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September 21, 2009

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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May 20, 2009

Migration and Mobility - National Responses to Cultural Diversity, 09/14-18/2009, Copenhagen

Deadline July 1, 2009

The 14th International Migration Conference
Copenhagen, September 14-18, 2009

The Early Bird deadline has been extended from June 8th to July 1st. For more information on fees, payment and registration please visit
http://metropolis2009.org/registration/index.html

The International Metropolis Project www.international.metropolis.net is a forum that bridges research, policy and practice on migration and diversity. The project aims to enhance academic research capacity, encourage policy-relevant research on migration and diversity issues, and facilitate the use of that research by governments and non-governmental organizations.

The theme of this year's conference is "Migration and Mobility - National Responses to Cultural Diversity." The conference will be held in Copenhagen between the 14th and 18th of September 2009, and is expected to attract about 1000 delegates for high-level plenary
sessions, a comprehensive study tour program and more than 60 concurrent workshops. The conferences are an opportunity for delegates - both expert and novice - to discuss critical issues, identify research and policy gaps, compare international experiences and build the Metropolis network.

The 14th International Metropolis Conference 2009 is organized by the Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark (AMID).

For more information about the 14th International Metropolis conference, we invite you to visit www.metropolis2009.org.

Jane Finnerup Johnsen
Københavns Universitet
Det Humanistiske Fakultet
SAXO-Instituttet
Njalsgade 80
2300 København S
www.saxo.ku.dk
janefj@hum.ku.dk
35328300

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May 14, 2009

The Russian Language Outside the Nation: Speakers and Identities, 04/01/03/2010, Edinburgh

Deadline: August 15, 2009

Call for Papers

The Russian Language Outside the Nation: Speakers and Identities

April 1-3, 2010

Russian in Context Research Unit, The University of Edinburgh

Papers are invited for the conference to be held at the University of Edinburgh. The aim of this conference is to explore multiple issues connected to the position of Russian as a post-imperial language and Russian speakers’ identities as members of a linguistic minority in the new world configuration. The organisers wish to bring together scholars in the broadly understood field of Russian language in society, including sociolinguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, language politics, and interdisciplinary areas such as diaspora, identity, memory studies and others.

Key conference speakers
Professor David Andrews (Georgetown University, USA)
Professor Bill Bowring (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Dr Ekaterina Protassova (Helsinki University, Finland)

The conference will include but not be limited to the following themes:
-Politics of the Russian language outside Russia;
-Space and place in Russian identity construction;
-Language, identification and self-understanding (cultural, ethnic, national, religious etc) of Russian speakers in the countries of the former Soviet Union and those of traditional emigration;
-The Russian community as a story-telling society: narrative identities and construction of common memories outside Russia;
-Fields of Russian identity negotiations;
-Russian and the questions of linguo-cultural marginality;
-Responses of Russian to the problems of globalization;
-Contested concepts (for e.g. diaspora, minority, integration) in relation to Russian speakers;
-Linguistic performance of Russianness;
-Russian language virtual communications and questions of identity.

E-mail proposals, including a working title and an abstract of around 300 words, by 15 August 2009 to the conference organisers:

Dr Lara Ryazanova-Clarke and Kristine Uzule, Russian in Context Research Unit, Russian, Division of European Languages and Cultures, The University of Edinburgh, U.K. Lara.Ryazanova-Clarke@ed.ac.uk ; k.uzule@ed.ac.uk

Participants will be notified on the acceptance of their proposals by 1st October, 2009.

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March 02, 2009

CfP: Central Asia GIS Conference, 08/27-28/2009, Bishkek

Deadline: May 1,2009

Third Central Asia GIS Conference
GISCA'09 "GIScience for Environmental and Emergency Management in Central Asia"
August 27-28, 2009
KSUCTA, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

The conference will be a significant contribution the further
implementation GIS and RS technologies for Environmental and
Emergency Management in Central Asia.

For further information and Call for papers: www.aca-giscience.org/gisca09
Akylbek Chymyrov, Ph.D., M.Eng.
GISCA'09 Secretary, ACA"GIScience
Head of Department "Geodesy and Geoinformatics"

Kyrgyz State University of Construction,
Transportation and Architecture (KSUCTA)
Maldybaeva Str. 34 "b"
Bishkek 720020, KYRGYZSTAN
Tel.: +996 (312) 54-56-02
Mob.: +996 (773) 99-71-12
Fax: +996 (312) 54-51-36
Web: http://www.ksucta.kg
E-mail: akylbek2005@yahoo.com, akylbek.chymyrov@aca-giscience.org

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Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality: Memory Politics

ELEVENTH BERLIN ROUNDTABLES ON TRANSNATIONALITY
MEMORY POLITICS: EDUCATION, MEMORIALS AND MASS MEDIA

- Essay Competition
- Irmgard Coninx Research Grant 2009
- Workshops in Berlin, 21 – 26 October 2009

organized by the Irmgard Coninx Foundation in cooperation with the
Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and the Humboldt-University Berlin.

1) Workshop participation in Berlin

50 successful applicants to the essay competition will be selected to
participate in the Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality and to discuss their research with prominent scholars at two of Europe’s leading research institutions.

The Roundtables take place at the WZB from 21 – 26 October 2009.

2) Deadline for essay submission: 30 June 2009

3) Irmgard Coninx Research Grant

An international jury will award a three-months fellowship to three
participants to be used for research at the WZB, the Humboldt-University Berlin and the State library of Berlin. The Grant includes a monthly stipend of EUR 1,000 plus accommodation. The winners will be invited to join a follow-up workshop in Berlin in 2009/2010.

4) Program details

As part of the conference series “Political Culture in Divided
Societies”, the Eleventh Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality will
focus on “Memory Politics: Education, Memorials and Mass Media”

Discussions will take place in three workshops chaired by Susanne
Buckley-Zistel, Ph.D. (Free University Berlin), Elizabeth Cole, Ph.D.
(United States Institute of Peace, Washington D.C.) and Magdalena
Zolkos, Ph.D. (University of Western Sydney). Renowned professionals and experts such as Daniel Libeskind (architect, New York) and Albie Sachs (judge, Constitutional Court, South Africa) will give accompanying evening lectures.

The Irmgard Coninx Foundation will cover travel and accommodation costs.

For details, please visit our website: www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de

For inquiries, please contact us: info@irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de

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Europe Before and After 1989, Padua 10 -12 June 09

Special call for papers: the revolutions of 1989 and the crisis of 2009

The twentieth anniversary of the revolutions of 1989 is overshadowed
by a large conjunctural crisis in global economics, world politics and
military relations – a conflagration that is said to be the most
serious since World War II, and which is more and more often compared
to the 1930s. Some historical keywords: the Great Depression, the
continental rise of fascism and communism, permanent war in Eastern
Asia - all leading eventually to world war.

We are looking for proposals that relate 1989 and 2009. While it
obviously cannot be said that the revolutions led to the present
crisis, it does seem equally obvious that way 1989 was interpreted by
key actors did play an important role. We offer the following
observations to stimulate panel and paper submissions:

A) Reconsidering scholarly judgement: For example, scholars
associated with 1989 ‘the end of History,’ the utopia of liberal
capitalism, the ideological junctim between market and private
property, the worldwide deregulation of financial and economic
activity and so on: What, if any, is the connection with the present
financial and economic crunch?

B) Reexamining (key) actors’ perceptions: For example, 1989 was
interpreted by politicians and policy makers as triumph of the West,
as confirmation of Western values, as conferring a set of historical
lessons. Arguably this led to unilaterialist action in Bonn (German
unification), Brussels (Eastward enlargement) and Washington (foreign
policy and national security strategy generally). What, if any, is the
impact of key actors’ perceptions on the course of events leading up
to the present quagmire in world politics?

C) Global ideas and trends: For example, the aftermath of 1989 saw
the rise and spread of notions such as shock therapy, the clash of
civilizations, the global network society and so on. Others have
identified as key trends (and consequence?) such issues as the return
of primitive accumulation, the rise of new autocracies and
low-intensity, but unlimited warfare. If the twenty years from 1989 to
2009 constitute a conjunctural cycle, which are its main features?

D) Europe and the EU: If 1989 was another ‘zero hour’ for Europe,
how, with hindsight, would we evaluate the chosen and predominant
solution of EU enlargement? What have been the consequences of
organising the unification of Europe according to ideas of Western
superiority, Eastern backwardness and fragility, the need for
conditionality and restricted access for Easterners to the core
freedoms of the EU? Some suggest it is the reinvention of Europe as
empire. What, if any, is the connection between the reordering of
Europe after 1989 and the present impasse in European integration
associated with the failed constitution, the troubled Lisbon strategy,
the problematic neighbourhood and so on?

E) 1989 as a model of peaceful, but revolutionary change: Arguably,
the revolutionaries of 1989 forged a new type of organized and
synchronous political and social change: the self-limiting or
negotiated revolution. In how far is the large-scale, purposeful and
rapid change achieved across a large space a model of significance in
confronting the crisis of 2009? In tackling some of the very large
issues ahead, such as energy and climate, or demography and poverty?
In returning to peace, constitutional democracy and prosperity?

Senior faculty, junior faculty and post-docs may participate by
submitting a joint proposal for a panel or an individual paper.
Doctoral researchers are encouraged to submit a poster proposal.

EUROPE BEFORE AND AFTER 1989 - Trans-national and comparative
perspectives on Eastern & Western Europe - Anniversary Conference,
10-12 June 2009, University of Padua, Italy

Terms and conditions for RN 1989 membership, Working Group formation
and the CPD programme are available on the website:
http://www.cee-socialscience.net/1989/

Professor Antonio Pavan (Padua), Professor Andrzej Rychard (PAN),
Professor Jacques Rupnik (Sciences Po), Dr Agnieszka Wenninger
(GESIS), Dr Chris Armbruster (RN 1989)

Before submission
Those interested in participating in the conference are invited to
visit the website to study the terms and conditions of participation;
http://www.cee-socialscience.net/1989/conference/anniverary.html

Submitting a panel proposal
Panel organisers should be aware that panels will last 100 minutes
(3-4 speakers). Co-authored papers are welcome. Panel proposals must
have a general abstract and provide an abstract for each contribution.
Panel organisers may submit a draft proposal to the programme
committee by 01 March 2009 for feedback. The final deadline is 30
March 2009 for selection within one week. Invited participants will be
required to submit a proof-read conference paper by 30 May 2009. All
papers will be distributed with the RN 1989 Working Paper Series (ISSN
1867-2833). Please submit your panel proposal as a single file to
apply1989@gesis.org

Submitting an individual paper
Individual submissions are also possible – in line with this call for
papers as well as the earlier call for papers and already selected
panel proposals. Please view the website for details. Paper proposals
should be submitted as page-long abstract to the final deadline of 30
March 2009 for selection within one week. Invited participants will be
required to submit a proof-read conference paper by 30 May 2009. All
papers will be distributed with the RN 1989 Working Paper Series (ISSN
1867-2833). Please submit your paper proposal as a single file to
apply1989@gesis.org

Submitting a poster
The programme committee solicits poster proposals from doctoral
students engaged in research that is related to the conference theme
in the widest sense. The public conference will feature a dedicated
poster sessions of two hours – to leave ample time for personal
introductions and discussions. The purpose of the poster session is to
bring together post-docs and doctoral researchers in the spirit of
mutual exchange and of fostering mentoring and research collaboration
in future. Doctoral students wishing to present a poster should submit
an abstract and their full details to the programme committee by 30
March 2009. Please send your single file to apply1989@gesis.org

At the conference: publication, career advice and further research
opportunities
Participants will be invited to consider book and journal publication
opportunities with the Research Network 1989, including a ‘digital
collaboratory’ under development in conjunction with a network of
European university presses. Further details will be available in
spring 2009.
Panel organisers (or a nominated substitute) will be able to
participate in ‘Early Independence,’ the Continuing Professional
Development (CPD) programme for Postdocs. The CPD programme is
designed to prepare post-docs for applying to and holding principal
investigator awards.
The RN 1989 offers the opportunity to extend and expanded
collaborative projects by means of a Working Group (also open to
advanced PhD students). Seed money may be available.

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February 18, 2009

Sociology in Russia, 09/02.-05/2009, Lisbon

CALL FOR PAPERS

Thematic research section “Public Sociology in a Civil Environment in Russia”

The 9th European Sociological Association Conference
Lisbon, Portugal
September 2-5, 2009

The proposed session will bring together sociologists from Russia and abroad who have conducted extensive empirical research in the country. It will provide an opportunity for sociologists to discuss their research as well as theoretical issues and professional problems dealing with Russia and more broadly the CIS countries.

The deadline for abstracts is February 26, 2009. Please note that the section forms part of the wider research stream ‘Russia and Its European Identity: The Changing Quality of Civil Society’ (RS16). We kindly ask that you request in your abstract to be included in the specific research section “Public Sociology in a Civil Environment in Russia.” Abstracts should be submitted via the conference website
http://www.esa9thconference.com

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Cities and culture under the nazi Occupation

This conference is organised by Sciences Po Bordeaux, in conjunction with the Institut d’histoire du temps présent (the Institute of Contemporary History, a Research Unit of the National Centre for Scientific Research-CNRS) and the Universities of Bordeaux III and Paris I-La Sorbonne.
Co-chairs:
Prof. Françoise Taliano-Des Garets, Professor of Contemporary History at Sciences Po Bordeaux.
Prof. Pascal Ory, Professor of Contemporary History at Paris I-La Sorbonne.

Presentations may be in French or English.

We advocate the study of leading cities, which were the centres of political and economic power at the time and in which cultural facilities were concentrated. The emphasis should be placed on France—to the exclusion of Paris, but including Algeria, the French colonies and protectorates. The various zones of the French territory (the annexed zone, the occupied zone, the North, the forbidden zone, the Italian zone, the French zone…) should be taken into account. In addition, we encourage comparisons with a few foreign cities in other occupied countries.

In order to avoid the succession of disconnected monographs, we welcome regional studies, as well as work that compares two or more cities, providing either a comprehensive or a more specific comparison.

The year 1940 marks the conventional starting point of the period under study, while the end of it, loosely defined as the Liberation, depends on local situations.

Papers are invited on the three main themes of the conference:

1- Urban cultural life in wartime.
2- Urban culture and politics during the Occupation.
3- Urban cultures faced with the choice of breaking with the Occupation period or remembering it.

Paper proposals (of no more than one page, in French or in English) should be submitted to Françoise Taliano-des Garets (f.taliano@sciencespobordeaux.fr) by May 31st, 2009. They should include your name, institutional affiliation and contact information, as well as a list of your recent publications. Notification of the organisers’ decision will be made by July 30th, 2009.

The conference will take place at Sciences Po Bordeaux 2-3/12/2010

Françoise Taliano-des Garets
Université de Bordeaux
Sciences Po Bordeaux

0632 63 09 33
Email: f.taliano@sciencespobordeaux.fr

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The 9th MTSU Holocaust Studies Conference

The Holocaust and World War II: Perspectives from 70 Years

October 22-24, 2009

Individual papers or panels by researchers, faculty members, independent scholars and advanced graduate students on all aspects of Holocaust and genocide studies will be considered, but those connected to one of the conference topics are especially solicited. Panels should consist of 2-3 presenters and a moderator. Please send an abstract and short vita for each presenter.

Featured Topics:
--America and the Holocaust
--The Holocaust: Race, Class and Gender
--The Holocaust in Europe, Asia and Africa
--1939: What should we have known?
--Beyond the Holocaust: Genocide in the Postmodern World
--Unrecorded Voices from the Holocaust
--The Present and Future of Holocaust Education

Please send one-page paper or panel proposals and a vita of no more than 200 words by April 6, 2009 to:
Dr. Nancy Rupprecht, Conference Chair

Middle Tennessee State University is located in Murfreesboro, TN, 30 miles SE of Nashville, with easy connections to the Nashville airport.

Nancy Rupprecht
Chair, Holocaust Studies
Middle Tennessee State University, Box 23
275 Peck Hall
Murfreesboro, TN 37232
615-898-2645 Phone
615-898-5881 Fax

Email: nrupprec@mtsu.edu
Visit the website at http://www.mtsu.edu/holocaust_studies/

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The Legacy of the Holocaust: Family and the Holocaust (May

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED TO MARCH 15, 2009
Previous meetings of the Legacy of the Holocaust Conference (which will take place again in Krakow, Poland, May 21-23, 2009) have focused on children and the Holocaust (2001); international perspectives on the Holocaust (2003); women and the Holocaust (2005); and ¡§the world before, the world after,¡¨ the pre-war context and the aftermath of the Holocaust (2007). The theme for the 2009 Conference is the impact of the Holocaust on the family as an institution and social construct during the Holocaust itself as well as in the post-Holocaust era.

We welcome proposals for papers and arranged panels on the Holocaust. We encourage proposals that address the conference theme, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

„X The family in pre-war Jewish life and culture
„X The effects of the Holocaust on family relationships
„X Family dynamics and emigration and escape from Europe
„X The role of the family in hiding, passing, rescue and resistance
„X Family structures in displaced persons camps
„X Effects on family structures of postwar emigration
„X Transgenerational effects of the Holocaust
„X Personal and cultural constructions of family identity in the post-Holocaust era
„X Representations of the family in Holocaust literature and the arts
„X Holocaust and genocide education and the construct of the family

Dr. Stephen Gaies
Program Chair, 2009 Legacy of the Holocaust Conference
University of Northern Iowa
Department of English, Baker Hall
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0502, USA
Phone: (319)273-3870
Fax: (319)273-5807

Email: legacy09@uni.edu
Visit the website at http://www.uni.edu/internationalprograms/holocaust

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February 13, 2009

CONF./CFP: Nicholas Poppe Symposium 05/09/2009, Seattle

21st Annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium, U. of Washington, May 9, 2009

Call For Papers

21st Annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium on Inner/Central Asian Studies

Saturday, May 9, 2009
University of Washington, Denny Hall, 215 A

Papers from students and faculty pertaining to Inner/Central Asian Studies are being solicited. Most welcome are papers that address the topic of "The Impact of Globalization on the Turkic and Mongolian Culture and Society"

Please submit abstracts (250 words maximum) by April 18, 2009 to:
Ilse D. Cirtautas
Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization
Denny Hall, Box 353120, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA, 98195
Phone: (206) 543-9963
Fax: (206) 686-7936
e-mail: icirt@u.washington.edu
Organizer: Central Asian Studies Group-University of Washington

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February 02, 2009

CfP: The Musician’s Act of Creation, April 23-24 2009

Deadline: MARCH 6, 2009

Seminar on The Musician’s Act of Creation
April 23-24, 2009

Orpheus Institute – Orpheus Research Centre in Music
Korte Meer 12 ,9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Although creativity of some kind is present in even the most mundane
situations (such as shopping, cooking, plumbing ...), more sophisticated expressions of it are often associated with the fields of art and literature. Within these fields, creativity has acquired the status of an enigmatic, unknowable process that ultimately leads to innovation and creation of valuable works of art.

The TWO-DAY INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR on the MUSICIAN'S ACT OF
CREATION is organised by the ORPHEUS RESEARCH CENTRE in MUSIC.
The seminar has the aim to map musical creativity as a space having its own set of characteristics within a broader and more general field of creativity. We will zoom in on moments of musical creation, invention, discovery, conception,constructs, imagination, etc.

Particular interests include:
-the different modes of creative expression in music (ranging from interpretation to composition and improvisation)
-creative strategies in musical practice (innovative strategies but also the documentation and elucidation of historical ones)
-creativity as a tool in artistic research projects (research as an ‘original’ contribution to knowledge and understanding)
-different fields of creative action in music (sound, body, form, etc.)
-artistic projects that focus on creativity as a field of action.

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
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Themes relating to all aspects of the seminar topic are welcome.
Deadline for PROPOSALS is MARCH 6, 2009
Download the call for presentations through Orpheus Institute’s website:
http://www.orpheusinstituut.be/en/research-centre/activities

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
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The seminar will be relevant for scholar-musicians and graduate students working in all areas of research linked to musical practice. The seminar takes place at Orpheus Institute Ghent, Belgium and starts on Thursday April 23, 2009 12h, and closes on Friday April 24, 2009 16h.
REGISTRATION as a participant is possible until APRIL 16, 2009

REGISTRATION
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Registration fee: €50
Full-time Students: €25
The fee includes morning and afternoon teas, Thursday seminar dinner, Friday lunch and a seminar satchel.

Note: presenters do not pay the admission fee!

TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATION
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Participants should arrange their own travel arrangements and accommodation.

CONTACT
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-Register or send us your proposal through info@orpheusinstituut.be
-For practical information concerning this seminar you may contact the Orpheus Institute’s Activities & Communication Manager: joyce.desmet@orpheusinstituut.be

-Organising Committee
Kathleen Coessens, Darla Crispin, Hendrik Vanden Abeele and Joost Vanmaele

Orpheus Research Centre in Music (ORCiM)
Orpheus Institute
Korte Meer 12
B-9000 Ghent
Belgium
+32 9 330 40 81

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January 30, 2009

Summer study: Language Institute for Russian Teachers

The Department of State is pleased to announce Intensive Summer Language Institute in Russian for 2009 as part of the National Security Language Initiative. The goal of the program is to strengthen critical need foreign language instruction at U.S. schools by providing intermediate and advanced level Russian as a Foreign Language teachers with the opportunity for intensive language study. The summer 2009 program is open to current K-12 teachers as well as community college instructors of Russian. It is also open to students enrolled in education programs intending to teach this language.

Successful applicants will gain further knowledge and a greater
understanding of Russian through the following: attending intensive language classes; collaborating with foreign and American teachers on foreign language teaching methodology; and living abroad.

Scholarship Benefits for Selected Participants:
International airfare, in-country travel, housing, meals, incidentals,
classes, books, pre-departure orientation, educational and cultural
excursions. In addition, participants may be eligible for post-scholarship grants as well as academic credit.

To be eligible, candidates must:
* Speak intermediate or advanced Russian and score in the intermediate or advanced range of the ALTA exam. All candidates will be tested through the oral ALTA exam by telephone during the application process.
* Be current teachers of Russian as a Foreign Language at the primary or secondary level at an accredited U.S. public or private school, or be enrolled in a 4-year education program (B.A. or B.S.) teacher certification program or a Masters of Education program. Instructors of Russian at Community Colleges are also encouraged to apply. Candidates must be committed to teaching the language upon their return to the U.S.
* Be U.S. citizens

For information and applications, please see our website:
https://apps.americancouncils.org/webForms/?frmno=23

Please contact isli@americancouncils.org for more information.

This program is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs(ECA), U.S. Department of State, and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers in cooperation with American Councils for International Education.

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January 28, 2009

CFP: Performing History from 1945 to the Present, 10/21-23/2009, Lithuania

CONF./CFP- Performing History from 1945 to the Present, Lithuania, Oct. 21-23

International Conference

The Past is Still to Change: Performing History from 1945 to the Present

Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Humanities
Vytautas Magnus University
Kaunas, Lithuania
October 21-23, 2009

The conference is focused upon an important issue for contemporary society - that of interpreting the past and writing its history. The subject of the conference refers to critical historiography, proposing that history is not a stable body of fact(s) but a shifting range of meanings produced by different cultural, social and political practices (such as rituals of public memory, historical re-enactments, museums, memorials et al.) and that the general images of the past are substantially affected by art (literature, visual arts, theatre, film, performance). The conference will open a discussion concerning the performative means of (re)constructing the past, going beyond a passive interpretation of historical texts, activating a participation in the "performing" of history. The act of performing history also describes history as an academic discipline which is involved in(re)construction and (re)interpretation of the past. Consequently the conference will discuss the problems of research and evaluation of the past as it is faced by researchers of the legacy of the Cold War, especially in the countries of Eastern Europe and the Baltic region.

One of the major aims of the conference is to discuss these problems on an interdisciplinary basis, to reveal the complex multidimensional significance of the concept of performing history. Contributions are invited from different fields and disciplines - history, political
science, social sciences, culture studies, literary research, theatre studies and visual art studies - both concerned with the past and the forms of remembering the past in contemporary society. Suggested topics include:

* Re-enacting the past: performance as interpretation of history
* Performing political action: public events and civic rituals
* Historical event/theatrical event: parallels, contexts, and methods
* Theatre of history: witnessing, spectatorship, participation
* Personal memory/collective identities
* (Re)mapping the past: site-specific practices and places of memory
* Mediated memory: readings of historical resources
* Aesthetics and theatricality of political regime(s)
* Carnival of history: memory and mass culture
Presentations of the conference will be limited to 20 minutes.

Registration form containing abstract (up to 400 words) should be sent to the address below by March 31, 2009. Accepted papers will be notified by April 21, 2009. Conference fee: 50 EUR (it covers conference materials, coffee breaks and opening dinner). You may address the organizing committee for a conference fee waiver. Selected papers of the conference will be considered for publishing in the peer-reviewed journal.

Conference Board Academic Committee:
Prof. Svetlana Boym (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Prof. Leonidas Donskis (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas)
Prof. Boris Groys (New York University)
Prof. Padraic Kenney (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Prof. Freddie Rokem (Tel Aviv University)

Organizing Committee:
Assoc. prof. Edgaras Klivis (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas)
Assoc. prof. Jurgita Staniskyte (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas)
Dr. Linara Dovydaityte (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas)
Dr. Ruta Mazeikiene (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas)

E-mail: l.dovydaityte@mf.vdu.lt; performing.history@gmail.com
Contact the organizers for details on submitting your proposal for the conference.

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January 23, 2009

CfP: Cold War Interactions Reconsidered, 10/29-31/2--9, Helsinki

Deadline: March 15, 2009

ALEKSANTERI CONFERENCE 2009: "COLD WAR INTERACTIONS RECONSIDERED"
University of Helsinki, Finland, 29-31 October 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall provides us with an ideal opportunity to look back at the Cold War era and reassess it from a modern day perspective. Two decades after the Cold War was said to have ended, the concept of a Cold War has once again reappeared in the rhetoric of world politics. Therefore, one cannot argue that the Cold War was merely a process of the past with minor relevance to the present.

The 9th Aleksanteri Conference "Cold War Interactions Reconsidered", will be hosted by the Aleksanteri Institute and will take place at the University of Helsinki on 29-31 October, 2009.

Aims of the Conference

Traditional research on the Cold War has focused on conflicts and rivalries, highlighting state agents and diplomatic history. The 9th Aleksanteri Conference aims to challenge traditional analyses by looking at new ways to view and conceptualise the international and transnational histories of the Cold War era. The conference intends to place particular emphasis on Europe and the former Socialist countries, as well as smaller states, non-state actors and multilevel approaches. Leaving East-West bipolarity and superpower confrontations to one side, the conference will focus on interactions that took place despite the existence of the Iron Curtain. Along with great powers, individuals and their various interactions have helped form the course of history.

The conference wishes to promote critical self-evaluation and a theoretical discussion on disciplines that are not so obviously connected with traditional Cold War studies. We encourage scholars to evaluate the current state of the area studies and to discuss how the Cold War influenced and perhaps still influences our thinking, identities, communication and culture. The conference will also encourage discussion on the manifold ways of coming to terms with the past.

The conference will emphasise a multidisciplinary approach, in the belief that it will greatly enrich the discussion and bring forth new interpretations. Besides historians, we hope to gather a broad array of scholars from the social and political sciences, cultural studies, the arts and humanities, law and economics. The conference will cover the whole of the Cold War period and the post-Cold War period up to the present day.

Themes of the conference:
* Interactions across Boundaries. Cultural, economic and political exchanges, contacts and cooperation; know-how and technology transfers.
* Behind the Scenes and Beyond the State. Individuals and networks, non-governmental and non-state agents.
* The Cold War's Effects. The impact of the Cold War and transnational interactions on ideology, culture, civil society; communication and identity, everyday life and consumption; and perceptions of the "other".
* The Cold War and the Present. Politics of the past; Vergangenheitsbewältigung, (n)ostalgia.
* Reconsidering the Cold War. Critical reconceptualisation and periodisation; new approaches, theories and methodologies. The Cold War as a resource and/or a limitation.

Keynote speakers:
Nadia Arbatova, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russia
Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University, USA
Yale Richmond, USA
Jadwiga Staniszkis, University of Warsaw, Poland
Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Conference Schedule and Deadlines:
Proposals for panels (approx. 500 words): March 15, 2009 Abstracts for individual papers (approx. 300 words): March 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2009
Conference: October 29-31, 2009

Please submit all the above information through the forms on the conference website: http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/conference2009
In addition, you will find further practical information on submissions, travel and accommodation on the website.

For further assistance, please contact the Conference Coordinator, Riikka Nisonen-Trnka, or the Conference Secretary, Eeva Korteniemi, at:
fcree-aleksconf@helsinki.fi
or visit the conference homepage at:
http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/conference2009

The Aleksanteri Conference is an annual, multidisciplinary, international conference organised by the Aleksanteri Institute, Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies, affiliated with the University of Helsinki. Aleksanteri Conferences have attracted broad interest among researchers and policy-makers in a wide variety of disciplines, both in Finland and abroad, interested in the development of post-socialist countries.

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CfP:Merchants and Missionaries: Trade and Religion in World History, 06/25-26/2009, Salem MA

18th ANNUAL WORLD HISTORY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

SALEM STATE COLLEGE, SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, JUNE 25−28, 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2009 WHA Program Committee invites proposals for full panels, single papers, and roundtables on topics related to the scholarly and/or pedagogical aspects of this year’s conference theme.

Conference Themes: “Merchants and Missionaries: Trade and Religion in World History”

For submission guidelines, see Conference Call for Papers at http://thewha.org

2009 WHA Program Committee:
Chair: Carolyn Neel, ABC-CLIO
Maryanne Rhett, Monmouth University,
Robert Willingham, Roanoke College,
William Zeigler, San Marcos High School, San Marcos, California,
Email: mrhett@monmouth.edu

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CFP: Southeast European Studies Association, 05/29-31/2009, Chicago

Deadline: January 19, 2009

Call For Papers:
Fourth Biennial Conference of the Southeast European Studies Association (SEESA)

Continuing upon the success of previous SEESA conferences, the fourth biennial SEESA conference will be hosted by the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies at the
University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) on 29-31 May 2009.

The Organizing Committee is now accepting proposals for papers that treat some aspect of the Southeast European region, including the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Greece, Moldova, and Turkey. All disciplines are welcome, including but not restricted to, anthropology, cultural studies, education, film studies, art history, folklore, history, language, literature, linguistics, political science, and sociology.
Papers will be 20 minutes in length, with an additional 10 minutes for questions and discussion.

Potential presenters should submit paper proposals by sending a title and a one-page abstract of the proposed paper, together with the author’s name, address, and contact information (phone and e-mail). The deadline for submitting all proposals is 19 January 2009. The program will be announced in late February 2009.

Please address all questions to Elisabeth Elliott
(eelliott@northwestern.edu). Titles, abstracts, and contact information may be sent by e-mail to eelliott@northwestern.edu, by fax to 847-467-2596 in care of Elisabeth Elliott or to the address below. Submissions by e-mail are preferred.

Elisabeth Elliott
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Northwestern University
1860 Campus Drive, Crowe #4-130
Evanston, IL 60208-2163

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CfP: Pilgrimages Today, 08/19-20/2009, Finland

CALL FOR PAPERS

Donner Institute will arrange a Symposium
19-21 August 2009 in Åbo/Turku, Finland

Pilgrimages Today

http://web.abo.fi/instut/di/congress2008/English.htmThe theme we have chosen for the Donner Institute 20th Symposium is Pilgrimages Today.

First, a few words on pilgrimages. Basically, a pilgrimage is a journey undertaken by individuals or a group of people to a sacred place in order to pay honour to it and then return home. A sacred place is here regarded typically as a place, which for the single individual or the individuals in a group is of great importance because of something they have learnt and experienced in the culture and religion which they have grown up within.

