Конференции и семинары / Conferences and seminars

Обнародовано итоговое заявление конференции «Научная диаспора и будущее российской науки», проходившей 24-25 июня 2010 г. в Европейском университете Санкт-Петербурга.

Как сообщается на веб-сайте Европейского университета, "в конференции приняли участие ведущие учёные российского происхождения (математики, физики, биологи, историки, социологи, антропологи, экономисты), работающие в США, Германии, Франции, Англии и других странах, и учёные, активно работающие в России. Главная цель конференции состояла в выработке общей позиции ученых "диаспоры" и "метрополии" по вопросам научного и организационного сотрудничества, проблемам структурных реформ науки в России и взаимодействию научного сообщества с правительством Российской Федерации."

В итоговом документе конференции содержатся, в частности, следующие положения:

"1. Конференция констатирует наличие глубокого структурного кризиса российской науки, продолжающееся ослабление ее позиций в мировой науке, усугубление научной изоляции России. Причинами этих крайне опасных тенденций являются как хроническое недофинансирование науки в России в последние 20 лет, продолжающееся и поныне, так и непоследовательная государственная научная политика.

2. В последнее время Президент и Правительство РФ объявили о ряде мер по укреплению и развитию отечественной науки, имеющих целью поддержать активные научные исследования на конкурсной основе, сформировать современные научно-инновационные центры, поддержать интеграцию науки и образования, привлечь к работе в России известных зарубежных специалистов, наладить связи с российской научной диаспорой.

С удовлетворением отмечая возросшее внимание руководства России к проблемам науки, конференция тем не менее вынуждена констатировать, что реализация многих из вышеперечисленных мер пока не соответствуют лучшей международной практике.

3. Характерным примером является объявленная в дни работы конференции правительственная программа приглашения ведущих учёных для работы в российских вузах. На конференции неоднократно отмечалось, что успех этого конкурса явится важнейшим индикатором серьёзности провозглашённого курса на сотрудничество с мировой наукой и российской научной диаспорой – и на улучшение ситуации в российской науке в целом.

В целом поддерживая идею программы и отмечая ее во многом революционный характер, конференция обращает внимание на существенные недостатки в ее реализации. В частности, времени на подготовку совместных заявок между ведущими учеными и российскими вузами было выделено чрезвычайно мало; конкурс объявлен летом, в период отпусков; не разработаны – или по крайней мере не опубликованы – процедуры проведения экспертизы заявок. Кроме того, не объявлено и о видении развития созданных ведущими учеными лабораторий после окончания проекта.

Данные недостатки ставят под угрозу успех реализации программы. Участники конференции считают, что планируемая международная экспертиза заявок – безусловно, правильное решение, однако обращают внимание на отсутствие регламентирования принятия окончательных решений о выборе победителей конкурса Советом по грантам на основании результатов экспертизы.

Мы призываем применять международные стандарты в процессе отбора и финансировать только те заявки, которые по результатам международной экспертизы удовлетворяют высочайшим критериям научного качества, даже если число таких заявок окажется меньше восьмидесяти грантов, предусмотренных программой.

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4. Конференция подчеркивает необходимость тесной связи науки и образования, как в научно-исследовательских институтах и национальных исследовательских центрах, так и в университетах, в том числе и вновь созданных национальных исследовательских университетах. В то же время, конференция выражает озабоченность по поводу непродуманности этих планов в случае некоторых университетов и центров. В частности, критические замечания вызвала деятельность по созданию Национального исследовательского центра «Курчатовский институт» (НИЦ КИ) – многие участники конференции отмечали, что пока не наблюдается увеличения количества научных публикаций в международных научных журналах сотрудников НИЦ КИ, отсутствует публичное обсуждение ситуации в НИЦ КИ и обоснование присоединения к НИЦ КИ других исследовательских институтов.

В этой связи конференция считает, что было бы целесообразно ввести единую систему оценки национальных исследовательских центров, научных учреждений, и национальных исследовательских университетов, основанную на регулярной экспертизе их научной деятельности научными советами, состоящими из ведущих мировых экспертов, включая иностранных специалистов и представителей научной диаспоры. Ключевую роль при оценке научных проектов и результативности институтов и лабораторий должно играть независимое экспертное мнение активно работающих учёных с международной репутацией. В качестве объективных критериев должны использоваться международно признанные индексы цитирования. Участники конференции считают, что Российский индекс научного цитирования (РИНЦ) пока (по крайней мере, без существенной доработки) не может использоваться в качестве показателя научных достижений. В настоящее время его использование скорее дискредитирует идею библиометрических показателей.

5. Конференция выражает озабоченность сокращением финансирования Российской академии наук (РАН), а также бюджетов Российского фонда фундаментальных исследований (РФФИ) и Российского гуманитарного научного фонда (РГНФ). Конференция поддерживает обращение к Президенту РФ более 2200 российских учёных по этому поводу, а также по поводу неприменимости Закона о госзакупках к финансированию научных исследований. При этом конференция отмечает, что негативные тенденции в работе РФФИ, такие как ослабление уровня экспертизы и усиление роли «административного ресурса», могут и должны быть преодолены. Конференция считает, что конкурсное финансирование через научные фонды соответствует международной практике и должно быть расширено, а не сокращено."


C полной версией итогового заявления можно обзнакомиться здесь, а также отдельно, в pdf-формате

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

The International Seminar in Memory of Richard Stites, Helsinki, Finland

Photo: Professor Richard Stites. By Irma Reijonen

On August 2nd and 3rd, some forty scholars gathered in the National Library of Finland to honor the scholarly legacy of Professor Richard Stites, 1931-2010. The Washington-based historian had been a frequent visitor to Finland for over 30 years, and used the Slavonic Collection extensively in his groundbreaking historical research on Russian history and culture. He died in Helsinki on March 7th.

Organized by Professor Natalia Baschmakoff, the seminar was truly international, with scholars arriving from the US and the UK, continental Europe and Russia. The event was sponsored by The Competence Centre in Russian and Border Studies (EEWD), The University of Eastern Finland, The Aleksanteri Institute, and The Slavonic Collection of the National Library of Finland.

The seminar combined excellent scholarly presentations with personal reminiscences of Professor Stites, many by very close friends of his. Speakers included Professor Boris Gasparov of Columbia University, Professor Daniela Steila of Torino University, and Professor Simon Dixon of University College London. The topics ranged from ballet, to music, to contemporary cinema plus many aspects of historiography, all reflecting the broad range of Stites’ research interests over his long career.

The seminar’s title originated in a quote from Stite’s last interview, in which he states memorably that “a historian must be an archeologist, a rabbi, a lawyer, and a poet… The historian, like any other writer, should compose, refine, and edit, not only with readers in mind but also in order to express the passion of an argument.”

Although tinged with sadness at his recent loss, the seminar was animated by a spirit of lively discussion and humor – a true tribute to a man who was both a witty, charismatic lover of life, and a dedicated and inspiring scholar and teacher.

The seminar culminated in the unveiling of a plaque honoring the memory of Richard Stites in the Slavonic Collection of the National Library.

Brendan Humphreys
Researcher at Aleksanteri Institute, the Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies.

Source: http://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/extra/bulletin/brief4.html

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:

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

IV Международная конференция "История как поле для дебатов"

Сантьяго-де-Компостела, Испания, 15-19 декабря 2010 г.

