[aaus-list] Reminder: Graduate Student Symposium on Ukraine - Toronto, January 21-23

[Alexandra Hrycak]

Dear Colleagues:

Please forward to your graduate students.

With thanks and appreciation,

Coordinating Committee
International Graduate Student Symposium

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***REMINDER: The deadline for submissions is November 16, 2009


CALL FOR PAPERS

International Graduate Student Symposium
New Perspectives on Contemporary Ukraine: Politics, History, and Culture
January 21-23, 2010

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
University of Toronto


The University of Toronto?s Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian 
Studies (CERES) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the fourth 
biannual graduate student symposium ?New Perspectives on Contemporary 
Ukraine: Politics, History, and Culture? to be held in Toronto on 
January 21-23, 2010. This interdisciplinary symposium will bring 
together aspiring young scholars for three 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. The Symposium seeks to integrate and draw 
on a wide range of theories and new scholarly research by applying them 
to Ukraine as a case study.

The Symposium is open to graduate students and recent PhD holders from 
North America and Europe. Proposals involving cross-national 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:

    * Political and Economic Developments;
    * Identity and Regionalism;
    * Foreign Relations and National Security;
    * Literature, Film and Media in Ukraine;
    * New Approaches to Ukrainian History and the Politics of Memory.

Please submit an abstract (maximum 750 words) and curriculum vitae by 
Monday, November 16th, 2009. The abstract should include a statement of 
objectives, methods, expected results and conclusions. Submissions must 
be made via email to ukrainian.gradsymposium at utoronto.ca

Authors whose papers are selected will be notified by Tuesday, December 
1st 2009. Presenters should seek external funding. Limited grants for 
travel and accommodation may be available for participants who cannot 
obtain full external funding.

Previous Symposiums have seen a wide range of participants from: Canada, 
the United States, England, Holland, Ukraine, Germany, Poland and more. 
Emerging international scholars from these countries are provided with a 
diverse, professional, and open environment that allows for constructive 
dialogue among their peers.

Participants are also provided the opportunity to approach academics 
working in similar fields. Previous attendees and guest lecturers 
include: Dominique Arel, Paul D?Anieri, Marta Dyczok, Taras Koznarsky, 
Alexander J. Motyl, Mykola Riabchuk, Peter Solomon, Maxim Tarnawsky, and 
Lucan A. Way,

In addition, a workshop aimed at the development of academic and 
professional skills will be held, where young scholars will be able to 
gain practical knowledge applicable to their careers. Previous workshops 
have covered topics dealing with: Publishing Academic Work, and 
Conducting Fieldwork in Eastern Europe. This year?s workshop willdeal 
specifically with ?Making Career Choices.? The workshop will be led by 
recent graduates now working in the private, public and non-governmental 
sectors.


Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk Centre for International Studies
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Canada

ukrainian.gradsymposium at utoronto.ca