The phenomenon 'pilgrimage' is, to our understanding, a fruitful theme for a symposium, since the phenomenon exists in many major religions, in many religious movements and also outside of the conventional religious sphere. The symposiums of the Donner Institute are primarily intended for scholars of comparative religion in the Nordic countries. In these, comparative religion has never been a large discipline, and it is therefore an advantage for the Symposium theme not to be limited to a particular religion or a religious movement, since the Donner symposiums, being the only regular Nordic conferences on comparative religion, are aimed at functioning as genuine meetings of a wide range of scholars in the field.

We explicitly welcome papers on pilgrimages that are akin to, but not identical with, religious pilgrimages. As examples of such, we could mention pilgrimages to Elvis Presley's Graceland or to the grave of Jim Morrison. Here, it should be noted that one of our points of departure is also that, despite their similarities, it is important to take into account the difference between pilgrimages and tourism.

We would also like to comment on our intentions in limiting the theme to pilgrimages today. We did not want to limit the theme geographically, but applied a limitation in time instead. Our grounds for this is that without any restriction, the subject is too broad to work well as a conference theme-and with this fact in mind, we preferred a limitation in time rather than one in geographical scope.

Having learnt from earlier experiences, we do not want to present a more detailed description of the Symposium theme. Pilgrimages are an old phenomenon, and a more exhaustive description, albeit in Turnerian terms, would, we think, hardly benefit anybody. We hope for a wide
interest in our planned symposium.

Application
Please send your application to give a paper, with a short abstract included, to the Donner Institute no later than March 15 2009.
Twenty minutes will be reserved for your lecture followed by 10 minutes for discussion.

Finally, we would like to inform you that the lectures will be published, in English, French or German, in volume 22 of the Donner Institute series Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis. The published version of your lecture may be longer than the one you present at the
symposium. We will be happy to receive a digital and publishable version of your lecture already at the symposium but no later than October 31 2009.

Registration
The registration fee is 150 euros, 100 euros for doctoral students and for avec 75 euros.
The fee should be paid by the end of May 2009.
Account number: Nordea FI 12 20571800020055 NDEAFIHH
(In Finland: Nordea 205718-20055, Stiftelsen för Åbo Akademi)
The registration fee includes a Get together party, an excursion and a banquet organised in connection with the symposium.
Please indicate in your registration whether you wish to participate in the excursion and the banquet.

Conference venue and accommodation
Linnasmäki Congress Centre Hotel
Ringbrynjegatan 7 (Lustokatu 7)
FIN-20380 Åbo/Turku, Finland
Tel. +358 2 412 3500, www.linnasmaki.fi/en

Visit our website at
http://web.abo.fi/instut/di/congress2008/English.htm

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CfP: Youth and social change across borders, 03/27-28/2009, Oxford

Deadline: January 30, 2009

Youth and social change across borders: emerging identities and divisions in Eastern and Western Europe
27th - 28th March 2009
St. Antony's College, University of Oxford

Youth studies has traditionally provided a rich, interdisciplinary forum for the exploration of a range of social identities and divisions rooted in class, gender, ethnicity and place. It has also been the site on which contemporary social theory - pointing in recent years to late-modern processes of globalisation, individualisation and risk - have received some of their most illustrative applications, as well as their most incisive critiques. This conference asks what the study of young people in and from post-Socialist Eastern Europe can tell us about the emerging dimensions of social inequality and social change both in Eastern and Western European societies. Building on youth studies' long standing critique of popular discourses constructing youth 'as/in trouble', the conference wishes to move debate decisively away from the common perception of young people in post-Socialist countries as a 'lost generation'.

Instead, we invite papers focusing on the active ways in which young people negotiate transitions and 'careers' in a variety of life domains -in education, work, migration, fami ly, housing, leisure and sexuality - while at the same time being sensitive to the structural and cultural processes shaping the resources and subject positions available to different young people in different times and places. In the context of a wider Europe, it is particularly timely to address questions about the lives of young Eastern Europeans, not only in new EU member states and in countries bordering the EU, but also in those Western European states which are a common destination for migrant workers and students.

Papers might address, but should not be limited to, the following themes:
In Russia and Eastern Europe:
* Class, gender, ethnicity, and place in youth transitions to adulthood
* Rural-urban and centre-periphery divisions amongst young people
* Young people and work: informal earning and new forms of employment
* Young people's sexualities
* Household and family formation
* (Sub)cultural formations, consumption, and leisure
* Youth-operated NGOs and NGOs working with young people in Western Europe:
* The ethnicization/racialization of Eastern Europeans in the UK
* Household and family formation amongst Eastern European migrants
* 'Lifestyles' of Eastern European migrants
* Eastern European migrants' labour market participation
* A 'common' identity amongst Eastern European migrants?

Preference will be given to papers which go beyond descriptions of what young people 'do', and are able to engage either with contemporary social theory germane to their topic of study, or with issues relating to social policy and/or the third sector. Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to the conference organisers Charlie Walker (University of Oxford) and Svetlana Stephenson (London Metropolitan University) at ceelbasyouthconference@googlemail.com by Friday 30 January.

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January 22, 2009

CfP: CIVILIZATION/(CULTURES) IN A TIME OF CHANGE AND CRISIS, 06/03-07/2009, Kalamazoo

Deadline: April 15, 2009

Call For Papers
39th International Conference
The International Society for the
Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC)
June 3-7, 2009,
Western Michigan University, Fetzer Center
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

CIVILIZATION/(CULTURES) IN A TIME OF CHANGE AND CRISIS

Addressing Poverty, Population Demographics, Economic Turmoil, Global Economic Growth/Chaos, Societal Breakdown, Epidemics, Public Health, Climate Change, Ecological Degradation, Depletion of Natural Resources, and Political Destabilization as reflected in Terrorism and Warfare, War and Peace. Exploring Historic Precedents In Responding to Crisis & Change.

CIVILIZATIONAL RESPONSES TO CHANGE

(PAST & PRESENT)

Causes of Crisis and Change in Governmental Systems (e.g. Collapse of Rome), Changes in Political Systems, Population Replacements, Self-sustainability, Economic/Business Systems, Religious Systems, Climate Changes Policies, and Science And Technology Changes (Industrial/Information Revolutions, Medical Discoveries, and Energy Systems), The Future of Business, Capitalism, and Civilization.

Conference Chair: Andrew Targowski, targowski@wmich.edu

Western Michigan University

ABSTRACTS FOR RESEARCH IN PROGRESS (500 WORDS),

POSITION PAPERS (1000 WORDS), RESEARCH PAPERS (3000 WORDS)

For Talks and Refereed Proceedings

ISCSC Web Site: www.wmich.edu/ISCSC – contains Society and Conference information as well as editing style rules.

Submission Deadline: April 15, 2009

Email to: Laina Farhat-Holzman or Steve Blaha, ISCSC Program Co-Chairs, at ISCSCabs@yahoo.com

Style Rules

ABSTRACTS (500 words) or POSITION PAPERS (1000 words)

or RESEARCH PAPERS (3000 words) for TALKS & REFEREED PROCEEDINGS

Deadline: April 15, 2009

Send via email as an attached file in Microsoft Word (DOC file) format or Rich Text File (RTF) format to Laina Farhat-Holzman, ISCSC Program Chair, at: ISCSCabs@yahoo.com

Paper TITLE in centered, bold 14 point Time Roman font.

Title followed by a skip line

Then Authors & Affiliation

Then a skip line

Author e-mail addresses, centered in italics, 12 point Times Roman.

Then a skip line

Then the word ABSTRACT-RESEARCH IN PROGRESS (500 words) or POSITION PAPER (1000 words) or RESEARCH PAPER (3000 words) on a line by itself in 12 Point Time Roman For POSITION PAPERS and RESEARCH PAPERS provide up to a 25 word short Abstract, 1 tab justified in italics, 12 Point Time Roman Then a skip line Key words: provide 3-5 key words in bold, 12 Point Time Roman Section titles in left-justified, bold, 12 Point Time Roman. Text in 12 point Times Roman, justified, single spaced, no space between paragraphs, eight space indent at the beginning of each paragraph

End note text as in item 13 above. Footnote text in justified 9 point Times Roman.

References in APA style Run document through your word processors spell-checker and grammar checker. Send as DOC or RTF file to above email address

Andrew Targowski, targowski@wmich.edu

Western Michigan University

Fetzer Center

Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

Email: iscscabs@yahoo.com

Visit the website at http://www.wmich.edu/iscsc/conference/call.html

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January 21, 2009

CfP: World Folk Heritage, 07/13-18/2009, Minsk

The next International Ballad Conference will take place in Minsk, Belarus, July 13-18, 2009. The organizer of the conference, Alexander Morozov, would like to expand this conference to include more general folklore topics and has asked me to make this call.

The conference will be titled: World Folk Heritage: Past, Present, and Perspective Directions of Research

Suggested paper topics include, but are not limited to:
1) The history of intercultural interaction in folk and ballad art
2) Presentation of national varieties of cultural values, haracteristic for particular nations, rooted in tradition, contemporarily undergoing transformations that result from current processes
3) Common universal values of traditional folk cultures as a basis for communication and cooperation in the sphere of culture
4) The art of the ballad in world folk heritage: plots, types, poetic forms..

Abstracts of up to 300 words together with requests for technical equipment should be submitted by February 28, 2009 to Prof. Morozov at _morozoff_@tut.by. Give author's address, affiliation, contact
details and a brief CV.

Prof. Morozov is also the contact person for more information although I can probably answer some of your questions.

Natalie Kononenko
Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
University of Alberta
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
200 Arts Building
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
Phone: 780-492-6810
Web: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/

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CfP: Radical Right in CEE, 09/10-12/2009, Potsdam

Deadline: February 1, 2009

CfP: Radical Right in CEE (incl. Russia), Potsdam 10.-12.9.09 (1.2.)

5th European Consortium for Political Research General Conference 10-12 September 2009, Potsdam, Germany

ABSTRACT

This panel will analyse the varieties of radical right-wing parties and movements in contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, as well as various determinants of their rise. In particular, it will evaluate the sources and nature of various anti-democratic ideologies as well as the social context within which groupings representing these ideologies act. It will focus on both established parties functioning within national political systems and extra-parliamentary movements and think-tanks active in the sociocultural realms. Although the panel welcomes rigorous national case-studies, it encourages speakers to present comparative studies and papers that contribute to the debate on theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of the radical right in the region.

http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/default.asp

Section: "Perspectives on the Radical Right" http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/section_details.asp?SectionID= 28

Panel: "The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe" (including Russia) http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/panel_details.asp?panelID=82

SUBMIT A PAPER TO THIS PANEL

http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/select_panels.asp?panelID=82§ionID= 28

HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER

http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/howtosubmit.asp

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/files/paper_proposals_guidelines_and_deadlines.pdf

(Please, note that the conference, section and panel organizers are not able to provide funding or other logistic support for your trip to Potsdam and attendance of the conference.)

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"The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe"

PANEL CHAIR

Andreas Umland, The Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolsta dt Email: andreumland@ yahoo.com

PANEL CO-CHAIR

Steffen Kailitz, Hannah Arendt Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism Email: steffen.kailitz@ phil.tu-chemnitz .de

PANEL DISCUSSANT

Anton Shekhovtsov, National Technical University of Sevastopol Email: anton.shekhovtsov@ gmail.com

PUBLICATION OF PAPERS

Presenters and discussants are invited to submit book proposals (monographs or collected volumes) based on their papers for possible publication in the book series "Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society" at http://www.ibidem-verlag.de/spps.html Russian translations of papers on the Central and East European radical right will be considered for possible publication in the scholarly web journal "Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul'tury" at http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/forumruss.html

Andreas Umland
andreas.umland@ku-eichstaett.de
ZIMOS, Ostenstr. 27, 85072 Eichstaett

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CfP: Interdisciplinary Conference on Fiction and History, 11/12-14/2009, Georgia

Deadline: May 1, 2009

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of West Georgia invites abstracts and panel proposals from scholars in a variety of humanities fields for its 2009 Interdisciplinary Conference on History and Fiction

Cultural Arts Center in Carrollton, GA November 12-14, 2009.

Keynote address by Dr. Ed Friedman, Chancellor’s Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature and Director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University. Papers may be read in English, Spanish, French, or German. Conference participants will be encouraged to expand and revise their papers for submission to JAISA: The Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts.

Please submit one-page abstracts or panel proposals to Dr. Julia Farmer (jfarmer@westga.edu) by May 1, 2009. For panel proposals please submit abstracts and contact information for all speakers, name and contact information for panel moderator, and panel title.

Julia Farmer
Dept of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA 30118
Email: jfarmer@westga.edu

Visit the website at http://www.westga.edu/~forlang/callforpapers09.pdf

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CfP: Religion, Secularism and Nationhood, 04/03-04/2009, Urbana-Champaign

Deadline: February 15, 2009

Religion, Secularism and Nationhood April 3-4, 2009 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The British Modernities Group, in conjunction with the University of Illinois Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, invites submissions from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and methodological orientations for our annual graduate student conference, this year themed “Religion, Secularism and Nationhood.” The conference will open with a keynote address by Gauri Viswanathan of Columbia University.

In response to the changing articulations of religious subjectivity and religious communities in the so-called post-secular world, it is crucial to heed the double aspect of religion as a “scrupulous observance,” in Jean-Luc Nancy’s words, and as the means of social cohesion. As a wide range of scholars have suggested, this “religious turn” also calls for critical interventions in narratives of secularization and nationhood. Edward Said’s deployment of “secularism” as an epistemological category to critique nationalism and Benedict Anderson’s comparison of national ceremonies and religious rituals emphasize ties between religion, secularism and nationhood. This graduate conference will engage this critical trend by focusing on how religious controversies circumscribe national identity in "Greater Britain" (including transnational and international formations) in textual cultural production from the eighteenth century to the present moment. It will also investigate religion’s central role in colonial expansion and in establishing and questioning cultural difference.

Possible topics for consideration include but are not limited to: • secularization, progress and modernity

• religion, nationalism and community

• pluralism and tolerance

• knowledge and faith

• empire and the unassimilable “Other”

• political theology and public religions

• alternative religious histories

• conversion, historicity and secrecy

This plenary-style conference is designed to facilitate dialogue between panels, participants, and attendees. To that end, panelists are strongly encouraged to attend the full conference, scheduled late Friday and all day Saturday. Presenters will be expected to submit their papers to their panel’s faculty respondent by March 14, 2009.

Please send 300-word abstracts for individual 15-minute papers to modernities@gmail.com. The deadline for abstract submissions is February 15, 2009. Accepted applicants will be notified by February 20, 2009. In the body of the e-mail, please include the following information: name, university and departmental affiliation(s), level of graduate study, and title of paper.

Zia Gluhbegovic and Elizabeth Hoiem
English Department
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Email: modernities@gmail.com

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CfP: Visual Literacies - Exploring Critical Issues, 07/14-16/2009, Oxford

Deadline: June 5, 2009

3rd Global Conference Visual Literacies: Exploring Critical Issues
Tuesday 14th July - Thursday 16th July 2009 Mansfield College, Oxford

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues surrounding visual literacy in regard to theory and praxis. Perspectives are sought from those engaged in the fields of education, visual arts, fine arts, literature, philosophy, psychology, critical theory and theology. These disciplines are indicative only as papers are welcomed from any area, profession and vocation in which visual literacy plays a part.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes;

* the concept and tools of visual literacy

* pre-school children and visual literacy

* visual literacy and cultural identity

* interpreting elements and examples of visual literacy

* visual literacy as therapy

* the liminal elements and facets of visual literacy

* social and cultural reactions to visual literacy

* visual literacy in literature

* visual literacy in television and film

* visual literacy and the media

* visual literacy as a social semiotic

* teaching visual literacy

* visual literacy as deformed discourse

* theology and visual literacy – use and/or abuse

* teleology and visual literacy

* the history of visual literacy

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 6th February 2009. If your paper is accepted for presentation at the conference, an 8 page draft paper should be submitted by Friday 5th June 2009.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:

author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body of abstract

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. Joint Organising Chairs

Dr Phil Fitzsimmons
Faculty of Education
University of Woollongong
Australia
Email: philfitz@uow.edu.au

Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Wroslyn Road, Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1993 882087
Fax: +44 (0)870 4601132
Email: vl3@inter-disciplinary.net
Visit the website at http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/vl/vl3/cfp.html

The conference is part of the ‘Critical Issues’ series of research projects run by ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.

For further details about the project please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/vl/vl.htmlFor further details about the conference please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/vl/vl3/cfp.html

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January 15, 2009

Deadline extended for "Transmission, Translation, Relocation" submissions

The deadline for submissions has been extended from January 15th to January 31st. Please find below the call for submissions.

We are issuing a Call for Proposals for scholarly and creative submissions for a National Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference entitled "Transmission, Translation, Relocation" to be held at Indiana University in Bloomington from March 26-28, 2009.

The words "transmission," "translation," and "relocation" all imply the presence of movement as well as the presence (or possibility) of change. Such ideas of movement and change suggest a broad range of topics (for example, the transmission of thought, affect, or disease, the translation of a text from one language or medium to another, or the relocation of people or power). This conference seeks to explore how we account for these types of movements, and what types of knowledge they might form.

Possible topics of proposals for scholarly or creative work may include but are not limited to:

Genre studies
Parody and Satire
Studies of disease
Performance studies
Transmission/Translation through media
Transmission of emotions and affect
Studies of Diaspora
Postcolonial studies
Ideological lineages
Disability studies
Publishing culture
Reception studies
Adaptations
Convergence culture
Studies of public policy
(Trans)gender and sexuality studies
Power dynamics
Servitude

We encourage proposals for individual projects as well as panel proposals organized by topic. We particularly encourage creative presentations and interdisciplinary projects. Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short description of yourself by January 31, 2009 to iugradconference@gmail.com.

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January 13, 2009

CFP- Graduate Student Conference on Inner Eurasia, 03/28/2009, Columbia U.

Deadline: March 2, 2009

CONF./CFP- Graduate Student Conference on Inner Eurasia, Columbia U. , Mar. 28

Call For Papers

Second Annual Graduate Student Conference:

Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies (OASIES) at Columbia University in the City of New York

"Inner Eurasia: Transcending Boundaries"

Saturday, March 28, 2009
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 2, 2009

The Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies at Columbia University invites panel and individual paper
proposals for the First Annual OASIES Student Conference to be held Saturday, March 28, 2009 at Columbia University in New York, NY.
Students and independent scholars are cordially invited to submit abstracts of papers covering all topics pertaining to Inner Eurasian
Studies.

Inner Eurasian Studies is defined for the purposes of this conference as the study of the historical and contemporary Afghan, Mongolic,
Persian, Tibetan, Tungusic, and Turkic peoples, languages, cultures, and societies. This graduate student conference will involve
presentations of working papers on topics relevant to the study of Inner Eurasia which transcend or are not readily accommodated within
established geographical, temporal, political, academic, or other boundaries.

Submission deadline: March 2, 2009.
Applicants will be notified of acceptance by March 9, 2009.
Complete paper of 7-10 pages (double-spaced) for a presentation of no more than 15 minutes due March 18, 2009.

Submit this information: Via e-mail as an attachment (pdf, .doc or .rtf formats preferred) to: contact@oasies.org

Visit www.oasies.org for more information.

Submission Instructions
Individual papers will be assigned by the Conference Committee to a suitable panel.
Please include the following information on all submissions:
1) Names of all authors (note name of the person presenting the paper);
2) Institutional affiliation and title/position;
3) Contact information, including e-mail address, postal address, and telephone/fax numbers;
4) Paper title;
5) An abstract of no more than 300 words, to be included in the Conference Program;
6) Any audio-visual equipment needs (overhead, slide projector, PowerPoint, etc.)

Due to space constraints, abstracts exceeding 300 words cannot be accepted. OASIES regrets that it cannot provide any funding to participants.

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December 10, 2008

CfP: Communal Violence in Eastern Europe, 05/18/2009, NZ

Deadline: February 15, 2009

CFP: Breaking the Bonds: Communal Violence in Eastern Europe

Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

This symposium explores communal violence in the destruction of ethnic communities in Eastern Europe during World War II, and the memory of it in remaking and building national identities after the war. Its conception is inspired by recent scholarly work on the commission and memory of Nazi occupation policies in that region, including the work of Omer Bartov, Wendy Lower and Joshua Rubenstein. The symposium has no registration fee. Follow link to website to download full description of CFP. Abstracts due: February 15, 2009.

Contact convener for more information: simone.gigliotti@vuw.ac.nz

Simone Gigliotti
History Programme
Victoria University
PO Box 600
Wellington, 6140, New Zealand
tel: +64 4 4636775; fax: +64 4 4635261
Email: simone.gigliotti@vuw.ac.nz

Visit the website at http://www.victoria.ac.nz/antipodean/upcoming-events.aspx

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CfP: Food, culture and health: Interdisciplinary encounters, 06/04-05/2009, Tarragona, Spain

Deadline: January 15, 2009

9th International REDAM Symposium Food, culture and health: Interdisciplinary encounters

Food and dietary practices are part of wider historical processes, and for this reason the study of food production and consumption requires an interdisciplinary approach that takes into account not only cultural knowledge but forms of social inequality, and the economic and political implications of food not only for society but for human health and the environment as well. Food production, distribution and consumption involves numerous agents and contexts ranging from agricultural activities to food processing, from the restaurant or school dining hall to the home, from the individual to the social group. These social actors and sites are, for their part, also involved in processes of health, illness, and care. Despite apparent abundance, the current food production system does not ensure that people’s basic nutritional requirements are met or that food is evenly shared. On another level, it undermines confidence in the quality and safety of the food produced, and poses obstacles to the legitimate and human desire to preserve and improve the quality of life.

The study of human diet has been approached from a wide variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Understanding dietary practices and the issues affecting them requires bringing together diverse areas of knowledge because food consumption has biopsychosocial, political, economic and ecological dimensions and repercussions. Behind the decision to focus the 9th International REDAM symposium on the relation between health, food and culture lies the conviction that this symposium should generate fruitful interdisciplinary discussion and critical reflection on how dietary behaviour and public health are influenced by lifestyles which are in turn conditioned by economic, political and cultural factors. CALL FOR PAPERS

Proposals for papers must be submitted through the Symposium’s webpage,

CALL FOR PAPERS

Proposals for papers must be submitted through the Symposium’s webpage, The proposal should include the title of the paper, a 250-word abstract, and 5 key words. The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 15, 2009. The full text of the papers will be posted on the symposium’s webpage between February 16 and May 11, 2009. Papers must be no longer than 35,000 characters including footnotes and bibliography (approximately 15 pages of A4). Citations should follow the Harvard system (year, page number).

Online registration is required for all participants in the 9th International REDAM Symposium, regardless of whether they are presenting a paper.

Mabel Gracia

Departament d'Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social
Av. Catalunya 35
43002 Tarragona
+34977559748
Fax: +34977559597
Email: mabel.gracia@urv.cat
Visit the website at http://antropologia.urv.es/9coloquio

Structure of the Symposium

1. Keynote address

2. Thematic areas

• Socialization and dietary education

• Dietary insecurity and social inequality

• Eating in times of “crisis�?

• Dietary globalization, markets, diets

• Migrations and dietary change in intercultural contexts

• Medicalization of diet

• “Epidemics�? in the new millennium: obesity and eating disorders

• History, nutrition and dietary politics in health

• Dieting: prescribers, prescriptions and prescribed medications

• Diet, body and gender

• Knowledge, representations and dietary practices

3. Closing session

The working sessions are one and a half hours long, involving three or four paper presentations during the first hour followed by half an hour of discussion. This schedule can accommodate between 18 and 24 papers. Depending on the number of submissions, two further sessions may be added (allowing a maximum of eight more papers). The sessions will not take place simultaneously. The organizers may modify the final structure of the symposium according to the paper proposals received.

Registration fees

Standard registration fee: 130€

Reduced registration fees for the following:

Members of the Spanish Neuropsychiatric Association (AEN), the Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN), and associations affiliated with the Federation of Anthropological Associations of the Spanish State (FAAEE): 70€

Rovira i Virgili University (URV) students, members of the Tarragona Institute of Anthropology and the Medical Anthropology Network (REDAM) who are not presenting a paper: 30€

Students enrolled in the URV Master’s Program in Medical Anthropology and International Health and speakers from the Health Observatory (ODELA): free

Maximum number of participants: 70

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CfP: Post-crisis States Transformation: Rethinking the Foundations of the State, 05/01-05/2009, Sweden

Deadline January 30, 2009

POST-CRISIS STATES TRANSFORMATION: RETHINKING THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE STATE

Consensus is growing that the application of the Western model of the Nation State in post-crisis contexts poses many problems. This particular model of the State is at the foundation of the current international system. While it originates from the specific socio-historic context of Europe, the model is widely applied in post-crisis countries (post colonial, post-conflict and post-Soviet) under the assistance or influence of the international community. The conditions in which recent states are formed differ substantially. Mainstream models of state-building assume that state legitimacy can be established and state collapse avoided through international intervention combined with military presence, huge amounts of aid and democratic elections.

Realities on the ground lead us to question their effectiveness, at least in the way measures have been implemented. The focus of this conference is the question of the model of the state that is being "reformed" rather than on the methods of state reform or state-building.

While international and national actors are involved in the building of the state, local and regional actors are also involved in forming governance structures. They have received much less attention. The authorities taking over when states fail, and ultimately collapse, include the actors of war, such as military faction leaders; but they also include remnants of the former state administration, revitalized traditional authorities, religious courts, local businessmen, etc., who continue or begin to exercise authority as "functional equivalents" of the former state, at times aspiring to replace it. What is the legitimacy of those actors and how does it relate to the national level?

In addition to the question of political legitimacy of non-institutional actors, the conference will further focus on the issue of identity formation in relation to the state and the limits of state sovereignty. The conference will conclude with a reflection on research methodology, a discussion about how academic and policy-oriented research can be complementary in responding to the remaining questions that will arise during the conference.

Alessandra Piccolotto
European Science Foundation (ESF)
ESF Conferences Unit
149 avenue Louise, Box 14
Tour Generali, 15th Floor
1050 Brussels
Belgium
Phone: +32 (0) 25332020
Email: apiccolotto@esf.org
Visit the website at http://www.esf.org/conferences/09271

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CfP: Conference on Political Economy, 04.24-26/2009, Prague

Deadline: February 28, 2009

Prague Conference on Political Economy

Prague Conference on Political Economy is an international and interdisciplinary gathering of scholars and supporters (not only) of the Austrian School of Economics and political economy of freedom. The conference is scheduled for April 24-26, 2009, and it will take place at the University of Economics and Liberalni Institut in Prague, Czech Republic. Two memorial lectures will be delivered by Prof. Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Prof. em. Svetozar Pejovich. Conference papers are to be submitted by February 28, 2009. More information and registration at http://pcpe.libinst.cz/pcpe09/

Pavol Minarik
University of Economics in Prague
Phone: +420224095570
Email: pavol.minarik@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://pcpe.libinst.cz/pcpe09/

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CfP: Historical Approaches to Creating Cultures of Peace, 10/29-31/2009, SC

Deadline: March 1, 2009

Toward a Peaceful World: Historical Approaches to Creating Cultures of Peace

The Peace History Society invites paper proposals for its biannual conference to be held at Winthrop University from October 29-31, 2009. Proposals can include efforts to achieve peace or prevent war, including long-term efforts at sustainable development, diplomatic efforts to avert war or maintain peace, and popular social and cultural movements which seek to end war or reform the international environment to avoid future wars. Papers can deal with either current or historical approaches, gender approaches, government-to-government approaches, and those dealing with the challenges peace advocates face in their efforts to bring about reform and lasting peace. Proposals can be for individual papers as well as complete panels including a commentator. Please send one page abstracts and a brief c.v. to both conference co-chairs, E.Timothy Smith, Ph.D., (esmith@mail.barry.edu, and Virginia S. Williams, williamsv@winthrop.edu,

by March 1, 2009.

Dr. E Timothy Smith (esmith@mail.barry.edu) and Dr. Virginia S. Williams (williamsv@winthrop.edu)

Email: esmith@mail.barry.edu; williamsv@winthrop.edu

Visit the website at http://www.peacehistorysociety.org

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CfP: Revolutions in History, 03/12-14/2009

National Council for History Education Conference-Revolutions in History

Each spring, the National Council for History Education holds a national conference. The national conference is a place where everyone who loves to teach and learn history can come together and share. NCHE encourages conference proposals that illustrate collaboration and history education. This year's conference will be held in Boston, MA from March 12-14, 2009. The conference will be held at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers. This year's keynote presentations will be given by Vartan Gregorian, David McCullough, Pauline Maier, and Sharon Leon. The conference will also include 80 Breakout Sessions, a Poster Session, Enrichment Excursions, an Opening Reception, and Friday Night at Fenway Park. Please visit www.nche.net/conference for more details and to register for the conference.

John Csepegi
National Council for History Education
7100 Baltimore Avenue
Suite 510

College Park, MD 20740

Email: john@nche.net

Visit the website at http://www.nche.net/conference

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CfP: WHITHER MULTICULTURALISM, 04/10-11/2009, Tunis

Deadline: February 28, 2009

THE ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE & THE INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DES ETUDES LITTERAIRES ET DES SCIENCES HUMAINES DE TUNIS ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THEIR JOINT CONFERENCE ON:
WHITHER MULTICULTURALISM?

Call for Papers

APRIL 10-11, 2009

TUNIS, TUNISIA

There have been over the last four decades many attempts to re-envision the evolution of multicultural societies and to redefine the place of the individual or the ethnic group in them. There have also been in some western countries a number of policies and social and cultural projects which, under the influence of pressure groups and social movements, have been introduced in response to cultural multiplicity and diversity. But as multiculturalism does not mean the same thing to different people, those visions, redefinitions and projects have often been incompatible, or even downright conflictual, with one another. With the new- immigration trends, the development of international networks of communication and trans-cultural exchange, and with the overall impact of globalization on local and national cultures, such concepts as culture, rootedness, belonging, nationhood, identity, and multiculturalism are becoming trickier, more and more challenging and problematic. The new demographic, social, economic and political contexts have made it a must to reconsider multiculturalism both as a concept and as a civilisational project. This conference seeks to explore the new meanings, dimensions and implications of multiculturalism, and to examine the reality and experiences of diversity under the new circumstances. We invite scholars from all disciplines to join us in this exploration. We welcome proposals relating multiculturalism to the following sub-themes: assimilation, integration, citizenship, exclusion, marginality, othering, plurality, nationhood, nationalism, transnationalism, patriotism, borderlands, cosmopolitanism, identity, minorities, globalization, representation, hybridity, repression, etc.

Proposals should not exceed one page, and presentations should not exceed twenty minutes. Please send proposals before 28 February 2009 to the following address: multiculturalismconference2009@gmail.com

Sadok Abcha

Email: multiculturalismconference2009@gmail.com

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CfP: Grad. Student Slavic Forum, 05/08-09/2009, Chicago

Deadline February 15th, 2009

29th Annual Slavic Forum: Graduate Student Conference at the University of Chicago

The graduate students in the Slavic Department at the University of Chicago issue a call for papers for the 29th Annual Slavic Forum. The conference will be held on the University of Chicago campus on May 8-9. All submissions dealing with Slavic studies are encouraged, including linguistics, literature, art, history, anthropology, and interdisciplinary. Panel themes will be determined by the Slavic Forum committee following acceptance of papers to the conference. Past panels have included topics such as Slavic Linguistics, Text and Image, Space and Time, and Slavs Abroad. Past papers have included: “Andrei Drozin’s Evening of Plastika, World of People and Objects: The Role of Plastika in Acting Training,�? “Conceptual Overlaps and Formal Gaps in Gombrowicz and Borges,�? “Day as Ritual: Temporal Perspective in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,�? “On the Development of Syllabic Liquids in East South Slavic,�? and “Realization of Predicate in Czech Distributive Verbs.�? All talks are 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Keynote speaker TBA.

