scholars alike.

Papers are invited from scholars from across the disciplines working on any aspect of the memoir in relation to military conflicts in any locale, from the early modern period to the present day. In examining war memoirs and the manner in which both veterans and civilians recall past conflicts, this symposium will also contribute to a broader discussion on the experience of war across cultural boundaries.

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Jay Winter (Yale)

Paper proposals (as well a brief C.V.) should be submitted via e-mail to the conference organizers, Philip Dwyer Philip.Dwyer@newcastle.edu.au or Roger Markwick Roger.Markwick@newcastle.edu.au

Please send all queries to the same address. The deadline for receiving proposals is 1 June 2010. Papers will be circulated before the symposium. Accepted papers must be submitted for circulation to participants no later than 1 November 2010.

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Romani mobilities in Europe, 01/14-15/2010, Oxford

Deadline: 25th September 25, 2009.

Romani mobilities in Europe: multidisciplinary perspectives

January 14-15, 2010

Convened by Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) at the University of Oxford is organizing an international conference on the theme of Romani mobilities in Europe: multidisciplinary perspectives. The conference is part of ‘Mapping Romani mobilities in Europe’, a two-year research project funded by the John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund. The main aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students from across a variety of disciplines to discuss the multiple dimensions and impacts of Romani mobilities in Europe.

We invite proposals for papers which investigate the variety and directions of contemporary Romani mobilities into, out of and within the EU and locate them in the broader political, social, historical and cultural context. We welcome in particular proposals that focus on one or more of the following areas:
- Provide historical perspectives on policy and practice aimed at governing Romani mobilities;
- Interrogate, through the Roma case, the concept and practice of freedom of movement in the EU ;
- Investigate broader demographic trends or specific migratory movements of Roma in the EU;
- Explore the relationship between different legal statuses and patterns and directions of Romani mobility;
- Explore Romani politics in the enlarged EU and the process of Europeanisation of the Roma issue, looking in particular at international NGOs, Roma elite and grassroots activism;
- Investigate the relationship between indigenous and long-established Romani communities and newly arrived Roma migrants;
- Discuss continuities and discontinuities in public discourses and social policies for Roma, Gypsies and Travellers in the EU;
- Explore settlement and resettlement issues in the context of widespread anti-Gypsyism;
- Analyse the impacts of migration on identity and cultural production.

The conference will take place on 14-15 January 2010 and will feature a range of plenary and panel sessions and a keynote lecture by Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP.

Those wishing to present a paper are invited to submit an abstract (max 300 words) and a brief CV (max 150 words) to the conference organisers by Friday 25th September 2009.

For full details see: Call for Papers Romani mobilities in Europe http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/Call%20for%20Papers%20Romani%20mobilities%20in%20Europe.pdf (PDF).

An online registration system will be accessible shortly.

For paper proposals and further information regarding to the conference, please email : Nando Sigona or call on +44(0)1865 281703

Link: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/index.html?conf_conferences_140110

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August 19, 2009

Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World (x-post)

We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, a new print and electronic reference that will look at women today around the world and delve into the contexts of being female in the 21st century. Thus the scope of the encyclopedia will focus on women’s status starting in approximately 2000 and look forward. The work will present state-of-the-art research, ready-to-use facts.

The 1,000 signed entries (with cross-references and recommended readings) will cover issues in contemporary women’s and gender studies and the articles will include information relevant to the following academic disciplinary contexts:
- women in different cultures/countries;
- arts and media;
- business and economics;
- criminal justice;
- education;
- family studies;
- health;
- media;
- military;
- politics;
- science and technology;
- sports;
- environmental studies;
- and religion.

We are making assignments with a submission due date of December 1, 2009.

This comprehensive project will be published in stages by SAGE Reference and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and digital product available to students via the library’s electronic services. The General Editors, who will be reviewing each submission to the project, are Dr. Mary Zeiss Stange of Skidmore College, and Dr. Carol K. Oyster of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it is a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature, redefining women’s issues in today’s terms. Moreover, it can be a notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits. SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book credits for smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product or access to the online product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or more.

The list of available articles is already prepared, and as a next step we will e-mail you the Article List (Excel file) from which you can select topics that best fit your expertise and interests. Additionally, Style and Submission Guidelines will be provided that detail article specifications.

If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference with the Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, please contact me by the e-mail information below. Please provide a brief summary of your academic/publishing credentials in women’s and gender issues.

Thanks very much.

Sue Moskowitz
Director of Author Recruitment
Golson Media
women@golsonmedia.com

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Women and Gender in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe

Deadline: October 15, 2009

ASPASIA is an international peer-reviewed yearbook that aims to bring out the best scholarship in the field of interdisciplinary women's and
gender history focused on - and produced in - Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. ASPASIA is published by Berghahn Books, see
http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/asp/

ASPASIA 5 Call for Papers:

ASPASIA 5 will be an open issue, without a special theme. We invite submissions on all topics and historical periods. For more information, please visit the website or contact one of the editors.

The Forum of ASPASIA 5 will focus on the discipline of Women's and Gender History in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The main aim of this Forum is to bring together specialists in women's and gender history from the region in order to explore and discuss their
experiences with creating and developing historical research on women and gender and the institutionalization of the field. Topics can include the establishment of new programs and intra-European collaborative projects, the foundation of new journals, the appearance of important publications and other professional achievements.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Krassimira Daskalova at krasi@sclg.uni-sofia.bg

Francisca de Haan
Central European University, Budapest
E-mail: dehaanf@ceu.hu

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Oxford IR Journal on Secession

Deadline: September 1, 2009

Sovereignty and Secessionist Movements: Prospects and Challenges

Call for Papers
Abstracts due September 1, 2009
Papers due November 1, 2009

Recent events in Kosova, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia have drawn the attention of the international community to secessionist movements, refocusing interest on cases such as Tibet and Somaliland. The increased activity of secessionist movements has revitalized intellectual debate over the changing meaning of sovereignty, self-determination, statebuilding, recognition, and security concerns. As the international political community strives to come to terms with these issues, the academic community is faced with the challenge of identifying the possible implications of these developments.

St Antony’s International Review (stair) invites academics, policymakers, and practitioners to engage in an inter-disciplinary discussion of this theme. We seek to publish empirical, theoretical, and policy-oriented articles, and case studies that cover a variety of issue areas including secession, self-determination, and recognition. Articles could consider, but are not limited to, the following questions:
- What criteria have been used to justify secession?
- How do secession movements challenge our understanding of state sovereignty and selfdetermination?
- What role does the international community play in recognizing secession entities?
- What are the legal and political implications of recognizing secessionist movements?
- Can the international community defuse secessionist claims by ensuring the fair treatment of minorities and by encouraging participation in transnational organizations?
- What is the economic feasibility of secessionist entities?
- Are there common patterns involving secessionist movements in different geopolitical areas?
- What does the future hold for secessionist movements?

STAIR welcomes abstracts and idea proposals up to 500 words in length. Upon completion, main articles should not exceed 6000 words. In conjunction with this general call for papers, stair also seeks to publish book reviews of works that adhere to the advertised theme of the issue. Please submit proposals to stairsecession@gmail.com.

Notes for contributors are available at www.stair-journal.org
Contact: stairsecession@gmail.com

--
STAIR Editorial Team, Secession Edition
Grace Bolton - St. Antony's College
Sarah Steele - Christchurch
University of Oxford

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Evrodijalog, Journal for European Issues

Deadline: September 15, 2009

The Center for Regional Policy Research and Cooperation ‘Studiorum’ has an open call for papers for the Fall issue of EVRODIJALOG (Eurodialogue), Journal for European Issues, Volume 12. The CfP is opened until September 15, 2009, preferably submissions of FULL TEXTS or final drafts.

We encourage all those who are researching on various EU issues in the field of law, economy, public administration, international relations, political sciences, communication, new technologies and society, energy issue, environment, health, etc., to submit their papers.

Volume 12 shall give priority to research topics relevant from the perspective of the Copenhagen criteria and focused on analysis and case studies regarding the needs and requirements derived from the EU acquis.

The submitted article shall be published (hard-copy) in Macedonian language, with additional translation provided for manuscripts submitted on English. The electronic issue of Evrodijalog Volume 12 shall contain both the original manuscripts submitted by the authors and translated texts on Macedonian language.

Instructions for authors can be found at www.evrodijalog.eu The prepared manuscripts should be submitted to the Editors via evrodijalog@studiorum.org.mk no later than September 15, 2009

Editorial Board, EVRODIJALOG, Journal for European Issues

For further information please visit: www.studiorum.org.mk and www.evrodijalog.eu

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August 18, 2009

Peace Psychology in SEE

Deadline: September 24, 2009

As more scholars from diverse disciplines in South Eastern Europe (SEE) engage themselves with issues of peace and conflict in this part
of the world, the time is ripe for a volume that meets the needs of a growing number of scientists and practitioners in this region and
elsewhere who identify themselves as peace psychologists. No book is currently available that delineates the field of SEE peace psychology. Our intention in this volume is to identify and map broader psychological dimensions of research, interventions, and pedagogies that bear on the pursuit of peace and social justice in the context of SEE. We expect the volume to yield a coherent view of theory and practices from SEE perspectives that can guide future efforts in peace psychology scholarship and practice.

We, Olivera Simic and Zala Volcic, plan to edit a book on peace psychology in SEE, and we would like to invite you to submit an abstract for review. We are especially encouraging original studies written by SEE, or in collaboration with SEE scholars/practitioners.

To clarify the domain of peace psychology in SEE, we include in this invitation packet, two papers for your reference, which define the theoretical field of peace psychology.

Christie, D. J., Tint, B., Wagner, R. V., & Winter, D. D. (2008).
Peace psychology for a peaceful world. American Psychologist, 63, 540-552.

Christie, D. J. (2006). What is peace psychology the psychology of?
Journal of Social Issues, 62, 1-18.

We welcome scholarly manuscripts on a wide array of subjects concerning peace; nonviolent conflict resolution; reconciliation; and the causes, consequences, and prevention of war and other forms of destructive conflict. These other forms of conflict may be within nations, communities, or families. Possible topics may be: Children, Families, and War; Ethnicity and Peace; Media and Peace; Feminism and Peace; Peace and Education; Peace and Transitional Justice; Reconciliation, Public Policy and Action. We would like to encourage a mixture of empirical, theoretical, clinical, and historical work, as well as policy analysis, case studies, interpretive essays. Please keep in mind that while peace psychology encourages interdisciplinary perspectives, there should be an effort to relate your work to peace psychology, broadly “defined by theory and practice aimed at the development of patterns of behavior and cognition that prevent and mitigate both episodic and structural forms of violence (Christie, 2006, p. 6).”

By September 24, 2009, we would like to receive all abstracts. Please do not send us a full-text manuscript or a power point file. All abstracts and manuscripts will go through a review process. If your abstract is accepted, we would like to receive your full manuscript by June 15, 2010. Daniel Christie (Ohio State University) edits the Springer book series, and will be advising us along the way. There are twelve books in print or in progress for the series, covering topics such as global conflict resolution, nonviolence, forgiveness and reconciliation, peace psychology in Asia, cultures of peace, transitional justice systems, youth violence, and liberation psychology.

For the Author’s Guide giving specific instructions for preparing your abstract and chapter, contact organizers
Olivera Simic osimic73@gmail.com and Zala Volcic zvolcic@uq.edu.au.

Olivera Simic
LLM, MA, Doctoral Candidate in Law
University of Melbourne
and
Dr Zala Volcic
School of Journalism and Communication,
University of Queensland

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August 12, 2009

Conducting Decade Watch Activities in Hungary

The deadline for submission of proposals is August 27, 2009.

Call for Proposals
Conducting Decade Watch Activities in Hungary

The Roma Initiatives office of the Open Society Institute (www.soros.org/initiatives/roma) seeks an organization or institution to provide technical support for Decade Watch activities in Hungary. The purpose of the support is to conduct monitoring activities within the framework of the Decade Watch initiative (www.decadewatch.org).

In their applications, applicants should demonstrate:
The expertise and capacity to conduct field research and advocacy activities;
The willingness and ability to involve Roma civil society in Decade Watch activities;
Expertise on Roma-related policy and social policy in Hungary;
An understanding of the Decade of Roma Inclusion (www.romadecade.org ) and of Decade Watch, and their respective goals;
Independence from government and governmental bodies/authorities.

Applicants should be prepared to carry out the following activities:
Conducting questionnaire research ;
Conducting desk and library research;

Data entry;
Drafting a country report based on the results of the research;
Cooperating with Roma NGOs to formulate civil society responses to findings;
Publicizing research results;
Participating in consultation and meetings with Decade Watch teams from other countries.

Interested organizations should include the following materials in their application:
A cover letter containing the organization's essential data and the intent to apply for this project (one page);
Two references from current or past project funders and/or partners (one page each);
A plan on how to reach out to and involve Hungarian Roma civil society in Decade Watch activities (one page);
A description of the organization's past work in field research and/or advocacy (one page).

Applications should be sent by e-mail to decadewatch@romadecade.org.

Roma Initiatives will review applications and if necessary will schedule interviews with applicant organizations in the first half of September 2009. This project will run from September 2009 to March 2010, with the possibility of an extension.

Questions and inquiries may be addressed to decadewatch@romadecade.org.

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Europe in Today's World Crises, 10/08-10/2009, Cluj

Europe in Today’s World Crises

Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
8 -10 October, 2009

The modern society has brought liberties, rights, science and technology development, a global horizon of knowledge and unprecedented values. This society still bears the marks of past crises in spite of the increasing possibilities of knowledge and action. Today’s world goes through multiple crises, including the latest financial crisis representing the cord for other critical points. An ecological crisis has been signaled for many years.

In the XXth century, Europe was the place of traumatic changes that led to the Second World War. That Europe was replaced in time by a more united society organised around freedom and human values, which keep playing a crucial role in the orientation and evolution of today’s world.

The world is continuously changing due to new technologies, the new emergent superpowers, the economic power and globalization. Establishing Europe’s role in the present and future, studying the existing crises and searching for solutions are on today’s agenda.

The international conference: Europe in today’s world crises, organised by the Faculty of European Studies of Babeş-Bolyai University, has the goal of finding answers to current questions and issues like:

1. Was Hegel right to consider the modern society a society exposed to crises?

2. Which are the present crises of Europe? Typology and global context.

3. Can we talk about a demographic crisis? How about a creativity crisis or a motivation crisis?

4. Is secularization a source of today’s present crises?

5. The relation between Europe and the United States.

6. The relation between Europe and China.

7. The crisis of the relations among European countries.

8. The Europeans’ duties.

Program Committee:

Andrei Marga, Rector of “Babeş-Bolyai” University, amarga@staff.ubbcluj.ro

Nicolae Păun, Vice-dean of Faculty of European Studies, npaun@euro.ubbcluj.ro

This announcement also represents a second call for papers that we invite you to submit [title and 50-80 words abstract] to the following addresses:

Dr. Monica Meruţiu,
m_merutiu@yahoo.com

Diana Reţe,
briela2001@yahoo.com

Babes-Bolyai University

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Phone #: 40-743-549260

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Internship call-Analytica, Macedonia

INTERNSHIP CALL

AUTUMN 2009

We welcome university students, both undergraduates and graduates, to apply for an internship at Analytica, a Think-Tank from Skopje, Macedonia. There are no citizenship requirements. Good research skills are required. Candidates should have strong interest in policy research in one or more of the following fields:

European studies,
South East Europe,
Regional cooperation,
Public administration,
Foreign and Security policy,
Energy and
Environmental studies.

Working language of Analytica is English and proficiency of the English language is essential.

There are four internship cycles per year:

Winter cycle: 10 January - 30 March
Spring cycle: 10 April - 30 June
Summer cycle: 10 July - 30 September
Autumn cycle: 5 October - 25 December

How to Apply
The deadlines for submitting an application for the Autumn Internship Cycle is: 01 September 2009.

Interested applicants should send their CVs (résumés) along with a motivation letter explaining the reasons for your application to:
internship@analyticamk.org

The application procedure is the same for both residential and
non-residential internship.

Analytica
Dame Gruev 7-8/3
1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Tel/Fax: + 389 2 312 1948
http://www.analyticamk.org/
info@analyticamk.org

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Caucasian Review of International Affairs

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE AUTUMN 2009 AND WINTER 2010 ISSUES
THE CAUCASIAN REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

The Caucasian Review of International Affairs (CRIA) is pleased to invite submissions for its Autumn 2009 issue (Vol. 3, No. 4) and Winter 2010 issue (Vol. 4, No. 1) to be published respectively in the beginning of November 2009 and February 2010. Deadline for submissions is September 30, 2009, for the Autumn 2009 issue, and November 30, 2009, for the Winter 2010 issue. Submission guidelines can be viewed at http://cria-online.org/Submit_a_Paper.html.

CRIA is a Germany-based quarterly peer-reviewed non-profit and online academic journal. The Review is committed to promote a better understanding of the regional affairs by providing relevant background information and analysis, as far as the Caucasus in general, and the South Caucasus in particular are concerned. CRIA also welcomes lucid, well-documented papers on other countries and regions including especially Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe as well as on all aspects of international affairs, from all political viewpoints. With an ever-growing readership, the Review is widely recognized and distributed internationally. The last issue of the Review can be viewed at http://www.cria-online.org.

CRIA is particularly interested in papers on the following topics:

Regional topics
Western energy interests in the South Caucasus and Central Asia
The Nabucco gas pipeline;
Role of the South Caucasus in the energy security of Europe;
Integration of the South Caucasus to the Euro-Atlantic structures;
European Union and the conflict resolution in the South Caucasus;
Prospects of the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict;
Prospects of the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement and its implications for the South Caucasus;
Relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey;
Russian policy towards the South Caucasus;
US policy towards the South Caucasus;
Georgia and its NATO-membership aspirations;
Prospects of the South Caucasian regional security;
Regional integration in the South Caucasus;
Iranian nuclear program and its implications for the South Caucasus;
Situation in the North Caucasus;
Ethno-Nationalism and Violence in the North-Western Caucasus;
Azerbaijan 's relations with the Moslem world;
Islam in Azerbaijan; Islam in the Caucasus;
Foreign policy of Armenia;
Iran-Armenia relations;
Azerbaijani community of Iran;
Legal status of the Caspian Sea;
Legal dispute between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan;
Turkish foreign policy in the new era;
Turkey 's accession to the EU;
Islam in Central Asia;
New Islamic Directions in Central Asia: Internal and External Dimension;
Global and regional powers in Central Asia;
Energy security in Central Asia;
Ukraine 's foreign policy - NATO and EU versus Russia;
Moldova’s political crisis and its implications for the country’s geopolitical orientation;
Armenian Diaspora and lobby in the US – its influence over US foreign policy.

International relations and general topics
Theory of International Relations;
Problems of the Modern International Law;
US foreign policy;
Russia’s foreign policy;
EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy and the foreign policies of the member-states;

This is a preliminary list. Please feel free to offer alternative topics, including book reviews, to the Editor.

All correspondence and submissions should be e-mailed to: contact@cria-online.org

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Ab Imperio 2009

The editors of Ab Imperio solicit contributions to the remaining two issues of the journal in 2009. The description of the annual program and of the two issues' thematic foci follow. Information on Ab Imperio can be found at the journal's website http://abimperio.net

CALL FOR PAPERS: Ab Imperio in 2009
Homo Imperii: The Imperial Situation of Multiple Temporalities and Heterogeneous Space

When Marc Bloch coined his famous definition of history as a science about humans in time,[1] he anticipated by several decades the "anthropological turn" in historical studies. The humanistic message of Bloch's formulation is ambivalent: does it suggest that human beings change together with the circumstances of "total history," or that they remain essentially the same throughout different epochs and situations? Is it really possible to "translate" adequately the life experience of a representative of a certain epoch in terms of a different time period? How do "grand narratives" look through the prism of an individual's life experience? How does one's life perception depend on the different aspects of the imperial situation that may combine uneven social and cultural spaces, and elements of different epochs, both archaic and modern? Can the methods of biographical writing and prosopography be regarded as an alternative to grand, depersonalized historical narratives? Writing biography is inconceivable without taking into consideration time and space as crucial factors, but how does the specificity of these features affect human life and its perception?

[1] In the 1950s, this formula ("Science des hommes. dans le temps") was translated into English in the both old-fashioned and misleading way: "The science of men. in time", even though in the next sentence Bloch clarified the meaning of the word: "L'historien ne pense pas seulement 'humain'"-"think [only] of the human." Cf.: Marc Bloch. Apologie pour l'histoire ou Metier d'historien. 2e edition. Paris, 1952. p. 4-5; Marc Bloch. The Historian's Craft. New York, 1953. P. 27.

No. 3/2009 "Maison des sciences de l'Homme: Human Sciences in the Empire"

The history of enlightenment in Russia as a project of normalization and Europeanization . scientific classifications of the population . borrowings and adaptations of the scientific discourses and practices of nineteenth-century colonial empires as a condition of admittance into the club of European colonial powers . psychology, its subjects and its objects of study . social sciences in imperial context . the sciences of imperial diversity: anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, etc. . museums and exhibitions as imperial "Panopticons" . political human sciences in empire . the humanistic paradigm and the problem of representation of the modern personality . medicine as a language of studying the individual and society . the imperial concept of norm and deviation . scientific foundations of uprising against empire . projects of rational cognition and re-description of empire and its inhabitants . "caring for souls:" theology on personality and empire.

