Call for papers / Приглашение к публикации

CALL FOR PAPERS

Journal of European Popular Culture (JEPC)

This lively peer-reviewed journal seeks excellent submissions on all aspects of
European cultural and creative activity.

The journal is interested in contemporary practices, but also in historical,
contextual, biographical or theoretical analyses relating to past cultural activities in Europe. Questions regarding the creation and consumption of "popular" and "high" culture are welcome, as are investigations of the human context of these designations.

The Journal investigates the creative cultures of Europe, present and past. Exploring European popular imagery, media, new media, film, music, art and design, architecture, drama and dance, fine art, literature and the writing arts, and more, the journal is also of interest to those considering the influence of European creativity and European creative artefacts worldwide.

Papers can also relate to European influences beyond Europe.

Papers or exploratory critical or creative pieces relating to European media,
literature and the writing arts, film, music, new media, art and design, architecture, drama and dance or fine art are all very welcome.

Closing date: 15th September 2010

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=177/

Send to: editors@journaleuropeanculture.com

Dr Cristina Johnston
School of Languages, Cultures and Religions
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
cristina.johnston@stir.ac.uk

18th Conference of Europeanists

Organized by the Council for European Studies

To be held at various university venues in Barcelona, Spain

June 20-22, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

For decades, scholars interested in Europe have concentrated their attention on state comparisons and on the institutionalization of the European Union. As the second decade of the second millennium gets under way, we can no longer neglect the deep transformations in Europe’s society that have followed the joint processes of globalization and European integration. Transnationalization is the word that arguably best captures these transformations, for it encapsulates at once the broadening of the Europeans’ economic, political, social, and cultural experiences that has taken place in the last two to three decades. The rise of these transnational pressures and vectors of political pressure stands in tension with the political organization oriented around nation-states in Europe. Transnationalization on today’s scale is a recurring phenomenon in Europe’s history, however, and it works as well as a metaphor for previous periods in which local walls were destroyed and replaced by economic, political and social re-organization on a greater geographic scale. In examining today’s transformations we are thus well-advised to revisit previous processes of transnationalization, so that the analysis of the present helps us understand the past and the analysis of the past helps us illuminate the present.

For the 2011 conference, the Council for European Studies (CES) welcomes proposals for panels, roundtables, book discussions and individual papers on the study of Europe broadly defined. This year, for the second time, we are also entertaining the submission of panel clusters around a theme, giving participants the opportunity to create a mini-symposium within the conference (please no more than 4 panels per theme). Each panel proposal will be reviewed individually by the Program Committee, and each panel belonging to a cluster will be acknowledged as such in the conference program.

We encourage proposals in the widest range of disciplines; in particular, we welcome panels that combine disciplines, nationalities, and generations. The Committee will accept only two submissions per person. Panel proposals need to be submitted stating a chair and a discussant (can be the same person).

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

Deadlines and Submission Procedures: Please submit all your proposals on the conference website between September 1, 2010 and October 10, 2010. Note that each panel proposal must include abstracts for all individual papers, as well as a general description, a chair and a discussant.

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

http://www.ces.columbia.edu/members/indiv_members.html

Cathie Jo Martin, CES Chair
Boston University

Pepper Culpepper, Program Co-Chair
European University Institute

Juan Díez Medrano, Program Co-Chair
IBEI - Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals

12th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF OTTOMAN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY (ICOSEH), 11-15 July 2011, Retz (Lower Austria)

CALL FOR PAPERS

It is our pleasure to announce that the 12th International Congress of Ottoman Economic and Social History (ICOSEH) will be held in Retz (http://www.telebuero.at/retz/), a small medieval town some 80 kms to the NW of Vienna and 5kms from the border of the Czech Republic, which is easily accessible from Vienna. Arrangements for this meeting are being handled under the auspices of International Association of Ottoman Social and Economic History (IAOSEH) chaired by Professor Halil İnalcık. The local organizers are Claudia Römer and Gisela Procházka-Eisl of the Oriental Institute of Vienna University. As in previous meetings, papers are expected to be on aspects of the economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire. The Executive Committee of IAOSEH and the Organizing Committee urge the submission of pre-organized panels/sessions and workshops as well as individual papers.Individual papers will be organized into sections by the Organizing Committee.

