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The 2021 REECAS Northwest Conference has already occurred. Please check this page next spring for information on the 2022 REECAS Northwest Conference.<\/h2>\n<\/h3>\nONLINE VIA ZOOM,\u00a0REGISTRATION REQUIRED<\/strong><\/h3>\nALL CONFERENCE TIMES ARE IN PACIFIC TIME (SEATTLE\/LOS ANGELES)<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/h1>\n\n- About<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Conference Program<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Audience Member Registration<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Conference Highlights<\/strong><\/a>\n
\n- Keynote Speech: Daniel Chirot on Revolution<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Plenary Speech: Scott Montgomery on Russia as an Energy Superpower<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- The Future of Nagorno-Karabakh<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Celebrating Marija Gimbutas<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Talking Gender in the EU: Elzbieta Korolczuk on Poland<\/a><\/strong>
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- Key Dates and Deadlines<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Call for Paper Proposals (Abstracts)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- International Visas<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Rules for Recording and Social Media<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
About the Conference<\/h2>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210509232236im_\/https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/01\/DSC_0215-300x200.jpg\")
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Ellison Center Director Scott Radnitz introducing Russian historian Glennys Young as the REECAS Northwest Keynote Speaker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
REECAS Northwest, the annual ASEEES Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, welcomes students, faculty, independent scholars, and language educators from the United States and abroad.\u00a0Established in 1994<\/strong>,\u00a0REECAS Northwest is an important annual event for scholars and students in the Pacific Northwest and beyond, with participant and partner universities from across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. The\u00a0interdisciplinary conference<\/strong>\u00a0is organized by the University of Washington\u2019s Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, which seeks to promote in-depth study of the many post-communist European and Eurasian sub-regions. Sometimes abbreviated as \u201cREECAS NW\u201d, the conference was\u00a0recognized as an\u00a0official ASEEES regional conference<\/a>\u00a0by the ASEEES Board of Directors in 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210509232236im_\/https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/01\/Suzzallo-Exterior-300x200.jpg\")
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The University of Washington\u2019s soaring Suzzallo Library<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The conference hosts many panels on a variety of topics from a wide diversity of disciplines including\u00a0political science, history, literature, linguistics, anthropology, culture, migration studies, gender studies, LGBTQ studies, film studies\u00a0<\/strong>and more.<\/p>\nPapers on Russia and all the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia are welcome, including the Uyghur region in China (Xinxiang and elsewhere).<\/strong><\/p>\nThere are no registration fees<\/strong>\u00a0for REECAS Northwest conference participants or attendees.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
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<\/h2>\n\n<\/h2>\nConference Program<\/h2>\n
Please click below for the final conference program.<\/strong><\/p>\nREECAS NORTHWEST CONFERENCE PROGRAM<\/a><\/h3>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Audience Member Registration (Non-Presenter):<\/h2>\n
Non-presenting<\/em>\u00a0conference attendees (audience members) should use this below linked form to register for REECAS Northwest. (Panelists are automatically registered with their paper submission.)<\/p>\nConference registration is free and *<\/b>required*<\/strong>. Registered attendees will receive Zoom links by email.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\nAUDIENCE MEMBER REGISTRATION (NON-PRESENTER)<\/a><\/h3>\n <\/p>\n
\nConference Highlights<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\nKeynote Speaker, Daniel Chirot \u2013 Revolutions: Past and Future Hopes and Tragedies<\/h3>\n
Thursday, April 29 at 12:30 pm\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nConference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210509232236im_\/https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/04\/Chirot-Revolution-Cover-750x1132.jpg\")
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Recent Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Washington\u2019s Henry M. Jackson School\u00a0Daniel Chirot<\/strong>\u00a0has authored books about social change, ethnic and nationalist conflicts, Eastern Europe, and tyranny. He is the author of\u00a0You Say You Want a Revolution? Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>from<\/span>\u00a0Princeton University Press.\u00a0He has additionally co-authored\u00a0The Shape of the New:\u00a0Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World<\/span><\/em>\u00a0with REECAS Northwest Plenary speaker Scott Montgomery,\u00a0<\/span>Why Not Kill Them All?<\/em>\u00a0about political mass murder, and\u00a0Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age<\/em>. He has also edited or co-edited books on Leninism\u2019s decline, on entrepreneurial ethnic minorities, on ethnopolitical warfare, on the economic history of Eastern Europe, and on memories of World War II.\u00a0![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210509232236im_\/https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/04\/Modern-Tyrants.jpg\")
He teaches courses on these same topics and on American security policies. He founded the journal East European Politics and Societies and has received help from, among others, the John Simon Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations and from the US State Department. He has consulted for the US Government, the Ford Foundation, CARE, and other NGOs in Eastern Europe and West Africa. He has a BA from Harvard and a PhD from Columbia.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n<\/h3>\nPlenary Speaker, Scott Montgomery: Russia as the World\u2019s Energy Superpower \u2013 How Long Will It Last?<\/h3>\n
Friday, April 30 at 12:30 pm\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nConference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210509232236im_\/https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/04\/scott-montgomery-280x351.jpg\")
Scott L. Montgomery<\/strong>\u00a0is an author, geoscientist, and affiliate faculty member in the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. He writes and lectures on a wide variety of topics related to energy (geopolitics, technology, resources, climate change), American politics, intellectual history, language and communication, and the history of science. He is a frequent contributor to online journals such as The Conversation, Forbes, and Fortune, and his articles and op-eds are regularly featured in many outlets, including Newsweek, Marketwatch, The Huffington Post, and UPI. He also gives public talks and serves on panels related to issues in global energy and their relation to political and economic trends and ideas of sustainability. For more than two decades, Montgomery worked as a geoscientist in the energy industry, writing over 100 scientific papers and 70 monographs on topics related to oil and gas, energy technology, and industry trends.\u00a0![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210509232236im_\/https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/04\/Chirot-Montgomery-Book-Cover-750x1135.jpg\")
<\/p>\nMontgomery is the author of 12 books, including,\u00a0The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Built the Modern World<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Princeton University Press), co-authored with Dan Chirot, which\u00a0The New York Times selected as one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2015<\/strong>.\u00a0Shape of the New<\/em>\u00a0has been widely praised for its themes regarding the power of ideas in the shaping of modern history, using such thinkers as Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and the founders of American democracy, particularly Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, as examples of how influential Enlightenment thought has been. The book also examines how such thought has been opposed by forms of often-violent reaction and extremism, such as fascism, totalitarianism, and religious fundamentalism.<\/p>\nOther recent works include: Seeing the Light: Making the Case for Nuclear Power in the 21st Century, co-author Thomas Graham Jr. (Cambridge; forthcoming fall 2017); The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science (Second Edition, Chicago, 2017); A History of Science in World Cultures (Routledge, 2015); Does Science Need a Global Language? (Chicago, 2013); Powers that Be: Global Energy for the 21st Century and Beyond (Chicago, 2010).<\/p>\n
