Конференции и семинары / Conferences and seminars

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

Active History: History for the Future York University, Glendon College Toronto, Canada September 27-28th, 2008

This symposium is designed to bring together scholars and activists interested in assessing the ways in which historians engage with communities beyond the academy. How do, and how can, historical investigations of the past transform both historians and communities in the present and for the future? Further, the conference will give participants an opportunity to make connections and to foster the development of working relationships among people doing active history within and between the many historical subfields. Sessions and posters will focus on aboriginal history, archaeology, archive creation and utilization, community research, environmental history, labour history, and the history of sexuality.

To register and to access the preliminary program, head to http://www.activehistory.wordpress.com

НАУКА, ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ, ИННОВАЦИИ

Информационное письмо № 1
Организационный комитет I Всероссийской конференции «Наука, образование, инновации» приглашает Вас и Ваших сотрудников принять активное участие в Конференции, которая состоится в Москве на базе Московского городского педагогического университета при участии Института научной информации по общественным наукам Российской академии наук (ИНИОН РАН) 10–12 ноября 2008 года. Прибытие участников – 9 ноября.

Россия вступает в новый период создания инновационной экономики на базе ускоренного развития науки, образования и высоких технологий. Это требует глубокого и всестороннего изучения проблем экономики, науки и высшего образования, исследований научно-кадрового потенциала страны, сравнительного анализа состояния и перспектив развития науки, образования и высоких технологий в России и наиболее развитых и быстроразвивающихся странах мира, изучения приоритетов науки в глобальном и региональных масштабах. Внимания, уделяемого изучению указанных проблем в нашей стране, совершенно недостаточно.

Оргкомитет просит направлять заявки на участие в конференции и тезисы выступления по адресу: соор@inion.ru с обязательным направлением копии по адресу: naukoved@mgpu.ru
Заявки должны быть оформлены в соответствии с образцом (см. приложение, стр. 6) и направлены в Оргкомитет не позднее 5 сентября 2008 г. Доклады на секциях и круглых столах отбираются Конкурсной экспертной комиссией. Решение Конкурсной комиссии будет доведено до сведения авторов представленных докладов в первой декаде октября 2008 г.
Тезисы докладов, предложенные участниками, будут опубликованы издательством МГПУ. Доклады, зачитанные на Пленарном заседании, а также доклады, представляющие особый научный интерес, будут опубликованы в Ежегоднике «Науковедческие исследования», издаваемом ИНИОН РАН. Дополнительные вопросы об участии в Конференции и ее работе можно задать по телефону: +7 985 992 2460. Информация о конференции размещается на сайтах: http://www.mgpu.ru/news.php?news=1719
http://www.inion.ru
http://www.rim.inion.ru

посвященный истории и урокам Холокоста
«Холокост: память и предупреждение»
Положение о конкурсе

Цели и задачи конкурса:

- привлечение сотрудников СМИ к осмыслению истории и уроков Холокоста;

- усвоение уроков Холокоста для воспитания толерантного сознания в современном мире;

- формирование навыков независимого мышления, критического осмысления и выработки мировоззренческих суждений, основанных на моральных ценностях гражданского общества;

- формирование толерантного сознания, исторического мышления и сочувствия к жертвам геноцидов; содействие пониманию сотрудниками СМИ опасности ксенофобии, шовинизма, неонацизма, антисемитизма; формирование через СМИ интереса общественности к малоизученным страницам истории Второй мировой и Великой Отечественной войн;

- отражение в СМИ поисковой, научно-исследовательской и творческой деятельности учащихся и педагогов России по теме конкурса.

Участники конкурса:

Журналисты и творческие коллективы региональных печатных и электронных средств массовой информации, опубликовавшие в период с 1 января 2006 г. по 1 июня 2007 г. собственные журналистские произведения, отвечающие условиям настоящего Положения.

Подведение итогов и награждение победителей Конкурса состоится в сентябре 2008 г.

Участники и победители конкурса приглашаются на семинары, стажировки, конференции, в поездки по местам Холокоста, в том числе - за рубежом.

Конкурсные работы, заявки и дискеты следует направлять заказной бандеролью по адресу: 115035, Москва, ул. Садовническая, 52/45, Центр "Холокост".

Справки: по тел.: (495)951-6797, 953-3362; Тел/факс (495)951-5876,

E-mail: center@holofond.ru

Cultural Continuity in the Diaspora: Paris and Berlin in 1917-1937
The Experience of Russian Jews in an Era of Social Change
Bath, England, 8-10 September 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

Both the beginning and end of Communism in Russia transformed the life of its Jewish population. Jews in the USSR adapted to these changes, while many fled into emigration, where they made significant contributions to all aspects of an emergent Russian culture abroad. The study of Russian Jewish culture at home and in exile as a general theme has been so far significantly under-researched. Our aim is to advance this topic by systematically exploring the ways in which the cultural values of Russian Jews were transmitted between generations.

We are happy to announce our first international conference which will take place at the University of Bath on 8-10 September 2008. We invite participants – academics and non-academics (such as writers, journalists, artists, religious practitioners and others) – to contribute to the conference programme. Proposals of around 200 words with a one-page CV should be sent to Peter Wagstaff (mlspjw@bath.ac.uk) and Olga Tabachnikova (mlpot@bath.ac.uk) by 15 June 2008 at the latest. Plenary talks will be delivered by invited speakers from our research network.