Приглашение авторов и участников

В четвертый раз в этом столетии историки со всего мира cоберутся для участия в конференции, посвященной дискуссиям вокруг истории как академической дисциплины и проблем историописания в меняющихся условиях современности.

На этот раз главное внимание в ходе конференции будет уделено дебатам о работе историка в XXI столетии, новым технологиям, подходам в работе с источниками, спорам вокруг новых теорий, формирующих дидактическую часть дисциплины; новых парадигм, тенденций и сообществ, появление которых диктуется новыми реалиями столетия.

Внесение вклада в обширных областях методологии, эпистемологии, историографии, политической истории и "цифровых" технологий должно способствовать дефрагментации исторической дисциплины, подживить ее в эпоху глобализации, и в то же время, обратить внимание на необходимость творческой переработки историографического наследия минувшего, XX столетия.

Живая академическая традиция в ее коллективном и глобальном измерениях обращает взоры ее творцов на нераздельность опыта проживаемого настоящего, делая посильный вклад в понимание глобальных процессов, осмысление содержания и форм которых - и есть суть работы историков; задача, актуальная для всех наук гуманитарного цикла.

Тематические секции конференции: "Работа историка", "Историография"
Круглые столы: "Новейшая политическая история", "История, историописание и его объекты".

Более подробно о программе конференции, условиях участия:

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

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

14-15 октября 2010 года в Тамбове состоится Первая Всероссийская научная конференция «Ономастика и общество: язык и культура»

Конференция пройдёт в рамках направления «Проблемы региональной ономастики» (руководитель — д.ф.н., профессор А. С. Щербак) на базе лабораторий «Экология языка и речи» (руководитель — д.ф.н., профессор В. Г. Руделёв) и «Современные говоры в системе языковой культуры» (руководитель — д.ф.н., профессор С. В. Пискунова) кафедры русского языка Института русской филологии Тамбовского государственного университета имени Г. Р. Державина при поддержке Управления образования и науки Тамбовской области.

Срок представления рукописей для публикации: до 15 октября 2010 года.

Программа конференции включает:
– круглый стол «Ономастика начала XXI века: актуальные проблемы ономастики и перспективы положения имени собственного в языке»;
– мастер-классы для молодых филологов «Достижения современной ономастики, актуальные задачи российской прикладной ономастики»;
– выставку ономастических изданий преподавателей Института русской филологии ТГУ имени Г.Р.Державина;
– серию пленарных заседаний с участием известных российских специалистов в области современной ономастики;
– секционные заседания по следующим направлениям:
 теоретические аспекты ономастики. Методология ономастических исследований;
 ономастика в ее истории и предыстории;
 имя собственное в социокультурном пространстве и культурном сознании эпохи;
 имя собственное как национальная, региональная и локальная память территории;
 имя собственное в Интернете;
 ономастика в школе;
 прикладная ономастика.

Более подробно, детали, контакты - здесь!

Адреса оргкомитета:
392000, г. Тамбов, ул. Интернациональная, 33, ТГУ им. Г.Р. Державина, Институт русской филологии, кафедра русского языка.
Е-mail: mholodkova2@mail.ru

ВНИМАНИЮ исследователей из России: приглашение к участию

Международный ежеквартальный журнал "Ab Imperio: исследования по новой имперской истории и национализму в постсоветcком пространстве", афилиированный с Американской ассоциацией содействия славистическим исследованиям (AAASS), объявляет о проведении ежегодного семинара в Казани, РФ, 7-11 октября 2010 г.

Главная цель этого мероприятия, ставшего уже практически ежегодным, соотвествует миссии журнала: наведению междисциплинарных мостов между разными узкими областями исследований и разными академическими традициями. Объединяя ученых, работающих в разных исследовательских и региональных областях гуманитарного знания, журнал старается восстановить тот широкий исторический контекст, который в прошлом был характерен для академического течения, известного как "Russian/Soviet Studies".

Более подробно о ключевых моментах программы семинара в 2010 г., cтратегии дальнеших мероприятий, а также об условиях участия:

The primary goal of Ab Imperio seminar is to build on the journal’s mission: to bridge the ever-broadening divides between different disciplines, narrowly defined area studies, and national academic traditions. By bringing together scholars from different regional and topical fields, the journal strives to restore a broader historical context that was sustained in the past by the common field, formerly known as “Russian/Soviet Studies.” The disintegration of that field into a variety of national and regional historiographies opened up new research possibilities and inaugurated new research agendas, but the parallel demise of the common sphere of knowledge and reference threatens the very prospects of newly independent areas studies. Any attempts to write a “Russian” history in isolation from Ukrainian historical materials, or to sustain a narrow focus on Central Asian events without a proper knowledge of the empire-wide policies and institutions lead to all kinds of one-sided and even erroneous conclusions. A broad historical context and a common sphere of reference are needed to avoid a usual anachronism of imposing contemporary political map upon the distant past. (An opposite development is highly improbable: the broadening of the scope of historical analysis would not result in the erosion of the present-day political sovereignty). It is quite a challenge to attempt reconstructing a broader historiographic context in the absence of any formal or informal institutional settings.

Thus, the first stage of a new series of seminars conceived by Ab Imperio can be compared to the outlining a roadmap. We depart from an assumption that individual scholars operate within semi-isolated research fields structured, simultaneously, by the unique empirical case studies and universal analytical models and concepts. The former make a cross-field dialogue impossible (every case study is unlike the other), the latter make it redundant (“microhistory” or “new political history” are too general notions). What is missing is the sphere of middle-range generalizations that would provide for a meaningful dialogue of scholars studying different periods in the past of neighboring regions. Ab Imperio offers a general framework of empire studies as a middle-range theoretical device allowing to accommodate individual unique case studies in a common conceptual sphere without the imposition of any single normative explanatory scheme (be it a narrative of groupness, or a teleological perspective of regional development). Imperial history will be used as an analytical resource for re-thinking a variety of historical phenomena that include contested historical memory, cultural construction of identity in the situation of historically formed diversity, historically varied projects and modernity and the definition of the self.

The seminar will encourage scholars to reflect on their individual research projects as belonging to their respective specific fields, yet at some level related to each other as different “windows” on the common heterogeneous historical reality. As a general guide, the organizers offer the following questions:


1. How does the specific historical experience of the post-Soviet space complicate the universality of historical paradigms? Linked to this question is the query about how do contemporary scholars define the boundaries of the region from the viewpoint of their own research questions.


2. Are there interesting cases that prove that historians of the region can be pioneers in suggesting new methodological frameworks for other historical fields? Alternatively, which particular aspects of the study of the region have the potential to influence historical scholarship at large?


3. One can say that the regional studies of post Soviet space have been behind the “western” innovative historical research in opening such perspectives as cultural history or historical memory. Is it the case, judging from your experience? What is the reason for this state of affairs?


4. What are the challenges of synthesizing historical knowledge in usable narratives in our region? In other words, how can the rapidly disintegrating and destabilizing field be thought of as a coherent text to be translated into textbooks?

Ab Imperio covers travel expenses of the participants (including airfaire and ground transportation, hotel, and per diem in Kazan).

Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction
At the University of Oxford, History Faculty
Friday 12 - Saturday 13 November 2010
[Funded by the AHRC, BASEES, UEA and University of Oxford]

The University of Oxford and UEA are pleased to announce a two-day collaborative workshop for current postgraduate students planning to make research trips to, or involving sources from, former Soviet states.

