[Bilimsel Haber] List of conferences related to the Middle East / Central Asia / Caucasus in 2008

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JANUARY 2008 

02-05 January, 2008-"Indigenous Peoples in the Post-Colonial World: Language
- Literature - Culture - History" (Delhi, India) Organized by the Bhasha
Research and Publications Center, in association with the Indira Gandhi
National Centre for Arts, National Manuscript Mission of India, European
Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS) and
Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
(IACLALS). The conference will provide an opportunity for an international
exchange of ideas between indigenous peoples and those interested in their
cultural expression, for there are indeed many parallels between, for
example, the Aborigines of Australia, the First Nations of Canada and the
Adivasi of India.or information, contact: Professor Geoffrey V. Davis,
University of Aachen, Germany ( <mailto:davis at anglistik.rwth-aachen.de>
davis at anglistik.rwth-aachen.de;  <http://www.bhasharesearch.org.in/>
www.bhasharesearch.org.in).

FEBRUARY 2008 

03-04 February 2008-Globalisation, Economic Reforms, Aid and Democracy in
the Arab World (Amman, Jordan) To be held at The Arab Thought Forum, under
the patronage of HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal. Organized by the Arab
Thought Forum, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University
of London and the Centre for International Business and Innovation (CIBI),
Manchester Metropolitan University. For information, visit:
<http://www.business.mmu.ac.uk/cibi/glob.conf/>
www.business.mmu.ac.uk/cibi/globconf. Full details can be obtained via
email:  <mailto:glob.conf at mmu.ac.uk> globconf at mmu.ac.uk. 

21-24 February 2008- "International Conference on Inter-Asian Connections"
(Dubai, UAE) Trganized by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
Descriptions of the individual workshops and information on the application
process, are available at: http://www.ssrc.org/program_areas/global/papers/.
For additional inquiries, please contact the SSRC at
intl_collaboration at ssrc.org.

27 February-01 March 2008-"Revisiting Ideologies and Revolutionary Practice
in the Late Ottoman Empire" (Geneva, Switzerland) The 6th Workshop on
Armenian Turkish Scholarship (WATS) To mark the centennial of the Young Turk
Revolution of 1908, a pivotal moment in Turkish/Armenian relations and
Ottoman history, the overall theme of WATS V will center on the ideas,
ideologies, and practices of political activists and parties before and
after the Revolution. Scholarly discussions of pre-circulated papers will be
followed by a public session reporting on the last decade of research in
this area, the WATS initiative, and future directions in the field. For
information, contact: Ronald Grigor Suny ( <mailto:rgsuny at umich.edu>
rgsuny at umich.edu). 

28-29 February 2008-"Dispossession and Displacement: Forced Migration in the
Middle East and Africa" (London, United Kingdom) Contact: Mrs Penny Wiggins:
<mailto:cbrl at britac.ac.uk> cbrl at britac.ac.uk.

February-March 2008-"Images of Culture- Culture of Images" (St. Andrews,
Scotland) 1st Interdisciplinary Conference on the Visual Anthropology of
Iran and organized by the Society for Iranian Anthropology (SIRA). This
conference will examine the origins and development of the visual
anthropology of Iran through pre- and post-revolutionary periods. For
information, contact: Dr. M.Abecassis (
<mailto:michael.abecassis at mod-langs.ox.ac.uk>
michael.abecassis at mod-langs.ox.ac.uk or  <mailto:info at anthropology-iran.org>
info at anthropology-iran.org;  <http://www.anthropology-iran.org/>
www.anthropology-iran.org).

MARCH 2008

22-23 March 2008-15th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference
(Bloomington, Indiana) Inviting graduate students, professors, and
independent scholars to submit abstracts of papers covering all topics
pertaining to Central Eurasian Studies. Submission of pre-organized panels
is strongly encouraged. Individual papers are welcome and will be assigned
by the Conference Committee to a suitable panel. An honorable distinction of
best paper will be awarded. Include: names of all authors (note name of the
person presenting the paper); institutional affiliation and title/position;
contact information; CV (1 page max.); paper title; an abstract 300-word
max.); and audio-visual equipment needed. Submit this information: via
e-mail as an attachment (pdf, .doc or .rtf formats preferred)
to:aces at indiana.edu; or via hard copy to: Fifteenth Annual Central Eurasian
Studies Conference, The Association of Central Eurasian Students, Goodbody
Hall 157, Indiana University 1011 East 3rd St., Bloomington IN 47405-7005
(fax: 812 855-7500). Call for papers deadline: January 18, 2008.

