Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe 2000-4
WESTERN EUROPE
The journals EUROPE-ASIA STUDIES (Glasgow, Scotland, UK) and OSTEUROPA (Aachen,
Gemany) invite submissions for the fourth Annual EUROPE-ASIA /OSTEUROPA Lecture
to be delivered in May 2001 in Aachen/Cologne and at the Institute of Central
and East European Studies, University of Glasgow.
The name of the lecture refers to Europe-Asia Studies, formerly Soviet
Studies, and to Osteuropa, the two major international journals in the field of
Russian, Central and East European studies. The lecture will subsequently be
published in both journals. The goal of the lecture is to spot young and
particularly promising researchers in the field of Central and East European
studies (social scientists and historians)working in these countries and to
present them to the worldwide academic community involved in "transition
studies" and history.
In 1998 the competition was won by Oleg Kharkhordin ("Civil Society and
Orthodox Christianity"), in 1999 by Vladimir Gel'man, ("Russia's
Regional Politics in Comparative Perspective"), and in 2000 by Serguei
Oushakine who spoke on "In the State of Post-Soviet Aphasia".
Europe-Asia Studies and Osteuropa invite young scholars (approximately 28 to
40 years old) educated and resident in the countries of Central and Eastern
Europe(including the
Baltic states, Russia and other CIS countries) to submit a Draft Lecture no
longer than 2000 words which is to be the basis for the lecture to be delivered
in May 2001 in Aachen/Cologne and in Glasgow.
This Draft Lecture can be a summary of recent work and should particularly
highlight creative research tools or techniques, new theory or creative use of
archival material by the applicant. Since the lecture will be presented in
English, the applicant must have a good
command of spoken English.
The author of the winning application will be invited to deliver the lecture
in Glasgow and in Aachen/Cologne and will stay in each place for three days;
travel and accommodation expenses will be met by the two journals.
Applications should include the Draft Lecture, a one-page curriculum vitae
including date of birth, a full list of publications of the applicant (each in 3
copies) and his or her mailing address, preferably including email and fax
number.
Applications are to be sent to:
The Editor,
Europe-Asia Studies
The University of Glasgow,
29 Bute Gardens Glasgow, Scotland
G12 8RS, UK
Applications sent by fax or email will not be accepted. The deadline for
applications is 1 January 2001. The winning applicant will be informed by 1
March 2001.
For further information, please visit the websites at
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or Space & Services European Network - are looking for collaboration
partners in East Central Europe and Eastern Europe to exchange ideas and do
research on services (producers services, consumer services) from an economic,
sociological, cultural, geographical etc. perspective.
Contact: www.reser.net -
or Dr. Christof Ellger, Institut für Geographische Wissenschaften der FU
Berlin, Malteserstr. 74-100, 12249 Berlin,
Tel.: 49-30-83870226,
Fax: 49-30-76706436,
E-mail: cellger@geog.fu-berlin.de
With INTAS funding, a two year international project was started in April 2000
under the title
This project will explore charismatic political leadership, and the conditions
that promote its successful realisation in the newly democratised states of
Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. It is hypothesised that charismatic leadership
is a likely characteristic of the contemporary political environment of the
above countries, and therefore, plays a major role in determining their prospect
of achieving a sustainable democratic future.
These countries are still in the process of stabilisation and are
experiencing considerable economic and political difficulties. Therefore, it is
important to explore the contribution of charismatic leadership to the process
of democratisation, and its effect on the dynamics of the transitional path of
these countries.
The eventual results should shed important light on both methodological and
practical questions of the sustainability of charismatic leadership in
post-communist democracies. It is hypothesised that strong authoritarian
legacies and recent economic-political upheavals support the discourse of
personal/strong leadership. This research is designed to contribute to an
understanding of the logic and mechanics of political leadership in its extreme
form and, through this, to envisage how to overcome possible difficulties in the
relationship to the process of democratisation.
Project Co-ordinator:
Professor Roger Eatwell
University of Bath, European Research Institute
Bath, BA2 3AE, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1225 826826x5269
Fax: +44 1225 826381
E-mail: mlsre@bath.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.bath.ac.uk/~mlpeak/member.htm
Partners of the international team are:
* Prof. Nikolai Churilov, Centre of Public and Marketing Research SOCIS,
SOCIS Gallup Ltd., Kiev, the Ukraine,
E-mail: steg@socis.freenet.kiev.ua
* Prof. Serghei Vladimirovich Tumanov, Director of the Social Studies Center,
Moscow State University, Centre for Sociological Studies, Vorobjovy Gory, Moscow
11 98 99, Russia
* Prof. Anne de Tinguy, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Centre
d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Department of Comparative Study of
Democratic Transitions in Post-Communist Europe,
E-mail: anne.detinguy@ceri.sciences-po.fr
* Prof. David Rotman, Belorussian State University, Centre of Social and
Political Research, F. Skoriny Ave. 4, 22 00 50 Minsk, Belarus
(Verzeichnis der universitären Osteuropaforschung in Deutschland)
Compiled by Heike Dörrenbächer, Corinna Jentzsch, Adrian Mörstedt, Berlin,
The German Society for East European Studies, 2000, 72 pp.
Available at the Office of the German Society for East European Studies,
Schaperstr. 30
D-10719 Berlin
Tel.: +49-30-21 47 84 12
Fax: +49-30-21 47 84 14
E-mail: dgo@zedat.fu-berlin.de
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