[Aaus-list] Danyliw 2012 Seminar on Ukraine (Deadline Reminder: 28 June)

Chernetsky, Vitaly A. Dr. chernev at muohio.edu
Fri Jun 22 11:00:09 EDT 2012


Dear Colleagues,
FYI.

Best,
Vitaly Chernetsky
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8th Annual Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine
Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa, 1-3 November 2012

**Deadline Reminder: 28 June 2012**

CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS

The Chair of Ukrainian Studies, with the support of the Wolodymyr George Danyliw Foundation, will be holding its 8th Annual DanyliwResearch Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine at the University of Ottawa on 1-3 November 2012. The Seminar will feature research papers, related to Ukraine, from a range of disciplines that could include political science, history, anthropology (ethnology), sociology, law, religious studies, demography, economics, geography, literature, cinema, folklore and other fields of social science and humanities.

The Danyliw 2012 Seminar is inviting proposals touching on the study of the law in contemporary Ukraine or in the history of Ukraine. Topics of interest include the rule of law in independent Ukraine (particularly under Yushchenko and/or Yanukovych), the process of law-making, sociology and anthropology of the law, the higher Courts, the Procuracy, judicial reform, international assistance and/or NGO engagement in rule of law programs, corruption, law enforcement, penal institutions, human and civil rights, legal culture, international law, the Venice Commission, political trials, war crimes trials and related topics.

Depending on the thematic compatibility of quality proposals, the Seminar will also feature a number of additional sections that could include one or several of the following themes (listed below alphabetically and not in an order of preference):

•Education: curriculum and teaching, textbooks, sociology of education, economics of education, Europeanization, language, accessibility and relevant themes.

•Foreign Policy: EU, Association Agreement, energy policy, NATO, Russia and the like.

•Memory & History: the Famine (Holodomor), the Purges, the Holocaust, mass deportations and forced labor, insurgency and counter-insurgency, the Gulag and dissidence and other cases of mass violence.

•Politics & Society: social movements, protests, gender, party and electoral politics, national identity and nationalism, informal economy and politics, regime transformation and/or consolidation, and so forth.

•Religion: the sociology (or anthropology) of religious beliefs and practices, religion and civil society, religious policy in pre-Soviet, Soviet or post-Soviet Ukraine, churches as civil actors and germane 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 darel at uottawa.ca AND chairukr at gmail.com. 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 28 June 2012. To be eligible, papers must not have been accepted for publication by the time of the Seminar. The Chair will cover the expenses of applicants whose proposal is accepted by the Seminar. The proposals will be reviewed by an international selection committee. Applicants will be notified in July.

Those among accepted applicants whose profile is doctoral or post-doctoral (defined as up to six years after the completion of a PhD) will be eligible for the Danyliw Seminar Emerging Scholar Award, which comes with a monetary prize. Launched at the 2011 Seminar, the first award was given to Serhiy Kudelia for his paper “The Impact of Collectivization on Insurgency Mobilization in Western Ukraine after World War II”.

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. Information on past Annual Danyliw Research Seminars in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies can be accessed at 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.





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