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Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe
Conference venue: London (United Kingdom)
Period: Feb. 15 - 17, 2012
Deadline for submitting abstracts: Jul. 15, 2011
Description of the Conference
This conference examines the concept of crisis from a plethora of disciplinary angles within the Central and Eastern European context. It offers a platform for discussing a complex set of interactions, interruptions and continuities that various forms of crises provoke.
The conference invites postgraduate students and early career researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences to take part in an interdisciplinary debate about the nature, meaning, causes and results of crises in Central and Eastern Europe, including South-East Europe, Russia and the countries of the former USSR. The disciplines include, but are not limited to, anthropology, art history, cultural and literary studies, economics, geography, history (medieval to modern), linguistics, politics and sociology. We particularly encourage comparative and multidisciplinary perspectives, as well as proposals using new research methodologies.
Further information will be available on the following website in due course: http://www.ssees.ucl.ac.uk/postgradconf2012.htm
Eligible topics for the conference
We look forward to receiving submissions on topics including but not limited to the following areas:
- financial and economic crises;
- social crises, gender and sexuality struggles, crises of memory and identity, crises of values, crisis of political activism;
- environmental and energy crises;
- existential crises, crises of the subject, philosophical, religious and confessional crises;
- representation of crises in literature, film and drama institutional, political and security crises, crises of regime, succession and legitimacy, crises of empire;
- urban crises, rural and agrarian crises.
Guidelines for submission
Paper abstracts of up to 300 words and a brief biography should be sent with full contact details (E-mail, Telephone, Postal Address) to postgradconference2012@gmail.com. Paper presentations should not exceed twenty minutes. The language of the conference is English. A selection of papers will appear in a separate Conference publication.
Organizer
- School for Slavonic and East European Studies (University College London)
Information & contacts
The School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
tel.: 0044.20.7679.8700
e-mail: postgradconference2012@gmail.com
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