Montgomery is currently pursuing several areas of research. These include the role of Enlightenment ideas in present-day American politics, as well as the future of petroleum and its role in geopolitics and climate change. New book projects focus on the global impact of Darwin and Darwinism since 1860, and the medieval origins of modern science.<\/p>\n
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The Future of Nagorno-Karabakh: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Development in the South Caucasus<\/h3>\n
Thursday, April 29 at 9:00 am\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nConference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n100 attendee capacity in Zoom webinar.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nFollowing the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh during the fall of 2020, what comes next for the region? This\u00a0roundtable brings together an interdisciplinary\u00a0panel\u00a0of experts to discuss the opportunities and uncertainties created by the ceasefire, the prospects for building a lasting peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and potential ways to foster economic and social development in Nagorno-Karabakh and the broader South Caucasus.<\/p>\n
Organizer and Moderator<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Jeanene Mitchell<\/strong>, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Ellison Center, University of Washington<\/p>\nParticipants<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Arman Grigoryan<\/strong>, Associate\u00a0Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Fariz Huseynov<\/strong>, Professor of Finance and Faculty Fellow, Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth, North Dakota State University<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Emin Milli<\/strong>, Founder, Restart Initiative<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Feminist Anthropology of Old Europe: Celebrating the Centennial of Marija Gimbutas (1921-2021)<\/h3>\n
Friday, April 30 at 9:00 am\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nConference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nMarija Gimbutas (1921-1994), Professor of European Archaeology and Indo-European Studies at UCLA, wrote numerous popular and controversial books about the prehistoric gods and goddesses of Old Europe. Her research was a source of inspiration for environmentalist, feminist, neo-pagan, and other social movements on both sides of and transgressing the \u201cIron Curtain.\u201d Born in Lithuania, educated at the Universities of Vilnius, T\u00fcbingen and M\u00fcnchen, Gimbutas immigrated to the United States to teach at Harvard University before moving to the West Coast. This roundtable celebrates the Centennial of her birth with a meeting of generations: Dr. Rasa Navickait\u0117, author of an acclaimed 2020 dissertation about the international reception of Marija Gimbutas, will discuss Gimbutas\u2019s contributions and heritage together with two colleagues of Marija Gimbutas: Ernestine Elster (UCLA) and Colin Renfrew (Cambridge University).<\/p>\n
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Rasa Navickait\u0117 (Visiting Lecturer, Central European University)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Participants<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Rasa Navickait\u0117<\/strong>\u00a0(Visiting Lecturer, Central European University) is author of the most extensive biographical study of Marija Gimbutas: Her 2020 dissertation examines the transnational reception of Gimbutas\u2019s work and persona in diverse feminist and women\u2019s activist contexts on both sides of the \u201cIron Curtain\u201d.\u00a0 Among her other publications are \u201cPostcolonial Queer Critique in Post-Communist Europe -Stuck in the Western Progress Narrative?\u201d\u00a0Tijdschrift Voor Genderstudies\u00a0<\/i>(2014); \u201cUnder the Western Gaze: Sexuality and Postsocialist \u2018Transition\u2019 in East Europe,\u201d in\u00a0Postcolonial Transitions in Europe\u00a0<\/i>(2015), and numerous articles and essays in Lithuanian scholarly publications.<\/p>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210509232236im_\/https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/04\/baltics-panel-pic-251x300.png\")
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Ernestine Elster, Colin Renfrew, and Marija Gimbutas (from left to right).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2013\u00a0Ernestine Elster<\/strong>\u00a0(Associated Researcher, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archeology) was a graduate student of Marija Gimbutas and participated in four of her archeological expeditions.\u00a0 She has authored numerous publications on Italy and Greece in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, among them\u00a0Excavations at Sitagroi, a prehistoric village in northeast Greece\u00a0<\/i>(1986), which she coauthored with Marija Gimbutas and this panel\u2019s discussant Colin Renfrew. This panel was inspired by her essay, \u201cMarija Gimbutas: Old Europe, Goddesses and Gods, \u00a0and the Transformation of Culture\u201d (Backdirt, 2015).<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Colin Renfrew<\/strong>\u00a0(Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge) was a friend and colleague of Marija Gimbutas. He is author of many articles and books, among them Before Civilisation: The Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe (1973); Transformations: Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change (1979); Archeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins (1990); Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archeology (2000); and Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind (2008).<\/p>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210509232236im_\/https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/04\/zivile-300x203.jpg\")
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\u017divil\u0117 Gimbutas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2013\u00a0Zivile Gimbutas<\/strong>\u00a0(UCLA) is one\u00a0of Marija Gimbutas\u2019 daughters, so she knew her personally more than professionally. However, Zivile attended UCLA during the beginning of Marija\u2019s career there, became acquainted with some of her colleagues and students, as well as her major works, over the years.<\/p>\nModerator<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Guntis \u0160midchens<\/strong>, Kazickas Family Endowed Professor in Baltic Studies; Associate Professor of Baltic Studies; Head, Baltic Studies Program, University of Washington<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The panel is cosponsored by the Lithuanian Culture Institute, the University of Washington Baltic Studies Program and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210509232236im_\/https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/04\/baltics-panel-pic-2.png\")
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/h3>\nTalking Gender:\u00a0El\u017cbieta Korolczuk \u2013 Anti-Gender Politics and Rightwing Populism in Poland<\/strong><\/h3>\nTuesday, April 27\u00a0at 12:00 pm\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nConference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210509232236im_\/https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/04\/DgBZBwmL0ekli-1SKKGlCww4.jpeg\")
The European Union has set impressive standards on gender equality, providing legal frameworks for equal pay, investing in work\/life balance and childcare, and allowing for positive action to advance equal treatment of women across member states. At the same time, Europe witnesses considerable backlash from anti-gender activists and rightwing reactionary movements, calling into question gender equality as a core norm of European democracies. This lecture is part of the UW Jean Monnet EU Center\u2019s Talking Gender in the EU lecture series, a 4-part lecture series covering gender politics in Poland, Latvia, France, and the European Parliament.<\/p>\n
El\u017cbieta Korolczuk<\/strong>, PhD is an Associate professor in sociology working at S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University in Stockholm and American Studies Center, Warsaw University. Her\u00a0research interests involve: social movements, civil society, politics of reproduction as well as right-wing populism and mobilizations against \u201cgender\u201d. She co-edited two books on motherhood and fatherhood in Poland and Russia (in Polish) and published two volumes on social movements and civil society in Central Eastern Europe:\u00a0Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland<\/em>\u00a0co-edited with Kerstin Jacobsson (Berghahn Books, 2017),\u00a0Rebellious Parents. Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia<\/em>\u00a0co-edited with Katalin F\u00e1bi\u00e1n (Indiana University Press, 2017). Most recent publications include an edited volume\u00a0Bunt kobiet. Czarne Protesty i Strajki Kobiet [Women\u2019s Rebellion. Black Protests and Women\u2019s Strikes]\u00a0<\/em>co-authored with Beata Kowalska, Jennifer Ramme and Claudia Snochowska-Gonzalez and published by European Solidarity Centre in 2019 and a monograph\u00a0Anti-gender Politics in the Populist Moment<\/em>\u00a0written with Agnieszka Graff (in press, Routledge). She is also a commentator and a long-time women\u2019s and human rights activist.<\/p>\nThe Jean Monnet EU Center\u00a0Talking Gender in the EU lecture series<\/strong>\u00a0is produced with support from\u00a0the Lee and Stuart Scheingold European Studies Fund, the EU Erasmus+ Program, the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, and the Center for Global Studies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Zoom Information:<\/h2>\n
