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ANNOUNCEMENTS*

FORTHCOMING MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES OF GENERAL INTEREST

THE POLITICS OF ANTIPOLITICS On 7-10 July, 1994, the first Vienna Dialogue on Democracy (VDD)

organised by the Austrian Institute for Advanced Studies, will take place. It will focus on the resurgent ‘antipolitical’ cleavage construction seen in the multi-faceted versions of ‘postmodernised’ populism. The conference will discuss these ‘politics of antipolitics’ by concentrating on three partially overlapping themes. Address all inquiries or submissions to: VDD, c/o Dr Anreas Schedler, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Political Science, Stumpergasse 56, A-1060 Vienna, Austria; Tel.: 43/l/599 91-0, Fax: 43111597 06 35.

MISSOURI VALLEY HISTORY CONFERENCE On 10-12 March, 1994 the thirty-seventh annual conference will be held in

Omaha, Nebraska. Proposals for papers and sessions are welcome. Please send one page abstract to: Dale Gaeddert, Chair, MVHC, University of Nabraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182, U.S.A.

ORGANISATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS

KINGSTON: EUROPEAN RESEARCH CENTRE Kingston University has recently established a new European Research

Centre. Its goals are to stimulate research and cooperation in areas related to European Studies. Projects related to France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, the EC and Hungary are presently underway. This last project is linked with work done by colleagues at the Institute of Conflict Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The Director of the Centre is Anne Showstack Sassoon, Professor of Politics at Kingston University. For further information, please contact: the European Research Centre, Faculty of Human Sciences, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston-upon- Thames, Surrey KTl 2EE, U.K.; Tel.: 44 81 547 7287, Fax: 44 81 547 7292.

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS The European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) was inaugu-

rated in January 1989, in response to a widely felt need for a professional association which would represent social anthropologists in Europe, and foster cooperation and interchange in teaching and research. As Europe transforms itself in the 199Os, the EASA is dedicated to the renewal of the

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distinctive European tradition in social anthropology. For further information on EASA, please contact: Eduardo P. Archetti, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1091, Blindern, N-0317 Oslo 3, Norway.

EGTVGS LdRAND UNIVERSITY, ETHNIC AND MINORITY STUDIES

The Institute of Sociology of the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest is inaugurating an interdisciplinary MA program in Ethnic and Minority Studies, conducted entirely in English. Students are invited to apply for a full two-year MA degree program, but visiting students are also welcome. For further information, please contact: L&&j Kiirti, Ethnic and Minority Studies, Institute of Sociology, Eotvos Lorand University, Pollack Mihaly TCr. 10, P.O. Box 394, 1446 Budapest, Hungary; Tel.: (36) l-266-5222, Fax: (36) l-266-3860.

GRADUATE SCHOOL FOR WOMEN’S SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH

The First Graduate School for Women’s Social Science Research was founded in Dortmund in 1992. It will be devoted to studying transformations in gender relations. Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the new institution will cooperate with the universities of Bielefeld, Bochum and Essen in an interdisciplinary program. For further information, please contact: Sigrid Metz-Gockel or Ursula Muller, University of Dortmund, Hochschuledidaktisches Zentrum, Postfach 50 05 00, 4600 Dortmund 50, Germany; Tel.: (0231) 13 88 100.

WOMEN’S STUDIES CENTRE, AUSTRIA In the autumn of 1989 women scholars and students in Austria organised

the “Viennese Initiative to Strengthen Feminist/Women’s Research and Anchor it in the Curriculum” housed in the History Department at the University of Vienna. Together with the Universities of Graz and Linz they founded a ‘Coordinating Centre for Women’s Studies/Feminist Research’, which opened its doors in May 1993. For further information, please contact: Ingvild Birkham, Koordinationsstelle fiir Frauenstudien und Frauenfor- schung, Universitat Wien, Dr Karl-Lueger-Ring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria.

UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF PUBLIC ORDER

The CSPO has undertaken a study of police organisations, crime and justice issues in the European Community without internal border controls. The research will describe and evaluate the different police and law enforcement agencies in European Community (EC) countries, and will examine structures and networks for promoting police cooperation. Informa- tion on crime in the EC is being collected and analysed, focusing particularly on issues such as terrorism, drug trafficking, fraud and public disorder. For further information, please contact: Rachel Woodward, Police, Crime and

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Justice in Europe, Centre for the Study of Public Order, University of Leicester, 6 Salisbury Road, Leicester LEl 7QR, U.K.

EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR WOMEN’S STUDIES NATIONAL CONTACTS

Austria: Herti Nagl-Docekal, Institut fiir Philosophie, Universitat Wien, Universit%sstrasse 7, 2. Stock, A-1010 Wien; Tel.: 43 222 40103 2402.

Belgium: Myriam de Pauw, University of Ghent, Baertsoenkaai 3, B-9000 Ghent; Tel.: 32 91 240224, Fax: 259311.

Bulgaria: Irena Vitanova, Department of Modern Languages, Sofia University, St Kliment Ohridski, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd, BG-1504 Sofia; Tel.: 3.5 92 724991, Fax: 722544.

Cyprus: Niki Katsaoumi, 30 Danae’s Street, Encomi, CY-Nicosia; Tel.: 357 2 369699 (Fax, temporary: 461427).

Czech Republic: Milosiava Umlsufovaa, Prague Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Economy and Management, Thakurova 7, 11629 Praha G; Tel.: 42 2 3323871, Fax: 3117034.

Denmark: Kirsten Gronbaek Hansen Centre for Feminist Research, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 106, DK-2300 Copenhagen S.; Tel.: 45 31 542211, Fax: 45 32 961518.

Finland: Liisa Husu, Council for Equality, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, P-0. Box 267, SF-00171 Helsinki; Tel.: 358 0 1605705, Fax: 1605751.

France: Fransoise Picq, A.N.E.F., 2 Rue d’Agnou, F-78580 Maule; Tel.: 33 1 30907338, Fax: 34758217.

Germany: Gisela Notz, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Godesberger Allee 149, D-5300 Bonn 2; Tel.: 49 228 883275, Fax: 883625.

Greece: Ketty Lazaris, Mediterranean Institute of Women’s Studies (KEGME), 115 Harilaou Trikoupi Str., GR-11473 Athens; Tel.: 30 1 361566013613968, Fax: 361566018075444.

Hungary: Katalin Koncz, University of Economics, Department of Human Resources, F&am ter 8, H-1093 Budapest; Tel.: 36 1 11 86855/177, Fax: 1171936.

Iceland: Gudrun Olafsdottir, Haskoli Islands, University of Iceland, IS-101 Reykjavik; Tel.: 354 1 694300, Fax: 21331.

Zrelund: Evelyn Mahon, Department of Sociology, Trinity College, University of Dublin, IRL-Dublin 2; Tel.: 353 1 772941, Fax: 772694.

Italy: Laura Benigni, CNR Paicologia, Viale Marx 15, I-00137 Roma; Tel.: 39 6 829 2626, Fax: 824737.

The Netherlands: Marei Zwinkels, Noordstraat 87, NL-5038 EH Tilburg; Tel.: 31 13 434174.

Norway: Tove Beate Pedersen, NAVF’s Secretariat for Women and Research, Sandakerveien 99, N-0483, Oslo 4; Tel.: 47 2 157012, Fax: 225571.

Poland: Renata Siemienska Institute of Sociology University of Warsaw, Karowa 18, PL-Warsaw; Tel.: 48 22 200 381, ext. 701, Fax: 267520.

Portugal: Maria Reynolds de Souza, Comiss&o para a Igualdade e para OS Direitos das Mulheres, Av. da Republica 31-1, P-1093 Lisboa Codex; Tel.: 351 1 772965, Fax: 7937691.

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Slovakia: Anna Okruhlicova, Women’s Studies Centre, Vyskumny Ustav Pedagogicky, Kutlikova 17,85255 Bratislava; Tel.: 42 7 824814, Fax: 821584.

Spain: Josepa Bru Bistuer, Departamento de Geografia i Historia, Universitat de Lleida, C/ Bisbe Messeguer s/n, E-25003 Lleida; Tel.: 34 73 264358, Fax: 266199.

Sweden: Martha Ullerstam, Forum for Women Scholars and Research on Women, P.O. Box 1703, S-22101 Lund, Tel.: 46 46 109778, Fax: 104004.

