Call for Papers: Eurasia and Russian Rule

[Benjamin Sutcliffe]

Dear SEELANGS Colleagues:
I am posting this for Michael Rouland at Miami University's Havighurst
Center.
--Ben Sutcliffe

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, OH

October 26-28, 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
(513) 529-3303
HavighurstCenter at muohio.edu

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