STUDY GROUP ON EDUCATION IN RUSSIA, THE INDEPENDENT STATES AND EASTERN
EUROPE (SGERISEE)
19TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Saturday 23 November 2002
Venue: School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University of London
(see below))
I should like to draw the above conference to your attention.
Please find a copy of the final conference programme belowl. If you
would like to attend please contact me at:
c.mcmanus@socsci.gla.ac.uk
with best regards
Clare McManus
Secretary (SGERISEE)
STUDY GROUP ON EDUCATION IN RUSSIA,
THE INDEPENDENT STATES AND EASTERN EUROPE (SGERISEE)
http://www.mtu-net.ru/sgerisee/
NINETEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Saturday 23 November 2002
School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College
London, Rooms 336-336A, 3rd Floor, Senate House (North Block),
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
PROGRAMME
09.15 - 09.45 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
09.45 - 09.50 Introduction to the Conference
09.50 - 10.45 Short presentations
'Galatea Trust's Work in Education in St
Petersburg'
(Helena Abram, London)
'Academic Freedom in Universities in Belarus and Ukraine'
(Anna Sidorovich, Belarussian State University, Minsk)
10.45 - 11.00 BREAK
11.00 - 12.30 Parallel sessions on 'Management Education' and 'Education
in Central & Eastern Europe'
11.00 - 12.30 Management Education (Room 336)
' Complexities of International Knowledge
Transfer to Belarus: Management Education'
(Hanna Yakavenka, Manchester Metropolitan
University)
'Management Education in Central Asia: A Case
Study'
(Satya P. Chattopadhyay, University of
Scranton, USA)
11.00 - 12.30 Education in Central & Eastern Europe (Room 336A)
'Is Ethics Possible in University Teaching and
Learning in Poland a decade after the "Velvet Revolution"'
(Jakub Basista, Jagiellonian University,
Kraków, Poland)
'Fringe Education - Teaching Gender
Equality: General View on the Situation of Gender Oriented Education in
Eastern Europe'
(Sabina Ostrowska, University of Nijmegen, The
Netherlands)
12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH
13.30 - 15.00 Parallel sessions on 'Civic Education' and 'General
Education'
Civic Education (Room 336)
'Russian student perspectives on Western
university education'
(Vasilis Vourkoutiotis, Civic Education Project)
'Civic Education in the Former Soviet Union'
(Ayman Salem, University College London)
13.30 - 15.00 General Education (Room 336A)
'Higher Education in Modern Uzbekistan'
(Azim Malikov, Samarkand State University,
Uzbekistan)
'The Social Meaning of Early Modern Russian
Education: The Concepts of "Inclination" and "Influence" at the Noble
Cadet Corps
(1732-1760s)'
(Igor Fedyukin, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, USA)
15.00 - 15.15 BREAK
15.15 - 16.45 Plenary session: Post-Soviet Educational Reform
'Post-Soviet Education: What's being talked about
in 2002'
(Ben Eklof, University of Indiana at Bloomingston,
USA)
'From Kritika to "Critical Thinking"? The Practice
and Politics of Social Science Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan'
(Madeleine Reeves, Cambridge University)
'Innovations in Political Science in Central Asia'
(Galina Bityukova, Central Asian Resource Centre,
Kazakhstan)
16.45-17.30 Annual Business Meeting of the Study Group. All welcome.
Members only may vote.
CONFERENCE FEES
(to be paid on arrival)
Study Group Members FREE ADMISSION
Non-members £10
Non-members who register in advance £8
Lunch £4.50
FOR FURTHER CONFERENCE DETAILS CONTACT EITHER:
Dr Steve Webber, Chair (SGERISEE), Centre for Russian and East European
Studies, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15
2TT, England. Email:
s.l.webber@bham.ac.uk Tel: 0121 414 6357; Fax:
0121 414 3423
OR
Dr Clare McManus, Secretary (SGERISEE), Department of Central and East
European Studies, Hetherington Building, Bute Gardens, University
Of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RS, Scotland. Email:
c.mcmanus@socsci.gla.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 141 330 2849; Fax: + 44 (0) 141
330 5594