[Discussion] Calls for Papers

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I. Call for Papers: Ottoman and Atlantic Empires in the Early Modern World

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the
Huntington Library, the United States Consulate in Istanbul, and Bogaziçi
University invite proposals for papers and workshops to be presented at a
conference on "Ottoman and Atlantic Empires in the Early Modern World" to
be held in Istanbul, Turkey, in early October 2005.
In the early modern world two of the principal zones of imperial expansion
were in the eastern Mediterranean, fostered under the suzerainty of the
Ottomans, and around the North Atlantic rim, driven by the competition
among European monarchies. Two events in the fifteenth century signaled
the intensification of contact and rivalry. The interconnections between
Europeans and Ottomans became more intense with the conquest of
Constantinople in 1453, and Columbus's voyage to the west in 1492 marked
the onset of European penetration into the Western hemisphere and beyond.
Although the timing and particularities of empire formation varied,
contacts between the Ottomans and Europeans, knowledge of each other, and
desires for each other's territory and goods influenced their respective
political agendas, religious views, mental constructs, economic goals, and
cultural values. This conference calls for historically grounded
cross-cultural comparisons that will explore such intersections between
Ottoman and Atlantic (particularly Anglo-American) empires and world views
in the early modern era.
The conference will take two forms, one consisting of formal sessions with
papers and the second constituting methodological and historiographical
workshops focused on primary sources. The program will be structured so as
to match or create workshops that coincide with themes in the sessions.
The workshops will then serve as critique and commentary on the formal
presentations. We expect that Ottoman scholars will read in the histories
of early modern European empires in the North Atlantic, and American and
British historians will read in the history of the early modern Ottoman
empire

Formal Presentations

Proposals for formal papers might deal with interactions between people
residing in the Ottoman and/or Atlantic (and especially Anglo-American)
empires.  They might include, but are not limited to, discussions of
travelers and their accounts, political structures, commercial networks,
social relationships, and questions of diversity.
Workshops Our hope is that the methodologies and historiographies of
historians of the Atlantic world will shed new light on the materials of
Ottoman historians, and vice versa. Thus, each workshop will focus on
analyses of primary sources from both the Ottoman and Atlantic worlds and
perspectives.  The workshops will be informal, will build off of a series
of (probably on-line) discussions between the participants, and will be
considered as experiments in cross-cultural and/or comparative
conversation. These workshops will make up the more experimental aspect of
the conference. We envision a series of sessions that would allow Ottoman
and Atlantic empire scholars together to consider the most basic
differences and commonalities in their fields, by exploring key texts for
what these reveal about the various empires and about the ways in which
these have been or can be studied.  Proposals for contributions to
workshops should propose a specific document or group of documents in your
field. These may be newly-discovered or well-known. It is critical,
though, that they be accessible to scholars in the other field (most
obviously, this means that Ottoman documents must be translated into
English).

Both papers and workshops might coalesce around the following topics:  *
Early stages of empire building. In the Ottoman case, the focus will be
upon the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries; in the English case, it
will be on the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.  * Cultural
exchanges between empires and indigenous peoples. The English, the French,
the Spanish, and the Ottomans all had to contend with a host of peoples in
regions of empire building. It is likely that both religion and trade will
constitute important sub-themes of this topic.  * Law and lawlessness. The
creation of legal structures and legal codes in diverse environments is
common to the early modern imperial experience. In each case, these vary
over place and time, and influence the authority and legitimacy of the
state.  * Resistance to empire. Not only resistance and rebellion, but
also cooptation characterized early modern empires.  * Cultural constructs
and identities. Both the Ottoman and Atlantic world empires were
continuously evolving. They also persistently generated new and evolving
identities among their various subject peoples.  To:
turk@mail.h-net.msu.edu Subject: CFP

The deadline for submission of proposals is April 1, 2004.  Please send a
proposal of no more than 500 words along with a one-page curriculum vitae
to Andrew Cayton, Distinguished Professor of History, Department of
History, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 or Daniel Goffman, Professor
of History, Department of History, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
60614.


