Lectures, Local Conferences, and Academic Events:
Cultural Events:
Funding, Grants, and Scholarships:
Calls for Papers and Out-of-State Conferences:
7. CALL FOR PAPERS: 18th Annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference at Indiana University
8. CALL FOR PAPERS: Humanities Education and Research Association’s 2011 Conference: “Transformations”
Other Announcements:
Language Tables and Coffee Hours:
Detailed Descriptions of Events
Lectures, Local Conferences, and Academic Events:
1. *CANCELLED* November 18, 12:00 PM: "The Euro and Its Effect on the Midwest" - Hilton Indianapolis Hotel & Suites, 120 West Market Street, Indianapolis
This event has been cancelled. For more information contact: bbeyer@indiana.edu.
The euro is perhaps the greatest experiment in fiscal history as 17 European countries have opted to surrender their national currencies and replace them with a common currency. However, eleven years after its creation, the euro has returned to the headlines as financial markets worry about its future. Dr. Christopher J. Waller, the keynote speaker for this luncheon, will provide insights into this question. As the Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Dr. Waller has experience analyzing both the Midwest economy and European monetary affairs. In addition, Dr. Waller is the Gilbert Schaefer Chair of Economics at the University of Notre Dame and published numerous articles on the euro, monetary unions, and monetary policy. More information, including how to register, is available at http://www.indiana.edu/~eucenter/euro-midwest.shtml or contact Brant Beyer at (812) 856-3832 or bbeyer@indiana.edu.
Cultural Events:
5:00 – 8:00 PM, Indiana Memorial Union, Alumni Hall
The Office of International Services and Union Board are hosting the IU World’s Fare on November 18, 2010, from 5:00 to 8:00pm in the Alumni Hall of the Indiana Memorial Union. This event is a social and educational event for the university and Bloomington communities as well as a celebration of International Education Week (IEW).
The event will open with a musical performance by the IU Steel Pan Ensemble, the Brazilian Ensemble, and the Afro-Cuban Ensemble. Twenty-one international student organizations will showcase their countries through elaborate displays aimed at highlighting the richness of their cultures. Musical performances will also be part of the event along with international food prepared by the Indiana Memorial Union’s chefs based on recipes provided by the participating student groups. A recipe book with all recipes submitted will be given to the first 300 attendees. Admission is free; IU students will receive the first ticket free; non-students can purchase a ticket for the minimal amount of $4.00. A ticket entitles holder to sample 8 food items.
Participating international student groups are:
· African Student Association
· Asian American Association
· Association for India’s Development
· Australasian Students Organization
· Chinese Student and Scholar Association
· Filipino Student Association
· Hong Kong Student Association
· Indian Student Association
· Indonesian Student Association
· Japanese Student Association
· Kazakh Student Association
· Korean Student Association
· Latinos Unidos
· Malaysian Student Association
· Pakistani Student Association
· Saudi Students Club
· Singapore Student Association
· Taiwanese Student Association
· Thai Student Association
· Turkish Student Association
· Vietnamese Student Association
8:00 PM, Wylie Hall 005
The third in a series of Tibetan and Mongolian films presented by the Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center and the IU Art Museum in conjunction with the museum's special exhibition, From the Steppes and the Monasteries, on view through December 19, 2010.
Khadak
After a plague strikes his herd, Bagi and his family are relocated to a mining town. After saving the life of Zolzaya, a beautiful outcast, Bagi discovers the plague was a government lie to eradicate nomadic life. With spiritual integrity Bagi and Zolzaya incite a revolution, but can they return to their old way of life?
Khadak
After a plague strikes his herd, Bagi and his family are relocated to a mining town. After saving the life of Zolzaya, a beautiful outcast, Bagi discovers the plague was a government lie to eradicate nomadic life. With spiritual integrity Bagi and Zolzaya incite a revolution, but can they return to their old way of life?
November 19: 2:00 – 9:00 PM
November 20: 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM
November 21: 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Indiana State Fairgrounds, West Pavillion
The festival is the signature event of the Nationalities Council of Indiana, a not-for-profit volunteer organization of more than 50 ethnic and cultural groups dedicated to education, communication and cultural exchange. For more information, please visit the website: http://www.indyinternationalfestival.org/ .
Funding, Grants, and Scholarships:
Deadline: 5:00 PM, November 17, 2010
IREX is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2011-2012 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program.
The Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program (IARO) provides students, scholars and professionals with support to perform policy relevant field research, in the countries of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. In addition to engaging in research in the region, the IARO fellowship affords scholars the opportunity to increase their understanding of critical, policy relevant issues, develop and sustain international networks, and collaborate with foreign scholars on topics vital to both the academic and policy-making communities.