APRIL 2008

05-06 April 2008-"Embodying Islam: Religious Practice and Muslim
Construction of Self" (Durham, North Carolina) The 5th Annual Duke-UNC
Graduate Islamic Studies Conference aims to discuss embodiment in
conjunction with the study of Islamicate texts and contexts. We welcome a
variety of approaches, theoretical, methodological, ethnographic and
historical, among others. We invite graduate student papers from multiple
disciplines, including, but not limited to, Islamic studies, literature,
anthropology, philosophy, history, area and cultural studies that deal with
the following suggested topics: sociological and/or political analysis of
gender in Islam; regulating bodily purity and pollution; embodiment of class
and race in Muslim networks of power; textual analysis of pertinent passages
from Islamic literary and legal canons; subject formation, formation of
Muslim self; Muslim cultures, societies and histories in postcoloniality;
imagined personifications of the other; performance/performativity in
literature, film, and media; and transformations of Muslim bodies in a
bio-technological age. To apply, send a proposal of no more than five
hundred (500) words, paper title, and CV to: Ali Mian (ali.mian at duke.edu).
The *NEW* deadline for submissions is January 15, 2008.

10-11 April 2008-"Marketing Muslim Women" (Chapel Hill and Durham, North
Carolina) Organizers: Miriam Cooke, Banu Gökarıksel, Ellen McLarney, Journal
for Middle East Women's Studies.This conference focuses on Muslim womanhood
that has become a transnational signifier of Islam as a whole. For
information, contact:  <mailto:marketingmuslimwomen at yahoo.com>
marketingmuslimwomen at yahoo.com.

11-12 April 2008-Academic Freedom Conference (Media, Pennsylvania) Hosted by
the Delaware County Community College. Contact: Clayton A. Railey, III, Dean
of Communication, Arts and Humanities, at  <mailto:crailey at dccc.edu>
crailey at dccc.edu. 

12 April 2008-"Reconsidering "the Orient" and "the Occident" in the 21st
Century: Observing the 30th Anniversary of Edward Said's Orientalism"
(Brockport, New York) Hosted by the State University of New York.Though it
has been critiqued in various ways, the influence of Orientalism has
outlived its author. This inter-disciplinary event will encourage us to
re-examine what Edward Said did, what it has meant in academe and in the
larger society, and how the questions he raised might be answered in the
21st century.  Some suggested topics might include: "East and West" and the
culture of fear; racism, radicalism, and imperialism; terror, the
imagination and its aftermath; media and reality; Africa as "Orient" in the
Western imagination; and gendered knowledge of the Orient and Occident.
Papers, panels and exhibits should foster inter-disciplinary dialogues among
anthropology, history, literary studies, media studies, area studies,
political science, psychology, sociology, and other disciplines. Paper
and/or panel proposals should consist of a 500-word abstract, a CV and a
statement of equipment needs; exhibit and audio-visual proposals should
include a brief description of the topic and medium, a CV and equipment
needs. Send proposals and inquiries to:  <mailto:tnishiya at brockport.edu>
tnishiya at brockport.edu; include the word "Orientalism" in the subject line.
For information, contact Dr. Carl Davila ( <mailto:cdavila at brockport.edu>
cdavila at brockport.edu) or Dr. Takashi Nishiyama (
<mailto:tnishiya at brockport.edu> tnishiya at brockport.edu). Call for papers
deadline: January 20, 2008.

13-14 April 2008-"Hearing Israel: Music, Culture and History at 60"
(Charlottesville, Virginia) The conference aims to generate an
interdisciplinary exploration of Israeli music from the multiple
perspectives of ethnomusicology, history, sociology, literature, and
cultural studies, among others. For information, contact:: Prof. James
Loeffler and/or Prof. Joel Rubin, Jewish Studies Program, University of
Virginia, PO Box 400126, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4126
(james.loeffler at virginia.edu; joelerubin at virginia.edu;
www.virginia.edu/jewishstudies).

17-19 April 2008-"Franco/Arabic Cultures Today: Developments, Dialogues, and
Challenges" (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) For information, contact: Sahar
Amer, Dept. of Asian Studies, Arabic Program, 113 New West, CB#3267,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC 27599-3267 (
<mailto:samer at email.unc.edu> samer at email.unc.edu) or Martine Antle, Dept. of
Romance Languages, 225 DEY, CB#3170, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill NC 27599-3170 ( <mailto:mcantle at email.unc.edu> mcantle at email.unc.edu).

