[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Visual anthropology: new views to social reality, Saratov, Russia, 28-29th of July, 2006

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From: "Serguei Alex. Oushakine" <sao15@columbia.edu>

SARATOV STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK
CENTER FOR SOCIOLOGICAL EDUCATION AT THE INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY
  RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
CENTER FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND GENDER STUDIES

CALL FOR PAPERS
Interdisciplinary scholarly conference

"Visual anthropology: new views to social reality"

Saratov, Russia, 28-29th of July, 2006

Saratov State Technical University and Center for Social Policy and Gender
Studies (Saratov, Russia) announce the interdisciplinary scholarly 
conference
"Visual anthropology: new views to social reality" to be held on the 
28-29 of
July, 2006. This conference intends to bring together social and cultural
anthropologists, historians and sociologists, scholars in cultural studies
perspective, to discuss methods and findings of analyzing visual objects and
documtnes, which open for social scientists new perspectives to 
understanding
past and present. Photography, video and electronic media are now more 
often
used by social scientists as cultural texts, as representations of social
experience and context and cultural production. Visual methods and 
traditional
approaches (personal narratives, archival documents) can complement each 
other
as different types of knowledge, which can be experienced and represented by
various textual, visual and other sensual means.

Working languages of the conference are Russian and English.

The proposed topics for the discussion are presented but not limited by the
following list:

- theories and methods of visual anthropology; visual methods in 
ethnography,
social and cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history

- visual image as a social and cultural text; visual representations of 
social
reality

- visual research into everyday life

- visual narrative of the photography

- Soviet and post-Soviet cinema: sociocultural analysis

- a phenomenon of ethnographical film

- issues of visual data archives

The papers selected and accepted for the conference will be published in a
collection of papers.

The application should include the following information: 1) First name and
Surname, 2) working place affiliation, 3) job position, degree, 4) 
E-mail, 5)
regular mail address, 6) phone, 7) fax, 8) title of a paper, 9) summary 
(200-300
words), 10) full paper (appr. 5 000 words), 11) equipment required for the
presentation (over-head projector, multi-media projector, slide-projector,
TV+video/DVD-player). The applications should be received by the 
co-ordinators
by the 4th of June, 2006.

The location of the conference: Department of Social Anthropology and Social
Work, Saratov State Technical University, Polytechnicheskaia str. 77, 
Saratov,
Russia

Address for correspondence:
Evgenia Vassina, Ekaterina Antonova
Saratov State Technical University
Department of Social Anthropology and Social Work
Polytechnicheskaia 77
Saratov 410054 Russia

Phone: +7 8452 526638
Fax: + 7 8452 506837
E-mail: vasinaev@yandex.ru, arnadia_e@mail.ru

Please note: Organizational Committee CANNOT reimburse travel and lodging
expenses of the participants. Please raise your own funds.

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Dear CESN Colleagues:

The CESS Conference Committee would like to encourage you to begin thinking
about -- and contacting your colleagues for -- putting together panel
proposals for the 2006 CESS Annual Conference to be held at the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor, September 28-October 1, 2006 (see the Call for
Papers appended below).  I want to encourage you to use the CESN list as a
tool for linking up with colleagues who share your thematic interests and
who could contribute to a panel on a theme of interest to you.

As one who has watched closely the preparations for the six previous CESS
Annual Conferences, based on the preparations that have already begun and
our accumulated experience, I think this is going to be best one yet --
don't miss it!  And given space limitations, we expect there is going to be
strong competition in the proposal selection process.

The Conference Committee will give favorable consider to pre-organized
panel proposals over individual papers, since good pre-organized panel have
a stronger likelihood of making good panels at the conference.  So if you
propose a good panel, that will increase your chances of being accepted.
You'll also be doing CESS a service by helping to draw good scholars in
your field to the conference.  Many people look at organizing a panel as a
way to get together with some of your favorite colleagues.  And sometimes
such a conference panel can be a useful step towards a larger collaborative
project such as joint research or publications.

Putting together a good panel takes time, and though the proposal deadline
is not yet close (April 7, 2006), it is not too early to begin contacting
colleagues and discussing possible themes of common interest for the panel.
 While panels will be given favorable consideration, their acceptance is
not automatic, and those which have a full slate of participants including
a chair and especially a discussant, and which are not lacking information
such as abstracts and addresses, will have the best chances of acceptance.

