[Discussion] Shifting Borders

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	 CONF./CFP- REES Graduate Student Conference, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Feb.
2005
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CONF./CFP- REES Graduate Student Conference, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Feb. 2005

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

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. In addition to questions of geography,
governance, and citizenship, papers dealing with boundaries between
cultures, languages, genders and artistic traditions are highly encouraged.

Students of Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia who are working on
issues related to boundaries are encouraged to submit abstracts by
December 1, 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 sorc+goseca@pitt.edu
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_js=1.4&is_ssl=1&cmps_to=goseca@pitt.edu>.