REECAS Northwest 2021 will take place online via Zoom. Registered attendees will receive Zoom links by email. Registration is free and *required*.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Key Dates and Deadlines:<\/h2>\n\n- Accepting presentation proposals through April 4, 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Papers Due for Subsequent Distribution to Panel Chairs<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0April 19, 2021 (Presenters may continue to revise their papers in coordination with Panel Chairs.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/h2>\nCall for Paper Proposals (Abstracts):<\/h2>\n
ONLINE VIA ZOOM,\u00a0REGISTRATION REQUIRED<\/strong><\/h3>\nALL CONFERENCE TIMES ARE IN PACIFIC TIME (SEATTLE\/LOS ANGELES)<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/h1>\n\n- About<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Conference Program<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Audience Member Registration<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Conference Highlights<\/strong><\/a>\n
\n- Keynote Speech: Daniel Chirot on Revolution<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Plenary Speech: Scott Montgomery on Russia as an Energy Superpower<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- The Future of Nagorno-Karabakh<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Celebrating Marija Gimbutas<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Talking Gender in the EU: Elzbieta Korolczuk on Poland<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n- Zoom Information<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Key Dates and Deadlines<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Call for Paper Proposals (Abstracts)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- International Visas<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Rules for Recording and Social Media<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
About the Conference<\/h2>\n\n<\/p>\n
Ellison Center Director Scott Radnitz introducing Russian historian Glennys Young as the REECAS Northwest Keynote Speaker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
REECAS Northwest, the annual ASEEES Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, welcomes students, faculty, independent scholars, and language educators from the United States and abroad.\u00a0Established in 1994<\/strong>,\u00a0REECAS Northwest is an important annual event for scholars and students in the Pacific Northwest and beyond, with participant and partner universities from across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. The\u00a0interdisciplinary conference<\/strong>\u00a0is organized by the University of Washington\u2019s Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, which seeks to promote in-depth study of the many post-communist European and Eurasian sub-regions. Sometimes abbreviated as \u201cREECAS NW\u201d, the conference was\u00a0recognized as an\u00a0official ASEEES regional conference<\/a>\u00a0by the ASEEES Board of Directors in 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n
The University of Washington\u2019s soaring Suzzallo Library<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The conference hosts many panels on a variety of topics from a wide diversity of disciplines including\u00a0political science, history, literature, linguistics, anthropology, culture, migration studies, gender studies, LGBTQ studies, film studies\u00a0<\/strong>and more.<\/p>\nPapers on Russia and all the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia are welcome, including the Uyghur region in China (Xinxiang and elsewhere).<\/strong><\/p>\nThere are no registration fees<\/strong>\u00a0for REECAS Northwest conference participants or attendees.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
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Please click below for the final conference program.<\/strong><\/p>\nREECAS NORTHWEST CONFERENCE PROGRAM<\/a><\/h3>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Audience Member Registration (Non-Presenter):<\/h2>\n
Non-presenting<\/em>\u00a0conference attendees (audience members) should use this below linked form to register for REECAS Northwest. (Panelists are automatically registered with their paper submission.)<\/p>\nConference registration is free and *<\/b>required*<\/strong>. Registered attendees will receive Zoom links by email.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\nAUDIENCE MEMBER REGISTRATION (NON-PRESENTER)<\/a><\/h3>\n <\/p>\n
\nConference Highlights<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\nKeynote Speaker, Daniel Chirot \u2013 Revolutions: Past and Future Hopes and Tragedies<\/h3>\n
Thursday, April 29 at 12:30 pm\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nConference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\nRecent Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Washington\u2019s Henry M. Jackson School\u00a0Daniel Chirot<\/strong>\u00a0has authored books about social change, ethnic and nationalist conflicts, Eastern Europe, and tyranny. He is the author of\u00a0You Say You Want a Revolution? Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>from<\/span>\u00a0Princeton University Press.\u00a0He has additionally co-authored\u00a0The Shape of the New:\u00a0Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World<\/span><\/em>\u00a0with REECAS Northwest Plenary speaker Scott Montgomery,\u00a0<\/span>Why Not Kill Them All?<\/em>\u00a0about political mass murder, and\u00a0Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age<\/em>. He has also edited or co-edited books on Leninism\u2019s decline, on entrepreneurial ethnic minorities, on ethnopolitical warfare, on the economic history of Eastern Europe, and on memories of World War II.\u00a0He teaches courses on these same topics and on American security policies. He founded the journal East European Politics and Societies and has received help from, among others, the John Simon Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations and from the US State Department. He has consulted for the US Government, the Ford Foundation, CARE, and other NGOs in Eastern Europe and West Africa. He has a BA from Harvard and a PhD from Columbia.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n<\/h3>\nPlenary Speaker, Scott Montgomery: Russia as the World\u2019s Energy Superpower \u2013 How Long Will It Last?<\/h3>\n
Friday, April 30 at 12:30 pm\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nConference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nScott L. Montgomery<\/strong>\u00a0is an author, geoscientist, and affiliate faculty member in the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. He writes and lectures on a wide variety of topics related to energy (geopolitics, technology, resources, climate change), American politics, intellectual history, language and communication, and the history of science. He is a frequent contributor to online journals such as The Conversation, Forbes, and Fortune, and his articles and op-eds are regularly featured in many outlets, including Newsweek, Marketwatch, The Huffington Post, and UPI. He also gives public talks and serves on panels related to issues in global energy and their relation to political and economic trends and ideas of sustainability. For more than two decades, Montgomery worked as a geoscientist in the energy industry, writing over 100 scientific papers and 70 monographs on topics related to oil and gas, energy technology, and industry trends.\u00a0<\/p>\nMontgomery is the author of 12 books, including,\u00a0The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Built the Modern World<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Princeton University Press), co-authored with Dan Chirot, which\u00a0The New York Times selected as one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2015<\/strong>.\u00a0Shape of the New<\/em>\u00a0has been widely praised for its themes regarding the power of ideas in the shaping of modern history, using such thinkers as Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and the founders of American democracy, particularly Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, as examples of how influential Enlightenment thought has been. The book also examines how such thought has been opposed by forms of often-violent reaction and extremism, such as fascism, totalitarianism, and religious fundamentalism.<\/p>\nOther recent works include: Seeing the Light: Making the Case for Nuclear Power in the 21st Century, co-author Thomas Graham Jr. (Cambridge; forthcoming fall 2017); The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science (Second Edition, Chicago, 2017); A History of Science in World Cultures (Routledge, 2015); Does Science Need a Global Language? (Chicago, 2013); Powers that Be: Global Energy for the 21st Century and Beyond (Chicago, 2010).<\/p>\n
