Final CFP: Ukraine in Global Context (Graduate Student Symposium)

[Victoria Lyasota]

Please distribute widely:

*Deadline has been extended to Oct. 10, 2011*

The University of Toronto’s Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian
Studies (CERES) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the fifth
bi-annual Graduate Student Symposium entitled “Ukraine in Global Context” to
be held in Toronto on January 27-28, 2012. This interdisciplinary Symposium
will bring together aspiring young scholars for two days of presentations
and intensive discussions on the study of contemporary Ukraine.

The goal of the Symposium is to present new research and innovative thinking
that explores the political, socioeconomic, and cultural dynamics in
Ukrainian society.
Cross-national and cross-historical comparisons in the wider context of the
post-communist space are encouraged. Submissions can focus on a variety of
topics
including, but not limited to, the following:

•         Sociopolitical and Economic Development;
•         Identity and Regionalism;
•         National Security, Foreign Relations, Diaspora;
•         Language (translation, bilingualism, etc.);
•         Literature, Film, and Media;
•         New Approaches to National History and the Politics of Memory.

The Symposium is open to graduate students and recent PhD holders from North
America and Europe. Please submit an abstract (maximum 400 words) and
curriculum vitae
form to ukrainian.gradsymposium at utoronto.ca<https://webmail.utoronto.ca/imp/message.php?index=34#>by
Oct. 10, 2011. Details and updates will be available on our website
http://www.utoronto.ca/jacyk/gss2012/index.html .

We look forward to hearing from you!
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Organizing Committee
Ukraine in Global Context: the 5th International Graduate Student Symposium
At Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto

Ukrainian.gradsymposium at utoronto.ca<https://webmail.utoronto.ca/imp/message.php?index=34#>
http://www.utoronto.ca/jacyk/gss2012/

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