CfP CEELBAS Postgraduate Conference, Oxford, 17-18 March 2010

[Jaroslavna Pakstaitis]

Dear SEELANGS members,

Please see attached the CfP for the CEELBAS Network Postgraduate 
Conference to be held at Oxford University on March 17-18, 2010.  If you are 
a postgraduate PhD/MPhil student at a partner university and would like to 
participate, please send your abstract to the  email address specified in the 
attachment.  Please disregard the submission deadline, we are still accepting 
submissions until further notice.

Thank you for your interest and we look forward to receiving your abstracts!

Jana Pakstaitis,
MPhil Candidate in Russian and East European Studies
St Antony's College, University of Oxford

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Russia and Eastern Europe into the 21st Century: 
Looking Back, Looking Forward

CEELBAS Postgraduate Student Conference
Wednesday 17 – Thursday 18 March 2010
St. Antony’s College and Wolfson College, University of Oxford

The collapse of communism was a shock; post-communist developments continue to surprise. With many scholars taking stock of the profound changes in Russia and Central/East European states since the fall of communism 20 years ago, the Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) is supporting a conference on key issues in REES for postgraduate students from its member universities (Bath, Birmingham CREES, Cambridge, Kent, Manchester, Oxford REES, School of Oriental and African Studies, Sheffield, University College London SSEES, and Warwick). This event will be hosted by the postgraduate students in Oxford’s Russian and East European Studies programme. It is hoped that this conference will enable the participants to engage with, and contribute to, the inter-disciplinary dialogue on post-communist processes of change that has been promoted by CEELBAS. Information about CEELBAS can be found at: http://www.ceelbas.ac.uk/ 

The one-and-a-half-day conference in Oxford is both student-run and student-focused. The event will be split into plenary sessions and subject-specific split sessions. The plenary sessions will combine talks by leading academics and 10-minute presentations by PhD or second-year masters students on their ongoing research. These sessions will be centred on the following broad themes:
* Politics and International Relations
* Economics of Transition
* Identity, Ethnicity and Memory

The split sessions will be structured around more specific topics. These may include: Cities; Health, Wealth, Welfare and Demography; Migration and Diasporic Citizenship; New Dimensions of Social Inequality; Contemporary Cultural Processes; Foreign Policy; Knowledge-based Economies and Societies; Security and Energy Politics; Identities and Solidarities; Political and Economic Processes. Both PhD and MPhil/MRes students can apply to make 5-minute presentations on their research at these smaller gatherings. It is hoped that all participants in these sessions will benefit from the discussions in a less formal environment. 
Submissions: Any students who would like to make a presentation should submit an abstract by email to the organising committee by the deadline below. The abstracts should not exceed 200 words in length for plenary sessions and 100 words for split sessions. Please include your name, institution and course of study. 
Abstract Submission Deadline: 04 January 2010. Please email abstract submissions to: erin.kelly at sant.ox.ac.uk

This conference has been made possible by generous grants from CEELBAS, St. Antony’s Annual Fund, Russian and East European Studies (Oxford), and Wolfson College. It is hoped that the costs of travel, meals and accommodation of student participants will be fully covered, but this will depend upon the number of participants. Final information on financial arrangements will be provided to participants by 15 February 2010.



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