Conferences in 1998

Conferences in 1998

January 3 - 5

XXIV Annual Conference of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution Lyddon Hall, University of Leeds, UK Further details from Dr. Tony Heywood, Dep't of European Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorks, BD7 1DP, UK

tel: (44) 1274 383826;

fax :(44) 1274 385550;

e-mail:a.j.heywood@bradford.ac.uk

March 19-21

Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (AAASS affiliate) sponsored by UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University in conjunction with North Carolina State University, to be held in Chapel Hill, NC. Panel and paper proposals should be sent before 1 December 1997

to:Dr. Frank Wcislo,Department of History,Vanderbilt University,Nashville, TN 37205,USA.

e-mail:wcislofw@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu

May 27-30

The Journal of the History of Ideas is holding a conference on "Culture and the Politics of Identity in Modern Romania" at Casa Enescu in Bucharest, Romania from 27-30 May, 1998. The multi-disciplinary symposium will explore the cross cultural and intellectual contact of Romanians and non-Romanians on all Greater Romanian territories, as well as the impact of outside influences on Romanian intellectual and cultural production.

Contact:Prof. Irina Livezeanu,

e-mail:irinal+@pitt.edu or
Susan Corbesero,History Department,University of Pittsburgh,Pittsburgh, PA 15260,USA

Tel:(1) 412 648 7451,

Fax:(1) 412 648 9074,

e-mail:smcst8+@pitt.edu
May 29-30

Third International Conference on "PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF RUSSIA"

George Washington University,Washington, DC

Organized by: American University in Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences, International Pen Club, Kontinent Magazine, Russia House, Westwind Institute.

Tel: 202-986-6010

Fax : 202-667-4244

E-mail : Lozansky@aol.com

June 23-28

Fourth International Conference of the Center for Romanian Studies

"Romania during the World War I Era"

Program Coordinator: Center for Romanian Studies , Oficiul Postal I, Casuta Postala 108, 6600 Iasi, ROMANIA Tel. (40.32) 219000, Fax (40.32) 219010 E-Mail: kurtwt@starnets.ro

July 7-10 (with some preliminary meetings on 6 July)

The first ever regional (Asia-Pacific)Congress of ICCEES will be held in Melbourne,Australia in 1988. Further details are at the front of this Newsletter and in the last Newsletter.

A combined international conference of the Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies (AACPCS) and the Australian and New Zealand Slavists' Association (ANZSA) will be held in Melbourne, Australia.
July 9-11

'Peter the Great and the West: New Perspectives'. The National Maritime Museum and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, are organizing an international conference to mark the visit of Peter the Great to England in 1698, to be held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. The conference will coincide with an NMM exhibition on Peter's visit and will include a reception and conference dinner in the magnificent surroundings of the Queen's House.

The conference programme will be based on five panels:Peter and Britain Maritime History Military History
Diplomatic History and Culture. Speakers include E.V. Anisimov, Jay Alexander, Anthony Cross, David Kirby and Richard Warner.

For further details contact:Professor Lindsey Hughes,School of Slavonic and East European Studies,Senate House,Malet Street,London WC1E 7HU,UK.

Fax:(44) 171 436 0970;

e-mail:lhughes@ssees.ac.uk
July 23-July 25

Slavic Research Center International Summer Sympsium

"Regions - a mirror reflecting the Slavic Eurasian World"
July 23-August 2

International Dostoevsky Sympsium 1998,New York, Columbia Univ.

For informatio contact:Robert L.Belknap,Slavic Dept. 708 Hamilton Hall,Columbia Univ.New York,NY 10027 USA.

Tel:212-854-3941

Fax:212-854-5009

e-mail: dm387@columbia.edu

August 4-7

"Problems in Oral History Research on East European Villages of the 1920's- 1940's." at the Cherkasy Ethnographic Museum,Ukraine

The conference is organized by the Kyiv based Center for the Study of Oral History and Culture, the journal Rodovid, and the Cherkasy Ethnographic Museum

For informatio contact:William Noll of the Center or Lidia Lykhach of Rodovid in Kyiv

Tel & Fax:(+380-44) 295-4064

E-mail::pito@gonchar.freenet.kiev.ua
August 28 - September 1

"Regional Economies in Transition: Institutional Development and Socio-Economic Change"

(Session at the 38th European Congress of the Regional Science Association)

Vienna, Austria

On-line information : http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/ersa/ersa98.html

September 2-3

International Conference "Business and Economic Development in Central and Eastern Europe:Implications for Economic Integration into Wider Europe" Brno, Czech Republic

Organized by the Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic in cooperation with Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland and The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, United States

On-line information : http://www.fbm.vutbr.cz/czech/call/call.htm
September 9-25

A conference to Celebrate 2000: "National Identity and Mythology in the Making : Mickiewicz and Messianism"

School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London (SSEES)

For informatio contact: SSEES, Fr. Ursula Philips Senate House, Malet Street or: Ursula Phillips,SSEES,Senate House,Malet street,London WC1E 7HU,UK.