The workshop will have a strong interdisciplinary focus, incorporating talks on researching History, Film, Theatre, Visual Art, Literature, Language, Music, Cultural Studies and Memory. We aim to stimulate exchange and interaction not only between institutions, but also across academic disciplines.

In addition to papers from experienced academic researchers, participants will have the opportunity to hear from fellow postgraduates who have just completed extensive research trips, primarily in Russia and Ukraine, and will share crucial practical information and give advice on the evolution of a project during the
research process.

Each day will end with informal roundtable discussions at which attendees can meet with speakers most relevant to their own research and speak to them at greater length.

Keynote Address:
Professor Catriona Kelly (New College, Oxford)

Confirmed Speakers include:
Professor Catherine Merridale (Queen Mary)
Dr Daniel Beer (Royal Holloway)
Dr Seth Graham (UCL, SSEES)

Applications are invited from research students in all disciplines to
attend this innovative event.

Please email: jonathan.waterlow@history.ox.ac.uk including your name, institutional
affiliation and the title of your research project. Wherever possible we will make contributions towards travel expenses and provide assistance with accommodation.

III European Congress on Universal and Global History: "Area Studies in
the Soviet Union: Actors, Entanglements and Paradigms"
London, England
April, 14-17, 2011

Area Studies, as a specifically institutionalized form of producing knowledge about the world, its different regions and the entanglements between them, have played a particular role especially in the second half of 20th century, contributing to the understanding of global processes and generating knowledge ofspecific significance in the context of the Cold War rivalry between two competing political systems. After 1989 they have been subject to considerable criticism addressing both the categories and epistemologies developedby area studies questioned as Eurocentric and the alleged instrumentalization of area studies for political and ideological means.

This debate has mostly been focused on Western area studies, while astonishingly the field in Eastern Europe has been rarely investigated since 1989, with the Soviet Union being no exception.

In contrast it shall be argued, that the question of how this specific kind of knowledge was produced and how it was integrated into larger political and scientific frameworks in Eastern Europe, especially in the Soviet Union must not be marginalized. The history of area studies cannot be understood without taking into account the counterparts on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Additionally, investigating the history of area studies in the Soviet Union can offer insights into how processes of an intensifying globalization were shaped by actors and societies on the Eastern side of the Berlin Wall.

There have been recent but nascent attempts to historicize the production of area studies knowledge as well as the entanglement of the socialist humanities and social sciences with world regions such as Africa and Latin America especially for the Soviet Union. Often rooted in a longer tradition of Oriental studies in the late 19th and early 20th century, first attempts to intensify area studies research were
developed in the context of ComIntern activities and gained considerable momentum in the1950s and 1960s, with the process of decolonization in Africa and Asia triggering intensive public and political interest all over the world. Yet, the development of Area Studies in the Soviet Union cannot be reduced to their history during the Cold War, but should be interpreted against a complex background of a longer history of the disciplines included as well as early of previous institutionalization.

Proposals for this panel are invited which will address the history of area studies such as African and Oriental studies in the Soviet Union with special attention to the 20th century, thus contributing to the history of science in the Cold War era and addressing the question of how knowledge became framed and territorialized in the context of a bipolar but at the same time ever integrating world.

Key issues could be:

1. Which paradigms, methodologies and concepts have been developed in
the USSR to describe and explain a changing world order? Which
narratives and theories have been developed to analyze development and
modernization processes - also in contrast or in competition to
proposals made by Western scholars? How had these been rooted in a
longer tradition of area studies before the First world war?

2. Which actors and institutions participated in the process of
knowledge production and how was this integrated into a larger social
and political context?

3. Which kind of entanglements between the Soviet Union and other world
regions such Africa, Latin America, Asia have been established and how
did these encounters challenge assumptions and narratives developed in
Eastern and Central Europe? Which role did Soviet institutions and
scholars play in theformation of the larger field of area studies in
Eastern and Central Europe as a whole?

Abstracts of 300-500 words shall be sent to:

Steffi Marung
GWZO Leipzig, Germany
Email: marung@uni-leipzig.de

Deadline for application is 31 July 2010.
Conference languages are English, French and German, presentations in
Russian might be negotiated with the conference organizers.

Contact:
Steffi Marung, GWZO Leipzig
Email: marung@uni-leipzig.de
Website:
http://hsozkult.geschichte.huberlin.de/termine/id=14028

Workshop at the University of Sheffield (UK), 30-31 October 2010

BETWEEN HISTORY AND PAST: SOVIET LEGACY AS THE TRAUMATIC OBJECT OF CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN CULTURE

The workshop will address the relationship between contemporary Russian culture and Russia's Soviet past, the relationship characterized by profound ambiguity. Almost two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union Russian society and culture is still very much dependent on its Soviet heritage, which is upheld and rejected, often simultaneously, in practically all fields of symbolic production, from state ideology to architecture, from elitist literature to mass culture.

The aim of the workshop is to navigate the array of discourses in order to trace the ways in which Soviet past functions not as a self-contained object, however complex and ambiguous, but rather as a space of projections, displacements and symbolizations, as a symptom whose affective charge betrays the urgency of its underlying problematic.

The main impetus behind the workshop is to look at the Soviet past through the traumatic contradictions of the present. Contemporary Russian culture is suspended between the unstable historical narrative of the new nation's emergence from the ruins of the USSR and the legacy of Soviet culture, whose models, revolutionary or Stalinist, no longer work. The resultant impossibility of symbolic structuration creates a tangible traumatic void at the core of contemporary Russian culture which its subjects try to fill with their inconsistent, emotional, and ideologically charged interventions. Whether praised or vilified, likened to the present of contrasted with it, the Soviet past is influenced by Russia's current predicament in no lesser degree than it itself influences Russia's present.

The workshop will be coordinated with Russian Aviation and Space: Technology and Cultural Imagination workshop that will be held at the University of Leeds, UK, on 29 October 2010 (for more details please visit http://aviation.vladstrukov.com/). Sheffield and Leeds are within a short train ride from each other.

You may send a querya about the workshop to the organizers, Evgeny Dobrenko and Andrey Shcherbenok, at: shcherbenok@ gmail.com (also, please note that the formal deadline was in June 2010!)

Российская академия наук, Министерство образования и науки РФ, Южный научный центр РАН, Институт социологии РАН, Ставропольский государственный университет приглашают ученых принять участие во Всероссийской научно-практической конференции «Социальное самочувствие населения в современной России» в рамках Программы фундаментальных исследований президиума РАН «Фундаментальные проблемы пространственного развития Российской Федерации: междисциплинарный синтез», которая будет проходить 4-5 октября 2010 года в г. Ставрополе.

Работа конференции будет организована по следующим направлениям:
1. Социальное самочувствие: теоретико-методологические проблемы
2. Социальное самочувствие как интегральный показатель трансформационных процессов в современном обществе
3. Трудовые отношения как фактор социального настроения россиян
4. Межэтнические отношения в повседневной жизни полиэтничного региона
5. Мигранты и местное население: проблемы согласования интересов
6. Политические установки в условиях этнополитической нестабильности
7. Этноконфессиональная ситуация в южно-российском макрорегионе
8. Социальные ожидания россиян в условиях обострения угроз и рисков на Юге России
9. Самоидентификация молодежи в новой социокультурной реальности

Формы участия: устный доклад, стендовый доклад. Докладчикам будут предоставлены: мультимедийный проектор для презентаций. Презентационные материалы оформлять в формате PowerPoint (1997-2003).

