THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
"HIERARCHY AND POWER IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS"
June 18-21 2004, Moscow, Russia
THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies in cooperation with the Institute for African Studies (both under the Russian Academy of Sciences) and the Russian State University for The Humanities is organizing in Moscow on June 18-21 2004 the Third International Conference "HIERARCHY AND POWER IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS". The working languages of the Conference are Russian and English.

We would like to remind you the following: The Organizing Committee has considered all the panel proposals received by it. The descriptions of the accepted proposals please find below. The deadline for paper proposals (in the form of abstracts within 300 words in English or both English and Russian) is November 1, 2003. Paper proposals should be sent not to the Organizing Committee but directly to the respective panel convenor(s) who is (are) to inform the applicant about his (her) application's fortune by December 1, 2003. The information to be submitted alongside with the paper abstract includes full name, title, institutional affiliation, full mail and e-mail addresses, and fax #.

However, in the case you feel your paper does not fit any particular panel but corresponds to the Conference general problematique, you may submit your proposal to the Organizing Committee by the same date (November 1, 2003) and it will be considered for scheduling for the Free Communication Panel.

All the general inquiries should be sent to the Organizing Committee, for the attention of Prof. Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Dr. Igor L. Alexeev, and Mr. Oleg I. Kavykin preferably by e-mail (conf2004@hotmail.com), or either by fax (+ 7 095 202 0786), or by ordinary mail (Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 30/1 Spiridonovka St., 123001 Moscow, Russia). The telephone number is: + 7 095 291 4119.

In the case the proposal is accepted, the Organizing Committee will send you the list of documents necessary to support your and your panel participants’ visa application process at the Russian Consulate or Embassy in the respective countries in the beginning of the year 2004.

The Conference participant’s registration fee is $ 100 (or the corresponding sum in euros or Russian rubles) which includes the visa application support at the Russian Foreign Ministry,** culture program, Conference Book of Abstracts, reception, coffee-breaks, is to be paid in cash upon arrival. The fee for an accompanying person is $ 50 (or again, the corresponding sum in euros or Russian rubles) includes the visa application support at the Russian Foreign Ministry, participation in culture program and reception. Accommodation at the hotel of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Downtown Moscow is about $ 45 per night. It is also possible to make an independent reservation in this hotel or in one of many other Moscow hotels of different class through Internet at the sites http://moscow-hotels.net and http://all-hotels.ru. Estimated meal and other daily expenses are c. $ 15 per person. However, please note that the figures above may be subjected to some changes due to processes in transnational and national economy which are obviously out of the Organizing Committee’s control. If such changes happen, the Organizing Committee will try its best to inform the Conference participants as soon as possible.

PANELS ACCEPTED FOR THE CONFERENCE (In the alphabetical order of titles):

Alternativity in Cultural History: Heterarchy and Homoarchy as Evolutionary Trajectories
Convenors:
Prof. Dmitri M. Bondarenko
Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies
Russian Academy of Sciences
30/1 Spiridonovka St.
123001 Moscow
Russia
Fax: + (7 095) 202 0786
E-mails: dbondar@hotmail.com; dmitri.bondarenko@inafr.ru

Prof. Carole L. Crumley
Department of Anthropology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115
USA Fax: + (1 919) 962 1613
E-mail: crumley@unc.edu

Art, struggle, survival and change
Convenor:
Dr Michael Walsh
Department of Art History and Archaeology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Eastern Mediterranean University
Famagusta (Gazimagusa)
Via Mersin 10
Turkey
Fax: 00 90 392 365 1604
E-mail: michael.walsh@emu.edu.tr

Civil Society, Civil Education and Cultural Identity in the Time of Globalization
Convenor:
Prof. Igor V. Sledzevski
Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies
Russian Academy of Sciences
30/1 Spiridonovka St.
123001 Moscow
Russia
Fax: + (7 095) 202 0786
E-mail: civ-reg@inafr.ru

Comparing the State in Africa: The Drama of Modern Development
Dr. Baz Lecocq
Hooglandse Kerkgracht 34a
2312 HV Leiden
The Netherlands
E-mail: baz@lecocq.nl

Dr. Erik Bähre
University College Utrecht
Utrecht University
Campusplein 1 3584 ED
Utrecht
The Netherlands
Fax: +31-30-2539905
E-mail: bahre@wanadoo.nl