No. 4/2009 "From Homo Imperii to Civitas: Projects of Imagined Imperial Communities"

Is civic society possible in empire? . Projects of state reform of imperial population: social engineering from above in empire . great ideologies on "small men" and their communities . "underground Russia" as an alternative social network . the corporate structure of imperial society: cooperative, professional, confessional, et al. self-organization . Utopian projects of imperial society . political parties and movements and programs of imperial social reform . the empire of "obshchestvennost'" in Russia and USSR.

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August 10, 2009

Russian Studies

JOURNAL/CFP- International Journal of Russian Studies

The fourth issue of the International Journal of Russian Studies has been published.
You can find it at http://radtr.net/tr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=138.

We are now calling for articles for our fifth issue. Articles are accepted on topics relating to the Central Eurasian region. The deadline for the fifth issue will be 31 December 2009.

Prof. Ayse Dietrich
Editor
e-mail: dietrichayse@yahoo.com
editor@radtr.net

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Resident Director position available immediately, Vladimir

Immediate Opening

Resident Director
Russian/Eurasian Outbound Programs
Vladimir, Russia

Position Description

SUMMARY:
The Vladimir Resident Director serves as the American Councils representative and in-country Program Director for participants on the Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program, hosted by the KORA Centre for Russian Language in Vladimir. The Vladimir Resident Director represents American Councils in his/her actions and words during the tenure of appointment. S/he must be available to program participants on a daily basis; observe student classes and meet regularly with teachers, administrators, and students; and arrange group travel and cultural programs. The Vladimir Resident Director must be available to participants during any emergencies that arise and must communicate regularly with the Russian/Eurasian Outbound program staff in Washington, DC. Prior to departure for Russia, the Resident Director must attend American Councils orientation programs: for both resident directors, and for participants. He/she must travel to Russia with the student group at the beginning of the program and return to Washington, DC with the group at the end of the program. The Vladimir Resident Director reports to the Russian/Eurasian Outbound Office Program Manager.

ANTICIPATED EMPLOYMENT DATES for the academic year 2009-2010 Russian Language Program are August 23, 2009 through May 21, 2010, with possible re-appointment.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree or higher in Russian language or area studies or equivalent;
Advanced Russian language skills -- written and oral (minimum 2/2+ on ACTFL scale);
Study, work, or extensive travel experience in Russia;
Experience overseeing and guiding groups (prefer experience with students and/or youth);
Demonstrated skills in academic and personal counseling; and
Demonstrated skills in general financial accountability.

TO APPLY:
Send letter/resume and salary requirements to HR Department, American
Councils, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036.
Fax: 202-572-9095 or 202-833-7523; email: resumes@americancouncils.org

Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer.

American Councils improves education at home and abroad through the support of international research, the design of innovative programs, and the exchange of students, scholars, and professionals around the world. American Councils employs a full-time professional staff of over 370, located the U.S. and in 40 cities in 24 countries of Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Asia and the Middle East.

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Traditional and Non-traditional Threats to Central Asian Security, 10/22-23/2009, New Delhi

Deadline: August 31, 2009

CONF./CFP- Trad. & Non-trad. Threats to C. Asian Security, New Delhi, Oct 22-23

International Seminar on Traditional and Non-traditional Threats to Central Asian Security

Centre for Russian & Central Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Concept Note

Traditional conception of security emphasizes territorial integrity and national sovereignty as primary values to be protected. In this notion, traditional threats are essentially related to external military threats that seeks to undermine the security of the sovereign state and its territorial integrity. Throughout the Cold War period, security perspectives were based on state-centric approach of classical realism and neo-realism, which considered empowerment of military power as the cornerstone of national security.

The security concept that evolved in the 1980s broadened the concept of security to include non-military security threats or non-raditional threats such originating from economic, social, environmental and political issues. It focuses on human security and is centred on the empowerment of the people vis-a-vis various problems, conflicts and issues.

The threats to Central Asian security are both external and internal, for which military security is essential. But today, challenges from non-traditional threats are greater than traditional ones. Ethnic, religious and linguistic issues are part of the social sphere which can create instability. Similarly, poverty, hunger, unemployment and unequal distribution of wealth are related to economic insecurity. Environmental issues are going to pose the biggest challenge to the regional states in the near future. The drying up of the Aral Sea is affecting the health and lives of hundreds of thousands of people cutting across republics. Water-related confrontations are not unlikely given the problem of water in the region.

It would be interesting to know the kind of problems the Central Asian states face both from traditional and non-traditional security perspectives. The proposed international seminar to be organised by the Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, JNU, is an attempt to bring together a number of scholars from the region and outside who can provide different perspectives on the above issues.

The themes to be covered are:

Traditional security issues
- geopolitics and power rivalry, cross-border terrorism, drugs and arms-trafficking, inter-state issues of border, water, land and other resource
Non-traditional security issues
- Environment and Ecology, with special reference to Aral Sea Crisis
- Human Development and Human Security
- Social issues, ethnicity, migration, Internal Displacement
- Economic Issues – Unemployment, poverty, rural-urban group, inequity

The seminar would be held for two days, from 22-23 October 2009.

Those willing to participate are requested to send their abstracts by 31 August 2009. The selected participants would be informed of their status by 15 September 2009. The final date of submission of complete draft of the paper is 7 October 2009. English would be the only language medium for the Seminar.

All the seminar participants would be provided accommodation, food and local transportation including travel from the Delhi airport/railway station by the Seminar Organisers. Indian participants would be paid travel allowances as per the university rules. It would not be possible for the organisers to bear the cost of air travel by foreign participants due to lack of funds. However, all other expenses during their stay in India would be paid by the organisers.

Prof. Ajay Patnaik
Director, Russian & Central Asian Area Studies Programme
School of International studies, Jawaharlal Nehru Unviersity
E-mail: patnaik.ajay@gmail.com
akpatnaik@mail.jnu.ac.in
Tel: 91+11+26704367/26704365 (off.)
91+11+26741322 (res.); 9811588100 (mob)

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Redefining Central Asia, Peace & Conflict Society, 10/09-11/2009, Toronto

CONF./CFP- Redefining Central Asia, Peace & Conflict Society, Toronto, Oct 9-11

Redefining Central Asia: Cooperation, Stabilization & Implications of Regional Security

(Call for Papers and Conference Backgrounder PDF is attached)

Date: Friday, 9 October - Sunday, 11 October
Location: University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, 84 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario

Event Details: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7856

The 2009 Peace and Conflict Society’s 4th Annual International Conference, "Redefining Central Asia: Cooperation, Stabilization & Implications of Regional Security" will bring together over 150 academics, diplomats, practitioners and students to address subjects as diverse as human rights, identity politics, state building and transition, resource scarcity, environmental and energy politics, terrorism, insurgency, foreign policy, and transnational criminal activity such as drug and arms trafficking in Central Asia. Through keynote addresses, breakout sessions, regional plenary sessions, and a symposium of student research, the Conference seeks to maximize opportunities for interaction between speakers and delegates in order to further public policy and academic dialogue about this critically important region, the challenges it faces, and potential solutions.

Follow this link to download a detailed description of the conference and the call for papers:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/resources/conferences/Conference%20description%20for%20Webpage-%20Redefining%20Central%20Asia.pdf

Sponsored by the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, the Munk Centre for International Studies and the International Human Rights Program at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Redefining Central Asia will feature over 30 leading academics, diplomats, policy makers and experienced practitioners who will address over 125 delegates over the three-day conference, held at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. In addition to a symposium of student research, one of the unique features of the conference is a Graduate and Internship Fair, which will allow IGOs, NGOs, international research institutions, think tanks and academic programs access to undergraduate, graduate and professional students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in Central Asia.

For more information, please see www.redefiningcentralasia.org
To submit a paper to the student symposium, e-mail
studentsymposium@trudeaucentre.ca

Sabrina A. Bandali
Student Symposium Coordinator
Redefining Central Asia: Cooperation, Stabilization and Implications
of Regional Security

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Beyond Cold War Linearities: Entangled Histories and Interactive Ideas, 12/04-06/009, Budapest

Deadline: October 15, 2009

CFP: Beyond Cold War Linearities: Entangled Histories and Interactive Ideas

International Conference

Beyond Cold War Linearities: Entangled Histories and Interactive Ideas
4-6 December 2009
OSA Archivum, Arany Janos utca 32, 1051, Budapest

The anniversary of 1989 regime change brought about a wide range of discussions about Communist legacies and Cold War impact on the transitions in the Eastern European countries. In this respect, one can detect a tendency of approaching Communism by underlying the institutions which influenced its demise, or of analyzing transitions as a socio-political struggle for European (re)integration. In either way, the destinies of the ex-Communist countries are subjected to linear narratives, converging towards the vision of a teleological (self-)liberation. The interest in the past's influence paradoxically cohabitates with a series of epistemological local reticences regarding applied research on recent history. This can be correlated with a general scarcity concerning meta-reflections on Cold War studies paradigms and - implicitly - with an empirical inaccessibility of the archival documents related to Cold War propaganda. One intriguing case is in this sense that of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, the importance of which is still emotionally evoked and scientifically underexplored because of the persistence of traumatic views about the past and because of unavailability of the sources.

We invite therefore proposals related to social sciences and humanities to evaluate the current state of area studies, Cold War history and media theories in order to enhance not just a meta-critical view about Cold War and Communism, but also to spur national historiographies to analytically appropriate their past forged by international policies and still made obscure by a plethora of undigested documents. In order to enhance the formation of truly critical and inter-cultural frameworks on teaching and conducting research on recent history, we also invite contributions with courses aiming at providing systematic introduction to the study of totalitarian societies by combining post-totalitarian theoretical frameworks with local narratives pertaining to social and oral history. By bringing together the history of ideas, psychohistory, symbolic interactionism, social history and media anthropology, the conference seeks in this way to concretely aggregate an interdisciplinary framework for the study of a period characterized by complex intellectual mobility, the intricate interplay of fantasies about the "Other", different societal accommodations, generational changes and conceptual imbrications between East-European traditions and Western cultural and political models.

The conference will be held in 4-6 December 2009 in Budapest and is designed to prepare an edited volume. Paper givers will be asked to present first drafts of their book chapters for precirculation among
participants and for intensive discussion at the conference. Limited fellowship funds might be available for non-EU participants. Please contact Olga Zaslavskaya zaslavsk@ceu.hu
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Interested scholars should submit:
title and one-page abstract of their paper;
CV and list of publications;
institutional affiliation or place of residence.

Please submit materials by 15 October to
Olga Zaslavskaya
OSA Archivum, Budapest
zaslavsk@gmail.com
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August 06, 2009

Slavonic & East European Studies, 03/27-29/2010, Cambridge

Deadline: September 15, 2009

Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies 2010

Call for papers in Languages and Linguistics

The annual conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) will take place at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge (UK), from 27 to 29 March 2010. Abstracts are invited for individual 20-minute papers or for entire panels (2-3 papers) in any area of Slavonic philology, linguistics, language teaching, and translation studies. The working languages of the conference are English and Russian. Proposals for complete themed panels are particularly welcome.

At this year's conference we had around thirty papers in formal linguistics, historical linguistics, applied linguistics, semiotics, language teaching, and translation studies presented by academics and graduate students from institutions in a wide range of countries. The annual convention as a whole brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines including literary studies, linguistics, cultural studies, history, economics, politics, sociology, film and media studies as they pertain to Central and Eastern Europe and to the former Soviet Union.

To submit an abstract or a panel proposal, you need to download the proposal form from the BASEES website at http://fp.paceprojects.f9.co.uk/BASEES2010.htm, and email it to the linguistics stream organiser, David Willis, at dwew2@cam.ac.uk
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 September 2009.

Further details are available on the website at www.basees.org.uk

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Post-Communism and the New European Identity, 11/05-07/2009, Romania

Deadline: August 31, 2009

International Conference: Post-Communism and the New European Identity

The Research Centre on Identity and Migration Issues within the Faculty of Political Science and Communication, University of Oradea is organizing the International Conference “Post-Communism and the New European Identity”, that will be held on November 5th -7th, 2009, in Oradea, Romania.

The main topics of the conference are:
- Identity and mobility in Europe
- The image of the New Europe in the mass-media
- Institutional changes and democratic reforms after the fall of communism

Proposals (including a paper title and a 200-250 words abstract of the proposed paper) should be submitted by email as MS Word attachment to contact@e-migration.ro, before September 1st, 2009. The papers presented at the conference will be published in the conference volume. Several selected papers could be published in the Journal of Identity and Migration Studies (see www.jims.e-migration.ro ).

There is no conference fee. The organizers will provide conference materials and the publication of the selected papers. The travel, accommodation and meals costs are to be paid by the participants. The organizers will assist you with information concerning different types of accommodation.

The registration form and the preliminary program of the conference are available on the RCIMI’s 2009 Conference webpage.
More information: www.e-migration.ro

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August 05, 2009

Lessons from Transition, Europolis

Deadline: December 1, 2009.

Call for Papers
EUROPOLIS
Issue 7, July 2010
Political Science Journal
www.polito.ubbcluj.ro/cpa/rev/en/europolis.html

EUROPOLIS is a ”peer review” journal, abstracted and indexed in relevant international databases. Issue 7/2010 focuses on the transition process undertaken in the post-communist world and the lessons that can be learnt.

The editors encourage contributions in the form of comparative studies or single-case studies that catch and analyze specific political phenomena, contexts, and developments. Articles may tackle, but not restricted to, issues like the legacies of the previous regimes, successful paths of transition, political parties and their electorates, the road to European accession and integration, the role of civil society in transition, problems and opportunities of democratization and consolidation of democracy, the impact of conflicts, the rise of extremist forces, and the ethnic divisions in post-communist countries.

The journal has three sections: articles, work in progress, and book reviews. Details at www.polito.ubbcluj.ro/cpa/rev/en/europolis.html.

Dead-line: 1 December 2009.
Contact: revista.europolis@yahoo.com

The Editorial Board, Europolis Journal, Centre for Political Analysis, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
www.polito.ubbcluj.ro/cpa/rev/en/europolis.html

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August 03, 2009

40 Years of philological studies in Sibiu, 11/19-21/2009, Romania

Deadline: September 20, 2009

Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania, School of Letters and Arts

We invite papers in English, French and German investigating issues that are of interest to Higher Education professionals and researchers in the philological fields.

CALL FOR PAPERS:
In today's globalised world, language, literary and cultural studies facilitate not merely a much-needed dialogue between different cultures but also a mediation between local and global culture. Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu is proud to celebrate a forty-year-long tradition in fostering disciplines that respond to the cultural, political and social effects of globalisation.

The topics to be approached by the participants may include (though they should not be limited to):
* Literacy and Multiliteracies
* Durability vs. change, essentialism vs. relativism
* Universal vs. culture-specific, enduring vs. perishable values
* Metropolitan vs. (post)colonial/communist discourses
* Cultural amnesia and cultural anamnesis
* Assessing time, duration and transience and their representation in literature
* Aesthetic temporality versus social, religious, moral, political, perspectives on time
* Historicity and genre
* Cultural institutions (literature, literary history, the canon, translation, higher education etc.)
* Cultural identities in temporal perspectives
* Temporal dimensions of trauma
* Digital identities and virtual lives
* Digital languages and multimedia in the classrooms
* Discipline and interdisciplinarity
* Inter- and trans-cultural exchanges (translation studies and practice)
* The changing profession (redefining the mission of HE post-Bologna)

Presentations will be 20-minutes long plus 10 minutes for discussion. Roundtable proposals are also welcome. Authors are invited to submit abstracts, which will be published in the Conference programme. Abstracts may not exceed 200 words and will be accompanied by a list of 7-10 keywords and a short biographical note detailing the author's field of expertise and main achievements. They should be submitted in word format. Proposals must include titles of papers/ roundtables, name and institutional affiliation; mailing address, phone, fax and e-mail address.

A selection of papers will be published in East/West Cultural Passage and American, British and Canadian Studies.

Deadline for the submission of proposals: 20 September 2009
Please send proposals to: Ana Blanca Ciocoi-Pop ana_blanca1006@yahoo.com
Anca Iancu ancaian@yahoo.com

Participation fee: 50 Euros (to be paid upon arrival)

We look forward to welcoming you in Sibiu! We mention that Sibiu city is situated in Central Romania ( Transylvania) and is well connected with other Romanian or European cities by air ( 15 air destinations from the International Airport of Sibiu http://www.sibiuairport.ro/ ) ,train or bus ( check www.atlassib.ro ).

40 YEARS OF PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES IN SIBIU

REGISTRATION FORM
http://www.caleidoscop.org/Members/Marius/news-caleidoscop-2009/40-years-of-philological-studies-in-sibiu-19-21-november-2009

OVIDIU PALCU
PhD Candidate
University of Athens
Faculty of Political Science
mobile phone: 0030-6978696257

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Travelling virtuoso in the long 19th century, 07/05-07/2010, Bristol

Deadline: October 15, 2009

CHOMBEC (Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth), University of Bristol

Worlds to Conquer: the travelling virtuoso in the long 19th century
Victoria Rooms, Bristol, UK, 5-7 July 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

An Italian troupe arrives in Macao from Chile in 1833 and mounts seven Rossini operas over the summer before moving on to Calcutta; a renowned French harpist, bigamist and forger, dies in Sydney in 1856 after a reunion with a musical fellow-criminal from his London days; a Canadian diva sings 'Home, sweet home' to British sailors in the middle of The Barber of Seville at her debut in Malta, while nearly a hundred years earlier another young singer loses her life, her daughter and her fabulous Indian fortune on the voyage home. Many other musicians, remembered or forgotten, move around the world, often unconcerned with national spheres of influence, amassing debts or fortunes and acquiring or abandoning spouses as careers and reputations are made, lost or reinvented.

Stories of such musical adventurers abound, especially from the 19th century in the era of steamships and gold rushes, and for every colourful rogue or genius such as Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt who conquered Europe there was another who travelled the world. The glamour and the tedium, journeys and repertoires, tribulations and triumphs, stamina and stardom pertaining to such characters can be savoured for their own sake or framed within the contexts of travel literature. Yet they can also be invoked to challenge the musical histories in which they have all too seldom appeared.

Why did they go? How did they or their agents manage their tours? Was their repertoire tailored to national communities; was it old or new? Were touring networks and remittances a crucial part of the international musical economy? How do we assess the standard of performance in peripheral contexts (and when were they peripheral)? What were the patronage networks and the national distinctions and tensions? What was the significance of the virtuoso group, the virtuoso family? How and why were institutional careers overseas sought, sustained, endured? Was the visiting examiner a new type of virtuoso?

The posing or--even better--the answering of these and related research questions in 30-minute slots is invited and encouraged. Emphasis is on the world beyond Europe, on translocality and transnationality, on musical provision and consumption, on case studies involving individuals, groups, genres, places, institutions and repertoires, and on the interrelationships between music and politics, geography, economics, technology and material culture in the 'long' 19th century, a portion of whose global musical history we may thereby begin writing. It is hoped that an edited book will be based on selected conference proceedings.

Proposals for a paper or a panel with an abstract of not more than 200 words should be sent to Stephen Banfield s.d.banfield@bristol.ac.uk by 15 October 2009.

Programme Committee: Benjamin Walton (University of Cambridge), Esmeralda Rocha (student member, University of Western Australia), Kerry Murphy (University of Melbourne), Stephen Banfield (University of Bristol).

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July 31, 2009

Studies in Eastern European Cinema

Studies in Eastern European Cinema is a new journal published by Intellect
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=176/

Edited by John Cunningham at Sheffield Hallam University j.cunningham@shu.ac.uk
and Ewa Mazierska at the University of Central Lancashire ehmazierska@uclan.ac.uk
Studies in Eastern European Cinema will embrace all aspects of cinema - cultural, historical, theoretical and
industrial - within the countries of Eastern Europe, from the Baltic to the Adriatic.

It will provide a dynamic and innovative peer-reviewed academic outlet and discursive focus for the worldwide community of Eastern European film scholars, and will be edited by a board of experienced, internationally recognised experts in the field.

Please send 300-word English language abstracts and requests for further information to the editors. Thank you.

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July 29, 2009

Nabokov Online Journal

Deadline: November 2009

CFP: V. Nabokov’s The Original of Laura

Nabokov Online Journal, Vol. IV, 2010

www.nabokovonline.com

The Editors of the Nabokov Online Journal announce a special block of articles devoted to V. Nabokov’s The Original of Laura (scheduled to appear in the fall of 2009). The cluster will be published in the fourth volume of the journal.

Topics:

The list of possible directions to explore can be found below, although these general outlines will be adapted after the actual publication of the fragment of Nabokov’s novel in November 2009. At this point the Editors would appreciate only the declaration of your intention to participate in this discussion.

Format:

Regular-length papers and short scholarly notes are welcome. The manuscripts should follow the MLA style. Please use parenthetical references and add a list of works cited.