Заявки на участие в конференции (регистрационная форма прилагается) принимаются до 15 июля 2010 г. (срок может быть продлен до 1 августа 2010 г.), по e-mail: otdel_kavkaza@rambler.ru

РЕГИСТРАЦИОННАЯ КАРТА
участника Всероссийской научно-практической конференции
«Социальное самочувствие населения в современной России»
(4-5 октября 2010г.)

Фамилия:
Имя, отчество:
Организация:
Должность:
Ученая степень:
Почтовый адрес, индекс:
Телефон:
E-mail:
Форма участия: очное / заочное
Гостиница: Да / нет (если «да», указать даты приезда и отъезда)
Название доклада:
Соавторы:
Дата:

Статьи докладов необходимо прислать до 20 августа 2010 г., по e-mail: otdel_kavkaza@rambler.ru

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Globalizing Eurasia? Impacts on the Region and the World

October 5–7, 2010
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University

Application Submission Deadline: August 15, 2010

The Eurasia Program of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), in partnership with the Davis Center, invites applications for a three-day interdisciplinary dissertation development workshop for doctoral students.

What factors affect Eurasia and its relationship with the world? The conceptual frameworks associated with globalization invite questions concerning the importance of social and cultural place, the definitions of geographic and conceptual regions, and the nature of national economic institutions, environmental issues, and political identities. To what extent can the conceptual frameworks of globalization enhance our understanding of Eurasia? How can the varied and complex experiences of Eurasia challenge and expand our understanding of globalization? This dissertation development workshop will convene junior scholars interested in these questions for an intensive workshop led by a group of interdisciplinary senior scholars. The workshop will bring together PhD candidates from across the social science disciplines. We welcome work ranging from interpretive categories (e.g., empire, state, ethnicity, modernity or authoritarianism) to transnational processes (for example, development, trade, migration, health, terrorism, languages or Diasporas). Following a workshop format, the meeting will provide opportunities to discuss ideas and research plans, solicit feedback from fellow dissertators and nationally known resource faculty, and enhance scholarly networks and contacts.

Please foolow this link for more details and overview of requirements

Conference "Transnational Dimensions of Cold War Anticommunism"

Luc van Dongen, Claude Hauser, Stéphanie Roulin and Damir Skenderovic
(University of Fribourg, Switzerland). Support from the Swiss
National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Institute of Swiss
Contemporary History (ISCH). Also with the collaboration of Giles
Scott-Smith (Leiden University, Netherlands),

Fribourg, Switzerland
31.10.2011-01.11.2011
Deadline: 01.09.2010

Against the background of potential nuclear devastation and the
confrontation between two ideologies and world powers, an
unrestrained psychological war was fought by the two camps using
modern means of communication (radio, cinema, covert action, etc). In
the West the Cold War was marked by widespread and intense forms of
anti-communism. Generally this was antitotalitarian in nature and
dramatic in tone. In response to the USSR and its Communist Party
acolytes gaining power, and in reaction to important historical
events (Czech Coup, Berlin Blockade, the purges, Korea War, Cuba
Crisis, decolonisation, Vietnam War, etc.), various forms of anti-
communist struggle, discourse and representation arose. While some
anti-communist endeavours built on earlier initiatives, others took
on new forms, such as the large-scale institutionalisation of
clandestine operations by the United States after 1947-48. Although
anti-communist partisans have spoken of the struggle against
communism in terms of a "crusade" (implying the idea of collective
action and a sanctified mission) in retaliation to a threat globally
orchestrated from Moscow, critics have accused the U.S. of illegal
intervention around the world, either militarily or subversively via
the CIA. In recent years there has also been growing interest in
importance and impact of propaganda and public diplomacy conducted in
particular by the US and its allies.

When it comes to assessing these developments, the key question of
the "transnationality" of anti-communism has rarely been raised. This
conference looks to explore this field in breadth and depth through
the following questions:

To what extent was "anti-communism" actually planned, coordinated,
and structured at the transnational level?

What kinds of interactions and interdependences can be observed in
the different types of organised anti-communism on the transatlantic
and European levels?

What were some of the dynamics in the transfer of practices, ideas
and methods?

What types of networks were created in the struggle against the "red
peril"?

In comparison to the interwar period, to what extent were these
developments new, or merely a continuation of previous activities?

The conference will examine the transnational dimensions of Cold War
anti-communism by bringing together perspectives on the various
connections, involvements, exchanges, relationships and transfers
between societies. This will look in detail at the notion of Western
"anti-communist solidarity" and help to disclose the limits, failures
and shifting phases of this solidarity across the public and private
spheres ("state-private networks"). Since the dominant narrative of
Cold War anti-communism is US-centric, reflecting the greater
resources and leadership role of that nation, it is the aim to build
a more complex picture of this phenomenon by looking at European
initiatives operating separate from (or aligned with) US interests.

In order to explore these issues, the conference aims to bring
together an international group of historians together with scholars
from other disciplines such as sociology, political science,
literature, and film studies. Paper proposals can adopt a comparative
or single country approach as long as a transnational perspective is
present in the analysis. The conference will be divided into three
broad research areas: the "political" area (actions), the "social"
area (networks), and the "cultural" area (transfers, representations,
receptions, political cultures).

The organisers will cover accommodation costs in Fribourg during the
conference. If necessary, funding will be available for covering
travel costs.

Paper proposals should consist of a title and an abstract of max
4,000 characters, together with a brief CV. Please send proposals to
Luc van Dongen.

Since the University of Fribourg is a bilingual university (French
and German), the participants are kindly invited to present their
paper in one of the two languages. However, papers in English are
also welcome as long as a substantial abstract in German and/or
French is available for the audience.

Luc van Dongen
Université de Fribourg, Faculté des lettres
Avenue de l'Europe 20, CH-1700 Fribourg
luc.vandongen@unifr.ch

On May 5-7, 2011, an international conference on
"The USSR and WWII" will be held in Paris.

Those wishing to participate are warmly encouraged to
present a proposal, following the guidelines of the call for papers whose
French, English and Russian versions can be found on the conference site,
http://lodel.ehess.fr/cercec/document.php?id=1540.

Proposals are to be presented by Sept. 30, 2010 and should be mailed to
WWII.USSR@ehess.fr, using the form (formulaire) available on the same
conference site.

International Scientific Committee: Alain Blum, Dietrich Beyrau, Catherine
Gousseff, Andrea Graziosi, Oleg Khlevniuk, Mark Kramer, Nathalie Moine,
Andrei Sorokin, Alexander Vatlin, David Wolff.

Local scientific and organizing committee: Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, Alain
Blum, Sabine Dullin, Christian Ingrao, Marie-Hélène
Mandrillon, Jean-Christophe Romer.

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5-7 мая 2011 в Париже планируется проведение конференции "CCCР и Вторая мировая война".

Желающие принять участие в готовящемся мероприятии могут высылать заявки в соотвествии с правилами подачи материалов, с которыми можно ознакомиться на сайте (доступны варианты правил на русском, французском и английском):
http://lodel.ehess.fr/cercec/document.php?id=1540.

Конечный срок подачи заявок: 30 сентября 2010 года

В состав научного комитеа конференции входят: Ален Блюм, Олег Хлевнюк, Дэвид Вулф и др.