Abstracts for individual papers should not exceed 500 words.Pre-organized panels/sessions should consist of three papers, plus an analysis of them by a
discussant (or a designated chair) of ten to fifteen minutes maximum length. The papersshould center on a single theme or question, and the panel proposal should include an abstract (500 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 (500 words maximum) for each paper. Abstracts should have a focused statement of thesis and indicate clearly the sources employed (if applicable).

Also welcome are thematic workshops/roundtables organized by Chair(s) around specific problems or debates in the field. We encourage panels and workshops on any aspects of Ottoman-Habsburg history or a comparative study of the two empires.

Workshops/roundtables should consist of short (10-minute) presentations by the
panelists/invited participants (four to six speakers), leaving a longer time for discussion of the problem or question. The proposal for a workshop should specify the problem or debate being addressed and its significance, as well as a summary of each panelist's contribution to the discussion.

Applicants should supply the provisional paper titles and abstracts and/or the initial proposals and abstracts for pre-organized sessions and workshops by November 1, 2010 (iaoseh.orientalistik@univie.ac.at). The proposals will go through a selection process by the Committees, and the applicants will be notified by late January. The conference languages are English, Turkish, French, and German. Papers read in other languages than English should be accompanied by a brief summary in English.

The reduced registration fee for the congress is 90 Euro in case of early booking by February 1, 2011, and the normal fee will be 110 Euro in case of later booking. The fees should be paid to the account opened on behalf of IAOSEH under the name of Claudia Römer and Gisela-Procházka-Eisl. The fees will cover the expenses of the rent of three session rooms, coffee breaks including a cold buffet, city tours, and a reception. Lunches, accommodation, and travel expenses will have to be paid by the participants, as well as the cost of an optional one-day excursion to be announced later. Details on how to reach Retz, about accommodation options (with prices) as well as the account no. will be provided in the second circular letter after the final confirmation of applications by the Executive Committee of IAOSEH.

Please note, however, that for the more expensive hotel, the deadline for booking rooms will be January 31, 2011). Retz and surroundings being an active region of tourism, it is also recommendable to book the less expensive rooms as early as possible. Booking of rooms will be done directly with the different hotels, a list of which will be included in the second circular letter.

The Organizing Committee:

Claudia Römer
Member at large of the Board of IAOSEH
Gisela Procházka-Eisl
Institut für Orientalistik der Universität Wien
Fariba Zarinebaf
Adjunct General Secretary of IAOSEH
Head of the Program Committee of IAOSEH 2011
Department of History, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California.
e-mail address for all correspondence:
iaoseh.orientalistik@univie.ac.at

International Praxis Conference on Cultural Memory and Coexistence
18-20 March 2011, Fatih University, Istanbul

Praxis Club was founded in 2006 as an initiative of the Department of Sociology of Fatih University, which aims to adopt an active role in fostering sociological knowledge and imagination in Turkey with a commitment to inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural research.

In addition to fieldwork conducted by the members of Praxis, with particular focus on Central Asia besides Turkey, Praxis hosted a series of conferences since 2006. Since then, Praxis has also brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and policy-makers in its National Sociology Congresses, the third of which was organized in May 2010. With the 1st International Praxis Conference on Cultural Memory and Coexistence that is to be organized after the three nationwide conferences, it is
aimed to improve inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural researches on cultural memory, with particular focus on the potential of developing common meanings and understandings.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Literature on cultural memory has extensively developed in the last two decades. Several scholarly works and conferences have been dedicated to it. The "new wars" (M. Kaldor, *New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era*), as well as the current global paradigms drawing on the language of clash have particularly reflected a strong link between cultural memory and conflict.

In opposition to the conventional thinking, this conference aims to raise the fundamental question of how individual and collective memories (M. Halbwachs, *On Collective Memory*) can generate intercultural dialogue practices and therefore used as tools for conflict resolution. We especially aim to generate research on how to develop shared meanings and common understanding at the level of ordinary people belonging to different cultural and ethno-religious communities, therefore reproduce everyday cosmopolitanism. Some of the fundamental questions that will be addressed in the conference are:

