Third International Conference
“Women’s History and Contemporary Gender Roles: Negotiating the Past, Rethinking the Future,” to be held in Cherepovets (Vologda oblast), November 1 – 3, 2010.

The conference is designed as a socio-political and academic forum that would bring together scholars, governmental officials and political activists from Russia and abroad, to discuss a variety of ways in which gender affects social life. The organizers invite participants form a range of disciplines, including history, ethnology, archeology, archival studies, sociology, philosophy, political studies, social psychology, cultural studies and others. Members of governmental and non-governmental organizations are particularly welcome to apply. The conference will comprise a number of plenary sessions, panels, workshops and round tables.

Conference topics include, but are not limited to:
- Women’s social experience and women’s identities in traditional and modern societies: trajectories and results of modernization
- Problems of women’s legal and political positions
- Marriage and family in the history of people of Eurasia: traditions and diversity
- Women in power: history and contemporary situation
- Discursive practices of constructing gender
- History of women’s movement
- Teaching gender; gender pedagogy
- Gender as a category of political discourse

Keynote speakers for plenary sessions and round tables are: N.L. Pushkareva, the President of the Russian Association for Research in Women’s History (Moscow), I.S. Kon, a member of the Russian Academy of Education and a Leading researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology , Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow); N.A. Shvedova, the head of the Social and Political Studies Center at the Institute for the US and Canadian Studies, the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow); I.I. Iukina, member of the administrative board of the Russian Association for Research in Women’s History (St. Petersburg); E.R. Iarskaia-Smirnova, Professor of Sociology at the State University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow).

Proposals and information:

Proposals for panels, workshops, round tables and individual presentations should be sent by May 15, 2010 to the following email address: genderconf2010@mail.ru. Proposals should include the information about the author and the abstract of the presentation. The abstracts (which will be published prior to the conference) should not exceed 10,000 characters. The paper size of the abstract should be 21*29.5cm (A 4), portrait orientation, with a margin of 2.5 cm on all sides. The abstract should be formatted using the Times New Roman font throughout, 14 pt. type, 1.5-spaced, justified paragraphs. The abstract should be submitted as a ".doc" file. Pages should not be numbered. The participant’s full name and her/his institutional affiliation should be placed in the right corner in bold italics. The next line (centered) should contain the title of the proposal in bold letters. For references, please, use footnotes.

In your submission, please, include the following information: a) your full name, b) your institutional affiliation, position and academic degree; c) your address (including zip code and email address); d) title of abstract; e) a note on whether special technology and/or electrical equipment is needed; f) information on whether you would need a hotel and the arrival and departure dates.

Grants are available to help fund travel and accommodation expenses for young scholars from regions outside Vologda. Please, indicate if you wish to obtain this funding in your proposal.

The working language at the conference is Russian. For those participants who prefer to give their presentations in English, interpretation will be provided. Discussions are, however, will be in Russian.

Conference location:
The Department of History
The Cherepovest State University,
5 Lunacharskogo Prospekt,
Cherepovets (Vologda oblast), 162600

Conference committee:
Professor Olga Solodiankina
E-mail: olga_solodiankin@mail.ru
Phone: +7 (8202) 518-061

Professor Natalia Pushkareva
E-mail: pushkarev@mail.ru