The Global 1989: A New Generation

A Princeton University Conference on the 20th anniversary of the events of 1989
October 22-24, 2009

October 22, 2009 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm Frist Campus Center,
Multipurpose Room B
October 23, 2009 8:30 am-10:00 pm 219 Aaron Burr Hall
October 24, 2009 8:30 am-5:00 pm 219 Aaron Burr Hall

program available here:
http://www.princeton.edu/cch/events/conferences/program/

ЛИЧНОСТЬ И СИСТЕМА:
ПРОБЛЕМА ВЛИЯНИЯ СОЦИОКУЛЬТУРНЫХ И ЛИЧНОСТНЫХ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИК РЕГИОНАЛЬНЫХ ЧИНОВНИКОВ НА ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТЬ МЕСТНОГО УПРАВЛЕНИЯ В ПОРЕФОРМЕННОЙ РОССИИ
(краткий обзор прошедшей дискуссии)

Государственный историко-архитектурный и художественный
музей-заповедник «Казанский Кремль»
Институт истории им. Ш. Марджани АН РТ

Информационное письмо №1

25-26 сентября 2009 г. в Музее-заповеднике «Казанский Кремль» состоятся

Вторые Кремлевские чтения

«Екатерина II и имперское многообразие России: опыт политического и культурного взаимодействия»

Тема Вторых Кремлевских чтений приурочена к 280-летию со дня рождения императрицы Екатерины II. В рамках чтений предполагается обсудить следующие проблемы:

- Веротерпимость в политической культуре Екатерины II;
- Локальные элиты и практики легитимации власти Екатерины II;
- Полиэтничная картина Российской империи второй половины XVIII в. и способы ее репрезентации;
- Имперская идеология и имперская практика в царствование Екатерины II;
- Эпоха Екатерины II в научно-исследовательской и экспозиционно-выставочной деятельности музеев России.

К участию приглашаются сотрудники научных институтов, учебных заведений, научных журналов, молодые ученые. Музей-заповедник «Казанский Кремль» выражает особую заинтересованность в участии со стороны музеев и музеев-заповедников России.

Проезд и проживание оплачиваются направляющей стороной.

Планируется издание сборника материалов конференции. В сборник будут включены как статьи авторов, принимающих участие в конференции, так и заочные работы, принятые в установленный срок.

В заявке необходимо указать фамилию, имя и отчество, ученую степень, звание, занимаемую должность и организацию (учреждение), телефон, e-mail и тему доклада.

Требования к оформлению статьи: текст представляется в бумажном или электронном вариантах (на дискете или по электронной почте), объем не более 10 страниц, текст Times New Roman, размер шрифта 14, интервал 1,5 мм, абзац 1,25 см, параметры страницы: верхнее и нижнее поля – 2 см; левое – 3 см; правое - 1,5 см; сноски – постраничные.

Заявки принимаются до 1 сентября – на очное участие, до 1 ноября – на публикацию в сборнике. Заявки направлять по адресу: 420014, Казань, Кремль, 2-й подъезд, Музей-заповедник «Казанский Кремль», либо по электронной почте: imin@kazan-kremlin.ru
Контактная информация: Миннуллин Ильнур Рафаэлевич, заместитель директора по научно-исследовательской работе, тел: (843) 567-81-26, 292-91-04,
imin@kazan-kremlin.ru;
Идрисова Римма Равефовна, ученый секретарь, тел: (843) 567-80-30, rimma.idrisova@kazan-kremlin.ru

COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL
LE PRECEPTEUR FRANCOPHONE EN EUROPE: la Russie et d’autres pays européens, XVIIe-XIXe s.
18-19 septembre 2009
Saint-Pétersbourg, Palais Stroganov

Vendredi 18 septembre

9h –9h30 Accueil des participants au palais Stroganov

9h30 –9h45 Ouverture du colloque

9h45-11h15 LES PRECEPTEURS EN RUSSIE
Président : Marie-Pierre Rey, université Paris I

Les précepteurs français en Russie au XVIIIe siècle, bilan d’un projet de recherche; Vladislav Rjéoutski, universités Paris III et Paris IV

Des cours particuliers aux écoles privées : les précepteurs et les écoles privées en Russie, fin XVIIIe – début XIXe siècles; Svetlana Frolova, Académie d’administration étatique et municipale, Kazan

Les précepteurs étrangers en Russie, 1820-1850; Olga Solodiankina, université de Tcherepovetsk

Pause 11h15-11h30

11h30-12h30 UN EDUCATEUR SUISSE EN RUSSIE : FREDERIC-CESAR DE LA HARPE
Président : Wladimir Berelowitch, EHESS, Paris, université de Genève

Les débuts pédagogiques de Frédéric-César de La Harpe et ses relations avec Friedrich Melchior Grimm; Alexandre Stroev, université Paris III

La Harpe éducateur du futur Alexandre Ier; Marie-Pierre Rey, université Paris I

145h30-15h30 LES PRECEPTEURS EN EUROPE CENTRALE ET OCCIDENTALE
Président : Jean Caravolas, université du Québec à Montréal

Les éducateurs huguenots à Hambourg et à Londres, XVIIe-XVIIIe ss.; Suzanne Lachenicht, université de Hambourg

Les précepteurs français en Pologne au siècle des Lumières; Małgorzata Kamecka, Uniwersytet w Bialymstoku

Les précepteurs français en Bohême au XVIIIe s.; Ivo Cerman, université de Bohême du Sud

Pause 15h30-15h45

15h45-17h15 LES PRECEPTEURS FRANÇAIS ET LA DIDACTIQUE DES LANGUES
Président : Alexandre Tchoudinov, Institut d’histoire universelle

Les précepteurs et les enseignants des langues dans les pays européens aux XVIIe-XVIIIe s. et les traditions didactiques; Jean Caravolas, université du Québec à Montréal

Le précepteur de Laval, auteur de la première grammaire française bilingue pour les Russes, 1752; Sergueï Vlassov, université de Saint-Pétersbourg

Excursion à la bibliothèque de Voltaire, Bibliothèque nationale de Russie

Samedi 19 septembre

9h15-11h30 LES PRECEPTEURS ET LEURS ELEVES : LA RUSSIE ET L’ALLEMAGNE
Président : Sergueï Kouznetsov, Musée d’Etat Russe

Huguenots précepteurs du jeune Prince Frédéric – Frédéric II, Praeceptor Germaniae; Manuela Boehm, université de Potsdam

Gilbert Romme-précepteur; Alexandre Tchoudinov, Académie des sciences de Russie

L’ombre d’un précepteur sur la perspective Nevski : Jean-Antoine, baron Alexandre Stroganov et leur voyage en Europe en 1752-1757; Sergueï Kouznetsov, Musée d’Etat Russe

Les gouverneurs des Russes à l'étranger : le cas d'un clan Golitsyne sous Catherine II; Wladimir Berelowitch, EHESS, université de Genève

13h30-15h00 LES PRECEPTEURS FRANÇAIS ET LA CULTURE RUSSE
Président : Alexandre Stroev, université Paris III

Nicolas-Gabriel Le Clerc et la propagande des réformes pédagogiques de la Cour de Russie; Vladimir Somov, Conservatoire national Rimski-Korsakov, Saint-Pétersbourg

L’image du précepteur et les idées pédagogiques de Rousseau dans la culture russe; Alla Zlatopolskaïa, Bibliothèque nationale de Russie

