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Call for Papers

Central Eurasian Studies Society Ninth Annual Conference (2008)
September 18-21, 2008
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

The Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) invites panel and paper
proposals for the Ninth CESS Annual Conference, September 18-21, 2008, in
Washington, D.C. The event will be held at Georgetown University, hosted by
the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES). Panels
begin Friday morning, September 19, and continue through mid-day on Sunday,
September 21.

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 panels and there will also be a
supplementary program including cultural events, a welcome reception on
Thursday, a conference dinner and a keynote speaker.

Deadline for submission of panel/paper proposals: Friday, April 11, 2008.

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. Only electronic submissions will be
accepted, preferably via the webform available on the CESS website:
http://www.cess.muohio.edu/cesspg_conf_cfp.html

*** In order to improve the academic quality and the registration process of
the annual conference, the CESS Conference Committee has instituted several
new policies. Please read and attend to the policies detailed below.***

FULL DETAILS OF CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Please note that due to an anticipated high level of interest in the 2008
conference, the selection of papers will be very competitive, and we
encourage all potential presenters to consider working with colleagues to
arrange a pre-organized panel, as this will improve your chances of
acceptance. Successful proposals will offer new findings based on
theoretically informed, empirically rich research. As always, we strongly
encourage the participation of graduate students and scholars from Central
Eurasia.

The Conference Committee accepts electronic submissions only -- either by
webform (see the CESS website:
http://www.cess.muohio.edu/cesspg_conf_cfp.html),
or by an e-mailed form in MS Word format (if you do not have access to the
webform, please contact us at cess at muohio.edu and we will e-mail you 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 individual papers and for each presenter on a regular panel please make
sure you provide us with:

1) Name, 
2) Current institutional affiliation, 
3) Title/position, 
4) E-mail address, 
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 projector, video
player), 
11) A brief (100 word) biographical statement that 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 the presentation of 3-4
scholarly papers) and ROUNDTABLE PANELS (featuring 3-6 people informally
discussing a current topic in the field). Pre-organized panels should be
thematically coherent and may be organized/sponsored by a scholarly
organization.

REGULAR panels must have three or four paper presenters, a chair, and a
discussant (ideally, the roles of chair and discussant will be filled by two
different people). In addition to the information for each of the paper
presenters on the panel (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 organizer, chair
and discussant. Please make sure your panel is complete before submitting
this information; incomplete panels will be given a lower ranking.

ROUNDTABLE panels must have between three and six presenters and a chair
(note: no discussant is required for roundtables). As roundtables are
oriented towards
a more informal discussion, no paper proposal is expected from roundtable
panelists, but please provide information for each of the presenters on the
panel (as indicated above, with the exception of an abstract), as well as a)
a title for the proposed roundtable, and b) name, affiliation, and contact
information of the panel organizer and chair. Please make sure your panel is
complete before submitting this information; incomplete panels will be given
a lower ranking.

Please note the following policy: only complete panels with a full set of
panelists, including a chair, (and a discussant for regular panels) should
be submitted. If a panel or roundtable receives a high score from the
reviewers but does not include a full complement of panelists, the panel may
be wait-listed until it is complete.

Sponsored Panels: CESS encourages other institutions supporting the study of
Central Eurasia to organize "sponsored panels" at the CESS conference --
i.e.,
panels organized by the sponsoring institution, involving their members and
receiving their imprimatur (and possibly their funding). CESS partner
organizations are customarily granted one panel slot upon request. For more
information on partnering with CESS, please contact the secretariat at
cess at muohio.edu.

Best Paper Graduate Student 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, or
contact the Awards Committee Co-chair, Dr. Uli Schamiloglu uschamil at wisc.edu

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. Submission format: Do not send your proposal in any format other than the
webform or the MS Word form created by CESS.

2. The importance of the abstract: We anticipate that the selection process
will be quite competitive in 2008. Your proposal will be anonymously
peer-reviewed and scored based on the quality of its abstract; personal
factors such as your institutional affiliation, academic status, and history
with CESS have little impact on whether or not your proposal will be
accepted.

- Abstracts that do not include information about the theoretical and/or
empirical contributions of the research will have significantly lower
chances being accepted. If you want to know more about how to write a good
abstract, please follow the Guidelines for Writing Abstracts available on
the CESS website (http://www.cess.muohio.edu/CESSpg_conf_abgu.html).

- If you participate in the conference, your abstract will be published on
the CESS website, so please write it carefully to avoid errors. Those less
accustomed to writing in English should have their abstract proofread prior
to submission. Abstracts written in very poor English or apparently
translated word-for-word from another language will be rejected, under the
assumption that the author does not have sufficient command of English to
present the paper.

3. 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.

- You will be asked to confirm your commitment to participate by the end of
July, so please try to have your travel and funding arrangements in place by
then. Note that CESS rules stipulate that those who do not confirm their
participation in the conference by August 1 will be DROPPED FROM THE PROGRAM
and their slot on the program will be given to another presenter.

- 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
Friday, August 15, and after this date, no registration fees can be
refunded. However, if an individual faces extraordinary circumstances at the
last minute that prevent him or her from attending the conference (such as
the denial of a visa), these circumstances will certainly be taken into
account.

- It is CESS policy not to allow papers to be read in absentia.

4. E-mail Contact: Since all communication with conference participants is
via e-mail, it is vitally important that you make sure we always have an
active e-mail address for you. If we lose contact with you after your
proposal is accepted, you may be dropped from the program, so please keep us
posted of any changes to your primary email address, and please respond to
requests from the Conference Committee in a timely manner.