1. How is cosmopolitanism experienced in everyday life and urban spaces
by members of different social groups?
2. Which are the ways in which memories of conflict and collaboration
arre transmitted?
3. In what ways coexistence is represented in members` and their
communities` symbolic domains?
4. Which are the instruments and roles played in these transmission
processes? (first-hand memoirs and narratives; historiography and
historians; spatial designs and architects; novels; cinema etc.)
5. What are the ways of the construction and reconstruction of gendered
memories?
6. How the sites of memory, i.e. visual history and museums, and
imaginary topograhies function to shape the discourses of conflict
vis-à-vis experiences of coexistence and collaboration?
7. What kinds of interactions or tensions are experienced between
public and private memories?
8. How do remembering and forgetting/amnesia function in justifying the
present and constructing the the future?
9. How can the past be dealed through examples of the good?
10. How can narratives and oral heritage be developed as a tool for
understanding and overcoming conflictual issues?
11. How can the constructive experiences be adopted as shared models
for the (re)building of coexistence and inter-communal trust?
12. What can be the impacts of local experiences on identity-formation
at the regional and global level?

We welcome proposals from senior as well as junior researchers from all disciplines concerned with these debates and issues including Anthropology, Architecture, Art History, World Literature, Fine Art, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology and Theology. The main objective of the conference is to generate research and understanding of how individual and cultural memories could facilitate a shared meaning and common understanding vis-à-vis the discourses of clash, i.e. civilizations, religions, and ethnic groups.

In addition to the thematic panels, the conference will host photography exhibitions and book panels as well as film presentations on cultural
memory.

300-word paper abstracts with a 200-word bio should be sent by 1 October 2010 to Ali Murat Yel (e-mail: muratyel@gmail.com) and Onder Cetin (e-mail: o.cetin.isim@gmail.com). Selection of the papers will be made on the basis of quality and relevance to the conference themes. Selected papers will be published in a special volume in English and in Turkish.

*Deadlines:*

- Submission of abstracts: 1 October 2010
- Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 1 November 2010
- Submission of full papers: 1 January 2011

Приглашение авторов

Журнал центральноазиатских и кавказских исследований (Journal of Central Asian and Caucasian Studies) является реферируемым изданием и выходит дважды в год.

Журнал публикует материалы на двух языках: английском и турецком. Издание афилиировано с Международной организацией стратегических исследований (International Strategic Research Organisation) в Анкаре, Турция, однако является незвисимым в отношении редакционной политики и определения приоритетности исследовательских направлений.

Тематика журнала сфокусирована на исследованиях в областях права, политологии и социологии, культурной и религиозной истории, экономики, антопрологии, относящихся как к Центральной Азии, Кавказу и соседним странам (Туркция, Иран, Пакистан, Афганистан, Инлия, Китай, Моноголия, Россия), так и к связям целых мегарегионов (Причерноморье, Южная Азия, Ближний Восток, Дальневосточье) с Центральной Азией и Кавказом.

Журнал поддерживает развитие мультидисциплинарных подходов. Материалы, подаваемые на рассмотрение в редакцию, проходят анонимное рецензирование. Более подробно о правилах подачи материалов:

Articles submitted for consideration of publication are subject to peer review. The editorial board and editors take consideration whether submitted manuscript follows the rules of scientific writing. The appropriate articles are then sent to two referees known for their academic reputation in their respective areas.

The Editors and referees use three-step guidelines in assessing submissions:

i) Literary quality: Writing style, usage of the language,
organisation (paragraphing, syntax, flow etc.)

ii) Use of references. Referencing, sources, relationships of the
footnotes to the text.

iii) Scholarship quality: Depth of research, quality; contribution,
originality of the contribution (new and creative thought) and
plausibility of the author's argument.

Upon the referees' decision, the articles will be published in the journal, or rejected for publication. The review process lasts from five to 15 weeks. Questions regarding the status of submissions should be directed to the Editor by e-mail at: turgutdem@yahoo.co.uk
or: hasanozertem@gmail.com

The referee reports are kept confidential and stored in the archives for five years.

Aim:

JCACS's aim is to generate a productive dialogue and exchange between theorists, writers and practitioners in disparate locations. JCACS assumes that one of the main problems in Central Asian and Caucasian studies is lack of dialogue between writers and scholars from different cultural backgrounds.

All manuscripts and editorial correspondence and enquiries should be addressed to the JCACS Editorial Office (The Office).

Submission:

We prefer electronic submission to: turgutdem@yahoo.co.uk, or hasanozertem@gmail.com as a Microsoft word attachment file. Please be sure that you received a confirmation from The Office.

