From: Marja Rytkonen
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The international and interdisciplinary project of the Academy of Finland
Contrasting Russian Others: Gender and Nationality in Cultural, Historical
and Literary Discourses of the 20th Century announces a call for papers for
the scientific seminar
Gender In Russian: Barriers and Boundaries
10-12 September 2004, Tver (University of Tver)
Submissions (from the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences) are invited
on the following themes:
I The national gender and the gender of nation:
a) How is the idea of nation involved in the construction of gender?
b) National specificities of representations of gender
c) The relationship between the symbolic of gender and nation
II Gender studies in Russian: strategies and perspectives:
a) The relationship between feminist and gender studies
b) Achievements and challenges of gender studies in Russia
c) Western methodologies on Russian soil
Please submit your abstract (max. 300 words) as an RTF-file attached to an
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Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2004.
(Because of the restricted financial resources we can cover the travel and
stay only for researchers from Russia and other countries of CIS.)
Members of the project:
Marianne Liljestrom, director (University of Turku)
Kirsti Ekonen (University of Tampere)
Christina Parnell (University of Erfurt)
Oleg Rjabov (University of Ivanovo)
Arja Rosenholm (University of Tampere)
Anna Rotkirch (University of Helsinki)
Marja Rytkonen (University of Tampere)
Suvi Salmenniemi (University of Helsinki)
Serguei Oushakine (Columbia University/Altai State University)
Organizers in Tver: Valentina Uspenskaja and Dmitrij Borodin (Tver center of
women’s history and gender studies)
About the project:
http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/naistutkimus/Russianothers.htm
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