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CONF./CFP- California Eurasian Studies Kurultai, April 10, 2010

Posted by: Avram Lyon <ajlyon at ucla.edu>



Call for Papers

California Eurasian Studies Kurultai
A Graduate Conference
Saturday, April 10, 2010
University of California, Los Angeles

At present, the field of Eurasian Studies is spread across several
traditional disciplinary boundaries. For example, within the discipline 
of Slavic Studies interest in the broader Eurasian context has been 
growing in recent years. As scholars of Slavic-Turkic cultural contacts 
we feel that the opportunities for graduate students and junior scholars 
to present and develop research in this area are limited. Therefore we 
are organizing a graduate conference on Eurasian cultural interactions 
in order for graduate students with these interests to meet and present 
their current research. The conference will be held in a workshop 
format; panelists will submit their papers ahead of time, allowing for 
more coherent and productive discussion during the conference. We are 
seeking participants who focus on moments of contact and conflict in 
Eurasia, beyond the established disciplinary boundaries.

Our keynote speaker is Alexander Diener, Associate Professor of 
Geography at Pepperdine University. In his recent books, One Homeland or 
Two: Nationalization and Transnationalization of Mongolia's Kazakhs 
(2009) and Homeland Conceptions and Ethnic Integration Among 
Kazakhstan's Germans and Koreans (2004), Professor Diener has explored 
issues of national identity and contact in the multinational context of 
present-day Eurasia. Likewise Professor Diener's theoretical orientation 
of geography will be a useful compromise uniting the many possible 
directions panelists might take: from linguistics, to culture, to 
religion, to history.

Submit abstracts of up to 300 words to ucla.kurultai at gmail.com by 
January 5, 2010. Complete versions of the accepted papers must be 
submitted to ucla.kurultai at gmail.com by April 1, 2010. Unfortunately we 
cannot provide funding for accommodation or travel.

We look forward to receiving abstracts, and to a productive
conference in April.

Avram Lyon
Robert Denis
Naomi Caffee
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of California, Los Angeles




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