Applications and all supporting documents for 2011-2012 IARO Fellowship will *only* be accepted through the online application system found at: http://www.irex.org/application/individual-advanced-research-opportunities-iaro
Applications must be completed and submitted (including all required supporting documents) by *5 p.m.* on *November 17, 2010*
Masters Students, Pre-doctoral Students, Postdoctoral Students, and Professionals with advanced degrees are eligible for the IARO Fellowship.
IARO Fellowships cover the cost of international airfare, a living/housing stipend, visa support, travel insurance, and access to the resources available at our 25 field offices within the region.
Questions may be addressed to the IARO Program Staff at iaro@irex.org or by telephone at 202-628-8188
*Countries Eligible for Research:*
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan
*IARO is funded by the United States Department of State Title VIII Program*
The Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (Center of Contemporary History Potsdam) invites applications for the position of a research fellow.
Candidates for this position should hold a Ph.D. in the Humanities and Social Sciences with a focus on East European and East Central European contemporary history. Further, candidates should have an international record of research experience and relevant experiences in project coordination and research fund raising. Excellent knowledge of English and one East Central European language and basic knowledge of German are required for this position.
The successful candidate will coordinate the international network project “Physical violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism” and also work on a research project on East European and East Central European contemporary history which should refer to the international network project. The working language of the research network will be English.
Research fellows at the ZZF are expected to participate in academic teaching at one of the universities in Berlin or Potsdam.
For queries about the network project and the position contact Dr. Jens Gieseke at gieseke@zzf-pdm.de. For the time being, employment is limited in duration to five years. The position is subject to budgetary approval. Please submit your application and a project proposal by 19 November 2010 to:
Mrs. Ursula Schulz
Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Verwaltung
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam, Germany
Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Verwaltung
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam, Germany
Calls for Papers and Out-of-State Conferences:
Deadline: December 1, 2010
Bloomington, July 10-15, 2011
Department of Central Asian Studies and Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University together with The Mongolia Society Bloomington, Indiana USA July 10-15, 2011 present the 54th Annual Meeting of the PIAC.
It is our great pleasure to invite you to attend the 54th annual meeting of the PIAC to be held in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, and organized by the Department of Central Asian Studies and Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies together with The Mongolia Society in celebration of its 50th anniversary.
The arrival date is Sunday, July 10, that of the departure Friday, July 15, 2011. The theme of the 54th PIAC meeting is "Anniversaries, feasts and celebrations in the Altaic world." If you wish to participate, please so inform the Secretary General (PIAC, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Turkologie, Malteserstr. 74-100, Haus S, D 12249 Berlin, Germany. Fax: +4930/838-53823, e-mail:
heinkele@zedat.fu-berlin.de) by December 1, 2010. If you use e-mail, it is essential that you give your full name and full postal address.
The Second Circular giving details on accommodation, registration fee, transportation, visa application, etc., will be sent out to those who request it, and because of the time involved in obtaining a US visa, it is necessary that the deadlines be strictly adhered to. At this stage, please do not now send the title of the paper you wish to give, and please do not ask for individual acknowledgements of your request for the Second Circular. It will be sent to you in good time.
2. CALL FOR PAPERS: Dislocating Literature. Transnational Literature and the Directions of Literary Studies in the Baltic Sea Region
Deadline: December 1, 2010
May 2011, Södertörn University, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Huddinge, Sweden
We are gathering international scholars to discuss literature that deals with geographical as well as conceptual border crossings within the Baltic Sea Region. As the choice of subject already suggests, intersections between literature and history will make up a key aspect of the symposium. In the international debate over the last decades, scholars of postcolonial literature have most often examined the issue of comparison in relation to history and context. How does literary criticism in the Baltic Sea Region relate to these debates? Transnational and transregional literary studies are bound to challenge the idea of cultures, languages and philologies as closed entities. How does this affect the whole concept of comparative literature? What happens when we focus on the aspect of trauma and dislocation in the literature of the Baltic Sea region?
Participants are invited to either present their research on specific literary works that deal with multilinguality, migration and cultural as well as personal dislocation, or to contribute to the theoretical debate on how literary relations in the region can be rethought.
Crossing the boundaries between countries, cultures and languages in this region inevitably involves crossing the tracks of vikings and tradesmen, smugglers and duty free ships, politicians and armies, nomads and crusaders, working-class activists and aristocrats, fascists and communists, esperantists and feminists, refugees and economic migrants, scholars and artists, diplomats and spies. Any literary protagonist, author, motif or stylistic device that can be argued to reflect such modes of movement is of potential relevance for the discussion. We also welcome destabilizing approaches to literary texts that have so far been seen in a national or regional context.