Please submit abstracts (250 words) to slavicforum@gmail.com by February 15th, 2009. All abstracts should be sent as attachments in Word or PDF. Examples and references are not included in the word count. Please put your name and affiliation at the top of the abstract but not in the body, so that we may make them anonymous for refereeing and easily identify them afterwards. All abstracts will be refereed and participants will be notified by early March.

-- Jeremy C. PinkhamOutreach CoordinatorUniversity of Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies5835 S. Kimbark Ave., Judd Hall 321Chicago, IL 60637(773) 702-0875web: http://ceeres.uchicago.edu

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CfP: Nomadism in Art: The History of Art in Ages of Globalization, 04/17-19/2009, Kansas

Deadline: February 1, 2009

Graduate Art History Symposium, University of Kansas

The Department of Art History, University of Kansas will hold its graduate student symposium April 17-19, 2009. We seek papers to suit the topic "Nomadism in Art: The History of Art in Ages of Globalization."

The topic raises the following potential questions: How is an artist both agent and consumer of culture? How has the relationship amongst artists, or between artists and their audience, changed over time? How might the "tastes" of a specific local audience inform their appreciation of culturally displaced works of art? What are the 'migratory patterns' of art historical discourse, more broadly? How has orientalism or occidentalism played upon visual culture in the age of globalization?

Submissions for 20-minute presentations should be sent as PDF or Word attachments to kusymposium@gmail.com.

Abstracts should be one page in length and should be accompanied by a c.v. Deadline: February 1, 2009

Email: kusymposium@gmail.com

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December 09, 2008

CFP: Sustainable Development, O5/14/2009, Tashkent

Deadline January 23rd 2009

Sustainable Development, Westminster Int'l U. in Tashkent, May 14

Conference Call for Papers

Research for Sustainable Development
Westminster International University in Tashkent
Thursday 14th May 2009

Research and development (R&D) plays a critical role in ensuring the
growth of a modern economy. At the same time for that growth to be
sustainable, there is a need for societies to understand better the
challenges facing them and develop appropriate evidence based policies. However the role of research in promoting sustainable development, particularly in transition societies, is an area that calls for further enquiry in order for business, higher education,
government and international organizations to realize its full benefits.

Westminster International University in Tashkent, as part of the
activities of its UNESCO Chair in the Knowledge Economy and Tempus
Project Plan to Establish Research-Science-Enterprise Oriented
Universities for the Benefit of Society (PERSEUS) and with support
from the British Council, is hosting this one day conference and invites paper proposals for addressing the following themes.

1) Commercialization of research
- Maximising Research and Development in the company value chain
- Commercializing university based research
- Corporate partnerships

2) Research for effective policy planning, monitoring and evaluation
- Overcoming the data gap strategies for ensuring relevant monitoring
and evaluation
- Managing policy related research for maximum value
- Funding models for public sector research

3) Developing research capacity research training, management and
quality assurance in higher education
- Research training in the education system both postgraduate and
undergraduate
- Quality assurance in research
- Funding models of university research

4) Research dissemination challenges in transition countries
- Changing role and nature of academic journals in developing and
transition societies
- Making the most of information technology to communicate research
outcomes
- Intellectual property and legal issues relating to research
dissemination

Paper proposals can be submitted in any of the conference working
languages (English, Russian or Uzbek). To submit a proposal please fill out the form at http://www.wiut.uz/pub/confapply.php

The deadline for paper proposals is January 23rd 2009. If your paper is selected you will be informed by the end of January 2009 though you can request an earlier decision. For any questions regarding the conference please contact us at conference2009@wiut.uz

The conference host, Westminster International University in Tashkent
delivers UK accredited bachelors' degrees in business, economics,
business computing and law and Masters' degrees in business. It works in close cooperation with its partner, the University of Westminster,
UK, along with other universities, businesses and the government of
Uzbekistan to provide international education and high quality research to contribute to the development of the country and region.
More information about the university is available at
http://www.wiut.uz.

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Visualizing Migration and Divided Societies, 06/05/09, Paris

Deadline: 9th January 2009

'Visualizing Migration and Divided Societies'

Hosted by the MSH Paris Nord
5th June 2009

Organizers:

Susan Ball (University of Paris 8)
Chris Gilligan (University of the West of Scotland)

Supported by: EA1569 Transferts critiques et dynamiques des saviors
(domaine anglophone), and the University of Paris 8.

Contemporary society is often characterised as being marked by
unprecedented levels of movement of people, goods and information (as
articulated, for example, in discussions of globalisation, information society or liquid modernity). A related theme is that of barriers and division (as articulated, for example, in concerns about residential segregation, social exclusion or immigration controls).

This conference's focus on migration and divided society brings these
two themes together in a single framework, and shifts the method of
their analysis from concepts which have been predominantly
language-based and/or number-based to the visual medium. In the
conference we want to bring social scientists (sociologists,
geographers, historians, anthropologists, researchers in urban and
development studies, etc.) together with practitioners who are employed primarily in a visual medium (photography, audiovisual material, new media, museum scenography, thematic cartography, etc.) in order to generate synergies between the different fields. By giving primacy to methods of visual study we hope to enable researchers trained in the social sciences to experience the social world through additional analytical lenses, and to develop a critical dialogue between the disciplines that will further our understanding of the core concepts: 'migration' and 'divided society'.

We are interested in papers that address migration in one of a variety of different forms. These include migration as: immigration, emigration,'white flight', return migration, temporary migration (students and business travellers) rural to urban migration, transnational movements, internal movements, etc. It follows on that we are also interested in papers which address different types of migrants: economic migrants, labour migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, cultural migrants, etc.

In political science the term 'divided society' refers to nations or
regions, (such as Northern Ireland, South Africa, Bosnia-Herzegovina), which are characterised by deep social cleavages based on ethnic difference. The term has, however, been applied in recent times to refer to a cultural divide in the USA which is based on values rather than ethnicity. Societies are also divided along class lines, and there are gender divisions in all societies which interrelate with the arrival, departure and return of migrants. We are interested in papers that relate migration with one or other of these different ways of theorizing and representing divided society; and which critically interrogate the terms 'divided society', 'society' and 'division', and the extent and nature of the divide in 'divided societies' in relation to migration.

Theoretical, methodological and empirical papers are welcome. A title
and an abstract (around 300 words) will be sufficient for submission, by 9th January 2009. The selection of presenters of contributions will be made before the end of January 2009, when they will be requested to provide a 2 page summary of their paper by 16th March for translation (English-French and French-English) and circulation to the other speakers.

Travel and accommodation expenses incurred by the presenters of
contributions will be heavily subsidised, according to the University of Paris 8 travel guidelines.

Please direct all enquiries and abstracts to Susan Ball s.ball@wanadoo.fr
or Chris Gilligan chris.gilligan@yahoo.co.uk

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CFP. The Global 1989: A New Generation, 10/22-24/2009, Princeton

Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis until 1 February 2009.
Early submissions are particularly welcome.

The Global 1989: A New Generation
Conference to take place at Princeton University, 22-24 October 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

2009 brings the 20th anniversaries of a wide variety of major events
across the globe: the Cuban withdrawal from Angola; the Soviet
withdrawal from Afghanistan; the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa against
Salman Rushdie; the Polish and Hungarian Round Tables; the protests at
Tiananmen Square; the fall of the Berlin Wall; the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia; and the breakdown of old regimes in Mexico, Chile, and Brazil.

In an attempt to take a global approach to 1989, its antecedents, and
its consequences, Princeton University will convene and host on 22-24
October 2009 a conference devoted to 1989. The ultimate panel themes will depend on the topics of the paper proposals submitted, yet we are particularly interested in moving toward new conceptual models, for example in the following areas: ethics and norms, intellectual history/history of ideas, law, microeconomics, migration, popular culture, and religion. It is essential to underscore also the conference's global scope, i.e. that it should encompass (but not necessarily limit itself to) variously defined Asian, Cold War, European, inter-American, Sino-Soviet, and transatlantic studies. We welcome also submissions concerning, for example, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, or South Africa.

WHO SHOULD APPLY:
We aim to provide a forum for recent work related to a doctoral
dissertation, whether published or unpublished, complete or incomplete. We therefore welcome submissions from junior faculty and postdoctoral fellows as well as current graduate students. We welcome submissions from around the globe, as our budget will allow us to cover the travel expenses of all of the scholars whose proposals have been accepted.

That said, we caution that the small intended scale of the conference
will likely necessitate a highly selective review process. The program
committee looks forward to the broadest possible range of submissions
that fall within the intended scope of the conference, and it will
arrange panels based on those submissions that it receives, yet we will likely be able to accommodate only a fraction of these submissions.

We ask both for a brief (300 words) abstract as well as a more detailed prospectus (5 pages, double-spaced) that fleshes out the intended argument of the presentation in greater depth.

Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis until 1 February 2009.
Early submissions are particularly welcome.

Proposals should be submitted to Barbara Leavey
(blleavey@princeton.edu); questions can be directed also to conference
chair Piotr H. Kosicki (pkosicki@princeton.edu).

**This conference is a joint initiative of Princeton University's
Department of History, Davis Center for Historical Studies, Institute
for International and Regional Studies, Program in Law and Public
Affairs, University Center for Human Values, and Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and International Affairs.

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CFP- CIEPO Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Interim Symposium, 08/24-29/2009, Bishkek

Deadline January 31, 2009

CONF./CFP- CIEPO Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Symposium in Bishkek, Aug. 24-29, 2009

Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University

International Committee of Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies (CIEPO)

Interim Symposium

On the Central Asiatic Roots of the Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Culture
August 24-29, 2009, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

First Circular

We are pleased to announce that the CIEPO Symposium on the Central
Asiatic Roots of the pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Culture will be held at
Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Bishkek, 24-29 August, 2009.

The Organizing Committee calls for your presentation of current
research on the Central Asiatic roots of the pre-Ottoman and Ottoman
culture related to the themes of administrative, social, economic,
military, political aspects, as well as medicine, science,
architecture, education, trade, historiography, literature and
international relations.

Individual papers will be organized into sections by the Organizing
Committee. Abstracts for individual papers should not exceed 300
words. The desirable duration of a paper presentation is 15 minutes;
it should not exceed 20 minutes. In case it becomes necessary to limit the number of papers, the selection will be made by members of the Organizing Committee.

Pre-organized panels/sessions and thematic workshops should consist of two to three papers, plus an analysis of them by a discussant (or a designated chair) of ten to fifteen minutes maximum length. The papers should center on a single theme or question, and the panel proposal should include an abstract (300 words maximum) for the entire panel explaining its theme and rationale and how the individual papers contribute to that theme, in addition to an individual abstract (300 words maximum) for each paper. In case it becomes necessary to limit the number of papers, the selection will be made by members of the Organizing Committee.

The participants are requested to send Registration Form by the end of December 2008 (request by email from organizers). The deadline for the paper titles and abstracts and/or the initial proposals and
abstracts for pre-organized sessions and workshops abstracts is by the end of January 2009.

The symposium languages are English, French, German and Turkish.

Participants are requested to finance their own travel expenses and
accommodation. The registration fee for the symposium is 50 (USD)
which should be paid to the accounts opened on behalf of the CIEPO (we expect to give the name of bank and account number in 2nd circular). The CIEPO membership should be paid 10 (USD) in advance as well.

The fees are intended to cover the expenses of lunch, farewell dinner
and excursion. The details about accommodation options (with prices)
will be provided also in the 2nd circular).

Please submit your registration form and proposals to:
E-mails: ciepomanas@gmail.com
or ilsahin40@gmail.com
Tel. 00996 (312) 49 27 83 (internal number 12 03 and 12 06)
Fax: 00996 (312) 49 27 82

Presidents
Prof. Dr. Suleyman KAYIPOV (Manas University, Rector)
Prof. Dr. Ugur ORAL (Manas University, Deputy Rector)

Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. Dilaram ALIMOVA (Uzbekstan)
Prof. Dr. Remzi ATAOGLU (Turkey)
Prof. Dr. Tuncer BAYKARA (Turkey)
Prof. Dr. Victor BUTANAYEV (Russia)
Prof. Dr. Jean-Louis BACQUÉ-GRAMMONT (France)
Prof. Dr. Cenis CUNUSALIYEV (Kyrgyzstan)
Prof. Dr. Rémy DORE (France)
Prof. Dr. Hikari EGAWA (Japan)
Prof. Dr. Feridun EMECEN (Turkey)
Prof. Dr. Yuliy HUDYAKOV (Russia)
Prof. Dr. Mushtaq A. KAW (India)
Prof. Dr. Olcobay KARATEEV (Kyrgyzstan)
Prof. Dr. Sergei KLASTORNIY (Russia)
Prof. Dr. Dariusz KOLODZIEJCZYK (Poland)
Prof. Dr. Hisao KOMATSU (Japan)
Prof. Dr. Bulat KUMEKOV (Kazakhstan)
Prof. Dr. Heat LOWRY (USA)
Prof. Dr. Anvarbek MOKEEV (Kyrgyzstan)
Prof. Dr. Ilber ORTAYLI (Turkey)
Prof. Dr. Ajay PATNAIK (India)
Prof. Dr. Tadashi SUZUKI (Japan)
Prof. Dr. Ilhan SAHIN (Turkey), General Secretary of CIEPO
Prof. Dr. Ahmet TASAGIL (Turkey)

Excursion program being planned for the congress participants

- Nevaket - archeological complex ruins of the medieval city of
Turkic rulers of the 6th-12th century (Chuy valley)
- Site of ancient settlement Ak-Beshim - ruins of the medieval city
Suyab. The capital of Western Turks, Turgesh and Karluk states (VI-Xth century, Chuy valley)
- Burana -archeological and architectural complex of 10th-12th
century: The capital of Karahanid state (Chuy valley)
- Suusamir- summer quarters of the Avrasya nomads
- Koksay - location of Ancient Turkic runic inscriptions of the 8th
century (Kochkor valley, Naryn oblast)
- Rock painting gallery Cholpon Ata- petroglyphs of the ancient Iron
Age and Medieval Age, Northern shore of the Issyk-Kol lake
- Royal kurgans of Issyk Kol- funeral constructions of the ancient
Saka society aristocracy
- The Ferghana Valley - historically most important staging-post on
the so-called Silk Road for goods and people travelling from China to the Middle East & Europe

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CfP: The New Face of Genocide in the 21st Century, 06/07-10/2009, Arlington

Deadline: March 1, 2009

Call for Papers for the 8th Biennial Conference: The New Face of Genocide in the 21st Century

International Association of Genocide Scholars, IAGS 7-10 June 2009

Papers and panels reflecting innovative research and thinking are welcomed on the nature, causes, and consequences of historic and contemporary genocide, and advancing policy and educational studies on the prevention of genocide. Host is the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia.

Dr. James Waller at jwaller@genocidescholars.org

or Dr. Hillary Earl: hearl@genocidescholars.org

Visit the website at http://www.genocidescholars.org

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December 04, 2008

CfP: The Life and Work of G.I. Gurdjieff, 06/26-28/2009, Yerevan

deadline February 1, 2009

Paper proposals are invited for a conference entitled “The Life and Work of G.I. Gurdjieff�? to be held 26-28 June 2009 in Yerevan, Armenia. Scholars and Presenters are invited to examine the various dimensions of the life and thought of G.I. Gurdjieff, and in particular the Armenian and Caucasian roots of his work.

Conference Theme: While many works have been written about his life and work, few have addressed the Caucasian and specifically Armenian character of his work. Further, even though Gurdjieff is known outside of the Caucasus, many Armenians remain unfamiliar with him. Building upon the success of the first two conferences, this conference will continue to take steps in redressing these imbalances. This year we hope to present a more in-depth three day conference in which presentations and discussions will take place that investigate Gurdjieff, his life, his work, as well as his ideas. In particular, we hope to highlight and explore the roots of his identity and his role as an important philosopher and thinker of Armenia and the Caucasus. We hope to introduce Gurdjieff to a wider, as well as local, audience and to present and discuss various aspects of his life and teaching. As a result of the conference we hope to form a bridge of exchange that will serve both the local communities and global community that holds an interest in Gurdjieff. By holding the conference in the very heart of Gurdjieff’s homeland, we hope to make new global connections to the Caucasus, a project that has only become possible since Armenia’s break from the Soviet Union.

Paper Proposals: Proposals addressing Gurdjieff’s thought and cultural identity and aspects of the cultures that influenced his ideas, teaching and writing are welcomed. However, papers are particularly encouraged that undertake original research speaking to one or more of the following areas of inquiry.

1. Gurdjieff’s Influence in Contemporary Culture
2. Gurdjieff’s Caucasian and/or Armenian Identity
3. Gurdjieff’s Writings: Language and Terminology
4. Gurdjieff’s “Toast of the Idiots�?
5. Gurdjieff and Ethics

Scholars, researchers and students interested in presenting papers at the conference should send a paper proposal of not more than 500 words and a short CV, by e-mail to the conference coordinator: Michael Pittman. The working languages of the conference will be English and Armenian – there will be simultaneous translation. The deadline for the submission of paper proposals is 1 Feb 2009. Authors of the paper selected for the conference will be notified by 1 March 2009.

***Participants MUST submit the full text of their respective papers to the conference organizers by 5 June 2009 (4 weeks before the conference), otherwise the opportunity to participate in the conference may be forfeited.

It is anticipated that the conference papers will be published as a volume. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, the conference organizers will have first option on all papers presented at the conference, and will let participants know by 1 December 2009 whether they will exercise that option.

Informal preliminary inquiries regarding paper submissions are welcome and may be directed to the conference coordinator, Michael Pittman at: michael.pittman@acphs.edu

Michael Pittman
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
106 New Scotland Ave.
Albany, New York 12208
Email: michael.pittman@acphs.edu
Visit the website at http://armeniagurdjieff.org

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CfP: The Politics of Intelligence Governance, 09/09-12/2009, Potsdam

Deadline February 1, 2009

The 5th General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) will host a section called “the politics of intelligence governance�? that seeks to examine the growing range of intelligence activities and networks as well as the contemporary challenges to intelligence governance in democratic societies.

The ‘Politics of Intelligence Governance’ section will facilitate a multi-disciplinary exchange of ideas and welcomes paper proposals on the following subjects:

• Problems and solutions for research in intelligence studies
• Explaining successes and failures in the democratisation of intelligence
• The use of intelligence by non-state actors
• The role of intelligence in peacekeeping operations and peace/conflict negotiation processes
• International intelligence cooperation: problems of human rights and oversight
• Democratic control in an age of networked intelligence
• Google vs. James Bond: is secret intelligence defunct?
• Intelligence Studies: where are we and where should we be going?

If interested, please download the form from the ECPR web-site and send your proposal to the Panel chair. The deadline for paper proposals is February 1, 2009.

Dr. Hans Born, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces; email: h.born@dcaf.ch

Prof. Pete Gill, University of Salford; email: p.gill1@salford.ac.uk

Thorsten Wetzling, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva; email: thorsten.wetzling@graduateinstitute.ch

Email: p.gill1@salford.ac.uk

Visit the website at http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/section_details.asp?SectionID=54

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CfP: Crisis - Critical Disruption of Communication and Cultural Flows, 03/20-22/2009, Toronto

DEADLINE: Friday, JANUARY 9th, 2009Intersections 2009: Crisis

Critical Disruption of Communication and Cultural Flows

A crisis is potentially both a critical disruption of an existing system and a vehicle of change. Crisis can foster insight, invention, involvement, and intervention, but it can also create situations which silence, marginalize, and even endanger those who are directly and indirectly involved. Crises may help illuminate directions for necessary change, or render visible those forces that resist transformational imperatives. This conference intends to bring together scholarship that highlights dynamic and imaginative connections taking place in times of critical interruptions and crises. Intersections 2009: Crisis- Critical Disruption of Communication and Cultural Flows is calling for analytical and creative presenters to address how interruptions, disturbances and crises – whether intentional or unexpected, local or global, isolated or systematic – affect established and dominant orders. How do these disruptions alter the very conditions of social, political, economic, mechanical, psychical, physical, sexual, biological, ethical, and other modes of being and thinking? We invite theoretical and creative inquiries into the nature of crisis and what it reveals about the working of various systems, and the ways in which communication and cultural studies contribute to the generation of unique strategies for reading, coping with, and resolving crisis. We also invite considerations of methodologies that address crises of systems inherent to the interdisciplinary study of contemporary communication and culture.

Intersections 2009: Crisis is the eighth annual conference held by the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture at Ryerson and York Universities. We invite graduate students from all related disciplines to submit proposals for academic, artistic, and activist presentations that explore critical disruptions, crisis and catastrophe through social theory, politics, policy, culture, media, technology, artistic practice and social activism. This year’s theme allows for discussion and engagement across the three streams of our programme, which include Media and Culture, Politics and Policy, and Technology in Practice, and we encourage proposals from all three perspectives.

Intersections 2009 Conference
c/o Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture
3013 TEL Building, York University
4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J 1P3

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: Friday, JANUARY 9th, 2009

Please e-mail submissions (or questions) to:

intersections.conference@gmail.com

Conference Website: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/conference
Presented by and for graduate student scholars, artists and activists through the organizing efforts of the Communication and Culture Graduate Students Association (GSA): http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa

Intersections 2009 Conference
c/o Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture
3013 TEL Building, York University
4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J 1P3

Email: intersections.conference@gmail.com

Visit the website at http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/conference

More specifically, within a paradigm of communication and cultural studies, presentations may cover (but are not limited to) the following:

o Disruptions of dynamic systems (including political or economic systems, digital signals and information patterns, cultural institutions or social formations)

o Fractures & Ruptures (in economies and cultural systems)

o Interruptions of labour and education

o Crises (in thought and everyday life)

o Disturbance of flow (in media, environment, energy, culture, thought)

o Signal interference (political, technological and communicative)

o Issues of mobility in times of crisis (refugeeism, diaspora)

SUBMISSION FORMAT/DEADLINES

All interested graduate students are asked to submit a short written abstract or artist's statement explaining the proposed presentation in light of the conference themes. Abstracts or statements should be no more than 150-200 words (typewritten, Times 12 font, double spaced) and submitted via e-mail as a .DOC or .RTF attachment. PLEASE NOTE: Name and contact information should not appear on the same page as your proposal. Please include a separate page with the following information:

o Title of presentation as it appears on the abstract

o Your name

o Affiliation: program, university, and level of study (e.g. PhD, 2nd year)

o E-mail address and mailing address

o A / V requirements

o Submission format (paper presentation, creative work).

All information provided to us will be kept confidential. All submissions are presented anonymously to the conference adjudication committee for peer review before acceptance or declination. See conference website (link below) for more detailed submission guidelines.

Artists are also asked to submit a small sample of their work for adjudication, by either e-mail or post. If sending creative works by e-mail, please limit attachment size to 5mb or less. You may also direct us to a URL. Please put viewing instructions, comments and titles in your e-mail if applicable. If submitting creative works by post, please mail the proposal, a non-original copy of the work, and viewing instructions to the following address (well before the submission deadline):

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CfP: Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, Ideas, 05/08-10?2009, Budapest

Friday 8th May - Sunday 10th May 2009

Budapest, Hungary

Call for Papers

Following last year’s very successful inaugural conference, the Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, Ideas Project will hold its second annual conference in Budapest in May 2009. The conference is a keystone of the ’Intellectuals’ Inter-disciplinary.Net project that seeks to explore the role, character, nature and place of intellectuals and intellectual work in contemporary society. Whilst the ‘intellectual’ emerges as a particular category with the development of modernity, the ‘knowledgeable’ and knowledge producers have been an important historical agent and social actor since the early Greek philosophers, and knowledge production, whether religious, scientific or philosophical, has been important in shaping social, political, economic and cultural change. Intellectuals and the knowledge they produce have been subject to competing representations: from an ‘elect’ producing knowledge for its own sake to different forms of philosopher king, servant of the state or dissenting movement intellectuals connecting politically with change in the social world. In contemporary ‘knowledge’ societies, much of the focus on the intellectual as a ‘public’ figure, residing within the media intelligentsia or institutions of higher learning, but competing theories of intellectuals and their work identify elitist, meritocratic and radical alternatives about who intellectuals are, what they do, how they are connected to and divided from other social institutions, and why we understand them the way we do.

Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 9th January 2009. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 10th April 2009. The draft paper should be of no more than 8 or 9 pages long and ready for a 20 minute (maximum) presentation during the conference.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:

author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body of abstract.

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.

Paul Reynolds
Social and Psychological Sciences,
Edge Hill University
United Kingdom
E-mail: reynoldp@edgehill.ac.uk

Rob Fisher
Network Founder & network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR

E-mail: ikp2@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the Critical Issues 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. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers will be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume.

For further details about the project please visit:

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/intellectuals/int.html

For further details about the conference please visit:

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/intellectuals/int2/cfp.html

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

Tel: +44 (0)1993 882087
Fax: +44 (0)870 4601132
Email: ikp2@inter-disciplinary.net

Visit the website at http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/intellectuals/int2/cfp.html

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CfP: Questions of Authority, 02/19-20/2009, Alberta

Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2008

Call for Papers

"Questions of Authority Peoples, Places, and Power"

An annual interdisciplinary conference presented by the graduate students of the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta February 19-20, 2009

Keynote Address by Dr. James Opp, Department of History, Carleton University

Authority is ever present in history and classics. The exertion of authority can be obvious in politics, and subtle in urban planning. It is just as much a part of encounters with strangers as it is part of archival encounters. We wonder how it was established and look for instances when authority is challenged to better understand power relations. We reflect on the authority of history and the historian in shaping public knowledge. As a concept “authority�? touches all forms of human interaction and how we define it in the present informs our understanding of the past.

Papers from all disciplines relating to history and classics are welcome.

Please submit your 300 word proposals by December 15, 2008

by e-mail to: conference.hcgsa@gmail.com

Successful applicants will be notified by January 15, 2009.

Lauren Wheeler
VP Conference (HCGSA)
PhD Candidate
University of Alberta
Email: conference.hcgsa@gmail.com

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CfP: European Social Science History Conference, 04/13-16/2010, Ghent

Deadline for submitting paper proposals May 1st 2009

session proposals by December the 1st, 2008

The next European Social Science History Conference is to be held in Ghent, Belgium from 13 to 16 April, 2010. We are inviting you to propose theme sessions for the network. Further information about the conference and the session structure can be obtained at http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/

http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/guidelines.php

Sessions composed around thematic, theoretical or conceptual questions will be preferred to geographical or epoch-related sessions. Even though cross-epoch conceptualisations can be difficult to compose, we think they might be particularly beneficial as the favour a comparative point of view. We also appreciate a global angle, as we hope to make participants from different parts of the world to work together on similar problems. By these new recommendations we wish to encourage new types of interaction among the Elites network contributors.

Contrary to the previous practice, a session organiser will be able to propose two participants at the most, keeping two places available for independent papers. The other two papers will be chosen in close cooperation with the organiser.

The growth of the conference, with the 1500 Lisbon participants, is clearly reaching its maximum. Therefore we may be compelled to limit the number of participants by applying a stricter selection of papers. We will be able to organise 17 sessions within the elite network 2010. It is essential that the Elites network participants continue to propose session themes and otherwise suggest possible new topics, in order to give coherence to the Elites programme. The Elites network 2010 call-for-papers will be published very soon.

We hope to have your session proposals by December the 1st, 2008. We are also looking forward to receiving individual paper proposals. Deadline for submitting paper proposals will be May 1st 2009, with no extensions. Please do send us also any other ideas you have for the next conference. There will be a number of timeslots kept in reserve for special sessions, sessions with a new/different format. For instance Meet the Author Sessions or real Roundtables or show documentary and have a discussion with the director/producer. Feel free to propose different formats or ideas. To ensure that your proposal gets through to the network staff, please e-mail it to both chairs. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Marja Vuorinen marja.vourinen@helsinki.fi
José Antonio Sánchez-Román sanchezroman@ccinf.ucm.es

ESSHC Elites network chairs.

José Antonio Sánchez-Román
Facultad de Ciencias de la Información
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Phone (34) 91 3947152
Fax (34) 91 394 2131
Email: sanchezroman@ccinf.ucm.es
Visit the website at http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/

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CfP: Slavic and East European Folklore Association/AAASS,11/12-15/2009, Boston

Deadline January 9, 2009
The Slavic and East European Folklore Association, an AAASS affiliate,
issues an annual call for papers for the AAASS Conference. Participation in our panels does not require SEEFA membership. We particularly welcome participation from specialists in other fields of study, such as literature, anthropology, history. We are calling for proposals for the following panel topics for AAASS 2009 in Boston:

1) Speaking Lives (in keeping with the AAASS conference theme of Reading and Writing Lives), with a focus on oral narratives and oral literature of all types (ballad, legend, tale, epic, etc.). Papers can focus on any aspect of these genres and/or their intersection with written literature or with other fields of study. We envision that this topic will likely engender a series of related panels with various subtitles/subthemes.
2) Magic Folklore: Incantations, Ritual and Sorcery
3) Neopaganism in the Slavic World
4) Teaching Folklore to Undergraduates

If you would like to submit a proposal for these panels, please submit a AAASS c.v. form available online at
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/convention/2009-cfp.pdf and a title and abstract of your proposed paper by January 9 to Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby at j.rouhier@uky.edu

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Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Associate Professor of Russian and Linguistics
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Division of Russian and Eastern Studies
1055 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506
(859) 257-1756
j.rouhier@uky.edu
www.uky.edu/~jrouhie

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CFP: Translatable Conference, 04/24/25/2009), Duke University and UNC-CH

Deadline January 15, 2009

Translatable: Creativity and Knowledge Formation Across Cultures
An interdisciplinary conference on the poetics and pragmatics of
literary translation to be held at Duke University and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 24-25, 2009

Conference organizers: Peter Burian (Classical Studies, Duke), Eric
Downing (English and Comparative Literature, UNC), Christophe Fricker
(Germanic Languages and Literature, Duke), Erdag Göknar (Turkish
Studies/Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Duke)

This international, interdisciplinary, and transcultural conference
will bring together not only writers and scholars who translate
literary texts, but cultural theorists, publishers and editors, and
others interested in many facets of the process of translation between
and among languages and media, and the politics and influence of
translation in today's increasingly globalized culture. We thus invite
proposals for papers representing a broad spectrum of academic
disciplines, languages and national cultures.

We envision meetings organized around two overarching themes:

1) translation and creation, including such topics as translation as a
mode of thought, the influence of translation and translated texts on
the development of national literatures, the role of translation in
the artistic development and expression of creative writers, poetics
of translation, translation and adaptation in multiple media; and

2) translation in the formation and dissemination of knowledge,
including such topics as post-colonial translation in the age of
English-language hegemony, translating Islam for the West and the West
for Islam, translation in the economy of contemporary cultures,
translation as a model-or models-for intercultural communication,
translation in the age of global English.

This conference will take advantage of demonstrated interest in
literary translation, both as an activity and a subject of scholarly
inquiry, at our universities and in the wider academic community. It
has been prepared by a series of well-attended "Translatable" events
at Duke over the last two years, featuring prominent literary
translators from a number of linguistic, literary, and cultural
traditions.

The opening lecture and the first day of the conference will be held
at Duke; the second day will take place on the UNC campus. Our hope is
that this initial conference will be followed by Translatable
conferences elsewhere, and that the conference papers will provide the
basis for the publication of a volume of distinguished and
wide-ranging essays.