Timeframe:

As soon as possible – express your intention to contribute an article or note;

Mid-November 2009 – The Original of Laura will be published worldwide;

15 January 2010 – deadline for submission of a short abstract describing your topic; the Editors will contact you to approve and/or discuss the topic;

1 April 2010 – deadline for submission of your article or note for peer review

List of suggested topics:

1) An intrinsic analysis of the novel: Its plot, structure, imagery, and motifs (to the extent possible when treating a fragment of a work of art in progress);

2) The Original of Laura and the Nabokov canon: The place of the novel in relation to Nabokov’s other writings;

3) Translations of The Original of Laura (we encourage contributions on all available languages in which the work will appear on the market);

4) The poetics of incompleteness (The Original of Laura and other similarly unfinished works);

5) Nabokov as a literary phenomenon: How will his art be viewed in light of the new publication?

6) The publication history of The Original of Laura.

7) Public responses to The Original of Laura.

Contact Information:

Yuri Leving and Nassim Balestrini

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July 28, 2009

The French Revolution in 2010: the Bicentenary comes of age?, 07/05-06/2010, UK

Deadline: October 1, 2009

Call for Papers
The French Revolution in 2010: the Bicentenary comes of age?

Conference, University of Portsmouth, UK, 5-6 July 2010.

Associated emblematically with François Furet, the dominant historical interpretation of 1789 expressed in 1989 asserted, against an alleged Marxist orthodoxy, that control of politics through language was the overriding driver – and the fundamental problem – of revolutionary processes. Twenty-one years later, has such a view ‘come of age’ by standing the test of time, or is it challenged, undermined, or indeed overtaken by newer (or older) ways of seeing the conflict and crisis of late eighteenth-century France?

Even more fundamentally, in 1989 the historiographical conflict over the Revolution took place within a cultural and historical frame that continued to acknowledge the events of 1789 as of world-historical significance: a significance seemingly reinforced, though in unpredicted ways, by the upheavals of 1989 itself in Europe. Can we still claim that the French Revolution has resonances in the present, and if we can, are those echoes the old ones of social structure and political control, or newer ideas of cultural influence?

To debate these issues, the University of Portsmouth is hosting an international conference on 5-6 July 2010. Proposals for papers (20-25 minute duration) are invited on any aspect of the origins, antecedents, precursors, events, processes, structures, proponents, opponents, outcomes and heritages of the French Revolution. Interdisciplinary studies and reflections are particularly welcome. A broad range of individual perspectives is sought, but presenters are also encouraged to respond to the larger issues raised above, particularly through contextualising individual research projects.

Please send abstracts of proposed papers (250 words) and a brief CV (2 pages max.) to david.andress@port.ac.uk

The closing date for this call is 1 October 2009.

Prof. D Andress
University of Portsmouth
Milldam
Portsmouth, PO1 3AS, UK

(+44) (0) 2392 84 2204

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Comparative literature, 03/19-20/2010, Toronto

Deadline: September 30, 2009

Explosive Past, Radiant Future
2010 International Colloquium
University of Toronto, March 19-20, 2010

Keynote Lectures to be delivered by:
Svetlana Boym (Harvard University, USA)
Thomas Moylan (University of Limerick, Ireland)

The lingering spectre of the past and the beckoning formlessness of the future are the two highly charged images that act as the starting points for the 21st annual international colloquium at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. Negotiating the troubled terrain between them has been the work of cultural texts and an ongoing problem for cultural and literary criticism. The struggle to establish a meaningful present, which incorporates the triumphs and horrors of historical memory and enables comprehensible directions toward the future, is a shared task of art, philosophy, religion and political thought, among other activities. We suggest that narration – in its various poetic modes – is nothing more than this struggle for meaning, occurring over a multiplicity of social and cultural spaces. Likewise, we suggest that art, philosophy, political thought and religion, to the extent that they are concerned with the problems of meaning and temporality, may also be understood as narrative endeavours. We seek papers from diverse disciplines that bring the problems of narration, thus defined, to the fore and offer innovative solutions to them. The arts have offered us rich and enduring images embodying the complex antinomies of this struggle, from the time bomb ticking in a sardine can in Petersburg to the ghost of Sethe’s murdered baby in Beloved to Paul Klee’s painting Angelus Novus. This painting is so eloquently described by Walter Benjamin as having its face turned to the past, wishing “to piece together what has been smashed,” but blown by a wind from Paradise “irresistibly into the future.” We take seriously Benjamin’s subsequent suggestion that the dialectical object – the historical ruin, the aesthetic text, the political moment – contains the latent potential to “explode the continuum of history.” We seek papers that interrogate the status of such objects and their relations to the problems of temporality in general, to current cultural and political situations, and to the ways we understand cultural and political situations of the past.

We also invite papers that consider the phenomenological and/or existential nature of time, its relation to the experiences of consciousness and the limitations (or impossibilities) of translating it into public language. Such papers may follow Heidegger in the contention that the subjective experience of time – “the horizon of being” – shapes the contours of social and cultural “historical” realities; on the other hand, they may follow Freud in the counter-contention that the temporal imperatives of organized domination are introverted against the living memory of primordial, liberated time (situated in the unconscious). It was perhaps Augustine who most clearly illuminated the phenomenological problem: “What is time? If no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to someone who asks, I do not know.” We seek re-evaluations of the relationship of subjectivity to culture, mediated by the experience of time.

Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

• the study of texts from various historical periods; the political and intellectual goals of revisiting older texts; the selection of historical texts and critical modes of approaching them from the present;

• canonization/re-canonization/de-canonization and their relationship to temporality in general and their own historical moment (the problem of cultural history);

• the emergence of “historical thought” within history itself, and related artistic, political and philosophical movements (i.e. “the rise of the novel”; “enlightenment” thought; new teleologies; the explosion of imperialism); alternative modes of temporality and historical thought within modernity;

• revisionist approaches to history and historical thought based on subjective experience (i.e. women’s history, queer history, indigenous people’s history); the political projects and philosophical stakes of such revisions, and new directions for revisionism (i.e. moving beyond “herstory”; moving beyond the “outing” of history; moving beyond the postcolonial and “new” historicism);

• the role of capitalism and its social/cultural logic in the narration of history and the possibilities of the present; the limits within capitalism of imagining alternative futures, and literary, philosophical, or political challenges to those limits;

• the challenges of globalization and the crossing of political, social, cultural, and philosophical boundaries; the clashes and hybrids of opposing temporalities;

• the role of technology and science in articulations of modernity, and the relationship of these spheres to literary forms, political agendas, and philosophical discourses;

• science fictions, possible worlds, and literary utopias/dystopias; utopian planning in art and politics; utopian philosophy; lived utopias/dystopias;

• the status and temporality of memory, trauma and nostalgia, rooted in the present and directed toward both past and future.

Presentations should be limited to 20 minutes and should touch on the major theoretical, literary, or philosophical concerns of the colloquium. We invite scholars from all disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. We welcome graduate students, university faculty members and independent scholars alike as presenters (typically, we strive for a balance of graduate students and faculty/independent scholars).

Please submit an abstract of your proposed paper (no more than 350 words) to colloquium2010@gmail.com by September 30, 2009. We also welcome the proposal of panels consisting of 3 papers that address a common set of concerns. If proposing a panel, please submit a 250-word abstract describing the theme of the panel in addition to the standard abstract for each of the papers on the panel. All abstracts will undergo a blind-review selection process. Selected participants will be notified by email by October 15, 2009.

Ryan Culpepper
University of Toronto
Centre for Comparative Literature

ryan.culpepper@utoronto.ca
(416)880-4293
Email: colloquium2010@gmail.com

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Gendering the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, 02/25-27/2009, SC

Deadline: October 15, 2009

Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850
Charleston, SC, USA, 25-27 February 2010

Call for Papers:

THEMATIC SECTION ON 'GENDERING THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA, 1750-1850 - COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES'

The Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 (CRE) is a venue for the presentation of original research on not only the revolutionary history of Europe, but also the Atlantic World and beyond. We welcome proposals from allied disciplines and comparative studies; in short, the conference offers a platform for research into the revolutionary era broadly defined.

The 2010 conference will be held February 25-27 at the College of Charleston and the Francis Marion Hotel, located in the center of Charleston's historic district.

A group of scholars who regularly attend the CRE is seeking to organize a series of four panels on gender during the Revolutionary Era and solicits papers for these panels. A roundtable entitled "Gendering the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850: Comparative Perspectives" will precede the four panels. The themes of the panels are:
1) Gender, Revolution, and Politics
2) Gender, War, and Nation
3) Gender, Empire, and Slavery
4) Gender, Culture, and Society

By exploring the importance of gender for politics, war, and nationalism; empire building and slavery; as well as culture and society in the Revolutionary Era, we hope to extend the boundaries of the historiography of the period in two directions. First, we seek to advance our knowledge by incorporating a comparative perspective and seeking to explain temporal, regional and national differences and similarities (along with differences constituted by class, race, ethnicity, religion etc). Second, we hope to deepen understanding by crossing disciplinary borders and relating the analysis of discourses, politics, cultures, and practices to gender in the period of the Revolutionary Era.

Please submit paper proposals on topics related to any of these four themes by October 15, 2009.

Send a one page abstract and a brief CV to:
Karen Hagemann
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
History Department
Hamilton Hall, CB # 3195
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3195, USA
Email: hagemann@unc.edu

and

Denise Z. Davidson
Georgia State University
History Department
PO Box 4117
Atlanta, GA 30302-4117, USA
Email: hisdzd@langate.gsu.edu

We will work to construct the panels based on the proposals we receive. For more details on the CRE and the conference, please visit www.revolutionaryera.org

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Dialogue, philosophies of life/religions and the public authorities in Europe, 03/09-10/2010, Ghent

9-10 March 2010 in Guislain Formation Centre (Ghent)

European Congress "Dialogue and concertation between philosophies of life/religions and the public authorities in Europe"

Sponsored by the Flemish Government, Guislain Formation Centre and the Higher Institute of Philosophy of Life, Public Authorities and Society (HILOS) in collaboration with the Chaire de Droit des Religions of the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), organise a European Congress about the theme: Dialogue and concertation between philosophies of life/religions and the public authorities in Europe. Challenges and limits of new forms of governance.

This congress will take place in Ghent (Belgium) (Guislain Formation Centre) on 9 and 10 March 2010.

The Congress in Ghent is linked with another session of two days organised by the Chaire de Droit des Religions of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), in Louvain-la-Neuve on 11 and 12 March 2010.
The work languages are French and English.

http://hilos.be/index.php?ID=38167&set_la=3

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Complexities of 'Europe', 11/20-21/2009, Cambridge

Deadline: September 1, 2009

Call for papers

Graduate Conference:
“Complexities of ‘Europe’: Between knowledge, power, citizenship and identity”

Date: 20-21 November 2009

Place: Centre for research in the Social Sciences and the humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, UK.

Organized by: CRASSH Post-graduate research group “European Identities and Encounters” http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/188/european-identities.htm

Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2009

Notification of speakers: 20 September 2009

The theoretical approaches to “Europe” often suggest a teleological narrative, which portrays the establishment of the European Union as the consummation of every cultural and political project of “Europeanness”. This conference aims at bringing together different viewpoints of “Europe” lying beyond the political narratives of accession and integration. Priority will be given to papers that address the complexities of the way in which “Europe” as a concept, a label, a place, an institution or a union is turned into a locus of contestation. We are particularly interested in comparative studies as well as in exploring transfers of knowledge and power across the region(s) described as “Europe”. We are also eager to examine how “Europe” interacts, constructs and is constructed by its “Others” or its “margins– whether in immigration, integration or development policies.

The areas of particular interest are:
Theme 1: Knowledge and power
• Periodizing “Europe”
Exploring debates over the origins of “Europe” and the political use of history, archeology and historical education.
• “Europe” and the Academy
Projects, Framework programmes, funding and the creation of a “European” sphere of research.
• “Europe” outside Europe
“Europe” as an exporter of normative discourses on human rights, gender and peace though the funding of NGOs, establishment of offices, neighboring policies, organization of projects, exporting of know-how, etc outside the EU borders or in EU’s so called “periphery”.
Theme 2: Citizenship and identity
• “Europe” and borders
Migration, integration, asylum policies, citizenship, frontiers: What can make up for a “European experience”?
• A “European” Public Sphere?
Thinking the possibilities post-national, grass-roots, transnational politics.
• “Europe” and material cultures
Technologies and artifacts, which partake in the construction of a “European” imagination. Is there a distinctively “European” popular culture? Memories of the World War and of colonialism in relation to European identities.

The purpose of the conference is to promote an interdisciplinary dialogue. Thus, we aim at attracting scholars from the entire range of social sciences and humanities, including political science, history, social/cultural anthropology, archaeology, media studies, history of art, linguistics, discourse theory, literature, sociology and geography. The organizing committee welcomes applications from graduate students but will gladly consider abstracts from post-doctoral researchers and early stage academics too.

Abstracts not exceeding 400 words should be submitted by 1 September 2009, to the following email eu_id_encounters_conf@yahoogroups.co.uk

For any enquiry you can contact one of the organizers:
Eirini Avramopoulou (avrarini@yahoo.gr)
Katherine Cooper (kmc34@cam.ac.uk)
Leonidas Karakatsanis (lkarak@essex.ac.uk)
Nikolaos Papadogiannis (np308@cam.ac.uk)
Thomas Stammers (tes27@cam.ac.uk)
Amr Abdelrahman (amremran@gmail.com)

Registration fee (including paper givers): £ 25 full institutional fee
£ 15 for Students depending on own funding
NOTE: On line registration will open in September.

Catering offered:
Coffee and tea with nibbles, 2 buffet lunches, Conference material
One dinner offered to paper givers, discussants and invited speakers only (listeners can register and join by paying for a set-course meal).

Accommodation is not provided to paper givers, but subsidized college accommodation might be available. Paper givers that will send their abstracts early, since these are accepted, they will gain priority for this offer. In any case however, the organizers will help paper givers to locate affordable accommodation.

There can be no coverage/subsidization of travel expenses. Paper givers are advised to seek funding or cover their own travel expenses.

We have limited funds available to partially reimburse the travel and accommodation costs of no more than three PhD students, who will be selected to present a paper, but their attendance is put in jeopardy due to economic difficulties they face. Applicants are strongly advised not to rely on these bursaries and to seek alternative sources of funding, instead.

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Rumaenien Forum Romania VII., 10/15-17/2009, Vienna

Stichtag: August 10, 2009

Botschaft von Rumänien in Wien
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Balkan-Kommission)
Österreichisch-Rumänische Gesellschaft
Rumänisches Kulturinstitut Wien
Studium Transsylvanicum
Universität Wien (Institut für Romanistik)
laden ein zum VII. Forum România in Wien, 15.-17.10.2009

Hiermit möchten wir herzlich zum VII. Forum România (Internationales Treffen von Geisteswissenschaftlern mit Rumänien-Bezug) einladen und um Einreichung von Vortragsthemen bitten. In diesem Jahr wird das Forum dem Thema „20 Jahre danach“ gewidmet. Dies soll zwar nicht heißen, dass alle Beiträge aus diesem Bereich stammen müssen, es wird aber eine Fokussierung auf die Wandlungsprozesse während der vergangenen beiden Jahrzehnte erbeten. Besonders willkommen sind Vorträge, in denen die Situation vor und nach 1989/90 verglichen wird und in denen Chancen und Mängel der Transformation in Rumänien aufgezeigt werden: Welche geschichtlichen, wirtschaftlichen, sozialen Veränderungen haben sich in Rumänien in den letzten 20 Jahren vollzogen? Wie können sie aus historischer, geographischer, kulturanthropologischer Sicht analysiert werden?

Wer außer diesem Schwerpunktthema Vorträge aus anderen Bereichen anbieten möchte (z.B. Situation der Umwelt, Musik etc.), sollte möglichst keinen Einzelvorschlag, sondern eine Sektion von ca. drei Themen einreichen. Ansonsten bitten wir um Verständnis, dass in diesem Jahr Themen aus anderen Bereichen nur dann angenommen werden können, wenn es um die Vorstellung aktueller Forschungsprojekte geht. Der voraussichtliche Zeitplan:

15.10.2009
Anreise
Abends feierliche Eröffnung des Forums mit einem Festvortrag

16.10.2009
9:00 Uhr Begrüßung
10:00 – 13:00 Zwanzig Jahre danach I.
14:00 – 16:00 Zwanzig Jahre danach II.
16:30 – 18:00 Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte zu Rumänien
18:30 Empfang

17.10.2009
9:00 – 11:00 Uhr Thematisch offene Sektion I.
11:30 – 13:00 Uhr Thematisch offene Sektion II.
14:00 – 16:00 Uhr Ausblick, Zusammenfassung
17:00 Kulturprogramm

Es steht noch nicht fest, ob wir am Abend des 17.10. ein ausführliches Kulturprogramm oder am darauffolgenden Tag einen Ausflug anbieten werden.

Und jetzt eine schöne Nachricht: Larisa Schippel und ich haben die eine neue Buchreihe mit dem Namen „Forum Rumänien“ im Frank-Timme-Verlag gegründet. Der erste Band wird bereits auf dem Forum präsentiert werden können. Das Beste aber ist, dass ab sofort Ihre und Eure Beiträge auf dem Forum veröffentlicht werden können, so sie denn thematisch und qualitativ passend erscheinen. Wir bitten dieses Mal daher unbedingt um folgende Spielregeln:

1. Vorschlag eines Vortragsthemas bis zum 10. August 2009
2. Einreichen einer Themenvorstellung (12 bis 20 Zeilen) bis zum 10. September 2009

Univ.-Doz. Dr. Thede KAHL
Dozent für Sprachen und Kulturen Südosteuropas
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Balkan-Kommission
Fleischmarkt 22
1010 Wien, Austria
Tel. +43 (1) 51581-2427
Fax +43 (1) 51581-2400
thede.kahl@oeaw.ac.at

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July 27, 2009

Anti-Gypsyism Conference, 09/ 10-11/ 2009, London

Deadline: August 5, 2009

Call for Papers: Extremism and the Roma and Sinti in Europe: Challenges, Risks and Responses

A conference and publication supported and funded by OSCE/ODIHR

In past few years we have observed a rise in racism and xenophobia in Europe. These find fertile ground in the economic crisis in which populist, nationalist and extremist views gain public support. The gains of the extreme right in the last elections to the European Parliament vividly illustrate this. Such a turn concerns the international community, policy makers, civil society and various minorities. They are also troubled by a rise in aggressive incidents and violent acts against Roma and Sinti populations in a number of European states.

The current situation in this regard raises a number of questions: Are the Roma and Sinti especially targeted by these forces or movements in Europe? If so, why? Are we witnessing a resurgence of past patterns of hate speech and violence or new forms – offering greater political returns for the extreme and marginal forces than they have managed to date?

In order to raise awareness of these issues and analyze the potential threat to social stability and security the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) together with University College London intend to prepare a publication on this topic. We would, therefore, like to invite scholars of diverse academic interests specializations to provide analysis and case studies elaborating on the following (non-exhaustive) list of issues for inclusion into this publication:

- Anti-Roma racism and violence in Europe: forms and extent; causes of current proliferation;
- Public discourses, media representations and political campaigns in periods of social distress and economic recession: what feeds the extremist movements and the actions targeting Roma and Sinti?
- Roma and Sinti in the local reality: decentralization, local authorities, local politics and extremist views in the local community – what leads to their radicalization?
- Social cohesion, extremist movements and security concerns – do current trends endanger the very fabric of society and democracy? In what ways may they come to do so?
- Legal and mainstream political responses to extremism: how far are anti-discrimination legislation and campaigns and hate-crime legislation effective in defusing or eliminating such attitudes and/or movements?
- Roma and Sinti responses to extremism;
- The responsibility and role of state institutions, international organizations and human rights civil organizations; possible measures for combating extremist movements.

You are invited to submit a paper abstract by 5th August 2009 (ten lines-one page maximum outlining the conceptual contribution and its empirical content, in English, submitted to m.stewart@ucl.ac.uk). Michael Stewart and Andzrej Mirga will make a selection of the most appropriate and stimulating of these by 10th August requesting the selected authors to provide short papers (6 pages-20 maximum) by August 31 for pre-circulation for a conference at University College London, scheduled for 10-11 September. Brief presentations allowing time for significant discussion. The organizers/ODIHR aims to finalize publication of these in a volume by the end of the year.

All costs of transport and accommodation to and from the conference will be covered by the OSCE/ODIHR.

Contacts:
Michael Stewart: m.stewart@ucl.ac.uk (Roma Research Network)

Conference manager:
Georgia Efremova: efremova.georgia@gmail.com

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July 24, 2009

Geschichte und Gegenwart des Donau-Karpatenraumes, 11/09-11/2009

Deadline: 15.09.2009

CFP: Geschichte und Gegenwart des Donau-Karpatenraumes.
Internationales Diplomanden- und Doktorandenkolloquium
9.-11.11.2009
Wissenschaftszentrum Ost- und Südosteuropa Regensburg

Das Siebenbürgen-Institut an der Universität Heidelberg, das Ungarische Institut München (UIM), die Akademie Mitteleuropa in Bad Kissingen und das Institut für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (IKGS) veranstalten vom 9. bis 11. November 2009 ein internationales Graduiertenkolloquium. Es findet am neuen Sitz des UIM im Regensburger Wissenschaftszentrum Ost- und Südosteuropa (http://www.wios-regensburg.de) statt. In- und ausländische Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus dem wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs sind herzlich eingeladen, das Programm mit eigenen Referaten zu gestalten.

