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I. CONF./CFP- Warsaw Special Convention of ASN, July 18-21, 2004, Warsaw, Poland

Call for Papers

Warsaw Special Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities

organized by

The Studium Europy Wschodniej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
(The Centre for East European Studies of Warsaw University)

Nationalities and Pluralism from Old to New Worlds

East Central Europe and Post-Soviet Countries: Nations, Nationalities, 
Culture, Religion, History and Politics

Warsaw University,
July 18-21, 2004
Warsaw, Poland

Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2004

Contact information:

Jan Malicki, asn.studium@uw.edu.pl, Subject of a message: Jan Malicki
Submission of forms: asn.studium@uw.edu.pl, Subject of a message: Forms web 
site: www.uw.edu.pl

The Studium Europy Wschodniej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (The Centre for 
East European Studies of Warsaw University) and the Association for the 
Study of Nationalities are organizing a Special Convention to be held in 
Warsaw, July 18-21, 2004.

The Centre For Eastern Studies (OSW - OSRODEK STUDIOW WSCHODNICH) is the 
hosting partner of the Special Convention. It is a Polish governmental 
analytical institution entrusted with monitoring the current political, 
economic and social situation in Central and Eastern Europe, The Balkans, 
the Caucasus and Central Asia.

The Warsaw Special Convention will be held under the distinguished patronage 
of the Rector Magnificus of Warsaw University, Professor Piotr Weglenski.

Participants from all over the world, especially experts on Central Asian, 
Caucasian, Russian, East-Central European and Balkan affairs are expected to 
take part. We expect a large number of scholars from the countries of the 
former Soviet Union, Eastern and Central Europe and the Balkans.

Please Note that this Special Convention is distinct from the ASN Annual 
World Convention, which will take place at Columbia University, New York, on 
15-17 April 2004 (www.nationalities.org).

The Main Theme of the Convention is the fate of nationalities and of 
national and nationalist ideas in a world of globalization and economic and 
political integration. This includes the relation between national ideals 
and the process of transformation in Central Asia, the Caucasus, 
East-Central Europe and the Balkans, the question of political change and 
democratization in the post-Soviet area, as well as the prospects for 
systemic change in the post-communist world.

The Convention will be held just two months after Poland and the other more 
advanced countries in the region join the EU while many other post-communist 
states continue to move back to authoritarian rule, twelve years after the 
fall of Communist system in East-Central Europe.

The Warsaw Special Convention will consider proposals on topics related to 
national identity, nationalism, ethnic conflict and state-building in 
Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and adjacent areas. The 
Convention invites proposals for individual papers or for complete panels.

The Convention is inviting submissions of recent documentaries or feature 
films and available in video (VHS or DVD) format. The videos selected for 
the convention will be screened during regular panel slots and will be 
followed by a discussion moderated by academic experts.

The Last Special Asn Convention, held in June 2002 in Forli, Italy was 
organized by The Centro per l'Europa Centro Orientale e Balcanica, 
University of Bologne.

Location

The Convention will be held at the Warsaw University campus in the centre of 
Warsaw, at Krakowskie Przedmiescie street. The campus is formed by the 
complex of classical buildings, most of which were built in 18. and 19. 
centuries in order to satisfy the needs of Warsaw University and other 
educational institutions. The main edifice, King Casimir's palace, was built 
in the first half of the 17. century. Warsaw University itself was fouded in 
1816. The location is surrounded by silhouettes of baroque churches, 
situated along the Royal Way, in the vicinity of the Royal Castle and the 
Old City.

Schedule

The convention will begin on Sunday evening, July 18, and end on Wednesday 
evening, July 21, 2004.

Paper/Panel Proposals

Proposals must be e-mailed to Jan Malicki at asn.studium@uw.edu.pl with the 
subject "Forms". Please note that participants with individual papers will 
also be brought together into panel groups. The word "panelist", used 
further in this text, refers both to participants with individual papers or 
participants in panel proposals. All proposals will be examined by the 
Studium's and the ASN's Convention Program Boards. Paper proposal 
applications can be found at the Warsaw Special Convention's website at 
in both pdf and rtf format.