So please consider formulating a proposed panel theme and posting a note to
CESN inviting colleagues to contact you if they are interested in joining
such a panel.  I recommend that your posting have a subject line which
immediately conveys what you are looking for, for example:

"Panel proposal: Discourses on Islamism in Central Eurasia"

To get an idea of the kind of panel topic that could be good for the
conference, you can look at the 2005 conference program at:
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Program.html

Looking forward to a great conference, and hoping to see many of you there!

John Schoeberlein

CALL FOR PAPERS

Central Eurasian Studies Society
Seventh Annual Conference (2006)

September 28-October 1, 2006
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.

The CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES SOCIETY (CESS) invites panel and paper
proposals for the Seventh CESS Annual Conference, September 28-October 1,
2006, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  The event will be held at the University of
Michigan, hosted by the Center for Russian and East European Studies, the
Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Department of
Near Eastern Studies.

Panel and paper topics relating to all aspects of humanities and social
science scholarship on Central Eurasia are welcome.  The geographic domain
of Central Eurasia extends from the Black Sea and Iranian Plateau to
Mongolia and Siberia, including the Caucasus, Crimea, Middle Volga,
Afghanistan, Tibet, and Central and Inner Asia.  Practitioners and scholars
in all humanities and social science disciplines with an interest in
Central Eurasia are encouraged to participate.

The program will feature approximately 60-70 panels in sessions running from
Friday morning to mid-day on Sunday (up to eight panels at one time).  There
will also be a supplementary program including films and other cultural events,
a welcoming reception on Thursday, and a conference dinner on Friday.  The
keynote speaker will be Dr. Juan Cole of the University of Michigan, a
keen observer of the Middle East and Central Eurasia.

Submissions of pre-organized panels are strongly encouraged and will be
given some preference in the selection process.  Individual papers are also
welcome and will be assigned by the program committee to an appropriate
panel with a chair and a discussant.  Those wishing to organize panels are
encouraged to use the Central Eurasian Scholars Network (CESN; see web
address for information below) to make contact with interested colleagues,
and may also contact Dr. Laura Adams <lladams2@earthlink.net> on the Program
Committee for assistance in developing ideas for panels, recruiting
participants, etc.

We also welcome attendees who do not wish to participate in a panel.  For
more information, see the Registration/Pre-registration Form:
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conf-Reg.html.

There has been a huge growth in interest in the CESS conference as our
society has become more established.  Over the past three years, attendance
has averaged about 500 per year, with dozens of countries and all major
fields of scholarship represented.  We expect a similar number to attend in
2006.

Please note that due to this high level of interest, and the fact that the
total number of participants in CESS 2006 will be more limited due to space
constraints, we anticipate that the selection of papers will be very
competitive, and we encourage all who hope to attend to consider working
with colleagues to arrange a pre-organized panel, as this will improve your
chances of acceptance.  Due to space limitations, we may have to close
registration when capacity is reached, and thus, non-presenting attendees
are urged to pre-register to ensure that their place is reserved.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

The Conference Committee accepts ONLY ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS -- either by
webform (see forms for Pre-organized Panels and for Individual Papers at:
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html), or by an e-mailed form in
MS Word format in the case of those who don't have web access.  This is
because website submissions can more easily be processed than other methods,
and we have limited resources to manage the hundreds of submissions that we
anticipate receiving.  Those who don't have access to the website may
contact us and we will e-mail the submission forms in MS Word format.

The following information is required for submissions; we suggest that you
prepare the text before accessing the website so you can simply paste the
information into the form (but do not send it without the form!):

FOR PAPER PRESENTERS: 1) Name, 2) Current institutional affiliation, 3)
Title/position, 4) E-mail, 5) Postal address, 6) Telephone, 7) Fax, 8) Title
of Paper, 9) Abstract of Paper (a summary of the paper of 200-300 words;
abstracts longer than 300 words may be rejected), 10) Any audio-visual
equipment requests (specify -- e.g., overhead projector, slide project,
video player), 11) A one-page CV which contains the information which the
panel chair may require for introductions, and includes the presenter's
educational background (highest degree, year awarded, awarding institution,
and field of study).