25-27 April 2008-Facing Others: Iranian Identity Boundaries and Modern
Political Culture (New Haven, Connecticut) Organized by the Iran Colloquium
in the MacMillan Center and the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale
University, this workshop will explore the long and complex process that
made Iranians inherently more conscious of their historical, cultural and
geopolitical Self versus real and imaginary Others. The conference aims to
be interdisciplinary and cross-national with emphasis on history and
mythology, literature, religion and anthropology. Major themes include: a)
legacies of cultural exclusion: legend and history; b) in search of
modernity and memories of Western hegemony; c) seeking an enemy within:
conspiracy and persecution; d) from "West-toxification" (gharbzadegi) to the
Great Satan; e) evolving post-Revolutionary Iran and challenges of
globalization. All submissions must be original contributions. Please send
abstracts of about 300-400 words including full name, affiliation, address,
and telephone number to: Mr. Farzin Vejdani, conference coordinator
(farzin.vejdani at yale.edu). Call for papers deadline: January 15, 2008.

24-27 April 2008-American Comparative Literature Association 2008 (Long
Beach, California) "A Global Aesthetics of Pain: Prison Arrivals and
Departures" For information:  <http://www.acla.org/acla2008>
http://www.acla.org/acla2008.

15-18 May 2008-"Georgia: The Making of a National Culture" (Ann Arbor,
Michigan) Organized by the Armenian Studies Program at the University of
Michigan. Scholars and artists are invited to submit proposals for papers or
performances that illuminate the development of Georgian culture and
society. Among the themes to be discussed will be: varieties of Georgian
nationalism; artists and performers as nation-makers; diversity and unity in
Georgia and the South Caucasus: Armenian-Georgian-Azerbaijani relations;
effects of empire: Persia, Turkey, Russia; evolution and revolution in
Georgian political development; and challenges of the Modern Moment: Georgia
in the Globalizing World. For information, contact: Ronald Grigor Suny
(rgsuny at umich.edu) or R. G. Suny at The University of Michigan, Department
of History, 1029 Tisch Hall, 435 S. State Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003. 

16-18 May 2008-"Modern State Control and Nationalization" (Cambridge,
Massachusetts) The 2nd Law of Waqf Conference at the Harvard Law School. For
information, visit: www.law.harvard.edu/programs/ilsp.

JUNE 2008

02-04 June 2008- "A Different Approach to Debates on Political
Islam-Micro-Level Studies" (Be'er Sheva, Israel) For information contact:
Dror Zeevi (zeevi at bgu.ac.il) and Haggai Ram (hram at bgu.ac.il). 

13-16 June 2008-"Visual Representations of Iran" (Fife, Scotland) Call for
papers and films, presented by the Department of Social Anthropology, the
Institute for Iranian Studies and the Centre for Film Studies of the
University of St. Andrews and the Iran Heritage Foundation. Suggested
themes: the political and historical contexts of visual representations of
Iran; nationalism, national identities and counter narratives of belonging;
historical development of anthropological and ethnographical filmmaking and
visual arts in Iran, its background and origins; the development of film and
visual arts in post revolution Iran and its place in Iranian culture;
ethnographical and documentary filmmaking and visual arts in
post-revolutionary Iran; geographical dislocations and diasporic identities;
visual representations of Iran in the other countries; war and
reconciliation; martyrdom and memories of conflict; gender issues and the
representation of women; youth and the post-revolutionary generation;
Orientalism and Islamophobia; domestic audiences of films and visual arts
and their reactions to them; training and careers of Iranian
anthropologists, film directors and artists; amateur, popular, and video
films. Papers and presentations for the conference may include the use of
film, video, artwork, and photography. Submit an English language abstract
of about 200 words (for a 20 minute presentation) using our downloadable
form, outlining your proposed topic, your approach, and the forms/media in
which you intend to present your work. Papers must be delivered in English.
Call for papers deadline: January 31, 2008. Submit an English language film
synopsis of about 300-600 words using the downloadable form and a copy of
the film (CVD, DVD, VHS)  <http://www.iranheritage.org/visual-anthropology/>
www.iranheritage.org/visual-anthropology/.Contact:  Films should be dubbed
in English or with English subtitles. Call for films deadline: December 31,
2007. Contact: Pedram Khosronejad, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Research
Fellow, Institute for Iranian Studies, 71 North St., University of St.
Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland KY16 9AL (+44 (1334) 461968; fax: +44
(1334) 462985;  <mailto:pedram.khosronejad at st-andrews.ac.uk>
pedram.khosronejad at st-andrews.ac.uk).

