CFP: Update: Keynote Speaker for Pitt REES Grad Conference

[K. M. Harkness]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Katerina Clark, Professor of Comparative
Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, will be
the keynote speaker for the 2nd Annual Russian and East European Graduate
Student Conference at the University of Pittsburgh.

Please note that proposals are still due December 1.

Thank you.

Kristen Harkness,
REES Conference Committee

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Kristen Harkness
University of Pittsburgh
Department of the History of Art and Architecture
104 Frick Fine Arts Building
Pittsburgh, PA  15224-2213
kmhst16 at pitt.edu


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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

Katarina 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 Europe¹s 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 Pittsburgh¹s 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 at pitt.edu. 

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