Dear Colleagues,

We have developed - at the European University Institute and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies - a proposal for a Research Network 1989, which is kindly supported by GESIS and its CEE Service Agency
http://www.cee-socialscience.net/1989/


Welcome to the Research Network 1989!

Towards 2009 a global window of attention opens for Central and Eastern Europe because of the 20th anniversary of 1989. While particularly in CEE participants, observers and academics will be recording their interpretations, 1989 was also a global and world-historical event. Cultural, economic, legal, political and social interpretations are intertwined with the flow of history and are themselves subject to appropriation and revision by actors. ‘Before’ and ‘after’ 1989 are thus inextricably linked.

The Organising Committee seeks to facilitate and sustain a lively intellectual debate and academic exchange over the coming years, leading to a series of original working papers and a Public Conference. The Research Network 1989 covers cultural studies, economics, history, law, political science, sociology and related fields of inquiry. As a second-order network we co-operatively build on existing institutions and groups to enable trans-national and comparative research projects in a European and global space. 

Participation in the Research Network 1989 
<sum> Offers a space for thinking and writing in exchange and collaboration with similarly interested researchers over two years, thus facilitating authorship and the impact of ideas; 
<sum> Gives visibility to the participants, simultaneously promoting their knowledge claims and academic careers; 
<sum> Provides a standing network from which further proposals for research and publishing may be initiated and launched. 

The aims of the Research Network 1989 are to
<sum> Take stock of achievements and outline a research agenda at an Opening Plenary in October 2006. We do this both for the historical and intellectual process leading to 1989 and for the trajectories emanating from 1989. Network members are encouraged to take a global and world-historical stance. 1989 happened in Central and Eastern Europe, but it did so too in China or Western Europe, in East Asia or North America. The collapse of that which has been called the Soviet empire, communist party rule, state socialism and so on, is world historically significant, as is the social and cultural transformation that ensued; 
<sum> Publish a series of working papers that will inspire further research, especially doctoral and post-doctoral research. Our audience is the global academic community; 
<sum> Make available the results to a wider public audience. We expressly seek the involvement of public stakeholders and philanthropic concerns. All participants come together for a final Public Conference in June 2008 and the working papers will be archived in open access. 

Call for Participation!

We invite Working Group proposal. Proposals should advance, interrogate or replace knowledge claims by identifying an intellectual agenda that is worthy of sustained attention. Initiators of working group proposals may expect to lead the group. Please find further information on the website: 
http:// http://193.175.239.69/1989/groups/index.html

Procedures for joining the Research Network 1989 are also clarified:  http://193.175.239.69/1989/Membership/index.html 

The Opening Plenary

The Opening Plenary is scheduled for October 24 to 28, 2006, to be held at the European University Institute (www.iue.it), Florence, Italy.


Yours sincerely,

Chris Armbruster
Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=434782
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
European University Institute



The Organising Committee:

Chris Armbruster, Visiting Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
Timour Atnachev, Researcher, European University Institute, History and Civilisation
Kasia Lach, Researcher, Melbourne University, Law; Visiting Researcher, European University Institute
Gabriella Meloni, Researcher, European University Institute, Social and Political Science 
Piotr Pykel, Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute, History and Civilisation 




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Lars Christof Armbruster
PhD, Diplom-Soziologe

Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Fondazione Antonio Ruberti 
(awarded by EIROforum - European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN); European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA); European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL); European Space Agency (ESA); European Southern Observatory (ESO); European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF); Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL)

Working Papers available at http://ssrn.com/author=434782
SSRN is a network by scholars for scholars, making available working papers and accepted papers in open access. To download papers register at http://www.ssrn.com/

ON DIVERSIFYING AND INCREASING UNIVERSITY INCOME - Autonomy and self-reliance after the Entrepreneurial University

OPEN ACCESS IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL SCIENCE - Innovative moves to enhance access, inclusion and impact in scholarly communication

FIVE REASONS TO PROMOTE OPEN ACCESS AND FIVE ROADS TO ACCOMPLISH IT IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL SCIENCE

THE RISE OF THE POST-DOC AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR? How PhDs and Post-docs may advance their career and knowledge claims in the new Europe of Knowledge

ON DIVERSIFYING AND INCREASING HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING - Cost sharing after the era of national tuition fees and income contingent loans

Research Network 1989: www.cee-socialscience.net/1989/ 

EXPLAINING 1989: Soviet imperial breakdown and structural stasis

SOVIET DOMINATION: Legitimate or illegitimate?

Visiting Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
European University Institute
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