Les précepteurs dans l'oeuvre de Léon Tolstoï; Alla Polossina, Musée Yasnaïa Poliana

15h00-15h30 Discussion

Clôture du colloque

16h00-17h30 Excursion au Musée d’Etat RusseRéception au Consulat Général de France à Saint-Pétersbourg

19.30 Réception au Consulat Général de France à Saint-Pétersbourg
Adresse : Palais Stroganov, 17, perspective Nevski, Saint-Pétersbourg

Contacts pour toute information complémentaire :
rjeoutski@free.fr / (33)620440730 (Vladislav Rjéoutski)
Centre franco-russe de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales : centre-fr.net (Marc Elie)
DHI : dhi-moskau.de (Ingrid Schierle)

The Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution invites you to participate in a round table on

Regional Development and Conflict in the Russian Federation

Friday, May 22

at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution George Mason University
Room 555
3330 N. Washington Blvd.
(Truland Building, 5th Floor)
Arlington, VA 22201

Schedule of Events:
8.30 - 9.00 Coffee

9.00 ­ 11.00 Round table: “Education and regional development in the Russian Federation”

Participants (rectors and provosts from six regional Universities):
1. Galina Maltseva, first provost, Vladivostok State University of Economy and Service
“On the way toward socially responsible university”
2. Sergey Duzhikov, Pro-rector on international development, South Federal University
“Innovative programs of the University and social and economic development of the South Federal district”

3. Evgeniy Vaganov, rector, Siberian Federal University
“University and social and economic development of local and regional communities under current crisis”

4. Dmitry Pusankov, rector, Sankt-Petersburg State Electro technical University
“University and urban development”

5. Sergei Mistchenko, rector, Tambov State Technical University
“Contribution of Tambov State Technical University into Social and economic development of the Tambov region”

6. Yuriy Pimeniv, rector, Astrakhan State Technical University
“University collaboration with local authorities, local business and HGOs”

11.00 -11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 ­ 1.30 Round table: “Problems of Regional Development in Russian Federation”

Participants:
1. Ermakov Valery. Mayor of Lennisk-Kuznetskii (Kemerov region)
2. Grigoryev Sergey. President of the “SUEK for Regions” Foundation
3. Kortunov Andrey. President of the New Eurasia Foundation
4. Smirnova Marina. OAO SUEK ­ Krasnoyarsk, Relations and
Communication Director
5. Syromyatnikov DmitrÕ. OAO SUEK, Deputy Director General,
Personnel and Administration Director

1.30- 2.15 Lunch

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you at the event.

Karina Korostelina, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
George Mason University

"The Caucasus and Central Asia: Theoretical, Cultural, and Political
Challenges"
3-4 July 2009

Caucasus and Central Asia Research Group
The University of Birmingham, UK

This major international conference is the founding event of the University
of Birmingham Research Group on the Caucasus and Central Asia, formed by
academics and Ph.D. students from across the University of Birmingham. The
two-day inter-disciplinary conference will be held in room G51 of the
European Research Institute, University of Birmingham on *Friday, 3rd
July *and
*Saturday, 4th July 2009. *

Papers will be presented on a variety of topics, including:
- Language and Literature of the Regions
- Ethno-Nationalism and Politics in the South Caucasus
- History of the Caucasus
- Central Asia and Caucasus and the Outside World
- Traditionalism versus Reformism in Islam
- Domestic and Foreign Policies of the Central Asian and Caucasian States
- Culture and Society of the Regions

TOTALITARIAN LAUGHTER: CULTURES OF THE COMIC UNDER SOCIALISM

May 15-17, 2009

Aaron Burr Hall
Room 219

http://slavic.princeton.edu/events/calendar/detail.php?ID=1921

St. Petersburg, May 28-31, 2009

The Centre for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg (Russia) in collaboration with Laboratorium. Russian Review of Social Research and European University at St.Petersburg

Program available here:
http://www.russianfield.info/ConferenceProgram.aspx#1

Two-Day Conference cosponsored by the Association for the Study of Free Institutions, University of Nebraska at Omaha; The Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, Princeton University

Program available here:
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/jmadison/calendar/spring09.html

17 апреля 2009, Москва, представительство фонда Джона Д. и Кэтрин Т. МакАртуров

На семинаре был обсужден проект такой реформы, разработанный при поддержке фонда сотрудниками Смольного института свободных искусств и наук Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета. Главная идея проекта заключается в том, что историческое образование как в школе, так и в вузе должно способствовать, прежде всего, развитию критического мышления, а тем самым - воспитанию граждан демократического общества. Вторая важнейшая функция исторического образования – передача общей культуры. В настоящее время обе эти функции подчинены интересам самовоспроизводства корпорации историков. В результате историческая наука существует сама по себе, а историческое сознание общества – само по себе. Неудивительно, что это последнее находится во власти политических мифов и идеологий, чаще всего – националистических
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April 24-25, 2009
Department of Anthropology
Yale University

"Global Socialisms and Postsocialisms" is a two-day symposium exploring connections, comparisons, and transformations within--and beyond--the socialist and postsocialist worlds. All symposium events will take place at the Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 10 Sachem St., New Haven, Connecticut. Please address inquiries to Doug Rogers at
douglas.rogers@yale.edu.

Please see the program
http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/europeanstudies/Global_Socialisms.pdf

Central European University,
History Department
Religious Studies Program

Eastern Christianity in Post-Imperial Societies

27-28 March 2009
Location: CEU Monument Building, 201

program available here
http://net.abimperio.net/en/node/438

March 29, 2008,
New York University, New York City.

program available here:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/organizations/Mid-Atlantic08FinalProgr...

15 March 2009
St Antony’s College, Oxford, UK

http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=11031

The Politics of Inequality and Difference:
Critical Approaches in Anthropology and Sociology

Central European University, Budapest,
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
12-13 June 2009
deadline: 31 March 2009

http://web.ceu.hu/soc_ant/docs/Call_for_Papers_CEU_Grad_Conf.pdf

"Империи над Европой: взгляд из Копенгагена"

отчет о конференции, прошедшей в Университете Копенгагена 30-31 ноября 2008 г., составленный Андреем Макарычевым

Empire over Europe: Past experience and Future prospects, 30 - 31 November 2008, Copenhagen University, Denmark.

Обзор конференций и семинаров, проводимых в Казанском государственном университете

http://www.ksu.ru/uni/index.php?id=4&idm=15&num=1

Cosmic enthusiasm: The cultural impact of space exploration on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since ht 1950s

January 22-24, 2009, Basel (Switzerland)

program and information:
http://www.spacecultures.net/welcome.html

Osteuropa und seine Gesellschaften sind durch eine Vielfalt an Religionen und Konfessionen historisch geprägt worden. Welche Spuren haben diese im Denken und Handeln der Menschen hinterlassen? Welche Rolle spielten und spielen sie bei der gesellschaftlichen, politischen und kulturellen Entwicklung Osteuropas? Wie präsentiert sich das Verhältnis zwischen Kirche und Staat?

Diesen Fragen geht eine weitere, gemeinsam vom Polit-Forum des Bundes im Käfigturm und der Schweizerischen Osteuropabibliothek organisierte Vortragsreihe nach.

http://www.oewiss.ch/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid...