Please send proposals (no longer than 300 words) and a short CV to all
four organizers at pburian@duke.edu, goknar@duke.edu,
edowning@email.unc.edu and cef15@duke.edu by 15 January 2009.

Christophe Fricker, D.Phil (Oxon)
Duke University
Dept of Germanic Languages and Literature
Box 90256
Durham, NC 27708
U.S.
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December 03, 2008

CfP: EU Enlargement and Institutional Reforms in SEE, Berlin, 02/05-06/2009

Deadline: December 22, 2008
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
5-6 February, 2009
Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science
Freie Universität Berlin

WORKSHOP: EU ENLARGEMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE

Research Topic and Focus

At the turn of more than one decade of violent and uncertain
transitions, the EU has envisaged a new vision for the Balkans -it
promises to transform those countries into stable, self-sufficient
democracies, at peace with themselves and each other, with market
economies and the rule of law, and which will be either members of
the EU or on the road to membership. This ambitious project builds on
a new strategy -the Stabilization and Association Process (SAP) -
which for the first time comprises the prospect of European
membership and outlines the tools of achieving that for all the
countries in the Western Balkans (WB). The SAP is largely modeled on
the EU enlargement framework in other Central and Eastern European
countries (CEEC). Yet, it reflects the widespread conviction that the
Western Balkans face different challenges and hence must be treated
under a particular framework tailored to their situation. As such,
the SAP borrows from, but also invents against the pool of
instruments used to make candidate countries fit for membership –most
notably assistance, political dialogue, and conditionality. Those
instruments are employed via a gradual frame of contractual relations
up to the final goal of membership.

All target countries in the Balkans are now involved at different
stages of the process. The SAP has progressively turned into a major
strategy around which other policy initiatives are thought and
elaborated. Moreover, it has become a word of faith among both
political actors and people in the region, who have long opted to
integrate into the EU structures. The SAP has, thus, created high
expectations for change, which are further nourished by the strong
assumption on the EU transformative power in the previous wave of
enlargement in the post-communist area. The workshop aims to explore
whether and to what extent the SAP has fostered the promised
transformation in the target countries, focusing on institutional
change in different areas of democratization processes.

Studying the EU impact on institutional reform in the WB will draw
the discussion to the already bourgeoning literature on the effects
of EU enlargement in the CEEC. This fact bears, on the one hand, the
ease of walking on already elaborated grounds and, on the other, the
challenge of exploring the idiosyncrasies of the SAP countries. The
abundant research on the EU enlargement in the CEEC has tried to
resolve the epistemological and ontological aspects of the phenomena.
The theoretical approaches employed thus far engage a wide range of
perspectives from methodological individualism to structuralism to
social constructivism to attempts of bridge-building among them. In
addition, different scholars have studied the problem from both the
domestic as well as Brussels' perspectives. More recent accounts that
build on institutionalist frameworks, come with the promise of,
first, bridging the gap between the rational choice approach and
social constructivism; and second, bringing domestic politics back
in. The empirical research has also benefited from a wide range of
methods including case studies, cross-country qualitative analysis,
time-series statistical analysis and game theory.

In the Balkans context, the discussion of EU enlargement needs to be
tackled in a bifurcated manner. First, there is the need for research
on SAP to be embedded in and make better use of the existing
literature on EU enlargement and the mechanisms that might have a
bearing on institutional reform. This is more so as studies on the
Balkans lack both comparative analysis and depth of research, when
compared to the bourgeoning literature on the EU relations with the
CEEC. Few studies, so far, have explored the distinguished features
of this new policy framework tailored to the region and its overall
potential for realizing the promised path-breaking transformation.
Second, case studies from the Balkans would enrich the literature on
EU enlargement itself. They might help in elucidating some of its
lingering dark spots with regard to domestic impact - how do we
measure the effect of EU mechanisms on the EU membership aspiring
countries? What are the areas where the EU was successful or not?
Which of the instruments were more effective to foster
democratization? And, how has this worked in the Balkans where the EU
faced particularly challenging conditions? Various case studies would
help us to look for the effects of EU mechanisms in the right places,
time and areas.

Submissions

By combining theoretical propositions and empirical tests, our
workshop will represent an effort to answer some of the above
questions. Our main focus is comparative and/or case studies from the
Western Balkans and the wider Balkan region. While interested in
wider issues of enlargement, we explicitly seek papers that address
theoretical debates and/offer comparative perspectives to questions
of EU enlargement driven institutional change in the Balkans.
The call for abstracts is addressed to academics of various sub-
disciplines such as comparative politics, international relations,
law, political theory, and public policy. Yet, we also welcome
submissions from practitioners and policy-makers, whose work can
bring rich empirical insights and increase our understanding of
institutional reforms in the region.

We invite submission of proposals for papers on any of the following
themes.
1)Conceptual papers on EU conditionality and other enlargement
instruments
2)The content and application of EU enlargement instruments in the
Balkan region
3)Implementation and impact on various areas of institutional change

Short Guidelines for the abstract:
A 300 word abstract in English which outlines the research question,
argument, methodology, and expected findings.

Deadline for sending the abstract: 22 December, 2008
Notification of Accepted Papers: 9 January, 2009
Date of the Workshop: 5-6 February, 2009

Send your abstracts and direct inquires to:

Alexander Kleibrink, email: kleibrink@transnationalstudies.eu
Ridvan Peshkopia, email: ridvanpeshkopia@yahoo.com..

The Organization of the
Workshop

In addition to the call for proposals we will invite scholars from
the region or with academic interests on the region to participate in
the debate with either conceptual or empirical research. We intend to
have around 15 papers. All participants will have their expenses
covered including a two round trip to Berlin, accommodation as well
as meals for all the duration of the workshop.

Afterwards, we plan to coauthor a conclusive draft highlighting the
achievements of the workshop and the avenues it helped to open for
further research. Finally, we plan to publish the research presented
in the workshop as an edited book.

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CfP: Translatable, 04/24-25/2009, Chapel Hill

Deadline January 15, 2009

Translatable: Creativity and Knowledge Formation Across Cultures
An interdisciplinary conference on the poetics and pragmatics of literary translation to be held at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 24-25, 2009

Conference organizers: Peter Burian (Classical Studies, Duke), Eric Downing (English and Comparative Literature, UNC), Christophe Fricker (Germanic Languages and Literature, Duke), Erdag Göknar (Turkish Studies/Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Duke)

This international, interdisciplinary, and transcultural conference will bring together not only writers and scholars who translate literary texts, but cultural theorists, publishers and editors, and others interested in many facets of the process of translation between and among languages and media, and the politics and influence of translation in today's increasingly globalized culture. We thus invite proposals for papers representing a broad spectrum of academic disciplines, languages and national cultures.

We envision meetings organized around two overarching themes:

1) translation and creation, including such topics as translation as a mode of thought, the influence of translation and translated texts on the development of national literatures, the role of translation in the artistic development and expression of creative writers, poetics of translation, translation and adaptation in multiple media; and
2) translation in the formation and dissemination of knowledge, including such topics as post-colonial translation in the age of English-language hegemony, translating Islam for the West and the West for Islam, translation in the economy of contemporary cultures, translation as a model—or models—for intercultural communication, translation in the age of global English.

This conference will take advantage of demonstrated interest in literary translation, both as an activity and a subject of scholarly inquiry, at our universities and in the wider academic community. It has been prepared by a series of well-attended "Translatable" events at Duke over the last two years, featuring prominent literary translators from a number of linguistic, literary, and cultural traditions.

The opening lecture and the first day of the conference will be held at Duke; the second day will take place on the UNC campus. Our hope is that this initial conference will be followed by Translatable conferences elsewhere, and that the conference papers will provide the basis for the publication of a volume of distinguished and wide-ranging essays.

Please send proposals (no longer than 300 words) and a short CV to all four organizers at pburian@duke.edu, goknar@duke.edu, edowning@email.unc.edu and cef15@duke.edu by 15 January 2009.

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CfP: Sound and Silence in the Space Between 1914-1945, 06/11-13/2009, Notre Dame

Deadline for submission: December 15, 2008.

Submissions requested for the 11th annual conference of The Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945.

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana
June 11-13, 2009
Keynote Speaker: Emily Thompson, Dept. of History, Princeton
Author of The Soundscape of Modernity

From the growl of automobile and airplane engines and the whir of electric appliances to fascism’s oppressive silences, the years between 1914 and 1945 witnessed a variety of new sounds and silences. This interdisciplinary conference invites historians and critics of literature, art, music, film, dance, and popular culture to explore the myriad sounds and silences of the interwar period. Possible topics include:

• The impact of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and sound film on modern subjectivity and expression
• The new sounds of technology and war
• The enforced silencing of political and cultural critique
• The sounds of political and social protest
• Silence as spirituality, as resistance, as consent
• The sounds of previously marginalized or disenfranchised voices
• The incorporation of sound and noise into literature and art
• The rising awareness of sound in shaping everyday experience
• The breakdown of classical tonality and the rise of new tonal structures

Please send 300-word abstract and one-page CV to Erika Doss (doss.2@nd.edu).

Erika Doss
University of Notre Dame
Email: doss.2@nd.edu

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November 25, 2008

CfP: International Federation for Research on Women's History, 08/22-28/2010, Amsterdam

deadline for submitting proposals is December 31, 2008

The International Federation for Research in Women’s History
Fédération Internationale pour la Recherche en Histoire des Femmes CfP for IFRWH Conference in Amsterdam, August 2010(in conjunction with the 21st International Congress of Historical Sciences, 22-28 August 2010)

Unequal Sisters: Women, Gender, and Global Inequalities in Historical Perspective

The general theme of our 2010 conference will be: “Unequal Sisters: Women, Gender, and Global Inequalities in Historical Perspective.�? The aim of this theme is to focus on and further explore women’s history from a global and non-Western perspective. Within that frame we are looking for papers that deal with a variety of material and nonmaterial inequalities and hierarchies – such as those related to class, gender, “race,�? caste, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, education, age, or health – that have affected women’s lives in and across all parts of the world and in different historical periods. We also hope to explore the many ways in which women have challenged or fought these inequalities and hierarchies, i.e., through different kinds of politics and activism, as well as individual actions and forms of resistance in the so-called “private sphere.�? We welcome papers that rethink relations and interconnections between women and women’s organizations in different regions and parts of the world and encourage panels with an international composition that explore topics, concepts, historical events, and/or the role of organizations and individuals from a variety of locations, and perspectives. How, for instance, are Clara Zetkin, Paulina Luisi, or Sarojini Naidu remembered in different locations and political contexts? Were there other local, national, regional, or transnational leaders or “heroines�? that inspired women in their various struggles? What forms did patriarchy take in different historical and geographical contexts, and how did it interact with capitalism? How did “race�? shape women’s lives and women’s movements in differing temporal and spatial contexts? What was the impact of the imposition of Western gender categories in places where “woman�? as a social category did not exist? In what ways did women in varied times and places challenge particular and intersecting hierarchies?

DEADLINES AND OTHER PRACTICAL INFORMATION
The deadline for submitting proposals is December 31, 2008.
Paper proposals: Please submit a one-page abstract with a title, short description of the paper and its relation to the overall theme, plus contact information.

Panel proposals: Please include a short description of the panel’s theme, short descriptions of the proposed papers, and contact information for all participants.

Suggestions for commentators and chairs are most welcome.

Proposals for papers and panels should be sent to Francisca de Haan at
dehaanf@ceu.hu

Registering:
The IFRWH is an affiliated organization with the ICHS (or CISH, in French). Therefore participants in the IFRWH Congress must register centrally for the ICHS 2010 Congress. The online registration form for the ICHS 2010 congress in now operational. All participants need to register through this online form but payment can be made at a later date. For information on how to register and the online form, see the website:
http://www.ichs2010.org/

If you have any questions about the registration, please write to
info@ichs2010.org

For other questions and suggestions, please write to Francisca de Haan, Vice President, IFRWH, on behalf of the Program Committee, at dehaanf@ceu.hu or visit the website of the IFRWH at http://www.ifrwh.com/

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CfP: Contesting Europe, 03/05-06/2009, Toronto

Deadline: Monday, December 22, 2008

CFP: Contesting "Europe"
Conference at York University, Toronto, Canada
March 5-6, 2009

Historically as well as in the current moment, "Europe" has been
mystified and contested in various ways. The question of contestation
and its relationship to advancing a praxis of human liberation and
solidarity is the central question of this conference. To what extent
has contesting the imaginary of Europe furthered or hindered
emancipatory politics – both "inside" and "outside" of Europe?

This interdisciplinary conference encourages critical contributions on
"Europe" as a process of becoming that takes place amid contestations,
negotiations, and competing identity claims. Problematizing "Europe"
from both above and below is to bring in analyses of complex social
relations of power. Our goal is to create a space for discourses
challenging the predominant imaginary of Europe that underlies a
top-down process of institution building, the creation of a common
identity, and the economic integration at the level of the European
Union (EU).

We aim to examine the conflicts and contradictions of "Europe" through
a range of contributions that touch on questions such as: What does
it mean to be "European" in a changing "Europe"? How have processes
and dynamics of class, racialization, gendering, religion, etc.
materialized and been contested in lived experiences? What is the
legacy of European imperialism? What are the linkages between the
consolidation of the "new Europe/an" and the neo-liberal paradigm? To
what extent and in which ways has research on "Europe" reproduced,
deconstructed, or challenged hegemonic views? Can comparative
references to Europe foster progressive politics "outside" of Europe?

Promising areas for papers include, but are not limited to:
- European (His)tory: Contested Narratives
* Black European history
* Stained welfare: History of poverty and exclusion
* Europe and "The East"
* Cultural critiques (film, literature, poetry, art)
* Diasporas in and out of Europe
* Enlightenment
* Orientalism
* Islam and Christianity

- Sovereignty, the Nation State, and Imperialism
* Colonialism/ de-colonization
* EU surplus: Flooding foreign markets
* Human rights discourse and law making
* Militarization and war
* Neo-liberalism and EU unity
* Social movements and resistance within and across Europe

- Bodies and Borders
* Immigration/ migration
* National and supranational citizenship
* Headscarf debates
* "Fortress Europe"
* Sex trafficking
* "Gender equality" and feminist responses

- The Formation/ Contestation of a European Identity
* Belonging: Europe and the nation
* Unity in diversity": Dealing with conflict and plurality
* Epistemological hurdles of integration
* European constitution
* The radical right
* Nationalisms
* Whiteness
* European Identities "outside" of Europe

Presentations will be 20 minutes long followed by a question and
answer session. Please send an abstract of no more than 200 words to
contestingeurope@gmail.com
The deadline for submissions is Monday, December 22, 2008.
Participants will be notified by mid January of the success of their
submission.

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CfP: Beyond Assimilation and Integration, 03/20-21/2009, Ankara

Deadline January 15, 2009

The Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas at Bilkent University
is pleased to announce a call for papers for its 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium, to occur on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st
March 2009 in Ankara, Turkey.

Beyond Assimilation and Integration:
The theory and practice of identity, difference and exchange

How do ideas about culture, diplomacy, literature and art migrate across historical periods and national boundaries? How are cultural, political and artistic practices assimilated from a transient or permanent migrant community into the society in which it finds itself? How do we begin to answer questions of origin when considering such ideals and practices? What are the politics of such exchange: appropriation, resistance, assimilation, rejection, revival, performance? Do questions of identity in this context precede questions of difference?

Taking the last millennium of dialogue between Turkey and Europe,
broadly conceived, as a case study, this interdisciplinary symposium
aims to investigate the theoretical basis and practical expression of
cultural, diplomatic and aesthetic exchange across shifting national
boundaries. From the exchanges between Seljuk Turks and Eastern Europe
in the medieval period, to early modern cultural and diplomatic
dialogues between the Ottoman world and Western Europe, to Ottoman
architecture in Europe and contemporary Turkish/European literature and film arising from modern migration patterns, symbiotic development of ideas and practices has left indelible marks on these civilizations through time. It is this rich vein of history and its implications for a theory of cultural exchange that this symposium will consider.

The symposium will be divided into panels concerned with literature,
film, architecture and history. Abstracts for papers lasting around 20
minutes are invited for each of these panels on any subject concerned
with the period from the early 11^th century to the present, or on
themes relating to the theoretical basis of cultural exchange. Bilkent
University will be happy to provide accommodation for accepted speakers.

Email abstracts of around 500 words by January 15th 2009 to
ccisymposium@gmail.com
For any questions relating to the conference, contact Liz Disley at this address or on +90 312 2903393.

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CFP: Translatable Conference, 04/24/25/2009), Duke University and UNC-CH

Deadline January 15, 2009

Translatable: Creativity and Knowledge Formation Across Cultures
An interdisciplinary conference on the poetics and pragmatics of
literary translation to be held at Duke University and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 24-25, 2009

Conference organizers: Peter Burian (Classical Studies, Duke), Eric
Downing (English and Comparative Literature, UNC), Christophe Fricker
(Germanic Languages and Literature, Duke), Erdag Göknar (Turkish
Studies/Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Duke)

This international, interdisciplinary, and transcultural conference
will bring together not only writers and scholars who translate
literary texts, but cultural theorists, publishers and editors, and
others interested in many facets of the process of translation between
and among languages and media, and the politics and influence of
translation in today's increasingly globalized culture. We thus invite
proposals for papers representing a broad spectrum of academic
disciplines, languages and national cultures.

We envision meetings organized around two overarching themes:

1) translation and creation, including such topics as translation as a
mode of thought, the influence of translation and translated texts on
the development of national literatures, the role of translation in
the artistic development and expression of creative writers, poetics
of translation, translation and adaptation in multiple media; and

2) translation in the formation and dissemination of knowledge,
including such topics as post-colonial translation in the age of
English-language hegemony, translating Islam for the West and the West
for Islam, translation in the economy of contemporary cultures,
translation as a model-or models-for intercultural communication,
translation in the age of global English.

This conference will take advantage of demonstrated interest in
literary translation, both as an activity and a subject of scholarly
inquiry, at our universities and in the wider academic community. It
has been prepared by a series of well-attended "Translatable" events
at Duke over the last two years, featuring prominent literary
translators from a number of linguistic, literary, and cultural
traditions.

The opening lecture and the first day of the conference will be held
at Duke; the second day will take place on the UNC campus. Our hope is
that this initial conference will be followed by Translatable
conferences elsewhere, and that the conference papers will provide the
basis for the publication of a volume of distinguished and
wide-ranging essays.

Please send proposals (no longer than 300 words) and a short CV to all
four organizers at pburian@duke.edu, goknar@duke.edu,
edowning@email.unc.edu and cef15@duke.edu by 15 January 2009.

Christophe Fricker, D.Phil (Oxon)
Duke University
Dept of Germanic Languages and Literature
Box 90256
Durham, NC 27708
U.S.
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November 19, 2008

CfP: Religious NGOs in Global Governance, 09/10-12/2009, Potsdam

Deadline for paper proposals: 1 February 2009

5th European Consortium for Political Research General Conference
Potsdam, 10 - 12 September, 2009

www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/

Call for Papers for the Panel

Religious NGOs in Global Governance: Conflict or Convergence?

in the Section:

"Religious Actors in the Political Sphere: Means, Objectives, and
Effects"

(See Details:
http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/section_details.asp?SectionID=45

Prospective paper givers are requested to use the downloadable form from the ECPR website (see link:
http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/howtosubmit.asp) and send their proposals
directly to:
Claudia Baumgart-Ochse, e-mail: Baumgart@hsfk.de

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.........

International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) are often held to
be the protagonists of an emerging global civil society and the
harbingers of a rational, secular and more peaceful world order. They
are believed to act as "the conscience of the world" in contrast to
old-fashioned, state-centered power politics. According to most studies,these organizations ground their multifaceted contributions to global governance in scientific knowledge and secular liberal thought in the tradition of European Enlightenment. Yet what these accounts of the INGO-community fail to acknowledge is the increasing activity of religiously motivated INGOs in international arenas such as the United Nations system. In analogy to the processes of deprivatization of religion in many nation-states across the world, a rapidly growing number of INGOs in transnational/international relations draw their normative outlook from specific religious traditions and shape their policies and actions accordingly. Given the general political ambivalence of religion, the question arises how and under what conditions religious INGOs pursue policies which either fuel conflict or bring about convergence. The panel seeks to bring together papers that look into the phenomenon from different angles. Empirical and theoretical/conceptual contributions are welcomed that:
* research religious organizations' involvement in policy-fields such as development, human rights or peace and security
* investigate how religious INGOs select, interpret and apply their
religious texts and traditions with regard to current problems and
themes of international politics
* compare religious and secular INGOs and their respective agendas
* discuss how the settings of international governance institutions
effect religious INGOs identity, mission and organization
* explore the general impact of religious INGO-activity on global
governance and the formation of a new (secular?) world order
_______________________________________________

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CFP- International Conference on Central Eurasian Studies, 03/17-19/2009, Istanbul

Deadline December 15, 2008CONF./CFP- Int'l Conference on Central Eurasian Studies, Mar. 17-19, Istanbul

Call For Papers

International Conference on Central Eurasian Studies: Past, Present and Future
March 17-19, 2009, Istanbul, Turkey
Maltepe University (Turkey) - University of Tokyo, Islamic Area Studies (Japan) - University of Tsukuba (Japan)

The organizing committee is pleased to invite paper proposals for the
International Conference on Central Eurasian Studies, organized by the Maltepe University (Turkey), the University of Tokyo, Islamic Area Studies (Japan) and the University of Tsukuba (Japan) to be held on March 17-19, 2009 at the Maltepe University Campus, Istanbul, Turkey.

This multidisciplinary conference will focus on history, politics,
international relations, sociology and media of Central Eurasia in
several panels. The aim of the meeting is to bring together
international group of scholars with academic and professional
interest in Eurasia, to share research experiences, and to discuss
topics and trends in Central Eurasian Studies. Thus, paper topics
relating to the historical, political and socio-cultural aspects of
Central Eurasian studies are welcome. The working language of the
conference is English. Translation will be provided for a key note and closing lectures. The conference program will feature key note
lecture, panels, a welcome reception, a conference dinner and
additional cultural events to acquaint attendees with the host
institution and the city of Istanbul.

A conference program and papers of the participants will be published
in the conference proceedings format. Proceedings will be available at the conference.

To apply, please submit the registration form, which may be found at
the end of this announcement, including a 300-word abstract until
December 15, 2008 via e-mail as an attachment (.doc or .rtf formats
preferred) to the conference secretariat at cesmu@maltepe.edu.tr

Schedule of Key Dates

Deadline for submission of paper abstracts: December 15, 2008.
Applicants will be notified of acceptance by December 30, 2008.
Deadline for submission of full paper texts: January 30, 2009
Conference: March 17-19, 2009.

If you have any questions related to the conference, please do not
hesitate to contact the conference organizers by e-mail at
cesmu@maltepe.edu.tr.

International Conference on Central Eurasian Studies: Past, Present and FutureCenter for Eurasian Studies, Maltepe University (CESMU)
Address: Marmara Egitim Köyü
Maltepe/ Istanbul 34857
Telephone: +90 216 626 10 50 / ext. 1841 or ext. 1849
Fax: +90 216 626 10 99
e-mail: cesmu@maltepe.edu.tr

Organizing Committee

Assistant Professor, Dr. Güljanat Kurmangaliyeva Ercilasun, Maltepe University, Turkey
Professor Hisao Komatsu, University of Tokyo, Islamic Area Studies, Japan
Associate Professor, Dr. Timur Dadabaev, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Registration Form

1. The author of the paper
Name:
Surname:
2. Institutional affiliation and title/position:
3. Contact information
e-mail:
Postal address:
Telephone numbers:
Fax number:
4. Brief Curriculum Vitae (max. 1 page):
5. Title of paper:
6. Abstract of the paper (max. 300 words):
7. Requests for any audio-visual equipment requests:

Travel and Accommodations

To our regret, conference organizers do not have resources to provide
for travel and accommodation of participants. However, organizing team can assist in booking accommodation for the duration of the conference at participants' expense, in the Marma Kongre Merkezi Istanbul, which is situated within the campus. The special rate for conference participants have been arranged as 80 USD per night (single room) and 120 USD per night (double room). Please contact Mr. Barlas Özbey at barlasozbey@hotmail.com if you wish to benefit from the special rates.

Information about the Maltepe University, transportation options,
maps, and lodging information is available on the Maltepe University's web page at www.maltepe.edu.tr.

Registration Fee

The registration fee for the conference is 120 USD and should be paid
to the conference account (we expect to give the bank name and account number in the 2nd circular). The fees are intended to cover the expenses of refreshments, lunch, dinner, cocktails and excursions.

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CFP- Sociology at the Crossroads,06/11-14/2009, Yerevan

CONF./CFP- Sociology at the Crossroads, Yerevan, June 11-14, 2009

Welcome to the 39th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology

http://www.iisoc.org/iis2009

The 39th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology
will take place, as announced, at Yerevan State University, Yerevan,
Armenia, Thursday afternoon, June 11 - Sunday, June 14, 2009. The
theme of the Congress is:

"Sociology at the Crossroads"

The five previous World Congresses of the IIS have highlighted
dilemmas of human existence and societal institutions in the
contemporary world. They have examined problems of social existence
amidst processes of globalization, cooperation and violent conflict.
They have been conducted in the spirit which guided the formation of
the IIS, namely that of an engagement and encounter between a variety
of theoretical positions among members of a truly international
community of scholars.

The 39th World Congress will reaffirm that spirit. It will have three
broad foci, namely questions concerning the way sociology can arrive
at a reformulated understanding of dilemmas of humanity in the
contemporary era, including the nature of war and violence, of
political order and states and state-like entities, of religious and
cultural encounters, of processes of collective memories, traumas and
reconciliations, and of shifting conceptions of law, legal regulation, human rights and international order.

The Congress will also highlight cutting-edge theoretical advances in
sociology and neighbouring disciplines as well as teaching and curricular developments of sociology and social science in general in
universities in the future.

The structure of the Congress is straightforward. The Congress will
open on Thursday afternoon, June 11, with two plenary sessions. Each
morning of the three following days, June 12-14, there will be two
plenary sessions. The afternoons will be devoted to sessions proposed
and organized by participants themselves.

The Congress is hosted by Yerevan State University (YSU) and organized by Lyudmila Harutyunyan, Dean of Sociology, YSU, and Björn Wittrock, Principal of SCAS and President of the IIS, together with Craig Calhoun, New York University (NYU), and President, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York; Yehuda Elkana, Central European University (CEU); Peter Hedström, Nuffield College, Oxford and Singapore Management University (SMU), Secretary-General, IIS, and President, European Academy of Sociology; Hans Joas, Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt, University of Chicago, and Vice-President, International Sociological Association; and Shalini Randeria, University of Zürich and President, European Association of Social Anthropologists.

The IIS is a community of scholars, not a union of professional
associations. Thus the IIS plays a complementary rather than a
competitive role relative to its younger but larger sister
institution, the International Sociological Association (ISA), of
which IIS itself is a member and with which IIS is engaged in close
and friendly interaction. At the previous World Congresses of the IIS, President, Vice-Presidents and former Presidents of the ISA have been present and have contributed greatly to the intellectual profile of the Congresses. We are convinced that there will be an equally strong presence of the ISA and of its Research Committees in Yerevan as well.

The 39th World Congress of the IIS is jointly sponsored by YSU and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS).

We greatly look forward to seeing you at a Congress that promises to
become a landmark for the extension of sociological dialogue to new
areas, arenas and regions of the world.

You are warmly welcome to Yerevan in 2009,

Lyudmila Harutyunyan
Björn Wittrock

For more information, please contact: iis2009@iisoc.org

Doesn't the iis2009@iisoc.org work? Use info.iis@swedishcollegium.se
to contact us.

Download an application form (MS Word) for organizing a regular session:
http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/iis2009/application_rs.doc

Important dates:
http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/iis2009/important_dates2009.html

More information regarding the congress (registration, accommodation,
fees, etc.) will soon be posted on the website: http://www.iisoc.org/iis2009

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CFP: History and Subjectivity in Russia, 06/2010, St. Petersburg

Deadline: June 1, 2009

CONF./CFP- History and Subjectivity in Russia, St. Petersburg, June 2010

Call for Papers:

Chelovek i lichnost kak predmet istoricheskikh issledovanii: Rossiia
(pozdnii 19 vek-20 vek)

History and Subjectivity in Russia (late 19th 20th centuries)

The International St. Petersburg colloquium in Russian history,
organized by historians from Russia, the United States, and Western
Europe, is held every two to three years. The goal of the upcoming
conference in June 2010 is to explore how concepts of selfhood shaped
politics, society, and identities in Russia over the last hundred
years. The conference draws attention to dialogical practices through
which individuals in Russia appropriated or modified the blueprints of identities prescribed by political, intellectual, religious, or
cultural authorities, such as activists, professionals, academic
experts, artists, or priests.

The conference seeks to engage with historical processes through the
analytical lens of the self. It will examine the presuppositions about human behavior and the ideals of personality and humanity on the part of state and cultural authorities from the late Imperial period to the breakup of the Soviet Union; it will follow how these notions were set into motion over the course of a long century of war and revolution; and it will study their effects on the lives, personal horizons, and self-understandings of individuals.

Suggested themes include, but are not limited to:

* The intelligentsia, the church, and the intellectual history of the personality (lichnost'), from the late 19th through the 20th centuries. Notions of lichnost and humanity in the human and social sciences

* Wars and revolutions as catalysts of individual self-definition.
Relationships between political violence, repression, and
self-definition

* Russian/Soviet formulations of self in dialogue and conflict with
foreign models (e.g. Soviet vs. fascist conceptions during the 1930s and 1940s; Soviet vs. capitalist models during the Cold War)

* Trajectories of the new man, the Soviet person (sovetskii chelovek), russkii chelovek, and the dissident

* Gender and sexuality. Evolving representations of the human body
from the late 19th to the late 20th centuries

* Subjectivity and the erosion of political legitimacy (from the late Imperial to the late Soviet period)

* Everyday life, byt, consumption. Popular cultures and alternative
forms of identity

* Writers, filmmakers, and journalists as human engineers, from
Symbolism to post-Soviet times

* Documenting and classifying selfhood in the archives and in the
realm of istochnikovedenie. The role of oral history.

* An institutional history of biography: From The History of
Remarkable People (Istoriia zamechatelnykh liudei), the History of
the Factories, and A Day in the World (Den mira), to internet diary blogs

We invite paper proposals, based on original archival or ethnographic
research, from specialists in different disciplines and across
disciplineshistory, literary studies, cultural anthropology and
sociology, history of science and religion, film and media studies,
art historyworking on questions of identity and subjectivity.

Abstracts in Russian or English (maximum length: 500 words) of the
paper you intend to give should be sent to chelovekvrossii@mail.ru
Your abstract should include your email address and institutional
affiliation, the title of your intended paper, and the abstract text.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 1, 2009.

Notification of applicants: no later than September 2009.

Chosen participants will then be asked to submit article-length (at a
maximum of 10,000 words) original papers in Russian or English by
March 1, 2010. The papers will be pre-circulated among all
participants so that there is ample time to read them before the
conference.

The papers will be grouped in thematic panels. Paper presentations at
the conference will be limited to 10 minutes. At each panel one
conference participant will moderate and comment briefly on the
papers, before opening the discussion. The working language of the
conference is Russian.

After the conference authors will rework their papers for publication
in a volume to appear in 2011.

Conference organizers:

Jochen Hellbeck
Department of History
Rutgers University
hellbeck@rutgers.edu

Nikolai Mikhailov
Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences
St. Petersburg
mihnv@inbox.ru

Organizational Information

The conference, jointly organized by the St. Petersburg Institute of
History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the European University of St. Petersburg, and Rutgers University, will take place at the
European University in St. Petersburg in June 2010. The sponsoring
institutions will cover the costs for travel and accommodation of all
participants.