For more information about the journal feel free to contact with the editors:

Editors: Turgut DEMIRTEPE & Esra HATIPOGLU

Assisting Editor: Hasan Selim ÖZERTEM

Editorial Office: JCACS/ OAKA, Ayten Sokak, No: 21, Mebusevleri,
Tandogan, Ankara / TURKEY

E-mail: turgutdem@yahoo.co.uk or hasanozertem@gmail.com

Gülay KILIÇ
Uluslararasi Stratejik Arastirmalar Kurumu
Mebusevleri Mah. Ayten Sok. No:21 Tandogan / Ankara
Tel: 0312 212 28 86 / 102
Faks: 0312 212 25 84

Архив изданных номеров журнала в pdf-формате, 2006-2009, доступен здесь, кликните, пожалуйста, эту ссылку!

Third Annual Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy PhD Workshop
December 19-21, 2010
Baku, Azerbaijan

The Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA) is pleased to announce its Third Annual PhD Workshop. The PhD Workshop is part of ADA's PhD Development and Support Program and will take place on December 19-21, 2010, in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Workshop will bring together PhDs and PhD candidates in all disciplines of social science, with special emphasis on political science, economics, environmental studies and international law. The workshop agenda includes a PhD Education Fair, a plenary session, thematic panels, and a special symposium featuring presentations by the ADA PhD Development and Support Program fellows.

The PhD workshop is intended to:
- promote knowledge about Azerbaijan in the international scholarly community and establish a permanent forum of academic discourse at ADA ;

- stimulate interaction and promote cooperative practices between and among Azerbaijani PhDs and PhD candidates, as well as between the latter and distinguished scholars from around the globe.

- encourage and promote PhD study abroad.

Who May Apply:

Applicants should be Azerbaijani or foreign citizens who are recent PhD graduates or advanced PhD candidates in the fields of international relations, political science, economics, environmental studies or international law. All candidates must be fluent in English.

Individual Papers & Thematic Panels

Applicants are strongly encouraged, but not required, to apply with a topic relevant to their academic agenda, as well as to the broader region of which Azerbaijan is a part. In addition to individual proposals, applicants are welcome to propose a thematic panel composed of three or four presentations.

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts & Panel Proposals

Individual Abstracts
Individual applicants must submit an abstract of their paper in an MS Word file
attachment. The abstract must be in English and should not exceed 500 words.

It should be emailed to: PhDworkshop@ada.edu.az along with a short CV (no longer than two pages including the information on the applicant's institutional affiliation).

Panel Proposals

Proposals for a thematic panel should include a brief conceptual outline of the
proposed panel, the title and abstracts of all papers to be presented in the panel, as well as the names and contact information for all presenters. The proposal should be emailed to PhDworkshop@ ada.edu.az along with a short CV (no longer than two pages) of each panel presenter (with the information on the presenter' institutional affiliation) .

The deadline for submission of abstracts and proposals is September 15, 2010.

Paper Requirements

Selected applicants will be required to submit a full paper by December 1, 2010.

PhD Education Fair

The first day of the workshop will feature a PhD Education Fair. The event is designed to motivate Azerbaijani graduate students to enroll in PhD programs abroad, especially in the field of social and political science. The PhD Fair will include general information sessions about PhD programs and PhD training sessions on various topics relevant to postgraduate studies. PhDs/PhD candidates attending the Annual ADA PhD Workshop will provide information to prospective Azerbaijani students on PhD admissions, enrollment and PhD research at their respective universities. All PhD Workshop applicants are encouraged to take part in this event and share their experiences and insights with prospective Azerbaijani students.

Travel and Accommodation

ADA will offer limited grants to cover travel expenses of the accepted applicants to and from Azerbaijan , as well as accommodation expenses for non-Azerbaijani citizens.

Additional Information:

For questions and additional information, please feel free to contact Ms. Shams
Mustafayeva at shmustafayeva@ada.edu.az

Международный ежеквартальный журнал "Ab Imperio: исследования по новой имперской истории и национализму в постсоветcком пространстве", афилиированный с Американской ассоциацией содействия славистическим исследованиям (AAASS), принимает материалы в готовящийся к печати третий номер в этом году (№ 3/2010).

Тема номера: “Чужак-Сосед: cоциальное и политическое взаимодействие в имперской ситуации”.