II. 2004 ANNUAL SOYUZ SYMPOSIUM
Memory and the Present in Postsocialist Cultures

Reed College, Portland, Oregon
February 13-14, 2004

Friday, February 13 (Vollum lounge)
8:30 ­ 9:30 Breakfast & Commencing Conviviality

9:30 ­ 11:30 Panel One: National & Ethnic Identities in Post-Socialist
Societies

Hulya Sakarya (Temple U) Looking at Ethnicity: The Case of the Georgians

Gaelyn Aguilar (U Southern California) Image(a)nation: Memory Through the
Eye of the Post-Socialist Macedonian

Konstantine Klioutchkine (Pomona College) The Medium and National Identity:
The Idiot Mini-Series and Dostoevsky's Original in Their Respective Media
Environments

Carol Silverman (U Oregon Eugene) Trafficking the Exotic with "Gypsy" 
Music:
"World Music" Festivals and Romani Identities

Discussant: Bruce Grant (Swarthmore)

11:45 ­ 1:15 Panel Two: Institutional Regulation of Life and Death

Maria Stoilkova (Columbia U) The Life of the Body National under Question:
Declining Birthrates and Hushed Discontent in Bulgaria

Carolyn Mork (U Chicago) States of Care: Money, Morality and the 
Politics of
Health Care in Post-Soviet Russia

Jose Alaniz (U Washington) Particularities of National Death: Russian
Hospice

Discussant: Paul Manning (Trent U)


2:30 ­ 4:30 Panel Three: Market, Consumption, and Commoditization

Larissa Rudova (Pomona College) The Children's Detektiv in Post-Soviet
Russia

Diana Mincyte (U Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Displacement of Memory through
Reforms of Rural Settlements in Lithuania

Sara Kaiser-Holt (U Minnesota) De-Silencing the Narratives of Economy in
Rural Post/Socialist Hungary

Tatyana Mamut (UC Berkeley) From Comrade to Consumer: Advertising Practice
and the Making of Post-Soviet Man

Jacob Rigi (Cornell U) Money and Value in Post-Soviet Russia and Kazakhstan


4:45 ­ 6:45 Panel Four: Memories of Mao

Amy Hanser (UC Berkeley) The Politics of "Post" in Postsocialist China

Will Hurst (UC Berkeley) The Power of the Past: Nostalgia and the 
Framing of
Discontent in Contemporary China

May Shannon (UC Berkeley) Revisionary Time: the Narrating the Present in
Contemporary Chinese Cinema

Terry Woronov (UC Berkeley) Remembering the Future: "Quality" Children and
the Temporality of the Chinese Nation

Discussant: Charlene Makley (Reed College)


8:30 Special Event
Dmitri Prigov: "The Moscow Texts and Screams" (Poetry reading and 
multimedia
performance, in Russian and English)

Saturday, February 14

9:30 ­ 11:30 Panel Five: Constructions of a Usable Past

Richard Esbenshade (UC Santa Cruz) The 'End of Memory'?  Legacies of 
1956 in
Hungary and the Future of Resistance

Maya Nadkarni (Columbia U) Victims and Perpetrators: The House of Terror 
and
Memory Politics during Hungary's Fourth Postsocialist Election

Oksana Kis (Institute of Ethnology NAS Ukraine) Pleasure and Danger of
Invented Past: the Berehynia Phenomena in Contemporary Ukraine

Serguei Oushakine (Columbia U) Replacing a Loss: Memory in Books and Stone

Olga Roussinova (European U St. Petersburg) Substance of Memory -- Place of
Gap: Monument to the Poet Iosif Brodsky in St. Petersburg


12:00 ­ 1:00 Keynote Address Daphne Berdahl (U Minnesota): Goodbye Lenin,
Auf Wiedersehen GDR:  The Social Life of Socialism


2:30 ­ 4:30 Panel Six: Post-socialist Nostalgia

Ana Devic (University of Aarhus Denmark) Yugonostalgia as a False Name:
Identity as Social Trajectories

Zala Volcic (U Colorado Boulder) Balkan Identities in the New Europe: 
Memory
and nostalgia for the former Yugoslavia

Kristen Ghodsee (Bowdoin College) Red Nostalgia: Reconstructing Memories of
Communism in Bulgaria

Nikolai Voukov (Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin) The Memory of "Paths Lost":
Commemorative Visits and "Mass Tourism" in Post-1989 Bulgaria