Die Betreuung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses ist nicht erst seit den neueren Zeiten institutioneller Netzwerkbildung eine gemeinsame Aufgabe außeruniversitärer und universitärer Einrichtungen. Mit diesem Kolloquium, dem neunten in dieser Tagungsreihe, bieten die Veranstalter aufgrund ihrer Tätigkeit in Forschung und Lehre ein Forum des Gedanken- und Erfahrungsaustauschs über Themen, die in verschiedenen Disziplinen zur Geschichte und Gegenwart des Donau-Karpatenraumes aktuell an einer Universität bearbeitet werden. Der territoriale Schwerpunkt auf dem historischen Ungarn und gegenwärtigen Rumänien mit Nachbarräumen ergibt sich aus den Tätigkeitsprofilen der einladenden Einrichtungen und entspricht der überregionalen Bewertungsperspektive in den Ostmittel- und Südosteuropawissenschaften.

Das interdisziplinäre Kolloquium wird je nach Referatsangeboten verschiedene Themen aus den Geistes- und Gesellschaftswissenschaften behandeln. Von den Referentinnen und Referenten wird eine maximal 20 Minuten lange, problem-, quellen- und methodenorientierte Vorstellung ihrer laufenden Diplom-, Magister- oder Doktorarbeit erwartet, die unter Mitwirkung von Experten aus dem Umfeld der Veranstalter ausgiebig diskutiert werden soll. Deutsche Sprachkenntnisse sind für die Teilnahme unabdingbar, Präsentationen und Diskussionsbeiträge können aber auch auf Englisch erfolgen.

Im Interesse der Intensität des fachlichen Meinungsaustauschs ist die Zahl der Vorträge auf 20 begrenzt. Die Tagung beginnt am Montagabend, dem 9. November mit einem kleinen Empfang und endet am Mittwochnachmittag, dem 11. November.

Die Kosten der An- und Rückreise (bis zu bestimmten Höchstsätzen) sowie der Unterbringung (in Doppelzimmern mit Frühstück vom 9. bis 12. November) für die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer werden von den Veranstaltern übernommen.

Es fallen folgende Teilnehmerbeiträge an:
-Teilnahme ohne Übernachtung: EUR 20,-
-Teilnahme mit einer Übernachtung: EUR 40,-
-Teilnahme mit zwei Übernachtungen: EUR 50,-
-Teilnahme mit drei Übernachtungen: EUR 60,-
Die Teilnehmerbeiträge werden auf dem Kolloquium eingesammelt.

Für eine Teilnahme mit eigenem Vortrag bitten wir spätestens bis zum 15. September 2009 -eine inhaltliche Skizze des gerade bearbeiteten Forschungsprojekts (1-2 Seiten) und einen tabellarischen fachlichen Lebenslauf einzureichen, -die vollständige Privat- und Dienstadresse, den Namen der Universität und des Betreuers der Arbeit mitzuteilen -sowie den geplanten Anreise- und Abreisetag, den Anfangs- und Endpunkt der Reise, die Art der Anreise und die Anzahl der benötigten Nächte für die Hotelübernachtung anzugeben.

Grundsätzlich können sich auch Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer der letztjährigen Kolloquien bewerben, soweit ihre Arbeiten noch nicht kurz vor dem Abschluss stehen und gegenüber der früheren Präsentation neue Erkenntnisse bieten. Das Ergebnis des Auswahlverfahrens wird bis zum 25. September 2009 bekanntgegeben. Das Tagungsprogramm mit weiteren organisatorischen Hinweisen wird den Teilnehmern in der zweiten Oktoberhälfte zugesandt.

Die Bewerbungsunterlagen und eventuelle Rückfragen werden per Post oder E-Mail erbeten an das Institut für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (IKGS), Halskestr. 15, 81379 München, Tel. 0049-89-7806090, E-Mail: ikgs@ikgs.de

München/ Heidelberg/ Bad Kissingen, 22. Juli 2009

Dr. Gerald Volkmer
Institut für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas an der
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (IKGS)
Halskestr. 15, 81379 München
0049-89-7806090
ikgs@ikgs.de

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July 23, 2009

Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations, 11/19-20/2009, Melbourne

2009 International Conference on "Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations,"
19-20 November 2009
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

The Conference is organised by Deakin's Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

Key Themes:
Multiculturalism, Identity and Citizenship
Race, Ethnicity and Intercultural Relations
Transnational Work and Temporary Migration
Moving Beyond Xenophobia: Race Relations and Social Inclusion
Muslim Diaspora in the West
Transnationalism and Global Ethics

For further information :
http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/icg/events/conf-2009.php

The recent transnational turn in the study of migration has signified a shift in conceptual thinking and methodological approaches to researching migration, and post-migration communities. While previous research has focused on isolated aspects of social networking, cultural adjustment, and economic empowerment, recent studies are beginning to examine the migration settings themselves, where modes of local, national and transnational practices are negotiated in the context of intercultural interactions. This Conference, therefore, proposes to examine outcomes of migration and immigration as essential dimensions for contextualizing discussions about national identity, intercultural relations and citizenship, and the formation and representation of cultural identity.

Key Questions:
The Conference will attempt to address the following key questions:
With increasing diversity in a globalised world, what kinds of multicultural societies can we envisage for our increasingly diverse communities?
What kind of cultural and national identities will be formed within these societies and what role will they play in the public sphere?
Do transnational connections translate into weaker notions of local belonging or can they be used as a resource to strengthen local communities?
Do migrant and minority ethnic groups experience a sense of inclusion?
How is this sense of inclusion recognised or manifested in a multicultural society?
Does government policy contribute to building a sense of belonging and inclusion among recent migrants and other ethno-cultural groups?
What type of intercultural relations exist in a culturally diverse society?
What is the role of these intercultural relations in fostering inclusive and ethical visions of citizenship?

By organising this conference we hope to stimulate interdisciplinary intellectual debate policy/professional discussion and ongoing research collaboration that deals with citizenship, multiculturalism and intercultural relations. We welcome papers that address any of these issues from disciplinary or inter-disciplinary perspectives. The following streams will be used as broad thematic guidelines for organising the Conference sessions, and we would appreciate it if participants identify the relevant stream for their contribution.
Contributors to the conference will be invited to subsequently submit their papers for publication in a special volume of the Journal of Intercultural Studies (JIS) on citizenship, migration and intercultural relations. An edited volume will also be explored as an additional or alternative publication output.

Conference Streams:
1. Multiculturalism, Identity and Citizenship
2. Race, Ethnicity and Intercultural Relations
3. Transnational Work and Temporary Migration
4. Muslim Diaspora in the West
5. Moving Beyond Xenophobia: Race Relations and Social Inclusion
For further information on the conference streams,
see http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/icg/events/conf-2009.php#Conference%20Streams

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Religion and Difference, 11/29-12/01/2009, Melbourne

Deadline: August 31, 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Australian Association for the Study of Religions Conference
29th November - 1st December 2009

The Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, is hosting the 2009 AASR Conference. The theme for this year's conference is RELIGION AND DIFFERENCE.

We are looking forward to some stimulating sessions on a variety of themes including:
The politics of religious difference
Gender and religious identity
Race, religion and difference
Religion and the challenge of social difference
Researching religion and difference
Religion and transnationalism
Diaspora and difference
Religion and the media
Religion and alterity - historical perspectives
Secularism in an age of religion
Death, Dying and Difference
Teaching and learning in a multi-religious world

Off-theme papers are also welcome and you are invited to contact the convenor to discuss ideas for individual papers or panels by email b.kameniar@unimelb.edu.au

The 2009 conference will take place immediately prior to the Parliament of the World's Religions (December 3-9). Why not come and participate in both events?

ABSTRACTS
Abstracts should be no more than 200 words in length and be emailed to the convener b.kameniar@unimelb.edu.au by 31st August 2009.

REFEREED PAPERS
Submission of full papers for refereeing is optional. Papers submitted for refereeing will be refereed in line with the requirements set by the Australian government=B9s Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). Papers for refereeing must be emailed to the convener by 1st October 2009.

Visit the conference web site at:
http://www.aasr.org.au/2009conference/index.html

We look forward to seeing you in wonderful multi-cultural Melbourne. If you have any queries about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact Barbara Kameniar at b.kameniar@unimelb.edu.au

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The Changing Face of Christianity in the 21st Century, 04/06-08/2010

Deadline: October 31st, 2009

British Sociological Association
Sociology of Religion Study Group

CALL FOR PAPERS

'The Changing Face of Christianity in the 21st Century'

6th April-8th April 2010
University of Edinburgh

Christianity in the 21st century is characterised by rapid change, by both steep decline in membership in some areas, but resurgence in other contexts. At the same time, contemporary Christianity incorporates (sometimes uncomfortably) new forms and hybridisations. The lived experience and performance of Christianity in the West appears to be shifting according to influences from late-modern consumer and media cultures. World Christianities are increasingly influential and migration and diaspora Christianities are (re) shaping Christianity in the West. Meanwhile, far from disappearing from the agendas and language of the public arena, Christianity continues to excite debates around the place and importance of religion in the public arena, as well as discourses of citizenship, equality and well-being.

We invite proposals for papers which explore issues surrounding the broad theme of the conference. We particularly welcome papers which fall into three sub-themes we have identified:
1. Contemporary Christian Performance and Belief;
2. World Christianities and migration or diaspora Christianities;
3. Christianity in the Public Arena.

Individual paper proposals (max. 200 words) or proposals for panels of three or four related papers (max. 300 words) should be submitted by October 31st, 2009.

Topics may include: World Christianities; post-Christianity; decline of Christianity, as well as Christian growth or resurgence; mission and reverse mission; Christianity and young people; the influence of alternative spiritualities on Christianity; hyphenated Christian
identities (Buddhist-Christians, Pagan-Christians, etc.); new Christian movements; contemporary pilgrimage or (youth) festivals; Christianity in areas of social deprivation; social movements and Christianity; Christianity and the (new) media; Christianity and popular culture; Christianity and gender; Christianity and sexuality; Christianity and other religions, including indigenous religions; contemporary Christian ritual; Christianity and economics; Christianity and politics; Christianity and education; Christianity and the law; migration and diaspora Christianities; Christianity and healthcare; Christianity and public life.

SOCREL is the British Sociological Association's study group on religion www.socrel.org.uk
The conference for 2010 is co-hosted by the University of Edinburgh Institute of Geography and the School of Divinity (Religious Studies/the Centre for the Study of World Christianity). The academic organising committee are:
Giselle Vincett gvincett@ed.ac.uk
Afe Adogame a.adogame@ed.ac.uk
Betsy Olson eolson@ed.ac.uk

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Changing Gods. Between Religion and Everyday Life. 09/09-11/2009, Torino

Deadline: February 28, 2010

The 2010 International Conference

Changing Gods. Between Religion and Everyday Life

An International Conference organized by CESNUR, Italian Association of Sociology (AIS) - Sociology of Religions Section, and the School of Political Science - University of Torino
Torino, Italy, 9-11 September 2010

Call for Papers

The conference will assess the international, global-local, and local dimensions of religious change, religious pluralism, spirituality, minority religions, new religious movements, new movements within Islam and Christianity, Esotericism and the New Age, survey the current situation, and consider the fate of religious and spiritual groups as they change and relate to everyday life in an increasingly multi-cultural and trans-national world. Papers will be accepted from a variety of perspectives (sociology, history, anthropology, psychology, law, religious studies).

Topics will include: Change in Old and New Religions; Religion and Everyday Life; Societal Responses to Religious Diversity and Pluralism; Religious Movements between Mainstreaming and Marginalization; Religion, Spirituality, and Body; Religion Online and Online Religion; Magic, Esotericism, and the Sacred; Bio-religion and Politics; Prayer and Everyday life; Young Generations; Lifestyles, Religion, and the Sacred; Gender and the Sacred; and The Emergence of New Movements and Groups.

Those who would like to present papers are invited to submit a 200-word abstract of their paper (in English or Italian) and a 200-word curriculum vitae to cesnur_to@virgilio.it
before February 28, 2010.

Speakers will be allocated 20 minutes for their talks (but they can bring longer papers to give to interested participants or e-mail these later).

Those who would like to arrange a full session should assume that they will have 2 hours, allowing time for 5 speakers or, if they prefer, 4 speakers and more time for discussion. The session organiser should, in turn, submit a 200-word synopsis of the whole session and 200-word CVs and abstracts for each speaker to cesnur_to@virgilio.it before February 28, 2010. The selection panel will be looking for empirical and theoretical contributions to the scholarly understanding of religious and spiritual change and pluralism, religion and everyday life, and to the variety of societal and individual responses to religion. Authors of papers that have been accepted will be notified before April 15, 2010.

The conference will begin in the morning of Thursday September 9 and it will end in the afternoon of Saturday September 11. The venues will be in downtown Torino. A field trip will be arranged in the afternoon of Friday September 10. Participants will be responsible for arranging their own accommodation: there are plenty of good hotels in downtown Torino and you may want to consult your travel agent. Further details about the conference will be available in due course on the CESNUR website www.cesnur.org

Unfortunately no scholarship will be available for participants. Each participant, including speakers, will be expected both to pay his or her travel and accommodation expenses, and to register before being included in the final programme.

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July 17, 2009

Literary Theory / Literary Studies & Linguistics / Popular Culture

Call for Papers

Journal of Literary Theory. Edited by Fotis Jannidis, Gerhard Lauer and Simone Winko.

The Journal of Literary Theory invites contributions for volume 4 to appear in 2010:

The Journal of Literary Theory is an international forum for debate in literary theory. JLT takes an interdisciplinary approach and is open to a broad variety of theories and methods, promoting their study, research, and development.
JLT reaches out to disciplines dealing with theoretical foundations of the study of literature as well as to related fields of research such as linguistics, psychology, musicology, art theory, and film studies, insofar as these are concerned with the analysis or interpretation of aesthetic objects.
Above all, the journal aims to publish work on fundamental issues in methodology and the construction of theories and concepts, as well as articles on particular literary theories. Historical case studies are accepted only if they adopt a predominantly systematic perspective, contribute to the reconstruction of the history of literary theory, or pursue innovative methods.

Contributions are accepted in English or German and should not exceed 50,000 characters.

Articles can be sent in anytime to JLT@phil.uni-goettingen.de.

Additionally, each issue of JLT includes a section on a selected special topic; coming up are:

Literary Studies & Linguistics
- Manuscript deadline will be May 15th 2010

Popular Culture
- Manuscript deadline will be July 15th 2010

Submissions are selected in a blind review process and accepted for publication by an international advisory board.

For further information please contact the editorial office at JLT@phil.uni-goettingen.de or go to www.JLTonline.de.

JLT - Journal of Literary Theory
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Seminar für Deutsche Philologie
Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3
37073 Göttingen
0049 - (0)551 - 39 - 7516

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July 15, 2009

Gender, Place and Space, 03/25-27/2010, South Bend

CALL FOR PAPERS
"Gender, Place and Space: An Interdisciplinary Conference."
The University of Notre Dame,
South Bend, Indiana
March 25-27, 2010

This conference aims to bring together scholars from across the disciplines to investigate the many intersections and problematics of gender, place, and space. Space, place and gender have been key topics in areas such as architecture, law, history, sociology, urban studies, area studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, film studies, and gender. Scholars are invited to address the issue of gender, place and space through a variety of disciplinary approaches, investigating a wide range of real and imagined places and spaces.

Scholars might consider masculine spaces, feminine spaces, queer spaces, or virtual spaces; spaces such as the home, the office, the railroad, the apartment, the museum, the store, the church; the urban, the rural, the suburban; spaces as represented in various texts and discourses; uses of space; theories of space, and more.

Proposals should consist of a 200 word abstract of the paper, a list of three keywords, and a brief biographical statement listing your title, the name of your college or university, and your areas of research and writing Please indicate technology needs, such as powerpoint or DVD.

Proposals are due by September 1, 2009

Send proposals to Pamela Wojcik, Director of Gender Studies, The University of Notre Dame, by email: Pamela.Wojcik.5@nd.edu

Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Director of Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Film, TV and Theatre
325 O'Shaughnessey Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556

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July 14, 2009

Can These Bones Come To Life?: Insights from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation, 05/13-16/2010, Kalamazoo

Can These Bones Come To Life?: Insights from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation

42nd International Conference on Medieval Studies

Kalamazoo, MI, May 13-16, 2010

We invite dancers, musicians and musicologists, historical fencers, armorers, brewers, theater historians and performers, textile researchers, and scholars in other fields to submit papers for a unique interdisciplinary session on the insights into history that can be gained from attempts to reconstruct medieval arts, as well as the historiographical issues involved in such work. Proposals for papers should discuss practical insights gained from such projects, how these insights modify existing scholarship or solve a research question, and the historiographical issues involved therein—i.e., to what extent we can hope to play music, perform passion plays, ride horses, weave cloth, brew mead, make armor, or wield swords as medieval people did, and why.

Ken Mondschein
Higgins Armory Museum
100 Barber Ave # 11
Worcester, MA 01606-2444

No calls, please

Email: mondschein@fordham.edu
Visit the website at http://historicalfencing.org

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Western Association of Women's Historians, 05/20-23/2010, Tacoma

Deadline: October 15, 2009

Western Association of Women's Historians 42 Annual Conference University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA May 20-23, 2010

The program committee welcomes proposals for panels (preferred) or single papers (also welcome) on any historical subject, time period or region. The program committee seeks to emphasize that the papers do not have to focus on women's or gender history, although those issues are of interest to the membership. All periods of history are welcome, especially non-U.S. subjects. Panels, workshops, or roundtables on issues in the historical profession are also encouraged.

WAWH offers a prize for the best paper presented at the WAWH meeting.

Proposals must include each of the following:
1. A cover sheet (found at WWW.Wawh.org)
2. A one-half to one page abstract for each paper submitted
3. One two page curriculum vitae for each panelist

Mail six sets of proposal material to the program committee co-chair, postmarked by October 15, 2009:

Dr. Nancy Page Fernandez
Freshmen Programs
California State University, Fullerton
Langsdorf Hall, Suite #216
800 North State Street
Fullerton, CA 92831-3599

Should you have questions contact either program co-chair.

Nancy Page Fernandez: npfernandez@fullerton.edu

or Kathleen Kennedy: Kathleen.Kennedy@wwu.edu

A complete program announcement can be found at www.wahw.edu under upcoming conferences. Presenters are required to preregister and to become WAWH members.

Nancy Page Fernandez
Freshman Programs
California State University, Fullerton
Langsdorf Hall Suite #216
800 North State college BLVD
Fullerton, CA 92831-3500

Kathleen Kennedy

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Brock Review

Deadline: September 30, 2009

The Brock Review (general issue)

The Brock Review is seeking submissions for an upcoming general issue (Volume 11, Number 1). Articles that focus on any research topic in the Humanities will be considered for publication, but articles addressing interdisciplinary topics are especially encouraged. Creative pieces will also be considered for publication in this issue. Deadline for submissions to this general issue is September 30, 2009.

Please visit the journal website for article guidelines and submission instructions. The website address is: http://www.brocku.ca/brockreview

The Brock Review is an online refereed journal published by the Humanities Research Institute at Brock University.

Dr. Keri Cronin
Editor, The Brock Review
c/o Department of Visual Arts
Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts
Brock University
500 Glenridge Ave.
St. Catharines, ON L2T 4C2
CANADA

Email: keri.cronin@brocku.ca

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Concepts of "Race" in the Humanities, 10/26-28/2010, Haifa

Deadline: September 15, 2009

Concepts of "Race" in the Humanities

Israel

Conference organizers: Dr. Amos Morris-Reich/Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society at the University of Haifa (amos.morris.reich@gmail.com);

Dr. Dirk Rupnow/Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck (dirk.rupnow@uibk.ac.at)

Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, University of Haifa October 26-28, 2010

In the decades following World War II, the Holocaust, and decolonization, “race” slowly but surely lost much of its legitimacy as a cultural, political and scientific category. Nevertheless, for much of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, concepts of race enjoyed widespread currency, playing an integral role in numerous fields of knowledge, in some cases even serving as an essential basis. Race, a concept normally identified far more with biology, genetics and anthropology than with the humanities, has implications both biological and cultural. Accordingly, since the mid-1980s, much critical historical work has been undertaken to shed light on the role of race in these fields. In particular, scholars in the field of anthropology have done a great deal in recent years to expose the role of racist concepts in its history and practice, as well as on the connections between race and imperialism, and race and power.

No organized study of similar scale has been attempted with regard to the role of race in the history of the humanities. On the surface, the very notion of Geisteswissenschaften or humanities, with all their idealistic and humanistic overtones, would seem fundamentally incompatible with the history of prejudice, discrimination, and exclusion that one typically associates with race. Yet from linguistics to art history, musicology to religious and Bible studies, history to literary studies, notions of race were present in the history of the humanities, in a manner which crossed disciplinary, cultural and national lines. Race has a long-standing, deep-seated history in the humanities, vestiges of which are still discernible in modern scholarship.

