Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa, 29-31 October 2009
CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS
The Chair of Ukrainian Studies, with the support of the Wolodymyr
George Danyliw Foundation, will be holding its Fifth Annual Danyliw
Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine at the University of Ottawa
on 29-31 October 2009. The Seminar will feature research papers,
touching on Ukraine, from the disciplines of political science,
history, anthropology (ethnology), sociology, economics, religious
studies, demography, geography and other fields of social science and
humanities. Papers with a theoretical and comparative focus are
particularly solicited.
The Seminar is open to all social science research topics, including
topics in history. Themes addressed in previous years include regime
transformation, constitutional politics, the colored revolutions,
language politics, minority rights, regionalism, citizenship, the
politics of energy, the study of elections, religion and society,
gender, the media, and many more.
In addition, two of its sections will feature special themes:
The first will pursue the Seminar's explotation of the politics of
memory, ongoing since 2007, with papers touching on the Famine
(Holodomor), the Holocaust (Shoah), the purges, deportations and other
cases of mass violence committed on the territory of Ukraine in the
1930s, during World War II and the immediate post-War period,
involving, among others, the NKVD, German military and paramilitary
forces, the Soviet Army, Soviet partisans, the OUN, the UPA, and the
Polish Home Army, police, and military forces. We are inviting paper
proposals based on current research on social and political history
for this period and/or on an analysis of contemporary political issues
raised by the memorialization of these events.
The second theme will be devoted to new research on the political
economy of Ukraine, particularly as it relates to the informal economy
and informal politics, trans-border exchange and other practices,
internal and international migration, economic "clans", corruption,
oil and gas politics, the impact of the current global economic
crisis, the rule of law, rural political economy and related topics.
Scholars and doctoral students are invited to submit a 1000 word paper
proposal and a 250 word biographical statement, by email attachment,
to Dominique Arel, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, at
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Please also include your full coordinates (institutional affiliation,
preferred postal address, email, phone) and indicate your latest
publication (or, in the case of doctoral applicants, the year when you
entered a doctoral program, the [provisional] title of your
dissertation and year of expected completion).
The proposal deadline is 30 June 2009. To be eligible, papers must not
have been accepted for publication by the time of the Seminar. The
Chair will cover the expenses of participants, including discussants,
to the Seminar. An international selection committee will review the
proposals and notify applicants shortly after the deadline.
The aim of the Seminar is to provide a unique forum for researchers
from Canada, Ukraine, the United States, Europe and elsewhere to
engage in fruitful inter-disciplinary dialogue, disseminate
cutting-edge research papers on the Chair web site, encourage
publications in various outlets, and stimulate collaborative research
projects. Papers of the first four Annual Danyliw Research Seminars in
Contemporary Ukrainian Studies can be downloaded at
www.ukrainianstudies.uottawa.ca
<http://www.ukrainianstudies.uottawa.ca> . The Seminar adopts the
format of a Workshop, where each presentation is followed by group
discussion, and is open to the public.
The Seminar is made possible by the commitment of the Wolodymyr George
Danyliw Foundation to the pursuit of excellence in the study of
contemporary Ukraine.
