Call for Papers:

The deadline for paper and panel proposals has already passed. However, proposals that include full panels can still be added, and individual paper proposals will also still be considered if a panel for them can be found. Panel and paper proposals should be sent to Roy Robson at <r.robson@usip.edu>

Contact Information:
Alexander Ogden, Local Arrangements Coordinator
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Welsh Humanities Bldg., 9th floor
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
e-mail: ogden@sc.edu

Keynote and Plenary Speakers:

Nancy Condee is Director of the Program for Cultural Studies and is on the faculty of the Slavic Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Her field is contemporary Russian culture and cultural politics. Her publications include the volumes Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late 20th Century Russia (1995) and Endquote: Sots-Art Literature and Soviet Grand Style (2000), as well as articles in Sight and Sound, The Nation, October, New Left Review, Wide Angle, Framework, and major Russian journals, such as Iskusstvo kino and NLO. She has worked as a consultant on film projects for the Public Broadcasting System, the Edinburgh Festival, the National Film Theatre (London), the San Francisco Film Festival, and the Library of Congress. Together with a team of Russian cinema scholars, she is currently completing work, funded by the Ford Foundation, on the production of a CD-ROM on Russian cinema of the Thaw period. Her keynote address for SCSS is entitled "Does the Empire Have No Close? Problems of 'National Identity.'"

Peter Baker is White House correspondent for The Washington Post. He and his wife, Susan Glasser, wrote the acclaimed Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution (2005). The book draws on their expertise as the Post's Moscow Bureau Chiefs from January 2001 to November 2004, responsible for covering Russia and the fourteen other nations that once belonged to the Soviet Union. During their overseas tour, they also covered the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Mr. Baker has been a reporter at the Post for seventeen years, including two stints as White House correspondent, first during Bill Clinton’s presidency and now again covering George W. Bush. He is author of the New York Times bestseller, The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton (2000).

Charles Bierbauer is Dean of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies at the University of South Carolina. A distinguished broadcast journalist, Bierbauer began his career as a radio reporter for WKAP radio in Allentown, Pa., in 1963. But he is no stranger to print journalism, having written for his hometown newspaper The (Allentown) Morning Call. He was a reporter with the Associated Press in Pittsburgh from 1967-68 and a correspondent in Bonn for the Chicago Daily News. From 1977-81, he was an overseas correspondent for ABC News, first as Moscow Bureau Chief and later as the Bonn Bureau chief. Prior to that, he worked in Philadelphia, London, Bonn and Vienna as a correspondent for Westinghouse Broadcasting. From 1981-2001, he was a correspondent for CNN in Washington, where he covered the Supreme Court, the Bush and Reagan administrations and the presidential campaigns from 1984-2000.

Marvin Kalb, Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, is a Senior Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and Faculty Chair for the Kennedy School's Washington programs. Kalb was the Shorenstein Center's Founding Director and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy (1987-1999). His distinguished journalism career encompasses 30 years of award-winning reporting for CBS and NBC News, as chief Diplomatic Correspondent, Moscow Bureau Chief, and host of Meet the Press. Kalb has authored or coauthored 10 nonfiction books and two best-selling novels. His most recent book, The Media and the War on Terrorism (co-edited with Stephen Hess), explores the interaction between the government and the media during times of war and national emergency. He hosts the Kalb Report, a discussion of media ethics and responsibility at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

Hotel and Travel Information
Reminder: as noted in Beartracks, hotel reservations must be made before Feb. 21. We urge you to make your lodging arrangements as soon as possible with the conference hotel. The conference rate is $87.00 a night plus 11% tax.

The Clarion Town House Hotel
1615 Gervais Street
Columbia, SC 29201
1-800-277-8711, (803)771-8711
fax (803)252-3010
website:www.clariontownhouse.com
Driving directions: For directions, including a printable map, see http://www.clariontownhouse.com/map.html

Airport transportation: The hotel provides a complimentary airport shuttle. Please call the hotel directly for details.