5. Program Limitations: No participant may present more than one paper at
the conference, including roundtable presentations. Without special
justification, the program committee will not schedule any individual to
appear on more than two panels as a presenter, chair or discussant. If you
have a paper included on a pre-organized panel and you also submit an
individual paper, the pre-organized panel takes precedence and if it is
accepted, your other paper proposal will not be considered.

6. Language of the conference: The language of the conference is English.
All presentations are to be made in English; translation from other
languages is not allowed.

Schedule of Key Dates

Deadline for submission of panel/paper proposals: Friday, April 11, 2008.
* Note: Submissions after this date may be accepted only in the case of
special justifying circumstances and at the discretion of the program
committee. Please
be sure you have a complete proposal to us by this date.

Notification of acceptance: by June 6, 2008.
* The host institution will provide, upon request, mailed or faxed
invitation letters to support an application for a visa or travel funds.
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. Participants should have visa and travel arrangements in place
by August 1. Hotel reservation deadline: August 1.

Some of the conference hotels will begin releasing the rooms reserved for
CESS conference participants beginning on this date. CESS cannot guarantee
availability of lodgings near the conference after this date.

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

Deadline for pre-payment or withdrawal from the program: Friday, August 15.
* For those not on the program, pre-payment of registration fees reserves a
space at the conference, in the event that attendance reaches the maximum
capacity.

* Pre-payment of registration fees and a current membership in CESS is
REQUIRED for everyone on the program (with the exception of chairs and
discussants
specially invited by the host institution). All presenters must pay their
registration and (if necessary) membership fees by this deadline or they may
be DROPPED FROM THE PROGRAM. NOTE: Presenters without access to the regular
methods of payment should just email the CESS Secretariat cess at muohio.edu
to request an exemption from this requirement.

After August 15, no fees will be refunded.

Papers should be submitted to chairs/discussants: by Friday, August 29.
* Paper presenters will be informed via e-mail by mid-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 18-21, 2008.
* Arrival to Washington is on the afternoon/evening of Thursday, September
18 -- registration opens in the afternoon followed by a reception in the
evening.
Panels begin Friday morning, September 19, and continue through mid-day on
Sunday, September 21.

Registration information
Each conference attendee is required to pay a registration fee and
presenters are required to pre-pay. The fee is reduced for CESS members, for
Georgetown
University students, and for those who pay their registration fees before
the pre-payment deadline - August 15. 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<http://www.cess.muohio.edu/cesspg_memb_form.html> for details).

Payment of registration fees IS REQUIRED for all attending the conference,
and covers a welcome reception on Thursday and the conference dinner on
Friday. The
deadline for pre-payment (required for all presenters) is August 15.

Fees for 2008 are as follows:
Regular fee members*: $75 (pre-paid) or $100 (after August 15)
Reduced fee members**: $50 (pre-paid) or $70 (after August 15)
Non-members: $100 (pre-paid) or $130 (after August 15)
GU students: $35 (pre-paid) or $45 (after August 15)
GU student CESS members: $25 (pre-paid) or $30 (after August 15)

* "Regular fee members" are those who have paid their annual dues at $50.
** "Reduced fee members" are those who have current membership at reduced
fees ($0-$20).

Please note that we no longer ask you to contribute an extra $3.00 for
credit card processing.
Panel participants may submit the registration fee at the same time as
submitting their proposal form, or at any time before the pre-payment
deadline of August 15. We accept payment by 1) cash (only at the
conference), 2) check or money order (if not from a US bank, please contact
us to find out what form is acceptable from your country), 3) credit card
(see the Credit Card Payment Form). Payments should be mailed to: Central
Eurasian Studies Society, Havighurst Center, Harrison Hall, Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, U.S.A. Please consult the CESS Membership
Form for full details on methods of payment.

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. 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 Georgetown University and the city of Washington,
transportation options, maps, and lodging information will be available on
the
Georgetown University's CESS Conference Information page at
http://www1.georgetown.edu/sfs/ceres/CESS2008/. Please be sure to visit this
web page for detailed information.

All conference participants are responsible for making their own
arrangements for travel and accommodations. CESS does not have sufficient
resources to
subsidize travel and accommodations for conference participants. 

Further Information
The Co-chairs of the Conference Committee are:
Dr. Laura Adams (Harvard University; lladams2 at earthlink.net)
Dr. Victoria Clement (Western Carolina University; vsclem at yahoo.com)
Dr. James Millward (Georgetown University; millwarj at georgetown.edu)

Full information about CESS 2008 in Washington, DC may be found on the
conference webpages:
* Main conference website:
http://www.cess.muohio.edu/cesspg_conf_cfp.html

* Registration:
To submit an individual paper, click
here<http://www.cess.muohio.edu/cesspg_conf_reg1.html>.
To submit a panel proposal, click
here<http://www.cess.muohio.edu/cesspg_conf_reg2.html>.
To register as a non-presenter, click
here<http://www.cess.muohio.edu/cesspg_conf_reg3.html>.
* Program (preliminary version available in July 2008):
http://www.cess.muohio.edu/CESS_Program.html
* Full information about hosting and location at Georgetown University:
http://www1.georgetown.edu/sfs/ceres/CESS2008/

Virtually all 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 cess at muohio.edu.

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

CESS 2008 Annual Conference
Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies
Georgetown University 
Box 571031, ICC 111 
Washington, DC 20057-1031

Telephone: 1-202-687-6080
Fax: 1-202-687-5829

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
Havighurst Center, Harrison Hall
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056, U.S.A.
Tel.: +1/513-529-0241 Fax: +1/513-529-0242
CESS at muohio.edu