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ÁÄ: From: "GOSECA University of Pittsburgh" <gosecaconference@yahoo.com> This is an updated call for papers for the 4th Annual Graduate Student conference at the University of Pittsburgh. This may be an interesting opportunity for your graduate students that are interested in Eastern Europe, Russian and Central Asia. Could you please circulate this call for papers among your graduate students? Thank you, GOSECA Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA) at the University of Pittsburgh Eastern Europe, Russia , and Central Asia Defining Ourselves and Being Defined: Globalization, Regionalism and Multiculturalism University of Pittsburgh, REES and GOSECA Graduate Student Conference February 23-25, 2007 Key Note Address by Charles King Charles King is Chair of the Faculty and Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University , where he also holds the university's Ion Ratiu Chair in Romanian Studies. He is the author of The Black Sea: A History (2004); The Moldovans: Romania , Russia , and the Politics of Culture (2000); Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics and International Relations in the Former Soviet Union (as co-editor, 1998); and Ending Civil Wars (1997). In Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, a region where politics is often decided upon ethnic, linguistic or religious lines, access to civil society is not always a given for everyone. Belonging to a certain collectivity can bring with it privilege, pride, and power today, but disadvantage, disrepute and dismemberment tomorrow. Inhabitants have not always had agency in defining themselves or their region. Politicians, corporations, journalists and scholars have all labeled this region and its peoples in order to better understand, organize and control them. Despite the efforts of indigenous nation-builders and imperial partitioning, the nation-state is often considered as a problematic construct here, torn between irredentist regionalism, ethnic and religious minorities claiming under-representation, and nationalists asserting the primacy of the nation. Globalization brings old definitional units into question. The sovereignty of the nation-state in dictating policy is increasingly challenged and minorities now potentially have access to a global arena in which to air their grievances. Centuries-old regionalism continues to disrupt efforts at “integration,” and the size of the unit which one identifies oneself with fluctuates dramatically. Multiculturalism and migration issues further complicate the homogeneity upon which older definitions were premised. How do states based on myths about ethnic and religious unity evolve with transitions to pluralist democracy? REES and GOSECA invite papers that explore the issues raised by these tensions, rifts and schisms, and by the attempts to overcome them. We are interested in how these tensions have changed over time, and in how they have influenced the inhabitants of Eastern Europe , Russia and Central Asia at all levels of society. The conference is deliberately inter-disciplinary, and aims to deepen our understanding of the region as a whole by using a broad range of approaches to examine an intimately woven matrix of problems. Participation is open to graduate students in the social sciences, the humanities and the professional schools. Please submit abstracts by 1 December 2006. For submission requirements please visit out website: http://www.pitt.edu/AFShome/s/o/sorc/public/html/goseca/ or www.pitt.edu/~sorc/goseca The conference is sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies (REES) and the Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA) at the University of Pittsburgh GOSECA Conference Organizing Committee Russian and East European Studies Graduate Student Conference University of Pittsburgh
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