Divine Politics and Theocracy: Religion as a Power Mechanism in the Greco-Roman World
Convenor:
Prof. Christofilis Maggidis
Department of Classical Studies
Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013
U.S.A.
Fax: 001-717-2451683
E-mail: maggidic@dickinson.edu

Ethnic Model of Power Legitimation in the Political Practice of Contemporary Multiethnic States and Quasi-States
Convenors:
Dr. Vassili R. Filippov
Department of Ethnoregional Studies
Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies
30/1 Spiridonovka St.
123001 Moscow
Russia
Fax: + (7 095) 202 0786
E-mail: fvr@east.ru

Prof. Alexander N. Alexeenko
Barnaul Branch
Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies
School of History
Altai State University
Prospekt Lenina, 61
656099 Barnaul
Russia
E-mail: aan@vko.kz

From Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Transformation of Political Structures and Social Institutions*
Convenor:
Dr. Serguei A. Frantsouzoff
Institute of Oriental Studies
St. Petersburg Branch
Russian Academy of Sciences
18 Dvortsovaya embankment
191186 St. Petersburg
Russia
Fax: + (7 812) 312 14 65
E-mails: invost@mail.convey.ru, frants@spios.nw.ru

Hierarchy and Power in Dates of Archaeology
Convenors:
Prof. Stephen A. Kowalewski
Department of Anthropology
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
USA
Fax: + (1 706) 542 3988
E-mail: skowalew@arches.uga.edu

Prof. Nikolay N. Kradin
Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography
Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
89 Pushkinskaya St.
690600 Vladivostok
RUSSIA
Fax: + (7 4232) 26 82 11
E-mail: kradin@mail.primorye.ru

Hierarchy and Power in Science: An Oxymoron?
Convenor:
Dr. Charles Rheaume
Directorate of History and Heritage
National Defence Headquarters
2429, Holly Lane
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1A 0K2
Fax: +1 613 990 85 79
E-mails: Rheaume.C@forces.gc.ca; crheau@sympatico.ca

Hierarchy and Power in the Postcolonial World
Convenor:
Prof. Andrei M. Pegushev
Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies
30/1 Spiridonovka St.
123001 Moscow
Russia
Fax: + (7 095) 202 0786
E-mails: civ-reg@inafr.ru; pegushev@mail.ru

Hierarchy, Power, and Ritual in Pre-Columbian America
Convenor:
Dr. Nikolay V. Rakutz
Institute for Latin American Studies
Russian Academy of Sciences
21 Bolshaya Ordynka
Moscow
Russia
E-mail: NVRwerwolf@rambler.ru

Ideology and Legitimation of Power in Ancient and Medieval Societies
Convenors:
Dr. Dan'el Kahn
Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Hebrew University
Jerusalem
Israel
E-mail: danelka@netvision.net.il

Prof. Eleonora E. Kormysheva
Institute of Oriental Studies
Russian Academy of Sciences
12 Rozhdestvenka St.
Moscow
Russia
E-mail: eleonora@orc.ru

Legitimation of Public Authorities in the Politically Transient Societies of Eastern Europe
Convenors:
Dr. Konstantin F. Zavershinsky
Faculty of Philosophy
Novgorod State University
52-54 Grigorovskoe shosse
Veliky Novgorod 173024
Russia
Fax: (7 8162) 679 172
E-mails: kfz@novsu.ac.ru; kfz@post.com

Dr. Nelli A. Romanovich
“Qualitas” Public Opinion Institute
4-43 Pushkinskaya ulitsa
Voronezh 394000
Russia
Fax: (7 0732) 519 089
E-mails: nelli@riom.voronezh.su; qualitas@comch.ru

Markets and Hierarchies in the History of Civilizations
Convenor:
Prof. Alexander N. Pilyasov
Ministry of Economic Development
7 Vavilova St.
117997 Moscow
Russia
Fax: (7 095) 135 1018
E-mail: pelyasov@sops.ru

Models of Government in the Late Classical and Hellenistic World
Convenor:
Prof. Jan Bouzek
Institute of Classical Archaeology
Charles University
Celetná 20
CZ-110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic
Fax: 4202/2422 82 56
E-mail: jan.bouzek@ff.cuni.cz

Money, Currency and Power, with focus on Africa
Convenor:
Dr. Blandine Stefanson
Centre for European Studies and General Linguistics
The University of Adelaide
Australia 5005
Fax: 61.8.83035241
E-mail: blandine.stefanson@adelaide.edu.au

