UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 7th Annual International Postgraduate Conference

Inclusion Exclusion

16-18th February 2006

Conference programme - Friday 17 February

4:30 – 6:00: Panel G1: Technological Inclusion

Chair: Leslie Haddon (London School of Economics)

Eglé Butkeviciené (Kaunas University of Technology): ‘Social dimensions of ICT diffusion in rural communities of Lithuania: opportunities for inclusion or threats of social exclusion’
Ferenc Hain (Pázmány Péter Catholic University): ‘Hungarian youth’s social networks on the World Wide Web’
Maciej Kryszczuk (Polish Academy of Sciences): ‘Stability and change of computer possession in households: analysis of structural determinants’

4:30 – 6:00: Panel G2: Dividing Religion

Chair: Edwin Bacon (Birkbeck College)

Katja Richters (UCL - SSEES): ‘Russia’s religious legislation: who is excluded, who is included?’
Jacob Saunders (University of California, San Diego): ‘Do Polish popes go to Heaven?: the role of national exclusion in the formation of religious identity among Polish Baptists’
Zanda Mankusa (University of Greifswald): ‘Devil’s confessors and owners of the truth: church heritage of Soviet times’

4:30 – 6:00: Panel G3: Gender Regimes

Chair: Anne Showstack Sassoon (Birkbeck College)

Anne Jenichen (Centre for Feminist Studies, University of Bremen): ‘Gender equality policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: continuity or change in the political inclusion of women after war?’
Ingrid Röder (Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies, University of Bremen): ‘EU-enlargement and gender equality: A comparison of the Czech Republic and Slovakia’
Anika Keinz (Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin): ‘Gendering Europe – school of democracy?: the case of Poland’

4:30 – 6:00: Panel G4: Editors’ Panel

Chair: Misha Gabowitsch (NZ, Russia)

Emrah Efe Cakmak (Cogito, Istanbul)
Prof Terry Cox (Europe-Asia Studies, UK)
Eva Karadi (Mayar Lettre Internationale, Hungary)
Aleksandar Prokopijev (Roots, Sum, Macedonia & Orient Express, UK)
Prof Robert Pynsent (Central Europe, UK)
Natalia Rappak (Slovo, UK)
Volker Weichsel (Osteuropa, Germany)
Prof Stephen White (Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, UK)
Barbara Wyllie (Slavonic and East European Review, UK)

Representatives of journals from Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union will discuss issues related to publishing for young academics and provide practical advice.