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From: Richard Greeman
To: eurojournalistes
Sent: 11 May, 2007 06:20
Subject: July Meetings Moscow and Crimea
Dear Friends,
On behalf of the Praxis Research and Education Center at the Victor Serge
Library in Moscow, I would like to invite you to participate in two
conferences we are organizing this July in the former Soviet space. For
more information about PRAXIS and the Victor Serge Libraries, please see
attached brochure (in Adobe Reader) or visit our site at
www.praxiscenter.ru ).
The first conference will take place in Moscow, at the Memorial Society,
on 9-10 July on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the revolutionary
events of 1917. The general topic: "1917-2007: Idea of the Revolution and
Experience of History." Your papers and individual participation are
welcome. The languages of the conference will be English, French and
Russian. Please see attached Call for Papers for details and list of
subjects. In addition, on 11 July, there will be a meeting in the Victor
Serge Library in Moscow, devoted to its 10th anniversary.
On 16 July, we will hold a presentation of the new branch of the Victor
Serge Social Library in Sebastopol (Crimea) in advance of the second
conference, which will take place July 17-18 at an ecological camp in
Peschanoe, Crimea, Ukraine, (Black Sea coast in 40 km from Sebastopol).
The general topic is "Global socio-ecological crisis and ways for its
overcoming." Please see attached program for details.
These meetings will provide a unique chance to meet and talk with Russians
(and Ukrainians) on the non-Stalinist Left and to present your own ideas
and experiences. There will also be time for fun, comradely toasting and
tourist sight-seeing. (With so many historians of the Russian Revolution
present, we will certainly organise a walking tour of 1917 Moscow).
As for accommodations in Moscow, Praxis is usually able to find rooms or
apartments for international guests at modest rates. At the ecological
camp in the Crimea, there is a choice between tenting and rooms in a
former ‘workers’ rest house’.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email
[log in to unmask] (in English or French). Hoping to see some of you
there,
Best Wishes, Richard Greeman
P.S. Please circulate this notice, post it on your sites and list-serves,
and send it to any publications to which you have access. Also, Russian
readers are still eager to receive Left (feminist, GLBT, anti-globalist
etc) books and magazines, which we make available through the Victor Serge
Libraries in Moscow, Petersburg and Sebastopol. For cheap, easy shipping
information, please consult our flyer or write to Praxis. Thank you.
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