At this conference, we intend to analyze different disciplines and national backgrounds from a multidisciplinary perspective, starting from the late 18th century. Guiding questions for the papers may include: At what point did notions of race surface in the humanities, and where did they come from? What roles have they played in various fields within the humanities, particularly with regard to epistemic categories? Are there notions of race that are specific to the humanities? Is the history of race significant to the development of the humanities as a whole? We also hope to draw comparisons, both conceptual and genealogical: How do the humanities and natural sciences differ? Are concepts of race biological or cultural in nature? What is the relationship between notions of race in the natural sciences and humanities, and have there been points of mutual exchange of concepts, ideas, categories and objects of research between the two fields? While these questions must be addressed from a critical perspective, the conference also aims to foster an empirical basis for further research and discussion. Although the German case is central to any such history, the conference will not focus exclusively on German history, but will rather seek a much broader context to account for the longer, broader history and legacy of notions of race in the humanities.

The aim of this conference is to bring together both young and established scholars from different countries and different fields within the humanities to study and explore the role of notions of race in different branches of the humanities. The organizers hope to cover travel and lodging for all participants. An edited work is expected to follow the conference – not the conference proceedings per se, but a work based on a selection of the papers presented. The organizers plan to work with the authors to produce a distinctive and coherent collection.

Please e-mail a proposed title for your paper, abstract (max. 250 words/1 page) and short CV (max. 2 pages) to the conference organizers listed above. Do not hesitate to contact us with any questions. Proposals should be submitted by September 15, 2009.

Dr. Dirk Rupnow
Institute for Contemporary History
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52
A-6020 Innsbruck

Phone: +43-512-507-4408, Fax: -2889
www.uibk.ac.at/zeitgeschichte
Email: dirk.rupnow@uibk.ac.at

Visit the website at http://bucerius.haifa.ac.il/

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Genocide Denial in Legal and Public Discourse

Deadline: August 7, 2009

Genocide Denial in Legal and Public Discourse

In June 2007 a group of young scholars from the Karman Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Bern hold an international, interdisciplinary workshop on the denial of genocide in legal and public discourse.

http://www.karmancenter.unibe.ch/karman-center/the_projects/historical_justice/genocide-denial

The motive for the workshop was based on the question; if the denial of genocide ought to be considered a criminal act or not. This examination was set against the background of an ongoing debate driven by the schism between the claim for freedom of speech versus the protection of the victims of mass violence and their descendants. The workshop attempted to give a forum to an open discussion, where young scholars from various backgrounds got an opportunity to discuss different perspectives and approaches to a contested issue.

A publication of the contributions is still on the agenda. We do have a publisher but fair contributions are missing. However, the topic of genocide denial is of high relevance as it was visible for instance in the debate on holocaust denial on facebook or the debate on the lifting of the excommunication of Bishop Williamson, who is a Holocaust denier, by Pope Benedict XVI.

Interesting and substantial contributions (in English or German) are welcome. Please, send an abstract (not more than 500 words) until August 7, 2009. We will inform you if your abstract has been accepted by September 1, 2009. Then we will give you all needed information in detail concerning our proceeding and time schedule. We are planning to publish the book in summer/autumn 2010. Therefore, we would need the papers by February 2010.

Editors: Jenny Tillmanns (Karman Center, University of Bern) and Martino Mona (Law Faculty, University of Bern)

Jenny Tillmanns
Karman Center for Advanced Studies
in the Humanities
Falkenplatz 16
CH-3012 Bern

tel. +41 31 631 54 81
Email: jenny.tillmanns@googlemail.com

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July 13, 2009

Romani mobilities in Europe, 01/14-15/2010, Oxford

Deadline: September 25, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS
Romani mobilities in Europe: multidisciplinary perspectives
International Conference

Oxford, 14-15 January 2010

Convened by Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

- Provide historical perspectives on policy and practice aimed at governing Romani mobilities;
- Interrogate, through the Roma case, the concept and practice of freedom of movement in the EU;
- Investigate broader demographic trends or specific migratory movements of Roma in the EU;
- Explore the relationship between different legal statuses and patterns and directions of Romani mobility;
- Explore Romani politics in the enlarged EU and the process of Europeanisation of the Roma issue, looking in particular at international NGOs, Roma elite and grassroots activism;
- Investigate the relationship between indigenous and long-established Romani communities and newly arrived Roma migrants;
- Discuss continuities and discontinuities in public discourses and social policies for Roma, Gypsies and Travellers in the EU;
- Explore settlement and resettlement issues in the context of widespread anti-Gypsyism;
- Analyse the impacts of migration on identity and cultural production.

Gender perspectives and methodological issues of research sensitivity and ethics are significant crosscutting themes throughout all these topics. Those wishing to present a paper are invited to submit an abstract (max 300 words) and a brief CV (max 150 words) to the conference organiser, Nando Sigona, nando.sigona@qeh.ox.ac.uk by Friday 25th September 2009. We will inform applicants of the decision of the organizing committee by 2nd October 2009. Full written papers will then be submitted by 5th January 2010.

The conference will take place on 14-15 January 2010 and will feature a range of plenary and panel sessions and a keynote lecture by Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP.

For full details see the Call for Papers at www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/conf_conferences_140110.html
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Annuaire Roumain d'Anthropologie

Publication Date: November 1, 2009

Call for Papers for the 2010 issue

The editors of the Annuaire Roumain d’Anthropologie (ARA) invite submission for the 2010 issue. ARA is an international peer-reviewed journal celebrating its 45th anniversary. ARA publishes original research and reviews of anthropology covering paleoanthropology (human osteology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and paleopathology), bio-medical anthropology (auxology, behavioral ecology, epidemiology, medical anthropology, nutrition, and population biology), social and cultural anthropology, anthropological ethics and methodology, and overlapping areas.. The publishing languages are English and French, with an English-written abstract.

For other information and announcements you can write to:

• Andrei Soficaru (for paleoanthropology, human osteology, paleopathology) asoficaru@yahoo.com

• Consuel Ionică (for biological anthropology) consuelionica@hotmail.com

• Ştefan Dorondel (for social and cultural anthropology) dorondel@yahoo.com

Stefan Dorondel
Francisc I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology Bucharest
8 Bvd. Eroii Sanitari, 5th Sector, Bucharest, Romania

Phone: 0040-213175072

Email: dorondel@yahoo.com

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The Transnationality of Social Movements, 05/21-22/2010, Leuven

Deadline: October 31, 2009

The Transnationality of Social Movements - Leuven (Belgium)

History department, Free University of Brussels (VUB); research unit MoSA, Catholic University of Leuven (K.U.Leuven) 21.05.2010-22.05.2010, Leuven (Belgium)

In recent years, an interdisciplinary community of scholars has engaged in a debate about the transnational scope of social movements with an international focus. The anti-apartheid movement is considered by some as a trailblazer of present-day protest against neoliberal globalization, climate change, etc. Many of the current “anti-globalization” movements’ features, such as transnational cooperation, the use of media, and the mobility of activists, are said to have been prefigured by this important social movement of the Cold War era. Others argue that the nation state was, and still remains, the primal context of social movement mobilization. Despite common political goals, cultural symbols, patterns of protest, and synchronization of mobilization waves, and antipathy against the U.S., the peace movements in the 1980s, for instance, are presented by many as primarily national phenomena. The solidarity movements that were sparked by the crisis of the Polish communist regime are discussed in similar terms.

These debates are part of a larger debate on “globalization” and the role of NGOs therein. In an effort to historicise this process, a host of scholars are re-examining the projects of “internationalism” that have been propagated by NGOs and within inter-governmental bodies since the later decades of the nineteenth century.. Far from being a straightforward affair of spatial reconfiguration, this turn towards architectures of “global governance” has spawned many complementary and competing projects under the rubric of Westernization, Europeanization, Third Worldism, etc. The conference aims to gather historians and social scientists having an expertise in the study of social movements in order to discuss the issues of national differentiation, cross-border cooperation and transnational identity construction. It is especially concerned with transnational contact within the Atlantic World of Europe and northern America and aims to analyze social movement structures, networks, identities, and praxis. It encourages comparative analyses of a diachronical or synchronical nature. Papers that elaborate on a more theoretical level are particularly welcomed.

Possible questions for analysis

-Is it possible to discern longer-term cycles of grassroots mobilization and social movement institutionalization?

-What are the differences between the contributions of “older” social movements (e.g. labour and church organizations) and “newer”, more specialized social movement organizations?

-Should certain transnational “moments of change” (1884, 1917, 1945, 1968, and 1989) be regarded as thresholds in a widening and deepening process of globalization?

-Why did certain geographical regions or international issues develop into focal points of social movement mobilization?

-Have current social movements made a faithful leap from internationalism to globalism?

Practical

- organized by the history department at the VUB & the research unit MoSA at K.U.Leuven

- The conference is scheduled in May 2010

- Selected papers will be published in Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire – Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, accepting contributions in English, French, Dutch or German

Applicants should submit a 500 word proposal and a brief C.V. (in Word or PDF format) before 31 October 2009 to Mr. Kim Christiaens Kim.Christiaens@arts.kuleuven.be

Participants whose papers have been accepted will be notified by 30 November 2009.

Please send all queries to the same address.

Kim Christiaens
KU Leuven
Research Unit Modernity & Society 1800-2000

Email: kim.christiaens@arts.kuleuven.be

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July 10, 2009

Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 08/02-05/2010, Cambridge

Deadline: August 13, 2009

5th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

2-5 August 2010

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

http://thesocialsciences.com/Conference-2009/

The Conference will address interdisciplinary practices across the social sciences, and between the social sciences and the natural sciences, applied sciences and the professions. Plenary speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the social sciences, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations. All are encouraged to register and attend this significant and timely Conference.

Call for Papers

If you intend to present a paper at the Conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, see: http://thesocialsciences.com/conference-2010/call-for-papers/#ppt

To submit a proposal, see: http://thesocialsciences.com/conference-2010/call-for-papers/. Please note that if your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the Conference.

Registration

Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options or to register for the 2010 Social Science Conference, see: http://thesocialsciences.com/conference-2010/register/

Conference Themes

http://thesocialsciences.com/ideas/themes/

This knowledge community is brought together by a shared interest in interdisciplinary practices across the social sciences, and between the social sciences and the natural sciences, applied sciences and professions. The community interacts through an innovative, annual face-to-face conference, as well as year-round virtual relationships in a weblog, peer reviewed journal and book imprint - exploring the affordances of the new digital media. Members of this knowledge community include academics, educators, policy makers, public administrators, research practitioners and research students.

Email: support@thesocialsciences.com

Visit the website at http://thesocialsciences.com/Conference-2009/

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New Directions in the Humanities, 06/29-07/02/2010, Los Angeles

Deadline: August 13, 2009

8th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

29 June - 2 July 2010

University of California, Los Angeles, USA

http://thehumanities.com/Conference-2010/

The Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that make up the humanities today. Plenary speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the humanities, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by teachers and researchers.

** Call for Papers **

If you intend to present a paper at the Conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, see:
http://thehumanities.com/conference-2010/call-for-papers/#ppt

To submit a proposal, see: http://thehumanities.com/conference-2010/call-for-papers/

Please note that if your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the Conference.

** Registration **

Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options or to register for the 2010 Humanities Conference, see: http://thehumanities.com/conference-2010/register/

** Conference Themes **

http://thehumanities.com/ideas/themes/

This knowledge community is brought together by a shared commitment to the humanities and a concern for their future. The community interacts through an innovative, annual face-to-face conference, as well as year-round virtual relationships in a weblog, peer reviewed journal and book imprint - exploring the affordances of the new digital media. Members of this knowledge community include academics, educators and research students.

support@thehumanities.com

Visit the website at http://thehumanities.com/Conference-2010/

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Multilingual Realities in Translation

Deadline: May 1, 2010

Multilingual Realities in Translation

Special Issue (11.1, January 2011) for Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Cityscapes, landscapes, subway stations, tomato fields, universities, and bedrooms—the locales of multilingual or mixed language realities are everywhere. Yet literary and popular representations of multilingual realities as such remain largely constricted by the single language that must, in hegemonic fashion, encompass all others, especially on the printed page of a novel. The dominance of a single language also affects so-called nonliterary discourse; for instance English is now the primary language charged with disseminating scientific (and technological) words and concepts. Film, arguably, has come closest to conveying the Babeldom of public and private spheres, as its projected translation, by way of subtitles, nevertheless promises a semblance of cohesion. Perhaps this accessible rendering of multilingual fragmentation can even be regarded as one of the emerging conventions of world cinema as a contemporary global form.

But multilingual realities are not exactly reader friendly in any medium, including film. One wonders at the function of characters’ thoughts made audible in Wim Wenders’s film Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire), when commuters on a Berlin subway train can be heard thinking in German and Turkish (though the English subtitles render only the German). One wonders what Apollinaire’s already fragmented conversation poem “Lundi Rue Christine“ would look like with bits of conversation in languages other than French. Would the bits make a meaningful difference? One wonders at the fragments of French floating through Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight, fragments yet to be translated, even in the most recent edition. Charlotte Brontë’s Villette continued to be published well over a century without an annotated translation of all its French bits and pieces. One wonders how and to what extent the foreign language is immaterial (a point raised by Umberto Eco with reference to Tolstoy’s War and Peace).

Another open question is the status of languages in the formation of scientific knowledge. When science is concerned, some languages play a unequaled role, as did Greek at the beginning of the Christian Era (or Common Era), Latin in the Middle Ages and English today. It seems English is becoming a language which invents (creates) scientific words (and concepts) and that there is no need to find any equivalent in other languages as most every scientist speaks and publishes in English. But can scientific neologisms properly be considered English in any traditional sense, even given the fact that neologism is a constant process in any language? How can scientific concepts, born inside of one language, be translated into another language? Does working in a “single language” limit scientific creativity? Is there anything (or could there be) like a Pidgin, or Creole way of writing in the sciences?

How do single language texts, in any discourse or genre, signify mixed language realities? What is at stake in the representation of multilingual realities in a particular text, medium, place, or time? To what extent do texts at different historical and cultural junctures reflect the ideologies of their scene of writing? What are the affects of characters/individuals in multilingual situations, the affects of multilingual space? How do “other” languages in a given text/situation play with questions of figure and ground, decor and inflection? How have certain authors and artists made the conventions and realities of multilingual space a central thematics? What formal innovations have writers from various disciplines and traditions produced to address such realities and what are the politics of these experiments? What are the links between language and identity, and what are the problems which may arise from these links when translation is at stake?

We invite papers that address the above issues and related questions from a variety of disciplines and in any conceivable context, including nationalism, imperialism, modernism, epistemology, sexuality, gender, class, religion, race, etc.

Please send completed papers and abstracts to Angela Flury (aflury@depauw.edu) and Hervé Regnauld (herve.regnauld@uhb.fr) no later than May 1, 2010. Earlier submissions and queries are welcome as we may be able to collaborate authors in order to produce work that not only fits with the intent of the issue but with the standards of Reconstruction. Also, we encourage you to forward this CFP to interested parties and lists.

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (ISSN: 1547-4348) is an innovative online cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies. Reconstruction publishes three themed issues and one open issue per year. Send open submissions (year round) to reconstruction.submissions@gmail.com and submissions for themed issues to the appropriate editors listed on the site at www.reconstruction.eserver.org

Reconstruction also accepts proposal for special issue editors and topics. Reconstruction is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.

Angela Flury, DePauw University
Hervé Regnauld, University of Rennes
Email: aflury@depauw.edu

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Urban and Environmental Issues and Policies, 06/03-05/2010, Turkey

Deadline: December 15, 2009

1st International Congress on Urban and Environmental Issues and Policies

Trabzon, Turkey

Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Administrative and Economical Sciences Department of Public Management invites you to attend the 1th International Congress on Urban and Environmental Issues and Policies will be held on June 3-5, 2010 in Trabzon, Turkey.

The aim of the congress is to give opportunity to approach urban and environmental issues and policies in terms of social sciences (politics, economics, management, law, sociology, etc.)

We look forward to welcoming you in Trabzon in June 2010.

All of the papers will be sent via internet E-mail: interconurben@gmail.com

Abstracts should not exceed 300 words. You should send two abstracts. The first one should include your name, institution, and e-mail (for example, click here). However the other one should include only title and text of your abstract (for example, click here). You should use the format of the abstract in the full paper.

Important Dates

Abstract submission: 15 December 2009

Notification of abstracts: 1 January 2010

Full paper submission: 1 March 2010

Notification of full papers: 15 April 2010

Language: English

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yusuf SAHIN
Vice-Director of Organizing Committee
Karadeniz Technical University
Faculty of Administrative and Economical Sciences
Department of Public Management
Trabzon, Turkey

Visit the website at http://iibf.ktu.edu.tr/cevre.html

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National Identities and Literature: Problems and Possible Answers,

Deadline: October 9, 2009

National Identities and Literature: Problems and Possible Answers

We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers to be included on the second issue of our Journal 452ºF. This announcement is open to everyone holding a university degree and willing to take part in our recently launched project.

The procedure for the reception and publishing, always subject to the regulation that can be found in the “Evaluation and Peer Review system”, “Style-sheet” and “Legal notice” sections, is the following:
- Deadline for paper submission (full text): October 9th 2009, and those received afterwards will not be taken into consideration.
- The number of articles to be published is estimated in 12 to 16. 40% of the articles chosen will be written by doctoral students; while the number of papers written by members of the Editorial board will never exceed a 20% of the articles published.
- All articles will be included, depending on their contents, on the corresponding section of the Journal (monographic or miscellany).
- The monographic topic for the second issue is “National Identities and Literature: Problems and Possible Answers; this will include 4-6 articles; subtopics of particular relevance (not exclusive) include:
a. constitution of the relation between nation and literature
b. problems of this relation inside the discipline of Comparative Literature
c. Postcolonial Studies and national literatures
d. Literary analysis of texts that problematize / subvert this relation
e. Genealogies of national identities through Literature

The Editorial Board is committed to creating a thematic bibliography on this topic, according to the perspective available in the Monographic section of the website.

The rest of the articles will be included in the Miscellany section. The contents and approach in these papers must be included inside the margins of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, but otherwise are unlimited.

Papers should be sent to the following email address: redaccion@452f.com

The email subject must be clear as to whether the paper qualifies for the Monographic or Miscellany sections of the Journal. It must also include the paper’s title and the author’s name.

Barcelona, June 29th 2009 452ºF Editorial Board
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Edifici d'estudiants – Edifici R.
Campus Bellaterra – Barcelona.

Email: revista@452f.com
Visit the website at http://www.452f.com

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The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue

Deadline: October 1, 2009

The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ is pleased to issue its third Call for Submissions http://www.irdialogue.org/submissions

The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ (http://www.irdialogue.org) is a forum for academic, social, and timely issues affecting religious communities around the world. Published online, it is designed to increase both the quality and frequency of interchanges between religious groups and their leaders and scholars. By fostering communication, the Journal hopes to contribute to a more tolerant, pluralistic society.

More specifically, the Journal seeks to:
-Feature articles on cutting edge research and scholarship taking place at theological seminaries and universities. Promote innovative ideas and methodologies for inter-religious work to ensure that best practices are shared and replicated.
-Express challenges facing religious communities and openly discuss inter-religious disputes and their possible solutions.
-Provide a means for religious leaders to engage in inter-religious work and learn about traditions other than their own.
-Utilize the increasingly "global" nature of religious communities to promote tolerance both within and beyond the United States through the increased use of online tools for dialogue.

Joshua Stanton
co-Editor,
Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue
190 15th Street
Brooklyn, New York 11215

Email: jirdialogue@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www.irdialogue.org

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New Perspectives on Surrealism and its Legacies, 12/04/2009, Sainsbury UK

Centre for Study of Surrealism and its Legacies

Annual PhD Symposium Call for Papers

New Perspectives on Surrealism and its Legacies

To coincide with the exhibition Subversive Spaces: Surrealism and Contemporary Art, the 7th Annual PhD symposium of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies will be held at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA on December 4th 2009.

We invite proposals for 20 minute papers from post-graduate students whose research engages with Surrealism and/or its contemporary legacies. The Centre currently has a three-year AHRC-funded project on Surrealism and sexuality; hence we especially encourage submissions that engage with issues of eroticism, gender and sexual identity. In addition to considerations of the psycho-sexual aspects of Surrealism, proposals may address:

the relation of sexuality and politics, in connection to anti-bourgeois sentiment, the use of “shock-tactics”, and obscenity;

the legacy of the Surrealist use of the erotic within art praxis or its influence on contemporary artists;

issues of gender, sexual identity, or sexual orientation, especially with regard to feminism, queer theory, or the uncanny.

Proposals from graduates in fields other than art history that aim to contribute to the topic are also welcome.

Please send proposals of no more than 500 words by August 14th to: Kimberley Marwood kmarwo@essex.ac.uk
Majella Munro mmunro@essex.ac.uk

This event is a collaboration between Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich. Selected papers will be considered for publication in Papers of Surrealism. For more information see www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk. For more information about the exhibition Subversive Spaces see www.subversivespaces.com

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Silenced Voices Project, 01/21-22/2010, France

Deadline: July 31, 2009

From the 15-31 of January 2010, the Silenced Voices Project (Forum Voix Etouffées) will organize its 4th International Festival dedicated to composers (and their musical works) that fell victim to national-socialism and their allies or sympathizers.

An international colloquium will be held on the 21-22 of January, 2010. It will accompany musical performances of relevant composers, giving the concerts a historical and scientific base. This colloquium has been placed under the official auspices of the Central Consistory of the Jewish Communities in France as well as Judeo-Christian friendship of France, among others.

The contributions to the colloquium will be published, at the end of 2010, by Hermann editions in Paris, (www.editions-hermann.fr).

