[Bilimsel Haber] CONF./CFP- Deadline Extension, Women of the Mountains, March 2007, Orem, Utah

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CONF./CFP- Deadline Extension, Women of the Mountains, March 2007, Orem,
Utah

Posted by: Baktybek Abdrisaev <abdrisaev05 at yahoo.com>

Deadline Extention-Conf./Cfp- Women of the Mountains, March, 2007, Orem,
Utah

New Deadline For Abstracts: January 30, 2007

Call for Papers

March 8-10, 2007 - International Conference "Women of the Mountains"
of the universities and colleges of the Rocky Mountains of the
Northern America invites scholars from Eurasia to present their papers
on issues related to such six major topics of life of women in the
mountain areas as:

  - Transmission of family values, heritage and culture.
  - Health of women and children.
  - Education of women and children.
  - Economic, family and gender issues.
  - Human trafficking and exploitation for sexual and economic purposes.
  - Women as leaders and leadership development.

Information on-line at www.WomenoftheMountains.org

Distinguished feature of this Conference would be strengthening of the
involvement of the mountain communities of Northern America to the
activities of the Mountain Partnership (MP), directed to the promotion
of sustainable mountain development worldwide and in the mountainous
areas of Eurasia in particular. MP was established as a result of the
First Global Mountain Summit in Bishkek in 2002, gathered under the
umbrella of the United Nations sponsored Year of the Mountains.
Conference sponsored by Utah Valley State College, the Kyrgyz National
Center for Development of Mountain Regions with support from the
United Nations, the World Bank, the Andrei Sakharov Foundation, the
Utah-Russia Institute, etc.

The Conference will publish the final versions of papers in an edited
volume. To be considered for the Conference, submit an abstract of
approximately 250 words and a short CV electronically by January 30,
2007. After confirmation of acceptance the full version of the paper
should be submitted by February 15, 2007.

The Conference is unable to provide for participants travel and
lodging expenses. Participants are expected to seek funding from their
own institutions.

For more information, contact Conference Executive Secretary, Dr.
Baktybek Abdrisaev Abdrisba at uvsc.edu at 1-801-863-8351.




Distrib. by: Central-Eurasia-L - Announcement List for Central Eurasian
Studies