CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES SOCIETY (CESS)

Panel and paper topics relating to all aspects of humanities and social science scholarship on Central Eurasia are welcome. The geographic domain of Central Eurasia extends from the Black Sea and Iranian Plateau to Mongolia and Siberia, including the Caucasus, Crimea, Middle Volga, Afghanistan, Tibet, and Central and Inner Asia.

Please see the conference website, or contact us for full conference information and proposal submission requirements.

Submissions of pre-organized panels are strongly encouraged and will be given some preference in the selection process.  Individual papers are also welcome and will be assigned by the program committee to an appropriate panel with a chair and discussant.  We also welcome attendees who do not wish to participate in a panel (see the Pre-registration Form on the conference website).

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

The following information is required for submissions; we suggest that you prepare the text before accessing the website so you can simply paste the information into the form:

For paper presenters: 1) Name, 2) Current institutional affiliation, 3) Title/position, 4) E-mail, 5) Postal address, 6) Telephone, 7) Fax, 8) Title of Paper, 9) Abstract of Paper (a summary of the paper not exceeding 200 words), 10) Any audio-visual equipment requests (specify: overhead projector, slide project, video player), 11) A one-page CV which contains educational background and other information which the panel chair may require for introductions.  If you are accepted and participate in the conference, your abstract will be published, so please write it carefully to avoid errors and ensure that it conforms with the criteria for a good abstract (see Guidelines for Writing Abstracts on the conference website).

For panels: Proposals may be submitted for regular panels (with presentation of scholarly papers) and roundtables (featuring discussion of a current topic in the field).

Regular Panels: In addition to the information for paper presenters (as indicated above), the following are also required: a) a panel title, and b) name, affiliation, and contact information of the panel chair and discussant.  Panels should have four or five paper presenters, a chair, and a discussant.  The program committee can accept panel submissions which lack up to two of these; the other panel participants will be filled in as necessary.  Pre-organized panels should be thematically coherent and may be organized by a scholarly organization (though this is not required).

Roundtable Panels: A roundtable has four to six presenters and a chair/moderator.  For roundtable proposals, the organizer must provide a paragraph describing the panel objectives and providing justification for use of the roundtable format.  The same information is required of each participant as for regular panels with the exception that abstracts are not required.

Best Paper Award: There will be an award in the amount of $500 given to the best graduate student conference paper submitted to the Awards Committee for consideration.  See the CESS awards webpage for details, or contact the Awards Committee Chair, Prof. Gregory Gleason.

Program Limitations: No participant may present more than one paper at the conference.  Without special justification, the program committee will not schedule any individual to appear on more than two panels as a paper presenter or discussant.

SCHEDULE OF KEY DATES 

April 4, 2003 Deadline for submission of panel/paper proposals 
June 2, 2003 Notification of acceptance 
September 1, 2003 Pre-registration deadline 
September 15, 2003 Papers should be submitted to chairs/discussants 
October 2-5, 2003 Conference

- Arrival to Cambridge/Boston on the afternoon/evening of Thursday, Oct.2
- Sessions from Friday morning and through mid-day on Sunday, Oct. 5 

REGISTRATION 

Payment of registration fees is required for all attending the conference, as follows: 
Regular fee members*: $55 (pre-registration) or $65 (at conference) 
Reduced fee members**: $35 (pre-registration) or $45 (at conference) 
Non-members: $70 (pre-registration) or $80 (at conference) 
Harvard students: $30 (pre-registration) or $35 (at conference) 
Harvard student CESS members: $20 (pre-registration) or $25 (at conference)

For methods of payment, see the Proposal Submission Form on the conference website.

NOTE: CESS does not have funds to support the costs of conference participation.  Participants must obtain their own funding (some information is available on the Supplementary Conference Information page of the website). 

TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATIONS

PLEASE NOTE: Moderately priced accommodations in the Cambridge area can be hard to find as the date approaches. For this reason, it is **VERY IMPORTANT** that you reserve your accommodations early. We have reserved blocks of rooms in some of the nearby hotels, though these can be expected be taken quickly, especially at the less expensive places. On the Supplementary Conference Information page of the website, we provide information on many available options for accommodations. 

CESS CONFERENCE COMMITTEE 

John Schoeberlein, Chair
Laura Adams
Asbed Kotchikian
Morgan Liu
Uli Schamiloglu
Eric Sievers 

FURTHER INFORMATION 

The hosts of future CESS conferences are as follows: 

2004 - Indiana University (Bloomington) 
2005 - University of California-Berkeley 
2006 - University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 
2007 - University of Washington-Seattle 
2008 - University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Conference-related correspondence should be addressed to: