CALL FOR PAPERS - GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

[Kevin Eric Laney]

(Conference Web Page: http://www.columbia.edu/~kmh55/index.html)

          Harriman Institute and East Central Europe Center
                        COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

                          CALL FOR PAPERS
                   GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

THEME: 1989-99 TRANSFORMATIONS: TRIUMPH OR TRAGEDY

The Harriman Institute and the East Central Europe Center are pleased
to announce a graduate student conference.  The conference seeks to bring
together studies and ideas from a variety of disciplines to examine the
dramatic transformations which have occurred in the Former Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe over the course of the last decade.  Suggested topics
include:

Nations and Boundaries: Rediscovery or Creation?
Political Choices: New Systems or Old Legacies?
Changing Economies: New Wealth or New Inequalities?
Changing Cultures: Re-discovering Traditions or Losing Distinct Identities?
Changing Foreign Policy: Independent Voices or New Foreign Domination?
Ideologies and Looking at the Recent Past: Reconciliation, Redefinition,
or Retribution?

Papers are invited around these or other areas which address the key theme
of transformation.  Submissions from a variety of disciplines which emply
diverse critical and theoretical approaches are encourages.

LOCATION AND DATE OF CONFERENCE: The Conference will be held at Columbia
University, in the City of New York, February 26 - February 27, 1999.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:  Papers should be no more than 30 pages in length.
Please e-mail the submissions as a MICROSOFT WORD attachement to:

                        kph2 at columbia.edu

Or mail a copy of the paper on diskette in Microsoft Word format along
with a hard copy to:
                        Kevin Hallinan
                        1227 IAB MC3336
                        Columbia University
                        420 W. 118th St.
                        New York, NY 10027

                DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: January 15, 1999

For further information, please contact Rajen Parekh at rsp3 at columbia.edu
Or check our web page at http://www.columbia.edu/~kmh55/index.html