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Study Group on Education in Russia, The Independent States and Eastern
Europe announces its Fifteenth Annual Conference

EDUCATION AND CIVIC CULTURE IN POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETIES

in association with the Civic Culture Forum and the School of Slavonic
and East European Studies, University of London

Friday 13 & Saturday 14 November 1998, at SSEES
Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

CONFERENCE ANOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The Study Group has teamed up with the Civic Culture Forum to organise
a two day conference at SSEES on a topic relevant to both groups, the
role of education in the transformation of society in contemporary
central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.  Up to 100
delegates are expected and registrations are accepted by e-mail or
post to the addresses below. Contributions to the branching programme
(papers, panel discussions, workshop ideas, etc.) are invited from
academic and non-academic specialists having an interest in the field
before the 22 June 1998 deadline. A collection of the papers presented
will be selected for publication in one or more books.

Key note address: Professor Geoffrey Hosking (SSEES).  The
international panel of speakers and discussants includes: Elena
Zdravomyslova (European University, Saint Petersburg), Friedrich
Kuebart (Ruhr University, Bochum), Risto Alapuro (University of
Helsinki), the Study Group specialists James Riordan (Surrey), James
Muckle (Nottingham) and Chris Williams (University of Central
Lancashire), and members of the Civic Culture Forum.

CONFERENCE THEMES

Beyond the plenary programme, there are opportunities for up to 32
further presentations in the branching programme organised into four
themes within Education and Civic Culture in Post-Communist Societies.

Papers, seminars, workshops, panel discussions

Theme 1 Education, civic culture and the individual

Theme 2 Education, civic culture and social and economic change

Theme 3 Education, civic culture and politics

Theme 4 Civic culture and the teacher

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT/PAPER FOR THE BRANCHING PROGRAMME (AND FOR
PUBLICATION) by 22 JUNE 1998

Papers (up to 8,000 words) must include an abstract and conform to the
submission guidelines given at:
http://www.kingston.ac.uk/~hs_s113/sgerisee/authors.htm

Please submit to Dr Stephen Webber, Centre for Russian and East
European Studies, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15
2TT.

Papers will be made available before the conference on Internet.

REGISTER NOW!

For further information and to register please e-mail one of the
following:
David Randall  [email protected]
Jeremy Smith  [email protected]
Stephen Webber [email protected]
Ilkka Liikanen  [email protected]

Alternatively you may register by downloading and posting an
application from the Study Group web site :
http://www.kingston.ac.uk/~hs_s113/sgerisee/conf.htm

Conference fees;
�25.00 non-members of Study Group or Civic Forum,
�20.00 members;
�15.00 Concessions (Non-SSEES students/CEE-CIS)

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