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                                CEU-HESP Fourth
                  Regional Seminar on Gender & Culture

   The Program on Gender & Culture and the Higher Education
                        Support Program announces its

                      >>Fourth Regional Seminar<<
             >> Women in Literature and the Arts: <<
                  >> Ten Years After the Changes <<

 The Higher Education Support Program (HESP) and the Program on
Gender & Culture at the Central  European University are co-organising
a Regional Faculty Seminar beginning in October 1999 entitled Women in
Literature and the Arts This seminar builds on the previous HESP
Regional Seminars on Gender & Culture which examined the vast
political and cultural transformations in the region as mediated
through the concept of gender.  The 1999-2000 seminar seeks to
articulate the changes which have occurred in the situation of women
in the region on the basis of new developments in women's literature
and the arts. This involves diverse disciplinary approaches dealing
with both the production and the market for women's literature and
arts from the "popular" to the "elitist".

Objectives of the Seminar
*  to give prominence to the cultural changes characterising the
transition in the region as reflected upon by women artists

*  to allow the different viewpoints of faculty and scholars in
Central and Eastern Europe to be heard within current debates about
gender in literature and the arts

*  to attempt an assessment of the transition period on the basis of
new possibilities of expression for women

*  to foster and support new developments concerning women and culture
in the region

*  to stimulate the development and circulation of syllabi and
teaching materials in women's and gender studies

*  to encourage the introduction of new courses and/or teaching
modules on gender issues in institutions of higher learning in the
region

*  to articulate new conceptual frameworks that will aid research on
women and gender

*  to give prominence to gender and women's studies in the region

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Organisation of the Seminar

The Seminar will be composed of four three-day workshops all
interrelated, but each with a distinctive theme. All four workshops
will take place at the CEU, Budapest, on the dates listed below.

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The Proposed Themes Are:

October 29-31, 1999.  Writing the History of Women's Literature and
Arts in the Region. March 3-5, 2000. New Developments in Women's
Writing during the Transition. June 9-10, 2000. New Developments in
Women's Arts during the Transition. October 20-22, 2000. Feminist
Identifications in Women's Literature and Arts.

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Terms of Participation

Selected participants *must* be able to commit to participation in all
four workshops as well as to produce a written work of scholarship,
suitable for publication, germane to the seminar. An important outcome
of the seminar is to produce a publishable volume of essays.  Scholars
must be fluent in English, with the capacity both to discuss and to
write about these topics at a high level in English.

The cost of each participant's round-trip travel to the workshops in
Budapest, hotels and meals will be borne by the Seminar. A small
stipend will also be available to each Seminar member to cover
seminar-related costs incurred during the year. Materials for
discussion, syllabi, articles and/or teaching packets developed or
used during the workshops will be distributed both to Seminar
participants and to interested individuals and groups.

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Application Procedures

The Seminar invites applications from scholars from East Central
Europe and the former Soviet Union who have a demonstrated interest or
commitment to the seminar's topic but may also include prominent
writers, visual artists, etc. who may give an account of their work
after the changes. Twenty scholars will be selected from the applicant
pool.

In order to be considered applicants should submit:
. The most recent copy of  your CV and list of publications.
. Brief ( 2 page, double spaced) statement of your interests and their
relevance to the theme of the seminar.  What might you want to write
about that would contribute to the theme of the seminar? . A completed
applicant information form, printed below.

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Applications must be received by June 15, 1999.
Participant selection will be announced around June 25, 1999.
Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.
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Applications may be submitted by post, fax, or e-mail.
By Post:        Program on Gender & Culture
        Central European University
        Nador u. 9
        1051 Budapest  Hungary
Please allow enough time for delivery of your package by the
application deadline. The program cannot consider applications which
arrive after June 1, 1999.

By Fax: +36-1-327-3001 Return fax and telephone numbers should be
clearly marked in large print on the cover sheet of the fax as well as
the total number of pages to be sent. In addition, the applicant's
name should appear on each page of the fax (hand written is
acceptable). The program will make all efforts to ensure that all
pages of faxed documents arrive in legible form. However, it is the
applicant's responsibility to ensure that contact information is
clearly marked on each page of the faxed documents.

By E-mail: <gender at ceu.hu> Applications may be sent either in the main
body of an e-mail, or as attachments. Documents sent as attachments
should be formatted either in Word 7.0 or lower format, or as text
documents; the address above is unable to read links to web sites or
documents in any other than these formats. ***Also, we ask that you
scan your computer for viruses before attaching documents to be
forwarded.***

For further information please contact:
Christina Crowder, Program Coordinator
Tel: (36-1)-327-3034/ Fax: (36-1)-327-3001
Email: <gender at ceu.hu>
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 REGIONAL SEMINAR ON GENDER & CULTURE

APPLICANT INFORMATION FORM  1999-2000

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