[Discussion] CONF./CFP- 2005 REES Grad Student Conf., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Deadline Extended

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CONF./CFP- 2005 REES Grad Student Conf., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Deadline
Extended

Due to problems with our email account, it appears that not all email
submissions reached us.  We are extending the deadline to December 15
and we urge any students who submitted an abstract and did not hear back
from us to resubmit.

Submission requirements are on our website: www.pitt.edu/~sorc/goseca.

All abstracts and CVs should be sent to our new email address:
gosecaconference@yahoo.com.

Call for Papers: Second Annual University of Pittsburgh REES Graduate
Student Conference

February 25-26, 2005

Shifting Borders: Political and Cultural Boundaries in Eastern Europe,
Russia, and Central Asia

Katerina Clark, Keynote Speaker

Borders in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia have been the
subject of intense contestation and revision over the course of the 19th
and 20th centuries. Boundaries within Europe's multinational empires
faced constant strain with the rise of nationalism and were redrawn
following the dissolution of the empires in the First World War.  Soviet
nationalities policies codified, even invented nationhood in bounded and
institutionalized Central Asian republics. Major territorial shifts
occurred again after World War II. The dissolution of the Soviet Union
ushered in yet another revision of the map, and today we watch as the
borders of Europe continue to change. The debates about the boundaries
of and within these regions are held at all levels of society, thus
calling for a discussion that crosses disciplinary borders as well. The
University of Pittsburgh's Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe
and Central Asia, in cooperation with the Center for Russian and East
European Studies, invites fellow graduate students working on related
topics from all disciplines to submit abstracts for our second annual
graduate student conference.

The conference will raise a broad range of questions about the nature of
boundaries within and around Eastern Europe and Central Asia.  We
welcome papers ranging in scope from multinational empire, to nation
state, to ethnic minorities. Papers that engage the debates surrounding
the boundaries of the regions themselves, such as the question of
Central versus Eastern Europe, are also welcome. Students of Eastern
Europe, Russia, and Central Asia who are working on issues related to
boundaries are encouraged to submit abstracts by December 15, 2004.
Further details about submission requirements, dates, housing, etc. can
be found on the conference's web page (http://www.pitt.edu/~sorc/goseca)
or by emailing gosecaconference@yahoo.com.

GOSECA Conference Organizing Committee
Russian and East European Studies Graduate Student Conference
University of Pittsburgh



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