[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Eurasian Empire: Literary, Historical, and Political Responses to Russian Rule in the Twentieth Century (Havighurst Center). Submission deadline: April 21, 2006

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Kimden: Serguei Alex. Oushakine <sao15 at columbia.edu>


CONF./CFP- Havighurst Ctr. Int'l Young Researchers Conference, Oct.
2006, Ohio

Call for Papers

Havighurst Center for Russian & Post-Soviet Studies Annual International
Young Researchers Conference

Eurasian Empire: Literary, Historical, and Political Responses to
Russian Rule in the Twentieth Century

Organizers: Venelin Ganev and Michael Rouland

Miami University
Oxford, Ohio

October 26-28, 2006

Paper submission deadline: April 21, 2006

This conference will consider theories, conceptual frameworks, and
analytical representations of the Russian case of empire from the
late-Tsarist era to the contemporary period, including late-Imperial
Russia, the Soviet Union, and post-Communist transitions. We encourage
submissions addressing a wide array of perspectives on empire which
might encompass the Russian imperial center as well as subjects and
allies of Russian and Soviet imperial ambitions, e.g. political entities
within the Russian, Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires or countries and
nations belonging to the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union. We encourage
papers to consider such topics as the usefulness of the center-periphery
paradigm; the designation of the Soviet Union as empire; the
intertwining of imperial and Marxist revolutionary projects; literary,
visual and material depictions of empire; the experience of empire in
everyday life; nationalism as a reaction to empire; empire and post-
socialism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union; empire and
patterns of institution- and state-building; neo-imperial movements and
the reconfiguration of the post-Soviet political space. Case studies,
comparative analyses, anthropological inquiries, historical,
sociological, and literary research are welcome.

We encourage proposals from young researchers who have already completed
their dissertation research or have defended their dissertation within
the last three years. This will be an intensive 2-1/2 day working
conference during which each of the selected papers will be critiqued by
the other participants including the authors, the keynote speaker,
organizers Venelin Ganev, Assistant Professor of political science, and
Michael Rouland, Havighurst postdoctoral fellow in history, and a team
of discussants made up of Miami faculty. We plan to publish the final
versions of papers in an  edited volume. The Havighurst Center will
provide accommodation in Oxford, ground transportation from the airport,
and partial travel funding (up to $250 for domestic travel and up to
$500 for international travel).

To be considered for the conference, submit an abstract of approximately
250 words and a short CV to HavighurstCenter at muohio.edu by April 21,
2006. Please type '2006 Young Researchers Conference' as the subject of
the email.

We plan to get back to you by mid-May.

Questions can be directed to:

The Havighurst Center for Russian & Post-Soviet Studies
Miami University
Harrison Hall, Room 116
Oxford, OH  45056
USA

Tel: (513) 529-3303
E-mail: HavighurstCenter at muohio.edu

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