The colloquium will last two days and will consist of four public sessions. The total number of presenters has been limited to 20, and each speaker will be limited to 30 minutes. The orators have to present in the English or French language, however an abtract of the paper has to be provided in French.

The colloquium is consecrated to religious and spiritual music persecuted in Nazi Germany, in allied countries (Spain, Italy, Hungary, etc.) as well as in the countries annexed or occupied during the Second World War from 1933-1945.

The presentations have to be on the subject of sacred Catholic, reformed as well as Jewish music. We will also accept proposals on the subject of sacred Oriental Christian music from the above-mentioned countries, as well as sacred orthodox or Anglican music written or performed in this same context even if it represents a minority.

The chosen composers, printed works, copies, publications and/or recordings of these works of sacred music have to be connected to the general history of Germany and Europe from 1933-1945.

The proposed abstracts cannot exceed the maximal length of 30 lines. Please send your contributions to address or email given in this call for papers announcement.

A group of independent experts who will be selected by Amaury du Closel will carry out the selection.

The Silenced Voices Project will provide two nights stay in a hotel with breakfast included. Even though we cannot reimburse the travel expenses, we can provide the participating speakers with an official invitation, which could be useful in order to obtain funding from local authorities or institutions, which is highly encouraged.

Forum «Voix étouffées»
125, rue de Turenne
F-75003 Paris
France

00 33 (0)6 28 51 57 74
Email: info@voixetouffees.org
Visit the website at http://voixetouffees.org/index.html

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SEEU Review

Deadline: September 15, 2009

Call for Papers: SEEU Review

The call for papers for the SEEU (South East European University) Review is now open until 15 September 2009. We encourage all those who are researching in the field of law, economy, public administration, international relations, political sciences, languages, communication, technology sciences, environment etc., to submit their papers. Also very welcome will be the papers regarding to other important fields of the university.

The submitted article has to be written in English language, and all authors must provide translation of the abstract in both Albanian and Macedonian languages.

Please read the attached guidelines before submitting an article. Authors who have submitted papers that have not been accepted for publication in previous issues are encouraged to submit their papers again using the new guidelines.

Manuscript Submissions for SEEU Review
SEEU Review aims to provide an international forum for research, analysis, and debate from a broad range of fields, such as economics, law, public administration, education, language and linguistics, sociology and environmental health sciences. SEEU Review will accept the following types of articles for consideration: research, position papers, white papers, and reviews.

SEEU Review seeks to publish original work that demonstrates currency and relevance to the field of study. Submitted manuscripts must not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere, and authors must assign copyright to South East European University if the manuscript is selected for publication.

All submissions will be requested via an open Call for Papers. The Call may be completely open or based on a specific theme, based on the decision of the Editor-In-Chief of the SEEU Review. To assure the highest standards for the publication, all manuscript submissions will be refereed through a peer review process. Additionally, all submissions will be subject to review for plagiarism. The preferred language for manuscripts is English, but submissions in Albanian and Macedonian may be considered under specific requests. Manuscripts should be submitted to the Editorial Board via review@seeu.edu.mk

Authors should submit their articles electronically to SEEU Review in Microsoft Word format, and all manuscripts must be spell-checked and proofread prior to submission. All submissions must follow APA (American Psychological Association) style for format and references (footnotes and endnotes are not permitted). Manuscripts should not exceed 8,000 words, including the abstract (which should be 200 to 300 words), references, and other elements.

The entire manuscript, including the abstract, the reference list, and any tables, should be presented as A4 size paper with single-spaced typescript in 12-point Times New Roman. It should begin with a cover page, giving the title of the paper, the name(s) of the author(s), institutional affiliation(s) and correspondence address(es), e-mail address(es), a suggested shorter title for running heads, and three to five keywords. On the next page, put the article title and the abstract, then continue with the body of the article. All pages must be numbered.

Authors are discouraged from using figures. If there is sufficient cause to include figures, authors must submit original electronic copies in EPS, TIF, or high-resolution JPG format. If tables are included, they must be created in Word, not Excel.

The article has to be peer reviewed by both external and internal peer reviewer.

Albulena Halili
Assistant at Research Office
SEE University - Tetovo
office: Rectorate/3/05
phone: +389 44 356 130
e-mail: a.halili@seeu.edu.mk

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Symphony Orchestra as Cultural Phenomenon, 07/01-03/2010, London

Deadline: November 30, 2009

The Institute of Musical Research, University of London, is pleased to announce an international conference on
The Symphony Orchestra as Cultural Phenomenon
Dates: 1-3 July 2010
Location: Institute of Musical Research, University of London, Senate House

Guest speakers include: James Dillon (University of Minnesota), Tina Ramnarine (Royal Holloway, University of London), David Wright (Royal College of Music), Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University)

Conference abstract: Edward Elgar described the symphony orchestra as 'the mighty engine, the vehicle of the highest form of art ever known to the world', and from the 1880s onwards this widely held belief gave orchestral music a prominent place in British musical life. In the 21st century, however, such a position is perhaps no longer tenable.

What kind of society might have given rise to such a sentiment? Did other societies across the globe value orchestral music as highly? What might the orchestra's place be in future societies? How have the changes undergone by different cultures and societies affected perceptions of the orchestra in the intervening period? To what extent can the orchestra be said to have played a role in the formation of those same cultures and societies?

This conference seeks to address such questions, with an emphasis on a comparative, contextual approach, which we believe will better illuminate the significance of local and national idiosyncrasies.

Call for papers: The Programme Committee warmly welcomes proposals focusing on economic, political, social and cultural developments connected with the symphony orchestra and their effects on composers, performers, conductors, producers, artistic directors, back-room staff, recording engineers, public and private broadcasters, recording companies, publishers, critics, scholars, audiences, listeners, viewers, fundraisers, patrons, arts councils, and so forth; or the 'outcomes' of their activity, including, but not limited to, such things as scores, recordings, concerts, lectures, essays, books, criticism, interviews, commissions and contracts. Those submitting proposals may also wish to address the relationship between historical context and place (such as venues, cities, and countries), or the formation and dissemination of ideas about the orchestra.

Proposals of 250 words maximum are invited for the following:
* Papers (20 minutes maximum, with 10 minutes discussion)

Proposals of 650 words maximum are invited for the following:
* Themed paper sessions of three or four papers (to include a proposal of 300 words maximum outlining the purpose of the themed session, along with brief explanations of each of the individual papers
to be included - each paper to be 20 minutes maximum plus ten minutes discussion)

DEADLINE for proposals: 5pm (GMT), Monday, 30 November 2009

Results Announced: mid-January 2010
Preliminary Programme: mid-January 2010

Please submit by email, in an attachment including your full name and contact details, to the IMR Administrator Mrs Valerie James, at
music@sas.ac.uk

Proposals will be anonymised before consideration by the Programme Committee.

Programme Committee: Stephen Cottrell (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Rachel Cowgill (Liverpool Hope University), Jonathan Cross (University of Oxford), John Irving (Institute of Musical Research), Jann Pasler (University of California, San Diego), Julian Rushton (University of Leeds), Derek B. Scott (University of Leeds).

Convenors: Duncan Boutwood (University of Leeds), Roddy Hawkins (University of Leeds).

Please email Roddy Hawkins with any queries: r.w.m.hawkins@leeds.ac.uk

Valerie James
Administrator
Institute of Musical Research
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
www.music.sas.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7664 4865

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Civil Wars and their Legacies, 09/04-05/2009, Swansea

The School of Humanities at Swansea University and the German Historical Institute London are pleased to announce the following international and interdisciplinary conference:

'Communities in Conflict: Civil Wars and their Legacies'

The conference will be held in the James Callaghan Lecture Theatre at Swansea University on 4-5 September 2009. Please visit the web link below for the conference program, registration form, and travel information. The deadline for registration is 13 July 2009. If you require further information please
contact Dr. Regina Poertner - email: r.poertner@swansea.ac.uk

www.swansea.ac.uk/history/News/Events/Headline,31828,en.php

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July 07, 2009

Political Thought no. 27, 20 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Deadline July 20, 2009

A Call for Papers

“Political Thought” is a quarterly thematic journal on political and social issues. The Editorial Board of the journal wishes to announce an open call for papers for the upcoming issue on the topic:

20 YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: FACING THE PAST

Interested contributors may approach the topic from different aspects and in different contexts i.e. with a Macedonian, regional or international dimension. In addition to the main topic, the following rubrics are also open for potential proposals: “Current”, “Challenges and Perspectives” and “Theory”.

All interested contributors must submit a short abstract (200-300 words) and a short biography to the Editorial Board no later than 20 July 2009.

The deadline for submitting the final version of the selected proposals is 10 August 2009. Proposals and final texts can be submitted in Macedonian, English or German.

All texts need to be in compliance with the conditions set in the Standards for Publishing Texts in “Political Thought”.

All proposals, texts and questions should be submitted to: s.koljackova@kas.com.mk

The Editorial Board
“Political Thought”

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July 06, 2009

Architecture and Literature. 04/07-11/2010, Montreal

Deadline: September 30, 2009

Call for Papers:
Architecture and Literature

41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 7-11, 2010
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure

The architecture that surrounds us instructs our perception of the world on a daily basis. Urban landscapes, buildings, and the rooms, at we live in affect our thinking and also inform literature. This panel seeks to examine the dynamic and complex relationships between achitecture and literature on multiple levels: On the one hand, it is conceived of as a forum for methodological reflection on theoretical approaches, which try to conceptualize the relationship between architecture and literature as different forms of art.

Whereas the role of architecture was frequently discussed in nineteenth-century aesthetics (e.g. Hegel, Schopenhauer and Vischer) and famously brought to attention again by Benjamin in the early twentieth century, contemporary aesthetics only rarely focus on it (the majority of recent studies on intermediality don’t even mention architecture). How can we conceptualize the way architecture and literature mutually inform each other as two different and yet interrelated aesthetic discourses? On the other hand, the panel welcomes proposals for papers, which explore the use of architectural tropes in literary texts, as well as the use of literary strategies in architectural theory. By analyzing possible interrelations from these different perspectives, the panel challenges the tendency of literary criticism to disregard architecture, and draws attention to architecture’s importance for aesthetic theory.

Please send a 300-500 word abstract until September 30, 2009 to Julia Weber at j.weber@yale.edu

Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation , Email address, Postal address, Telephone number.

Information about the convention can be found here: www.nemla.org

Julia Weber
Department of German
Yale University
j.weber@yale.edu

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July 01, 2009

Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914-22

CALL FOR PAPERS

Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–1922: The Centennial Reappraisal

If you are a professional historian or graduate student doing high-quality research on any aspect of Russia’s history between 1914 and the early 1920s, please contact us now.

We are an international collective of over 40 Russian, American, British and other scholars, and we aim to maximise the use of archival resources to produce a comprehensive scholarly reappraisal of Russia’s world-changing experience of war and revolution between 1914 and the early 1920s, 100 years after the events themselves.

Taking the period 1914-22 as a continuum of conflict, we have identified five core organizational themes for analysis: military affairs; international affairs; the home front; the empire; and culture. Particular concerns are to extend our knowledge of Russia’s Great War, which has been overshadowed in the historiography by the 1917 revolutions and their aftermath, and to explore how the Great War experience helped to shape Russia ’s development between 1917 and the early 1920s.

The resultant series of about a dozen books will be fully peer-reviewed and available in both printed and electronic forms. The audiences are professional historians, graduate students and senior-level undergraduate students. Publication is scheduled for 2014–2017.

Additionally, we are developing a permanent public website for non-scholarly audiences, especially high schools, that will have accessible digests of our chapters together with illustrations, maps and selected source documents.

Our books and website will be published in English and, subject to funding, in Russian.

The series editors are:
Professor David McDonald, University of Wisconsin-Madison,USA, dmmcdon1@wisc.edu
Dr John Steinberg, Georgia Southern University, USA, sohisjs@georgiasouthern.edu
Dr Anthony Heywood, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, t.heywood@abdn.ac.uk

For further information please see:
www.abdn.ac.uk/history/research/acreeh/rgwr

If you are interested in contributing a chapter, contact us now by email. Please put the acronym RGWR in the subject line and send this information to the series editors:
* your full name, title and institutional affiliation
* your email address
* a short description of your proposed chapter (150 words)
* the title of your proposed chapter

Dr Tony Heywood
Senior Lecturer in Modern European History
Department of History
Crombie Annex
University of Aberdeen

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June 30, 2009

Breaking Barriers: Borders and Beyond - Cinema Studies, 10/14-15/2009, San Francisco

Deadline: July 17, 2009

San Francisco State University is organizing its annual film conference organized by the Cinema Studies Graduate Students Association. This year the conference is titled, "Breaking Barriers: Borders and Beyond" the focus is on issues of liminality and border transcendence.

Please read our call at your convenience, and visit our website (http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~cinegsa/), which has the call for papers, recently extended until July 17, 2009, as a PDF download and much more information about the event and our organization. We hope you relay this call to the appropriate graduate or undergraduate students who may be interested in presenting at our conference. Thanks for your time.

Zach Cheney
GSA Member
Email: sfsufilmconference@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~cinegsa/

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Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages, 04/09-10/2010, TN

Deadline: October 1, 200

Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers or sessions for the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium on the theme "Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages" (plenary speakers David Gitlitz and Linda Davidson (Univ. of Rhode Island); event dates 9 and 10 April 2010.

Please submit an abstract (approx. 250 words) and brief c.v., electronically if possible, no later than 1 October 2009. If you wish to propose a session, please submit abstracts and vitae for all participants in the session. Commentary is traditionally provided for each paper presented. Therefore, completed papers, including notes, will be due no later than 10 March 2010. The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium Prize will be awarded for the best paper by a graduate student or recent PhD recipient (degree awarded since July 2007).

Prof. S. Raulston
Sewanee Medieval Colloquium
735 University Ave
Sewanee TN 37383

Phone (931) 598 1526
Email: sraulsto@sewanee.edu
Visit the website at http://www.sewanee.edu/medieval/main.html

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Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

Deadline: September 30, 2009

Authors and artists are invited to contribute critical articles, book reviews and original and innovative works on Visual Arts for the Special Autumn Issue, 2009. Submissions may include articles on the following areas:
• New insights into the works of individual artists
• Discussion of trends/movements in a particular field of visual arts
• Discussion on Indigenous art forms including folk arts
• Comparative study of arts and artists
• Digital arts (Rise, development and possibilities)

However, we are open to the suggestion of inclusion of new topics on visual arts.

Submissions for other general areas are also welcome.

Deadline of Submission: 30 September, 2009

Rupkatha Journal
editor@rupkatha.com
91993213682

Visit the website at http://rupkatha.com/submissionguidelines.php

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Before and Beyond Auschwitz/Auschwitz, 01/27-29/2010, Italy

Università degli Studi di Macerata - Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione Osservatorio di Genere - Istituto Storico della Resistenza e dell'età contemporanea "Mario Morbiducci"

27 28 29 January 2010

Before and Beyond Auschwitz

New conflicts and alternative routes among exclusion, identity and diversity

Within this more general framework the following topics will be closely discussed:
• Minority exclusion and discrimination
• Gender violence: woman as subject and object of totalitarian regimes
• Peace movements and pacifism
• Identity and politics: gender, ethnic and social class
• New conflict opposition forms after Auschwitz and Hiroshima
• Conflicts in the contemporary world
• Biopolitics of field

All research workers, scholars and specialists interested in the convention themes are invited to debate these topics in order to foster confrontation among different prospects and viewpoints on branches of learning.
Who wants to participate in one of the thematic workshops is invited to present an abstract of his/her own speech (max 300 words) not later than September 30, 2009. Proposals must be sent to: csgeneremc@gmail.com or faxed to 0039 0733 258 2551.
Only the abstracts in Italian or English language containing name and surname, email address, speech title and a brief curriculum vitae et studiorum (max 2000 characters, spaces included) will be accepted.

For further information please contact:
Department of Communication Sciences: g.calamanti@unimc.it
Gender observatory: csgeneremc@gmail.com

Osservatorio di genere – Istituto Storico della Resistenza – Via Verdi 10 – 62100 Macerata

T. 0039 0733 237107
F. 0039 0733 237138
Email: csgeneremc@gmail.com

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Review Film Studies books

Deadline: September 28, 2009

Film Studies Scholarly Book Reviewers Sought

The Southwest Journal of Cultures seeks reviewers of scholarly books dealing with many aspects of film studies. Interested scholars should send a cv and contact information to Brian Cowlishaw at cowlishb@nsuok.edu

We will provide qualified reviewers with a choice of titles. The book you review will be sent directly to you and is yours to keep.

As an on-line venue, the SJC prefers reviewers who can send their 1000-word book review as an email attachment within 30 days of receiving the book.

Brian Cowlishaw
Southwest Journal of Cultures
Northeastern State University
Email: cowlishb@nsuok.edu
Visit the website at http://southwestjournalofcultures.blogspot.com

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Arkansas Literary Review

Deadline: September 28, 2009

The Arkansas Literary Review is a new online journal that seeks to provide an active voice for graduate students who wish to explore the relationship between literature and the humanities: philosophy, history, language, etc. It is our intention to create a growing community of graduate voices from which great dialogues and ideas can emerge. We look forward to the many great discussions that will follow. Information regarding submission guidelines can be found in the link provided. Or, you can visit the Graduate Student Website at the following address: http://uark.edu/ua/osre/

Once there, click on the "Academic Journals" link on the left side of the page to be brought to the main website.

Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.

Joe Meyer
jmm010@uark.edu
University of Arkansas
233 Kimpel Hall

Visit the website at http://uark.edu/ua/osre/Journal%20Webpages/Submission%20Guidelines.pdf

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Jewish Studies in the Soviet Union, 12/14-16/2009, Moscow

Deadline: September 1, 2009

The Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies at Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, invites paper-proposals for a conference on "Jewish Studies in the Soviet Union", to be held in Moscow on December 14-16, 2009.

Among the topics which will be considered at the conference are the following:
* Jewish studies research institutions in the USSR
* Yiddish-language higher education in the 1920s and 1930s
* Hebraic and Semitic studies in the USSR
* The Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society under Soviet rule (until 1930), and the Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Commission (1981-1987)
* The Educational Activities of the Jewish National Movement (1970s to 1991)

We invite interested scholars to submit a 250-word proposal summarizing their paper by E-mail to: judaica_mark@mail.ru prior to September 1, 2009.

Russian State University for the Humanities will provide housing and meals for all conference participants whose proposals are accepted.

The working languages of the conference will be Russian and English; Russian State University for the Humanities Press will publish a volume of the conference proceedings.

We look forward to welcoming presenters, participants and guests to the conference. For further information on the Center for Biblical Studies, visit our website www.cbjs.rggu.ru

Sincerely,
The Organizing Committee
Professor Natalya Basovskaya (RSUH)
Professor David Fishman (JTS)
Dr. Igor Krupnik (Smithsonian)
Professor Mark Kupovetsky (RSUH)

Prof. Mark Kupovetsky
Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies
Russian State University for the Humanities
Moscow, Russia
Phone: +7 (495) 2506470
Fax: +7 (495) 2506758
Email: judaica_mark@mail.ru

Visit the website at http://www.cbjs.rggu.ru

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Comparative Yearbook - Szczecin

Instytut Polonistyki i Kulturoznawstwa Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
al. Piastów 40 b, 71-065 Szczecin
tel. (91) 444 27 13, fax. (91) 444 27 12; e-mail: ifp@univ.szczecin.pl

The editorial staff of ‘Comparative Yearbook’ consisting of:
prof. Mieczysław Dąbrowski (editor-in-chief assistant), prof. Ulrike Jekutsch, dr Jerzy Kazimierski (editorial secretary), prof. Marta Skwara, (chief editor), prof. Lech Sokół, prof. dr Dorota Walczak-Delanois is honored to present the guidelines of our new “Comparative Yearbook”, which is to come out in 2010.

The aim of the new literary periodical is the methodological analysis of history and contemporariness of the discipline, its reformulations, redefinitions and its current state as well as the analysis of Polish literature in the comparative context. The editorial staff will draw particular attention to the reflection upon the presence of Polish literature in the world and its capability of taking part in intertextual/intercultural dialogue. The leading subject of the first issue of ‘Comparative Yearbook’ will be relations between comparative studies, translation and the reception of a literary work. Our editorial staff plans the following thematic sections (the numbers given in brackets refer to the maximum standard units of text length):
1. Dissertations and studies (1,5)
2. Analyses (1,0)
3. Translations (length to be consulted with editorial section)
4. Presentations and discussions (this section includes both the
description of individual comparative works as well as polemics) (0,5)
5. Reports (0,3)
6. Received books (0,2)

The publication of each volume will be preceded by a seminar, which will take place annually in academic centers cooperating with the volume. The first ‘founding’ seminar took place 29-31 March 2009 at the University of Szczecin’s conference center in Pobierowo. The next seminar is to take place in a year in Warsaw, whereas the succeeding seminars are due to be held in Brussels and Greifswald. The materials for the first issue (prepared both by the participants of the seminar as well as all those interested in working with the yearbook) are to be sent by 1st September 2009. Please send all papers to the editorial secretary: casimir67@o2.pl or the editor in chief martskw@univ.szczecin.pl

All received works will be externally reviewed, texts delivered in English, German, Russian or French will be translated into Polish.