Редакция приглашает к сотрудничеству авторов, занимающихся исследованиями, соприкасающимися со следующей тематикой и проблемами, которые планируется осветить в номере:


Возможен ли нейтральный “сосед” между полюсами “дружбы” и “вражды” ● когда “сосед” становится “врагом”? ● друг-посредник: роль южнорусского православного духовенства в реформах Петра ● немцы в российской империи ● национальные элиты, интегрированные в имперскую систему управления ● вариативные ситуация пограничья ● Финляндия – архетипический сосед ● колонизация как вынужденное соседство: восприятие чужой культуры на пространстве Российской империи/СССР ● постсоветские государства и общества – соседи, чужаки или враги? ● современный город как социальный плавильный котел или сито: из чужаков в соседи или во враги? ● дворовая культура советского города ● миграция бюрократических кадров в Российской империи и СССР: восприятие культурной инаковости ● парадигмальные ситуации соседства: казачество и народы Северного Кавказа, Западный край ● национальные диаспоры и дискурсы добрососедства и внутренней угрозы ● города-побратимы в СССР ● политика добрососедства: советские практики репрессии и преодоления прошлого после 1945 года ● вернувшийся сосед: история высылки и возвращения из ссылки советских реабилитированных народов ● сосед как alter ego: Российская империя в зеркале Габсбургской монархии (история восприятия и заимствования габсбургского опыта) ● градация инородцев в Российской империи: “культурные”, “ассимилируемые”, “дикие” и пр.

Общая тема года журнала в 2010 г.: "ДРУЗЬЯ, ВРАГИ И СОСЕДИ:
ПРИДАНИЕ СМЫСЛА ИМПЕРСКОМУ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОМУ, ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОМУ И СОЦИАЛЬНОМУ ПОРЯДКУ".


Заявки, материалы и запросы можно отправлять по адресу редакции: office@abimperio.net

Более подробно об издании и правилах подачи материалов:

http://abimperio.net

Humanicus, academic journal.

Call for Papers:

The HUMANICUS academic journal is now accepting new contributions for the end of 2010 issue 6. The new, double issue is now online.

The Humanicus journal was dubbed a ’publication of importance to the Czech culture’ by the Czech National Library in 2009.

The journal is expanding and being updated during the following academic semester. The next issue will develop a new system in which every essay will be published separately, allowing the authors and their work to be found online and accessible with more ease. We are also spreading our Call for Papers to the universities in the United States from this issue on.

The Humanicus journal accepts works written in primarily English (but other languages as well, please see the website), dealing with social sciences, humanities and philosophy. Own philosophical papers are also accepted, as well as an occasional review.

We especially encourage students with less experience to publish in the occasional Student Section, with help from our internal and external reviewers.

Please refer to the style guidelines before submitting you essay and thank you for taking an interest in our journal.

All details are to be found on the website, http://www.humanicus.org

Central Slavic Conference and Charles Timberlake Memorial Symposium
November 5-7, 2010

Proposals for panels, papers, and roundtable forums are invited for the 2010 Central Slavic Conference and Charles Timberlake Memorial Symposium.

Graduate student presenters are encouraged to apply for a cash stipend, which will be awarded to the best paper delivered at either the Timberlake Symposium or the CSC meeting. For further information about the stipend, please contact either Jacek Lubecki (CSC President) or Andrew Kier Wise (Timberlake Symposium Coordinator).

Dedicated to the memory and scholarship of Dr. Charles Timberlake, the Charles Timberlake Memorial Symposium will take place within the framework of the Central Slavic Conference (CSC) annual meeting. The 2010 CSC meeting will be held in conjunction with the International Studies Association and will meet in St. Louis,
MO from November 5-7 at the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark.

Inquiries and proposals concerning the Charles Timberlake Memorial Symposium should be submitted (preferably via email) to:

Andrew Kier Wise
Associate Professor of History & Government
Daemen College
4380 Main Street
Amherst, NY 14226
awise@daemen.edu

For the Symposium, we are especially interested in proposals related
to the following themes of interest to Dr. Timberlake:

Call for Papers:

Workshop on Language, Literacy, and the Social Construction of Authority in Islamic Societies

Stanford University, March 3-4, 2011

(Abstract Submission Deadline: 09/01/2010)

The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University invites submission of paper abstracts for a workshop on Language, Literacy, and the Social Construction of Authority in Islamic Societies. The workshop will take place on March 3-4 2011 in Stanford (California, USA) and is a joint project of the Abbasi Program and the Middle East­ Mediterranean Studies Prrogram at Sciences Po in Paris. Travel and
lodging arrangements for the workshop participants will be provided.