Montgomery is currently pursuing several areas of research. These include the role of Enlightenment ideas in present-day American politics, as well as the future of petroleum and its role in geopolitics and climate change. New book projects focus on the global impact of Darwin and Darwinism since 1860, and the medieval origins of modern science.<\/p>\n
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The Future of Nagorno-Karabakh: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Development in the South Caucasus<\/h3>\n
Thursday, April 29 at 9:00 am\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nConference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n100 attendee capacity in Zoom webinar.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nFollowing the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh during the fall of 2020, what comes next for the region? This\u00a0roundtable brings together an interdisciplinary\u00a0panel\u00a0of experts to discuss the opportunities and uncertainties created by the ceasefire, the prospects for building a lasting peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and potential ways to foster economic and social development in Nagorno-Karabakh and the broader South Caucasus.<\/p>\n
Organizer and Moderator<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Jeanene Mitchell<\/strong>, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Ellison Center, University of Washington<\/p>\nParticipants<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Arman Grigoryan<\/strong>, Associate\u00a0Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Fariz Huseynov<\/strong>, Professor of Finance and Faculty Fellow, Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth, North Dakota State University<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Emin Milli<\/strong>, Founder, Restart Initiative<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Feminist Anthropology of Old Europe: Celebrating the Centennial of Marija Gimbutas (1921-2021)<\/h3>\n
Friday, April 30 at 9:00 am\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nConference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nMarija Gimbutas (1921-1994), Professor of European Archaeology and Indo-European Studies at UCLA, wrote numerous popular and controversial books about the prehistoric gods and goddesses of Old Europe. Her research was a source of inspiration for environmentalist, feminist, neo-pagan, and other social movements on both sides of and transgressing the \u201cIron Curtain.\u201d Born in Lithuania, educated at the Universities of Vilnius, T\u00fcbingen and M\u00fcnchen, Gimbutas immigrated to the United States to teach at Harvard University before moving to the West Coast. This roundtable celebrates the Centennial of her birth with a meeting of generations: Dr. Rasa Navickait\u0117, author of an acclaimed 2020 dissertation about the international reception of Marija Gimbutas, will discuss Gimbutas\u2019s contributions and heritage together with two colleagues of Marija Gimbutas: Ernestine Elster (UCLA) and Colin Renfrew (Cambridge University).<\/p>\n
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Rasa Navickait\u0117 (Visiting Lecturer, Central European University)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Participants<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Rasa Navickait\u0117<\/strong>\u00a0(Visiting Lecturer, Central European University) is author of the most extensive biographical study of Marija Gimbutas: Her 2020 dissertation examines the transnational reception of Gimbutas\u2019s work and persona in diverse feminist and women\u2019s activist contexts on both sides of the \u201cIron Curtain\u201d.\u00a0 Among her other publications are \u201cPostcolonial Queer Critique in Post-Communist Europe -Stuck in the Western Progress Narrative?\u201d\u00a0Tijdschrift Voor Genderstudies\u00a0<\/i>(2014); \u201cUnder the Western Gaze: Sexuality and Postsocialist \u2018Transition\u2019 in East Europe,\u201d in\u00a0Postcolonial Transitions in Europe\u00a0<\/i>(2015), and numerous articles and essays in Lithuanian scholarly publications.<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n
Ernestine Elster, Colin Renfrew, and Marija Gimbutas (from left to right).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2013\u00a0Ernestine Elster<\/strong>\u00a0(Associated Researcher, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archeology) was a graduate student of Marija Gimbutas and participated in four of her archeological expeditions.\u00a0 She has authored numerous publications on Italy and Greece in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, among them\u00a0Excavations at Sitagroi, a prehistoric village in northeast Greece\u00a0<\/i>(1986), which she coauthored with Marija Gimbutas and this panel\u2019s discussant Colin Renfrew. This panel was inspired by her essay, \u201cMarija Gimbutas: Old Europe, Goddesses and Gods, \u00a0and the Transformation of Culture\u201d (Backdirt, 2015).<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Colin Renfrew<\/strong>\u00a0(Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge) was a friend and colleague of Marija Gimbutas. He is author of many articles and books, among them Before Civilisation: The Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe (1973); Transformations: Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change (1979); Archeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins (1990); Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archeology (2000); and Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind (2008).<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n
\u017divil\u0117 Gimbutas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2013\u00a0Zivile Gimbutas<\/strong>\u00a0(UCLA) is one\u00a0of Marija Gimbutas\u2019 daughters, so she knew her personally more than professionally. However, Zivile attended UCLA during the beginning of Marija\u2019s career there, became acquainted with some of her colleagues and students, as well as her major works, over the years.<\/p>\nModerator<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Guntis \u0160midchens<\/strong>, Kazickas Family Endowed Professor in Baltic Studies; Associate Professor of Baltic Studies; Head, Baltic Studies Program, University of Washington<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The panel is cosponsored by the Lithuanian Culture Institute, the University of Washington Baltic Studies Program and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/h3>\nTalking Gender:\u00a0El\u017cbieta Korolczuk \u2013 Anti-Gender Politics and Rightwing Populism in Poland<\/strong><\/h3>\nTuesday, April 27\u00a0at 12:00 pm\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nConference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nThe European Union has set impressive standards on gender equality, providing legal frameworks for equal pay, investing in work\/life balance and childcare, and allowing for positive action to advance equal treatment of women across member states. At the same time, Europe witnesses considerable backlash from anti-gender activists and rightwing reactionary movements, calling into question gender equality as a core norm of European democracies. This lecture is part of the UW Jean Monnet EU Center\u2019s Talking Gender in the EU lecture series, a 4-part lecture series covering gender politics in Poland, Latvia, France, and the European Parliament.<\/p>\n
El\u017cbieta Korolczuk<\/strong>, PhD is an Associate professor in sociology working at S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University in Stockholm and American Studies Center, Warsaw University. Her\u00a0research interests involve: social movements, civil society, politics of reproduction as well as right-wing populism and mobilizations against \u201cgender\u201d. She co-edited two books on motherhood and fatherhood in Poland and Russia (in Polish) and published two volumes on social movements and civil society in Central Eastern Europe:\u00a0Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland<\/em>\u00a0co-edited with Kerstin Jacobsson (Berghahn Books, 2017),\u00a0Rebellious Parents. Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia<\/em>\u00a0co-edited with Katalin F\u00e1bi\u00e1n (Indiana University Press, 2017). Most recent publications include an edited volume\u00a0Bunt kobiet. Czarne Protesty i Strajki Kobiet [Women\u2019s Rebellion. Black Protests and Women\u2019s Strikes]\u00a0<\/em>co-authored with Beata Kowalska, Jennifer Ramme and Claudia Snochowska-Gonzalez and published by European Solidarity Centre in 2019 and a monograph\u00a0Anti-gender Politics in the Populist Moment<\/em>\u00a0written with Agnieszka Graff (in press, Routledge). She is also a commentator and a long-time women\u2019s and human rights activist.<\/p>\nThe Jean Monnet EU Center\u00a0Talking Gender in the EU lecture series<\/strong>\u00a0is produced with support from\u00a0the Lee and Stuart Scheingold European Studies Fund, the EU Erasmus+ Program, the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, and the Center for Global Studies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Zoom Information:<\/h2>\n
