Calls for papers

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Minorities at Risk (MAR) project is soliciting papers to form
panels
for submission to the 2003 International Studies Association (ISA)
meeting in Portland. We are looking for papers that either use
existing
MAR data or collect data that builds on the MAR scheme.

If you have a paper that fits that description, please send a title and
abstract to Will H. Moore (will.moore@fsu.edu). He is assembling the
panels for submission to the ISA program directors.

The deadline for submission to ISA is 1 June. To see ISA's Call for
Papers, please visit:

http://www.isanet.org/portland/call_for_papers.html

For more on the MAR project, please visit:

http://www.bsos.umd.edu/cidcm/mar/

--
Will H. Moore
will.moore@fsu.edu
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~whmoore/

Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
The Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2230
phone: 850.644.6924
fax: 850.644.1367

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Call for Papers: "Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology, and
Transformations of Modernity," Humanities Institute, Dartmouth College

The Humanities Institute invites proposals for papers to be presented
at a
conference scheduled for December 1, 2 , 3, 2002. This upcoming
Institute
will examine the concept of "conversion" in a broad sense as it
operated
during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Ottoman domain, Indian
Islamdom,
and
the Sino-Japanese worlds.

While the concept of "conversion"has strong religious connotations,
many
works
on religious conversion recognize that often not just the converted,
but the
converter as well is changed---a transformation that demonstrates the
complex,
sometimes contradictory outcomes of cultural and ideological
adaptation.
Conversion can take place in a number of modes: forcible and voluntary,
collective and individual, or any combination of these.

Historical instances such as conversion to tennôsei ideology in Japan,
or to
"modern laicism" in Turkey suggest that conversion may be viewed
constructively in larger terms as political and ideological processes:
conversion as cultural appropriation---the adoption by subordinate
groups of
dominant discourses, customs, and institutional forms; conversion as
the
redefinition of spatial categories- East-West, rural-urban,
empire-colony;
or conversion as an reordering of social class and the blurring of ethnic and gender categories. The extensive literature on religious conversion will prove useful in analyzing these types of socio-cultural transformations. For a more complete description of the conference, go to the Institute's website:
www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/converting.html

Presenters will be provided room and a travel stipend. The goal of this conference is to produce an edited volume and presenters will be expected to make a draft of their paper available before the conference. Final
drafts will be expected by June 1, 2003

Please send a one-page paper proposal/abstract either to:
Leslie Center for the Humanities
Dartmouth College
Carpenter Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
or Humanities.Center@dartmouth.edu

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Center for Stateless Cultures
at Vilnius University

History Faculty, Universiteto 7
Vilnius 2734, Lithuania
tel/fax: +3702 687293
email: statelesscultures@centras.lt, statelescultures@if.vu.lt

CALL FOR PAPERS
AND INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN

Second International Conference
On Stateless Culture Studies
4 to 6 December, 2002
at Vilnius University, Lithuania

CONFERENCE SESSIONS ON:

Education: teaching and prospects for inclusion in university curricula

Fieldwork: mounting expeditions and creating archives to preserve the
disappearing treasures of Stateless Cultures internationally;

Theoretical Issues: Stateless Cultures as a “natural class”?

Papers invited on issues in:
· Karaimic and Karaite studies.
· Old Believer studies.
· Roma studies.
· Tatar studies.
· Yiddish studies.
· other stateless cultures.

In addition to the formal sessions, the conference will feature an
evening
of multicultural entertainment and a walking tour of sites of historic
and
current significance for the stateless cultures of Vilnius.
REGISTRATION FORM


Title, forename and surname:


Current position and institutional affiliation:



Country of citizenship:


Current address:





Telephone:


E-mail:


Do you propose to read a paper at the conference? If so, please provide
the
tentative title of your paper and the language in which you wish to
read it
(English preferred, all languages welcome, length - ~20 min.).





Please return the registration form (and any questions or comments)
till
the 1st of June 2002 to:

Egle Ptasnikaite
Center for Stateless Cultures
Vilnius University, History Faculty
Universiteto 7
Vilnius 2734, Lithuania

tel/fax: +3702 687293
e-mail: statelesscultures@if.vu.lt or
statelesscultures@centras.lt