The workshop will focus on the processes underlying the social construction of authority in Islamic societies and the way those processes have been affected by issues of language and the development of literacy from 17th century and onwards in the context of peripheries as well as the core regions (specifically, West Africa,
the Caucasus, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East).

Particular topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- issues concerning print, manuscript and oral tradition
- rise of new media (such as internet) and language
- the ulama's retention of authority through reassertion or, in some
cases, reinvention of their relationships to classical discourses
- the emergence of new spheres of religious authority beyond the
ulama, and how this is related to evolutions in language and literacy
- the production of Modern Standard Arabic out of classical literary
Arabic and its relationship to rise in literacy and consequent
devolution of religious authority
- the politics of languages of education in West Africa, between
Arabic and vernaculars
- the fate of Arabic as a the universal Islamic language more
generally across various regions
- the rise of English, French, and Russian as authoritative languages
of Muslim discourse in colonial and post-colonial settings
- the development of Urdu as the lingua franca of Muslim
communication in India and its relationship to reformist madrasas in
north India
- relationships between nationalisms, languages, and universal versus
local religious communities

Please submit a brief abstract (not to exceed 300 words) by September
1st 2010 via the online secure form available at:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/islamic_studies/socconst.fb

The abstract should specify the proposed paper topic, major argument(s) of the paper and the methodology used. Participants will be notified by September 30th 2010. Complete papers are to be submitted by January 14th 2011.

A copy of this CfP is available online at:
http://islamicstudies.stanford.edu/CfP0311.pdf

For questions, please contact Dr. Burcak Keskin-Kozat: at burcak@stanford.edu

Dr. Burcak Keskin-Kozat, Associate Director
The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies
Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies
Stanford University
Email: burcak@stanford.edu
Website: http://islamicstudies.stanford.edu

Archiva Moldaviae - ежегодное историко-архивное издание, публикующее относящиеся к истории Румынии и Молдавии материалы на румынском и иных европейских языках. Основная задача издания - публикация ранее неизвестных архивных документов.
Процесс публикации статей включает анонимное рецензирование.

Основные рубрики издания и правила подачи материалов:

- History Studies (based on different sources, including archival documents);

- Documents (publication of documents containing the transcription of the original text and also - for documents in foreign languages - the translation in Romanian language with introductory studies, notes, etc);

- Auxiliary Sciences of History (paleography, diplomacy, genealogy, heraldry, sigillography, etc);

- Funds Presentation (description of funds and collections preserved by public institutions or private persons);

- Archival Studies (archival theory and practice, the history of Archives);

- Restitutio (bringing to scientific circulation some materials accomplished by historians, archivists, that were not published during the authors' lives);

- Debates (discussions, polemics, according to academic rules);

- Reviews and Bibliographic Notes (sections dedicated to presentation of history and archival papers);

- Scientific Life (presentation of historical or archival conferences, symposia, debates, exhibitions, etc.).

The materials will be sent to the editorial staff in Word, Times New Roman, 12 for text and 10 for footnotes, at 1, 1/2 interline. The eventual additional materials (photos) will be sent as JPG.

The studies must not exceed, if possible, 7,000 words, respectively 40,000 graphic signs (no free spaces) (= about 20 pages A4). The editorial staff will decide to publish the larger studies divided in two or three parts. The studies will contain an abstract in Romanian and in a foreign language (English, French, German).

The reviews and bibliographic notes will not exceed 2,000 words, respectively 11,000 graphic signs (no free spaces) (about 6 pages A4). It is preferable to attach a cover photo to the reviewed paper, in JPG.

Those interested in publishing in our review are requested to send materials in electronic format to: archiva_moldaviae@yahoo.com or to mailing address of SJAN-Iaºi, Bd. Carol I, nr. 26, cod 700505, mun. Iaºi, jud. Iaºi, specifying: for *Archiva Moldaviae*.

Annual Conference of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies (2011)

Call for Papers

Proposals are invited for panels and papers for the 2011 Annual Conference of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES). We are particularly keen to receive proposals for complete panels but we are also happy to receive paper proposals that the organising committee will try to put together into panels. At its post-conference meeting the BASEES committee established a conference organising group for 2011 with separate panel streams on:

(i)culture/literature/media/gender studies;
(ii)languages/linguistics;
(iii)politics/international relations;
(iv)history;
(v)economics/political economy/industrial relations/regional policy; and
(vi)sociology/social anthropology/geography/social policy.