25-28 June 2008-Migration Matters: Immigration, Homelands, and Border
Crossings in Europe & the Americas (Leiden, the Netherlands) 6th Society for
Multi-Ethnic Studies (MESEA) conference. For information, visit:
<http://www.mesea.org/> www.mesea.org

25-29 June 2008 - 17th Annual World History Association Conference Queen
Mary College will host the Seventeenth Annual World History Association
Conference at its Mile End campus in London, June 25 through 29, 2008. The
conference begins with registration and a reception on June 26. Panel
sessions and other conference-related activities will commence June 27 and
continue to midday on the 29th. The WHA will also offer optional activities
for conferees who arrive on June 25. Reasonably priced accommodations,
including daily breakfast and lunch, will be available at Queen Mary. Plans
include five- or four-night packages, 25-29 June and 26-29 June, departing
in both instances on the 30th. Information regarding housing, registration,
the keynote speakers, and related issues will begin appearing on the WHA
website  <http://www.thewha.org/> www.thewha.org in September 2007. The
World History Association invites proposals from scholars and teachers
around the world for full panels, single papers, and roundtables on topics
related to the scholarly and/or pedagogical aspects of the conference's
themes, "Global Cities" and "The Sea: Highway of Change." Proposals must be
submitted using the forms and guidelines available at  <http://thewha.org/>
http://thewha.org. Due to the need for early notification and travel
planning, no proposal will be accepted after the deadline. Presenters must
register for the conference by 1 May 2008 to be included in the printed
program. Deadline for proposals: January 15, 2008.

JULY 2008

02-05 July 2008-"The 2008 Gulf Studies Conference" (Exeter, United Kingdom)
The annual Gulf Studies conference of the University of Exeter. Submissions
for papers and panels are invited on all aspects of the Gulf, past and
present. The submission deadline for abstracts: February 25, 2008.  For more
details, see:
<http://www.huss.ex.ac.uk/iais/all-events/conferences/2008_Gulf_conference_p
oster.pdf>
http://www.huss.ex.ac.uk/iais/all-events/conferences/2008_Gulf_conference_po
ster.pdf.

07-09 July 2008 (CHANGED DATES)-"The Decapolis" (Oxford, United Kingdom) The
26th ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian conference. The aim is to study the
theme of the Decapolis with its new discoveries and researches. If you wish
to participate, contact: ARAM, the Oriental Institute, Oxford University,
Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England (++1865-514041; fax ++1865-516824;
<mailto:aram at aramsociety.org> aram at aramsociety.org;
<http://www.aramsociety.org/> www.aramsociety.org). All papers given at the
conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the
ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review.

31 July-03 August  2008-7th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (Toronto,
Canada) Organized by the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS).
For information, visit::
www.humanities.uci.edu/iranian-studies/conf/index.php, or contact: Professor
Mohamad Tavakoli, Chair, Toronto ISIS Program Committee, Department of Near
and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Toronto, 4 Bancroft Avenue,
Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 1C1 (m.tavakoli at utoronto.ca). The conference
will be held at Park Hyatt Toronto parkhyatttoronto.com
<http://parkhyatttoronto.com/> , located near the University of Toronto. In
order to obtain a Canadian entry visa, participants whose proposals are
accepted should contact Prof. Tavakoli for invitation letters.
Pre-registration is required. All conference presenters must be members of
ISIS. m.tavakoli at utoronto.ca.

SEPTEMBER 2008

25-26 September 2008-Red Sea IV: Connected Hinterlands (Southampton, United
Kingdom) 4th Conference on the peoples of the Red Sea region; supported by
the Society for Arabian studies. Send abstracts of 250-500 words by email
to: redseas at soton.ac.uk or by mail to: Red Sea IF Committee, Centre for
Maritime Archaeology, University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Highfield,
Southampton SO17 1BF, UK (www.arch.soton.ac.uk/resea08). Call for papers
deadline: March 1, 2008.