FOR PANELS: Proposals may be submitted for regular panels (with presentation
of scholarly papers) and roundtable panels (featuring discussion of a
current topic in the field).

REGULAR PANELS: In addition to the information for paper presenters (as
indicated above), the following are also required: a) a title for the
proposed panel, and b) name, affiliation, and contact information of the
panel chair and discussant.  Panels should have three or four paper
presenters, a chair, and a discussant.  The program committee can accept
panel submissions which lack one or two of these, but no panel proposal
should have fewer than four people who have given a firm assurance that they
definitely plan to participate in the conference unless they are prevented
by circumstances out of their control.  If the panel as proposed does not
include a full complement of panelists (i.e., 3-4 presenters, discussant and
chair), the other panel participants may be filled in as necessary by the
program committee if the panel proposal is accepted.  Pre-organized panels
should be thematically coherent and may be organized/sponsored by a
scholarly organization (optional).

ROUNDTABLE PANELS: A roundtable has four or five presenters and a
chair/moderator.  For roundtable proposals, the organizer must provide a
paragraph describing the panel objectives and providing justification for
use of the roundtable format.  The same information is required of each
participant as for regular panels with the exception that abstracts and
paper titles are not required.

SPONSORED PANELS: CESS encourages other institutions supporting the study of
Central Eurasia, such as regional scholarly associations, to organize
"sponsored panels" at the CESS conference -- i.e., panels organized by the
sponsoring institution, involving their members and receiving their imprimatur.

BEST PAPER AWARD: There will be an award in the amount of $500 given to the
best graduate student conference paper submitted to the Awards Committee for
consideration.  See the CESS awards webpage for details
(http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Awards.html), or contact the Awards
Committee Co-chair, Dr. Uli Schamiloglu <uschamil@wisc.edu>.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

* SUBMISSION FORMAT: Do not send your proposal in any format other than the
  webform or the MS Word form, as the committee will not consider it in that
  case.

* ENSURING QUALITY PROPOSALS: Since the selection process is expected to be
  quite competitive, we strongly advise you to follow the Guidelines for
  Writing Abstracts available on the conference website (see below).  Those
  who do not do this will have significantly lower chances of their proposal
  being accepted.  If you do not have web access, we can send you the
  guidelines by e-mail upon request.

* COMMITMENT TO PARTICIPATE: By submitting a proposal, you are indicating
  your serious intention to participate in the conference -- including your
  commitment to take the necessary steps to obtain any required visa or
  funding -- unless prevented by circumstances out of your control.  You will
  be asked to confirm your commitment in June after your proposal is accepted.
  Note that, because withdrawal after the program has been put together is very
  disruptive and harms the quality of panels, and prevents us from including
  people in the program who would indeed be able to attend, CESS rules
  stipulate that those who withdraw after June 30 without a good reason are
  barred from participating in the conference the following year, and those
  who fail to appear at the conference without timely notice to the
  Conference Committee will be considered "no-shows" and will be barred from
  participating for the next two years.  The deadline for such notification
  is seven days prior to the conference (Sept. 21), and after this date, no
  registration fees can be refunded.

* E-MAIL CONTACT: Since all communication with prospective participants is
  via e-mail, and we will require your confirmation of participation in June
  after proposals are accepted and again in September when all of your visa
  and travel arrangements should be in place, it is vitally important that
  you make sure we always have an e-mail address that will reach you.  If we
  LOSE CONTACT with you after your proposal is accepted, you will be dropped
  from the program, will be counted as a "no-show", and will not be able to
  participate in the conference.

* ABSTRACTS OF PUBLISHABLE QUALITY: If you are accepted and participate in
  the conference, your abstract will be published on the CESS website, so
  please write it carefully to avoid errors and ensure that it conforms
  with the criteria for a good abstract (see Guidelines for Writing Abstracts
  available on the conference website; see below).

* PROGRAM LIMITATIONS: No participant may present more than one paper at
  the conference.  Without special justification, the program committee will
  not schedule any individual to appear on more than two panels as a
  presenter or discussant.

SCHEDULE OF KEY DATES

Deadline for submission of panel/paper proposals:  Friday, APRIL 7, 2006.