Members of the organising group are:

Culture/literature/media/gender studies: Dr Sarah Hudspith and Dr Seth Graham
Economics/political economy/industrial relations/regional policy: Professor Martin Myant
History: Dr Matthias Neumann
Languages, linguistics: Dagmar Divjak
Politics/international relations: Dr Karen Henderson
Sociology/social anthropology/geography/social policy: Dr John Round

To propose a panel or a paper you will need to fill in a proposal form. You should download the form and fill it in electronically, and send it electronically to the appropriate subject stream organiser AND to the conference email address. We are particularly keen to hear from postgraduate students. Postgraduate members of BASEES who present papers are eligible to apply for financial support towards their conference costs. Proposal forms can be found on the website:
http://www.basees.org.uk/conference.shtml

The deadline for all your suggestions is September 15, 2010 but it will
greatly assist us if you can send us your views in the nearest future.

Conference Email: basees.conference@lbss.gla.ac.uk

Academic Conference Organiser: Dr Cathie Carmichael, School of History,
University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ

Visit the website at http://www.basees.org.uk/conference.shtml

4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HISTORY UNDER DEBATE

Santiago de Compostela, 15-19 December 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

This makes the fourth time, twice this century, that we make a call to historians across the world to pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela to debate on the discipline of history, the great events and historical processes that we are witnessing and the demands of other cultural, political and social subjects that have a part in the writing of history.

We will be looking at what the job of the historian should be like in the 21st century. New ways of working with the sources and theories, of orienting the didactics of history, of connecting with readers and viewers through new technologies. By developing new paradigms, networks and tendencies such as History under Debate and others that arise from the new realities of the century.

Contributing from the common ground of methodology, epistemology, historiography, immediate history and digital history to the indispensable defragmentation of an ancient science that seeks a new spring in the age of globalisations without giving up historiographic breakthroughs from the 20th century that are being reformulated.

Living academic history more globally and collectively means showing an concern for the shared present, contributing our historical knowledge to the understanding and evolution of the major issues of a global now that is increasingly determining to grasp the form and the content of the job of historians, and humanities and social sciences at large.

TOPICS

THEMATIC SECTIONS

I. THE HISTORIAN’S JOB

1. New connections between historians and their sources
2. Paradigmatic innovations
3. New educational paradigm
4. Historians, audience and values
5. The new and the old in the theory of history

II. HISTORIOGRAPHY

1. 20TH century schools, 21th century challenges
2. From specialities to general debate
3. Two decades of History under Debate
4. Networks and current tendencies
5. Paradigm historiography
6. Historiography and political contexts

ROUND TABLES*

I. IMMEDIATE HISTORY

A. Obama’s century
B. 2008-2010 crisis: a historical approach
C. World governance: past and future
D. Global social movement: past and future
E. The stagnation of Europe
F. Latin America in the process of transformation
G. History and climate change
H. History and universal justice

II. HISTORY, SUBJECTS, WRITING

I. One’s own historian
J. Academic history and historical fiction
K. Historians and historical memory
L. Archeology, corporations and the State
LL. Bologna and the teaching of history

Extended Programme, rules of participation and inscription bulletin at

http://www.h-debate.com/congresos/4/menu_def_ing.htm

Carlos Barros

History under Debate Coordinator
cbarros@wanadoo.es
www.cbarros.com, www.h-debate.com
www.youtube.com/user/HistoriaDebate

The American Studies Graduate Committee at the University of Texas at Austin
calls for papers for its upcoming graduate conference, “Fault Lines,” to be
held in Austin on October 7-October 8, 2010. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research. In her keynote address, Dr. Stoler will discuss her work on the debris of empire, the political life of archival documents, and the personal and political refusal to engage colonial history through what she calls colonial aphasia.

Deadline for submissions for "Fault Lines" is August 15. We have also
extended the deadline for early registration to September 1.

The conference will center on questions of crisis and fissure and will also trace the way in which people negotiate the colonial implications of moments of crisis. The recent earthquakes in Haiti and subsequent outpouring of financial, nonprofit, and military support from the U.S. raise questions about neocolonialism and the relationship between the global north and the global south on the world stage. D

How do racial/economic/social differences/disparities play out during times of
crisis? Where/how do the cracks in the “global world” begin to reveal themselves? How are these fissures addressed or redressed through national and transnational reactions? What role does sentiment—personal and political, individual and national—play in national crises like these? How, for example, does fault or blame get assigned and meted out after a disastrous event, such as the ongoing BP oil crisis in the Gulf? How do people mobilize or fail to mobilize around emotional response? Moreover, what kind of comparisons can be drawn between contemporary and historical moments of crisis, especially in terms of the way in which these moments of crisis are narrated?

