Call for Papers - "The Topos of Justice"

Conference venue: Miami University (Ohio)
Period: February 28 - March 1, 2014
Deadline for submitting abstracts: November 1, 2013
Deadline for submitting full papers:February 1, 2014

Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University Young Researchers’ and SOYUZ (the Post-Communist Cultural Studies interest Group of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the official unit of the Association for Slavic, East European Studies and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)) launched the Call for Papers “The Topos of Justice”, for the homonymous conference which will take place February 28-March 1, 2014 at Miami University (Ohio).

In 20th- and 21st-century Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia various theories and practices of justice dramatically affected the lives of millions of people.  While states engaged in various experiments from constitutional to moral governance, from People’s Courts to human rights policies, citizens actively contributed, subverted, and renegotiated official regimes of justice. This conference will explore experiments in law and regulations, narratives and theories of justice, translations and material objectifications of justice, and ethic and affective circulations of justice and morality in its local and global forms.

The conference invites comparative and interdisciplinary research-based contributions on various issues interconnected with the topic of justice in various socialist and post-socialist societies and in the regions affected by socialism and post-socialism. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Keynote speakers: Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University) and Robert M. Hayden (University of Pittsburgh)

Please send a 300 word abstract and a short CV by November 1st, 2013, to Lynn Stevens at havighurstcenter@muohio.edu. Please include your full name, paper title, and academic affiliation. Write “YRC, SOYUZ 2014” in the subject line. Papers will be selected and notifications made by January 1, 2014. Limited funding will be available to cover local expenses of participants. If selected to participate in the conference, you will be expected to submit a completed paper to the Havighurst Center by February 1st, 2014.

Ms Neringa Klumbytė
Miami University
e-mail: klumbyn@miamioh.edu