The conference aims to advance understanding and knowledge in the following three areas:

• The reconstruction of the chronological history of Russian Jewish emigration to Germany and France;

• The definition and affirmation of Russian Jewish cultural values and the renegotiation of identity in various fields of cultural production.

• The social, cultural and professional links between Russian Jewish emigrants and a) their metropolitan communities, b) their new German and French environment including the Jewish communities.

It is expected that participants will propose a selection of primary literary and artistic sources derived from publishing and other outlets in Paris and Berlin and USSR to be examined within their historical context, and develop a range of appropriate methodological approaches to be adopted for this programme of research.

«Russia & Modern World: Problems of Political Development»
Date: 16-18 April, 2009 Place: Institute of Business & Politics, Moscow
There is suggested to discuss the following issues in the framework of conference:
- Civil Society and Law State: Problems of Establishment - Problems of Dialogue of the Federal Power and Regional Elite: Experience and Prospects - Modern Russia: World Policy Challenges - Economic Aspects of Political Development of Russia - Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): Problems and Prospects of Interaction - Confessional Nature of International Relations and Domestic Policy - Modern Elites: Identification Problems - Image of Russia in the Design of European and Oriental Identities - Religion in the System of Political Culture of Russia: History and Modern Trends - Cultural Aspects of the Globalization - Literature of the XX – XXI Centuries in Social-Political Aspects - Models of University Education in the Modern World - Representation of the Modern Russian in Domestic and Foreign Mass Media
Conference languages: Russian, English
The abstracts (300 words) should be submitted with the registration form to the Organizing Ñommittee by e-mail: ibp-polit@list.ru. Deadline for the abstracts: 1st December 2008. The Organizing Ñommittee shall reserve the right to select papers. The confirmations about the inclusion in the Program of IV International Interuniversity Scientific Conference will be sent during January 2009. After receiving the confirmation it’ll be possible to submit the full paper by e-mail ibp-polit@list.ru. Scientific paper submissions will be accepted till 10th March 2009.

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

Institute of Business & Politics,
109004,Moscow, B.Kommunisticheskaja, 13
(495)912-06-46 (ext.157)
Email: ibp-polit@list.ru

Eastern European Culture
NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS 2009 JOINT CONFERENCE
April 8- 11, 2009
New Orleans Marriott
New Orleans, Louisiana

We are considering proposals for sessions organized around a theme, special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per standard session.
Eastern European includes but is not limited to cultures within the following nations: Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Macedonia, Albania, TOPICS MAY INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
• Ethnic and folk cultures
• Depictions of Eastern European cultures in popular culture
• Foodways
• Eastern European art and artists
• Eastern European literature and writers
• Political culture
• Religious traditions
• Travel narratives
Should you or any of your colleagues be interested in submitting a proposal or have any questions, please contact the area chair (see below).
Submit a one-page (150-250 word) proposal or abstract (via regular mail or e-mail) by November 15, 2008

Dr. Jeffrey K. Johnson
Michigan State University
257 Bessey Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824

Email: phoboes2000@yahoo.com
Visit the website at http://www.pcaaca.org

LOCAL MEMORIES IN A NATIONALIZING AND GLOBALIZING WORLD (1750 UP TO THE PRESENT)
Place: FelixArchief, Oudeleeuwenrui 29, 2000 Antwerp
Date: 15th-16th October 2009

This conference opts for a more dynamic view of the creation and transmission of memories. It focuses on the ways in which memories were recurred to and used in the everyday discourses and practices of groups at a local level. These groups can be defined along different lines (socio professional, geographic, generational, religious, ethnic, …) and have various extensions (a neighborhood, a village, a town, a region);moreover, the discourses and practices can bear upon the most diverse aspects of life and take on the most diverse forms (textual, oral, visual, material). Not the straightforward creation of master narratives about the group’s own past will be the main concern of the conference, but the way in which these groups more or less consciously – and more or less successfully – combined diverse, sometimes even conflicting memories. Doing so, the organizers hope fully to re-inscribe the concept of memory into the field of social history.
The period that will be investigated – from 1750 until today – is characterized by the rise and the expansion of the nation state, and by the competing process of globalization. The efforts that were made during this period to create homogeneous national memories will serve during this conference as a background to the study of local memories. Did these local memories resist the growing prominence of national memory, did they incorporate aspects of it, or did they exist and develop without any interference of ‘the national’? And how did local memories interact with globalizing processes such as colonization and migration?
Within this general framework, papers should address one of the following themes:
- The deliberate creation of institutions for the preservation and transmission of local memories (local museums, associations, courses in primary schools on local history,citizen initiatives,…).
- Local forms of historiography, without or within the academic sphere.
- The presence of the past in ritualized forms of community building at a local or regional level (celebrations, liturgies, monuments,…).
- The presence of the past in non-ritualized, group specific practices and discourses (the transmission of professional skills, name-giving, …).
- The recurrence to the past in conflicts between groups or in acts of local resistance.
- The transmission (and alteration) of traditions as a way of preserving group-specific memories in changing contexts.
- The experience of the local past by individuals, through the study of ordinary writings,oral sources or their material heritage.

Please send your abstract (of about 500 words) to local.memories@ua.ac.be