“New Crises” and “New Wars” in the Periphery: The Role of the Global
Movement of Ideas and Capital
Convenor:
Prof. Marcie J. Patton

Until July 2003:
Department of Political Science and Public Administration
Bilkent University
Bilkent 06800
Ankara
Turkey
E-mail: patton@bilkent.edu.tr

As of July 2003:
Department of Politics
Fairfield University
1073 North Benson Road
Fairfield, CT 06840
USA
Fax: 1-203-254-4000 x2649
E-mail: mpatton@fair1.fairfield.edu

Patterns of Hierarchy and Power in Southeast Asia
Convenors:
Prof. Belinda A. Aquino
Center for Philippine Studies
Moore Hall 416
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI 96822
U.S.A.
Fax: 1-808-956-2682
E-mail: lyndy@hawaii.edu

Dr. Victor V. Sumsky
Institute of World Economy and International Relations
Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow
Russia
Fax: 7-095- 120-6575
E-mail: vsumsky@online.ru

Power as "Great Mystery"
Convenor:
Prof. Victor V. Bocharov
Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnic Sociology
St. Petersburg State University
130-129 Ligovsky Prospekt
192007 St. Petersburg
Russia
Fax: (812) 110-00-77
E-mail: victor@VB5831.spb.edu

Propaganda, Protest and Violence: Revolutions in the East and the West
Convenor:
Dr. Henry Y. S. Chan
Department of History
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Moorhead, MN 56563
U.S.A.
Fax: (1 218) 236-2899
E-mail: chanh@mnstate.edu

Religion and Ethnicity between Legitimation and Dissent in the Premodern Muslim World
Convenor:
Prof. Virginia Aksan
Department of History
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4L9
Fax: 905-77-0158
E-mail: vaksan@mcmaster.ca

Studying Political Centralization Cycles as a Dynamical Process
Convenor:
Prof. Peter Turchin
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
75 N. Eagleville Rd, U-43
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-3043
USA
Fax: 860-486-6364
E-mail: Peter.Turchin@UConn.edu

Tradition and Modernization in Political Cultures of Islamic World
Convenor:
Prof. Andrey V. Korotayev
School of History, Political Science and Law
Russian State University for the Humanities
6 Miusskaya Ploshad'
Moscow
Russia
Fax: (7 095) 298 0345
E-mail: korotayev@mtu-net.ru; korotayev@yahoo.com

The Order of Things: Material Culture, Practice and Social Status
Convenors:
Dr. Marc Vander Linden
Research Center “Spaces and Societies – Comparative Approaches”
F.N.R.S. (Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research)
C.P. 175 / University of Brussels
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50
B – 1050 Brussels
Belgium
Fax: +32.2.650.43.49
E-mail: mavdlind@ulb.ac.be

Alain Duplouy
Centre de Recherche sur la Cité Grecque
F.N.R.S.
C.P. 175 / University of Brussels
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50
B – 1050 Brussels
Belgium
Fax: +32.2.650.39.19
E-mail: aduplouy@ulb.ac.be

The Role of the Evolutionary Theory in the Political History of the 20th Century
Convenor:
Dr. Sergey V. Polatayko
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Malaya Posadskaya 26, aud.210
197046 St.-Petersburg
Russia
E-mail: polatayko@peterlink.ru

The Use of Estrangement as a Pivotal Instrument in the Study of and Defence against Hierarchy and Power
Convenor:
Prof. Ing. Ignazio Corsaro
Editor of Lo Straniero
Piazza Amedeo 8
Naples 80121
Italy
Fax: 0039-081-7611264
E-mail: lostraniero85@libero.it

The Will to Power and Its Realisation - The Rises and Falls of Absolute Leaders
Convenor:
Dr. Asja Nina Kovacev
University of Ljubljana
Ul. Bratov Komel 11
SI-1210 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Fax: +386-1-3001119
E-mail: asja-nina.kovacev@guest.arnes.si

Urbi et Orbi (Roma Aeterna)
Convenor:
Dr. Nadejda A. Selounskaia
Centre for Comparative Studies of Ancient Civilizations
Russian Academy of Sciences
32-a Leninskii pr., apt. 1501
Moscow
Russia
Fax: (7 095) 9381912
E-mail: spesbona@mail.ru