Discussant: Jennifer Cash (Indiana University)


4:45 ­ 6:45 Panel Seven: Trauma, Religion, Renewal

Jeanne Kormina (European U St. Petersburg) Seeking for God as Seeking for
Past: Culture of Travels in Post-Soviet Society

Jeffers Engelhardt (U Chicago) "Today is an important day here, the 
birthday
of our own religion": Festivity and Renewal in the Orthodox Church of
Estonia

Jason James (Lafayette College) Recalling Trauma : The Reconstruction of 
the
Church of Our Lady in Dresden

Violeta Davoliute (U Toronto) Deportee Memoirs and Post-Soviet Identity in
the Baltics

Discussant: Olga Shevchenko (Williams)


The 2004 SOYUZ Symposium is sponsored by the Office of the Reed College
President and the Reed College Departments of Anthropology and Russian

Contacts:
Marko Zivkovic ­ marko.zivkovic@reed.edu
Evgenii Bershtein  ­ evgenii.bershtein@reed.edu

III. Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions
3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
June 16 - 19, 2004
Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu Hawaii, USA

Submission Deadline:  January 27, 2004

Sponsored by:
East West Council for Education
Center of Asian Pacific Studies of Peking University

Web address: http://www.hicsocial.org
Email address: social@hicsocial.org

The 3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences will
be
held from June 16 (Wednesday) to June 19 (Saturday), 2004 at the
Sheraton
Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii.  The conference will provide many
opportunities for academicians and professionals from the social
sciences
fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular
disciplines.  Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are
welcome.

Topic Areas (All Areas of Social Sciences are Invited):

*Anthropology
*Area Studies (African, American, Asian, European, Hispanic, Islamic,
Jewish, Middle Eastern, Russian, Women's and all other cultural and
ethnic
studies)
*Communication
*Economics
*Education
*Ethnic Studies/International Studies
*Geography
*History
*International Relations
*Journalism
*Political Science
*Psychology
*Public Administration
*Sociology
*Urban and Regional Planning
*Women's studies
*Other Areas of Social Science
*Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other or other
areas.

The Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences encourages the
following types of papers/abstracts/submissions for any of the listed
areas:

Research Papers - Completed papers.
Abstracts - Abstracts of completed or proposed research.
Student Papers - Research by students.
Work-in-Progress Reports or Proposals for future projects.
Reports on issues related to teaching.

For more information about submissions see:
http://www.hicsocial.org/cfp_ss.htm

Format of Presentations:

-Paper sessions will have three to four papers presented in each 90
minute
session, giving each presenter 20 - 30 minutes.
-Workshop presentations will be given a full 90 minute session.
-Panel sessions will provide an opportunity for three or more presenters
to
speak in a more open and conversational setting with conference
attendees.
Submissions for these 90 minute sessions should include the name,
department, affiliation, and email address of each panelist in addition
to a
description of the presentation and the title page.
-Poster sessions will last 90 minutes and consist of a large number of
presenters.  Poster sessions allow attendees to speak with the
presenters on
a one-to-one basis.

Submitting a Proposal:

1.  Create a title page for your submission.  The title page should
include:

a.  title of the submission
b.  topic area of the submission (chooses from above list)
c.  presentation format (choose from above list)
d.  name(s) of the author(s)
e.  department(s) and affiliation(s)
f.  mailing address(es)
g.  e-mail address(es)
h.  phone number(s)
i.  fax number(s)
j.  corresponding author if different than lead author

2. Email your abstract and/or paper, along with a title page,  to
social@hicsocial.org receipt of submissions will be acknowledged via
email
within 48 hours.

If you do not wish to email your submission, you may send it via regular
mail or fax to:

Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
P.O. Box 75023
Honolulu, HI, 96836, USA

808-947-2420 (Fax)

***If submitting via regular mail, please supply two copies of your
submission***

There is a limit of two contributed submissions per lead author.

3. Submissions will only be published in the conference proceedings if
at
least one of the authors registers and attends the conference. More
information will be provided upon acceptance.

4. If you wish to be a session chair, please e-mail your request to
social@hicsocial.org and indicate the topic area in which you are
interested. Registration for the conference is required to be a session
chair.

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