An abstract (max. 300 words) and a short cv should be sent to dislocatingliterature@sh.seno later than December 1st 2010.
Symposium language: English
Preliminary date: The symposium will take place at Södertörn University in Huddinge, Sweden in May, week 20, 2011, during one full day.
Accomodation for one night and traveling expenses within Europe will be funded. For further inquires please turn to dislocatingliterature@sh.se or to one of the organizers.
Organisation:
Markus Huss, Södertörns högskola/Stockholms universitet, markus.huss@sh.se
Kaisa Kaakinen, Cornell University/University of Helsinki, krk27@cornell.edu
Jenny Willner, Freie Universität Berlin, willner@zedat.fu-berlin.de
3. CALL FOR PAPERS: The Paul Lucas Conference in History at Indiana University, “Making a Choice: Conflict, Consensus and Compromise in Cultural Change”
Deadline: December 31, 2010
Friday and Saturday, March 4 and 5, 2011
The History Graduate Student Association at Indiana University invites paper submissions from graduate students for its 2010 conference entitled Making a Choice: Conflict, Consensus and Compromise in Cultural Change.
This year’s conference seeks to utilize the idea of agency and choice as a lens through which to encourage a more interdisciplinary discussion that reaches into the local community and engages with a variety of sources and perspectives about the role of the individual, the community and the memories created in the processes of conflict and conflict resolution. The conference aims to highlight intersections of both historical and interdisciplinary value and to engage with multifaceted themes that are particularly relevant to numerous contemporary fields of historical inquiry, both inside and outside the academy. Our hope is to engage with historical topics that not only cross disciplinary boundaries, but that reach within and beyond the social and academic borders that influence our understandings how choices affect cultural change.
We welcome submissions from various disciplines, time periods, and geographic focus. The conference is intentionally broad and invites multiple interpretations of complex issues such as the construction of identity in cultural change, resistance, ideas of agency and power, colonial relationship, identity politics, foreign relations, material culture, community, and contested notions of tradition. In addition to graduate student panels, the conference will also include an undergraduate panel and keynote speeches incorporating the conference theme.
Please submit the items and information below no later than Friday, December 31st. The HGSA Conference Committee will evaluate abstracts and inform participants by January 24, 2011 of their acceptance and panel assignment. Full papers are expected by February 18th, 2011. For visiting graduate students, we will organize accommodations with IU graduate students participating in the conference. The conference is free to IU graduate students in any field. Non‐IU students must submit a registration fee of $30. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~hgsaconf/
1. Paper abstract and title (no more than 250 words)
2. Institutional affiliation and title/position
3. Contact information: name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone/fax numbers
The Paul Lucas Conference in History
History Department
Indiana University
742 Ballantine Hall
Bloomington, IN 474057103
4. CALL FOR PAPERS: Indiana Association of Historians, 31st Annual Meeting - "History and the Politics of Race"
Deadline: December 15, 2010
February 26 2010, The Indiana Historical Society, 450 W. Ohio St, Indianapolis, Indiana
The Indiana Association of Historians invites papers and panel proposals for its annual meeting to be held 26 February 2010 at the Indiana Historical Society in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The program committee is particularly interested in proposals that examine the connections between race, politics, and civil rights movements both inside and outside of the United States. The committee will consider papers and sessions on all topics, and welcomes submissions in the fields of public history and K-12 history education as well. The IAH would also like to encourage historians with books published in the last two years to present their research in a panel format. Graduate students are encouraged to participate.
Conference papers (approximately 10 pages/2,500 words) may be based upon original research, synthesis of scholarship, or participant experience.
Sessions will consist of two or three papers with comments.
To submit a proposal for a paper and/or session, send a one-page proposal for each presentation and a one-page c.v. Panel proposals should include a one-page proposal, which specifies the topic of discussion by each participant and a one-page c.v. per participant.
The deadline for submitting paper and/or session proposals is 15 December 2010. E-mail submissions (as Word document files) are encouraged and will be accepted until the deadline.
Submit proposals to:
IAH Program 2011
c/o Ray E. Boomhower
Indiana Historical Society
450 W. Ohio St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
Telephone: (317) 232-1877
Deadline: February 14, 2010
Columbia University’s The Birch is the nation's first undergraduate journal of Eastern European and Eurasian culture, founded in 2004. In an effort to maintain the quality of our journal, we have elected to produce a larger, single issue that will be available for students in the spring instead of two, smaller issues typically distributed in the fall and spring. This decision was made primarily to allow contributors to have more time to develop their ideas and projects so that we can continue to produce a journal that students look forward to engaging with, cherish, and respect.
