CfP: 2015 Soyuz Symposium

[Jen Carroll]

Announcing the 2015 Annual SOYUZ Symposium

*"Shifting Territories: Historical Legacies and Social Change"*

February 28 – March 1 2015

Hosted by the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian
Studies at the University of Washington.


The 2015 Soyuz Symposium seeks to engage scholars in an interdisciplinary
debate about contemporary social, cultural, and political transformations
in socialist and post-socialist regions world wide. In the previous year, a
number of these regions have seen significant turmoil, from the
anti-government protests in Egypt, Ukraine, and Venezuela to violent
internal conflict in Syria and Sudan. We have also seen the creation of
new, sometimes fragile, alliances including the formation of the Eurasian
Economic Union, the emergence of unstable, separatist “states” in Ukraine,
and the creation of a new socialist party in South Africa. These major
world events challenge contemporary social and political boundaries,
re-frame historical narratives, and invoke new constructions of statehood,
personhood, and human rights.

This year, in cooperation with the Ellison Center at the University of
Washington, Soyuz invites papers that address the intersection of
historical legacies and contemporary change in socialist and postsocialist
regions, such as:

   - · Separatist regions and de jure states
   - · Emergent nationalisms or nationalist discourses
   - · Language policy and linguistic differentiation
   - · New forms and narratives of sovereignty
   - · Appeals to and ruptures from historical socialist legacies
   - · Contemporary economic strategies and (in)equalities
   - · New social identities and citizenship claims
   - · The uses and limitations of the politics nostalgia

*Abstracts of up to 300 words should be sent to Jennifer Carroll
**(jencarr2 at uw.edu
<jencarr2 at uw.edu>)** by November 1, 2014*.

Please include your full name, affiliation, and paper title. Write “SOYUZ
2015” in the subject line of your email. Papers will be selected and
notifications made by December 1, 2014.

For any questions, please email Jennifer Carroll, the Soyuz Programming
Coordinator, at jencarr2 at uw.edu.

The Soyuz Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies is an
interdisciplinary forum for exchanging work based on field research in
postsocialist countries, ranging from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union to Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Soyuz is an interest
group in the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and an official
unit of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
(ASEEES). The Soyuz symposium has met annually since 1991 and offers an
opportunity for scholars to interact in a more personal setting.

Respectfully,
Jennifer J. Carroll
-- 
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology
MPH Candidate, Department of Epidemiology
University of Washington
Box 353100
Seattle, WA 98195

Programming Coordinator, Soyuz Research Network for Post-socialist Studies
Board Member, AIDS and Anthropology Research Group
Treasurer-elect, Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Graduate Student Representative, Society for the Anthropology of Europe

www.jenniferjcarroll.net

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