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Posted on behalf of Marianna Pavloskaya Please reply to: [log in to unmask] ======================================== ***Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty Group: AAG 2006 GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS*** Chicago, March 7-11, 2006 Dear AAG meeting participants: In preparation to the AAG meeting in Denver, the RCEEE specialty group will, as previously, organize and sponsor sessions. Please find the details below. This year we plan to make a big effort to increase student participation in specialty group scholarship. The announcement of the student paper competitions will be circulated shortly. Meanwhile we ask all the group members to PLEASE encourage the students to attend the meeting and present in our sessions. Please forward this information to interested colleagues - both professors and students. Presenting in the sessions organized by RCEEE SG ---------------------------------------------------------- If you would like to present a paper in a session organized by our specialty group, please submit the abstract at the AAG registration website (www.aag.org) and then send your PIN number, your name, affiliation, email address, paper title and paper abstract to Marianna Pavlovskaya ([log in to unmask]) by October 1, 2005. Please use the same format as required by the AAG. I will group papers into sessions according to their topics. RCEEE SG includes scholars doing research in many different areas of geography. In addition, I would like to encourage submissions on the topics listed below (of course, all other submissions are welcome). I will circulate more specific calls for papers for these topics soon: The nature of post-socialism? Challenging neo-liberalism in post-socialism Geographies of gender and sexuality in post-socialism Post-Soviet and post-socialism cultural geographies Sponsorship for the sessions organized by you --------------------------------------------------------- Your initiative in organizing sessions relevant to our specialty group is more than welcome. We can assist you in two ways. First, we would gladly circulate your calls for papers on our listserve. You can submit postings yourself after logging on to the AAG website and proceeding to RCEEE group forum or please forward them to me ([log in to unmask]) and I will post them for you. Second, we would gladly sponsor the sessions you organized. In order add our sponsorship to your session, please request approval from me. To do so, please email to me the complete session information as submitted to the AAG registration website including the session title, organizer, chair, participants, and abstracts. Request for discussants and session chairs --------------------------------------------------- We will need discussants and session chairs - please volunteer by writing to me ([log in to unmask]). Thank you very much and I hope to hear from you soon. Marianna Pavlovskaya, Hunter College Chair, Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty Group