* Note: Submissions after this date may be accepted only in the case of
  special justifying circumstances and at the discretion of the program
  committee.

Notification of acceptance:  by June 1.

* The Conference Committee will provide, upon request, mailed or faxed
  invitation letters to support an application for a visa or travel funds;
  these will be sent in the second half of June.  Note: Obtaining a U.S. visa
  can take a long time, and we urge participants to begin the process
  immediately upon notification of their proposal's acceptance.

Pre-registration deadline:  Friday, SEPTEMBER 1.

* Note: Pre-registration is not required, but entitles you to significantly
  reduced registration fees and, for those not on the program, reserves a space
  at the conference, in the event that attendance reaches the maximum capacity.

Deadline for notification of audio-visual requests:  August 15.

Papers should be submitted to chairs/discussants:  by Friday, SEPTEMBER 8.

* Paper presenters will be informed via e-mail in late August of the
  e-mail addresses of their panel's chair and discussant, to whom they should
  send their papers by the deadline.

Conference:  SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 1.

* Arrival to Ann Arbor is on the afternoon/evening of Thursday, Sept. 28 --
  registration opens in the afternoon followed by a reception in the evening.
  Panels begin Friday morning, Sept. 29, and continue through mid-day on
  Sunday, Oct. 1.

REGISTRATION

Each conference participant is required to pay a registration fee.  The fee
is reduced for CESS members, for University of Michigan students, and for
those who pre-register before the pre-registration deadline -- SEPTEMBER 1.
The level of the fee also depends on your CESS membership dues category
(with some members being entitled to reduced dues -- see the CESS Membership
Form for details).

Payment of registration fees IS REQUIRED for all attending the conference, and
cover an welcoming reception on Thursday and the conference dinner on Friday.
Fees are as follows:

Regular fee members*:       $75 (pre-registration) or $100 (at conference)
Reduced fee members**:      $50 (pre-registration) or $70 (at conference)
Non-members:                $100 (pre-registration) or $130 (at conference)
Univ. of Michigan students: $35 (pre-registration) or $45 (at conference)
UM student CESS members:    $25 (pre-registration) or $30 (at conference)

*  "Regular fee members" are those who have paid their annual dues at the
   full rate ($50).
** "Reduced fee members" are those who have current membership at reduced fees.

For methods of payment, see the Registration Form at:
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conf-Reg.html.

NOTE:  CESS DOES NOT have funds to support the costs of conference
participation, and does not waive the conference fee for participants who
cannot afford it.  Paper presenters, other panelists, and conference
attendees are required to pay the registration fee, and additionally, those
included on the program (paper presenters, roundtable panelists,
discussants, etc.) are required to be CESS members in good standing -- i.e.,
to have paid any dues they owe.  Participants must obtain their own funding
-- from personal resources, their own institutions, or grant-giving
organizations which provide conference travel grants.  Some further
information about possible sources is available on the conference website.

TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATIONS

Information about the University of Michigan and the city of Ann Arbor,
transportation options, maps, and lodging information are available on the
University of Michigan's Conference Information page at:
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/crees/events/CESS2006.htm.
Please be sure to visit this web page for detailed information.

Ann Arbor is located 25 miles from Detroit Metropolitan Airport.  A shuttle
service is available from the airport to Ann Arbor.  Advance reservations
are required and may be made via the web.  Taxis are also available and are
a reasonable option for conference participants arriving together.
Conference sessions will be in the Michigan League, located on the Central
Campus of the University of Michigan.  Rooms for lodging have been reserved
for conference participants at a variety of hotels in Ann Arbor.  Those
planning to attend CESS 2006 may obtain a reservation for one of the rooms
set aside for the conference by contacting one of the hotels listed on the
University of Michigan's Conference Information page.  When speaking with a
reservations clerk, please refer to the reserved block for CESS.  Provide
them with a credit card and have the reservation put under your name.  Rooms
not spoken for by the end of August will be released to the general public.