REECAS Northwest 2021 will take place online via Zoom. Registered attendees will receive Zoom links by email. Registration is free and *required*.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Key Dates and Deadlines:<\/h2>\n\n- Accepting presentation proposals through April 4, 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Papers Due for Subsequent Distribution to Panel Chairs<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0April 19, 2021 (Presenters may continue to revise their papers in coordination with Panel Chairs.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/h2>\nCall for Paper Proposals (Abstracts):<\/h2>\n
<\/h1>\n\n- About<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Conference Program<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Audience Member Registration<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Conference Highlights<\/strong><\/a>\n
\n- Keynote Speech: Daniel Chirot on Revolution<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Plenary Speech: Scott Montgomery on Russia as an Energy Superpower<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- The Future of Nagorno-Karabakh<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Celebrating Marija Gimbutas<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Talking Gender in the EU: Elzbieta Korolczuk on Poland<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n- Zoom Information<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Key Dates and Deadlines<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Call for Paper Proposals (Abstracts)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- International Visas<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Rules for Recording and Social Media<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
About the Conference<\/h2>\n\n<\/p>\n
Ellison Center Director Scott Radnitz introducing Russian historian Glennys Young as the REECAS Northwest Keynote Speaker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
REECAS Northwest, the annual ASEEES Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, welcomes students, faculty, independent scholars, and language educators from the United States and abroad.\u00a0Established in 1994<\/strong>,\u00a0REECAS Northwest is an important annual event for scholars and students in the Pacific Northwest and beyond, with participant and partner universities from across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. The\u00a0interdisciplinary conference<\/strong>\u00a0is organized by the University of Washington\u2019s Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, which seeks to promote in-depth study of the many post-communist European and Eurasian sub-regions. Sometimes abbreviated as \u201cREECAS NW\u201d, the conference was\u00a0recognized as an\u00a0official ASEEES regional conference<\/a>\u00a0by the ASEEES Board of Directors in 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n
The University of Washington\u2019s soaring Suzzallo Library<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The conference hosts many panels on a variety of topics from a wide diversity of disciplines including\u00a0political science, history, literature, linguistics, anthropology, culture, migration studies, gender studies, LGBTQ studies, film studies\u00a0<\/strong>and more.<\/p>\nPapers on Russia and all the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia are welcome, including the Uyghur region in China (Xinxiang and elsewhere).<\/strong><\/p>\nThere are no registration fees<\/strong>\u00a0for REECAS Northwest conference participants or attendees.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
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Please click below for the final conference program.<\/strong><\/p>\nREECAS NORTHWEST CONFERENCE PROGRAM<\/a><\/h3>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Audience Member Registration (Non-Presenter):<\/h2>\n
Non-presenting<\/em>\u00a0conference attendees (audience members) should use this below linked form to register for REECAS Northwest. (Panelists are automatically registered with their paper submission.)<\/p>\nConference registration is free and *<\/b>required*<\/strong>. Registered attendees will receive Zoom links by email.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\nAUDIENCE MEMBER REGISTRATION (NON-PRESENTER)<\/a><\/h3>\n <\/p>\n
\nConference Highlights<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\nKeynote Speaker, Daniel Chirot \u2013 Revolutions: Past and Future Hopes and Tragedies<\/h3>\n
Thursday, April 29 at 12:30 pm\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nConference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\nRecent Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Washington\u2019s Henry M. Jackson School\u00a0Daniel Chirot<\/strong>\u00a0has authored books about social change, ethnic and nationalist conflicts, Eastern Europe, and tyranny. He is the author of\u00a0You Say You Want a Revolution? Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>from<\/span>\u00a0Princeton University Press.\u00a0He has additionally co-authored\u00a0The Shape of the New:\u00a0Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World<\/span><\/em>\u00a0with REECAS Northwest Plenary speaker Scott Montgomery,\u00a0<\/span>Why Not Kill Them All?<\/em>\u00a0about political mass murder, and\u00a0Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age<\/em>. He has also edited or co-edited books on Leninism\u2019s decline, on entrepreneurial ethnic minorities, on ethnopolitical warfare, on the economic history of Eastern Europe, and on memories of World War II.\u00a0He teaches courses on these same topics and on American security policies. He founded the journal East European Politics and Societies and has received help from, among others, the John Simon Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations and from the US State Department. He has consulted for the US Government, the Ford Foundation, CARE, and other NGOs in Eastern Europe and West Africa. He has a BA from Harvard and a PhD from Columbia.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n<\/h3>\nPlenary Speaker, Scott Montgomery: Russia as the World\u2019s Energy Superpower \u2013 How Long Will It Last?<\/h3>\n
Friday, April 30 at 12:30 pm\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nConference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nScott L. Montgomery<\/strong>\u00a0is an author, geoscientist, and affiliate faculty member in the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. He writes and lectures on a wide variety of topics related to energy (geopolitics, technology, resources, climate change), American politics, intellectual history, language and communication, and the history of science. He is a frequent contributor to online journals such as The Conversation, Forbes, and Fortune, and his articles and op-eds are regularly featured in many outlets, including Newsweek, Marketwatch, The Huffington Post, and UPI. He also gives public talks and serves on panels related to issues in global energy and their relation to political and economic trends and ideas of sustainability. For more than two decades, Montgomery worked as a geoscientist in the energy industry, writing over 100 scientific papers and 70 monographs on topics related to oil and gas, energy technology, and industry trends.\u00a0<\/p>\nMontgomery is the author of 12 books, including,\u00a0The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Built the Modern World<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Princeton University Press), co-authored with Dan Chirot, which\u00a0The New York Times selected as one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2015<\/strong>.\u00a0Shape of the New<\/em>\u00a0has been widely praised for its themes regarding the power of ideas in the shaping of modern history, using such thinkers as Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and the founders of American democracy, particularly Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, as examples of how influential Enlightenment thought has been. The book also examines how such thought has been opposed by forms of often-violent reaction and extremism, such as fascism, totalitarianism, and religious fundamentalism.<\/p>\nOther recent works include: Seeing the Light: Making the Case for Nuclear Power in the 21st Century, co-author Thomas Graham Jr. (Cambridge; forthcoming fall 2017); The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science (Second Edition, Chicago, 2017); A History of Science in World Cultures (Routledge, 2015); Does Science Need a Global Language? (Chicago, 2013); Powers that Be: Global Energy for the 21st Century and Beyond (Chicago, 2010).<\/p>\n
