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Call for Papers: "Interpreting Emotion in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia" Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum, June 19-21, 2008 Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Organizers: Mark Steinberg (History, Slavic Review) and Valeria Sobol (Slavic Languages and Literatures) The 2008 Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum will be held at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, beginning on the evening of Thursday June 19 and concluding Saturday June 21, 2008, on the topic of "interpreting emotion in eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia." This conference will be a multidisciplinary exploration of emotion and its cultural representations in eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia from the 19th century to the present, especially in public life, as well as a critical consideration of how we approach the study of emotion. Only relatively recently have scholars begun to study systematically and deeply emotional perception and expression as not merely "private" inward feeling but as ways of interpreting and judging the external world and acting in it. We are seeking proposals for papers that explore both questions of method and particular histories, ethnographies, and cultural expressions of emotion. Topics that might be examined, for example, include emotions and political culture, emotions and gender, emotions and the body, emotions and the public sphere, and individual emotions such as love, anger, shame, and melancholy. Historians, literary scholars, art historians, anthropologists, sociologists, musicologists, psychologists and other disciplines are encouraged to propose papers. Please send proposals for papers (maximum 1 page) and a brief CV to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] and <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] by May 31, 2007 (you may also contact us with questions). Subject to funding, we expect to be able to cover participants' expenses for travel and lodging. For more information on the Fisher Forum series see: http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/events/fisher.html Mark D. Steinberg Professor, Department of History Editor, Slavic Review https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/steinb/www/main.htm Department of History, University of Illinois 416 Gregory Hall 810 S. Wright Street Urbana IL 61801 (MC-466) tel. 217.244.2082 fax 217.333.2297 Slavic Review 57 East Armory Avenue Champaign, IL 61820-6601 tel. 217.333.3621 fax: 217.333.3872 email: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.slavicreview.uiuc.edu/