Switzerland: Franziska Gygax, Sonnenweg 11, CH-4052 Basel; Tel.: 4161 3122695.

Turkq: Sirin Tekeli, Women’s Library and Information Centre Founda- tion, Fener Mah., Ferrer PTT Yani, Vapur Iskelesi Karsisi, Haliq, TR-34220 Istanbul; Tel./Fax: 90 1 5237408.

U.K. :Sylvia Walby, London School of Economics, Department of Sociol- ogy, Houghton Street 1, Aldwych, London WC2A 2AE, U.K.; Tel.: 44 71 9557691, Fax: 2420392.

ENWS can be reached by writing to: Helene Lemaire, Ministry of Education and Science, P.O. Box 25000, NL-2700 LZ Zoetermeer, The Netherlands.

EUROPA DIALOG: ZEITSCHRIFT FUR EUROP&SCHE POLlTIK UND DIALOGA

This new periodical, edited by the Institute for Dialogue Research, Berlin, focusses on the political and social transformation processes in the Eastern regions of Germany following unification and comparative studies of social change in the post-social state of Eastern Europe. The periodical welcomes manuscripts and subscriptions. For further information, please contact: Wolfgang Richter, Editor, Europa Dialog, Institut fur Dialogforschung, Thulestr. 48-64, O-1100 Berlin, Germany.

THE ECONOMICS OF TRANSITION This new quarterly (Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1993) focusses on the economics

of transition from centrally planned to market economics, especiaily in Eastern Europe and the successor states of the former Soviet Union. The journal is published by Oxford University Press for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development {London). Subscription rates are $80 for individuals; $170 for academic libraries; $270 for other institutions. For further information, please contact: Erich Staib, Oxford University Press, 2002 Evans Rd, Car-y, NC 27513, U.S.A.; Tel.: (919) 677-0977, Fax: (919) 677-1714.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC OPINION RESEARCH This quarterly addresses problems and improvements in the methodology

of public opinion surveys; results of surveys OH current issues, particularly in international comparison, the role of public opinion polls in political decision- making, electoral behaviour and mass communications; public opinion as a theoretical concept in attempting to explain the socio-psychological dynamics of individuals and group behaviour as well as longer-term shifts in attitudes and values. The subscription rate is $105 for four issues. For further

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information, please contact: Erich Staib, Oxford University Press, 2001 Evans Rd, Cary, NC 27513, U.S.A.; Tel.: (919) 677-0977, Fax: (919) 677- 1714.

SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WELFARE The Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare (Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1993) is

an international journal publishing original articles in English on social work and social welfare. The journal has its starting-point in Scandinavia but welcomes contributions from elsewhere, especially ones with an international and interdisciplinary focus. Subscriptions are $74.00 and may be obtained from: Munksgaard International Publishers Ltd, 238 Main Street, Cam- bridge, MA 02142-9740, U.S.A.; Tel.: (617) 547 7665, Fax: (617) 547 7489. Readers in Europe should contact: Munksgaard International Publishers Ltd, 35 Norre Sogade, P.O. Box 2148, DK-1016 Copenhagen K, Denmark; Tel.: 45 33 12 70 30, Fax: 45 33 12 93 87.

GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY The most recent issue of this journal (numbers 28 and 29, spring and

summer 1993), focus on ‘Germany, Democracy and Mitteleuropa’ and ‘Germany and the New European Order’. This journal, now edited by Andrei Markovits of the University of California at Santa Cruz, is published three times a year by: Publications Office, University of California, 2223 Fulton St, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.; Tel.: (510) 642 4065, Fax: (510) 643 7062. The journal’s editorial office is at: Center for German and European Studies, 246 Moses Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.; Tel.: (510) 642 5332, Fax: (510) 643 5996.

FRENCH POLITICS AND SOCIETY Issues are available for $7.00 each (cheque payable to Harvard University),

from: Publications Office, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.

ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS Environmental Politics is a quarterly concerned with three particular

aspects of the study of environmental politics. It examines the evolution of environmental movements and parties; it provides an analysis of the making and implementation of public policy in the area of the environment at international, national and local levels. Finally, it comments on ideas generated by the various environmental movements and organisations, and by individual theorists. The cost of Vol. 2 (1993) is $50 (individual) and $120 (institutions). To order, please contact: Frank Cass, c/o Allen Press Inc., Subscription Services, 1041 New Hampshire St, P.O. Box 1897, Lawrence, KS 66044, U.S.A.; Fax: 913 843 1274.

WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS This quarterly covers political and social issues in contemporary Western

Europe. Subscriptions are $55.00 (individuals) and $185 (institutions). To order please contact: Frank Cass, c/o Allen Press Inc., Subscription Services,

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1041 New Hampshire St, P.O. Box 1897, Lawrence, KS 66044, U.S.A.; Fax: 913 843 1274.

EUROPEAN SECURITY European Security is a quarterly devoted to the publication of articles,

papers, essays and reviews on the new architecture, concepts, institutions, problems and prospects for European security in the wake of the end of the Cold War. European Security treats Europe as a culturally and institutionally defined community of nations from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains. The cost of subscription for Vol. 2 (1993) is $45.00 (individuals) and $115.00 (institutions). Orders may be sent to: Frank Cass, c/o Allen Press Inc., Subscription Services, 1041 New Hampshire St, P.O. Box 1897, Lawrence, KS 66044, U.S.A.; Fax: 913 843 1274.

IMMIGRANTS AND MINORITIES Immigrants and Minorities, founded in 1981, provides a major outlet for

research into the history of immigration and related studies. It seeks to deal with the complex themes involved in the construction of ‘race’ and with the broad sweep of ethnic and minority relations within an historical setting. Its coverage is international and recent issues have dealt with studies on the U.S.A., Australia, the Middle East and the U.K. The journal, published three times per year, costs $45.00 (individuals) or $125.00 (institutions). Subscriptions may be ordered from: Frank Cass, c/o Allen Press Inc., Subscription Services, 1041 New Hampshire St, P.O. Box 1897, Lawrence, KS 66044, U.S.A.; Fax: 913 843 1274.

CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY This journal, which began its second year of publication in March 1993, is

published three times a year. It covers the history of Europe from about 1918 to the present and is particularly interested in comparative work. Subscrip- tions are $65 for institutions, and $39 for individuals. Orders, accompanied by payment, should be sent to: Cambridge University Press, 40 West 20th St, New York, NY 10011-4211, U.S.A. The editors are: Kathleen Burk, Department of History, University College London, Gower St, London WClE 6BT, U.K. and Dick Geary, Department of History, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K.

JOURNAL OF MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES The Journal of Mediterranean Studies is a new interdisciplinary journal

published twice yearly. It is specifically aimed at scholars whose professional academic interests are concerned with Mediterranean societies and Cultures within the fields of Social Anthropology, Classics, Archeology, History, Popular Art and Literature. Editorial Correspondence may be addressed to: Paul Sant Cassia, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RF, U.K.; Tel.: (44) 9223 333514, Fax: (44) 0223 334748.

GENDER STUDIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE The April 1993 issue of the European Network for Women’s Studies

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Newsletter is devoted to a description of newly emerging gender studies, institutes and programs in Eastern Europe as well as the problems facing these institutions. For a copy of this issue, contact: ENWS, P.O. Box 25000, NL 2700 Zoetermeer, The Netherlands; Tel.: 31 79 533885, Fax: 531953.

CSCE BULLETIN This is a quarterly bulletin published by the Office of Democratic

Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw. Articles are in English and French. For further information please contact: Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, ul. Krucza 36Wspolna 6, 00-522 Warsaw, Poland; Tel.: (48-2) 625 70 40, Fax: (48-2) 625 43 57, telex: 815045 odiwa pl, satellite tel. (48) 3912 0842.

T~NSLAT~~N AND L~TE~T~~E This new annual journal publishes articles, notes and reviews on literary

translation of all kinds and periods, focussing on English literature in its foreign relations. Volumes 1 (1992) and 2 (1993) now available. Supported by a British Academy Learned Journals Award, 1993. Subscription price f20.00/ $40.00, Orders should be addressed to Edinburgh University Press, 22 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LF, U.K. or Columbia University Press, 136 South Broadway, Irvington, NY 10533, U.S.A. Editorial Enquiries - Intending contributors should contact either the General Editor: Dr Stuart Gillespie, Department of English Literature, The University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K.; or the American Editor: Professor Greg Clingham, Department of English, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837, U.S.A.

