Third International Conference "Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations"

RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

CENTER FOR CIVILIZATIONAL AND REGIONAL STUDIES

INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN STUDIES

30/1 Spiridonovka St., 123001 Moscow, RUSSIA

Tel.: + (7 095) 291 4119; Fax: + (7 095) 202 0786

E-mail: civ-reg@inafr.ru

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

"HIERARCHY AND POWER IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS"

June 18-21 2004, Moscow, Russia

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies in cooperation with the Institute for African Studies (both under the Russian Academy of Sciences) is organizing in Moscow on June 18-21 2004 the Third International Conference "HIERARCHY AND POWER IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS"*

The working languages of the Conference are Russian and English.

The Organizing Committee has considered all the panel pro­posals received by it. The descriptions of the accepted proposals please find below. The deadline for paper proposals (in the form of abstracts within 300 words in English or both English and Rus­sian) is November 1, 2003. Paper proposals should be sent not to the Organizing Committee but directly to the respective panel convenor(s) who is (are) to inform the applicant about his (her) application’s fortune by December 1, 2003. The information to besubmitted alongside with the paper abstract includes full name, title, institutional affiliation, full mail and e-mail addresses, and fax#.

However, in the case you feel your paper does not fit any par­ticular panel but corresponds to the Conference general problema-tique, you may submit your proposal to the Organizing Committee by the same date (November 1, 2003) and it will be considered for scheduling for the Free Communication Panel.

All the general inquiries should be sent to the Organizing Committee, for the attention of Prof. Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Dr. Igor L. Alexeev, and Mr. Oleg I. Kavykin preferably by e-mafl fconf2004@hotmail.com). or either by fax (+ 7 095 202 0786), or by ordinary mail (Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 30/1 Spiridonovka St., 123001 Moscow, Russia)..The telephone number is: + 7 095 291 4119.

In the case the proposal is accepted, the Organizing Committee will send you the list of documents necessary to support your and your panel participants’ visa application process at the Russian Consulate or Embassy in the respective countries in the beginning of the year 2004.

The Conference participant’s registration fee is $ 100 (or the corresponding sum in euros or Russian rubles) which includes the visa application support at the Russian Foreign Ministry**, culture program, Conference Book of Abstracts, reception, coffee-breaks, is to be paid in cash upon arrival. The fee for an accompanying person is $ 50 (or again, the corresponding sum in euros or Rus­sian rubles) includes the visa application support at the Russian Foreign Ministry, participation in culture program and reception. Accommodation at the hotel of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Downtown Moscow is about $ 45 per night. It is also possible to make an independent reservation in this hotel or in one of many other Moscow hotels of different class through Internet at the sites http://moscow-hotels.net and http://all-hotels.ru. Estimated meal and other daily expenses are с $ 15 per person. However, please note that the figures above may be subjected to some changes due to processes in transnational and national economy, which are ob­viously out of the Organizing Committee’s control. If such changes happen, the Organizing Committee will try its best to in­form the Conference participants as soon as possible.

PANELS ACCEPTED FOR THE CONFERENCE (in the alphabetical order of titles):

Alternativity in Cultural History: Heterarchy and Homoarchy as Evolutionary Trajectories

Convenors:

Prof. Dmitri M. Bondarenko

Russia

Fax: + (7 095) 202 0786

E-mails: dbondar@hotmail.com; dmitri.bondarenko@inafr.ru

Prof. Carole L. Crumley

USA

Fax: + (1 919)962 1613

E-mail: crumley@unc.edu

Art, struggle, survival and change

Convenor:

Dr Michael Walsh

Turkey

Fax: 00 90 392 365 1604

E-mail: michael.walsh@emu.edu.tr

Civil Society, Civil Education and Cultural Identity in the Time of Globalization

Convenor:

Prof. Igor V. Sledzevski

Russia

Fax: + (7 095) 202 0786

E-mail: civ-reg@inafr.ru

Comparing the State in Africa: The Drama of Modern Development

Convenors:

Dr. Baz Lecocq

The Netherlands

E-mail: baz@lecocq.nl

Dr. Erik Bahre

The Netherlands

Fax:+31-30-2539905

E-mail: bahrefSjwanadoo.nl

Divine Politics and Theocracy: Religion as a Power Mechanism in the Greco-Roman World

Convenor:

Prof. Christofilis Maggidis

U.S.A.

Fax:001-717-2451683

E-mail: maggidic@dickinson.edu

Ethnic Model of Power Legitimation in the Political Practice of Contemporary Multiethnic States and Quasi-States

Convenors:

Dr. Vassili R. Filippov

Russia

Fax: + (7 095) 202 0786

E-mail: fvr@east.ru

Prof. Alexander N. Alexeenko

Russia

E-mail: aan@vko.kz

From Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Transformation of Political Structures and Social Institutions***

Convenor:

Dr. Serguei A. Frantsouzoff

Russia

Fax:+ (7 812) 312 14 65

E-mails: invost@mai 1 .convev.ru. frants@spios.nw.ru

Hierarchy and Power in Dates of Archaeology

Convenors:

Prof. Stephen A. Kowalewski

USA

Fax: + (1 706)542 3988

E-mail: skowalew@arches.uga.edu

Prof. Nikolay N. Kradin

RUSSIA

Fax: + (7 4232) 26 82 11

E-mail: kradin@mail.primorye.ru

Hierarchy and Power in Science: An Oxymoron?

