Reminder: CFP, "Commodity, Consumer, Entrepreneur"

[Olga Livshin]

Call for Papers

Note: Journalist, literary critic and activist Nadezhda Azhgikhina will act as the keynote speaker
for this conference.

Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

"Commodity, Consumer, Entrepreneur: Women and the Marketplace" June
24-25, 2005 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Sponsored by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) and
UIUC Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC).

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: NADEZHDA AZHGIKHINA, Russian Union of Journalists

The conference will focus on women's experience in the marketplace in
Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia. While developments in the region
from 1985 to 2005 are of particular interest, historical and
chronologically comparative topics are also welcome.

AWSS and REEEC invite proposals for individual papers, panels (with
chair and discussant) and roundtables. We are looking for proposals
from any field of Slavic/ East European/ Eurasian studies, including
economics, anthropology, sociology, media, law, history, literature,
political science, cultural studies, policy studies, and any other
aspect of women's studies.

Interdisciplinary work and proposals from representatives of NGOs are
also welcome.

Limited funding for graduate students is available.

For more information see: http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/events/fisher.html
All proposals are due March 15, 2005. Applicants will be notified the
first week of April.

Proposals for panels/papers must include:

1) A 150-200 word abstract for each paper; and

2) A one-page CV for each participant.

Proposals should be submitted electronically to: Natasha Kolchevska,
Chair, Program Committee (nakol at unm.edu)

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