FURTHER INFORMATION

The Co-chairs of the Conference Committee are:

Dr. Alexander Knysh (University of Michigan; alknysh@umich.edu)
Dr. Douglas Northrop (University of Michigan; northrop@umich.edu)
Dr. Laura Adams (Princeton University; lladams2@earthlink.net)
Dr. Stephen Hanson (University of Washington, Seattle)
Dr. Scott Levi (University of Louisville; scott.levi@louisville.edu)

Full information about CESS 2006 in Ann Arbor may be found on the conference
webpages:

* Main conference website: http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html
* Registration: http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conf-Reg.html
* Program (preliminary version available in June 2006):
  http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Program.html
* Full information about hosting and location at the University of Michigan:
  http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/crees/events/CESS2006.htm

Virtually all informational questions about the conference can be answered
by consulting the above-mentioned webpages.  If you don't have web access,
or if you don't find the answer to your questions there, you can contact the
conference organizers by e-mail at <cess2006@umich.edu>.

The hosts of future CESS conferences are as follows:
2007 - University of Washington-Seattle
2008 - University of Wisconsin-Madison

Conference-related correspondence should be addressed as follows:

Communications regarding local arrangements, including invitation letters,
should be addressed to:

CESS 2006 Annual Conference
Center for Russian and East European Studies
University of Michigan
1080 S. University, Suite 4668
Ann Arbor, MI 48109   U.S.A.
tel.: +1 (734) 764-8571
fax: +1 (734) 763-4765
e-mail: cess2006@umich.edu

Communications about proposal submission, program matters, registration
matters,
the mailing list, and data updates should be sent to the CESS Secretariat.
Please send payments also to:

Central Eurasian Studies Society
c/o Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
1730 Cambridge Street, Room S-326
Cambridge, MA 02138   U.S.A.
e-mail: CESSconf@fas.harvard.edu
fax: +1 / 617-495-8319
tel.: +1 / 617-496-2643

Key Web Addresses:

Conference Info.:     http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conference.html
CESS 2006 at UMich:   http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/crees/events/CESS2006.htm
Conference Registr.:  http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Conf-Reg.html
CESS Member Registr.: http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Membership.html
CESN Info.:           http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_CESN.html
CESS Awards Info.:    http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Awards.html

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 CESS Annual Conf., U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2006
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Dear CESN Colleagues:

The CESS Conference Committee would like to encourage you to begin thinking
about -- and contacting your colleagues for -- putting together panel
proposals for the 2006 CESS Annual Conference to be held at the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor, September 28-October 1, 2006 (see the Call for
Papers appended below).  I want to encourage you to use the CESN list as a
tool for linking up with colleagues who share your thematic interests and
who could contribute to a panel on a theme of interest to you.

As one who has watched closely the preparations for the six previous CESS
Annual Conferences, based on the preparations that have already begun and
our accumulated experience, I think this is going to be best one yet --
don't miss it!  And given space limitations, we expect there is going to be
strong competition in the proposal selection process.

The Conference Committee will give favorable consider to pre-organized
panel proposals over individual papers, since good pre-organized panel have
a stronger likelihood of making good panels at the conference.  So if you
propose a good panel, that will increase your chances of being accepted.
You'll also be doing CESS a service by helping to draw good scholars in
your field to the conference.  Many people look at organizing a panel as a
way to get together with some of your favorite colleagues.  And sometimes
such a conference panel can be a useful step towards a larger collaborative
project such as joint research or publications.

Putting together a good panel takes time, and though the proposal deadline
is not yet close (April 7, 2006), it is not too early to begin contacting
colleagues and discussing possible themes of common interest for the panel.
 While panels will be given favorable consideration, their acceptance is
not automatic, and those which have a full slate of participants including
a chair and especially a discussant, and which are not lacking information
such as abstracts and addresses, will have the best chances of acceptance.

So please consider formulating a proposed panel theme and posting a note to
CESN inviting colleagues to contact you if they are interested in joining
such a panel.  I recommend that your posting have a subject line which
immediately conveys what you are looking for, for example:

"Panel proposal: Discourses on Islamism in Central Eurasia"

To get an idea of the kind of panel topic that could be good for the
conference, you can look at the 2005 conference program at:
http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Program.html

Looking forward to a great conference, and hoping to see many of you there!

John Schoeberlein

CALL FOR PAPERS

Central Eurasian Studies Society
Seventh Annual Conference (2006)