Tel.: (44)171 637 4934

Fax: (44)171 436 8916

e-mail:u.philips@ssees.ac.uk
September 10-12

European Association for Comparative Economic Studies 5th Conference "Economies in Transition and the Varieties of Capitalism:Features,changes,Convergence"

Varna,Bulgaria

For informatio contact:Prof.Mitko Dimitrov,Institute of Economics,BAS,3,Aksakov St. BG-1040 Sofia Bulgaria.

Fax:359-288-2108
September 16-20

Inter-Ethnic Relations in Transcarpathian Ukraine

European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)

For informatio contact: ECMI Schiffbrücke 12 24939 Flensburg

Tel: 0461-141490

Fax: 0461-1414919

e-mail:info@ecmi.de

On-line information :http://www.ecmi.de
September 22-25

The South East European Research Unit's 1998 Summer School/Conference "Europe and Nationalism: National Identity v. National Enmity (The Case of the Successor States of Former Yugoslavia)" on the island of Korcula, Croatia

On-line information : http://www.gla.ac.uk/Inter/SEERU/conference/
September 24-26

International Conference : "Institutions in transition"

Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development, Ljubljana, Slovenija

For informatio contact: Inst. of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development Gregorciceva 1000 Ljubljana

Fax:+386 61 178 2070

On-line information : http://www.sigov.si/zmar/akonfer/acallfor.html
September 24-27

NEMEU Final Conference: Political-Economic Dimension of Enlargement and New Membership of the European Union

Network on Enlargement and new Membership of the European Union (NEMEU)

For informatio contact: Dr. Steunenberg, Univ. of Twente Fac. of Publ. Adminr. and Publ. Policy, POBox 217 7500 Enschede, NL

Tel:+31-53-489-2602

Fax:+31-53-489-1150

On-line information : http://www.esf.c-strasbourg.fr/NEMEUa.htm
September 24-27

30th National Convention of the AAASS (Boca Raton, Florida)

Call for Papers
September 25-26

Democratic Consolidation: The International Dimension. Hungary, Poland, Spain

Austrian Institute for International Affairs (Laxenburg), Austrian Institute of East and South-East European Studies (Vienna) and its Branch office Budapest, Political Academy/Modern Politics (Vienna), Austrian Historical Institute (Section Madrid), Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna)

For informatio contact:Mag. Gerhard Mangott (Concept of Conference) Austrian Institute for International Affairs 2361 A-2361 Laxenburg, Österreich or: Frau Monika Stepanowsky (org.)- AIIA Schloßplatz 13 2361 A-2361 Laxenburg, Österreich

Tel:+43-2236-71574-26 or: +43-2236-71575-14

Fax: +43-2236-72514 or: +43-2236-72514

e-mail: 100335.3544@compuserve.com
September

Xll International Congress of Slavists,Krakow,Poland.

Contact:Robert A.Rothstein,Department of Slavic Languages,Herter Hall,University of Massachusetts,Amherst, MA 01003-3940,U.S.A.

October 15-17

Polish conference on "Lithuanian and Polish Culture in History : Identity and Coexistence

International Cultural Centre in Cracow

For informatio contact: Internat. Cult. Centre, Ms. Pajdzik Rynek Glowny 25 31-008 Krakow or:Internat. Cult. Centre, Mr. Solewski, Dr. Bronski Rynek Glowny 25 31-008 Krakow

Tel:00 48 12/4218601

Fax:00 48 12/4218571

e-mail:sekret@mck.krakow.pl
October 22-25

The Organising Committee announces that an International Symposium on 'Perestroika and after: Society and State in the Former USSR 1988-1998: M-BIO - Institute for Humanities and Political Studies Anniversary Conference', is to be held in Moscow. The Symposium will run four plenary meetings: 'The Role of Non-governmental Institutions in Shaping Political Systems in the late-Soviet and post-Soviet States';
'The Rebirth of Politics in post-Soviet States';
'Political Sciences and Political Practices in the Former Soviet Union';
'The Role of Politics in the Formation of Civil Society in the late-Soviet and post-Soviet States'.

