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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.

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 d.randall@kingston.ac.uk
• Jeremy Smith jsmith@jeremy.win-uk.net
• Stephen Webber s.l.webber@bham.ac.uk
• Ilkka Liikanen ilkka.liikanen@joensuu.fi

Conference fees;

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

Last updated: June 4, 1998

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