All proposals, for individual papers and panels, must be written in English. 
However, in exceptional cases, the convention organizers will allow some 
presentations to be delivered in Polish, as long as a comprehensive written 
summary in English is made available to the audience.

Registration

Registration Fees Are:

1. Western countries
- ASN members - 45 €
- non-members - 60 €
- students - 30 €
2. Poland
- scholars - 25 €
- students - 10 €
- students and graduates of the Studium Europy Wschodniej- free of charge
3. East Central European EU countries and Russia
- scholars - 20 €
- students - 10 €
4. Central Asian, Caucasian, East European and Balkan countries
- scholars - 10 €
- students - 5 €

All panelists must pre-register by May 15, 2004. Pre-registration can be 
done electronically, by fax, or by regular mail. The registration form can 
be downloaded from www.uw.edu.pl. In case of cancellation before May 15, 
2004, a refund of the registration fee is possible. After that date, the 
organizers will not accept any requests for refund.

Accommodations

Our web site will provide, beginning from February 15, 2004, a list of 
several hotels in various price ranges for those who pay for accomodation. 
Participants will also have the opportunity to consult the Convention 
organisers' staff . They are strongly encouraged to reserve as early as 
possible.

Funding

Participants from the West, from East-Central European EU countries and from 
Poland are responsible for covering all travel and accommodation costs.

Panelists from the Central Asian, Caucasian, East European, Balkan countries 
and Russia may be offered:

1. a full refund of accomodation costs in a Warsaw University student 
hostels (ab. 200 beds)
2. a free of charge accomodation in private appartments belonging to the 
Studium's scholars, students and administration staff (ab. 30 beds)
3. a partial refund of accomodation costs in hostels and other unexpensive 
lodgings (ab. 100 beds)
4. the Studium's plenipotentiaries in Belarus and Ukraine will organize, for 
those interested, an economy bus transport from Lviv and Brest to Warsaw
5. a full refund of accomodation and travel costs in case of 20 prominent 
participants from Central Asia, the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, the
Balkans or 
Russia, selected by ASN, the Studium Europy Wschodniej and the Centre for 
Eastern Studies (OSW)
6. in exeptional cases: the support in finding money necessary to finance 
travel costs for panelists from Central Asia and Transcaucasia

All the details concerning funding will be given on our web site beginning 
from May 1, 2004, after the Program Boards will have completed their work. 
Participants from the East are encouraged to apply to international 
foundations for the refund of travel costs.

Advertisements/Exhibitors

The exhibition of Polish and East and Central Europe publishing houses 
active in the field of regional studies will take place during the Special 
Convention. ASN will offer its latest publications at a separate stand. 
During the book fair, an exhibition of Polish non-governmental 
organizations active in the post-Soviet area will be held.

Reviews of Polish films and concerts of Polish classical music are planned. 
It will be possible for participants to attend concerts of the Mozart 
Festival, which will be held in Warsaw in July, 2004.

For those interested, the Studium Europy Wschodniej can offer tours to 
Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine and the district of Kaliningrad. The cost will 
be known by Spring 2004. Please take into consideration that the majority of 
participants from Western countries need separate visas to Belarus, Ukraine, 
and Kalinigrad. The Studium is not responsible for providing necessary 
documents.

Convention Papers

The convention papers will be available for sale at the Convention for 1 € 
apiece, according to ASN Conventions' old tradition.

Web Site

Our web site (www.uw.edu.pl) provides continuously updated information on 
the Warsaw Special Convention.

