[Aaus-list] Danyliw 2012 Seminar on Ukraine Call for Papers

[Alex Hrycak]

8th Annual Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine

Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa, 1-3 November 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 Danyliw Research
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
<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.