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[Alexandra Hrycak]

Dear colleagues:
Following is a reminder about the Danyliw research seminar.

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Fifth Annual Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine
Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa, 29-31 October 2009

CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS

**Deadline Reminder: 30 June 2009**

The Chair of Ukrainian Studies, with the support of the Wolodymyr George
Danyliw Foundation, will be holding its Fifth Annual Danyliw Research
Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine at the University of Ottawa on 29-31 October
2009. The Seminar will feature research papers, touching on Ukraine, from
the disciplines of political science, history, anthropology (ethnology),
sociology, economics, religious studies, demography, geography and other
fields of social science and humanities. Papers with a theoretical and
comparative focus are particularly solicited.

The Seminar is open to all social science research topics, including topics
in history. Themes addressed in previous years include regime
transformation, constitutional politics, the colored revolutions, language
politics, minority rights, regionalism, citizenship, the politics of energy,
the study of elections, religion and society, gender, the media, and many
more.

In addition, two of its sections will feature special themes:

The first will pursue the Seminar¹s explotation of the politics of memory,
ongoing since 2007, with papers touching on the Famine (Holodomor), the
Holocaust (Shoah), the purges, deportations and other cases of mass violence
committed on the territory of Ukraine in the 1930s, during World War II and
the immediate post-War period, involving, among others, the NKVD, German
military and paramilitary forces, the Soviet Army, Soviet partisans, the
OUN, the UPA, and the Polish Home Army, police, and military forces. We are
inviting paper proposals based on current research on social and political
history for this period and/or on an analysis of contemporary political
issues raised by the memorialization of these events.

The second theme will be devoted to new research on the political economy of
Ukraine, particularly as it relates to the informal economy and informal
politics, trans-border exchange and other practices, internal and
international migration, economic ³clans², corruption, oil and gas politics,
the impact of the current global economic crisis, the rule of law, rural
political economy and related topics.

Scholars and doctoral students are invited to submit a 1000 word paper
proposal and a 250 word biographical statement, by email attachment, to
Dominique Arel, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, at darel at uottawa.ca. Please also
include your full coordinates (institutional affiliation, preferred postal
address, email, phone) and indicate your latest publication (or, in the case
of doctoral applicants, the year when you entered a doctoral program, the
[provisional] title of your dissertation and year of expected completion).

The proposal deadline is 30 June 2009. To be eligible, papers must not have
been accepted for publication by the time of the Seminar. The Chair will
cover the expenses of participants, including discussants, to the Seminar.
An international selection committee will review the proposals and notify
applicants shortly after the deadline.

The aim of the Seminar is to provide a unique forum for researchers from
Canada, Ukraine, the United States, Europe and elsewhere to engage in
fruitful inter-disciplinary dialogue, disseminate cutting-edge research
papers on the Chair web site, encourage publications in various outlets, and
stimulate collaborative research projects. Papers of the first four Annual
Danyliw Research Seminars in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies can be
downloaded at www.ukrainianstudies.uottawa.ca
<http://www.ukrainianstudies.uottawa.ca> . The Seminar adopts the format of
a Workshop, where each presentation is followed by group discussion, and is
open to the public.

The Seminar is made possible by the commitment of the Wolodymyr George
Danyliw Foundation to the pursuit of excellence in the study of contemporary
Ukraine.





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