Membership Subscription to ASN

A yearly membership to ASN is $60 ($35 for students). Members receive the 
journal Nationalities Papers quarterly, the periodical Analysis of Current 
Events (ACE), and the newsletter ASNews twice a year, as well as a 
registration discount at the ASN Annual World Convention. ASN Members also 
have the option of subscribing to Europe-Asia Studies at the cut-rate of $60 
yearly. A membership form can be downloaded from ASN web page 
(http://www.nationalities.org). We look forward to seeing you at the 
Convention! 
Application Information

The Studium and the ASN are accepting proposals for panels or individual 
papers. The forms for proposals together with the application form are 
attached below. We kindly ask participants who don't wish to present any 
paper at the conference to fill in the application form. The forms have to 
be e-mailed to Jan Malicki at the Studium Europy Wschodniej, 
asn.studium@uw.edu.pl , with the subject: "Forms". All forms must be 
included as attachments in the body of a single email.

Please Fill in the Forms in Latin Alphabet!

If audio-visual equipment (overhead projector, PowerPoint, VCR) is required, 
please indicate so in your application. Please understand that not ALL 
video/technical requests can be accommodated.

Applicants must abide by three golden rules:

*No participant may be listed more than once on a given panel
*No participant may present more than one paper at the convention
*No participant may appear more than twice in the convention program

Proposals must be sent by e-mail at asn.studium@uw.edu.pl .The Convention 
Program Boards will be entrusted with the final selections.

Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2004

Warsaw University Convention Program Board:

Juliusz Bardach - historian of law, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of 
History of Law
Wojciech Tygielski - historian of 18th c., Vice-Rector for Public and 
International Relations
Jan Malicki - Convention Director, Head of the Studium Europy Wschodniej
Jane Curry - politologist, Professor at the Studium, Fulbright-Warsaw 
University Chair
Marek Sliwinski - politologist, Professor at the Studium
Leszek Zasztowt - historian of 19-20th cc., Professor at the Studium
Wlodzimierz Borodziej - historian of 20th c., former Vice-Rector for Public 
and International Relations of Warsaw University, Professor at the Institute 
of History
Andrzej Chojnowski - historian of 20th c., Professor at the Institute of 
History, Warsaw University
Tomasz Kizwalter - historian of 19th c., Professor at the Institute of 
History, Warsaw University
Andrzej Mencwel - historian of ideas, Director of the Institute of Polish 
Culture, Warsaw University
Lech Mroz - ethnologist, Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural 
Anthropology, Warsaw University
Grazyna Szwat-Gylybowa - historian of slavic literatures, Professor at the 
Institute of Western and Slavic Studies, Warsaw University

ASN Special Warsaw Convention Program Board:

David Crowe - ASN President
Dominique Arel - ASN Vicepresident/Conventions
Michael Rywkin - ASN Advisory Board President

Warsaw Special Convention Organizational Committee:

Jan Malicki - Convention Director, Head of the Studium Europy Wschodniej 
Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Jacek Cichocki - Director of the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)

The Special Warsaw Convention headquarters are located at:

The Studium Europy Wschodniej (The Centre for East European Studies)
Warsaw University
Palac Potockich
Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28
PL 00-927 Warszawa

Phone no: (0-4822) 55-22-555, 55-22-444
Fax no: (0-4822) 55-22-222
E-mail: asn.studium@uw.edu.pl,

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II. M/C - Media and Culture
is calling for contributors to the 'open' issue of

M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ /> 
The award-winning M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a
crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and
peer-reviewed journal.

To see what M/C Journal is all about, check out our Website, which contains
all the issues released so far, at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. To
find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit
<http://www.media-culture.org.au/submission.html>.

Call for Papers: 'open' - edited by Felix Stalder & McKenzie Wark

Since the rebranding of Free Software into Open Source in 1998, "open" has
become the buzzword for all things progressive on and off the Internet. Open
Law, Open Hardware, Open Culture, Open Publishing, Open Access or Open
Archives are just some of the many concepts which are being retooled to serve
the more or less defined public good in the Information Society.

Yet, at the same time, multinational corporations have become major actors in
the Open Source Software area and commercial publishers are beginning to
seriously look into Open Access model. In the background of the recent
enthusiasm with "open" lurks the "Open Society" concept of Karl Popper, whose
political preferences for Margaret Thatcher's neoliberalism are well known.