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CfP: folklore students conference, 03/27-29/2009, Bloomington, IU

Deadline: February 1, 2009

The IU and OSU joint folklore students conference "Public and Private", March 2009 Location: Indiana, United States

The 2008-2009 joint conference of the Indiana University Folklore & Ethnomusicology Student Associations and The Ohio State University Folklore Student Association aims to create a space for graduate and undergraduate students to share their research in folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, material culture, performance studies, and related disciplines, as it relates to the study of academic and vernacular interpretation of everyday life.

The topic of this year's meeting is “Public and Private.�? The conference will be held at the Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, on March 27-28, 2009.

The conference will have three opportunities for participation: paper presentations, poster sessions, and a discussion forum for all attendees. We will be accepting 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers and poster presentations. Abstracts must be submitted by February 1, 2009. Please email submissions to iu.osu.conf@gmail.com. Please see the IU FSA website for details on submissions: www.indiana.edu/~folksa

While we also welcome submissions of papers and posters on other topics, this year’s conference seeks to explore the following questions in particular: (1) How do we negotiate notions of public and private in our work? (2) What are we learning, and what can we teach others, about this seeming dichotomy? (3) How might we think beyond sectors and consider public and private in light of our fieldwork, field notes, presentations, and as emerging in our research of expressive forms?

We are seeking papers and posters that engage the following topics as they relate to the theme of “Public and Private�?:

Identities Sectors Spaces Boundaries Traditions Histories Memories Narratives Performances

We highly encourage poster submissions, particularly for research projects in progress, as there will be opportunities for active dialogue.

The discussion forum will allow all attendees to engage with enduring issues in our fields and to consider how those issues have emerged in their own research. Conference attendees are encouraged to submit three issues that have emerged in their own research for inclusion in developing this forum. Come join this important conversation. Remember, together we are shaping the future of our fields!

For more information on the details of the conference (lodging, location, etc.) visit www.iub.edu/~folksa in the coming months. Please register for the conference by February 28, 2008!

Folklore Student Association
Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Indiana University
504 N. Fess
Bloomington, IN 57408
Phone: (812) 855-1027
Fax: (812) 855-4008
Email: iu.osu.conf@gmail.com

Visit the website at http://www.indiana.edu/~folksa

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CfP: ''November 9, 1989''-The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Twenty Years After, 11/08-09/2009, Cincinnati

deadline of January 31, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

''November 9, 1989''—The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Twenty Years After November 8-9, 2009

University of Cincinnati / Cincinnati, Ohio

Sponsored by the Charles Phelps Taft Memorial Fund, the University Research Council, and the Faculty Development Council at the University of Cincinnati

On November 9, 1989, the East German party functionary Günter Schabowski announced the official “opening�? of the Berlin Wall for travel purposes; one day later, on November 10, East Berliners ventured out en masse into West Berlin. As an historic event, the fall of the Wall marked the presumed “end�? of the Cold War and “death�? of communism. In its wake the world witnessed the dissolution of the USSR; a shift in Soviet policy toward glasnost’ (openness) and perestroika (economic restructuring); the so-called Autumn Revolutions of 1989 throughout Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Bulgaria; the reunification of East and West Germany one year later in 1990; and rapid geopolitical and global capitalist restructuring. Our conference will examine the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the subsequent international political, economic, geographic, and cultural transformations over the past twenty years.

Keynote Speakers:

Sander L. Gilman (Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Emory University); Josef Joffe (Founding editor and publisher of Die Zeit, Hamburg; Political Science, Stanford University); Saskia Sassen (Sociology, Columbia University); James Sheehan (History, Stanford University)

"CONTINUE READING" FOR POSSIBLE PAPER TOPICS

By the deadline of January 31, 2009, please send 250 word abstracts, abbreviated c.v. (or short biographical note) to both Katharina Gerstenberger (gerstek@email.uc.edu) ) and to Jana Evans Braziel (jana.braziel@uc.edu).

Katharina Gerstenberger
University of Cincinnati
Department of German Studies
ML 0372
Cincinnati, OH 45220
Email: gerstek@email.uc.edu

We seek scholarly explorations of the following topics and are interested in papers from specialists in a range of disciplines (anthropology, cultural/film/literary studies, politics, political science, gender and sexuality studies, international relations, geography, history, economics, and sociology):

Cartographic and Geopolitical Realignments in Europe as a Consequence of the Fall of the Wall

• Did the fall of the Wall mark the opening of borders—those of trade, finance, capital, technology, production, information, environmental and social justice activism, and human movement—as celebrated under the tags of transnationalism and postnationalism? Or did some borders become more rigid, even as others became more porous?

• How did the fall of the Wall lead to metaphoric and symbolic revaluations of “borders�? and “borderlands�? within the visual arts, music, popular culture, film, and comparative literatures, as well as in theoretical approaches to the humanities? Implications for the Humanities: Literary, Artistic, Architectural, Filmic, Televisual, and Digital Representations of Cultural Identities after 1989

• How have artists, writers, directors, architects, musicians, and performers captured the contradictions and conflicts of the post-Wall and post-Cold War period in realistic or documentary forms?

• How have these cultural producers created experimental or postmodernist texts and art forms that engage the events of 1989 and the post-1989 period?

• What are the European cultural shifts since 1989? What are the major global cultural shifts post-Cold War? And how have these shifts impacted arts and humanities?

• How have artists, writers, and performers, both from migrant communities and from homelands whose socioeconomic structures were impacted by the fall of the Wall, sought to translate the lived experiences of this monumental event and its fallout?

Implications for International Relations: Across the Globe

• How does the post-Berlin Wall era of Germany and Europe relate to new wall construction, most notably in the Middle East (Gaza and the West Bank) and in North America (specifically along the US-Mexico border)?

• How have artists, writers, film makers, and performers actively and imaginatively contested the erections of walls and the rigidification of borders through translational and transnational arts of resistance?

Implications for International Relations: Creation of a European Identity in Terms of Culture, Education, Currency, Trade, Foreign Policy, Law, and Borders

• How has the post-Wall era in Europe facilitated the emergence of a new Europe, a European community, and a European Union (EU)?

• How have cultural producers and humanities scholars engaged and contested this idea of a “New Europe�? in arts, literatures, letters, and other forms?

Consolidation of the European Union and Changes in International Migratory Patterns within and into Europe

• How has the fall of the Wall shaped migratory patterns within Europe and beyond its still malleable borders?

• How have migrant artists, writers, film directors, musicians, and performers challenged Cold War and post-Cold War configurations of homeland, nation-state, and Europe? The Shift in Policies from First-Second-Third Worlds to International Financial Restructuring Post-1989 across the Globe

• What micro- and macro-level impacts has the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall had on national, regional, and local economies?

• What were the immediate and sustained impacts of the collapse of the Wall on the Third World (Africa, Latin America and Asia)?

• How have African, Asian, and American hemispheric (including South American, Central American, Caribbean, and Canadian) artists, writers, film directors, musicians, and performers reflected, contested, engaged, and resisted these global shifts in their arts? Altered Relations between the United States and the European Union

• How do “cold warrior�? legacies shape current US-European relationships?

• What are the consequences of 9/11 and the subsequent “global war on terror�??

• And again, what role have artists, writers, directors, musicians, and performers, as well as public humanities scholars, played in defining and translating post-Cold War legacies and the altered relations between the US and Europe? Historical Revenants in the Event of the “Fall�?

• What are the cultural, historical, and political significances of “November 9�? as a recurrent anniversary date in Germany history for other “events,�? notably the 1918 abdication of the Kaiser and the subsequent declaration of the Weimar Republic, and Hitler’s 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, and the devastating, anti-Semitic destructions of Kristallnacht in 1938?

• How, if at all, has the fall of the Wall impacted the new Europe and its present-day confrontation with the destructive legacies and recurrences of anti-Semitism, as well as its grappling with historical violences, pogroms, and the Holocaust?

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CfP: Protest Issues and Actions, 04/08-11/2009, New Orleans

Deadline: 11/30/2008

The Protest Issues and Actions section of the Popular Culture Association (PCA)seeks proposals for its annual paper sessions at the 2009 PCA Conference to be held in New Orleans, LA from April 8-11, 2009. Any disciplinary perspective may be used to examine dissent, past or present, in a local, regional, national, or international setting. Using a broad interpretation of dissent, papers may focus on works by specific writers or artists; the history of a specific movement, protest or action; as well as the rhetoric, politics, impact and sociology of specific protest movements. Past topics have included studies of consumer boycotts, protest slogans and symbols; 1848 protests in Europe and the 1968 protests in Paris; and specific protests by environmental, antiwar, Native-American, African-American, Latin American, African, animal rights, women's rights, and gay rights groups; as well as an examination of how marches, symbolic actions, poetry, dance, theater, music and art play a role in protest.

Lotte Larsen, Chair
Protest Issues and Actions
Emeritus Assoc. Professor
Hamersly Library
Western Oregon University
Monmouth, OR 97301
Email: larsenl@wou.edu

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CFP:Transnational Anthropologies, 05/13-16/2009, Vancouver

CALL FOR PAPERS

CASCA/AES 2009 Canadian Anthropology Society-Société Canadienne
d'Anthropologie/ American Ethnological Society Joint Meeting.

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 13-16 2009

"Transnational Anthropologies:
Convergences and Divergences in Globalized Disciplinary Networks"

The organizing committee seeks proposals for panels and individual
papers by January 31, 2009. Early submissions and registration are welcome.

For information on how to: 1) register for the conference, 2) submit
panels and individual papers, 3) buy tickets for the party at the UBC Museum of Anthropology, and 4) book accommodation on the UBC campus, go to:
http://www.casca-aes2009.ca
For further information, please contact us at:
casca.aes2009@gmail.com

Theme:
Transnational Anthropologies: Convergences and Divergences in Globalized Disciplinary Networks

In an era when anthropology is increasingly attentive to transnational connections, globalized geographies, and diasporic identities, the discipline itself is subject to new and challenging forms of deterritorialization and re-territorialization. Anthropology has long been constituted by tensions between the gravitational force of its various national traditions and the pull toward an international intellectual cosmopolitanism. Yet the increasing presence of scholars from the world "periphery" in metropolitan universities, the rise to international prominence of subaltern academic centers, the deterritorialized concerns and priorities of funding institutions, and the growing transnational links between researchers, research institutions, and research subjects (among other factors) are further complicating the spatiality of anthropological practice. These shifts, in turn, are transforming the way anthropologists examine the production of power relations, inequalities, and identities in local and global arenas. The 2009 CASCA-AES conference to be held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver calls anthropologists and scholars from across the social sciences and the humanities to offer a fresh look at the increasingly transnational nature of knowledge production, at the
resilience of regionalized academic hierarchies, as well as at the
different ways in which the latter are being reconstituted and
subverted. Additionally, the conference welcomes volunteered papers,
panels, workshops, and videos related to the internationalization of
social practice, power relations, and subjectivities and to any other
theme associated with ongoing anthropological questions.

Deadlines and registration fees (in Canadian dollars)

Faculty registration costs:
Before the deadline of January 31, 2009: $150.00
Before March 15, 2009: $170.00
At the conference venue: $190.00

Students, Postdocs, Unwaged, Retired:
Before the deadline of January 31, 2009: $50.00
Before March 15, 2009: $60.00
At the conference venue: $70.00

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November 18, 2008

CfP: History and Subjectivity in Russia, 06/ (St. Petersburg, June 2010)

Deadline: June 1, 2009

Call for Papers:

Chelovek i lichnost’ kak predmet istoricheskikh issledovanii: Rossiia (pozdnii 19 vek - 20 vek)

History and Subjectivity in Russia (late 19th – 20th centuries)

The International St. Petersburg colloquium in Russian history, organized by historians from Russia, the United States, and Western Europe, is held every two to three years. The goal of the upcoming conference in June 2010 is to explore how concepts of selfhood shaped politics, society, and identities in Russia over the last hundred years. The conference draws attention to dialogical practices through which individuals in Russia appropriated or modified the “blueprints�? of identities prescribed by political, intellectual, religious, or cultural authorities, such as activists, professionals, academic experts, artists, or priests.

The conference seeks to engage with historical processes through the analytical lens of the self. It will examine the presuppositions about human behavior and the ideals of “personality�? and humanity on the part of state and cultural authorities from the late Imperial period to the breakup of the Soviet Union; it will follow how these notions were set into motion over the course of a long century of war and revolution; and it will study their effects on the lives, personal horizons, and self-understandings of individuals.

Suggested themes include, but are not limited to:

* The intelligentsia, the church, and the intellectual history of the “personality�? (lichnost'), from the late 19th through the 20th centuries. Notions of lichnost’ and humanity in the human and social sciences

* Wars and revolutions as catalysts of individual self-definition. Relationships between political violence, repression, and self-definition

* Russian/Soviet formulations of self in dialogue and conflict with foreign models (e.g. Soviet vs. fascist conceptions during the 1930s and 1940s; Soviet vs. capitalist models during the Cold War)

* Trajectories of the “new man,�? the “Soviet person�? (sovetskii chelovek), “russkii chelovek,�? and the “dissident�?

* Gender and sexuality. Evolving representations of the human body from the late 19th to the late 20th centuries

* Subjectivity and the erosion of political legitimacy (from the late Imperial to the late Soviet period)

* Everyday life, byt, consumption. Popular cultures and alternative forms of identity

* Writers, filmmakers, and journalists as human engineers, from Symbolism to post-Soviet times

* Documenting and classifying selfhood in the archives and in the realm of istochnikovedenie. The role of oral history.

* An institutional history of biography: From “The History of Remarkable People�? (“Istoriia zamechatel’nykh liudei�?), the “History of the Factories,�? and “A Day in the World�? (Den’ mira), to internet diary blogs

We invite paper proposals, based on original archival or ethnographic research, from specialists in different disciplines and across disciplines—history, literary studies, cultural anthropology and sociology, history of science and religion, film and media studies, art history—working on questions of identity and subjectivity.

Organizational Information

The conference, jointly organized by the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the European University of St. Petersburg, and Rutgers University, will take place at the European University in St. Petersburg in June 2010. The sponsoring institutions will cover the costs for travel and accommodation of all participants.

Abstracts in Russian or English (maximum length: 500 words) of the paper you intend to give should be sent to chelovekvrossii@mail.ru Your abstract should include your email address and institutional affiliation, the title of your intended paper, and the abstract text. Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 1, 2009.

Notification of applicants: no later than September 2009.

Chosen participants will then be asked to submit article-length (at a maximum of 10,000 words) original papers in Russian or English by March 1, 2010. The papers will be pre-circulated among all participants so that there is ample time to read them before the conference.

The papers will be grouped in thematic panels. Paper presentations at the conference will be limited to 10 minutes. At each panel one conference participant will moderate and comment briefly on the papers, before opening the discussion. The working language of the conference is Russian.

After the conference authors will rework their papers for publication in a volume to appear in 2011.

Conference organizers:

Jochen Hellbeck Nikolai Mikhailov

Department of History Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Rutgers University St. Petersburg

hellbeck@rutgers.edu mihnv@inbox.ru

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CfP: Workshop on histories of humour and laughter, 03/13//2009, Cambridge

Deadline: 10 January 2009

Confirmed speakers: Vic Gatrell (Essex), Mary Beard (Cambridge), Jan Ruger (Birkbeck), Rosalind Crone (Open University). Convenors: Lucy Delap (University of Cambridge), Clare Pettitt (King’s College, London) and Mike French (University of Glasgow)

All interested in the study of humour and laughter of any historical period are invited to attend or submit papers for this discussion-led workshop, to be held in Newnham College, Cambridge, which will be organised around a number of overarching questions:

Should historians distinguish between humour (a cultural form) and laughter (an emotional response)? How do the two inter-relate? Can the historiography on the emotions deal adequately with laughter? Is humour subversive, consoling, or neither? To what extent are humour and laughter gendered phenomena? Can we see emotions as more than simply the epiphenomena of historical change? Are they causal factors for change in themselves?

Workshop participants will be encouraged to pay particular attention to the question of reception. While humorous texts abound, it is not always clear what readers or audiences found funny. This workshop aims to set the socio-emotional experience of laughter alongside the analysis of humour. We will juxtapose the work of a number of scholars who have looked at laughter and humour in contrasting historical periods and geographical region, in order to gain insight into the theoretical schemes and chronologies which can make sense of humour, laughter, and the emotions.

Papers for the workshop would be pre-circulated, to encourage a more interactive and discussion-led style of event.

Abstracts of up to 250 words should be submitted to lmd11@cam.ac.uk by 10 January 2009 for those interested in participating. Papers of no more than 8,000 words would be pre-circulated at the end of February.

Dr Lucy Delap
St Catharine's College
Cambridge

Email: lmd11@cam.ac.uk

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CfP: Announces Claiming the World: Universalisms as Doctrine and in Action, 03/27/2009, Columbia

Deadline: 01/01/2009

A Graduate Student Conference March 27, 2009

Claiming the World: Universalisms as Doctrine and in Action

From the Roman notion of civitas to the Islamic duty of da'wah to the French colonial mission civilisatrice, universal claims have been deployed in the service of causes, movements, and ideologies of all kinds. They attempt to create order, unity, and meaning, yet thereby give rise to contestation. This conference seeks to address the following questions: What kinds of universal claims have been advanced and how have they been transformed over time in different regions and historical periods? How do such claims take concrete form in the actions of polities and the practices of communities from the local to the global? How do they accommodate or resist particularities or rival universalisms? We wish to consider a range of entities that promulgate universal claims (such as states, nations, empires, religions, and social and political movements) in a multitude of realms (such as law, morality, norms, and identities). As this conference is presented in conjunction with the Center for International History's annual theme, “In the Name of Humanity,�? we are especially, but not only, interested in the ways in which universal claims have been embodied in the discourses and politics of human rights and humanitarian intervention.

We invite submissions from all time periods - ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern - and various geographic regions. Papers on topics that are broadly transnational or global in scope are preferred. Additionally, we encourage interdisciplinary research, and although proposals with a historical perspective are particularly welcome, we will also consider contributions from the fields of anthropology, sociology, literary studies, political science, and economics. Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words and a recent CV as email attachments (Word preferred) by January 1, 2009 and any inquiries to Simon Stevens at the following address: sms2236@columbia.edu.

For more information regarding the conference, please refer to the Center for International History's website (beginning December 15th): http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cih

Limited funding for travel and assistance in arranging accommodation may be available.

Simon Stevens
Department of History
Columbia University
611 Fayerweather Hall
1180 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 2527
New York, NY 10027

Email: simon stevens at the following address: sms2236@columbia.edu

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CfP: Postgraduate Conference; 'Spaces & Places', 06/25-26/2009, London

Deadline: 2009-01-31

The annual History Lab postgraduate conference, to be held at the Institute of Historical Research on 25 & 26 June 2009, will take "Spaces and Places" as its theme. Throughout history, the ideas of "space" and "place" have provided a basis for identity and identification, senses of belonging and exclusion, and grounds for contestation, exploration and negotiation. The conference will act both as a forum to discuss these themes throughout history, and a chance to explore and debate the ways in which historians can usefully capture and comprehend spaces and places in their work.

We welcome c.300 word proposals for twenty minute papers, or proposals for three-paper panels. Proposals may relate, but are not limited to, one or more of the following themes:

- Understanding spaces and places as an historian
- The definition and perpetuation of particular spaces in the past
- Boundaries, territories and inclusion/exclusion
- Spaces, places and identities
- Public and private spaces and places
- Memorials and sacred spaces
- Migration and mobility
- Neighbourhoods, cities, regions and nations
- Virtual and metaphysical spaces
- Planning and development of spaces and places

The History Lab
Institute of Historical Research
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Email: history.lab@sas.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.history.ac.uk/histlab/

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CfP: COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE, 04/29-05/01/2009, Ankara

Deadline 01/16/2009

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE

The congress will be held at Gazi University by the Project Team of the EU Comenius 2.1 Multilateral Project, “A Comparative Analysis of Folk Tales: A Multicultural Perspective�? between the dates of April 29 – May 1, 2009.

The aim of the congress is to emphasize the matchless universal unity composed of diversity of different geographies and cultures under the heading of We Speak the Same Culture. In this context, the congress is devoted to provide a unique and innovative perspective over the role of literature, the teaching of literature and cultural studies in various educational entities and institutions including primary/ secondary/ higher education, lifelong education, adult education, formal and non-formal education, vocational education and teacher education.

• Folklore in Education • Literature in Multi-media • Literature and Visual Arts in Education • Intercultural Studies and Education

Kadriye Dilek Akpinar
Gazi University
Faculty of Education
English Language Teaching Department
Ankara
Phone:+90 312 202 8468
Email: kadriyedilek@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://caft.info

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CfP: Writing Between the Lines: Art and its Historians, 03/27-28/2009, Quebec

Deadline: 12/19/2008

Concordia University’s Art History Graduate Students Association invites proposals for Writing Between the Lines: Art and its Historians, a two-day graduate symposium that will investigate the roles, opportunities, and quandaries of those involved in the writing of art history. English and French language submissions from graduate students and emerging scholars in all areas of art history as well as related disciplines, such as studio arts, cultural studies, history and philosophy are welcome. Conference will be held at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada on march 27& 28, 2009. The deadline for the call for papers is 19th December, 2008

Sharon Murray

Concordia University

Engineering and Visual Arts Building EV3.784
1455 Boul. de Maisoneuve, Ouest
Montreal, QC
H3G 1M8
Email: ahgsa.concordia@gmail.com

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November 13, 2008

CfP & compositions: RMA Research Students' Conference, 01/08-10/2009, London

Deadline for abstracts: Friday 14th November 2008Deadline for compositions: Monday 1st December 2008

RMA Research Students' Conference 2009

BOOKING OPEN

We are pleased to announce that booking for the RMA Research Students' Conference (King's College, London, 8-10 January 2009) is now open.

The booking form is available at:

http://www.rma.ac.uk/conferences/

and
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/music/news/rma09.html

Deadline for registration: Monday 8th December 2008
The conference, in addition to the student papers, will feature a
mixture of round-tables, invited speakers, a concert of student compositions, and social events.

Keynote papers will be delivered by Georgina Born, Professor of
Sociology, Anthropology and Music at Cambridge University, and Julian Anderson, composer and Professor of Composition at Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Confirmed round-table and workshops participants include Andrew Bowie
(RHUL), Katherine Brown (Leeds/KCL), Vicki Cooper (CUP), Timothy Day
(KCL), Annette Davison (Edinburgh), John Deathridge (KCL), Katharine Ellis(IMR), Michael Fend (KCL), Andy Fry (KCL), Amanda Glauert (RAM), Matthew Head (KCL), Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool), Robert Keeley (KCL), Nicholas Kenyon (Barbican), Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (KCL), Silvina Milstein (KCL), Roger Parker (KCL), Robert Philip (OU), Jonathan Stock (Sheffield), Dobrinka Tabakova, Gwendolyn Tietze (BCMG), Bettina Varwig (Oxford/KCL), Benjamin Walton (Cambridge), and Christopher Wintle (KCL).

The concert, featuring the selected student compositions, will be
performed by members of the contemporary music group Lontano (who has performed and recorded works by composers including Judith Weir, Sir HarrisonBirtwistle, Brian Ferneyhough and Steve Reich).

Round-tables discussions will focus on musicology's relationship to the cultural and social world at large, including the challenge of
interdisciplinarity; the relationship between performance and musicology, and the interaction between academia and the public sphere.

CALL FOR PAPERS AND COMPOSITIONS

We are currently accepting papers and compositions.

Please find all details for submission at

http://www.rma.ac.uk/conferences
or
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/music/news/rma09.htmlDeadline for abstracts: Friday 14th November 2008
Deadline for compositions: Monday 1st December 2008
All queries or requests for special arrangements should be addressed to:

Amy Carruthers and Carlo Cenciarelli
RMA Research Students' Conference Organisers
ameliebc@yahoo.com
and carlo.cenciarelli@kcl.ac.uk

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CfP: Interdisciplinary Possible Worlds, 03/06=07/2009, Princeton

Deadline December 15th

Call for Papers

On the Possibility of Worlds

An Interdisciplinary Conference at Princeton University, March 6-7, 2009

The goal of this conference is to bring together graduate students and faculty across the humanities and social sciences to discuss a topic being studied in a variety of disciplines: the creation of worlds—real or imaginary, human or divine, possible or impossible. By considering the genesis of the worlds we live in and the worlds we create, we hope to initiate a conversation about the borders of these worlds, the spaces in which different approaches meet and interact. Possible worlds theory has become influential in various areas of contemporary philosophy, including metaphysics and philosophy of language, and has interesting applications in the field of literary studies. What is ontological status of fictional worlds created by literary texts, and what is the relationship between these imaginary worlds and the actual one? The idea of possible worlds, furthermore, provides a framework for thinking about topics ranging from the discourse of colonization, utopianism, the changes wrought by technological and scientific advancements, and the consequences of immigration and globalization. Modal questions about contingency are raised in debates about counterfactual history, while in the study of religion, origin myths, theodicies, and questions of predestination all rely on a concept of world creation.

The conference will include panels on the topic in literature, philosophy, religion, and history. Each panel will have a respondent drawn from the Princeton faculty: Professor D. Vance Smith in literature; Professor Gideon Rosen in philosophy; and Gordon Graham, Henry Luce III Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, in religion. Thomas Pavel, Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, will deliver a keynote address.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

The ontology of fiction Prophecies and predictions in literature

Modal questions in narrative theory (e.g. contingency in plot)

Narrative universes (e.g. Balzac, Marvel Comics) Potentiality (e.g. Aristotle, Agamben)

Essence and existence (e.g. Avicenna, Leibniz) Utopianism Virtual realities The Age of Discovery Cosmologies (e.g. Lem, Bruno, Milton) Counterfactual histories

Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words to possibleworldsconference@gmail.com

by December 15th. Abstracts should be formatted for blind review, with a cover page listing the author’s name, the paper title, institutional affiliation, and a brief biography. All participants will be notified on or before January 15th. Questions may be addressed to Dora Zhang, dyzhang@princeton.edu.

Organizing Committee: Andrew Huddleston (Philosophy), Suzanne Podhurst (History), Julianne Werlin (English), Dora Zhang (Comparative Literature)

Dora Zhang
Department of Comparative Literature
Princeton University
Email: dyzhang@princeton.edu

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CfP: Elections under 20th Century Dictatorships, Koln

Deadline 2008-12-05

The aim of the conference is to examine the hypothesis that pseudo-democratic elections in 20th Century dictatorships should not be dismissed as trivial propaganda phenomena. Instead, these elections might offer valuable insights and a deeper understanding of the inner workings of these regimes. Why did almost all modern dictatorships try to seek formal legitimation through some kind of popular vote: the German Nazi Regime as well as the Italian Fascists and the Communist Regimes?

We will look at the symbolic content and the practice of elections, at the interaction between authority and people, and at the aspect of performance. Up to now, little effort has been made to study these aspects of elections under dictatorial rule in a historical and comparative perspective. We would like to encourage papers concerning more general considerations as well as micro-historical case studies; comparative studies are especially welcomed. The studies can be applied to parliamentary elections and plebiscites, as well as to local elections and elections within organisations such as parties or trade unions.

The conference particularly seeks to illuminate the following five fields of attention:
1. The official narrative of legitimacy: Modern „Weltanschauungs-Diktaturen“ (dictatorships of ideology) tried to legitimate themselves with the help of elections because they wanted to demonstrate the ideologically important unity of authority and people. In addition, the elections served as justification in their relationship to Western democracies. But how were “Elections without Choice�? legitimated, both internally and externally?
2. Practice and function: The specific rules, procedures and practices of each election were by no means arbitraty, but made reference to generally accepted functions of elections, both formal and informal. The functions were legitimization of rulership, mobilizing the people or enabling a form of communication between the people and state. Are there any other functions, both formal and informal?
3. The symbolic staging of elections: If one analyses the elections as an act of performance, the symbolic content of the elections must be examined. Dictatorial elections were a “celebration�? of the collective, the consent and the uniformity and they demonstratively negated the meaning of the individuality.
4. Conformism and “Eigen-Sinn�? – perception and action of voters: Unfree elections were a method of repression, which served for disciplining and as subjugation ritual. The electoral process created its own reality due to the apparent consent and collaboration of the voters. However, depending on the political situation and the perceived risk of individual dissent, elections were also an opportunity for “negotiations�? and were used to display disagreement. Which defiant ways of dealing with the elections can be observed? How did the state react? Is there evidence that the integrating potential of the voting ritual exhausted?
5. Elections as risky undertakings: As the events during the municipal elections in the GDR in spring 1989 show, the elections can get out of hands and gain momentum in directions that are not intended by the authorities. Are there other examples that the elections slither from the official usage, that their fictitious character is discussed and that the regime’s façade of legitimacy is threatened?

The conference – which is funded by the Thyssen-Foundation – will offer an opportunity for intense discussion in a workshop-style atmosphere.

Proposals should be submitted along with an abstracts (1 page max.) and a C.V. by December 5. We do expect about 16 presentations of 20 minutes each. The abstracts will be circulated among the participants of the conference in advance. Presentations should be given in English; the discussion will be in English or German.

We plan to publish the revised conference papers in an edited volume in German language.

Prof. Dr. Ralph Jessen
Dr. des. Hedwig Richter
Universitaet zu Koeln / University of Cologne
Historisches Seminar / Department of History
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
D-50923 Köln / Cologne (Germany)
Tel. o.: ++49 (0)221 4705252
Tel. p.: ++49 (0)2204 404847
Fax. 0: ++49 (0)221 4705148
Email: hedwig.richter@gmail.com

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November 12, 2008

CfP: Postcommunist Visual Culture and Cinema, 03/20-21/2009, St. Andrews, Scotland

Closing date of abstract submission: 15 December 2008
Postcommunist Visual Culture and Cinema: Interdisciplinary Studies,
Methodology, Dissemination
AHRC-St. Andrews Postgraduate Conference
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
20-21 March 2009

This AHRC sponsored conference is organised jointly by the Centre for
Film Studies and the Centre for Russian, Soviet and Eastern European
Studies at the University of St. Andrews. It will bring together doctoral students from the United Kingdom and Europe, whose work is focused on the visual culture and cinema of the post-Communist period. The main objective is to launch a productive dialogue on methodological and practical issues affecting all those engaged in the study of the film and visual culture of the postcommunist
period.

We invite participants from across Social Sciences and Humanities:
Language, Literature, Culture, Law, International Relations, Politics,
Media, Film and Television Studies, Art History, Architecture, Design, Museum Studies, Russian, German, East European languages and cultures, Law, Religious Studies, Philosophy, Publishing, and other disciplines.

Opening on Friday afternoon (5 pm) and continuing throughout the day on Saturday, the conference will feature thematic talks dedicated to the status of the field and the profession. Postgraduate participants will be able to present their work in the context of two sessions, at panels moderated by the featured speakers. You are welcome to discuss aspects of your work, and talk of its challenging and exciting moments.

We propose to structure the discussion in the context of the following
questions:

* How are post-Cold War divisions reflected in cultural
production in the
Former communist world?
* What are its specificities and what are the challenges for
researching
cultural production?
* How do the global and the local interplay in the region?
* Can the umbrella of "postcommunism" be explored as shared
experience?

Confirmed speakers/convenors include:

Prof. Ib Bondebjerg (Film and Media, University of Copenhagen)
Prof. Ewa Mazierska (Film Studies, University of Central Lancashire)
Prof. Brian McNair (Media Sociology, University of Strathclyde)

Conference opening

Prof. Andrew Wachtel (Slavic and Cultural Sociology, Graduate Dean,
Northwestern University, Chicago, USA)
Prof. Dina Iordanova (Film Studies, University of St. Andrews),

Please send an abstract of 150 words outlining the theme of your
intended presentation (about 15 min. length), together with your contact details and a brief biographical note to Lars Kristensen at
llfk@st-andrews.ac.uk

Ten bursaries of £50 will be awarded to selected participants (please
indicate you would like to be considered for a bursary at the time you
send in your abstract).