While this conference will solicit papers on a variety of topics, the theme of past and present moments of crisis and fissure and subsequent local/national/global reactions will provide a guide for submissions.
Contributors will be encouraged to think about crisis transnationally and within the U.S.

In addition to traditional conference papers, we also invite other presentation formats and creative works, such as short films and poetry/fiction/drama readings.

Though the conference program committee will primarily be assembling the
panels out of individual submissions, we also will consider pre-formed panels. Jointly authored presentations are acceptable. We also invite graduate students collaborating with community partners on service, activist, educational, artistic, or other projects to present in conjunction with those partners.

To propose a presentation, please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words and a CV of no more than one page to the American Studies Graduate Committee at utamst10@gmail.com no later than *August 15, 2010*. Submission
text may be embedded in the email or included in a Word attachment. If accepted, each graduate student presenter will be asked to pay a registration fee of $20 to help cover conference expenses. Those registering by *August 1, 2010* may register at the early-registration discount rate, which is $17.

A new web publication, The Washington Review of Turkish and Eurasian Affairs, was recently launched.

This is an online journal founded by Washington-area academics for scholarly discussion of political, social, economic, and cultural issues affecting Turkish and Eurasian societies. The journal presents a forum on a broad range of topics and facilitates building, sharing, exchange and dissemination of ideas aimed at both professional and general audiences.

The Washington Review of Turkish and Eurasian Affairs features scholarly essays, book reviews, short commentaries, and discussion. The journal welcomes the submission of original works that reflect the journal's focus and scope.

Political scientists are cordially invited to attend our reception at the annual meeting of American Political Science Association, in Washington DC, September 2-5, 2010. Our reception is scheduled for Saturday, September 4.

The Washington Review of Turkish and Eurasian Affairs, in partnership with the Center for the Study of democracy at St. Mary's College of Maryland invites paper proposals for a one-day conference to be held in Historic St. Mary's City, first capital of Maryland, on Tuesday, November 23, 2010. The goal of the conference is to address critical issues affecting Turkey and Eurasian societies. The conference will bring together scholars from across social science disciplines working on the areas including, but not limited to, democratization, constitutionalism, foreign policy, identity, social movements, and migration across the region.

The web-address of The Washington Review:

http://www.thewashingtonreview.org

Eurasianet.es ia accepting paper proposals for the workshop: "POWER AND INSTABILITY IN EURASIA: THREATS, PROCESSES AND LEADING POLITICAL ACTORS" in the IV Congress of Security and Defense organized by CEAS and MADOC.

The “IV Congress of Security and Defense: New Stabilization and Cooperation Models” organized by CEAS and MADOC will host the panel organized by Eurasianet.es on November 3rd, 4th and 5th 2010.

The workshop "POWER AND INSTABILITY IN THE EURASIAN REGION: THREATS, PROCESSES AND MAIN ACTORS" will focus on the key issues that threaten stability and security in Eurasia, but will also cover other issues that, exceeding the domains of the Security and Defense studies, affect the stability of the region as well. The workshop panel key words are “Eurasia; Balkans; Eastern Europe; Caucasus; Central Asia; Russian Federation; Political Processes; Authoritarianism and Hybrid regimes; Neopatrimonialism; Elite and Oligarchy; Clans; Political Instability; Post-electoral Revolutions; Armed Conflicts; Latent Conflicts; Securities Forces and Civil Power, Terrorist Organizations and State´s Terrorism, Power and Energy Resources; Geopolitics; Conflicts in the region between Great Powers; Interdependence; Capitalism and Privatization; Socioeconomic Inequality; Territorial Conflicts; Independences de facto but not de iure; Religion and Politics; Multi-ethnic Coexistence.”

Interested participants may submit a paper proposal (500 words) in Spanish or English before 15th of July to the coordinating team (ceas@ugr.es; info@eurasianet. es).

Accepted proposals will have until October 1st to submit the final paper and the registration form along with a photocopy or scanned copy of the receipt of payment.

More information about the congress in Spanish