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Dear All I am forwarding a message from the Secretary of COST Action A34: Gender and wellbeing: work, family and public policies. I have removed the attachments but if you would like to offer a paper for the Madrid symposium, please view the Call for Papers on the Action's website at http://www.ub.es/tig/GWBNet/. With best wishes, Bernard. Dear friends, Due to multiple requests, on behalf of the Organising Committee of the Fourth Symposium of the Action: "Gender and Well Being: The Role of Institutions from past to present" (Madrid, Spain, on 25th-27th June 2008), we inform you that the call for papers -you will find it attached- has been extended until 10th OCTOBER 2007. We should be very grateful if you would circulate this call for papers amongst the experts you consider they could be interested in participating in this Fourth Symposium. In order to ensure a coherent programme of papers, we would like to ask already everyone who wishes to take part to prepare a short abstract (400 words) containing the title of his/her paper and a summary of its main aims and objectives. The Organising Committee will have to make a choice of papers as we would like to work in plenary sessions to facilitate interdisciplinary and international discussion. In the selection of papers, we will particularly consider discussions addressing the issues within a national and perhaps international context. Finally, we will give equal representation to participating states to the symposium as the COST policies require. Selection of abstracts will be made by the end of October 2007 and will be communicated to authors before 15th November. Paper givers should send their papers no later than 26th May, 2008. Funds for this symposium are limited and, while we are hopeful of being able to meet the travel and accommodation costs of as many participants as possible, we may not be able to do this in all cases. It would therefore be very helpful if you could provide an estimate of your likely travel costs, together with an indication of any additional resources on which you may be able to call. We will construct our own estimate of accommodation costs based on standard COST allowances. When submitting an abstract, please enter the text into the attached form (ProposalForm.doc) and rename the document so that it can be easily identified by the name or names of the author or authors (so, for example, Antonella Picchio’s abstract can be identified as picchio- abstract4thsymposium.doc (or txt, or pdf). My best wishes, Concepción Villar SECRETARIAT COST ACTION A-34 [log in to unmask] Gender and Well-Being: Work, Family and Public Policies http://www.ub.es/tig/GWBNet/ Department of Contemporary History Faculty of Geography, History and Philosophy University of Barcelona c/Montalegre 6-8 08001 Barcelona SPAIN