Further information will be available at
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmstudies/

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November 11, 2008

CfP: Media After the Fall of Communism, , 06/25-27/2009, Budapest

BEYOND EAST AND WEST
TWO DECADES OF MEDIA TRANSFORMATION AFTER THE FALL OF COMMUNISM

25-27 June 2009
Central European University, Budapest

10 days left until the submission deadline - Last call for paper
proposals!

Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2008

Please submit abstracts to: beyondeastandwest@ceu.hu

Conference website: www.beyondeastandwest.net
An International Conference, organized by the Center for Media and
Communication Studies (CMCS) at Central European University (CEU) and
the COST A30 Action "East of West: Setting a New Central Eastern
European Media Research Agenda", in cooperation with the International
Communication Association (ICA).

Since 1989, a new media landscape has emerged in Central and Eastern
Europe, with new ownership patterns, forms of media organization,
journalistic practices, relationships between politics and the media,
regulation processes and modalities of media use. A new system has
been established, predominantly designed according to Western models
and with heavy influence by Western players.

Twenty years later, it is time to re-examine these changes. What went
right, what went wrong, and what can we learn from this? Were Western
media models and concepts appropriate for the post-1989 social,
political, economic and cultural realities of Central/Eastern Europe?
What are the future trajectories of media development in the region?
And how do they compare to those in other regions undergoing systemic
transformation - from Latin America to China and the Middle East?

The conference "Beyond East and West" will trace post-1989 development
and look towards the future. To build research for communication in
transition, conference participants will explore the necessary
building-blocks for a research agenda.

Speakers include Miklos Haraszti, Slavko Splichal, Karol Jakubowicz,
Sonia Livingstone, Colin Sparks, Monroe Price, Miklos Sükösd,
Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Nick Jankowski, Beata
Klimkiewicz, Peter Molnar, Peter Gross, John Downey, Inka
Salovaara-Moring, Andrew Calabrese.

For more information on speakers, themes and program go to
http://www.beyondeastandwest.net/

Contact:
Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS)
Central European University (CEU)
Email: cmcs@ceu.hu
Website: http://cmcs.ceu.huPhone: +36 1 237 3000 ext 2607
Postal address: Nador u 9, 1051 Budapest, Hungary

COST A30 "East of West": http://www.costa30.eu/
International Communication Association: http://www.icahdq.org/Conference website: http://www.beyondeastandwest.net/

Core conference themes:
-> Central Eastern European Media Systems 20 Years On
-> Media Policy and Democratic Legitimacy
-> New Media Developments
-> Popular Culture: Media Uses, Media Literacy, Socialism(s) and Nostalgia
-> Political Communication between Commercialization and Political
Influence
-> Samizdat, Alternative and Community Media
-> Global Communications, Development and Transition
-> Reviewing International Media Assistance Programs
-> Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedom of Information

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CfP: Romanian Studies Conference, 02.27-28/2009, Bloomington

Studies Conference February 27 and 28, 2009 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Indiana University’s Romanian Studies Organization (RomSO) is pleased to announce the second annual interdisciplinary Romanian Studies Conference for graduate students and recent PhDs in the humanities and social sciences. We welcome paper proposals on any topic related to Romania, Moldova, or the Romanian diaspora in any discipline or methodology, including but not limited to history, political science, economics, international relations, anthropology, literature, sociology, musicology, and cultural studies. Especially encouraged are papers that take an interdisciplinary approach.

We are delighted to announce that Holly Case, Associate Professor of History at Cornell University, will deliver the keynote address entitled “A Powerful Example: Regional Networks around Romanian Problems.�?

Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words, along with your contact information to RomSO@indiana.edu by January 15, 2009. We will be pre-circulating the papers so that our commentators can provide more extensive feedback. Therefore, if your paper is selected we ask that you submit a completed paper by February 16, 2009.

Any other inquiries about the conference may be directed to Erin Biebuyck at ebiebuyc@indiana.edu or to the Indiana University Romanian Studies Organization at RomSO@indiana.edu.

Erin Biebuyck
Russian and East European Institute
Indiana University
Ballantine Hall 565

Email: ebiebuyc@indiana.edu

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November 06, 2008

CfP: Police and Empire, 1700-1900, 11/26-28/2009, Paris

5th CIRSAP Project Workshop : Police and Empire, 1700-1900

Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, November 26-28th 2009.

This workshop, to be held at the Sorbonne on November 26-28th 2009, aims at gathering historians studying police in colonial empires during the 18th and 19th century. By « police », we mean the various apparatus and forces used to achieve the ideal of the « policed State » from the classical Age and the Enlightenment, but also the regulatory and security practices emerged from the 19th century. The police – under different shapes – played a crucial role in the history of colonial empires, by exercising control over local societies, enforcing colonial order and ensuring the diffusion of colonial norms and regulations. Policing has been relatively little studied by the various imperial historiographies. Traditional narratives on the history of policing have been ignoring it, too. We should now stop opposing the history of policing in the metropolis and in colonial context, but instead considering the relations and the bonds that could exist between them, by giving the colonial experience the position it deserves in the history of police, by integrating these two dimensions in a true « imperial history of policing » as a whole. The history of police should be considered in a global history perspective, without isolating colonial mutations from those taking place in the metropolis or in other sections of the Empire. Instead of studying the policing of colonial peripheries as a simple « colonial off-shoot » or « projection coloniale », derived from a metropolitan model of policing, more or less « adapted » or degraded, we should invert those terms and consider colonial policing or colonial police forces as fields of human experiences and technical experimentations that nourished metropolitan policing. This workshop aims at stimulating a dialogue and comparisons within a field of study experiencing an important renewal, which, in the past has been separated between the history of policing and the histories of the different colonial empires, the latter being sometimes isolated from the national histories of the metropolis. This workshop is open to all historians of Empires and police in the 18th and 19th century, interested by this perspective. Papers on every European colonial Empire are welcome. Papers focusing on transfers of experiences and practices between metropolitan and colonial policing or between sections of Empire, or comparative studies, would be especially appreciated. Proposals should be sent to the board (vjdenis2@yahoo.fr) by March 1st, 2009 (title and a summary). Papers can be presented in French, English or Spanish.

Vincent DENIS

Maître de conférences en histoire moderne
Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

UFR d’Histoire
17 rue de la Sorbonne
75231 Paris Cedex 05
France

Email: vjdenis2@yahoo.fr

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CfP: International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, 04/24-26/2009, London

CALL FOR PAPERS - 2009

Three partner institutions the Cold War Studies Centre at LSE IDEAS, the George Washington University Cold War Group (GWCW), the Center for Cold War Studies (CCWS) of the University of California Santa Barbara, are pleased to announce their 2009 International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, to take place at the London School of Economics on April 24-26 2009.

The conference is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to present papers and receive critical feedback from peers and experts in the field. We encourage submissions by graduate students working on any aspect of the Cold War, broadly defined. Of particular interest are papers that make use of newly available primary sources. A two-page proposal and a brief academic C.V. (in Word or PDF format), should be submitted to IDEAS.cwc2009@lse.ac.uk by 25 January 2009 to be considered. Notification of acceptance will be made by February 24. Successful applicants will be expected to email their papers by March 24. Further questions may be directed to the conference coordinator, Artemy Kalinovsky, at the aforementioned e-mail address.

The conference sessions will be chaired by prominent faculty members from GW, UCSB, LSE and elsewhere. The accommodation cost of student participants will be covered by the organizers (from 24-26 April), but students will need to cover the costs of their travel to London.

In 2003, GW and UCSB first joined their separate spring conferences, and two years later, LSE became a co-sponsor. The three cold war centers now hold a jointly sponsored conference each year, alternating among the three campuses. For more information on our three programs, please visit the respective Web sites:

http://www.ieres.org for GWCW;

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/ccwsfor CCWS;

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/IDEAS for IDEAS-CWSC.

Artemy Kalinovsky
LSE-IDEAS/Cold War Studies Centre
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London, UK WC2A 2AE

Email: ideas.cwc2009@lse.ac.uk

Visit the website at http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/IDEAS/

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CfP: Colonialism, history and the making of heritage, 05/16-17/2009, London

Deadline: 7th December 2008

Local histories, global heritage, local heritage, global histories: Colonialism, history and the making of heritage German Historical Institute London

16-17 May 2009

The relationship between colonial power structures, the ‘making’ of modern archaeological/ architectural heritage and the writing of histories of colonised societies since the early days of modern European colonial empires has for some time been the subject of scholarly interest. Taking the cue from Edward Said’s theorising on orientalism, one major focus of such studies has been on the hegemonic nature of colonial practices in the making of monuments and the writing of histories of colonised societies. Recent research has for instance drawn attention to the appropriation of local sites by colonial officials, archaeologists and historians from local groups and communities and the re-framing of the histories of these sites in such a way as to serve the interests of colonialism. The ultimate goal was to emphasise the stabilising, civilising and guardianship role of colonial rule in preserving the cultural heritage, history and thus the social fabric of the colonies in order to provide legitimation for colonialism. Comparatively less attention has been paid in studies of colonial archaeology, preservation and heritage to the fact that colonialism itself was “neither nor omnipotent�? (Cooper and Stoler, 1997). Despite the discursive thrust of colonial heritage thinking and history writing, in practice colonial officials and archaeologists were often circumscribed in their endeavours. This limitation on the autonomy of colonial regimes came from various sources: local communities and social practice on the spot, but also groups of heritage thinkers in the imperial metropoles and outside, all of whom engaged in various different and asymmetrical ways with preservation, heritage practices and conceptualising the past. At the same time, the “making�? of heritage in colonised societies was also taking place against the backdrop of thinking about heritage in a global sense. Colonial systems on the one hand acted as major agents of such global ideas of heritage and enforced these in the colonies. On the other hand, colonialism was itself part of the chequered and contested history of globalised ideas of heritage, and colonial authorities often found themselves having to stave off the invasion of global heritage thinking, often by resorting to the argument of specificity of local practice. The aim of the conference is to understand colonial practices of rewriting the past of colonised societies and heritage-making on the interface of the global and the local. Some of the questions that will be addressed are: How did colonial systems position themselves between the global and the local? How malleable were these categories? What kind of dialogue emerged between the local and the global in defining heritage and its practice in colonial contexts? In what precise ways did these categories define and restrict the autonomy of colonial officials? To what extent did they allow room for local agency and a more flexible application of heritage ideas from metropolitan sites? The conference will seek to address these questions by examining colonial structures in a comparative context, by trying to problematise the metropolitan connections in debates on colonial heritage and by looking at the postcolonial implications of colonial heritage thinking that was caught between the global and the local. The conference is being organised by the German Historical Institute London and is open to researchers at all levels who wish to present work on archaeology and heritage thinking in modern colonial systems. Please send us a paper title and abstract (150-200 words) by 7th December 2008. Contact: Indra Sengupta, German Historical Institute London (isengupta@ghil.ac.uk)

Indra Sengupta, German Historical Institute London
17 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2NJ
UK
Email: isengupta@ghil.ac.uk

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CfP: Drama Pedagogy for Foreign Language Learning, 11/20-22/2009, San Diego

Deadline: December 5, 2008

The Difference Between Knowing Something and Realizing It. Drama Pedagogy for Foreign Language Learning

American Association of the Teaching of Foreign Languages

November 20-22, 2009

San Diego, California

Drama pedagogy uses techniques from the performing arts to drive forward intense and personalized yet content-oriented learning. Drama pedagogy draws, among others, on the principle of learning by doing, the theory of multiple intelligences, and the conviction that learning is, and must be, the active integration of new subject matter into already existing knowledge. In a variation on Pestalozzi, foreign language learning should happen with “head, heart, hands and feet�?, i.e. by integrating cognitive, emotional, practical, and kinesthetic learning dimensions. This panel seeks to investigate innovative scholarship and/or teaching at the intersection of drama/theater and foreign / second language teaching and learning. Proposals of no more than 250 words should be sent electronically by December 5, 2008, to the chair, Susanne Even, Germanic Studies, Indiana University, evens@indiana.edu.

Please include with your abstract:

Name and Affiliation

Email address

Postal address

Telephone number

A/V requirements

Susanne Even

Germanic Studies

Ballantine Hall

Indiana University

Bloomington, IN 47401

812.855.7562

Email: evens@indiana.edu

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November 04, 2008

CfP: REGULATED LIBERTIES IN SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET ARTS, CULTURE AND MEDIA, 08/20-22/2009, Turku

Deadline November 15, 2008

Please send your abstract (200 - 300 words) for a twenty-minute
presentation to Tintti Klapuri (tintti.klapuri@utu.fi) by November
15th, 2008. Decisions of accepted papers will be sent by mid-January
2009.

Tintti Klapuri
Junior Researcher (The Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies)
Department of Comparative Literature
University of Turku
(tintti.klapuri@utu.fi)

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REGULATED LIBERTIES. NEGOTIATING FREEDOM IN ART, CULTURE AND MEDIA
1st Rethinking Art Studies (REARS) conference in Turku

August 20--22 2009
University of Turku, Finland

Freedom is a heavily charged notion with a vast conceptual width. Yet,
the question of freedom and its regulation remains inadequately
studied in the field of art, culture and media. Research has often
relied conceptually on dichotomies and concentrated on revealing different kinds of power structures and forms of oppression, which tends to simplify the complex nature of freedom and constraint.
The conference is dedicated to rethinking cultural power in new
inventive ways not based on a dichotomous logic of domination and
resistance. The concept of "regulated liberties" denotes a more
complex relationship of negotiation between the dominant and its
subjects.

The aim of the conference is to relate art, culture and media to
questions concerning freedom, emancipation and resistance. The overall conference topic disperses on the theoretical fields of subjectivity, social structures, and representation. The conference provides a forum for the development of innovative and creative research concerning temporal/spatial dimensions, genres and identity production in art, culture and media.

Confirmed keynote speakers: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Angela McRobbie

The conference is organised by School of Art Studies, University of
Turku, Finland
http://www.hum.utu.fi/laitokset/taiteidentutkimus/en/

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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Reader in Russian
Department of European Languages and Cultures
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JX
UK

tel. +44-(0)131-6511381
fax: +44- (0)131- 650-3604
e-mail: Alexandra.Smith@ed.ac.uk

The conference organising committee invites proposals for panels and
individual papers. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to)the following:

- How have the concepts of freedom and emancipation been employed in
the context of art, culture and media?

- In what ways do culture and art regulate conduct in (neo)liberal
regimes and vice versa?

- How do culturally sanctioned representations impose hegemonic identities?

- In what ways should genres be (re)thought in art? Are they
regulating regimes?

- Under what circumstances does resistance take place, and is it
necessarily conscious and intentional?

- In what ways are subjects produced both as objects of regulatory
norms and as agents capable of resisting these norms?

- How does embodiment work as a corporeal nexus for several axis of
power, as a gendered, racialised, and sexualised signifier of multiple
regulatory norms?

- How could the role of institutions and economy be conceptualised in
new and productive ways?

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CfP: Ohio Valley History Conference, 10/01-03/2009, Kentucky

October 1 – 3, 2009 Eastern Kentucky University

Eastern Kentucky University will host the 25th Annual Ohio Valley History Conference (OVHC) in October, 2009. The conference welcomes papers exploring historical themes and methodologies, including regional, local, national and international histories, interdisciplinary and comparative studies. Individual papers and complete panels are both welcome, as are proposals for round-table discussions and other panel formats.

Submissions should include: a 200 word abstract, a CV, and a description of the panel format (including commentator) if the submission is a complete panel. The deadline for submission is May 1, 2009.
Fiona Deans Halloran
Department of History
Eastern Kentucky University
521 Lancaster Avenue
Richmond, KY 40475

Office: (859) 622-1361
Department: (859) 622-1287

Email: fiona.halloran@eku.edu
Visit the website at http://www.history.eku.edu//OVHC 2009/Call for Papers.php

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CfP: Graduate Student History Conference on Power and Struggle, 03/06-07/2009, Alabama

We invite graduate students nationwide to submit proposals that engage the conference theme by examining power relations in all historical field and time periods. The conference theme focuses on the dynamic between power in personal, social, political, or institutional relationships and the struggle to break, transform, or reclaim the boundaries constructed by those in power. We seek proposals employing innovative approaches, interdisciplinary research, and critical theory. Particular attention will be given to papers developing comparative perspectives and utilizing multi-archival research
.
Single paper submissions should include a 300-word abstract and a one-page CV of the presenter. Full-panel proposals should include a 150-word abstract detailing the theme of the panel as well as 300-word abstracts and CVs for each panelist. The deadline for abstract submission is November 15, 2008, via email in Word format to bruce004@bama.ua.edu .
Becky Bruce, ABD Graduate Student
Graduate Student History Conference Co-Chair
Department of History
University of Alabama
Box 870212
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0212

Email: bruce004@bama.ua.edu
Visit the website at http://www.as.ua.edu/history/new/html/ghaconference.html

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CfP: History Graduate Student Conference , 04/24-25/2009, Chicago

Fifth Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference April 24-25, 2009 Loyola University, Lakeshore Campus, Chicago, IL Sponsored by the History Graduate Student Association, Loyola University Chicago Emerging Scholars, Evolving Scholarship: A Graduate History Symposium Call for Papers
Masters and doctoral graduate students in any field of historical study are invited to submit proposals to present individual papers at Loyola’s Fifth Annual History Graduate Student Conference. The goal of this conference is to provide an opportunity for students to gain experience presenting papers and receiving feedback from their peers on their work.
Sessions will include: Cultural History, Social History, Religious History, History of Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality, Public History, Economic History, Political History, and other topics TBA.
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 2, 2009. E-mail proposals as an attachment to HGSA Vice President Lisa Davis at: lucsymposium@gmail.com or mail to:
History Graduate Student Association c/o Lisa Davis Loyola University Chicago History Department 6525 North Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois 60626
For more information about the conference, please contact Lisa Davis at: lucsymposium@gmail.com

History Graduate Student Association
c/o Lisa Davis
Loyola University Chicago
History Department
6525 North Sheridan Road
Chicago, Illinois 60626

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CfP: Dictatorship and "State music", 05/15-16/2009, Paris

Conference

Dictatorship and "State music"

CRAL/EHESS, Paris, on May 15th and 16th, 2009

Call for papers

Long time considered a propaganda tool, the music of dictatorial
regimes might reveal important aspects in the relationship between art and politics. Recent works have underlined the complex ways in which musicians engaged with power under dictatorships, deemed as
monolithic. Thus, the description of censorship, allegiance and
dissension mechanisms, and of the breaks and continuities produced
between regimes, will show the multiplicity of negotiation and
consensus-seeking processes. In the absence of political freedom,
these processes guaranteed the continuity of an often intense and
creative musical life. Even in the darkest hours of 20th century
history, music never ceased to sound.

This conference will focus on the works inspired and promoted by
dictatorial state apparatuses. Even when not imposing aesthetic
standards, dictatorships favoured certain kinds of music: occasional
commemorative or celebrative works, patriotic or militant hymns,
military marches, etc. In addition, modern dictatorial states have
devised and implemented prize-awarding and commissioning policies
aimed at consolidating the status of certain genres as
institutionalised forms of political and social order.

Leaning on specific case studies, we will also discuss different
approaches to this repertoire: can we broadly label it "State music"?
Are there any similarities or constants in music production across
different dictatorships? What have been the discourses and practices
implemented and how did listeners react to them? Can we agree a set of stylistic features, or are they context-contingent?

The conference will encourage multidisciplinary approaches (cultural
history, sociology of music, music analysis) and comparative research, and will welcome contributions on diverse historical and geographical locales, particularly Interwar Europe, Eastern bloc and Maoist China, or Latin American dictatorships of the 60s and 70s.

Papers (in French or in English) should last 20 minutes. Abstracts
(300 words) and CVs must be submitted by 31 January 2009.

Contacts: Esteban Buch (buch@ehess.fr), Igor Contreras (contrerasigor@gmail.com
), Manuel Deniz Silva (manuel_denizsilva@yahoo.fr)

Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL)
96 bd Raspail
75006 Paris

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CfP: "The Russian field: A View from Abroad", 05/28-31/ 2009, St. Petersburg

The Centre for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg (Russia)
in collaboration with

Laboratorium. Russian Review of Social Research

presents

International Conference

The Russian field: A View from Abroad

St. Petersburg, May 28-31, 2009

The conference "The Russian field: A View from Abroad" is a first attempt to investigate how scholars outside of Russia experience Russian Studies, and current academic work coming out of Russia.

Scholars from around the world study contemporary daily life in Russia, but there are limited opportunities to discuss the results of their research with Russian colleagues. At the same time, Russian scholars have limited access to the wealth of work produced outside of Russia. Thus, many valuable intellectual and methodological resources, which could lead to new and inventive ways of thinking about Russian society and culture, remain removed from Russian researchers.

The conference organizers aim to bridge the existing gap between scholars working both inside and outside of Russia. The conference will focus on attendees’ experiences in encountering the "Russian field", traditions, and languages, as well as their reflections on those experiences.

We invite social scientists, sociologists and anthropologists from around the world who have used qualitative methods in field studies within Russia over the last 20 years.

The topic for the conference is defined rather broadly: studying every day life in Russia and its transformations. We are especially interested in papers that address areas of every day Russian life, the study of which produces different or even contradicting results and conclusions among Russian scholars and scholars outside of Russia

Based on submitted proposals, organizers will develop themes to structure plenary sessions, round tables and conference sessions. By developing themes for the conference, the organizers hope to foster dynamic and generous participation from all scholars and facilitate international networking of academics working in Russian Studies.

Main conference language will be Russian. Round tables and plenary sessions will be held in Russian and English.

A cultural programme during the conference is in preparation.

Please send your proposal for a presentation in Russian or English (max. 400 words) and fill out the application form no later than November 30, 2008. A list of invited speakers will be published by January 15, 2009 at the conference website www.russianfield.info.

Invited speakers are asked to submit full papers by May 1, 2009 to russianfield.info@gmail.com. Papers will be posted at the conference website.

The website will provide more information regarding the organization of the conference.

For more information or if you have any questions, please contact Elena Bogdanova at russianfield.info@gmail.com .

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October 29, 2008

CfP: Student Humanities Conference, 03/28/2009, VA

Proposals Due: January 23, 2009

The Robert & Susan H. May Student Humanities Conference "Never Finished: Exploring, Envisioning, and Re-defining the Creative and Scholarly Process"

Hosted by: Creative Writing at Longwood Sponsored by: Longwood University's College of Arts and Sciences, Longwood University Graduate Studies Department of English and Modern Languages & The Dos Passos Review

Saturday, March 28, 2009 at Longwood University Farmville, VA

The 2009 Robert & Susan H. May Student Humanities Conference invites proposals on the theme of “Never Finished: Exploring, Envisioning and Re-defining the Creative and Scholarly Process." The conference will be held Saturday, March 28th in Ruffner Hall at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.

This is a conference for students by students with the hope to establish an ongoing Undergraduate and Graduate dialogue that promotes learning and community across the humanities through examination of cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural, contemporary issues.

The conference topic is open to all disciplines and encourages interdisciplinary panels. Appropriate discipline areas include, but are not limited to, languages and literature, history, philosophy, music, art, film studies, anthropology, creative writing and cultural studies. We encourage proposals from disciplines such as new media and multimedia studies, literary science, linguistics and other social sciences, where these overlap with the humanities.

We look forward to conversations about factors that contribute to the creative and scholarly process such as gender, class, religion, the self and culture. What does a work in progress mean, and are we ever finished with a piece? Presentation proposals should be limited to six hundred words.

May Conference

Department of English

c/o Creative Writing

Longwood University

201 High Street

Farmville, VA 23909

Email: rsmayconference@gmail.com

Visit the website at http://www.brierycreekpress.org

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October 28, 2008

CfP: Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Charlottesville, VA. 26-28.03.09

Deadline: January 16, 2009

The 47th annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
(SCSS) will take place in Charlottesville, VA, on March 26-28, 2009
(please note corrected dates). The purpose of SCSS is to promote
scholarship, education, and in all other ways to advance scholarly
interest in Russian, Soviet, and East European studies in the Southern region of the United States and nationwide. Papers from all humanities and social science disciplines are welcome and encouraged, as is a focus on countries other than Russia/USSR. The program committee is accepting panel and paper proposals until January 16, 2009. 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 The conference will be held at the Omni Charlottesville Hotel in beautiful downtown Charlottesville. Charlottesville is accessible by three airports: the Charlottesville-Albemarle County Airport; the Richmond airport (about 45 min. away); and Washington, DC area airports (about 2 hours away).

Sharon Kowalsky
History Department
Texas A&M University-Commerce
PO Box 3011
Commerce, TX 75429
Email: sharon_kowalsky@tamu-commerce.edu

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CFP- ASN 2009 Convention, 04/23-25/2009, NY

CFP- ASN 2009 Convention, Deadline Reminder: 5 November 2008

"Imagined Communities, Real Conflicts, and National Identities"

14th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of
Nationalities (ASN)

International Affairs Building,
Columbia University, NY
Sponsored by the Harriman Institute
23-25 April 2009
www.nationalities.org

Contact information:
proposals must be submitted to:
darel@uottawa.ca
and darelasn2009@gmail.com

100+ PANELS on the Balkans, Central Europe and the Baltics, Russia,
Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Central Asia and Eurasia, the Caucasus,
Turkey, Afghanistan, China and surrounding territories

SPECIAL SECTIONS on
Theoretical Approaches to Nationalism and Empire
The Independence of Kosovo and Its Implications
The War in Georgia and Its Implications

THEMATIC Panels on
Islam and Politics, Genocide and Ethnic Violence, Anthropology of
Identity, Citizenship and Nationality, Religion, Language Politics,
Conflict Resolution, Autonomy, Gender, EU Integration, NATO Expansion, Diaspora Politics, International Law, and many more...

AWARDS for Best Doctoral Student Papers

SCREENING of Recent Films and Documentaries

The ASN Convention, the most attended international and
inter-disciplinary scholarly gathering of its kind, welcomes proposals on a wide range of topics related to national identity, nationalism, ethnic conflict, state-building and the study of empires in Central/Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Balkans, Eurasia, and adjacent areas. Disciplines represented include political science, history, anthropology, sociology, international studies, security studies, economics, geography and geopolitics, sociolinguistics, psychology, and related fields.

Several dozen publishers and companies have had exhibits and/or
advertised in the Convention Program in past years. Due to
considerations of space, advertisers and exhibitors are encouraged to
place their order early. For information, please contact Convention
Executive Director Gordon N. Bardos (gnb12@columbia.edu).

We look forward to receiving your proposal!

The Convention organizing committee:
Dominique Arel, ASN President
Gordon N. Bardos, Executive Director
David Crowe, ASN Chair of Advisory Board
Sherrill Stroschein, Program Chair

Deadline for proposals: 5 November 2008 (to be sent to both
darel@uottawa.ca AND darelasn2009@gmail.com)

The ASN convention's headquarters are located at the:

Harriman Institute
Columbia University
1216 IAB
420 W. 118th St.
New York, NY 10027
212 854 8487 tel
212 666 3481 fax
gnb12@columbia.edu

The Convention also features a section devoted to theoretical
approaches to nationalism, from any of the disciplines listed above.
The papers in this section need not be grounded in an area of the
former Communist bloc usually covered by ASN, provided that the issues examined are relevant to a truly comparative understanding of
nationalism-related issues. In this vein, we are welcoming
theory-focused and comparative proposals, rather than specific case
studies from outside Central/Eastern Europe and Eurasia. A dozen
panels are normally featured in the Nationalism section.

In the wake of the dramatic events that have unfolded in late summer
2008, the Convention will also present a special section on "The War
in Georgia and its Implications." The Convention is inviting paper,
panel, roundtable, or special presentation proposals on various
aspects of the conflict, as it relates to Georgia, the South Caucasus, the North Caucasus, Ukraine, the "frozen" conflicts, Russian nationalism, Russophone minorities in the "near abroad", domestic politics, the Fate of the "Coloured" Revolutions, NATO enlargement, US-Europe-Russia relations, the European Union and related topics. A special section will also be devoted to "The Independence of Kosovo and its Implications," with emphasis on Balkans post-war reconstruction, international law, self-determination, ethnic conflicts, minority rights, regional security and so forth.

Since 2005, the ASN Convention has acknowledged excellence in graduate studies research by offering Awards for Best Doctoral Student Papers in five sections: Russia/Ukraine/Caucasus, Central Asia/Eurasia, Central Europe, Balkans, and Nationalism Studies. The winners at the 2008 Convention were Jesse Driscoll (Stanford U, Political Science) for Russia/Ukraine/Caucasus, Sarah Cameron (History, Yale U) and Kristin Fabbe (Political Science, MIT, US) for Central Asia/Eurasia/Turkey, Helena Toth (Harvard U, History) for Central Europe, Valentina Burrai (UC London, UK, Political Science) for the Balkans, and Lee Seymour (Northwestern U, Political Science) for Nationalism Studies. Doctoral student applicants whose proposals are accepted for the 2009 Convention, who have not defended their
dissertation by 1 November 2008, and whose papers are delivered bythe
deadline, will automatically be considered for the awards. For information on past awards, go to
http://www.nationalities.org/convention/prize.asp

The 2009 Convention is also inviting submissions for documentaries or
feature films made within the past few years and available in DVD
format (either NTSC or PAL). Most films selected for the convention
will be screened during regular panel slots and will be followed by a
discussion moderated by an academic expert. Films on the 2008 Program
included Milosevic On Trial (Denmark, 2007), Nanking (US, 2007),
Around Mostar, the Bridge and Bruce Lee (Italy, 2007), Yippee (US,
2007) and The More You Speak, The More You Cry (Greece, 2007).

The 2009 Convention invites proposals for INDIVIDUAL PAPERS or PANELS. A panel includes a chair, three presentations based on written papers, and a discussant. Proposals using an innovative format are encouraged. Examples of new formats include a roundtable on a new book, in which the author is being engaged by three discussants (twelve book panels were featured in the 2008 Convention); a debate between two panelists over a critical research or policy question, following rules of public debating; or special presentations based on original papers where the number of discussants is equal to or greater than the number of presenters.

The 2008 Convention is also welcoming offers to serve as DISCUSSANT on a panel to be created by the program committee from individual paper proposals. The application to be considered as discussant can be self-standing, or accompanied by an individual paper proposal.

There is NO APPLICATION FORM to fill out in order to send proposals to the convention, BUT A FACT SHEET IS REQUIRED; TO BE DOWNLOADED AT
www.nationalities.org. All proposals and fact sheets must be sent by email to Dominique Arel at both darel@uottawa.ca and
darelasn2009@gmail.com.

INDIVIDUAL PAPER PROPOSALS must include the name, email and
affiliation of the author, a postal address for paper mail, the title
of the paper, a 500-word abstract and a 100-word biographical
statement that includes full references of your last or forthcoming
publication, if applicable. Long CVs will be rejected, as the bio
statement must be sent in narrative form, like a long paragraph.
Graduate students must indicate the title of their dissertation and
year of projected defense. They can also submit bibliographic
information of a recent or forthcoming publication.

PANEL PROPOSALS must include the title of the panel, a chair, three
paper-givers with the title of their papers, and a discussant; the
name, affiliation, email, postal address and 100-word biographical
statements of each participant and include full references of their
last or forthcoming publication, if applicable. Graduate students must
indicate the title of their dissertation, the year they join a
doctoral program and year of projected defense. A 500-word abstract of
each paper is not required for panel proposals.

