From: John Randolph [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 

2009 Fisher Forum Co-Sponsored by MacArthur Foundation

As organizers of the 2009 Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum "Russia's Role in
Human Mobility: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives," we are
pleased to announce that our conference has just received a generous
supporting grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
This support (part of the MacArthur Foundation's Initiative on Global
Migration and Human Mobility) will allow us to provide travel expenses,
room, and board for conference participants.  In particular, we hope to
fully sponsor at least six participants from Russia and / or the Former
Soviet Union.

With this good news in mind, we issue this reminder of our original Call
For Papers (please see below).  The deadline is August 18, and we look
forward to your applications.  We would also be grateful for any and all
assistance in getting news of this conference to scholars in Russia and/
or the Former Soviet Union.  Although the conference's working language
is English, we will accept proposals and papers in Russian as well, and
will seek to find a working common language at the conference sessions.

We thank you for your attention, and welcome questions or comments to
Prof. John Randolph ([log in to unmask]).

Sincerely,

Prof. John Randolph
Prof. Eugene M. Avrutin

Co-Organizers, Fisher Forum 2009
Department of History
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Call for Papers - REVISED DEADLINE!
Russia's Role in Human Mobility: Historical and Contemporary
Perspectives
June 18-20, 2009
Professor John Randolph (Department of History,  UIUC) and Professor
Eugene M. Avrutin (Department of History, UIUC), Co-Organizers

The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center of the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites paper proposals for an
international conference, Russia's Role in Human Mobility: Historical
and Contemporary Perspectives, to be held June 18-20, 2009.  The
conference will have a workshop format, and feature discussion of
pre-circulated papers.  Thanks to the generous support of the John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, we will be able to assist our
international as well as domestic guests with travel expenses, room and
board. We plan to fully sponsor at least six participants from Russia
and / or the Former Soviet Union.  We also hope to edit these papers for
publication in a conference volume.  Please see our conference website,
or below, for a fuller description of the project.

Interested parties should submit paper proposals addressing one or more
of our conference themes no later than August 18, 2008.  Please include
a brief (500 word) summary of the proposed work, as well as a cv or
resume describing your experience and research interests.  These
documents should be submitted by e-mail to the project's co-organizer,
Professor John Randolph, at [log in to unmask]  (A surface mail address is
appended below for those who wish to use it).  We welcome your questions
at this address as well.

Description of Project and its Objectives

Our conference aims to stimulate new thinking about Russia's role in
human mobility.   It will feature a keynote speaker (delivering a public
plenary address), as well as a two-day scholarly workshop.  Six key
themes surrounding Russia's role in human mobility will be discussed, on
the basis of pre-circulated papers submitted by panel participants:

1.	Russia and the Governance of Mobility;
2.	Russia, Mobility, and Migration;
3.	Russia, Mobility, and Citizenship;
4.	Modes of Mobility in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union;
5.	Mobility and Everyday Life in Imperial Russia and the Soviet
Union;
6.	Russia's Place in Global Mobility Systems

Each of these panels will involve at least one guest scholar from Russia
or the Former Soviet Union, as well as one scholar specializing in
contemporary issues.  It is thus hoped that each panel, as well as the
conference as a whole, will spark international as well as
interdisciplinary dialog.  We want our discussions to constantly move
forward across time and space, building the basis for a deeper
connection and mutual interaction between historical scholarship and
work on contemporary issues.   We therefore invite scholars from a range
of disciplines working on contemporary topics to apply.

We thank you for your attention to this proposal, and would be grateful
should you forward it to any parties who might be interested.  

Professor John Randolph, Professor Eugene M. Avrutin (Co-Organizers)

Department of History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
309 Gregory Hall, MC-466
810 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801

Conference Website:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jwr/www/mobility2009/index.html