26-27 September 2008- "World Politics: View from the Future" (Moscow,
Russia) 5th Anniversary Convention of the Russian International Studies
Association (RISA). World politics is crafted today being squeezed within
"now". But to understand adequately this flooded with events "today" we have
to look at it at a distance, far enough to see everything that is happening
today as a historic reality, comprehensive and relative. to view it from the
future? From "tomorrow"? What are the basic and long-term trends of
contemporary world politics? Which of them would remain in the future and
which would fade away? What factors will determine future development of
different parts of the world? What is necessary to research and analyze
contemporary world processes? Whether existing concepts and theories
adequately reflect reality of world politics or more than that they
constantly are shaping it? Finally, what is the reality of contemporary
world politics? We suggest that one should look at reality of today as if
from "tomorrow". For instance, 2014 gives us a hundred year projection since
the First World War and events that followed it (two hundred years
projection since the Vienna Congress). 2021 means a thirty years projection
since the Soviet Union disintegrated. 2048 stands for a hundred years
projection of the beginning of the Cold War (as well as two hundred years
since Revolutions in Europe in 1848 and four hundred years since the Peace
of Westphalia), etc. But it's not just an experiment with the future; we are
not so much extrapolating current tendencies in the future as we use them to
acquire a better understanding of the present situation. World politics
research is a complicated and multilayered process. World politics
encompasses problems of interdisciplinary character. History, Political
Science, Philosophy, Economics, Psychology, these and other disciplines form
their own view point of world reality and their own approach to studying,
analyzing and forecasting it. Suggested topics: How modern is contemporary
world politics?; the notions of "modern" and "postmodern" in world politics;
contemporary world politics: projections from 2014/2021/2048; the limits of
freedom of political choice; historical choices and lost opportunities:
analyses from the future; different trajectories of present political
development; world political systems: comparative analysis; comparative
world politics; religion in contemporary world politics: present state and
prospects; vision of history in world politics; world politics theoretical
models; world politics and international relations: research methodology;
various interpretations of world politics; and etc. We welcome other
suggestions concerning various world politics and international relations
topical issues. We encourage the submission of papers, panels and
roundtables. For information, contact: Russian International Studies
Association, MGIMO-University, Moscow, Russian Federation (info at risa.ru;
www.risa.ru <http://www.risa.ru/> ). Call for papers deadline: March 1,
2008.

OCTOBER 2008

24-26 October 2008-National Coalition of Independent Scholars 2008 Biennial
Conference (Berkeley, California) We welcome participation by all scholars
whose research is not supported by employment in an academic or research
institution; this includes adjunct faculty and graduate students. Presenters
need not be members of NCIS. Proposals should consist of an abstract of not
more than 250 words; a brief scholarly biography (50-100 words) including
degrees, scholarly fields and no more than two publications; any
audio-visual requirements; and full contact information. Proposals must be
submitted as an email attachment (Word only) no later than 12:00 a.m., April
1, 2008, to Kendra Leonard, Program Chair, at  <mailto:caennen at gmail.com>
caennen at gmail.com;  <http://www.ncis.org/> www.ncis.org/.  Please use your
last name as the document title, as in Smith.doc. As in the past, only one
submission per author will be considered. If you are interested in serving
as a session chair, please indicate this in your submission. Call for papers
deadline: April 1, 2008.

NOVEMBER 2008

06-08 November  2008 -"African Athena: Black Athena 20 Years on." (Coventry,
United Kingdom) African Athena was Bernal's original title for Black Athena,
his "infamous" work that has confronted the modern academy with some of the
most challenging questions it has faced over the last twenty years. This
interdisciplinary conference seeks neither to demonize nor lionize Bernal's
book, but to open dialogue on the issues it has posed: can a myth of
Afrocentrism ever be a useful narrative in contemporary culture? How do
Africanizing and classicizing cultures interface and interpenetrate in the
arts and lives of Africans, Europeans, Caribbeans and Americans? Does Black
Athena offer new possibilities for comparison between African and Jewish
diasporas, cultures and struggles? How do we deal with the difficult
collusion of essentialist and poststructuralist discourses in "postcolonial"
thought? These issues are only a point of departure. Inviting scholars of
African Studies, Black British Studies, African American Studies, of South
Asia, of the Middle East, of classicists, philologists, anthropologists,
sociologists, and any intellectual beyond these borders. Send proposals of
up to 500 words to Dr. Daniel Orrells, Department of Classics, University of
Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL UK (D.Orrells at warwick.ac.uk). Call for papers
deadline: March 31, 2008. 