Montgomery is currently pursuing several areas of research. These include the role of Enlightenment ideas in present-day American politics, as well as the future of petroleum and its role in geopolitics and climate change. New book projects focus on the global impact of Darwin and Darwinism since 1860, and the medieval origins of modern science.<\/p>\n
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The Future of Nagorno-Karabakh: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Development in the South Caucasus<\/h3>\n
Thursday, April 29 at 9:00 am\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nConference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n100 attendee capacity in Zoom webinar.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nFollowing the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh during the fall of 2020, what comes next for the region? This\u00a0roundtable brings together an interdisciplinary\u00a0panel\u00a0of experts to discuss the opportunities and uncertainties created by the ceasefire, the prospects for building a lasting peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and potential ways to foster economic and social development in Nagorno-Karabakh and the broader South Caucasus.<\/p>\n
Organizer and Moderator<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Jeanene Mitchell<\/strong>, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Ellison Center, University of Washington<\/p>\nParticipants<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Arman Grigoryan<\/strong>, Associate\u00a0Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Fariz Huseynov<\/strong>, Professor of Finance and Faculty Fellow, Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth, North Dakota State University<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Emin Milli<\/strong>, Founder, Restart Initiative<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Feminist Anthropology of Old Europe: Celebrating the Centennial of Marija Gimbutas (1921-2021)<\/h3>\n
Friday, April 30 at 9:00 am\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nConference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nMarija Gimbutas (1921-1994), Professor of European Archaeology and Indo-European Studies at UCLA, wrote numerous popular and controversial books about the prehistoric gods and goddesses of Old Europe. Her research was a source of inspiration for environmentalist, feminist, neo-pagan, and other social movements on both sides of and transgressing the \u201cIron Curtain.\u201d Born in Lithuania, educated at the Universities of Vilnius, T\u00fcbingen and M\u00fcnchen, Gimbutas immigrated to the United States to teach at Harvard University before moving to the West Coast. This roundtable celebrates the Centennial of her birth with a meeting of generations: Dr. Rasa Navickait\u0117, author of an acclaimed 2020 dissertation about the international reception of Marija Gimbutas, will discuss Gimbutas\u2019s contributions and heritage together with two colleagues of Marija Gimbutas: Ernestine Elster (UCLA) and Colin Renfrew (Cambridge University).<\/p>\n
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Rasa Navickait\u0117 (Visiting Lecturer, Central European University)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Participants<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Rasa Navickait\u0117<\/strong>\u00a0(Visiting Lecturer, Central European University) is author of the most extensive biographical study of Marija Gimbutas: Her 2020 dissertation examines the transnational reception of Gimbutas\u2019s work and persona in diverse feminist and women\u2019s activist contexts on both sides of the \u201cIron Curtain\u201d.\u00a0 Among her other publications are \u201cPostcolonial Queer Critique in Post-Communist Europe -Stuck in the Western Progress Narrative?\u201d\u00a0Tijdschrift Voor Genderstudies\u00a0<\/i>(2014); \u201cUnder the Western Gaze: Sexuality and Postsocialist \u2018Transition\u2019 in East Europe,\u201d in\u00a0Postcolonial Transitions in Europe\u00a0<\/i>(2015), and numerous articles and essays in Lithuanian scholarly publications.<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n
Ernestine Elster, Colin Renfrew, and Marija Gimbutas (from left to right).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2013\u00a0Ernestine Elster<\/strong>\u00a0(Associated Researcher, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archeology) was a graduate student of Marija Gimbutas and participated in four of her archeological expeditions.\u00a0 She has authored numerous publications on Italy and Greece in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, among them\u00a0Excavations at Sitagroi, a prehistoric village in northeast Greece\u00a0<\/i>(1986), which she coauthored with Marija Gimbutas and this panel\u2019s discussant Colin Renfrew. This panel was inspired by her essay, \u201cMarija Gimbutas: Old Europe, Goddesses and Gods, \u00a0and the Transformation of Culture\u201d (Backdirt, 2015).<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Colin Renfrew<\/strong>\u00a0(Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge) was a friend and colleague of Marija Gimbutas. He is author of many articles and books, among them Before Civilisation: The Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe (1973); Transformations: Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change (1979); Archeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins (1990); Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archeology (2000); and Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind (2008).<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n
\u017divil\u0117 Gimbutas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2013\u00a0Zivile Gimbutas<\/strong>\u00a0(UCLA) is one\u00a0of Marija Gimbutas\u2019 daughters, so she knew her personally more than professionally. However, Zivile attended UCLA during the beginning of Marija\u2019s career there, became acquainted with some of her colleagues and students, as well as her major works, over the years.<\/p>\nModerator<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0Guntis \u0160midchens<\/strong>, Kazickas Family Endowed Professor in Baltic Studies; Associate Professor of Baltic Studies; Head, Baltic Studies Program, University of Washington<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The panel is cosponsored by the Lithuanian Culture Institute, the University of Washington Baltic Studies Program and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/h3>\nTalking Gender:\u00a0El\u017cbieta Korolczuk \u2013 Anti-Gender Politics and Rightwing Populism in Poland<\/strong><\/h3>\nTuesday, April 27\u00a0at 12:00 pm\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nConference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nThe European Union has set impressive standards on gender equality, providing legal frameworks for equal pay, investing in work\/life balance and childcare, and allowing for positive action to advance equal treatment of women across member states. At the same time, Europe witnesses considerable backlash from anti-gender activists and rightwing reactionary movements, calling into question gender equality as a core norm of European democracies. This lecture is part of the UW Jean Monnet EU Center\u2019s Talking Gender in the EU lecture series, a 4-part lecture series covering gender politics in Poland, Latvia, France, and the European Parliament.<\/p>\n
El\u017cbieta Korolczuk<\/strong>, PhD is an Associate professor in sociology working at S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University in Stockholm and American Studies Center, Warsaw University. Her\u00a0research interests involve: social movements, civil society, politics of reproduction as well as right-wing populism and mobilizations against \u201cgender\u201d. She co-edited two books on motherhood and fatherhood in Poland and Russia (in Polish) and published two volumes on social movements and civil society in Central Eastern Europe:\u00a0Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland<\/em>\u00a0co-edited with Kerstin Jacobsson (Berghahn Books, 2017),\u00a0Rebellious Parents. Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia<\/em>\u00a0co-edited with Katalin F\u00e1bi\u00e1n (Indiana University Press, 2017). Most recent publications include an edited volume\u00a0Bunt kobiet. Czarne Protesty i Strajki Kobiet [Women\u2019s Rebellion. Black Protests and Women\u2019s Strikes]\u00a0<\/em>co-authored with Beata Kowalska, Jennifer Ramme and Claudia Snochowska-Gonzalez and published by European Solidarity Centre in 2019 and a monograph\u00a0Anti-gender Politics in the Populist Moment<\/em>\u00a0written with Agnieszka Graff (in press, Routledge). She is also a commentator and a long-time women\u2019s and human rights activist.<\/p>\nThe Jean Monnet EU Center\u00a0Talking Gender in the EU lecture series<\/strong>\u00a0is produced with support from\u00a0the Lee and Stuart Scheingold European Studies Fund, the EU Erasmus+ Program, the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, and the Center for Global Studies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Zoom Information:<\/h2>\n