Convenor:

Dr. Charles Rheaume

CANADA

Fax:+1 613 990 85 79

E-mails: Rheaume.C@forces.gc.ca; crheau@svmpatico.ca

Hierarchy and Power in the Postcolonial World

Convenor:

Prof. Andrei M. Pegushev

RUSSIA

Fax: + (7 095) 202 0786

E-mails: civ-reg@inafr.ru; pegushev@mail.ru

Hierarchy, Power, and Ritual in Pre-Columbian America

Convenor:

Dr. Nikolay V. Rakutz

RUSSIA

E-mail: NVRwerwolf@rambler.ru

Ideology and Legitimation of Power in Ancient and Medieval Societies

Convenors:

Dr. Dan’el Kahn

Israel

E-mail: danelka@netvision.net.il

Prof. Eleonora E. Kormysheva

RUSSIA

E-mail: eleonora@orc.ru

Legitimation of Public Authorities in the Politically Transient Societies of Eastern Europe

Convenors:

Dr. Konstantin F. Zavershinsky

Russia

Fax: (7 8162)679 172

E-mails: kfz@novsu.ac.ru: kfz@post.com

Dr. Nelli A. Romanovich

Russia

Fax: (7 0732)519 089

E-mails: nelli@riom.voronezh.su; qualitas@comch.ru

Markets and Hierarchies in the History of Civilizations

Convenor:

Prof. Alexander N. Pilyasov

Russia

Fax: (7 095) 135 1018

E-mail: pelyasov(g),sops.ru

Models of Government in the Late Classical and Hellenistic World

Convenor:

Prof. Jan Bouzek

Czech Republic

Fax: 4202/2422 82 56

E-mail: jan.bouzek(S>ff.cuni.cz

Money, Currency and Power, with focus on Africa****

Convenor:

Dr. Blandine Stefanson

Australia 5005

Fax: 61.8.83035241

E-mail: blandine.stefanson(o),adelaide.edu.au

‘New Crises’ and ‘New Wars’ in the Periphery: The Role of the Global Movement of Ideas and Capital

Convenor:

Prof. Marcie J. Patton

Turkey

E-mail: patton@bilkent.edu.tr

As of July 2003:

Department of Politics

Fairfield University

1073 North Benson Road

Fairfield, CT 06840

USA

Fax: 1-203-254-4000x2649

E-mail: mpatton@fairl .fairfield.edu

Patterns of Hierarchy and Power in Southeast Asia

Convenors:

Prof. Belinda A. Aquino

U.S.A.

Fax: 1-808-956-2682

E-mail: lyndv@havvaii.edu

Dr. Victor V. Sumsky Russia

Fax:7-095-120-6575 E-mail: vsumsky@online.ru

Power as ‘Great Mystery’

Convenor:

Prof. Victor V. Bocharov

Russia

Fax: (812) 110-00-77

E-mail: victor@VB5831 .spb.edu

Propaganda, Protest and Violence: Revolutions in the East and the West

Convenor:

Dr. Henry Y. S. Chan

U.S.A.

Fax:(l 218)236-2899

E-mail: chanh@mnstate.edu

Religion and Ethnicity between Legitimation and Dissent in the Premodern Muslim World

Convenor:

Prof. Virginia Aksan

Canada L8S 4L9

Fax:905-77-0158

E-mail: vaksan@mcmaster.ca

Studying Political Centralization Cycles as a Dynamical Process

Convenor:

Prof. Peter Turchin

USA

Fax: 860-486-6364

E-mail: Peter.TurchinfSiUConn.edu

The Order of Things: Material Culture, Practice and Social Status

Convenors:

Dr. Marc Vander Linden

Belgium

Fax: +32.2.650.43.49

E-mail: mavdlind@ulb.ac.be

Alain Duplouy

Belgium

Fax:+32.2.650.39.19

E-mail: aduplouv(5),ulb.ac.be

The Role of the Evolutionary Theory in the Political History of the 20^th Century

Convenor:

Dr. Sergey V. Polatayko

Russia

E-mail: polataykofSipeterlink.ru

The Use of Estrangement as a Pivotal Instrument in the Study of and Defence against Hierarchy and Power

Convenor:

Prof. Ing. Ignazio Corsaro

Editor of Lo Straniero

Piazza Amedeo 8

Naples 80121

Italy

Fax:0039-081-7611264

E-mail: lostraniero85(g),libero.it

The Will to Power and Its Realisation – The Rises and Falls of Absolute Leaders

Convenor:

Dr. Asja Nina Kovacev

Slovenia

Fax:+386-1-3001119

E-mail: asia-nina.kovacev(g),guest.arnes,si

Urbi et Orbi (Roma Aeterna)

Convenor:

Dr. Nadejda A. Selounskaia

Russia

Fax:(7 095)9381912

E-mail: spesbonafSjmail.ru

Erratum

In Issue of Volume 1 (July 2002) in the article ‘Uncovering the Laws of Global History’ by Graeme Snooks on p. 47, line 19 the sentence: ‘Had it been conquest, commerce, as it was throughout the premodern period...’ should read: ‘Had it been conquest, commerce, conquest as it was throughout the premodern pe­riod...’

We apologize to Prof. Snooks and the readers for this error.