PROPOSALS FOR FILMS OR VIDEOS must include the name, email and
affiliation of the author, a postal address for hard (paper mail), the
title of the film, name of director, country and year of production, a
500-word abstract of the theme of the film and a 100-word biographical
statement.

PROPOSALS USING AN INNOVATIVE FORMAT must include the title of the
panel, the names, emails, affiliations, postal addresses, 100-word
biographical statements of each participant (same specifications as
above) and a discussion on the proposed format.

INDIVIDUAL PROPOSALS TO SERVE AS DISCUSSANT must include the name,
email, affiliation, postal address, a paragraph about the areas of
expertise of the proposed discussant, and a 100-word biographical
statement (same specifications as above).

All proposals must be included IN THE BODY OF A SINGLE EMAIL, except
for the FACT SHEET that must be attached. Attachments other than the
Fact Sheet will be accepted only if they repeat the content of the
email message/proposal, and if all the information is contained IN A
SINGLE ATTACHMENT. The reception of all proposals will be acknowledged
electronically (with some delay during deadline week, due to the high
volume of proposals).

Participants are responsible for covering all travel and accommodation costs. Unfortunately, ASN has no funding available for panelists.

An international Program Committee will be entrusted with the
selection of proposals. Applicants will be notified in December 2008
or January 2009. Information regarding registration costs and other
logistical questions will be communicated afterwards.

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CFP- Central Asian Visions of the Other, 06/08/2009, Leeds

Call For Papers

Central Asian Visions of the Other: Views from Inside and Out

A one-day Symposium at the University of Leeds, 8th June 2009.

Keynote Speaker: Dr Shirin Akiner (SOAS)

This symposium is intended to bring together postgraduates working on
or around Central and Inner Asia, acting as a training forum and
leading to improved information exchange and networking across the
range of research on the region. It is hoped that the theme will allow participants to compare and combine approaches to the huge variety of nuanced identities, and perceptions of identities, interacting in an extending arc from the Caspian Sea to Mongolia.

Abstracts (of up to 300 words) should be submitted electronically to
g.f.humble@leeds.ac.uk by Monday the 15th of December 2008.

As this event is primarily intended as an opportunity for
postgraduates working on and around the region to gain contacts and
experience, any suggestions for activities and projects to make use of contacts made, and to extend the legacy of this event would be very
welcome.

Suggested subjects for papers include, but are not limited to:

- Concepts of linguistic, ethnic, religious, and cultural purity and
hybridity, such as Mongol-Turk, Turk-Tajik, steppe-oasis, and
rural-urban identity divisions - their construction and mediation
over time

- Negotiated post-Soviet and post-socialist secular identities and
images of political Islam and other faiths

- Construction and transmission of gender roles and sexualities

- Travel, trade and cultural exchange - from the Silk Route and the
Mongol Empire to package tours and oil reserves

- Images and experiences of outsiders - examples might include
Chinese, Russian, and NATO involvement in the region

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CfP: Unintended Consequences, 04/04/09, Delaware

Deadline: December 31, 2008

The University of Delaware-Hagley Fellows invite scholars to join us in a conversation about "unintended consequences" in the histories of
business, technology, consumption, the environment, work, and everyday
life. Seemingly rational actors make decisions, create institutions,
shape environments, or develop technologies expecting certain outcomes,but things do not always go as planned. "Unintended Consequences" seeks to explore the enormous influence of these inevitable yet unexpected occurrences. How can research on unintended consequence contribute to our understanding of the modern world? Who decides what consequences are unintended? To what extent do we know the results of our actions? Why should historians pay attention to unintended consequences?

We invite papers that discuss instances of unintended consequences or
address how the research of unintended consequences contributes to our
understanding of the world since 1700. We encourage both graduate
students and established scholars to participate. Financial assistance will be provided to all conference presenters.

Please email a 300-word abstract and a one page CV to the Hagley Fellows at hagley.fellows@gmail.com by December 31, 2008.

--

Carol Ressler Lockman
Hagley Center
PO Box 3630
Wilmington DE 19807
PhD Candidate
Hagley Graduate Program
Department of History
University of Delaware

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October 22, 2008

CfP: Channels of Transition: Czech-Polish-Slovak Communication Conference, 05/07-09/2009, Brno

Deadline: January 31, 2009

The Czech Syndicate of Journalists &
Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Wroclaw
Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Masaryk University
Department of Media Studies, Charles University
Department of Journalism, Commenius University

Brno - Telc, Czech Republic
7 - 9 May 2009

The conference will bring together media and communication scholars from the three neighbouring Central-Eastern European countries to discuss various aspects of media systems transition in the last two decades. Proposed as a platform for sharing communication research outcomes within the region, the event will provide an opportunity to compare particular national perspectives and to help answer the question as to whether it is possible to consider transformation of the so-called post-communist media systems a finished process and what the roles of and challenges for the media in the region twenty years after 1989 are.

Submission guidelines

Deadline for abstracts submissions: January 31, 2009 Acceptance information delivery: February 28, 2009 Deadline for paper submissions: April 30, 2009

Abstract not longer than 400 words accompanied by a brief bio (one paragraph) should be sent to the conference assistant Radim Hladik, Charles University, Prague:

(info@channels-of-transition.eu).

Please include your name and title (as you would like it to appear on the program and nametags), department, university, and full contact details.
Visit the conference website at http://www.channels-of-transition.eu for further details on the organization of the event and the proposed topics.

Conference papers will be considered for publishing in a special issue of the peer-reviewed academic journal "Media Studies - Czech and Slovak Quarterly for Critical Media Reflection" (http://www.medialnistudia.cz).

Organizing committee

Prof. Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska (University of Wroclaw, Pl), honorary chairman

Mgr. Ing. Jan Puncochar (Czech Syndicate of Journalists), conference secretary

PhDr. Irena Reifova, Ph.D. (Charles University, Prague, CR)

PhDr. Vaclav Stetka, Ph.D. (Masaryk University, Brno, CR)

PhDr. Tomas Trampota, Ph.D. (Charles University, Prague, CR)

PhDr. Peter Valcek (Commenius University, Bratislava, SR)

PhDr. Jaromir Volek, Ph.D. (Masaryk University, Brno, CR)

We invite contributions elaborating on one of the conference's main thematic sections, which are as follow:

1. Historical roots and development of CEE media systems.

The documentation of developmental tendencies and diachronic approach towards the analysis of media institutions has a long tradition in CEE media studies. Given the turbulent political and cultural history of this region, which had experienced recurring periods of totalitarianism and democracy in the course of the 20th century, it is legitimate to ask to what extent and in what way these historical processes have shaped the contours of contemporary media systems in CEE countries. This section welcomes contributions aimed at a broad range of issues related to the historical role of mass media under totalitarian regimes, especially during the periods of transition and regime change, as well as papers which examine historical "legacies" of current CEE media environment.

2. From centralized media to decentralization - and back? Ownership, regulation and production.

The section will cover all reflections on the merging of contemporary media systems and economic and political powers, with special attention given to the issue of media ownership, diversity and pluralism, which are all tightly linked to the quality of public sphere. The following questions will be of particular interest for this section: How is the public sphere affected by the position of media on the scale between regimentation of their functioning and a libertarian approach? Are there attempts to reclaim the notion of responsible media behaviour? And is the question of politically contested media role still worth resuscitating in user-oriented digital media environment with its promise to fortify elements of direct democracies?

3. The power of nostalgia? Popular culture and its consumers in the age of post-totalitarian commercialisation.

The section on popular culture will unravel both the structural preferred meanings and cultural pleasures encoded/decoded, produced/consumed or simply enjoyed within the fuzzy borders of the post-communist cultural space. The focus will be on the "triple articulation" of post-communist popular culture to the former practices of rigid ideology, contemporary practices of consensus-negotiating hegemony and popular tactics potentially subverting or transforming both of them. What were the ideological patterns of totalitarian popular culture narratives in press, film, radio and television? How can the passion for the 1970s and 1980s cultural products be explained? Is contemporary popular culture consumption sanctioned by a high-brow perspective of moral hierarchies? How do the media or the audiences in their collective memory relate to the state-socialist past?

4. Old questions under new conditions? New media, new participations, new divides.

Contents and uses of new media, together with critical reflections of their taken-for-granted position in contemporary society, will be the main focus of this section, framed by the following questions: How have the new media been incorporated into CEE public and private spheres? Are there any regional actors/activities able to compete with global ventures? What is the relationship between the "traditional" mass media and the new media? What are the regional features of global digital divide and access to new technologies? Have the new media activities, carried out through Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, file sharing tools and social network sites, had any considerable importance for processes of European integration and globalization?

5. From the "cynical collaboration" to professional cynicism? Professionalization of journalism and political communication.

The last two decades have been characterized by growing tendency towards professionalization of media organizations in CEE countries. However, this process is far from being completed, and even though certain standards of media conduct and self-regulation principles have been adopted and emphasized, journalism is still largely lacking an established identity as a profession. At the same time, other actors in the socio-political space have been turning to ever more sophisticated strategies and means of political communication in order to shape the public agenda. This section accepts papers reflecting these trends, as well as the dilemmas and challenges facing present-day journalism, which is being increasingly influenced by public relations practices. Particularly welcomed are papers examining journalists' professional values and attitudes, routines of news production or the place of traditional normative concepts such as "objectivity" and "neutrality" in the contemporary media discourse.

6. Media literacy and competent media consumption: opportunities and limits. This section will discuss the role of media education for enhancing the ability of audiences and users to critically engage the media and their messages in the information society and the digital media environment. Welcomed are both theoretical approaches, particularly those situating the media literacy endeavors within the general framework of building participatory democracy and civil society in CEE countries, as well as papers reviewing and/or comparing practical examples of media literacy curricula, programs and projects, and offering innovative strategies for the future media educators.

7. Alternative and community media.

This section is oriented toward exploring the broad territory of non-mainstream media within the CEE region. Largely avoided by the CEE media researchers in the past, this sector is now being recognized as a fully-fledged part of a wider media system. We call for papers investigating, among other issues, the development, extent and current state of alternative/community/minority media in CEE countries, problems they are facing, as well as their specific roles and functions, particularly their potential for civic/political participation, public engagement and minority empowerment, or the role of "civic journalism" for community building and construction of local identity.

Important Information
Conference language: English
Conference fee:
Full participation - 150 EUR
Includes:
Accommodation (2 nights)
Conference registration
Conference Program
Lunches and coffee breaks (2 days)
Welcome banquet and conference dinner
Observer status - FREE of charge
Includes:
Conference registration
Conference Program
Recommended for audience without papers
Conference venue: Masaryk University Centre Telc,
details at: http://telc.muni.cz/

Accommodation:
Hotel u Hrabenky Telc, details at: http://www.hotel-uhrabenky.cz/

Hotel Anton Telc, details at: http://www.hotel-anton.cz/

Channels of Transition:
2nd Czech-Polish-Slovak Communication Conference
Mail: c/o Jan Puncochar
Senovazne namesti 23
110 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic

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CfP: Diasporas, Migration and Identities, 06/11-12/2009, Surrey

Deadline 2 February 2009

Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM)

AHRC Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme
/ CRONEM Conference 2009

Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions

University of Surrey, 11-12 June 2009

==========================

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

We are very pleased to be holding our 5th Annual Conference in
collaboration with the AHRC programme. Our collaboration reflects our
mutual interest in multi-disciplinary research across the humanities and social sciences.

Diasporas, migration and identities’, http://www.diasporas.ac.uk/, has been the subject of a major national research programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK since 2005. Its central concerns have also been at the heart of the work of the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM). The aim of the conference is to examine the past and present impact of diasporas and migration on nation, community, identity and subjectivity, culture and the imagination, place and space, emotion, politics, law and values.

For more information about the Call for Papers and submission forms,
please visit our website
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/index.htm
=======================
Mirela Dumic
Centre Administrator
Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM)
Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences
21 AC 05
Post Box I4
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH

Tel: +44 (0) 1483 682365
www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/cronem

We invite abstracts that address the following themes:

# Migration, settlement and diaspora: modes, stages and forms
# Representation, performance, discourse and language
# Subjectivity, emotion and identity
# Objects, practices and places
# Beliefs, values and laws
# The role of youth in relationship to diasporas, migration and identities
# Diasporic economics and labour markets
# The recognition of multiple origins and mixedness
# The politics of immigration and integration
# Public opinion and public policy
# Ethnic identity politics

In addition to individual papers and poster presentations, we are also
calling for proposals for convened symposia.
Deadline 2 February 2009

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CfP: What are the barriers to collaboration between history and linguistics and why? 04/10-04/2009, Bristol

Bristol University - Hison conference, 01.-04. April 2009

What are the barriers to collaboration between history and linguistics and why?

Interdisciplinary research has been one of the buzzwords in academic
research for a number of years, yet – at least in the humanities - it
appears that little actual progress has been made with regard to
bringing different disciplines, e. g. social historians and
sociolinguists together to jointly tackle methodological,
programmatic, and practical problems. This conference seeks to
address key problems related to the nature of interdisciplinary
research in sociolinguistics and social history. Papers are invited
to present and discuss current research problems and findings on:

• Social/linguistic history from below: the shift towards a focus on
the language and living conditions of the underpriviledged
•Historians’ view of language, linguists’ view of history: the
necessity of an understanding of the other discipline to pursue
research in one’s own
•Identity formation and social conflicts: the use of language as a
social tool in political and social conflicts
•Communicative spaces: the use and restriction of communication in
geographical and imagined spaces
•Historical semantics: the changes in the meaning and significance
of words and concepts
•Historical discourse analysis and pragmatics: the changes in ways
people speak, act, and communicate
•Corpora, editorial practice, data interpretation, translation:
methodological problems associated with investigating social history
and historical language(s)

Joint presentations by historians and linguists are particularly
encouraged. There will be a number of small bursaries for
postgraduates to help with costs.

Please send your abstracts of 250 words by Dec 15th, 2008 to
Nils Langer, School of Modern Languages, 17 Woodland Road, University
of Bristol, BS8 1TE

Web: http://www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/ahrc2009

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CFP- ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conf. 02/28/09, Indiana

CONF./CFP- 16th Annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conf., Indiana U., Feb. 28

The Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) at Indiana University

Call For Papers

16th Annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University

Saturday, 28 February 2009

Submission Deadline 28 November 2008

ACES invites panel and individual paper proposals for the Sixteenth
Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference to be held Saturday, 28
February 2009 at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

Graduate students, professors, and independent scholars are cordially
invited to submit abstracts of papers addressing all topics pertaining
to Central Eurasian Studies.

Central Eurasian Studies is defined for the purposes of this
conference as the study of the historical and contemporary Afghan,
Balto-Finnic, Hungarian, Mongolic, Persian, Tibetan, Tungusic, and
Turkic peoples, languages, cultures, and states.

All proposals will be subject to a highly selective review procedure.

Submission Instructions:

Proposals may be submitted via the online form accessible at:
http://www.indiana.edu/~aces

Submission of pre-organized panels is strongly encouraged. Individual
papers are also welcome and will be assigned by the Conference
Committee to a suitable panel.

ACES regrets that it cannot provide any funding to participants.

Applicants will be notified of their status before 01 January 2008.

Please remember that the submission of a proposal represents a
commitment on your behalf to participate in the conference.

Any questions may be directed to the ACES Conference Committee at
aces@indiana.edu

Association of Central Eurasian Students
Goodbody Hall 157
Indiana University
1011 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005
USA
Fax: (812) 855-7500
aces@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~aces

The 2009 conference will play host to a small number of focused
panels, and will include a roundtable discussion with area studies
faculty on the topic "Whither Central Eurasian Studies?"

Recent keynote speakers have included Peter Perdue, Marianne Kamp,
Leonard van der Kuijp, and Robert McChesney.

Past panel themes have included:
- Conversions and Syncretism in Central Eurasia
- Uyghurs and Xinjiang: Culture and History in the Round
- Politics, Cultural Identity, and the Intelligentsia in Buryatia
- Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism, and Beyond in Hungarian
Literature, Culture, and the Arts
- Equality and the Economy in Central Asia
- Through the Eyes of the Oppressed: The Russian Imperial Experience
in Central Asia
- Eurasian Historical Trends
- Prospects for Democratization in Central Asia

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CFP: Central and Inner Asia, 05/15-16/2009, Toronto

deadline December 18, 2008
CONF./CFP- Central and Inner Asia Seminar, University of Toronto, May
15-16

The Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Central and Inner Asia Seminar (CIAS 2009) will be held at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the Croft Chapter House, University College on Friday and Saturday May 15-16, 2009.

The proceedings of the conference will be published in due course in
"Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia". Volume 10, the papers
from CIAS 2008, will be available before the upcoming conference.

The theme of this year's gathering is "Nomads, Past and Current:
Living on the Move". Scholars from any relevant discipline are
invited to submit proposals for papers.

The time allowance for any presentation is 20 minutes. Please include
the title, a one-page summary and a short copy of your curriculum
vitae and send them, by email, to Professor Michael Gervers at
gervers@chass.utoronto.ca and to Nick Corbett at ndcorbet@indiana.edu

The deadline for submissions is December 18, 2008 and those selected will be notified by email as soon as possible thereafter.

We regret that we do not have the financial resources to help with any transportation or accommodation costs. However we will do our best to expedite visa applications and offer hospitality during the conference.

We look forward to receiving many interesting proposals and to hosting another stimulating and enjoyable conference in Toronto in May.

Please forward this message to anyone else who may be interested. For further information see www.utoronto.ca/cias The website will be updated regularly as more information becomes available.

Sincerely,

Gillian Long
Administrative Co-ordinator for CIAS

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October 16, 2008

CFP - The Turkic World, the Caucasus, and Iran: Civilisational Crossroads of Interactions, 07/10-12/2009, Yerevan

Deadline February 20, 2009
International Conference

The Turkic World, the Caucasus, and Iran: Civilisational Crossroads of Interactions
July 10-12, 2009
Yerevan, Armenia

http://www.armacad. org/civilization ica

The International Journal Iran and the Caucasus (BRILL: Leiden-Boston) , the Department of Iranian Studies at Yerevan State University, the Makhtumquli Feraqi Centre for Turkic Studies at ARYA International University (Yerevan), the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (Armenian Branch), in collaboration with the International Society for the Study of Iran and the Caucasus (ISSIC), Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies (Yerevan), the Armenian-Turkmen Cooperation Centre “Partev�? (Yerevan), and the Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support - ARMACAD (Yerevan) are organising an international conference entitled “The Turkic World, the Caucasus, and Iran: Civilisational Crossroads of Interactions�?.

The Conference will be held on July 10-12, 2009.
Venue: ARYA International University, Yerevan, Armenia.

The region of civilisational interactions from Central Asia to Eastern Europe and from Southern Russia to Iran has been one of the focal geographical points in world history. The main cultural, political and civilisational players in this domain have been the Iranian and Turkic peoples, while the Caucasus and the Transcaucasian region with their cultural, ethnographical and linguistic uniqueness have served as a connecting link and an arena for wars and peaceful cohabitation. Though the main stress of the conference will be on cultures, histories (including archaeology, etc.), languages and the literatures of this vast area, presentations on modern political and regional issues, as well as the human ecology topics are also welcomed. The conference seeks to emphasise links between the Turkic world, the Caucasus, and Iran.

Working languages – English and Russian.

Abstracts (not to exceed 300 words) are to be submitted here (http://www.armacad. org/civilization ica/abstracts. php) by February 20, 2009. A brief biography, including contact details, is also to be included.

Once your materials have been submitted, a confirmation letter will be returned. If you do not receive a confirmation e-mail within 7 days, then we have not received your materials. Only in this case, please contact: khachik.gevorgyan@ yahoo.co. uk

A notification of acceptance will be sent by March 30, 2009.

All whose abstracts are accepted for presentation at the conference have to send to the Conference Organising Committee 10 Euros before June 10 in order to ensure their participation. This amount of money will be reduced from the participation fee.

Participation Fee:

The conference participation fee is 70 Euros and a reduced rate of 35 Euros for postgraduate students. Participants from the Caucasus and Central Asia will pay 35 Euros.

For further information do not hesitate to contact:
Dr. Khachik Gevorgyan,
Secretary of the Organising Committee
khachik.gevorgyan@ yahoo.co. uk

Makhtumquli Feraqi Centre for Turkic Studies,
Arya International University
Shahamiryanneri street, 18/2
Yerevan
Armenia
Tel: +374 (10) 44-35-85
Fax: +374 (10) 44-23-07
www.arya.am
Email: arya@arminco. com

International Organising Committee

Prof. Dr. Garnik Asatrian (Yerevan), Prof. Dr. Uwe Blaesing (Leiden), Prof. Dr. Ralph Kautz (Vienna), Prof. Dr. Vladimir Livshits (SPb), Prof. Dr. Levon Zekiyan (Venice), Prof. Dr. Said Amir Arjomand (New York), Prof. Dr. Murtazali Gadjiev (Makhachkala), Prof. Dr. Rovshan Rahmoni (Dushanbe), Prof. Dr. George Sanikidze (Tbilisi), Dr. Gulnara Aitpaeva (Bishkek), Dr. Behrooz Bakhtiari (Tehran), Dr. Habib Borjian (New-York), Dr. Mher Gyulumian (Yerevan), Dr. Mahmoud Joneydi Ja’fari (Tehran), Dr. Seyyed Said Jalali (Tehran), Dr. Kakajan Janbekov (Ashgabat), Dr. Filiz Kiral (Istanbul), Dr. Irina Natchkebia (Tbilisi), Dr. Vahram Petrosian (Yerevan), Dr. Tamerlan Salbiev (Vladikavkaz), Dr. Alexander Safarian (Yerevan)

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October 15, 2008

CfP: Central Eurasian Studies Conference, 02/29/2009, Indiana University

The Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) at Indiana
University

Call For Papers

CONF./CFP - 16th Annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference,
Indiana University

Saturday, 28 February 2009

Submission Deadline 28 November 2008

ACES invites panel and individual paper proposals for the Sixteenth
Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference to be held Saturday, 28 February 2009 at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

Graduate students, professors, and independent scholars are cordially
invited to submit abstracts of papers addressing all topics pertaining
to Central Eurasian Studies.

Central Eurasian Studies is defined for the purposes of this conference as the study of the historical and contemporary Afghan, Balto-Finnic, Hungarian, Mongolic, Persian, Tibetan, Tungusic, and Turkic peoples, languages, cultures, and states.

All proposals will be subject to a highly selective review procedure.

The 2009 conference will play host to a small number of focused panels, and will include a roundtable discussion with area studies faculty on the topic "Whither Central Eurasian Studies?"

Any questions may be directed to the ACES Conference Committee at
aces@indiana.edu

Association of Central Eurasian Students
Goodbody Hall 157
Indiana University
1011 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005
USA
Fax: (812) 855-7500
aces@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~aces

Recent keynote speakers have included Peter Perdue, Marianne Kamp,
Leonard van der Kuijp, and Robert McChesney.

Past panel themes have included:

-Conversions and Syncretism in Central Eurasia
-Uyghurs and Xinjiang: Culture and History in the Round
-Politics, Cultural Identity, and the Intelligentsia in Buryatia
-Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism, and Beyond in Hungarian
Literature, Culture, and the Arts
-Equality and the Economy in Central Asia
-Through the Eyes of the Oppressed: The Russian Imperial Experience in
Central Asia
-Eurasian Historical Trends
-Prospects for Democratization in Central Asia

Submission Instructions:

Proposals may be submitted via the online form accessible at:
http://www.indiana.edu/~aces

Submission of pre-organized panels is strongly encouraged. Individual
papers are also welcome and will be assigned by the Conference
Committee to a suitable panel.

ACES regrets that it cannot provide any funding to participants.

Applicants will be notified of their status before 01 January 2008.

Please remember that the submission of a proposal represents a
commitment on your behalf to participate in the conference

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October 14, 2008

CfP: The First World War: Music, Literature; Memory, 07/11-12/2009, Cambridge

deadline for submission of abstracts is 30 January 2009

The First World War: Music, Literature; Memory

King's College, Cambridge, 11 & 12 July 2009

This two-day conference aims to explore literary and musical responses to the First World War, and the relationships between them.

Papers might address such issues as:

How does the sound of the First World War affect composers and writers?

How do music and literature mourn, commemorate or celebrate the First
World War?

How do individual composers and writers respond to the First World War in their work?

How is the war remembered in literature and music in the 1920s and
1930s?

What is the relationship between musical and literary responses, and
what do we learn from by putting them in dialogue with one other? To
what extent were they in conversation in their own time?

We welcome papers on music, literature or both.

We hope to put together a publication based upon the best of the
conference papers.

Further information at:
http://ww1literatureandmusic.googlepages.com

We welcome abstracts of 150 to 250 words for papers of 25 minutes.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 30 January 2009, submitted to Kate Kennedy and Trudi Tate, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
By email is preferred:
kma23@cam.ac.uk; tt206@cam.ac.uk

Or by post to: Kate Kennedy and Trudi Tate, FWW Conference, Clare
Hall, Herschel Road, Cambridge CB3 9AL.

James Allum
Conference Assistant

______________________________________

Dr J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Lecturer in Music
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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CfP: MID-ATLANTIC SLAVIC CONFERENCE, 04/04/2009, NY

Deadline December 15.

MID-ATLANTIC SLAVIC CONFERENCE, April 4, 2009

Please submit a proposal for an individual paper or for a complete panel for the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, a regional conference of the AAASS (ASEEES). Panels and papers are welcome on any appropriate scholarly aspect
of Slavic and East European Studies. Proposals should include the
paper's title, a very brief abstract, any request for technical support, the surface and email address of the presenter as well as their institutional affiliation. Room assignments for the panels are based in part on knowing your needs for technical support when the Executive Board meets in mid-January.

The Conference will be held at The New School in New York City on
Saturday, April 4, 2009. Prof. Val Vinokur (vinokurv@newschool.edu) will serve as President of the 2009 Conference.

Please send your proposals no later than December 15, 2008 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 riendship 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.

We would like to remind you and your graduate students that their
participation as well as yours is encouraged. A juried award of $200 is ade annually for the best graduate paper judged according to these
elements in our rubric: clarity of main research question and the
responseto it, importance to the profession of main research findings, amount ofsupport 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.

Although we are very keen to have the participation of graduate
students in our regional conferences, they and other participants should remember that if they absolutely must withdraw a paper from a panel once they have agreed to present it and the panels have been formed, it is their professional responsibility to contact me well in advance of the conference so that I can alert the chair and discussant in a timely fashion and revise
the final program accordingly.
I look forward to hearing from you soon and seeing you at the
Conference.

Sincerely yours,

Mary E. Theis
Executive Secretary, MASC

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CFP: Global Socialisms and Postsocialisms, April 24-26/2009, Yale

Deadline January 31,2009.

CFP- Soyuz Symposium: Global Socialisms and Postsocialisms, Yale U., Apr. 24-26

Call For Papers

Global Socialisms and Postsocialisms

Soyuz Annual Symposium
April 24-26, 2009
Department of Anthropology
Yale University
New Haven, CT

The theme of this year's annual Soyuz symposium will be "Global
Socialisms and Postsocialisms." We invite ethnographically informed
and theoretically innovative papers that explore the ways in which
socialist and postsocialist areas of the world are implicated in all
manner of global and transnational processes. We are particularly
interested in papers that explore dynamics other than the
common--albeit important--story of global or transnational projects
arriving in and transforming formerly socialist populations. How
should we understand the flow of people, objects, concepts, and
linguistic and cultural forms among and out of socialist and
postsocialist states, rather than simply into them from "the West"?
How have socialist and postsocialist processes transformed the global
order outside of specific socialist or postsocialist states? To what
extent should we revise our understanding of socialisms and
postsocialisms as tied to specific places?

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* Connections among socialist regions (USSR-Africa, for instance) and their fates in the postsocialist era.
* Migration, shuttle trade, tourism, or other kinds of movement that
extend outward from the postsocialist world.
* Emergent regional or global imperial orders that have their centers in socialist or postsocialist states.
* New approaches to Cold War-era differences and distinctions and
their post-Cold War trajectories.
* Global political or social movements, from NGOs to indigenous
rights organizations, as they make connections between and among
postsocialist areas of the world.
* Postsocialist variations on the spread of standards, regulatory
regimes, and other technologies associated with recent global capitalism.

Although the symposium will retain much of its traditional focus on
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (as appropriate to the
current Soyuz membership), the organizing committee plans to invite
some papers and discussants whose focus on other world regions will
facilitate our efforts to theorize socialisms and postsocialisms in
wider contexts and configurations. Ivan Szelényi, William Graham
Sumner Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Yale University,
will deliver a keynote address.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by January 31, 2009 to Doug Rogers at the email address given below. Limited funds will be available to defray travel costs for scholars who would otherwise be unable to attend, particularly those based at universities in Eastern Europe or the former Soviet Union.

Soyuz 2009 Organizing Committee:

Doug Rogers, chair
Mike McGovern
Sean Brotherton
Erik Harms
Susanna Fioratta

Please address all inquiries and abstracts to Doug Rogers
(douglas.rogers@yale.edu).

The 2009 Soyuz Symposium is supported by the following Yale University units: the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Transnational Cultural Analysis, the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and the Councils on European, African, and East Asian Studies of the Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies.

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October 08, 2008

CfP: Undergraduate Conference in History, Philosophy, and Politics, 01/15-18/2009, British Columbia

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: Friday, November 7, 2008

CFP - TRU Undergraduate Conference

Location: British Columbia, Canada

'Navigating the Labyrinth': Thompson Rivers University Undergraduate Conference in History, Philosophy, and Politics Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada January 15-18, 2009

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: Friday, November 7, 2008 The Departments of History, Philosophy, and Politics, jointly with the Thompson Rivers University History Club, invite submissions of proposals for individual research essays as well as proposals of panels for the second annual TRU Undergraduate Conference in History, Philosophy, and Politics. All historical periods and all regions are encouraged as focal areas. For individual paper proposals, send an abstract (maximum 350 words) outlining the research essay to be presented, along with contact information. For panel proposals, please provide the names of each presenter on the panel, as well as a suggested general title for the panel, and individual abstracts of each presenter’s paper. Graduate student and faculty attendance is welcome, though presentations are limited to undergraduate level students.

Proposals may be sent by email to: phpconf@mytru.ca
or in hard copy to:
Dr. Tina Block,
Department of Philosophy, History and Politics,
Thompson Rivers University,
900 McGill Road,
Kamloops, British Columbia, V2C 5N3,
Canada

Graduate students and faculty interested in serving as panel moderators are invited to submit names, affiliation, and contact information to: Dr. Tina Block at tblock@tru.ca

For more information, please visit our website at www.tru.ca/phpconf

Tina Block
Department of Philosophy, History, and Politics
Thompson Rivers University
Ph:(250) 828-5329
Email: tblock@tru.ca
Visit the website at http://www.tru.ca/phpconf

We are pleased to announce the inclusion of a theme panel on “Student Culture in Small City Universities,�? sponsored by the Community-University Research Alliance (CURA). Students who wish their paper to be considered for this panel should state so explicitly in their proposal.

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October 07, 2008

CFP- Nationalism and Globalisation, 03/31-04/02/2009, London

CONF./CFP- 19th Annual ASEN Conference, LSE, Mar. 31-Apr. 2, 2009

Posted by: Assoc. for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism

19th Annual ASEN Conference:

"Nationalism and Globalisation"
31st March - 2nd April 2009, London School of Economics

Call For Papers

The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is
holding its 19th Annual Conference, entitled "Nationalism and
Globalisation", Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 31st March - 2nd
April 2009, at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nationalism and globalisation are complex phenomena generating
vigorous academic debates. Yet, there has been little sustained
theoretical and empirical consideration of their relationship, and no
framework devised capable of satisfactorily dealing with the
interactions between the two, especially as these change over time and vary from place to place. Yet nationalism has both shaped, and been shaped byglobalization. This conference seeks to explore the
relationship between nationalism and globalisation in its various
forms, primarily focusing on the impact of globalisation on national
identity, national sovereignty, state-formation, and the ways in which nationalism has shaped globalising processes.

