BASEES Annual Conference

BASEES Annual Conference 28-30 March 2009
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

Call for Panels and Papers

Proposals are invited for panels and papers for the 2009 Annual Conference of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES). We are particularly keen to receive proposals for complete panels but we are also happy to receive paper proposals that the organising committee will try to put together into panels. At its post-conference meeting the BASEES committee established a conference organising group for 2009 with separate panel streams on:

Within the usual wide range of topics we would hope to cover, it is worth noting that 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall and associated socio-political revolutions across central and eastern Europe, and the high point of the perestroika reforms in the Soviet Union. As such, we would welcome suggestions relating to a critical assessment, evaluation and interpretation of these events in connection with the various panel streams. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the subject organisers with your ideas on these and any other topics and to propose panels and papers using the appropriate form, downloadable from the BASEES website.

To propose a panel or a paper you will need to fill in a proposal form, available from this page. There are separate forms for panels and papers and each is in .rtf format. You should download the appropriate form and fill it in electronically, and send it electronically to the appropriate subject stream organiser AND to the conference email address.

We are particularly keen to hear from postgraduate students. Postgraduate members of BASEES who present papers are eligible to apply for financial support towards their conference costs. All enquiries regarding membership should be addressed to the membership secretary, Dr Jenny Mathers. The application procedure is described on the website.

The deadline for all your suggestions is 15 September 2008 but it will greatly assist us if you can send us your views in the nearest future.

CONFERENCE ORGANISING GROUP

Subject stream organisers:

Culture, Literature, Media, Gender Studies:  Dr Alex Harrington, Dept of Russian, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3JT

Economics/Political economy/industrial relations/regional development: Professor Martin Myant, Business School, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley PA1 2BE

History:  Dr Cathie Carmichael, School of History, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ

Languages/Linguistics:  Dr David Willis, Selwyn College, Cambridge CB3 9DQ

Politics/International relations:  Dr Karen Henderson,  Dept. of Politics & International Relations, University of Leicester, University Road, University of Leicester LE1 7RH 

Social Policy/Sociology/Social Anthropology:  Dr Dominique Moran, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT

Academic conference organiser:
Dr Jonathan Oldfield, Dept. of Central & East European Studies, University of Glasgow, Hetherington Building, Bute Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RS

 

Next Conference Dates (provisional):
27-29 March 2010
2-4 April 2011