DECEMBER 2008

12-15 December 2008-"Interrogating Tradition: Epistemologies,
Fundamentalisms. Regeneration, and Practices" (Oxford, United Kingdom) 11th
Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional
Environments (IASTE) Inviting papers from architecture, architectural
history, art history, anthropology, archaeology, folklore, geography,
history, planning, sociology, urban studies, and related disciplines on of
the three tracks: epistemologies of tradition; fundamentalism and tradition;
and regeneration and the practices of tradition. Full instructions are on
the website: www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/reserach/iaste; or Sylvia Nam, IASTE
2008, Center for Environmental Design Research, 390 Wurster Hall, University
of California, Berkeley CA 94720-1839 (510 642-6801; fax: 510 643-5571;
iaste at berkeley.edu. Call for papers deadline: February 15, 2008.

24-27 September 2008-"Textiles as Cultural Expressions" (Honolulu, Hawaii)
The 11th Symposium of the Textile Society of America. In addition to paper
presentations and panel discussions which form the foundation of the
symposium, there will be an array of textile tours and exhibitions that
highlight the diversity of this culturally rich Pacific Rim location. Tours
will be organized around themes that include: Art Conservation, Ethnic
Textiles, Garments in Paradise - Aloha Wear, Mission Quilts, Plantation Era
Textiles and Traditional Hawai'ian Textiles. On view at the University of
Hawai'i Art Gallery will be a special loan exhibition, "Writing with Thread:
Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities," with an international
colloquium planned to precede the TSA Symposium. Complementing the wealth of
historic and indigenous textiles will be exhibitions of contemporary fiber
art mounted at the Academy Art Center and the Contemporary Museum at First
Hawai'ian Center. For information, contact the Symposium Co-chairs: Reiko
Brandon and Tom Klobe klobetm at hawaii.edu
<http://mesa.arizona.edu/publications/mailto;klobetm@hawaii.edu>  or visit:
www.textilesociety.org <http://www.textilesociety.org/> . 

27-30 December 2008-MLA Annual Convention (San Francisco, California)
SPECIAL CALL: The MLA Discussion Group on Arabic Literature and Culture
invites paper proposals for a panel on the topic, "The Nakba  in the Wake of
Said".  Sixty years after 1948, how does the dispossession of Palestine
figure in Arabic culture-through and beyond the lens of Edward Said?  Papers
on all media and on all parts of the Arabic-speaking world welcome.  Please
send 500-word abstracts and vitae to Shaden M. Tageldin (
<mailto:tageldin at umn.edu> tageldin at umn.edu). Call for papers deadline: March
7, 2008. 

2009

JUNE 2009

23-26 June 2009-5th "Hierarchy & Power in the History of Civilizations"
Conference (Moscow, Russia) Organized by Center for Civilizational and
Regional Studies of the Institute for African Studies under the Russian
Academy of Sciences in co-operation with the School of History, Political
Science and Law of the Russian State University for the Humanities in
Moscow. The objective of the Conference is to discuss the following issues:
hierarchical and net structures in the history of cultures and
civilizations; civilizational and evolutionary models of socio-political
development; historical and ethno-cultural variability of the forms of
socio-political organization; from simple societies to the world-system:
pathways and forms of political integration; socio-political and
cultural-mental factors of social transformations; cultural and
socio-biological foundations of dominance in human societies; ideology and
legitimation of power in different civilizational contexts; cultural models
of power's perception in different civilizations; violence and non-violence
in the history of political institutions; access to information as a means
of political manipulation and mobilization; power, society, and culture in
the era of globalization; the study of 'hierarchy and power': schools,
trends, and methods.The working languages are Russian and English. Submit
panel proposal (500-word max.) including complete contact information for
convenor and two possible participants (name, institutional affiliation,
full mail, fax and email). Results by February 15, 2008. Send proposals or
queries, to: Conference Secretaries, Dr. Oleg I. Kavykin and Ms. Anastasia
A. Banschikova, Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies, Institute
for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 30/1 Spiridonovka St.,
123001 Moscow, Russia (+ 7 495 291 4119; fax: + 7 495 202 0786;
<mailto:conf2009 at conf2009.ru> conf2009 at conf2009.ru). Call for
papers/proposals deadline: February 1, 2008. 

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