REEEC-AWSS Conference Commodity, Consumer, Entrepreneur?: Women and the Marketplace Thursday, 23 June – Saturday, 25 June 2005 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Rooms 35, 43 504 E. Armory, Champaign   Free and open to the public. Registration not required.
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Keynote Address   Friday, June 24 5:30pm   "Women's Place in the Market Space: 20 Years after Perestroika" Nadia Adzhgikhina (Russian Union of Journalists; Moscow State University)	Summer Symposium   Saturday, June 25 2:00–5:30 PM   Slavery in the Twenty-First Century: Trafficking of Women and Children in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia
Film Showings Illini Tower cafeteria (409 E. Chalmers, Champaign)   Thursday, June 23 7:30pm "Lilya Forever" (Russian, Swedish | 2002 | 109 min.)   Saturday, June 25 8:00pm "Bucharest Express" (Moldova | 2004 | 55 min.) Both films deal with the issue of trafficking in persons. The Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum is held in conjunction with the Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia.  The conference is made possible by Mary and Hal Zirin's generous gift in honor of Ralph Fisher, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois and founder of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Summer Research Lab, and his wife Ruth Fisher. Program Committee Chair: Natasha Kolchevska, Slavic, University of New Mexico; President, AWSS (nakol@unm.edu)   Organizers : Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois Association for Women in Slavic Studies   Co-Sponsors:   Center for International Business Education and Research Department of Journalism Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Department of Sociology Women and Gender in Global Perspectives   For more information on the conference, please contact: Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center University of Illinois 217.333.1244 or reec@uiuc.edu     top

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