MOSAIC: A JOURNAL FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF LITERATURE

Submissions are invited for a special issue on Literature and Media Change. Welcomed are scholarly essays which study the ways in which literature is constructed by its media, as well as those which examine issues pertaining to media and communication in general. Sample areas/approaches: technologies and cultural practices of speaking, writing, painting and writing; oral composition and performance; relations between the oral and the written; manuscripts and scribal culture; book design, production and authorship; literature and visual media; typography and literary meaning; hypertexts and h~ermedia. Deadline: 1 September, 1994. Submissions must be original material; desired length is 5000 words; notes must be kept to a minimum; use current PMLA form of documentation; send three copies and abstract and statement that essay is not being considered for publication elsewhere; supply three international reply coupons for return of ms; essays in French are welcome. Address all correspondence to: Dr Evelyn J. Hinz, Editor Mosaic, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada R3T 2N2; Tel.: (204) 474-9763, Fax: (204) 2619086.

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CONFERENCES

INTERNATIONALE HEGEL-GESELLSCHAFT

Hiermit laden wir Sie herzlich ein, am nachsten Kongrel3 der Internationalen Hegel-Gesellschaft teilzunchmen. Der xx. KongreS der Internationalen Hegel-Gesellschaft wird von 24. bis zum 28. August 1994 in Ungarn statfinden. Der Tagungsort ist Debrecen; in Debrecen tagen wir vom 24. bis zum 27. August. Am 27. August wird eine Sektion in Budapest, parallel mit Debrecen tagen. Die gemeinsame SchluDsitzung’ findet am 28. August in Budapest statt.

Das Thema des Kongresses lautet: Vernunft in der Geschichte? Wenn Sie am KongreB teilnehmen mochten, melden Sie sich bitte in Debrecen an, angegeben, ob Sie am 27. August in Debrecen bleiben, oder die Budapester Sektion besuchen wollen. Wenn Sie sich nur fur das Thema in Budapest interresieren, richten Sie Ihre Anmeldung an die Budapester Adresse.

Fur Debrecen sind folgende Themen vorgesehen: Der Begriff der Vernunft in Hegels Philosophie; Vernunft und Leidenschaft in der Geschichte; Begrundungsproblematik der Geschichtsphilosophie Hegels; Die Ver- sohnungsproblematik bei Hegel und Lukacs; Geschichtsphilosophie und Geschichtsschreibung: Totalitat und Totalitarismus; Hegels Theorie der Moderne; Die Geschichte und die Formen des Wissens: Hegel und die Geschichtsphilosophie des deutschen Idealismus; Die Rolle des Negativen in der Geschichte; Kritik und Rechtfertigung: Die Wirkungsgeschichte der Hegelschen Geschichtsphilosophie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.

In Budapest wiederum sind als Themen vorgesehen: Hat die Geschichte einen Sinn? Hegel und das Ende der Geschichte (vom Linkshegelianismus des 19. Jh. bis zu Kojeve und Fukuyama); Herr und Knecht; Hegels Analyse einzelner historischer Ereignisse; Mensch und Gesellschaft in der Geschichte; Hegels Geschichtsphilosophie in ihrem EinfluS auf Geschichts-, Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften.

Die Organisation des Kongresses liegt fur Debrecen in den Handen von Frau Professor Dr Erzsebet Rozsa, fur Budapest in den Handen von Herrn Professor Dr Endre Kiss. Fur weitere Information, bitte schrieben Sie an: Frau Dr Erzsebet Rozsa, KLTE Filozofia Tanszek, 4010 Debrecen, Egyetem ter 1; Herr Professor Dr Endre Kiss, 1143 Budapest, Stefania ut 21. Es werden in Debrecen und Budapest besondere Anstrengungen unternommen, urn Ihnen die Teilnahme am Kongrelj so angenehm, wie moglich zu machen. In Debrecen weren verschiedene Kultur- und Freizeitprogramme geplant.

Ehrenvorsitzender: Wilhelm Raimund Beyer (Salzburg); Vorstand: Andreas Arndt (Berlin), Karol Bal (Wroclaw), Henning Ottmann (Basel).