'Open' aims to take a critical look at this concept of the "open". Is it a
temporary buzzword that signifies nothing but an astute sense of
salesmanship? Is it an alternative social concept, or just yet another step
in making capitalism ever more flexible? What is it that makes something
"open" and are some projects more "open" than others? Is "open" always better
than closed? How does "open" relate to areas where we might value closure,
for example, personal privacy? Can we imagine an even more open concept of
social, cultural and economic life?

For the upcoming 'open' issue of M/C Journal, we are inviting papers between
1000 and 2000 words that critically examine the concept of "open" from any
perspective. We invite equally theoretical investigations of the concept as
empirical studies of particular projects with special regard to their
"openness" or "closeness".

Guest Editors for 'open':
McKenzie Wark, core faculty in media and communication, Lang College, New
School University, and guest scholar, American Studies, New York University
<mw35@nyu.edu>

Felix Stalder, Lecturer in Media Economy at the New Media Department, Academy

of Art and Design, Zurich, head of research at Openflows.org and co-moderator
of the nettime mailing list.
<felix@openflows.org>

For more information: open@journal.media-culture.org.au

Article deadline: 19 March 2004
Issue release date: 21 April 2004

M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998
as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting
of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C
Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for
comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind
peer-reviewed.

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2004 M/C Journal Issue Deadlines

'open' editors: McKenzie Wark & Felix Stalder
open@journal.media-culture.org.au
article deadline: 19 March 2004
release date: 21 April 2004

'porn' editors: Jean Burgess & Andrew King
porn@journal.media-culture.org.au
article deadline: 26 April 2004
release date: 16 June 2004

'fx' editor: Nick Caldwell
fx@journal.media-culture.org.au
article deadline: 21 June 2004
release date: 11 August 2004

'fame' editor: P. David Marshall
fame@journal.media-culture.org.au
article deadline: 16 August 2004
release date: 6 October 2004

'order' editor: Liz Ferrier
order@journal.media-culture.org.au
article deadline: 11 October 2004
release date: 1 December 2004

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III. C A L L F O R P A P E R S

The Nineteenth Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference at the
University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies will be held on
Friday, April 30th and Saturday, May 1st, 2004.

The Middle East History and Theory Conference provides a forum for
students and faculty in the social sciences and humanities to present
papers treating Middle Eastern and Central Asian art/architecture,
literature, society, history and politics from the 7th century to the
present. Graduate students are particularly urged to participate; both
individual papers and pre-arranged panels can be accommodated. The
deadline for the submission of a one-page abstract and curriculum vitae
is March 1st, 2004. Working papers must be received by April 5th 2004 to
assure participation. Please specify if audio/visual facilities are needed
when submitting papers to:

Middle East History and Theory Conference Co-ordinators,
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
The University of Chicago
5828 S. University Avenue
Chicago, IL, 60637
Tel: 1-773-702 8297
Fax: 1-773-702 2587

Further information can be obtained by contacting:

Kaveh Hemmat at <kavehhemmat@uchicago.edu>
Alidost Numan at <numan@uchicago.edu>

Visit the Conference website at:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/meht /> 

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IV. Course "Rewriting History: Emerging Identities and Nationalism in Central A=
sia", Central European University Summer University, Hungary, July 19-30, 2004.

PROGRAM INFO.- Central European Summer University, July 2004, Budapest. The=
 course will use interdisciplinary perspective to examine the phenomenon of=
 Revising and Rewriting of the History in Central Asia. It will examine the=
 roots of this phenomenon going back to the colonial time of print-capitali=
sm, which fostered the emergence of "imagined communities" in Central Asia =
and look at the problem from a theoretical point of view placing it rightly=
 within the theoretical concepts existing in Historical Anthropology, Post-=
Colonial Studies and Area Studies.