Our publication retains the same structure. It consists of three sections:
Creative Writing (poetry, prose, non-fiction essays), Literary Criticism, and Culture & Affairs (including historical and political analysis). We also welcome original photography, translations, and political cartoons.
For this year's issue, we encourage undergraduate students to submit high- quality pieces of 1500-2000 words. We particularly seek writing on less- explored topics as well as articles on current affairs in the region. While most of our content is in English, we look forward to reading submissions written in Russian or other languages of the region and envision an issue that is less Russo-centric.
If your students are unfamiliar with The Birch, we kindly suggest that you tell them to visit our website, http://www.thebirchonline.org, where they can read a selection of past issues, or visit our blog, http://www.thebirchjournal.blogspot.com/.
We hope some of your undergraduates will take advantage of this opportunity and submit to us at thebirchjournal@gmail.com by February 14, 2010. Please note that all submissions should include the writer’s name, e-mail address, and institution.
6. CALL FOR PAPERS: Eighth Annual Graduate Student Conference, University of Pittsburgh Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia & Center for Russian and East European Studies “Decades of Asynchrony: Europe & Central Asia and the Dissolution of the Soviet Union”
Deadline: December 15, 2010
February 25-26, 2011, University of Pittsburgh
2011 will mark the 20th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. On 25 December 1991, in the midst of intrigues and political struggles Mikhail Gorbachev stepped down as General Secretary of the Communist Party. This event made official a change that leaders of several Republics – foremost Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – had already agreed upon: the dissolution of the USSR and the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Only a few days prior to Gorbachev’s resignation the Soviet Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan as well as Georgia had joined this movement.
Two years earlier, former Eastern European socialist states had already begun the transition to “democracy” and “market economy.” The year 2009 witnessed splendid and highly orchestrated twentieth anniversary celebrations of the end of state socialism in Eastern Europe. These predominantly Eurocentric celebrations tended to reduce the complexity of the change of regimes in Europe and subsequent developments in Central Asia and Russia to a near-teleological “return to the West.”. Such dissociation, at once deliberate and unconscious, falls short of acknowledging the interdependencies and complexities of the societies and cultures of Eurasia. This conference seeks to reverse the artificial separation of the European theatre from the later developments in the Soviet Union, and Central Asia in particular.
The 2009 commemorations of “1989” represent a longstanding estrangement of eastern Europe, the U.S.S.R., and Central Asia in the perceptions both of academia and the public at large. The overemphasis on 1989 willfully separates the interrelated, simultaneous processes in the Soviet Union and Central Asia, which “only” occurred in 1991. We wish to rethink this disjuncture not along the lines of “progress” or “backwardness,” but through “asynchrony”: a concept which rejects linear and normative ideas of development, and which refuses to see temporal differences as innate retardation. The Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA) of the University of Pittsburgh has committed its eighth annual conference to scholarship which seeks to improve our understanding of the asynchrony of this momentous process.
We strongly encourage submissions from the widest range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, and are particularly looking for comparative approaches to Europe and/ or Central Asia and across time. Submissions may focus on any time period, but they should be broadly relatable to the 20th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. They may include:
- social reordering and cultural disruptions: new personal and collective identities; the new face of old “Others”
- “democratization”: expectations and realizations of the role of government and its obligations
- economic disruptions; globalization integration of economies; distribution of resources formerly owned or controlled by the state
- the development of new, and reconfiguration of old, political institutions; the structuring of social institutions both formal and informal
- responses in literature, the arts, music, and “popular” culture
- the renegotiation of rights and freedoms: social crises and violent conflicts; the development of legal institutions and legal controversies
- demography and migration
- geopolitical concerns; state actors and international organizations; the conceptualization of new sovereignties
- public and personal health
- work and leisure
- environment: pollution, protection, and exploitation
Students currently enrolled in graduate programs are welcome to submit abstracts along with an academic CV to goseca.2011@gmail.com no later than December 15, 2010. We will contact the authors of accepted abstracts by January 1, 2011.
Submission Requirements
Abstracts should consist of a 250 word, double-spaced, 12 point font description of the project. All submissions must be in PDF (preferred) or Microsoft Word format. In order to ensure anonymity during the blind selection process, the body of the abstract should not contain the author’s or authors’ name(s) or other personal identifying information other than the title of the paper. The cover page must include: title of submission, author's or authors' name(s), institutional and departmental affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), mailing address(es), and a primary phone number. Although we require all of this information, correspondence will occur mainly via e-mail. An academic CV must also be submitted, but please limit these to two pages.
