The International multidisciplinary student-PhD student scientific conference “(R)evolutions: transformation in post-Soviet republics” will take place on 13th-14th May 2014 in the Auditorium Maximum UJ at Krupnicza st. 33, Kraków. The conference is organized by Russian Studies Students’ Scientific Association of the Jagiellonian University, in cooperation with the Institute of Eastern Initiatives and the Eastern Perspective
The present situation in post-Soviet republics is a popular subject for scholars, especially in the perspective of the more than two decades since the fall of the Soviet Union. The dynamics of transformations in the former Soviet republics are constantly providing us with new material for research while making previous studies outdated. Juxtaposing such diverse countries as Estonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan in the context of the reshaping of the common Soviet heritage gives the researcher a greatly absorbing comparative perspective. The deliberations can touch upon political, cultural and philosophical questions. The way in which those transformations take place is just as much a compelling problem: from evolution to stagnation, to actual revolutions. One has to remember that political change never occurs in a cultural vacuum. The sudden collapse of the Soviet reality has resulted in an erosion of constitutive societal values, which each of the emergent countries had to counter. Change in such cultural areas as religion, literature and visual arts are equally important indicators of transformation in the post-Soviet world as political and economical change. Taking the above into account, we would like to invite both Polish and international researchers to present the results of their studies. The conference will be focused upon politics, economy, culture, art and religion of post-Soviet states after 1991.
Please send your applications to the e-mail address rewolucje2014@gmail.com until March 15th, 2014. Please send your applications on a special form, available here:
Application form
The results of the application process will be published on March 31st, 2014 and sent to all persons whose works will have qualified to take part in the conference. Number of participants is limited. Organizers reserve the right to choose the best papers and refuse applications which do not conform with the conference’s subject matter or fulfill scientific criteria. We expect to release a post-conference publication with papers delivered at the conference.
The conference fee amounts to:
80 zł (includes the mentioned publication in e-book form, conference materials, two dinners and refreshments between panels)
Or
50 zł (includes conference materials, two dinners and refreshments between panels)
Conference languages: Polish, Russian or English.
In special cases it is possible to deliver the paper in Byelorussian or Ukrainian, however, abstracts and applications are to be sent in Polish, English and Russian.
The organizers also offer their assistance in finding lodging for all participants from outside Kraków.
Media patronage: Nowa Europa Wschodnia and Alma Mater.
Organizers will provide the necessary visa invitations for all participants from abroad.
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