The Symposium will also run three large panels: 'Post-Soviet Space: Soviet Traditions and Post-Soviet Innovations'; 'The Russia of the Regions and the Regions of Russia'; 'History, Culture and Tradition in Reshaping State and Society'.

For further information contact:Vladimior Nechaev, Sypmposium Programme Committee Secretary,

Tel:/Fax: (7) 095-9248 700

E-mail: IGPI@GLAS.APC.ORG or GIVI@RINET.RU.
Deadline for application is 20 August, to Prof. Alexei Kuzmin, Organising Committee Vice-Chairman.
October 23-25

International Conference at Michigan State University "China,India and Russia: Progress and Challenges of Economic Transition"

For informatio contact:Prof.Norman A. Graham, CERS, 205 Center for International Programs, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1035

Fax:(517)655-4755

e-mail:grahamn@pilot.msu.edu

November 12-14

The Second Biennial International Conference: "Policing in Central and Eastern Europe : Organizational, Managerial, and Human Resource Aspects"

College of Police and Security Studies, Affiliated Member of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

For informatio contact: Dr. Pagon, Dean Coll. of Police and Security Stud. Kotnikova 8 1000 Ljubljana

Tel: +386 61 314 722

Fax: +386 61 302 687

e-mail:milanp@vpvs.uni-lj.si
November 12-15

Nomadic borders : A sociological seminar related to research on new and old borders in Europe

Centre for Independent Social Research (CISR, St. Petersburg, Russia)

For informatio contact: Herr Voronkov P.O.B. 55 191002 St. Petersburg

Tel: +7 (812)321-1066

Fax:+7 (812)321-1066

e-mail:brednik@indepsocres.spb.su
November 13-14

Education and Civic Culture in Post-Communist Societies -- 15th Annual Conference

Study Group on Education in Russia, The Independent States and Eastern Europe in association with the Civic Culture Forum and University of London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies

For informatio contact: Dr. S. Webber, C for Russian & E European Studies Birmingham University or: David Randall

e-mail:s.l.webber@bham.ac.uk or:d.randall@kingston.ac.uk

Tel:+44 181 547 7790

On-line information: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/~hs s113/sgerisee/conf.htm
November 13-15

"Education and Civic Culture in Post-Communist Societies" at SSEES

Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Web Page: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/~hs_s113/sgerisee/confhome.htm
November 19-21

"Place, Space, and Identity: Harbin and Manchuria in the First Half of the Twentieth Century" at University of Toronto.

The conference focuses on the interaction and layering of cultures in the city of Harbin, capital of the Province of Heilongjiang in North East China, and the area formerly known as Manchuria. A by-product of the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway, which was built by the Russians in 1898-1903, Harbin became a major economic and strategic centre.

For further details, contact: the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto.Telephone or visit.

Tel:(416) 978-8192

Web Page: http://www.utoronto.ca/crees/UpComing-dir/harbin.htm
November 22-24

Competitiveness of agricultural production enterprises and farm activities in transition countries

Institut für Agrarentwicklung in Mittel- und Osteuropa (IAMO) an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle

For informatio contact: IAMO, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Tillack Magdeburger Str. 1 62112 Halle/Saale or: IAMO, Dr. Frauke Pirscher Magdeburger Str. 1 62112 Halle/Saale

Tel: (49)345 500 81 30 or:(49)345 500 81 38

Fax: (49)345 517 06 11

e-mail:tillack@iamo.uni-halle.de or: pirscher@iamo.uni-halle.de

December 2-3

An International Colloquium on Josef Vachal (1884-1969) will be held in Paris.

For further information contact: Isabelle Pastor-Sorokine, Center for Research on Slavic Literatures and Civilisations, University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France.

Tel: (33) 1 42 25 96 40 (ext. 129)

Fax: (33) 1 42 89 40 20
December 28-30

AATSEEL Annual Meeting (San Francisco, California )

Web Page : http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/aatseel.html
December

A one-day conference on 'The Paris of Russian Jews, 1918-1939' will be held at the Institute of Slavic Studies in Paris.

For further information contact:Prof. Vladimir Khazan, Department of Russian Studies, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, 91905 Jerusalem, Israel.

E-mail: khazan@hum.huji.ac.il