REECAS Northwest 2021 will take place online via Zoom. Registered attendees will receive Zoom links by email. Registration is free and *required*.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Key Dates and Deadlines:<\/h2>\n\n- Accepting presentation proposals through April 4, 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Papers Due for Subsequent Distribution to Panel Chairs<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0April 19, 2021 (Presenters may continue to revise their papers in coordination with Panel Chairs.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/h2>\nCall for Paper Proposals (Abstracts):<\/h2>\n
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- Keynote Speech: Daniel Chirot on Revolution<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Plenary Speech: Scott Montgomery on Russia as an Energy Superpower<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- The Future of Nagorno-Karabakh<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Celebrating Marija Gimbutas<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Talking Gender in the EU: Elzbieta Korolczuk on Poland<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n- Zoom Information<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Key Dates and Deadlines<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Call for Paper Proposals (Abstracts)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- International Visas<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Rules for Recording and Social Media<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
About the Conference<\/h2>\n
\n<\/p>\nEllison Center Director Scott Radnitz introducing Russian historian Glennys Young as the REECAS Northwest Keynote Speaker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
REECAS Northwest, the annual ASEEES Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, welcomes students, faculty, independent scholars, and language educators from the United States and abroad.\u00a0Established in 1994<\/strong>,\u00a0REECAS Northwest is an important annual event for scholars and students in the Pacific Northwest and beyond, with participant and partner universities from across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. The\u00a0interdisciplinary conference<\/strong>\u00a0is organized by the University of Washington\u2019s Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, which seeks to promote in-depth study of the many post-communist European and Eurasian sub-regions. Sometimes abbreviated as \u201cREECAS NW\u201d, the conference was\u00a0recognized as an\u00a0official ASEEES regional conference<\/a>\u00a0by the ASEEES Board of Directors in 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nThe University of Washington\u2019s soaring Suzzallo Library<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The conference hosts many panels on a variety of topics from a wide diversity of disciplines including\u00a0political science, history, literature, linguistics, anthropology, culture, migration studies, gender studies, LGBTQ studies, film studies\u00a0<\/strong>and more.<\/p>\n
Papers on Russia and all the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia are welcome, including the Uyghur region in China (Xinxiang and elsewhere).<\/strong><\/p>\n
There are no registration fees<\/strong>\u00a0for REECAS Northwest conference participants or attendees.<\/p>\n
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Conference Program<\/h2>\n
Please click below for the final conference program.<\/strong><\/p>\n
REECAS NORTHWEST CONFERENCE PROGRAM<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Audience Member Registration (Non-Presenter):<\/h2>\n
Non-presenting<\/em>\u00a0conference attendees (audience members) should use this below linked form to register for REECAS Northwest. (Panelists are automatically registered with their paper submission.)<\/p>\n
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Keynote Speaker, Daniel Chirot \u2013 Revolutions: Past and Future Hopes and Tragedies<\/h3>\n
Thursday, April 29 at 12:30 pm\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
Conference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\nRecent Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Washington\u2019s Henry M. Jackson School\u00a0Daniel Chirot<\/strong>\u00a0has authored books about social change, ethnic and nationalist conflicts, Eastern Europe, and tyranny. He is the author of\u00a0You Say You Want a Revolution? Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>from<\/span>\u00a0Princeton University Press.\u00a0He has additionally co-authored\u00a0The Shape of the New:\u00a0Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World<\/span><\/em>\u00a0with REECAS Northwest Plenary speaker Scott Montgomery,\u00a0<\/span>Why Not Kill Them All?<\/em>\u00a0about political mass murder, and\u00a0Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age<\/em>. He has also edited or co-edited books on Leninism\u2019s decline, on entrepreneurial ethnic minorities, on ethnopolitical warfare, on the economic history of Eastern Europe, and on memories of World War II.\u00a0He teaches courses on these same topics and on American security policies. He founded the journal East European Politics and Societies and has received help from, among others, the John Simon Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations and from the US State Department. He has consulted for the US Government, the Ford Foundation, CARE, and other NGOs in Eastern Europe and West Africa. He has a BA from Harvard and a PhD from Columbia.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Plenary Speaker, Scott Montgomery: Russia as the World\u2019s Energy Superpower \u2013 How Long Will It Last?<\/h3>\n
Friday, April 30 at 12:30 pm\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
Conference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
Scott L. Montgomery<\/strong>\u00a0is an author, geoscientist, and affiliate faculty member in the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. He writes and lectures on a wide variety of topics related to energy (geopolitics, technology, resources, climate change), American politics, intellectual history, language and communication, and the history of science. He is a frequent contributor to online journals such as The Conversation, Forbes, and Fortune, and his articles and op-eds are regularly featured in many outlets, including Newsweek, Marketwatch, The Huffington Post, and UPI. He also gives public talks and serves on panels related to issues in global energy and their relation to political and economic trends and ideas of sustainability. For more than two decades, Montgomery worked as a geoscientist in the energy industry, writing over 100 scientific papers and 70 monographs on topics related to oil and gas, energy technology, and industry trends.\u00a0<\/p>\nMontgomery is the author of 12 books, including,\u00a0The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Built the Modern World<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Princeton University Press), co-authored with Dan Chirot, which\u00a0The New York Times selected as one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2015<\/strong>.\u00a0Shape of the New<\/em>\u00a0has been widely praised for its themes regarding the power of ideas in the shaping of modern history, using such thinkers as Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and the founders of American democracy, particularly Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, as examples of how influential Enlightenment thought has been. The book also examines how such thought has been opposed by forms of often-violent reaction and extremism, such as fascism, totalitarianism, and religious fundamentalism.<\/p>\n
Other recent works include: Seeing the Light: Making the Case for Nuclear Power in the 21st Century, co-author Thomas Graham Jr. (Cambridge; forthcoming fall 2017); The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science (Second Edition, Chicago, 2017); A History of Science in World Cultures (Routledge, 2015); Does Science Need a Global Language? (Chicago, 2013); Powers that Be: Global Energy for the 21st Century and Beyond (Chicago, 2010).<\/p>\n
Montgomery is currently pursuing several areas of research. These include the role of Enlightenment ideas in present-day American politics, as well as the future of petroleum and its role in geopolitics and climate change. New book projects focus on the global impact of Darwin and Darwinism since 1860, and the medieval origins of modern science.<\/p>\n
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The Future of Nagorno-Karabakh: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Development in the South Caucasus<\/h3>\n
Thursday, April 29 at 9:00 am\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
Conference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
100 attendee capacity in Zoom webinar.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
Following the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh during the fall of 2020, what comes next for the region? This\u00a0roundtable brings together an interdisciplinary\u00a0panel\u00a0of experts to discuss the opportunities and uncertainties created by the ceasefire, the prospects for building a lasting peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and potential ways to foster economic and social development in Nagorno-Karabakh and the broader South Caucasus.<\/p>\n
Organizer and Moderator<\/strong>:<\/p>\n
\u2013\u00a0Jeanene Mitchell<\/strong>, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Ellison Center, University of Washington<\/p>\n
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\u2013\u00a0Arman Grigoryan<\/strong>, Associate\u00a0Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University<\/p>\n
\u2013\u00a0Fariz Huseynov<\/strong>, Professor of Finance and Faculty Fellow, Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth, North Dakota State University<\/p>\n
\u2013\u00a0Emin Milli<\/strong>, Founder, Restart Initiative<\/p>\n
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Feminist Anthropology of Old Europe: Celebrating the Centennial of Marija Gimbutas (1921-2021)<\/h3>\n
Friday, April 30 at 9:00 am\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
Conference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994), Professor of European Archaeology and Indo-European Studies at UCLA, wrote numerous popular and controversial books about the prehistoric gods and goddesses of Old Europe. Her research was a source of inspiration for environmentalist, feminist, neo-pagan, and other social movements on both sides of and transgressing the \u201cIron Curtain.\u201d Born in Lithuania, educated at the Universities of Vilnius, T\u00fcbingen and M\u00fcnchen, Gimbutas immigrated to the United States to teach at Harvard University before moving to the West Coast. This roundtable celebrates the Centennial of her birth with a meeting of generations: Dr. Rasa Navickait\u0117, author of an acclaimed 2020 dissertation about the international reception of Marija Gimbutas, will discuss Gimbutas\u2019s contributions and heritage together with two colleagues of Marija Gimbutas: Ernestine Elster (UCLA) and Colin Renfrew (Cambridge University).<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nRasa Navickait\u0117 (Visiting Lecturer, Central European University)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2013\u00a0Rasa Navickait\u0117<\/strong>\u00a0(Visiting Lecturer, Central European University) is author of the most extensive biographical study of Marija Gimbutas: Her 2020 dissertation examines the transnational reception of Gimbutas\u2019s work and persona in diverse feminist and women\u2019s activist contexts on both sides of the \u201cIron Curtain\u201d.\u00a0 Among her other publications are \u201cPostcolonial Queer Critique in Post-Communist Europe -Stuck in the Western Progress Narrative?\u201d\u00a0Tijdschrift Voor Genderstudies\u00a0<\/i>(2014); \u201cUnder the Western Gaze: Sexuality and Postsocialist \u2018Transition\u2019 in East Europe,\u201d in\u00a0Postcolonial Transitions in Europe\u00a0<\/i>(2015), and numerous articles and essays in Lithuanian scholarly publications.<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nErnestine Elster, Colin Renfrew, and Marija Gimbutas (from left to right).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2013\u00a0Ernestine Elster<\/strong>\u00a0(Associated Researcher, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archeology) was a graduate student of Marija Gimbutas and participated in four of her archeological expeditions.\u00a0 She has authored numerous publications on Italy and Greece in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, among them\u00a0Excavations at Sitagroi, a prehistoric village in northeast Greece\u00a0<\/i>(1986), which she coauthored with Marija Gimbutas and this panel\u2019s discussant Colin Renfrew. This panel was inspired by her essay, \u201cMarija Gimbutas: Old Europe, Goddesses and Gods, \u00a0and the Transformation of Culture\u201d (Backdirt, 2015).<\/p>\n
\u2013\u00a0Colin Renfrew<\/strong>\u00a0(Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge) was a friend and colleague of Marija Gimbutas. He is author of many articles and books, among them Before Civilisation: The Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe (1973); Transformations: Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change (1979); Archeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins (1990); Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archeology (2000); and Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind (2008).<\/p>\n
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\u2013\u00a0Zivile Gimbutas<\/strong>\u00a0(UCLA) is one\u00a0of Marija Gimbutas\u2019 daughters, so she knew her personally more than professionally. However, Zivile attended UCLA during the beginning of Marija\u2019s career there, became acquainted with some of her colleagues and students, as well as her major works, over the years.<\/p>\n
Moderator<\/strong>:<\/p>\n
\u2013\u00a0Guntis \u0160midchens<\/strong>, Kazickas Family Endowed Professor in Baltic Studies; Associate Professor of Baltic Studies; Head, Baltic Studies Program, University of Washington<\/p>\n
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The panel is cosponsored by the Lithuanian Culture Institute, the University of Washington Baltic Studies Program and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/h3>\n
Talking Gender:\u00a0El\u017cbieta Korolczuk \u2013 Anti-Gender Politics and Rightwing Populism in Poland<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Tuesday, April 27\u00a0at 12:00 pm\u00a0Pacific Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
Conference registration required (free).\u00a0Click here to register.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
The European Union has set impressive standards on gender equality, providing legal frameworks for equal pay, investing in work\/life balance and childcare, and allowing for positive action to advance equal treatment of women across member states. At the same time, Europe witnesses considerable backlash from anti-gender activists and rightwing reactionary movements, calling into question gender equality as a core norm of European democracies. This lecture is part of the UW Jean Monnet EU Center\u2019s Talking Gender in the EU lecture series, a 4-part lecture series covering gender politics in Poland, Latvia, France, and the European Parliament.<\/p>\nEl\u017cbieta Korolczuk<\/strong>, PhD is an Associate professor in sociology working at S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University in Stockholm and American Studies Center, Warsaw University. Her\u00a0research interests involve: social movements, civil society, politics of reproduction as well as right-wing populism and mobilizations against \u201cgender\u201d. She co-edited two books on motherhood and fatherhood in Poland and Russia (in Polish) and published two volumes on social movements and civil society in Central Eastern Europe:\u00a0Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland<\/em>\u00a0co-edited with Kerstin Jacobsson (Berghahn Books, 2017),\u00a0Rebellious Parents. Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia<\/em>\u00a0co-edited with Katalin F\u00e1bi\u00e1n (Indiana University Press, 2017). Most recent publications include an edited volume\u00a0Bunt kobiet. Czarne Protesty i Strajki Kobiet [Women\u2019s Rebellion. Black Protests and Women\u2019s Strikes]\u00a0<\/em>co-authored with Beata Kowalska, Jennifer Ramme and Claudia Snochowska-Gonzalez and published by European Solidarity Centre in 2019 and a monograph\u00a0Anti-gender Politics in the Populist Moment<\/em>\u00a0written with Agnieszka Graff (in press, Routledge). She is also a commentator and a long-time women\u2019s and human rights activist.<\/p>\n
The Jean Monnet EU Center\u00a0Talking Gender in the EU lecture series<\/strong>\u00a0is produced with support from\u00a0the Lee and Stuart Scheingold European Studies Fund, the EU Erasmus+ Program, the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, and the Center for Global Studies.<\/p>\n
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REECAS Northwest 2021 will take place online via Zoom. Registered attendees will receive Zoom links by email. Registration is free and *required*.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- Accepting presentation proposals through April 4, 2021<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Papers Due for Subsequent Distribution to Panel Chairs<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0April 19, 2021 (Presenters may continue to revise their papers in coordination with Panel Chairs.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Papers Due for Subsequent Distribution to Panel Chairs<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0April 19, 2021 (Presenters may continue to revise their papers in coordination with Panel Chairs.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Plenary Speech: Scott Montgomery on Russia as an Energy Superpower<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
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