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"Gendering Democracy: Self, State, and Political Reform in Eurasia and Beyond"
June 11-13, 2008Moderator Cynthia Buckley, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin
Workshop Goals and Themes
The workshop is part of the Summer Research Lab. The central aim of this three-day workshop is to bring together advanced graduate students, junior faculty and other professionals who focus on gender and democracy in Russia, Eurasia and beyond in various disciplines to discuss their work and issues in the field. The workshop’s objectives are to foster a supportive network of colleagues involved in this field and to explore recent research paradigms and resources. Cross-regional research of the former Soviet space (especially Central Asia and the Caucasus) and such countries as Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Korea, China and Turkey is particularly welcome. The workshop will provide a superb forum in which to investigate a variety of pressing issues, including, but not limited to, the following:
- State formation, democratization, and the role of gender
- Post-Soviet economic conditions and the impact on gender issues
- Female politicians in post-Soviet governments
- Civil society, NGOs and gender
- Human security (terrorism, trafficking of women and children, organized crime syndicates)
- Health policies and issues
- Demographic problems and movement (fertility change, population aging, displaced peoples, diasporic formations, populations on the move)
- Changing roles and images of gender in society
- Education (rewriting of curricula; establishment of new institutions for higher learning)
- Law reform and its impact on gender issues
- Religion and gender
- The arts, social change, and postsocialist identity (literature, fine arts, architecture)
- Rethinking the historiography of gender and democracy in Eurasia
Workshop Format
Workshop sessions will be devoted to a discussion
of the participants’ research; investigation of current literature
and paradigms; and a presentation of scholarly resources, including relevant
databases by staff specialists from the Slavic and East European Library.
Time will also be available for research in the UI Libraryone of
the largest Slavic and East European collections in the U.S. Participants
may stay beyond the workshop dates to conduct individual research.
Eligibility
The workshop is open to doctoral students and junior faculty in any discipline
and professionals who specialize in the former Soviet countries. To be
eligible for the workshop housing and travel grants, which are funded
by a Title VIII grant from the State Department, participating scholars
must be US citizens/permanent residents and must state the policy relevance
(broadly defined) of their research in the application. Very limited housing
grants are available for international scholars. Those who are not eligible
for financial support may take part in the workshop at their own expense,
pending space availability.
Workshop Housing and Travel Grant
Since all participants will be considered Summer Research Lab associates,
participants are eligible for free housing grants for up to 14
days for graduate students and 8 for all others. A limited number
of travel grants are available
for graduate students (US citizens/permanent residents) only .
Deadline
Same as SRL housing grant deadlines. See Deadlines.
Application
All participants must submit a Summer Research
Lab application and application fee (upon acceptance). To be eligible
for financial assistance, applicants must submit a one- to two-page research
proposal that includes a statement clearly indicating the policy relevance
of the proposed research, broadly defined. For more information on this
issue please click on proposal information
in the side bar. Workshop space is limited.
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