Please find below, information concerning the fourth in a series of seminars on employment and work in East-Central Europe. If you would like to attend please contact Alison Stenning at the address given. Adrian Smith ESRC SEMINAR SERIES: RESTRUCTURING EMPLOYMENT AND WORK IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE FRIDAY JUNE 2ND 2000 SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES University of Birmingham Labour Markets, Unemployment and Exclusion in East-Central Europe 12.30 Lunch 1.30 – 2.30 Maarten Keune, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence 'Poverty and the Labour Market in Post-Socialism: Evidence from the Latvian Household Budget Survey and Labour Force Survey' 2.30 – 3.30 Martin Kovats, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham (Roma and exclusion in east central Europe - provisional title) 3.30 – 4.00 Tea 4.00 – 5.00 Collette Fagan, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester 'Young People's Unemployment and Self-Employment in Central and East European Trajectories of Social Exclusion' If you wish to attend the seminar or have any questions, please contact Alison Stenning on 0121 414 6922 or at [log in to unmask] The seminar and lunch will take place in room 224 (second floor) of the Arts Building, University of Birmingham. For maps of campus, please go to http://www.bham.ac.uk/general/intro/visit.htm. There are limited travel funds available, on a first come-first served basis, for postgraduates. If you wish to apply, please contact Adrian Smith at [log in to unmask] ___________________________________________________ Dr. Adrian Smith Lecturer in Human Geography Deputy Editor, Regional Studies School of Social Sciences University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton East Sussex, BN1 9SN, UK email: [log in to unmask] tel: 01273 606755, ext. 3092 fax: 01273 673563 http://www.geog.susx.ac.uk/research/changing_europe %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%