Soviet Legacies and post-Soviet Practices: Economics, Politics, and Everyday life

Venue: Ostroh Academy, Ostroh (Ukraine)
Period: Jul. 4-10, 2011
Application deadline: Apr. 15, 2011

The Third International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine will provide a unique forum for the presentation and discussion of exciting research on economy, politics, and everyday life. Major themes of particular interest to the School include:

• The Interplay Between Economy and Politics: political careers and falls from power, taxation, privileges, redistribution, corruption, citizen interactions with state institutions, the economic dimension of social and political activism, centre/periphery relations in the Soviet and post-Soviet context.

• Economy and Everyday Life: poverty and wealth, labor migration, market phenomena in a non-market economy, non-market practices in a market economy, blat, networking and the economy of favors, the social way of coping with the scarcity and the asymmetry of goods in the village or in the city.

• Configurations of Entrepreneurship: the origins and behavior of Soviet and post-Soviet entrepreneurs, the role of business in politics, the strategies of taking opportunities of dramatic economic changes, economic criminality and its transformations.

Theoretical and methodological contributions on analytical tools available to the study socio-economic practices are most welcomed.

The Summer School is designed to be interdisciplinary and international. The organizers welcome historical, sociological, anthropological, political science, and economic contributions, as well as relevant proposals from other fields. Participants are expected to present their own work and to participate in group discussions. The School's program consists of lectures, panel discussions, and field trips within the region, followed by discussion sessions.

Read the full description of the Summer School here

The Summer School is open to PhD students (or students enrolled in a kandidat nauk program) and young researchers (up to six years removed from their PhD or kandidat nauk degree). Empirically grounded proposals are particularly welcomed.

The selection committee will select candidates based on their responses to this Call for Proposals. The selected candidates will be advised before the end of May.

The working language of the Summer School will be English, and it is important that prospective participants have a good knowledge of this language.

To be considered for the Summer School, candidates must complete an application form (that includes a 500 word project proposal) and add a CV. They can also send an additional written sample, such as a conference paper, a dissertation chapter, or a publication (optional). The application must be sent by e-mail to ukrainesummerschool@gmail.com, by 15 April 2011.

The application form can be requested at Ukrainesummerschool@gmail.com or downloaded on the web page of the Summer School.

Guillaume Colin
Embassy of France in Ukraine
tel: 00380.44.504.01.39
e-mail:guillaume.colin@cfucus.org