Technical details:
The standard units of text length equal 40,000 signs (with spaces and notes). One unit is about 22 pages of the ‘old’ standard typescript (30 lines a page, 60 signs per line).
Please enclose a summary of the text in English (max. 1,000 signs with spaces). Summary must include the name of the translator if the author of the summary is also the author of the text this also needs to be noted.
If the text includes the quotations in foreign languages operating in alphabets other in Latin (extended) please leave original spelling, do not transliterate. Every case of translation needs to be consulted with the editorial section.
In the bibliography please use Latin terminology (op.cit., ibidem, idem/eadem, passim etc.)

Here are some examples illustrating the convention of the footnotes:
1 A.O. Lovejoy, Wielki łańcuch bytu. Studium z dziejów idei. Translated by A. Przybysławski. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo KR, 1999, p. 45.
2 Ibidem, p. 79.
3 M. Głowiński, Świadectwa i style odbioru. In: idem, Style odbioru. Szkice o komunikacji literackiej. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1977.
4 M.Głowiński, O intertekstualności. “Pamiętnik Literacki” 1986, no. 4, passim.
5 A.O.Lovejoy, op. cit., p. 89.
6 J. Olkusz, Literatura orientalna w latach 1890–1900. “Zeszyty Naukowe WSP w Opolu”, Filologia Polska, 1989, pp. 83–106.
7 Z. Łapiński, Sens i konieczność. “Studia Norwidiana” vol. 2 (1985), p. 6.
8 B. Holmberg, “Adab” and Arabic Literature. In: Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective. Ed. by G. Lindberg-Wada. Vol. 1. Notions of Literature Across Times and Cultures. Ed. by A. Petersson. Berlin–New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 181.

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Franz Spina - Ein Prager Slawist, 02/17-19/2010, Prague

Deadline: 15.09.2009

HfM Weimar, Institut für Musikwissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaft; TU Dresden, Institut für Slawistik; Karlsuniversität Prag, Institut für germanistische Studien; Herder Forschungsrat
Deadline: 15.09.2009

Franz Spina, erster Bohemist an der Prager deutschen Universität, wirkte nicht nur im engeren akademischen Rahmen, sondern war als Politiker des Bundes der Landwirte und mehrfacher Minister einer der führenden Repräsentanten des deutschböhmischen politischen Aktivismus in der ersten Tschechoslowakischen Republik. Franz Spinas Einfluss auf den intellektuell-wissenschaftlichen Diskurs in Böhmen bzw. später der Tschechoslowakei ist von nicht zu unterschätzender Bedeutung. Hiervon zeugen vor allem zwei ambitionierte Zeitschriftenprojekte, mit denen Spina den engeren Fachdiskurs
überschreiten konnte: die Slavische Rundschau (1929-1940), ein völlig neuer Typus einer slavistischen Zeitschrift, die sich neben internationaler Vermittlung der Förderung der zwischenslavischen Beziehungen verschrieb, sowie die Germanoslavica (1931-1937), mit der Forschungen zu den wissenschaftlich-kulturellen Beziehungen zwischen Deutschen und Slaven ein zentrales Podium bekamen.

Eine umfassende biographische Würdigung Spinas stammt aus dem Jahr 1928, nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg findet man lediglich vereinzelte Beiträge im weiteren Kontext der Parteiengeschichte in der Tschechoslowakei, eine umfassende interdisziplinäre Auseinandersetzung mit Leben und Werk Franz Spinas fand bisher nicht statt.

Aus diesem Grund ist eine Tagung geplant, zu der Slavisten, Germanisten und Historiker aus Tschechien, Deutschland, Österreich und anderen Ländern eingeladen sind.

Arbeitstitel und Abstracts werden erbeten im Umfang von max. einer halben Seite, Vorträge im Umfang von max. 30 Minuten.

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Steffen Höhne
HfM Weimar

URL zur Zitation dieses Beitrages
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=11811

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June 29, 2009

Post-Communism and the New European Identity, 11/05=07/2009, Romania

Deadline: July 15, 2009

The Research Center on Identity and Migration Issues (RCIMI) within the Faculty of Political Science and Communication, University of Oradea is organizing the international conference Post-Communism and the New European Identity, that will be held on November 5th -7th , 2009 in Oradea, Romania.

The main topics of the conference are:
1. Identity and mobility in Europe
2. The image of the New Europe in the media
3. Institutional changes and democratic reforms after the fall of communism

Proposal submission: Proposals (including a paper title and a 200 - 250 words abstract of the proposed paper) should be submitted by email as MS Word attachment to contact@e-migration.ro, before July 15th, 2009. The papers presented at the conference will be published in a conference volume. Several selected papers could be published in the Journal of Identity and Migration Studies (see www.jims.e-migration.ro ).

Fees: There is no conference fee. The organizers will provide conference materials and the publication of the selected papers. Travel, accommodation and meals costs are to be paid by the participants. The organizers will assist you with information concerning different types of accommodation.

The registration form and the preliminary program of the conference are available on the RCIMI’s 2009 Conference webpage (see http://e-migration.ro/About-RCIMI-Conference.php ).

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Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust, 11/04-07/2010, Boca Raton

Deadline: October 31,2009

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Lessons and Legacies XI, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
November 4-7, 2010

The Eleventh Biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference, sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation and Florida Atlantic University, will consist of two plenary addresses, up to three roundtables, up to eighteen panels, and up to fourteen workshops relating to recent issues and advances in scholarship on all aspects of Holocaust Studies, and pointing the way toward further research.

Interested scholars are invited to present proposals for individual papers or entire panels by October 31, 2009. Proposals should be sent by email to BOTH of the Program Co-Chairs for the conference: Professor Frank Nicosia, University of Vermont (francis.nicosia@uvm.edu), and Professor Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College (susannah.heschel@dartmouth.edu).

Panels normally will consist of three papers and a commentator or four papers and no commentator, although other formats are possible. Proposals should include a title and brief description of the panel as a whole, along with the names, institutional affiliations, contact information, paper titles and abstracts of all panelists. Proposals for individual papers will also be considered. Applicants will be informed regarding inclusion on the conference program by January 31, 2010.

Please note that the deadline for workshop proposals is the same as that for panels and papers, October 31, 2009, but that the addressees are different. Organizers of workshops should contact all of the following workshop organizers: Dr. Suzanne Brown-Fleming, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (sbrown-fleming@ushmm.org), Professor Donald Schilling, Denison University (schilling@denison.edu), and Hillary Earl (hearl@sympatico.ca) regarding application guidelines and procedures..

Participants in Lessons and Legacies XI will be required to register and pay a small fee in advance of the conference. To the extent possible, the Holocaust Educational Foundation will provide financial assistance for presenters at the conference, with priorities being graduate students, faculty at teaching-oriented colleges that do not provide research support, and foreign scholars who have unusually high travel costs. Please direct all inquiries about financial assistance to the Holocaust Educational Foundation, President Theodore Zev Weiss (HEF3@aol.com).

Theodore Z. Weiss
Holocaust Educational Foundation
e-mail: HEF3@aol.com

www.holocaustef.org

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June 24, 2009

Erinnerungsorte und Erinnerungskulturen, 11/09/2009, Tirana

Einsendeschluss: 31. Juli 2009.

"Erinnerungsorte und Erinnerungskulturen"
Symposium, 9. November 2009, Tirana

Einladung zum Beitrag

Bei einem von DAAD, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung u.a. geförderten Symposium, das von den Universitäten Tirana, München und Bielefeld im November 2009 in Tirana (Universität Tirana) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Beirat Germanistik des DAAD, der Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung und der Deutschen Botschaft Tirana veranstaltet wird, soll diskutiert werden, inwieweit das Konzept der Erinnerungsorte auch für Albanien und die angrenzenden Länder anwendbar ist. Es werden daher Beiträge gesucht, die das Konzept der Erinnerungsorte in seinen Grundzügen darlegen und im Rahmen von Erinnerungskulturen bearbeiten. Dabei sollen die Grundzüge nationaler Geschichtsschreibung und nationalen Geschichtsverständnisses aus verschiedenen (inter-)kulturellen Perspektiven betrachtet werden. So sollen etwa albanische Erinnerungsorte und der Wandel der Betrachtungs- und Interpretationsweisen über die Jahrzehnte (vor, im und nach dem Kommunismus) dargestellt werden, um das Konzept der Erinnerungsorte erstmals exemplarisch für Albanien zu erproben. Historiker, Literaturwissenschaftler, bildende Künstler, Linguisten, Sozialwissenschaftler, Didaktiker etc. sind dazu eingeladen, sich an dem interdisziplinären Dialog über die Bedeutung und den Wandel von Erinnerungsorten und Erinnerungskulturen vor allem in der Region Süd-Ost-Europa, aber auch darüber hinaus, zu beteiligen. Mit den Mitteln der Förderorganisationen können Reisestipendien gewährt werden.
Das Konzept der Erinnerungsorte stammt aus Frankreich, wo es von Pierre Nora (unter Berufung auf Theoretiker des kollektiven Gedächtnisses wie Maurice Halbwachs u.a.) entwickelt wurde. Nicht Fakten und Zahlen allein sind für das Verständnis von Geschichte wichtig, sondern Personen, Orte, Ereignisse, die im kollektiven Gedächtnis einer Nation verankert sind und als wichtig für die nationale Identität angesehen werden. Der Wandel der Zeiten und Ethnien bringt es jedoch mit sich, dass sich divergente, oft konfliktive und explosive Betrachtungsalternativen formen, die trotz ihres Wahrheitsgehaltes einem Verstehens- und Verständigungsprozess im Wege stehen.

So werden Erinnerungsorte und Erinnerungskulturen zu einem genuinen Arbeitsbereich Sprache und Kultur vermittelnder Fächer, wie sie die (Auslands-)Germanistiken darstellen. In den Deutschlandstudien (German Studies) rücken daher zunehmend Bereiche in den Mittelpunkt, die über die traditionelle Arbeit mit Texten hinausgehen, bzw. dieser erweiterte Dimensionen eröffnen. So hat das Symposium auch eine fachpolitische Zielsetzung: es soll helfen zu klären, inwiefern durch den Einfluss moderner Deutschlandstudien den Germanistiken in der Region wichtige Impulse für die Zukunft gegeben werden können. Die Tagung gilt als Auftakt zu einem mehrjährigen Forschungsprojekt, in dem Forscherinnen und Forscher aus West- und Südosteuropa unter Beteiligung von Expertinnen und Experten der Deutschlandstudien aus Amerika und Asien an Antworten auf die relevanten Fragen arbeiten und Curricula und Materialien für die universitäre Lehre erarbeiten. Die Präsentationen beim Symposium sind auf 30 Minuten inkl. Diskussionszeit begrenzt. Es wird in kleinen Arbeitsgruppen gearbeitet.

Themenvorschläge in Form einer kurzen Darstellung (Abstract, ca. 20 Zeilen) werden bis 31. Juli 2009 erbeten an die drei folgenden Adressen:

Prof. Dr. Jörg Roche
Institut für Deutsch als Fremdsprache
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Prinzregentenstr. 7
D-80538 München
erinnerungskulturen@daf.uni-muenchen.de

Prof. Dr. Uwe Koreik
Universität Bielefeld
Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft
Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache
Postfach 10 01 31
D-33501 Bielefeld
Uwe.Koreik@uni-bielefeld.de

Jürgen Röhling
DAAD-Lektor
Universität Tirana
Fakulteti i Gjuheve te Huaja
Rr e Elbasanit
Tirana, Albanien
Jroehling@aol.com

Die Benachrichtigung über die Annahme der Vorschläge erfolgt bis zum 8. August 2009.

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June 17, 2009

Brecht in / and Asia, Manoa, Hawaii (Honolulu) (01.07.2009)

Deadline: July 1, 2009

Brecht in / and Asia

13th Symposium of the International Brecht Society

19-23 May 2010
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu

To reassess the complex interconnections between Brecht's work and various Asian cultures at the beginning of the 21st century, the International Brecht Society invites scholars and artists in theater, performance, and other cultural fields as well as doctoral students to an interdisciplinary symposium in Spring 2010 on the topic Brecht in / and Asia.

Brecht was not the only Western modernist to turn to Asian theater and thought for inspiration, but he was an especially astute observer of the cultural encounter with this "other," which had such a significant impact on his work. Conversely, Brecht's own theater and thought returned to inspire new forms of political and aesthetic experiments in many parts of Asia. With the dynamic, ongoing echoes of this mutual relationship as point of departure, the symposium will provide a forum to explore its multiple dimensions. This call for papers broadly understands "Asia" to refer to the geo-political spaces of a "pluralized Asia" as well as to the reach of Asian traditions into the cultures of Europe, Africa, and the Americas. The organizational committee, consisting of Eiichiro Hirata (Keio University, Tokyo), Hans-Thies Lehmann (Goethe University, Frankfurt), Marc Silberman (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Markus Wessendorf (University of Hawai'i at Ma-noa, Honolulu), and Erdmut Wizisla (Bertolt Brecht Archive, Berlin), seeks proposals for papers, posters, panels, and workshops in the following four areas:

I. Asia's Brecht
II. Brecht's Asia
III. Asia beyond Brecht
IV. Brecht beyond Asia
For further definition of the four areas, see http://manoa.hawaii.edu/brecht2010

Since the primary conference language will be English, English-language proposals will be preferred. However, presentations in German are also welcome..

Please submit proposals for 20-minute presentations (250-350 words), abstracts for the poster sessions (100-150 words), workshop descriptions (100-150 words), or suggestions for panels (with three participants) by July 1, 2009 to:
Dr. Markus Wessendorf
Dept. of Theatre and Dance
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
1770 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
Email: wessendo@hawaii.edu
Fax: 001 808 956-4234

Submissions by email are preferred, but hard copy and fax will also be accepted. Presenters will be notified in late October 2009 about the committee's selection of proposals, posters, and panels. The organizational committee reserves the right to constitute the panels and alter proposed themes or groups. Symposium participants are expected to be, or become, members of the International Brecht Society. The regular registration fee for the symposium is $120 ($90 for students and retirees), if registered by February 2010, thereafter the conference fee increases to $150 / $120. All participants are required to register. A selection of symposium proceedings will be published in The Brecht Yearbook (volume 36 / 2011).

The IBS plans to organize a cultural program during the conference, including the first American production of Brecht's The Judith of Shimoda (at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa) and a guest performance of director Makoto Nakashima's Mother Courage and Her Children (by the Bird Theater Company from Japan). More information on the cultural program as well as other details of the symposium can be found on the conference website:

The IBS hopes to attract financing and sponsors to partially subsidize participants' travel. Please note, however, that participants will have to arrange their own flight reservations and hotel accommodations.

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June 16, 2009

Vulnerabilities And Exclusion In Globalization, 03/24-27/2010, Mexico

Deadline: October 15, 2009

Call for Papers and Participation

The 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) will be held in Mérida, Yucatan, México, March 24-27, 2010. The theme of the meeting is "Vulnerabilities And Exclusion In Globalization." The Program Co-chairs, Liliana Goldín (Florida International) and Francisco Fernández Repetto (UADY), invite the interest and submission of abstracts for papers, sessions, posters, and workshops. Please contact either Chair, goldin@fiu.edu, frepetto@uady.mx, or the SfAA Office at info@sfaa.net if you have questions or wish additional information.

Abstracts and papers may be in English or Spanish. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is October 15, 2009. A detailed description of the theme and the meeting venue may be found on the SfAA web page at www.sfaa.net and in the recent SfAA Newsletter at www.sfaa.net/newsletter/newsletter.html

The Society is an international association of applied social scientists. The annual meetings emphasize problem definition and resolution. The discussions are inter-disciplinary and informal. A special welcome is extended to non-members.

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National Romanticism, Assoc of Art Historians,04/15-17/2010, Glasgow

Deadline: November 9, 2009

"Rethinking National Romanticism"
Session at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference,
Glasgow, 15-17 April 2010.

"Until this powerful movement is recognized and demystified, we will not fully understand the intellectual and cultural climate of turn-of-the-century Europe."
Michelle Facos, "Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Art of the 1890s", Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1998, 2-3.

Although linked to the re-evaluation of the legacy of Art Nouveau in the 1960s and 1970s, the term National Romanticism came into wider art historical use in the 1980s and 1990s in relation to growing interest in the cultures of the so-called 'peripheral' nations of Europe; first in the Nordic region and then the post-Eastern Bloc countries. In this context, National Romanticism facilitated the integration of these new regions into the sphere of Western art history, but its continued currency can now be seen to limit the scope of understanding of these cultures in a larger pan-European context.

This session intends to provide an international platform for a critical re-assessment of National Romanticism that challenges some of the art historical assumptions and expectations called up by this term. At the turn of the last century, artists and designers crossed
boundaries between disciplines and between social, political and aesthetic concerns, making it difficult to maintain ideological and formal categories and posing a real challenge to the historian of this period. And yet, the works and objects understood as National Romantic and their relationship to the wider culture of the period offer an intriguing challenge to the lingering influence of a Modernist emphasis on a linear, progressive reading of history.

Paper proposals of 250 word max. should be sent to
Dr Charlotte Ashby charlotte.ashby@rca.ac.uk
or Dr Sabine Wieber S.Wieber@roehampton.ac.uk
by 9th November 2009.

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Religious Communication Conference, 11/26-27/2009, Melbourne

Deadline: June 22, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS
Religious Communication Conference

26 -27 November 2009
Monash University Conference Centre
Level 7, 30 Collins Street
Melbourne

Registration (includes lunches and morning and afternoon tea):
$ 160 wage earners
$ 100 students and non-wage earners

The conference will focus on religious communication and religious aesthetic forms. The underlying impulse is to bring into dialogue scholarly work undertaken in religious studies and theology with debates and research in the fields of communications and cultural studies, including performance, literary, visual and aesthetic analyses. The premise of the conference is that communication and aesthetic forms play an active role in shaping a religious culture's sensibility rather than merely reflecting that religious community's ideology, logic or worldview. In short, religious communication makes religious experience meaningful, possible and effective.

The conference will have a wide interpretation of 'religious communication', including, but extending religious communication beyond 'communication studies' understood as 'mass media', to include religious modes of communication such as prayer, sermons, revelation, art, theatre and ritual, as well as religious uses of mass media. We invite papers from the perspectives across the humanities and social sciences, including literature, music, performance, film and television, anthropology, sociology and history, as well as religious studies and theology. We also invite papers from all religious perspectives.

The conference is particularly interested in exploring:
* Religious affect and its relationship to different media (e.g., song, prayer, architecture, film, performance, images in general)
* Religious interpretation and textual hermeneutics (e.g., literalism versus symbolism)
* The use of communication media and art forms by religious groups to create a sense of community
* Communication as a 'portal' or window to the 'divine' and/or the 'sacred'
* Cross-cultural adaptation and the creolisation of religious forms
* Religion and the sacred in popular culture
* Modernity, post-modernity and religious communication.

This conference will be held immediately prior to the World Parliament of Religions, providing an opportunity for reflection on religious practice and the relationship between religious identity and the aesthetic forms of religious communication, and cross cultural communication.

* *Deadline for submission of abstracts: 22 June 2009* *

Please email an abstract of 200-250 words, and a short biographical note to: Elizabeth.Coleman@arts.monash.edu.au

Conveners:
Dr Elizabeth Burns Coleman
Associate Professor Gil-Soo Han

Supported by:
English, Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University
Performance and Social Aesthetics Research Unit, Monash University

The conference web page is at
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/conferences/religious-communication/

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Pre-1914 Polit. Terms,04/22-24/2010, Moscow

Deadline: September 30, 2009

CfP: Politisch-soziale Schlüsselbegriffe in Russland (petrinische Epoche bis 1914), Moskau, 22.-24.04.2010

Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau; Organisatoren: Alexei Miller (RAN/Moskau, CEU/Budapest); Ingrid Schierle (DHI Moskau), Moskau 22.-24.04.2010, 117418 Moskau Nachimovskij Prospekt 51/21; Konferenzsaal des DHI Die Forschungen zu Konzepten und Begriffen der politischen Kultur Russlands im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert haben gerade erst begonnen. Die russische Begriffsgeschichte ist ein neues und sich lebendigentwickelndes Forschungsfeld. Im Blickpunkt der geplanten Konferenz steht der politisch-soziale Begriffsapparat der imperialen Epoche. Ziel der Konferenz ist es, die Bildung und Entwicklung politisch-sozialer Begriffe vom Beginn der petrinischen Epoche bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg zu analysieren.

Im Mittelpunkt werden folgende Fragen und Themenstellungen stehen: Gibt es eine "Sattelzeit" bzw. "Sattelzeiten" in der russischen Begrifflichkeit? Wie lassen sich die Koselleck’schen Kategorien des "Erwartungshorizonts" und des "Erfahrungsraums" von Begriffen an russischen Beispielen zeigen? Welche Funktionen erfüllten Begriffe im politisch-sozialen Diskurs? Welches Wissen und welche Vorstellungen bündelten sich in Begriffen? Welche Verschiebungen und Brüche lassen sich in der Semantik der Begriffe feststellen? Welche Begriffe wurden zu Schlüsselbegriffen? Wie lässt sich der Kampf von Akteuren und Akteursgruppen um die Deutungsmacht und um die Durchsetzung von Begriffsinterpretationen zeigen? Wie verlief der Transfer europäischer Begriffstraditionen im russischen Kontext? Welche Aneignungsmuster lassen sich beobachten? Welchen Adaptionen unterlagen die entlehnten Begriffe, wodurch und von wem wurden sie verursacht? Welche sozialen Gruppen waren die Träger eines spezifischen Wortgebrauchs? Beitragsvorschläge zu allen Ansätzen –darunter die historische Semantik, Begriffsgeschichte, Wortgeschichte und Diskursanalyse – sind willkommen. Fallstudien zum Gebrauch politisch-sozialer Begriffe in unterschiedlichen Kommunikationszusammenhängen sowie komparative Fragestellungen sind ebenfalls erwünscht.