22-24 March 2009

New College, University of Oxford

sponsored by:

Arts and Humanities Research Council

New College, University of Oxford

European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford

The conference explores the institutions, ideologies, and practices that have shaped identity in the countries that once formed part of the Soviet Union and in the states and cultures that border the former superstate. It traces the history of ‘Eurasia’ as a concept, and analyses the role of political interest groups, religious beliefs, museums, education, and everyday experience (whether under direct state control or governed by what are believed to be autonomous ‘traditions’ in evolving concepts of ethnic, national, and transnational culture). Gathering together anthropologists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and specialists in cultural studies from the Caucasus and Central Asia, Belorussia, France, Germany, and Russia as well as the UK and the USA, it presents a uniquely wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary forum for informed discussion of issues that are of enormous topical significance.

more information:

http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/russian/nationalism/eurasiaconf.htm

Report on the Fortieth National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, November 20-23, 2008
by Sean Pollock

Отчет по 40-й национальной конвенции Американской Ассоциации Содействия Славянским Исследованиям (AAASS), Филадельфия, Пенсильвания, 20-23 ноября 2008
составленный Шон Поллоком

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Обзор конференции «Волго-Уральский регион как перекресток Евразии: империя, ислам, национальность»
The Volga-Ural Region as a Crossroads of Eurasia: Empire, Islam, and Nationality.

С отчетом по конференции, составленным Фархшатовым М. Н можно ознакомиться здесь

Отчет по конференции Норихиро Наганава доступен здесь

Программа конференции доступна здесь

Changing Attitudes to Disability in Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia

The BEARR Trust Annual Conference
21 November 2008
CAN-Mezzanine, 32-36 Loman Street, London SE1 0EE
www.bearr.org
info@bearr.org

program available here:
http://www.bearr.org/en/system/files?file=Programme%20and%20Booking%20Fo...

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.

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The 47th annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) will take place in Charlottesville, VA, on March 26-28, 2009

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).

"Does the past matter? Renegotiating the past, communal identity and multiculturalism in Europe"

13-14 November 2008
Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies
National University of Ireland, Galway

This is an international conference whose objective is to advance a debate among scholars of various disciplines on the significance of national and cultural histories and their impact on the project of a new multicultural Europe. The aim of this seminar is twofold. First, it seeks to address the issue of negotiating between past and present at both local and national levels in Europe; secondly, to investigate the influence of this enterprise on the formation of progressive communal identities.
Contributions from a variety of disciplines are welcome: women and gender studies, literary and film studies, political science, philosophy, sociology and history. Proposals for interdisciplinary and comparative papers are especially welcome. The main questions of the seminar are:

• Does the re-examination of the past contribute to the cohesion or fragmentation of a community?
• How important is the recovery of the past for postcolonial and post-totalitarian societies?
• Is reckoning with the past conducive to cultural pluralism?
• Can renegotiation of the past contribute to the inclusion of cultural, racial and political Others in Europe?
• What ethical considerations does this enterprise raise for the project of multicultural Europe?
• In what ways does immigration influence our relationship with the national past?

Keynote Speakers:
Dr Ronit Lentin (Trinity College Dublin)
Mr Kurt Bassuener (Democratization Policy Council)

Organisers:
Kinga Olszewska, email: kinga.olszewska@nuigalway.ie
Patrick Lonergan, email: patrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie

Links:
Fees and Registration
www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute/downloads/Registration.doc

Accommodation:
www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute/downloads/Accommodation.doc

Conference Programme
www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute/downloads/Programme.doc

Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) Annual Conf., Washington, September 18-21, 2008

(CESS) will be taking place this week, September 18-21, at Georgetown
University in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Center for Eurasian,
Russian, and East European Studies.

Attendees may register on-site to attend any of more than 50 panels
on a wide variety of political, social, and cultural topics.
Registered attendees are also invited to participate in other events
such as a reception and a film festival.

The conference's keynote address by Rory Stewart, "Afghanistan:
Rhetoric and Reality," will be at 5:00 on Friday, the 19th in Gaston
Hall (Healy Building) and is free and open to the public.

For more information about registration and for a preliminary program,
please visit the CESS website: http://www.cess.muohio.edu .
Registration is open to all, while CESS members are entitled to
reduced registration fees.

Central Eurasian Studies Society
Havighurst Center, Harrison Hall
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056, U.S.A.

Application Deadline: December 1, 2008

The Kennan Institute is pleased to announce a new series of workshops on Socially Sustainable Development in Russia. The objective of these
workshops is to shed new light on the issue of Russian economic development, and the social consequences of that development. The Workshop Series is designed to
serve as a forum in which junior scholars from a variety of disciplines discuss different aspects of research topics, share research findings, and provide policy recommendations. Participants in the series will explore the ways in which policymakers and practitioners can find mutually beneficial dialogue with academics. This workshop will be led by human geographer Michael Bradshaw, University of Leicester, U.K. and Chatham House, London, and will bring together a dozen U.S. researchers from various disciplines with recent field experience. The first
workshop will take place in early 2009, and will serve as a forum for the participants to present their current research. Themes identified at the first workshop will serve as the basis for new or revised research to be completed by the second meeting in Fall 2009.

For more information on how to apply, interested applicants should
visit:
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1424&fuseaction=topics.it...

Joseph Dresen
Program Associate
Kennan Institute
Woodrow Wilson Center
www.wilsoncenter.org

Family, Marriage and Parenthoody

CBEES, Södertörn University College, Stockholm, 11-12 September 2008

This conference aims at gathering researchers to discuss topics on family, marriage, childhood and parenthood in contemporary, historical and comparative perspectives. The papers and the keynote lectures bring up questions on family and marriage policies and laws, demographic strategies, childcare – with or without the help of the state, parenthood in a gender framework, gendered violence within the family, and others.

The conference marks the start of a new research project called ‘The Family vs. the Strong State in Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea Region: Freedom or Coercion?’ financed by the The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen). For more information on the project see the provisional web site at www.ostersjostiftelsen.se/default.aspx, "Projektkatalog".

Participation in the conference is free, but please register by sending an email to Nadezda Petrusenko, nadezda.petrusenko@sh.se, by 8 September 2008, at the latest.

Contact

If you have any enquires regarding the conference, please contact Helene Carlbäck, helene.carlback@sh.se.

Информационное письмо
Центр этнических и национальных исследований
Ивановского государственного университета
проводит
Международный научный семинар
«РУССКИЙ МЕДВЕДЬ»: ИСТОРИЯ, СЕМИОТИКА, ПОЛИТИКА
(Иваново-Плес; 21-22 мая 2009 года)

Медведь, который в качестве аллегории России стал использоваться несколько веков назад, остается популярным символом страны и по сей день. Этот образ получает воплощение в сатирической графике, политической риторике, публицистике, литературе. В минувшем столетии он распространяется и в России, особенно в постсоветский период.
На семинаре предполагается обсудить следующие вопросы:
• Какова история образа «русского медведя»?
• Какими значениями «русский медведь» наделяется в русской культуре, культурах народов России, зарубежных культурах?
• Как данный образ включается в политики идентичности русского/ российского национализма?
• Как он используется в практиках легитимации/ делегитимации власти в российской политике?
• Какое влияние «медвежья» метафора оказывает на отношение к России в мире и на процессы европейской интеграции?