The first day will explore the theoretical and historical relationship between globalisation, nationalism and national identities. The second day will examine current issues such as migration, arms proliferation, financial crisis, multinational corporations and global consumer culture and their impact on the nation-state and national identities. The third day will focus on the interaction between globalisation and novel forms of nationalism and regional identities as well as nationalist responses to supranationalism, including European integration. The conference will adopt a multi-disciplinary approach focusing on historical, theoretical and contemporary aspects of the theme.

for more information and to submit your proposal.

Suggestions for panels and additional themes are also welcome. 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. Further enquiries are welcome at: asen@lse.ac.uk

Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic
communications disclaimer:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm

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
globalisation in a series of panel sessions. Suggested themes include:
* Conflicting or complementary phenomena?
* Nationalism and global political conflict
* Global migration patterns and national identities
* Globalisation and the emergence of new forms of nationalism
* The impact of globalisation on national culture
* Nationalism versus supranationalism
* Pan-nationalism

The 2009 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. The
abstracts of the proposed papers should not exceed 500 words and are
expected by November 1st, 2008. Abstracts should make clear (a) the
particular focus of the paper in terms of evidence and method, (b) its discipline location, (c) its relevance to the nationalism/globalisation topic, and (d) what specific theme/panel it would best fit into. Only abstracts directly related to nationalism will be considered. The Committee will notify applicants of its decisions by November 30th,
2008. Please see the ASEN website
(http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/)

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CfP: Comics at War: From Troy to Sarajevo, 03/26-29/2009, Harvard

http://ACLA 2009 Annual Meeting devoted to the theme "Global Languages, Local
Cultures", to be held at Harvard University on March 26-29, 2009.

The deadline is November 1. Please post your paper proposals via the
conference website
http://www.acla.org/acla2009/selecting the name of this panel from the drop-down menu. If you are unfamiliar with the format of the ACLA conference, please check
http://www.acla.org/annualmeetingguidelines.html

For more information on the seminar, please contact one of the seminar
organizers, Dieter De Bruyn dieter.debruyn@ugent.be
Michel De Dobbeleer michel.dedobbeleer@ugent.be
or Stijn Vervaet stijn.vervaet@ugent.be

Dieter De Bruyn
Ghent University (UGent), Belgium

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Comics at War: From Troy to Sarajevo
(http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?p=401)

Seminar Organizer: Dieter De Bruyn, Ghent U, Stijn Vervaet, Ghent U,
Michel De Dobbeleer, Ghent U

War events have always been a popular topic in all kinds of narrative
representations. Whereas literature and film are known as the most
popular narrative media that deal with historical events, comics are a
relatively new, but no less interesting artistic form for the representation of history. Even more, just like literature and film, comics may offer insights into historical processes that are generally absent in conventional historiographic narratives. This seminar aims at exploring the different ways in which all kinds of comics (ranging from traditional cartoons and comic books to such new subgenres as graphic novels, documentary and journalistic comic books, web comics, manga, etc.) have dealt with historical armed conflicts. Being a particular combination of text and images, comics seem to be suitably designed to reconcile the global code of
visual culture with the local language of each particular war situation.
We are interested in the ideological and narratological implications of representing and emplotting war history and, more particularly, in those artistic and narrative means that do justice to traumatic war events by distorting the "master narratives" of heroism and martyrdom.

Topics might focus on one of the following areas of interest:

a.. Genres at war: new subgenres of comics (documentary and
journalistic
comic books, graphic novels, web comics, manga, etc.), comics and other
media (literature, film, journalism, historiography, etc.)
b.. Heroes at war: fictional versus historical heroes, war and armed
conflicts in comic series
c.. Cities at war: comics dealing with (symbolic) cities under siege
(Troy, Jerusalem, Constantinople, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Warsaw,
Sarajevo,
etc.)

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CfP: Music and Migration, 10/15-17/2009, Southampton

Call for Papers

'Music and Migration'

University of Southampton, United Kingdom
15-17 October 2009

This conference will explore the relationship between music and migration by providing new insights into the creative practices and life-stories of migrant artists across the globe. A core theme of the conference will be the motivations and experiences of migrant musicians who leave, return, stay or move beyond their localities. Through the focus on such specific groups of migrants the conference aims to throw light on their identifications in their artistic and every-day lives.

Keynote speakers:
* Professor Nina Glick-Schiller, University of Manchester
* Professor Philip Bohlman, University of Chicago

Suggested themes for academic papers include (non-exhaustive list):
* Transnational musicians¹ networks
* Musical experiences of diaspora
* Global and local music industries
* Return migration and OEemergent¹ cultural hubs
* Migration routes that by-pass well-established (e.g. post-colonial)
pathways
* Identity/identities
* Texts/musical genre/aesthetics/ multimodality
* Local and global cultural hubs
* Migrant and post-migrant cultural production
* Relationships between artistic and socio-political engagement
* Cultural policy
* Historical perspectives on musical culture transfer

The conference forms part of a week¹s innovative cultural activities to be held at the University of Southampton in conjunction with the City of Southampton and Black History Month. The week-long series of events will start with a lunchtime concert by the acclaimed OEMadagascar AllStars¹, at the Turner Sims Concert Hall on 12 October 2009. On the 13 and 14 October, musicians of Malagasy and North African origin who are based in Europe and Africa will be engaged in creative outreach sessions with local Southampton schools and on the 15 October, the conference will be officially opened with a special concert which will bring together Malagasy and North African
musicians in a one-off public performance at the Turner Sims Concert Hall.

We welcome submissions to present papers (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions) on the conference themes. Your paper might present some empirical findings, a theoretical review, critique and new argument; it might consist of a textual analysis, raise provocative questions or analyse one case, site or context. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to Ulrike Meinhof uhm@soton.ac.uk; Nadia Kiwan n.kiwan@abdn.ac.uk and Marie-Pierre Gibert marie.gibert@soton.ac.uk by December 4, 2008 including full contact details for all authors.
--
Dr Marie-Pierre Gibert
Research Fellow AHRC Programme Diasporas, Migration and Identities.
Project: Diaspora as Social and Cultural Practice: a Study of Transnational
Networks across Europe and Africa.

School of Humanities
Avenue Campus (Room 3065)
University of Southampton
Southampton, SO17 1BF
UK
Tel. office: +44(0)23 8059 3976
Fax +44(0)23 8059 3288
Mobile +44(0)794.2020.718

Web page: http://www.lang.soton.ac.uk/profiles/gibert.html
Web page project: http://www.tnmundi.com/

Past and on-going research shows that patterns of migration are clearly linked to transnational networks. By focusing on the role of migrant musicians within such networks, this conference seeks to analyse and understand the extent to which musicians¹ networks may or may not be special cases within migration studies. We suggest that artists who create or enter such networks may follow a different logic of translocal and transnational links than is normally associated with migration research on music. Thus we aim to widen the scope from 'bi-focal', ethnically and spatially defined communities in sending and originating countries to more complex flows and
the networking of individuals. Whilst recently there has been a plethora of research which theorises networks and flows in migration studies, little empirical research has as yet emerged which studies these in closer detail. We therefore welcome contributions which explore artists¹ transnational networks and movements both empirically and theoretically. We expect to highlight the role of highly visible cultural hubs and all they have to offer to migrant musicians in terms of cultural infrastructure whilst not neglecting the role that less visible cities play in the re-directing of
artistic energy. We therefore hope to include discussions of
well-established musical networks as well as interconnections with those emerging from musical industries in so-called sending countries. We also seek to further understanding and debate on the interconnection between migrant musicians and the socio-political engagement of associations within civil society, thus evaluating their impact on a variety of cultural, social, political factors within countries of settlement and origin. The conference will have both a theoretical and an empirical focus. It will be a forum for interdisciplinary debate and will appeal to colleagues working across the Humanities and Social Sciences. The conference delegates will also include musicians, media, cultural industries¹ and cultural policy representatives who will take part in a specially convened stakeholder panel discussion.

The conference is organised by the University of Southampton (Modern
Languages, Music) and the University of Aberdeen in collaboration with the Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton. It is the final conference of a 3-year research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council programme Diaspora, Migration, Identities: OEDiaspora as Social and Cultural Practice: a Study of Transnational Networks across Europe and Africa¹ www.tnmundi.com . The conference is the
third of three events arising from the project. The first event, OEMusics of Madagascar: South < > North Crossroads?¹ took place in Antananarivo, Madagascar on 16-17 November, 2007 and the second event, OEMusic and Migration: North African Artists¹ Networks across Europe and Africa¹ will take place in Rabat, Morocco on 13-14 November 2008.

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CfP: Racial Science in Hitler's "New Europe," 10/16-17/2009, Oslo

International Conference
Racial Science in Hitler’s ’New Europe’
Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities
Oslo, Norway, October 16-17, 2009

Call for Papers

The Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities (HL-senteret) is announcing a call for papers for an international scholarly conference, Racial Science in Hitler’s ‘New Europe’. The conference will take place in Oslo, Norway, on October 16-17, 2009.

The conference will explore the relationship between Nazi racial pseudo-science and its local variances in the occupied countries of Europe. It will seek the connection between scholarly pursuits and national identity. It will further examine how foundation myths and scientific research in combination contributed to nation-building under the conditions of German occupation. Applicants are encouraged to submit paper proposals discussing anthropological, ethnographic, and archaeological research in the countries of Western and Eastern Europe during the Second World War. A comparative and/or regional perspective is particularly welcome.

Proposals are welcome from scholars in all relevant disciplines, including advanced PhD students. The organizers may be able to provide free accommodation in Oslo for the duration of the conference.

The proposal should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and a one-page abstract. Please send your proposal as an email attachment to Anton Weiss-Wendt at:
anton.weiss-wendt@hlsenteret.no,
and Jorunn S. Fure at: j.s.fure@ffu.uio.no.

The deadline for applications is January 5, 2009.
Participants will be selected and notified by February 2, 2009. The organizers are planning to publish the conference proceedings as a separate volume. Successful applicants will be requested to submit a footnoted version of their paper (in English) in advance.

HL-senteret (est. 2001) is a research institution dedicated to the study of religious minorities, the Holocaust, and other genocides. The Center is located in the former residence of Vidkun Quisling and features a permanent exhibition on history of racism, anti-Semitism, and Nazi mass murder, as well as a video installation on genocide & human rights. The HL-senteret is building upon the success of a conference on Himmler’s Ahnenerbe that it has organized jointly with the University of Oslo in March 2007.

besøksadresse:
Villa Grande
Huk Aveny 56

postadresse:
Postboks 1168 Blindern
0318 Oslo

telefon: 22 84 21 00
telefaks: 22 84 21 01

e-post: post@hlsenteret.no
www.hlsenteret.no

A significant body of literature has been published on Nazi racial pseudo-science and the role it had played in justifying the policy of mass murder. By examining research conducted in Germany in such disciplines as anthropology, ethnography, archaeology, and medicine, scholars have identified major elements and themes that had contributed to Nazi racial theory. Much less is known how these theories were received and interpreted on a local level.

Scientists in the occupied countries of Europe, or even in neutral countries, had an uneasy relationship with the dogmatic views imposed from Berlin. While some non-German scholars grudgingly subscribed to the Nazi theories of human evolution to advance their careers, others seized the opportunity to promote the nationalist agenda, which would ensure their respective countries a worthy place in Hitler’s ‘New Europe’.

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CFP: Orthodox Church Music conference, 06/08-14/2009, Finland

Call for Papers

Papers are invited for the Third International Conference on Orthodox
Church Music, "Church, State and Nation in Orthodox Church Music", to be held at the University of Joensuu, Finland, 8 - 14 June 2009.

Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes in duration. Please send
proposals to Rev. Dr Ivan Moody ivan.moody@joensuu.fi
or Maria Takala-Roszczenko mtakala@cc.joensuu.fi by 1st February 2009.
Abstracts should be delivered by the beginning of March 2009. Papers will be published as the Proceedings of the Conference.

The Conference takes place at the University of Joensuu, Finland. The
programme will include at least one concert, and an excursion to the
monasteries of New Valaam and Lintula.

More information will be posted on the ISOCM website
http://www.isocm.com as it becomes available.

FURTHER INFORMATION
In addition to e-mail you may contact Ivan Moody by telephone (+351 91
943 7357)

The web page of the Department of the Orthodox Theology at the
University of Joensuu is found at:
http://www.joensuu.fi/teoltdk/ortteol/

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

LANGUAGES
The language of the conference will be English.
Simultaneous translation into English will be provided for papers
presented in Russian or Ukrainian.
Translation into Russian or Ukrainian will be provided if needed, but
must be organized in advance.

PARTICIPATION FEE
The participation fee for the conference, which includes accommodation
and participation in the programme, meals and refreshments is EUR250.
The registered members of ISOCM will get a discount price of EUR150.
Participants with limited income may apply for a bursary; students
should supply a recommendation from their university.

REGISTRATION
If you wish to participate in the conference, either by reading a paper
or simply attending, or if you have any queries or need further
information, please contact
Ivan Moody ivan.moody@joensuu.fi
or Maria Takala-Roszczenko mtakala@cc.joensuu.fi
or write to:
Maria Takala-Roszczenko / ISOCM,
Faculty of Theology,
University of Joensuu,
PL 111,
80101 Joensuu,
Finland

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CFP: Nation-Building and National Identity in the FSU, 03/22-27/2009, Las Vegas

(October 10th deadline)

CONF./CFP- AAG Panel on Nation-Building and National Identity in the
FSU, 03/09

Call for Papers
Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
22-27 March 2009, Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada*

Nation-Building and National Identity in the FSU
Session Organizer: Natalie Koch, University of Colorado at Boulder

The meanings of "nationality" and "ethnicity" in the Soviet Union differ markedly from the way in which they are understood in the West and other places around the world. Rogers Brubaker (1996) suggests a fundamental tension within the Soviet nationality policies it promoted two independent definitions of nationhood: one territorial and political, the other ethnocultural. While territorial jurisdiction was ascribed to certain nationalities, "territory" and "nation" were neither spatially, conceptually, nor legally congruent. Independence has stimulated the "nationalization" of the various successor states. This has been accomplished through various means, such as the increased "nativization" of power structures, the implementation of stringent language policies, and the emergence of racialized discourses and practices. This CFP invites submissions that seek to address the legacies of this Soviet conception of nationhood for these former Soviet states.

Please send related proposals to Natalie Koch
(natalie.koch@colorado.edu) by October 10th, 2008. Include title,
abstract (under 250 words), and PIN number.

*For more information about the AAG meeting, see:
http://aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/index.htm

Possible topics could include, and are not limited to:
- a case study examining the implications of the Soviet nationalities
policy
- defining the "nation" and/or "ethnicity" in the post-Soviet context
- the nation-building strategies of successor state leaders
- the role of state-scale actors in fostering a new "national"
identity and its role in legitimating their rule
- the role of territory and borders (as both symbols and institutions)
in articulating the "nation"
- the relationship between religion and national identity in the FSU
- gender and the nation/nationalist project
- comparative study of FSU and another region/country
- language politics
- inter-ethnic violence in the FSU
- xenophobia/racism in the FSU, especially in the Russian Federation
- methodological approaches and challenges in studying
nation-building/nationalism in the FSU

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October 02, 2008

CFP- Ties that Bind and Ties That Divide, 02/ 20-22/2009, Pittsburgh

Deadline: December 1, 2008
CONF./CFP- Ties that Bind and Ties That Divide, Univ. of Pittsburgh,
Feb. 20-22

University of Pittsburgh
Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia Center
for Russian and East European Studies present:

Ties that Bind and Ties that Divide: Cultural, Economic and Political
Linkages in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia

Sixth Annual Graduate Student Conference
20-22 February 2009

GOSECA outlined in our 2007 conference on globalization, regionalism and multiculturalism that belonging to a certain collectivity can bring with it privilege, pride, and power today, but disadvantage, disrepute and dismemberment tomorrow. This year's conference is motivated by questioning this notion of linkages. While many conferences focus on the transcendence of borders and the remapping of regions, we seek to further this theme by exploring how these
relationships link, yet often simultaneously divide people.

Abstracts should be no more than 250 words long. Please submit abstracts by 01 December 2008 to the following email address:
gosecaconference@yahoo.com

For more information please visit:
http://www.pitt.edu/~sorc/goseca/Goseca2009/

Solidarity, a cross-regional, macro-level phenomenon, also operates at
the local levels between ethnic groups, sub-regions and cities. Regions may share a recent historical experience that transcends geographic boundaries and leads to the formation of more permeable geopolitical landscapes, but the emergence of ideological and political alliances, as well as economic uncertainties, has frequently led to exactly the opposite. How do these past and present alignments influence our evolving understanding of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia?

GOSECA strongly encourages submissions from the humanities, social
sciences and professional schools in areas such as:
* Literary and artistic movements
* Cultural and religious identities
* Diverging historical legacies and past ideologies
* Emigration and immigration
* The influence of the European Union, NATO, and the Shanghai
Cooperative Organization
* Foreign trade and international finance
* New energy policies

This conference is interdisciplinary in nature and aims to deepen our
understanding of these regions through a broad range of approaches to
examine an intricately woven matrix of issues.

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CfP: Nobility, State and Society in 18th-century Provincial Russia, 04/23-26/2009, Moscow

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 October 2008.

Call for Papers

Nobility, State and Society in 18th-century Provincial Russia
Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau (DHI)
23-26 April, 2009

Conference date: 23-26 April, 2009
Abstracts in Russian or English (maximum length: 500 words) of the paper
you intend to give should be sent to: Nobility.DHI@gmx.de

Your abstract should include your email address and institutional
affiliation, the title of your intended paper, and the abstract text.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 October 2008.
Notification of applicants: no later than 1 December 2008.

Chosen participants will then be asked to submit their article-length
(at a maximum of 10,000 words) original papers in Russian no later than 1 March 2009. The papers will be pre-circulated among all participants so that there is ample time to read them before the conference. The papers will be grouped in thematic panels. Paper presentations at the conference will be limited to 15 minutes. At each panel one conference participant will moderate and comment briefly on the papers. The working language of the conference is Russian - no translation services. After the conference authors will rework their papers for publication in a volume to appear in 2010.

We are looking forward to reading your proposals!

Conference organizers:
Olga Glagoleva, PhD (University of Toronto) olga.glagoleva@utoronto.ca
Prof. Aleksandr Kamenskii (RGGU) kamenskii@list.ru
Ingrid Schierle (DHI) ingrid.schierle@dhi-moskau.org

Dr. Olga Glagoleva
University of Toronto
416-363-7870
olga.glagoleva@utoronto.ca
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In his pioneering work on the Russian nobility of the 18th century, Mark Raeff wrote that "failure to create a genuine estate of the nobility perpetuated the average nobleman's rootlessness and dependence on the state" which, in the long run, "became the seedbed of the intelligentsia" (M. Raeff, Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia: The Eighteenth-Century Nobility, 1966). This view exerts a powerful influence to this day; in a recent study, for instance, we learn that "Images of alienation, absenteeism, economic torpidity, decline, and crisis derive from the multiple and malleable attributes of noble identity" (E.K. Wirtschafter, Social Identity in Imperial Russia, 1997). The paradigm of the Nobility's insecurity becomes most pervasive when applied to the provincial nobility, whose customs, lifestyles, and tastes are habitually associated with backwardness, ignorance, and boredom. However, as Michael Kugler argued with respect to European history, "the nature of provincialism has not been outlined in detail" (M. Kugler, "Provincial Intellectuals: Identity, Patriotism, and Enlightened Peripheries," 1996). The purpose of this conference is to extend Kugler???s insight to Russia and re-examine the provincial nobility in
the 18th century.

A revived post-Soviet interest in the Russian provinces has resulted in a good number of new publications, both in Russia and the West. These post-1991 studies can be roughly divided in two major groups: those focusing on the empirical side of local history and seeking to unearth new archival data, and those investing energy in the development of novel theoretical approaches and generalizations. In the words of a recent review, "in the West we are confronted with theory without local,
and in Russia we see the local without theory" (Susan Smith-Peter, "How to Write a Region: Local and Regional Historiography," Kritika 5.3
(2004) 527-542).

This conference aims to merge the empirical and theoretical approaches
to local history. Ultimately, our goal is to produce a picture of life
in the Russian provinces that is both rich in detail and solidly
grounded in theory. Our main focus is on the 18th-century provincial
nobility's interactions with the state and society. For this purpose we plan to see what can be gained from using local and micro history
methods within a theoretical framework of regional studies. It is, we
believe, high time to reconsider the still dominant view on the life in the provinces as backward and rude and on the provincial nobility as rootless and alienated. We hope that "re-thinking history" in terms of local studies (Ch. Phythian-Adams) will prove useful to our comprehension of the history of the Russian provinces and challenging to our perception of the 18th -century Russian nobility.

The conference organizers aspire to bring together a group of scholars
to present their work and engage in discussions on the provincial
nobility in 18th-century Russia. We invite papers on the topic that
present empirically significant research based on diverse archival and
other sources and are, at the same time, integrated into a strong
theoretical framework. Papers with a comparative dimension are
particularly welcome.

The following is a by no means exhaustive list of issues the papers
might touch upon:
-the provinces versus the capital, regional versus central, local versus
national;
-the "provincial" way of life in the 18th century;
-the provincial nobility and the state;
-the provincial nobility and society;
-social mobility in the provinces and its impact on the "provincial" way
of life;
-local noble communities;
-local administration and the provincial nobility;
-the provincial nobility's search for an identity;
-the provincial nobility's nakazy to the Legislative Commission of
1767-1768;
-Noble Assemblies and the formation of civil society in Russia;
-economic, social, cultural, and legal interactions in the life of the
provincial nobility;
-gender relations in provincial noble families and communities;
-the role of women in creating provincial noble societies;
-the army presence in the provinces and its impact on the local
nobility's life;
-the impact of the country's modernization on the provinces;
-life strategies in creating independent spaces in the provinces;
-the role of the provinces in shaping Russian national identity;
-the mythology of the provinces;
-provincialism versus regionalism;
-provincialism in its Russian, European and North American contexts,
comparative perspectives, etc.

Organizational Information:
The organizers have applied for funding at the Deutsches Historisches
Institut Moskau (DHI). The conference will take place at the DHI at the Institut nauchnoi informatsii po obshchestvennym naukam Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk (INION RAN) in Moscow (Nachimovskij Prospekt 51/21). The sponsoring institution would cover the costs for travel and accommodation of all participants.

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September 26, 2008

Ties that Bind and Ties that Divide: Cultural, Economic and Political Linkages in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia

University of Pittsburgh
Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia Center for Russian and East European Studies present:

Ties that Bind and Ties that Divide: Cultural, Economic and Political Linkages in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia

Sixth Annual Graduate Student Conference
20-22 February 2009

GOSECA outlined in our 2007 conference on globalization, regionalism and multiculturalism that belonging to a certain collectivity can bring with it privilege, pride, and power today, but disadvantage, disrepute and dismemberment tomorrow. This year's conference is motivated by questioning this notion of linkages. While many conferences focus on the transcendence of borders and the remapping of regions, we seek to further this theme by exploring how these relationships link, yet often simultaneously divide people.

Solidarity, a cross-regional, macro-level phenomenon, also operates at the local levels between ethnic groups, sub-regions and cities. Regions may share a recent historical experience that transcends geographic boundaries and leads to the formation of more permeable geopolitical landscapes, but the emergence of ideological and political alliances, as well as economic uncertainties, has frequently led to exactly the opposite. How do these past and present
alignments influence our evolving understanding of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia?

GOSECA strongly encourages submissions from the humanities, social sciences and professional schools in areas such as:
• Literary and artistic movements
• Cultural and religious identities
• Diverging historical legacies and past ideologies
• Emigration and immigration
• The influence of the European Union, NATO, and the Shanghai Cooperative Organization
• Foreign trade and international finance
• New energy policies

This conference is interdisciplinary in nature and aims to deepen our understanding of these regions through a broad range of approaches to examine an intricately woven matrix of issues.

Abstracts should be no more than 250 words long. Please submit abstracts by 01 December 2008 to the following email address: gosecaconference@yahoo.com.

For more information please visit: http://www.pitt.edu/~sorc/goseca/Goseca2009/.

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September 04, 2008

"The Unbearable Charm of Frailty. Philosophizing in/on Eastern Europe."

A Special Issue of "ANGELAKI - The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities"

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/0969725x.html

Guest Editor: Costica Bradatan (The Honors College, Texas Tech University)

ANGELAKI hereby invites contributions on the topic of "Philosophizing in/on Eastern Europe."

This special issue is scheduled for late 2009.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Over the last several years European Union has welcomed a number of
new member countries, most of which used to belong to the "Eastern
bloc." While, thanks to the influence of mass-media, tourism,
immigration, etc., Western Europe has come to acquire some general
geographic knowledge about these countries, relatively little is known about what happens there in terms of production of knowledge and cultural artifacts, in terms of intellectual debates and marketplace of ideas. Although all of them are now part of the same "European family," there is comparatively little knowledge in the countries of the Western Europe about the cultural physiognomy of the East-European newcomers.

The intellectual traffic between East and West within Europe seems to be most often one-way traffic: it is as if ideas and intelligence can only move eastwards, as though from East westwards almost nothing
(intellectually valid) is to be expected or desired. As such, the face of the "new Europe" that the West most often sees is that of "le plombier polonais."

The originality of thinkers such as Slavoj Žižek, Julia Kristeva,
Tzvetan Todorov, Jan Pato�?ka, Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran or Leszek
Kołakowski, who have at different times made a significant
contribution to the shaping of the Western intellectual discourse, is somehow taken for granted, and the character of the world they have
come from is passed over in silence. It is as though these people come from nowhere - out of nothing. No significant attention is being paid to their complex backgrounds, to the specificity of their cultural origins, to the unique blend of intellectual challenges and ethical concerns that shaped their thinking, strengthened their personalities and, in the end, made them who they are.

The special issue we are proposing addresses precisely this situation in an attempt to bridge this gap of intellectual communication between Eastern and Western Europe. Its plan is to map out the complex intellectual landscape, the major intellectual debates and their historical origins, as well as the current marketplace of
philosophical ideas in the countries of the Eastern Europe. This issue aims at offering insights into the recent (or not so recent) history of "the East-European mind" and its many facets, as well as into what takes place philosophically right now in these places. It also seeks to point to the specific contributions that East-European thinkers might have to the shaping of a new, more comprehensive European intellectual project.

More importantly, this special issue will pay special attention to
what connects these countries, giving them as it does a certain
"family resemblance." One important thing that these East-European
newcomers to the EU have in common - despite their many cultural,
linguistic, political and social differences - is the fact that all of them shared, not long ago, the same historical failure: the failure of the Communist project of Soviet inspiration. Whether you are in Prague or Budapest, Riga or Bucharest, Sofia or Warsaw, you cannot help noticing the traces of this major historical event: they are everywhere, in the public discourse as well as in the private
conversations, in the ways people articulate their thoughts, in the
language itself. For people living in Eastern Europe simple words such as "freedom," "human rights," "Communism," "capitalism," "left" and "right," "poverty" and "inequality" mean something different from what they do for someone who has been living in Western Europe. Much of what happens intellectually and philosophically in these places is deeply marked by the haunting memory of this historical failure of grand proportions, with its accompanying sense of immense collective suffering, frustration and bitterness.

That being said, it might be precisely this failure, frustration and
bitterness, that place the East-Europeans - somehow paradoxically - in a philosophically interesting and potentially creative position. It is exactly the point that Václav Havel made in a speech in 1990. For him, the failed Soviet system left behind "a legacy of countless dead, an infinite spectrum of human suffering, profound economic decline, and above all enormous human humiliation. [.] At the same time, however unintentionally, . it has given us something positive: a special capacity to look, from time to time, somewhat further than someone who has not undergone this bitter experience. A person who cannot move and live a normal life because he is pinned under a boulder has more time to think about his hopes than someone who is not trapped in this way. "We too can offer something to you: our experience and the knowledge that has come from it."

The philosophizing that takes place in Eastern Europe is highly
relevant today not only because it has gained some privileged access
to the topics of historical failure and frailty, collective suffering and trauma, but also because it comes to bear a special relationship
with the notions of hope and political renewal, ethical openness and
the reinvention of the human.

We invite submissions dealing with the history and the current state
of philosophy and the philosophically minded disciplines in the
countries of the Eastern Europe, some aspects of which have been
pointed to above. Interdisciplinary approaches (combining, for
example, philosophy, critical theory and intellectual history) are
particularly encouraged.

Here are only some of the possible topics:

- (Philosophical) texts in/and their (cultural) contexts

- Lost in translation

- The traffic of philosophical ideas between Eastern & Western Europe

- Centrality and marginality in the European philosophical culture/discourse

- Canon(s) and canonization in the European philosophical culture

- Specifically East-European philosophical topics

- Making philosophical sense of (disastrous) historical experiences

- The (quite) bearable lightness of being East-European

- (Eastern) Europe as a laboratory of ideas

- Genealogies, contaminations & disseminations of ideas

- Philosophy and politics in Eastern Europe (before and after the
collapse of Communism)

- Philosophy & civil society in Eastern Europe

- The tragic (East-European) fate of some (Western) philosophical ideas

- The European project, philosophically speaking

- "Le plombier polonais," philosophically speaking

Please note that - in the spirit of ANGELAKI, a journal of "theoretical humanities" - we use throughout the term "philosophy" in a broad (Continental and interdisciplinary) sense.

Geographically, for the sake of convenience, this issue attempts to
cover philosophical developments in countries that used to belong to
the "Eastern bloc" and are now part of the European Union (Czech
Republic, Slovenia, Poland, the Baltic countries, Romania, etc.) or
will join the EU in a foreseeable future (Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, etc.). Needless to say, as always, these are just approximations.

SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES:

Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2009

Length: 5000-7000 words

Authors should keep in mind that they are writing for an academic, but non-specialist (and largely Western) readership. Therefore, references to specifically East-European developments, institutions, figures, etc. should be further clarified in end-notes as appropriate.

All submissions should be in English. Notwithstanding the fact that
some authors use this language as their second language, it is their
responsibility to make sure that their submissions are written in
publishable English.

Apart from essays, we also invite proposals for a small number of book reviews - on the theme of the issue - and translations of (short) philosophical texts by major East-European philosophers. Interested authors should approach the Guest Editor with a short proposal offering a brief description of the book/translation in question & explaining their relevance for this special issue of ANGELAKI. However, the Guest Editor's initial approval of the book
review/translation proposals should not be taken as a guarantee that
their book reviews/translations will be accepted for inclusion in the special issue.

All materials submitted to ANGELAKI undergo peer-review. Manuscripts
and Notes, typed double-spaced, should be submitted to the Guest
Editor as e-mail attachments, using Microsoft Word. The author's full address should be supplied as a footnote to the title page. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the MLA Citation
Style: http://www.mla.org/

You can submit your contributions to: bradatan@hotmail.com (with "For the Angelaki issue" in the subject line). Please allow at
least 4-6 months for the review process and editorial decisions.
Receipt of materials will be confirmed by email in a matter of days.

Unless otherwise stated in this Call for Papers, the Instructions for Authors on the journal's webpage are adopted for this issue:

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0969-725x&linktype=44

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Cultures of Armenia and Georgia, 05/07-10.2009, Kalamazoo

Papers are invited for the session on the Cultures of Armenia and Georgia at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 7-10, 2009, at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA. Please send an abstract of 750 words--or less--to Bert Beynen, Free Library of Philadelphia, beyneng@freelibrary.org before September 20, 2008.

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