FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies (AACaPS)  Tenth Biennial Conference (2011)

 February 3-4, 2011, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.  

 The Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies invites proposals for panels and papers for the 10th Biennial Conference to be held at the ANU in Canberra on 3-4 February 2011.  The event will be hosted by the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East and Central Asia), College of Arts and Social Sciences.   

 The Conference theme is “Two Decades without the Soviet Union: Transformations in Eurasian Space”.

 Proposals for panels and paper topics relating to all aspects of scholarship in the social sciences and humanities which explore trajectories of change in the former USSR and the Eastern Bloc will be welcome. Existing panels, their themes and chairpersons are listed below:

 - Market reforms in the former Soviet Union (Chair: Stephen Fortescue, UNSW)

            - Russian foreign policy in the Near Abroad (Chair: Roderic Pitty, UWA)

- Cultural and educational aspects of transformation (Chair: Kevin Windle, ANU)

- Nationalism and politics of identity in Central Asia (Chair: Kirill Nourzhanov, ANU)

Submission of Proposals

 FOR PAPER PRESENTERS: 1) name, 2) current institutional affiliation, 3) title/position, 4) e-mail address, 5) postal address, 6) telephone number, 7) fax number, 8) title of paper, 9) abstract of paper (200 words or less), 10) any audio-visual equipment required (specify: overhead projector, slide projector, DVD/video player), 11) a brief CV containing information for panel chairperson's introduction.

 FOR PANELS:  In addition to the information for paper presenters (see above), the following are also required: 1) title for proposed panel, 2) name, affiliation and contact information of the panel chair and discussants. 

Deadlines: for proposed panels, 31 August 2010; for papers, 29 October 2010.          

Publication of Proceedings

Select papers presented at the conference will be published either in an edited volume or in a peer-reviewed Web-based collection. Detailed information about an editorial board and guidelines for submitting a complete paper will be added soon.

Important dates:

-          abstract acceptance notification issued – 5 November 2010

-          final copy of the paper submitted – 11 January 2011

 Conference Registration Fees

      AACaPS full members – A$50

          Non-members – A$80

         Full-time students and other concessional – A$50

 Funding

 AACaPS does not have funds to support the costs of conference participation.  Participants need to obtain their own funding.

 Conference Information and Registration

 The conference website is http://cais.anu.edu.au/aacaps2011  

 Contacts

 Conference-related correspondence should be addressed to the conference convenor:

 Dr Kirill Nourzhanov

CAIS

Australian National University

Canberra, ACT 0200

Australia

Tel. 61 2 6125 8374

Fax 61 2 6125 5410

E-mail  kirill.nourzhanov@anu.edu.au