К участию в семинаре приглашаются специалисты в истории, культурологии, социологии, литературоведения, политологии, международных отношений, лингвистики.
Рабочие языки семинара – русский и английский. Количество участников – 25 человек. Заявки на участие в семинаре принимаются до 1 декабря 2008 г. по электронному адресу riabov1@inbox.ru. Пожалуйста, включите в заявку тезисы доклада (1 страница) и персональную информацию (Фамилия, имя, отчество; Место работы, должность, ученая степень; Телефон, Е-mail).

Подробнее о семинаре см.: http://www.ivanovo.ac.ru/win1251/struct/cens2004/russianbear.htm

От имени Оргкомитета,
Олег Вячеславович Рябов
Д.ф.н., профессор Ивановского государственного университета
Председатель Центра этнических и национальных исследований ИвГУ
153025 Россия Иваново Ермака 37
Факс: 4932-326600
E-mail: riabov1@inbox.ru
www.ivanovo.ac.ru/win1251/struct/cens2004/cens.htm

Call for papers
‘THE RUSSIAN BEAR’: HISTORY, SEMIOTICS, POLITICS
International workshop
Center for Ethnic and Nationalism Studies
Ivanovo State University
May 21-22, 2009, Ivanovo-Plyos (Russia)

The bear has been used as an allegory for Russia for centuries; it is a popular symbol of the country thus far. This image is embodied in satirical graphics, political rhetoric, journalism, and literature. In the XX century it spread widely in Russia, too, especially in the Post-Soviet time.

The workshop will focus on the following questions:
• What is the history of the image of the Russian Bear?
• What meanings ‘the Russian Bear’ receives in the Russian and foreign cultures?
• How identity politics of Russian nationalism exploits this image?
• How ‘the Russian Bear’ is used in the legitimization/delegitimization of political authority in Russia?
• How does the ‘bear metaphor’ influence the perception of Russia in the world and the process of the European integration?

Specialists in such fields of knowledge as history, cultural studies, sociology, philology, political studies, international relations, and linguistics are welcome to apply for participation in the workshop.

Languages of the workshop: Russian, English. Number of participants: 25.

Please send your abstract (up to 300 words) and personal details (Name, Current institutional affiliation, Title/position, E-mail address) by December 1, 2008 via email to the following address riabov1@inbox.ru

For further details about the workshop, please visit:
http://www.ivanovo.ac.ru/win1251/struct/cens2004/russianbear.htm

Please share this information with interested colleagues!

On behalf of the Organizing Committee,
Oleg V. Riabov
D.Sc., Professor
Ivanovo State University
Ermaka 39 Ivanovo Russia 153025
Fax number: 7-4932-326600
Riabov1@inbox.ru
www.ivanovo.ac.ru/win1251/struct/cens2004/cens.htm

Рябов Олег Вячеславович

The Local and the Global - Practices and Politics of Representing, Narrating and Negotiating the past

Organized by the University of Luxembourg, the Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities (Oslo), the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD, Amsterdam).

There has been a growing awareness of ongoing processes of globalization, economic as well as cultural, over the last years. The increasing interrelatedness of social relations and cultural expressions and practices appears to have led to a blurring of traditional identities, values and orientations. Since these processes may be experienced as frightening and alienating, there have been serious counter-reactions to and rejections of them. The local seems to play a crucial role within these ongoing struggles for rooted identities, as it is connected to direct geographic experiences. However, the meaning and functions of the local are undergoing dramatic changes in the process of globalization. Local memories can represent the attempt to repel the threats of structural changes caused by anonymous agents. The local can be figured as a guarantee for social, normative and existential reassurance. But local memories can also be a mediator, which gives access to changing perceptions of the wider world order as well as to discourses of global change and their universalistic interpretations.

This conference will discuss how cultural practices of representing and interpreting the past are being reshaped by interrelated processes of globalization, de/re-nationalization and localization in the long term. It will seek to address historical (dis)continuities concerning the connection of local memory cultures and global world orders throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The relation between the local and the global still awaits further theoretical investigation: what is “the local” or the “locality”? Likewise, the “global” is very much a container term: what exactly is it that confronts the “local”?

The conference will be held at the University of Luxembourg, the travel expends of accepted speakers will be covered.

Please send proposals of up to 250 words for 20 minute duration papers to sonja.kmec@uni.lu
Accepted formats are Word and PDF. Please include also the following information: name, affiliation, contact details, and technical requirements.

Abstract submission deadline is 15th of September 2008.
Paper acceptance notification will be sent out by the 1st of October 2008.

at the Free University of Brussels

This international workshop addresses the importance, significance and value of images for contemporary historical and archaeological research and the study of cultural heritage (1880-1980), focusing both on the positive insights that might be garnered from visual material as well as on the possible difficulties. Photographs, posters, drawings, comic book illustrations et cetera will be examined on different levels: the author and his/her intentions, the representation of a reality, the construction of identities, rights and inequalities and the reception of images. The workshop aims at debating and evaluating various methodological and theoretical approaches to using images as historical sources and interpret the images as valuable historical evidence that is equal to and supplements other sources available to historians, archaeologists and researchers in the field of cultural heritage.

We invite paper submissions on a range of topics related to the use of images as historical evidence and encourage papers on the following themes:
• aspects of everyday life (e.g. housing)
• material culture and the cultural life of objects
• advertising
• the impact of visual sources on our vision of the past
• cultural and representational issues (gender, ethnicity, sexuality, power)
• consumer culture
• methodological approaches to visual sources
• images as cultural heritage

The format is a 20 minute paper presentation followed by 10 minutes of questions and discussion. PhD and Master students and other young researchers are particularly encouraged to respond. The language of communication is English.
A selection of the papers will be published (in English) in a special issue of the Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire.
Abstracts and papers
Interested students and researchers are expected to submit a short curriculum and an abstract in English of approximately 300 words in electronic form to: c-him@vub.ac.be by 20 Octobre 2008. Submission should inlcude the author’s name, affiliation, address, phone number and e-mail.

Visit the website at http://www.vub.ac.be/C-HIM

Shaping Europe in a Globalized World? – Protest Movements and the Rise of a Transnational Civil Society?

Conference at the University of Zurich, Department of German
with the support of the European Commission

We especially encourage applications referring to the following topics:
• Globalization of Politics – Globalization of Protest? • Transnationalism within Right Wing Protest Movements • Filling the Gap: European Protest Movements as a Result of a Lack of Democracy within the EU • EU Polity and Europeanization of Protest • Applying the Concepts of “Civil Society” and “Social Movements” in Eastern Europe and non-European Countries – Potential and Limits • Even Newer Social Movements – Creating new Public Spheres? • Building Transnational Protest Identities – Languages, Images and Actions • European Anti-Corporate Campaigns in a Globalized Economy • Migration and Ethnicity as a Source of Protest • Professionalizing Protest • The Future of Political Participation: Social Movements, Lobbying or Party Politics • Taming Protest: The Rituals of Violence

Applications from postgraduate students, early stage researchers (PhD-students), postdocs and young scholars from all disciplinary and national backgrounds are strongly encouraged and form the main target group for this event.

All travel and accommodation costs within reasonable boundaries will be covered by the European Union.
Although the conference language will mainly be English, we also invite proposals in French, Spanish, Dutch, German and Polish, if a short summary (2 pages) in English is provided.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: August 15, 2008 (abstracts no longer than 500 words)
SELECTIONS WILL BE MADE BY: October 1, 2008
PLEASE USE ONLINE APPLICATION AT: www.protest-research.eu
FURTHER QUESTIONS: mail@protest-research.eu