The Russian Institute for Cultural Research (Moscow) seeks articles for a collected volume on Russian Utopianism in the International Context to be published by the publishing house 'Progress-Traditsiia' in 2011.

We hereby invite papers on any aspect of Russian utopianism, but pieces with a focus on the interrelationship of Russian and Western utopias are especially welcome.

Debates on post/colonial readings of "human zoos" seem to be a never-ending story. Colonial exhibitions - this is a topic which will be discussed at a conference of the Lancaster University (UK), and which has been discussed at Kakanien revisited several times from different perspectives: see e.g. Angelika Jacobs', Peter Plener's, Michael Rössner's, Klaus Scherpe's, or Amália Kerekes/Katalin Teller's studies.

Deadline for submitting a paper for the conference at Lancaster University is September 30, 2008.