Please post the following on the list. Thank you. Beryl Nicholson
Women's work - an inter-Balkan workshop
Gjirokastėr, Albania, 20-22 September 2001
This workshop is for social scientists from the Balkan area, or who do research in the Balkans. It will have no more than 30 participants, most of whom will present their research. As well as paper sessions with discussion, there will be plenty of opportunity for informal discussion. Participants are invited to bring photographs to create an informal exhibition of women's work. There will be a half day visit to women in nearby villages and there will be opportunities to meet women active in local organisations. Participants who wish will be offered the opportunity to stay with an Albanian family.
Outline themes
The transition and women's work: Changes in social perceptions of women, and in divisions of labour.
Women in the privatised economy:
1. Women's work in privatised agriculture. Responsibilities, roles, production, marketing.
2. Women as entrepreneurs; Women and micro-business; Trade and markets, niches found and created by women.
3. Emigration and women's work: the work (of all kinds) women do abroad, the work situation, and the burden of women whose husbands are abroad.
4. Unemployed women
5. New career opportunities for women (e.g. in embryo social services, in foreign NGOs, in niches created by development projects)
6. Women in 'men's' jobs; Women in Hi-tech careers; Women in the professions; Women intellectuals; Women in top jobs
7. Women in politics and civil society: new opportunities and new limitations
8. Women's unpaid work: Caring responsibilities and how the change of system has affected them.
9. Women's work in the recent and more distant past; women's constructions
of their own and other women's work in the past.
10.Changing images of women and their effect on women's lives and opportunities.
Papers on further, related, themes are welcome and, time permitting, will be accommodated in the paper sessions. The final roundtable discussion may
also take up themes not included elsewhere in the programme.
Papers
Papers should be of no more than 6 000 words, but shorter contributions are
also welcome. They may be completed research, short research notes, work in progress, or may take up issues that need more discussion than they have had so far. Contributors should provide a title and an abstract of up to 100 words when submitting their application. It is planned to publish
the papers, initially in English and, it is hoped, also in Balkan languages.
For applications received by 30 June 2001 a registration fee of $5 for participants from the Balkans and $10 for all others will be payable on arrival in local or international currency. For applications received after 30 June 2001 add $5. For applications received after 15 August 2001 add $10. Applications will be accepted in order of receipt.
Further information and an application form may be obtained from [log in to unmask] Please copy to [log in to unmask]
Nigel Swain: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0)151 794 2422; Fax: +44 (0)151 794 2366
Centre for Central and Eastern European Studies, University of Liverpool
9 Abercromby Square, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool, L69 7WZ, UK
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