„Higher Education in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Eastern Europe III: Transition and Stagnation at Post-Soviet Universities” (with contributions in German and English)
A collected volume edited by Matthias Bürgel and Andreas Umland
(Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007)

Deadline: 01st October 2006

This collection of scholarly papers and reports continues two former German volumes on related issues published by Peter Lang Publishers. See http://www.peterlang.de/index.cfm?vID=52801&vLang=D&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1. For the third volume, we are looking for analytical investigations and observations on both pro- and regressive tendencies in post-Soviet higher education institutions in English and German language. Some texts, the contents of which have a model character for the envisaged volume and which can be donwloaded (as of 11th February 2006), are:

- Helen Shestopal: Observations on the Transformation of the Political Science Community in Post-Soviet Russia, http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/TransPSCommunityPost-SovietRussia-Shestopal.pdf.
- Gennadij A. Bordjugov: Einige Probleme bei der Ausbildung der neuen Historikergeneration Rußlands, http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lirsk/pdf/gedaechtnis.pdf, pp. 109-118;
- Christine Teichmann: Nachfrageorientierte Hochschulfinanzierung in Russland. Ein innovatives Modell zur Modernisierung der Hochschulbildung, http://www.hof.uni-halle.de/cms/download.php?id=39;

Contributions should be in proof-read English or German, and have a length between 2,000 and 8,000 words. They should follow ALA-LC transliteration rules and German scholarly citations standards (see http://library.princeton.edu/departments/tsd/katmandu/sgman/sltrans.html), and use double quotation marks (single quotation marks within quotes). References should be put in footnotes. Their style should follow the below examples:

Journal articles:
Ann Barbara Stolz: Teaching Democratic Principles in a Traditional Russian University. Fomenting a Quiet Revolution, in: PS. Political Science & Politics, Vol. 29, 3/1996, pp. 592-597; Tanja Penter: Das Hochschulwesen der Ukraine. Zu Reformen, gesetzlichen Grundlagen, Problemen und Perspektiven nach der staatlichen Unabhängigkeit, in: Osteuropa, Vol. 51, 11/2001, pp. 1212-1232.

Books:
Civic Education Project, Hg.: Education for Transition Part II. Social Science Teaching at Central and East European Universities. A Needs Assessment. – Budapest: Civic Education Project in association with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, 1997.

Collected volume contributions:
Sergej Laboda: Die Entwicklung des Hochschulwesens in Belarus in den 90er Jahren. „Back to the Future?“, in: Tristan Coignard et al., eds.: Ost-West Perspektiven. Eine Schriftenreihe des Promotionskollegs Ost-West, Vol. 1. – Bochum: Institut für Deutschlandforschung & Lotman-Institut für russische und sowjetische Kultur, 2002, pp. 85-94.

Yearbook contributions:
Anne Hartmann/Christine Teichmann: Neubeginn und Altlasten. Antithetische Anmerkungen zur russischen Hochschullandschaft, in: Jahrbuch für Universitätsgeschichte, Vol. 7, 2004, pp. 227-240.

WWW texts:
Ray Johns: Academic Corruption in Ukraine, http://www.fulbright.kiev.ua/newsletters/06/p04en.html (last accessed on 02.09.2002); Anne Clift Boris: Teaching History in Belarus. Differences in Teaching and Learning Strategies, http://www.cep.org.hu/teachandlearn/doc/cliftboris.pdf (last accessed on 02.09.2002).

Please, put, if possible, in the first line of each footnote, between the footnote-number and start of the footnote text an empty space and tabulator (→│).

Previously published articles might be reprinted. However, the author/s would have to secure written permission from the previous publisher or copyright-holder for a reprint in our volume.

Please, submit also a short CV according to the following model:
Matthias Bürgel, first Staatsexamen in English and Russian language in Oldenburg. 2002-2003 Bosch lecturer at the Urals State University Yekaterinburg, since 2003 DAAD lecturer at the State University in Perm. A paper on reforms of the Russian educational system in Subsidiarität-Regionalismus-Föderalismus Jahrbuch 03/04. Schwerpunkt: Kaliningrad. Region – Internationales Forum für lokale, regionale und globale Entwicklung, Hg. Winfried Böttcher (LIT 2004).

Andreas Umland, Dr.phil., studied political science and history at Leipzig, Berlin, Oxford, Stanford and Cambridge. Visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution in 1997-99, and Harvard’s Weatherhead Center in 2001-02. CEP, Bosch and DAAD lecturer at and Urals Law Academy in 1999-2001, and Kyiv’s Shevchenko University and Mohyla Academy in 2002-2003 and 2005-2006. In 2004, temporary lecturer in Russian and East European studies at St. Antony’s College Oxford. Papers in, among other journals, Problems of Post-Communism, East European Jewish Affairs, Osteuropa, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Politicheskie issledovaniya, European Political Science, Political Studies Review, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. Editor of the book series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics & Society (http://www.ibidem-verlag.de/spps.html).

The working titles of the so far submitted contributions are:

‚Bildung und Reformen – Was tun? Einschätzungen über den Weg des russischen Bildungssystems’
Matthias Bürgel

‘Teaching Social Sciences at a Post-Soviet University: A Survey of Challenges for Visiting Lecturers in the Former USSR’
Andreas Umland

‚Aufstieg und Niedergang einer „Liberal Arts Institution“: Die American University – Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan’
Julia Droeber

‚Innenansichten einer Disziplin im Wandel: Politikwissenschaft in Rumänien’
Annette Freyberg-Inan

‚Die Geisteswissenschaften in Litauen: Perspektiven der Internationalisierung’
Bernd Gliwa

‚Nachwuchsjournalisten in Deutschland und Russland: Zieldefinitionen bei der Ausbildung und Berufsperspektiven’
Franka Kühn

‚Erfahrungen einer Hochschulkooperation zwischen Hannover und Omsk’
Olga Frick und Jörn Fehr

‚Die „Jena-Kaliningrad-Kooperation“: Erfahrungen mit dem Aufbau des Studienprogramms „Internationale Beziehungen und Europäische Studien“ an der Staatlichen Universität in Kaliningrad’
Stefan Gänzle und Guido Müntel

‚Interkulturelles Lernen im deutsch - russischen Kooperationsprozess: Kompetenzentwicklung von Hochschulen’
Kerstin Pezoldt und Marina Kolesnikova

‚Berufs- und Karriereverlauf der AbsolventInnen des Instituts für Internationale Studien der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Karlsuniversität Prag: Eine Verbleibstudie’
Dieter Segert und Jürgen R. Weber

‚Reform des deutschsprachigen Fachunterrichts an der Europäischen Humanistischen Universität in Minsk, Belarus’
Tobias Knubben und Ina Werner

Please, send your questions and contributions as Word Document Attachements until 1.10.06 to: Matthias Bürgel, MatthiasBuergel@web.de and Andreas Umland, andreas.umland@stanfordalumni.org, or to

Dr. Andreas Umland
DAAD
German Embassy at Kiev
vul. Bohdana Khmelnytskoho 25
UA-01901 Kyiv
UKRAINE