The course will focus among others on such problems as the complex interpla=
y
between Invention and Mythologization of the History and Ethno-Nationalism =
as well as emerging new State based Identities. It will introduce the multi=
faceted debate on the nature of invention of the History and reveal its cor=
relation with state building, politics, and political regimes and show the =
role of History Writing in social and cultural life of societies during the=
 transition period. The comparative analysis of the History Writing process=
 in Central Asian states with those in other post-Communist societies (Cauc=
asus, Mongolia) as well as Chinese Central Asia (Xinjiang) will enable to r=
eveal general tendencies in the process of Rewriting of the History and des=
cribe it as a natural phenomenon for the contemporary post-colonial societi=
es. The course will give participants the skills necessary to apply academi=
c theories, concepts and methodology to their own researches and curricula.

Detailed information on the course can be obtained on the CEU web site:
http://www.ceu.hu/sun

Course director: Ablet Kamalov, Almaty, Kazakhstan Resource persons: Profs.=
 Dru
C. Gladney (USA),
T. Atabaki (the Netherlands), H. B. Paksoy (USA), C. Mackerras (Australia),
Anvar Galiev
(Kazakhstan), Agnes Birtalan (Hungary)

The language of instruction is English.

Participants from Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and
emerging democracies
world-wide are eligible for scholarships. For detailed course descriptions,
financial information,
etc. please visit the CEU web site.

The application deadline is January 15 for scholarship participants.
Fee-paying applications can be submitted continuously until May 17.

For further information, please contact the Soros Foundation offices or the=
 SUN
office in Budapest:

Mailing Address:

CEU Summer University Office,
Zr=EDnyi u. 14.
1051 Budapest
Hungary

Tel: (36-1) 327-3811
Fax: (36-1) 327-3124

E-mail for inquiry and correspondence: summeru@ceu.hu

Automatic e-mail to request application forms: sunreq@ceu.hu

WWW address: http://www.ceu.hu/sun/sunindx.html

On-line registration: https://online.ceu.hu/osun/osun/form.jsp

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V. Call for Papers - Extended Deadline

Citizens of the World: 

Using Media to Introduce Globalization across the Curriculum

Across the humanities curriculum, from general education to upper 

division courses, students are being asked to grapple with issues of

globalization and its repercussions. Out of these global changes, common

metaphors are emergingmetaphors such as borderlands and border crossings,

empire and transnationalism, to name a few. Such complex metaphors can be

intimidating to many undergraduates. This proposed collection explores

ways that media can be used effectively in a variety of classes in a

variety of disciplines to engage students with concepts of globalization,

connecting them to and among their general education courses.

Papers for an essay collection tentatively titled Citizens of the

World: Using Media to Introduce Globalization across the Curriculum

are invited on any aspect of the use of various media (film, music,

television, video, internet sites and communication, etc.) to introduce

students to globalization across the college humanities curriculum. How

can media help students conceptualize and analyze these abstract 

concepts? More broadly, how can we use media to complicate and enhance

students’ understandings of race, ethnicity, sexuality, national 

identity, and politics in a global context? How might media be used to

introduce students to theoretical approaches such as postcolonialism,

gender, transnationalism, ecology and environmentalism? We are interested

in submissions that successfully ground practice in theory in their

discussion of the integration of media and pedagogy in a world where

national and economic boundaries are becoming increasingly 

blurred.

Essays should not be more than twenty double-spaced pages (6000-7000

words) and should follow the most recent APA Style Manual. The deadline

for manuscripts is November 1, 2004. The editors welcome earlier 

submission and also invite initial queries. Tentative publication date is

November 2005. Please send manuscripts to Donna Dunbar-Odom 

(Donna_Dunbar-Odom@tamu-commerce.edu) or Georgia Seminet 

(Georgia_Seminet@tamu-commerce.edu) at the Department of Literature and

Languages, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, Texas 75429.
(Please 

feel free to forward this call to other listservs or
individuals.)

Donna Dunbar-Odom

Director, First-Year Composition

Associate Professor of English

Dept. of Literature and Languages

Texas A&M University - Commerce

Commerce, TX 75429

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