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 [log in to unmask] 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: [log in to unmask]
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