Organisation:
Die Konferenz „Politisch-soziale Schlüsselbegriffe in Russland (petrinische Epoche bis 1914)“ findet im Deutschen Historischen Institut (DHI) Moskau statt. Die Kosten für Reise und Unterkunft werden vom DHI übernommen. Die Konferenz ist für den 22.-24. April 2010 geplant. Die Beitragsvorschläge (Abstracts) sollten auf Englisch oder auf Russisch abgefasst sein, maximal 5.000 Zeichen umfassen und bis spätestens 30. September 2009 an folgende Adresse gesandt werden: koncepcii.dhi@gmx.de

Wir erbitten dabei folgende Angaben: Postalische und elektronische Dienstadressen, Dienstort, akademischer Grad, Thema und Thesen des Vortrags.

Die Benachrichtigung der KonferenzteilnehmerInnen erfolgt spätestens am 31. Oktober 2009. Die Konferenzbeiträge in russischer Sprache (Umfang maximal 15.000 Wörter) erbitten wir bis spätestens 15. März 2010. Die Beiträge werden vor Beginn der Konferenz zirkuliert. Die Vortragsdauer sollte 15 Minuten nicht überschreiten, um genügend Zeit für die Diskussion der Beiträge zu lassen. Die Konferenzsprache ist Russisch. Eine Veröffentlichung der Konferenzbeiträge ist geplant, der Abgabetermin für die überarbeiteten und zum Druck vorbereiteten Beiträge ist Ende November 2010.

Die Organisatoren der Konferenz:
Alexei Miller millera@ceu.hu
Ingrid Schierle ingrid.schierle@dhi-moskau.org
Homepage www.dhi-moskau.org

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Audiovisual Media and Identity in Southeastern Europe,04/08-10/2010, Wittenberg

Deadline: June 30, 2009

Call for papers

Audiovisual Media and Identity in Southeastern Europe

Wittenberg, Germany

8.-10. April 2010

Abstracts and papers will be accepted in English and German.

For more information feel free to contact the conference conveners or see:
http://www.musikwiss.uni-halle.de/forschung/projekte/visuelle_und_aurale_repraesentati/

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June 12, 2009

International Oral History Conference, 07/07-11/2010, Prague

Deadline: July 10, 2009

International Oral History Association; Czech Oral History Association;
Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
07.07.2010-11.07.2010, Prague, Czech Republic

Papers are invited from around the world for contributions to the XVIth International Oral History Conference hosted by the International Oral History Association in collaboration with the Czech Oral History Association and the Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic.

This year our attention will focus on finding and making meaning of the past and human identity through oral history. We will focus on number of research fields where oral history can contribute to better understanding not only of our past but our lives in general. Also, for the first time our conference will take place in an ex-totalitarian country. This enables us to analyse the specific role of oral history research in societies where other, especially official records about the past have been submitted to censorship or have been discarded.

We encourage scholars all around the world and all those who have worked with oral history in a wide range of settings such as museums, heritage agencies, academic institutions, law courts, radio and television, performing arts and community projects to participate in XVI International Oral History Conference in Prague, Czech Republic.

Proposals
Proposals may be for a conference paper or a thematic panel. Only those proposals clearly focused on oral history will be given consideration. Proposals will be evaluated according to their oral history focus, methodological and theoretical significance and relevance to the conference theme and sub-themes.

Individual papers - these will be grouped by the conference organizers into panels or workshops with papers which have a similar focus
Thematic panels - proposals for a thematic panel should contain no more than four presenters, representing different countries

During the conference Special Interest Groups will take place. These network sessions are intended for oral historians to meet, establish contacts, share resources and ideas. The places and times of SIGs will be announced in the programme of the conference. Suggestions and offers about possible themes are invited (please contact the local organisers).

Master classes led by internationally recognized oral history scholars and practitioners will be held before the Conference. To apply to these paid classes or workshops, please follow the Master Classes link at our website.

Proposal specifications
Please submit a 300-word maximum proposal summarizing your presentation, via the Conference Website: www.ioha2010prague.cz
Proposals (and subsequent papers) must be written in English or Spanish.

You will also be requested to supply the following information:
Name
Institutional or Academic Affiliation (not compulsory)
Postal Address
Email Address
Telephone and Fax numbers
Theme/s for your proposal
Indication if the proposal is an individual paper or a thematic panel
Deadline for proposals: 10 July 2009

Presenters will be required to send their final paper in idiomatic English or Spanish, with a summary in both languages. Summaries will be published in the conference Book of Abstracts. Translations should be of publishable quality, preferably written or reviewed by a native speaker or professional translator in that language. The Organizing Committee will notify acceptance or rejection of proposals by October 31, 2009.

The Conference will allow as much as possible to the conference audiences to hear the voices of narrators and will provide all the necessary technical equipment.

Themes
Memories of violence, war and totalitarianism. The persecuted, civil rights, trauma and forgetting
Memory and Politics: Experiences of political participation
Islands of Freedom: The role of subculture, folklore and oral traditions in society.
Alternative culture, music, dance and identity.
Memories of Family: Motherhood, fatherhood and generational exchange
Migrations: Exile, migratory movements, diaspora and the search of identity
The World of Work: Memories and experiences. Gender and the perception of labour
Gender/ing memories and the making of sexual identities. Oral Histories of gays and lesbians.
Health and Healthcare: health centres, the elderly and disabled; health workers
Ecology and Disasters: Environmental issues, natural heritage and cultural change
Sharing/Passing on Beliefs: Religion and oral traditions
Organizing Oral History: Institutions, archives, museums, organizations and grassroots groups.
Methodological, archival and technological issues Theory and Method in Oral History: Legal and ethical issues.
Teaching Oral History: Experiences in formal and informal education
Oral History and the Media

Contacts
To contact the Conference organizers in Prague, please email or write to:
Pavel Mücke - mucke@usd.cas.cz
Oral History Center
Institute of Contemporary History
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Homepage http://www.ioha2010prague.cz/

URL zur Zitation dieses Beitrages
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=11679

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June 10, 2009

Council for European Studies

Deadline: October 15, 2009

Council for European Studies
Seventeenth International Conference
Montreal, Canada
Grand Plaza
April 15-17, 2010

Conference Announcement

Founded in 1970, the Council for European Studies (CES) is the leading academic organization for the study of Europe. The Council produces and recognizes outstanding, multidisciplinary research in European studies through a range of programs, including conferences, publications, special events, and awards. The Council's biennial international conference brings together scholars from a multitude of countries and a multitude of fields for debate, discussion, and interdisciplinary exchange.

For the 2010 conference, the Council welcomes proposals for panels, roundtables, book discussions, multi-panel workshops, and individual papers on the study of Europe broadly defined. We encourage proposals in the widest range of disciplines and in particular interdisciplinary panels.

The Committee will accept only 2 submissions per person. Members may also participate in a maximum of two sessions.

Proposals may be submitted from August 1 to October 15, 2009. More information on the submission process will be available in upcoming issues of the CES newsletter.

Participants will be notified of the Committee's decisions by December 1, 2009.

Conference Committee
-Sophie Meunier, Co-Chair
Princeton University
-Phil Nord, Co-Chair
Princeton University
-Marion Fourcade
University of California, Berkeley
-Peter Hall
Harvard University
-Martha Lampland
University of California, San Diego
-Patrick Leblond
University of Ottawa
-Peter Mandler
Cambridge University
-Marla Stone
Occidental College

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Kulturanalyse im zentraleuropaeischen Kontext, 09/24-26/2009, Wien

Deadline: 30.06.2009

Kulturwissenschaften / Cultural Studies, Universität Wien
24.09.2009-26.09.2009, Wien

Die Graduiertenkonferenz möchte sich mit der Anwendung kulturwissenschaftlicher Ansätze im zentral- und südosteuropäischen Kontext auseinandersetzen. Thematischer Ausgangspunkt der Konferenz sind die radikalen Veränderungen Zentraleuropas nach dem Systemwechsel 1989 und die historischen Bruchlinien in der Geschichte der ehemaligen sozialistischen Länder. Im Zentrum des Interesses sollen Themen stehen wie: Gedächtnis und Erinnerung, Kulturtransfer, Fremd- und Eigenbilder, Nationsbildung, Zentrum und Peripherie, politische Transformation und kultureller Wandel.

Fallstudien und theoretische Ansätze aus den folgenden Bereichen sind vorgesehen:
1. Literatur und Kultur
2. Film und Theater
3. Kultur und Geschichte
4. Kulturtheorie mit Akzent auf neuen theoretischen Ansätzen

Mit Blick auf konkrete Beispiele sollen methodische und theoretische Fragen der Narratologien, Theorien des kulturellen Gedächtnisses, Raumkonzepte, semiotische Fragestellungen, Fragen des kulturellen Transfers und Nationstheorien reflektiert werden. Jedem Vortrag (ca. 30 Minuten) wird eine Respondenz (ca. 10 Minuten) zugeordnet.

Leitung:
Doz. et. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Prof. Dr. Frank Stern (Univ. Wien)
Prof. Marijan Bobinac (Univ. Zagreb)
Prof. Oto Luthar (Slowenische Akademie der Wissenschaften, ZACRU, Ljubljana / Univ. Nova Gorica)

Call for Papers und Termine:
Interessenten werden gebeten, ihren Themenvorschlag zusammen mit einem Abstract von ca. 400-500 Wörtern sowie einen kurzen Lebenslauf bis zum 30. Juni 2009 an Ingo Lauggas zu schicken.

Ingo Lauggas
Koordinationsstelle Kulturwissenschaften / Cultural Studies, Institut für Romanistik
ingo.lauggas@univie.ac.at

Homepage der Internationalen Graduiertenkonferenzen Kulturwissenschaften/Cultural Studies
http://www.univie.ac.at/graduiertenkonferenzen-culturalstudies

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June 09, 2009

Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization,10/23-24/2009, Dubrovnik

Deadline: June 30th 2009

Call for Papers

POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTRE (PSRC) FORUM
8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Organized by:
Political Science Research Centre, Zagreb, Croatia
and Scientific Forum, Zagreb, Croatia

Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization
October 23-24, 2009
University of Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik, Croatia

Supported by:
Research Network on International Governance Globalization and theTransformations of the State

Political Science Research Centre (PSRC) and Scientific Forum are organizing the 8th International Conference as a part of PSRC FORUM as a Global Scientific Network. Political Science Research Centre is the only specialized private research centre for globalization in Croatia. Scientific Forum is a nongovermental organization for promotion of social sciences and humanities. The idea of this project is to create global scientific network in the field of social sciences, which will actively contribute to the production of new knowledge and understandings using current information technologies. The network consists of scientists from all over the world which are members of the PSRC Forum. More details about the PSRC Forum may be found at the web address: http://www.cpi.hr/index.php?menu=8.

The main objective of the 8th International Conference of PSRC Forum "Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization" is both to provide insights of theoretical and scientific understandings of the sovereignty and the ways it transforms in scope of globalization processes, but also to analyze practical changes and experiences. By initiating a multidisciplinary discussion from different points of view, this conference will ensure a broad scientific insight of these phenomena.

List of specific topics as a guideline for paper thesis and discussions is presented below:
* Classical theories of sovereignty in the context of globalized society
* Contemporary theories of sovereignty
* Transformation of sovereignty and the functions of state
* International relations and transformation of sovereignty
* Universalisation of values, human rights and the issue of sovereignty
* Sovereignty between national and cosmopolitan
* Global risks and transformation of sovereignty
* Multiculturalism and the issue of sovereignty
* Role of global civil society in transformation of sovereignty
* Relations between nation state and international institutions
* Transformation of sovereignty in the context of political system change
* Partial sovereignty vs. absolute sovereignty
* Sovereignty in transition countries
* Economic sovereignty in globalization
* Economic globalization and the issue of sovereignty
* Neo-liberal concept of state and sovereignty
* Sovereignty and supra-national organizations
* Impact of regionalization on nation state sovereignty
* Information technologies and their impact on changes of sovereignty
* Welfare state in the context of trans-national sovereignty
* Globalization, sovereignty, imperialism

Please note that these are the main topics which are going to be discussed uring the Conference. Nevertheless, we will also accept all other papers related to the main subject of the Conference.

LOCATION
The Conference will be held at the University of Dubrovnik, in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

SCHEDULE
The Conference will begin on Friday, October 23rd approximately at 10 a.m., and end on Saturday, October 24th approximately at 3 p.m. Organizer will provide all participants with a detailed schedule in due time.

PAPER PROPOSALS
The application form and paper proposal form are attached to the Call for Papers. Proposals should be sent by e-mail to lana.kosovac@cpi.hr
All proposals and papers should be written in English.

ACCOMMODATION AND TRAVEL COSTS
There is a limited fund for covering travel and accommodation costs for participants, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Unfortunately, we are not able to cover travel costs for participants
outside Europe.

CONFERENCE PAPERS
The Conference Papers will be published as a print version, as well as an electronic version on the web site http://www.cpi.hr/
Papers are collected a month after the conference.

Working language of the Conference is English.
If audio-visual equipment (overhead projector, PowerPoint, VCR) is required, please indicate so in your application.
Deadline for submitting paper proposal and application form: June 30th 2009

ORGANIZATIONAL BOARD
Anđelko Milardović, prof.dr.sc., Davor Pauković, mr.sc., Davorka Vidović, mr.sc., Nikolina Jožanc, Višeslav Raos, Lana Kosovac, Erna Matanović, Pero Maldini, prof.dr.sc

For any further information please contact:
Lana Kosovac
Political Science Research Centre
Scientific Forum
Zagreb, Croatia
Tel/Fax: +385 1 3863 113
E-mail: lana.kosovac@cpi.hr
Url: http://www.cpi.hr/

Political Science Research Centre Info: Gupčeva 14a, 10 090 Zagreb, Croatia,
Bank account: 2360000-1101797860

Scientific Forum Info: Gupčeva 14a, 10 090 Zagreb, Croatia, Bank account:
2360000-1101960204

Višeslav Raos
Centar za politološka istraživanja/Political Science Research Centre
Gupčeva 14a, 10090 Zagreb, Hrvatska/Croatia

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Socialist 1960s: Popular Culture and Socialist City, 08/24-26/2010, U. of IL

Deadline: October 15, 2009

Call for Proposals

The Socialist 1960s: Popular Culture and the Socialist City in Global Perspective

2010 Fisher Forum, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 24-26, 2010

The 1960s witnessed an explosion of cross-cultural fertilization in a time of world competition for the hegemony of two enduring "systems" - capitalism and socialism. As a moment when decolonization created immense possibilities for liberation movements throughout the world, the 1960s became the heyday of the "Second World" appeals to the newly decolonized societies of the "Third World," as well as the reemergence of a European "First World" as a postwar consumer society in reaction to American hegemony. This was the moment when the "orderedness" of the three worlds was arguably the most prominent in popular discourse and culture, and a moment when that order was contested and destabilized. The patterns that first emerged in the 1960s - cultural contest, political mobility, urbanization and the rise of urban youth movements, women's rights, the hegemony of popular over "high" culture driven by technology - form the bases of today's discussions of globalization, its challenges, dangers, and contestation.

The purpose of this conference will be to use the Second World, the socialist societies of the 1960s, as the center from which to explore global interconnections and uncover new and perhaps surprising
patterns of cultural cross-pollination. This forum will be structured around cities as the units of analysis, and it will focus on the arena of popular culture as played out in these city spaces. More
specifically, we invite paper proposals that focus on one of three realms of urban popular culture - media (including cinema, television, popular music); material culture (including spaces and their uses as well as commodities), and leisure (including tourism and other activities). We consider these exemplary of the circulation of objects, images, sounds, and impressions on a level different from political programs, literature and "fine arts." Several thematic threads will tie together this consideration of the circulation of popular culture around and through the Second world: mobility and cultural transmission; youth cultures and student movements; gender; consumerism and hedonism; the state and cultural exchange; technology and cultural dissemination; cosmopolitan political mobilization. Our aims will be to consider what the "1960s" meant in socialist countries, and to discuss the balance in the 1960s between cultural global integration and continuing political differentiation.

The core of the forum will be the socialist societies of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, but the forum would be enriched by participation from scholars who study other socialist societies. We
anticipate that the conference will result in a published volume: submissions should be original work, not previously published.

Please send proposed paper title and abstracts to each of the organizers by October 15, 2009. Proposals should indicate which of the conference themes the paper addresses, and the term "Sixties" or "1960s" should be explicit in the paper title. Selection of participants will be made by November 30, 2009, and conference papers should be submitted by April 1, 2010.

CREES

Center for Russian and East European Studies postings. www.ii.umich.edu/crees

November 25, 2009

Russia and Modern World: Problems of Political Development, 04/15-17/2010, Moscow

Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2010

November 23, 2009

Eurasian Economic Integration

Performance, Revolution, Pedagogy: Theatre and Its Objects

Diasporas and national consciousness between Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond in the long 19th century, 05/30/2010, 09/10-11/2010 UK

November 18, 2009

Untitled: What's in a Name?, 04/15-17/2010, Glasgow

Untitled: What's in a Name?, 04/15-17/2010, Glasgow

Post-graduation Forum for Music and Dance Studies, 12/04-05/2009, Portugal

Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies

Infinity

Red River Valley Historical Journal

November 16, 2009

Association of American Geographers, Neoliberal projects and postsocialism,04/14-18/2010, MS

November 11, 2009

Travel, Trade and Ethnic Transformations, 06/16-20, Hungary

Nation and Charisma, 04/13-15/2010, London School of Economics

The Socialist 1960s, 06/24-26/2010, IL

November 09, 2009

MID-ATLANTIC SLAVIC CONFERENCE 2010, 03/20/2010, PA

Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana, 08/11-15/2010, Yasnaya Polyana

Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, 03/25-27/2010, Gainesville, Florida

November 04, 2009

Yale Journal of International Affairs

Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Sciences, 03/26/2010, Grand Rapids

European Architectural History Network, 06/17-20/2010, Portugal

November 02, 2009

Critical Studies in History

Before and Beyond Auschwitz New conflicts and alternative routes among exclusion, identity and diversity, 01/27-29/2010, Italy

Visual Culture & Global Practices, 03/04-06/2010), CA

Historical Inquiry in the New Century, 06/03-05/2010, DC

Knowledge: (Trans)Formation, 03/03/2010, Tunisia

Articulation(s), Amsterdam

The Author-Translator in the European Literary Tradition, 06/28-07/01/2010, Swansea

The Enigma of the Homeland

October 28, 2009

Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop, Harvard

Eastern Europe in Crisis, 05/13-14/2010, Scotland

Slovo

Social Science Research, 12/0 9-11/2009, Nashville, TN

The Birch (undergraduate)

Beyond Cold War Linearities: Entangled Histories and Interactive Ideas, 12/04-06/2009. Budapest

Socialist 1960s: Popular Culture and the Socialist City in Global Perspective, UIUC, 06/24-26/2010, IL

Western Association for Slavic Studies, 04/14-17/201, Reno

October 12, 2009

Security Situation of Roma in Europe, 10/12-13/2009, Bucharest

September 30, 2009

Transcultural mappings: emerging issues in comparative, transnational and area studies, 04/09-11/2010, Sydney

Reading the (Re)Presented Past: Literature and Historical Consciousness, 1700-present.

Studies in Social Justice

Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century, 03/26-27/2010, Sheffield (15.12.2009)

September 28, 2009

Sociology of Religion, 07/11-17/2010, Sweden

Cultural Histories: Close Readings, Critical Syntheses, 05/26-30/2010, Finland

MPSA Political Science Conference, 04/22-25/2010, Chicago

War Perspectives. Architecture and Planning in Italy and beyond (1937-1945), 01/21-22/2010, Milano

Creating Bridges, Spanning Environments,04/16-17/2010, MO

WWI, Brill

Romani mobilities in Europe: multidisciplinary perspectives, 01/14-15/2010, Oxford

September 23, 2009

'Russian History'

Religious Parties in Processes of Democratic Consolidation, 03/18-20/2010, Princeton

Reading the (Re)Presented Past: Literature and Historical Consciousness, 1700-present

Europe Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall The New Europe, New Europes, 10/14-15/2010, Geneva

Council for European Studies, 04/15-17/2010, Montreal

the archaeology of things from the early modern, modern and contemporary world, 10/16-18/2009, Oxford

Literature and Madness

Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture, 04/16-18/2010, UK

The fighter along the History: identity, perception, representation, 04/01-02/2010, Spain

Racial Profiling: International, Interdisciplinary Perspectives

September 21, 2009

Balkan & South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore Conference, 04/15-18/2010, OH

European Roma and Travellers Forum

Heritage/Community Language, 02/19-21/2010, UCLA

Artist involvement in peace and war

Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited