BASEES/ICCEES European Congress ‘Europe: Crisis and Renewal’

Conference venue: Cambridge (UK)
Period: Apr. 5-8, 2013
Deadline for submitting individual papers: Sep. 14, 2012
Deadline for submitting panel/roundtable proposals: Oct. 1, 2012

The processes of political, economic, and cultural change in Europe have had a particularly strong impact upon the countries of Eastern Europe and their neighbours in the east. It is timely to reflect on and debate the ways in which Europe and the former Soviet Union has experienced and coped with crisis in all its forms, past and present.
The process of change in Eastern Europe since the fall of communism at the end of the 1980s, the accession of 10 Eastern European states to the EU and the continuing work of European integration in the former Yugoslavia make this an appropriate time to reflect on the experience of Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union.
The congress theme ‘Europe: Crisis and Renewal’ provides a focus to allow reflection on contemporary challenges – political, economic and social – as well as on the history of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union.

Confirmed keynote speakers:
- Professor Jörg Baberowski (Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany)
- Professor Richard Sakwa (University of Kent, United Kingdom)

Panels, roundtables and papers are welcome in the areas of Politics; History; Economics and Geography; Film and Media, Languages and Linguistics; Literatures and Cultures; Sociology.

Panel, roundtable and paper proposals on the congress theme and on other topics in Central and East European and Slavonic Studies are welcomed (proposals for full panels/roundtables are encouraged). The congress especially welcomes participation by postgraduate research students and by young scholars.
Full details and panel/paper proposal forms are available at http://www.euroiccees2013.org/.

Academic Conference Organizers:

Dr Matthias Neumann
e-mail: m.neumann@uea.ac.uk
Prof Peter Waldron
e-mail: p.waldron@uea.ac.uk
Dr Jonathan Oldfied
e-mail: Jonathan.Oldfield@glasgow.ac.uk
Prof Stephen Hutchings
e-mail: Stephen.Hutchings@manchester.ac.uk