"Commodity, Consumer, Entrepreneur?": submission deadline extended

[Olga Livshin]

Call for Papers

2005 Fisher Forum
Conference on "Commodity, Consumer, Entrepreneur?:  Women and the Marketplace"
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
June 24-25, 2005
http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/events/fisher.html
Submission deadline extended to April 8, 2005

Keynote Address
"Women's Face at the Market Place: Gender Contraversions of Post- Soviet States"
Nadia Adzhgikhina (Russian Union of Journalists)


American Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
(REEEC), UIUC, invite proposals for individual papers, panels (with chair and discussant) and
roundtables for the 2005 Fisher Forum, which 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.  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.

Eligible conference participants can also apply for the Summer Research Lab at Illinois and receive housing grants to stay longer to conduct research.  Limited travel grants also available for eligible graduate students.  For more information on the Summer Lab see  http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/srl/srl.html
All proposals are due April 8, 2005. 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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