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Call for Papers
Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
"Commodity, Consumer, Entrepreneur: Women and the Marketplace"
June 24-25, 2005
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sponsored by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) and UIUC
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC).
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: NADEZHDA AZHGIKHINA, Russian Union of Journalists
The conference will focus on women's experience in the marketplace in
Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia. While developments in the region from
1985 to 2005 are of particular interest, historical and chronologically
comparative topics are also welcome.
AWSS and REEEC invite proposals for individual papers, panels (with chair
and discussant) and roundtables. We are looking for proposals from any field
of Slavic/ East European/ Eurasian studies, including economics,
anthropology, sociology, media, law, history, literature, political science,
cultural studies, policy studies, and any other aspect of women's studies.
Interdisciplinary work and proposals from representatives of NGOs are also
welcome.
Limited funding for graduate students is available.
For more information see:
http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/events/fisher.html
All proposals are due March 15, 2005. Applicants will be notified the first
week of April.
Proposals for panels/papers must include:
1) A 150-200 word abstract for each paper; and
2) A one-page CV for each participant.
Proposals should be submitted electronically to:
Natasha Kolchevska, Chair, Program Committee ([log in to unmask])
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