Paper Requirements
In order to facilitate presentation time limits, and to ensure time for active discussions, paper length will be limited to 8 typed pages, double-spaced, with 12-point font. All accepted participants will be required to submit a copy of the final paper one month prior to the conference.
Registration Requirements
To better promote a meaningful interdisciplinary exchange, participants are expected to attend all panels for the duration of the conference.
Although we cannot provide travel support, we will be happy to arrange housing for the duration of the conference with graduate students.
The registration fee is $25, which includes meals. Registration fee must be paid by cash or check at registration on February 25, 2011.
7. CALL FOR PAPERS: 18th Annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference at Indiana University
Deadline: November 18, 2010
March 5, 2011, Indiana University, Bloomington
Deadline: November 18, 2010
March 5, 2011, Indiana University, Bloomington
The Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) at Indiana University invites panel and individual paper proposals for the Eighteenth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference to be held Saturday, March 5, 2011 on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University.
Graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars are cordially invited to submit abstracts of papers addressing all topics pertaining to Central Eurasian Studies. Central Eurasian Studies is defined for the purposes of this conference as the study of the historical and contemporary Afghan, Balto-Finnic, Hungarian, Mongolic, Persian, Tibetan, Tungusic, and Turkic peoples, languages, cultures, and states.
Submission of pre-organized panels is strongly encouraged. Individual papers are also welcome and will be assigned by the Conference Committee to a suitable panel. All proposals will be subject to a highly selective review procedure. Past panel themes have included:
· Representation and Nationalism in Kazakhstan: Past, Present and Future
· Societies and Cultures of Xinjiang
· Turkic Folklore and Literature
· Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism, and Beyond in Hungarian Literature, Culture, and the Arts
· Tibetan Studies
· Aspects of Imperial and Soviet Rule in Central Asia
· Nodes of Identity
· Explorations in Central Asian Historiography
Submission Instructions: Proposals may be submitted via the online form accessible at: http://www.indiana.edu/~aces n.b. All submissions must be accompanied by an abstract.
ACES regrets that it cannot provide any funding to participants.
Applicants will be notified of their status before 1 December 2010. Please remember that the submission of a proposal represents a commitment on your behalf to participate in the conference.Any queries may be directed to the ACES Conference Committee at aces@indiana.edu.
ACES regrets that it cannot provide any funding to participants.
Applicants will be notified of their status before 1 December 2010. Please remember that the submission of a proposal represents a commitment on your behalf to participate in the conference.Any queries may be directed to the ACES Conference Committee at aces@indiana.edu.
8. CALL FOR PAPERS: Humanities Education and Research Association’s 2011 Conference: “Transformations”
Deadline: November 30, 2010
March 3 to 5, 2011 at Hotel Whitcomb, San Francisco, California
HERA (Humanities Education and Research Association) is exploring Transformations that occur in four groupings or "streams"; transformative Humanities pedagogy, Humanities research, creative contributions, and making the most of this transformative moment.
Transformative Humanities Pedagogy highlights Humanities teaching at all levels, engaged learning, and teaching to transform.
Transformative Humanities Research includes Humanities research in many disciplines including but not limited to Architecture, Art, Art History, Aesthetics, Classics, Composition, Dance, Design, Film Studies, History, Literature, Media, Museum Studies, Music, Music Theater, Philosophy, Religion and Theater, Humanities research in many different areas including but not limited to Globalization, Sexuality, Gender, Family, Technology, Ethnic studies, the Environment, and Sustainability studies.
Transformative Creative Contributions include active Humanities contributions through workshops, performances, and discussion groups.
Making the Most of this Transformative Moment explores using the Humanities, including Humanities Education and Research, in ways that avoid pitfalls like cynicism and embrace qualities like optimism and courage as we use our power to make the most of this transformative moment.
Go to HERA’s website at www.h-e-r-a.org for more information about the conference as well as panel and paper proposals. HERA welcomes papers from graduate students, museum directors, academics, and independent scholars. Paper proposals due by November 30, 2010.
The historic Hotel Whitcomb is offering HERA conference attendees a transformative deal: $79 per night. This rate is good three days before and three days after the conference allowing attendees to get the most out of their San Francisco experience. All reservations must be made directly through the hotel by calling 415-626-8000.
Other Announcements:
Thanksgiving recess begins after the last class on Tuesday, November 23. The REEI office will be closed on November 25 and November 26.
Language Tables and Coffee Hours:
6:00PM – 7:00PM, Indiana Memorial Union Starbucks
5:45 PM, Indiana Memorial Union Starbucks
5:30 PM, Pourhouse Café (314 E Kirkwood)
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