CFP: 6th Biennial AWSS Conference: Women, Gender, and Revolution in Slavic Studies (Thursday, April 10, 2014)

[Elizabeth Skomp]

Call for Papers
6th Biennial AWSS Conference: Women, Gender, and Revolution in Slavic Studies
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Atlanta, GA
Proposal Deadline: December 15
 
The
 Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) is soliciting paper 
presentations on the theme of “Women, Gender, and Revolution in Slavic 
Studies” for its 6th Biennial Conference to be held on Thursday, April 10, 2014 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Atlanta, GA.  The conference will be held in conjunction with the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS), which opens Thursday evening and runs through Saturday. 
 Participants of the AWSS Conference are encouraged to attend and 
participate in the SCSS conference as well (a separate CFP will be 
issued for that conference).  AWSS Conference participants are eligible 
to receive the SCSS rate for the hotel, $165.00/night.
 
The
 theme of women, gender, and revolution can be approached in a variety 
of ways.  Most concretely, the these addressed the actions of men and 
women in political revolution, broadly conceived, including (but not 
limited to) events of 1848, 1905, and 1917, events leading up to the 
fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and the post-Community 
transformations after 1989. The theme also invites the study of gendered
 representations of revolutionary events, and of significant 
transformation in gender roles at any time in Russia and East European 
History.
 
The keynote talk for 
the conference will be delivered by Janet Johnson, Associate Professor 
of Political Science and Women’s Studies at Brooklyn College, City 
University of New York.  Dr. Johnson (PhD 2001, Indiana 
University-Bloomington) is an expert on gender, violence, and civil 
society in post-communist transitions in Eastern Europe.  She has 
published and spoken widely on these subjects.  Her talk at the 
conference will be on “Revolutionizing Gender Studies”:  Though not 
everyone understands it, the study of women in Slavic Studies 
revolutionized gender studies by clarifying that change of regime--such 
as from communism to post-communism--radically alters gender.  Russia's 
recent move toward authoritarian should also make us re-think gender, 
this time by highlighting the role of informal networks, practices, and 
institutions.  Gender-blind social scientists are claiming these notions
 as their own, even though they have been hidden there all along in 
gender studies, especially among those of us who study places outside of
 Western Europe and North America.
 
The
 conference organizers invite proposals from scholars at all stages in 
their careers and in any discipline of Slavic Studies (history, 
literature, linguistics, political science, sociology, anthropology, 
economics, gender studies, etc.).  Proposals should consist of a 
250-word abstract of the paper (including the paper’s title) and a brief
 one-page CV that includes author’s affiliation and contact 
information.  Proposals are due by December 15 to Sharon Kowalsky, Associate Professor of History, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Sharon.Kowalsky at tamuc.edu.  Participants will be notified of their acceptance approximately four weeks after the proposal deadline.
 
Any questions about the conference or the program should be directed to Sharon Kowalsky (Sharon.Kowalsky at tamuc.edu) or Karen Petrone (Petrone at uky.edu). 		 	   		  
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