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CfP: Cold War Borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia, 1944-1991

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CfP: Cold War Borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia, 1944-1991

Posted by Aisseco on Apr 22, 2022

CfP: Cold War Borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia, 1944-1991

STUDYING REGIONS ALONG THE IRON CURTAIN APPROACHES TO NEW RESEARCH Workshop in Udine, Italy 9-12 March 2023 link >> Jointly organized by the University of Udine, Cold War Studies/Harvard University, and Friuli Storia This workshop will bring together scholars from various countries to discuss key issues pertaining to Cold War borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia (i.e., regions along the dividing line between East and West from the mid-1940s through the early 1990s). One aim of the workshop will be to set up an international and multidisciplinary network of scholars working on the topic. The Cold War had a profound impact on border communities, especially in areas where ideological borders overlapped with ethnic dividing lines or disputed territories. Borders were often the focal points of international crises in Europe and Northeast Asia during the Cold War, for example in Trieste immediately after the end of the Second World War, on the Korean peninsula during and after the 1950-1953 war, in Berlin in 1948 and 1961, and between the Soviet Union and China in 1969. Borders also played a crucial role in stoking tensions between countries such as Yugoslavia and Greece, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, and Hungary and Romania. Our post-1945 images of both Europe and Northeast Asia were shaped by Cold War borders, and to a large extent these images have persisted in the post-Cold War era. At least in Western Europe, the perception of which countries are part of “Eastern Europe” is still heavily determined by their position in respect to the former Iron Curtain. In Northeast Asia, the border between North and South Korea remains heavily militarized, and the territorial disputes between Japan and Russia remain acute. Up to now, however, a unified and comparative approach to the history of the regions along the Cold War-era divides in Europe and Northeast Asia has not emerged. Part of the reason is that the perception of what actually constitutes a “Cold War border” varies across time and space. Seen from Italy, for example, the border with what is now Slovenia was perceived as the frontline in the confrontation between the West and the East. But in former Yugoslavia, the border with Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria from 1948 on was viewed as much more meaningful in this respect. On the Korean peninsula, the key border over the past eight decade — the...

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Cf: CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS

Posted by Aisseco on Giu 3, 2018

Cf: CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS

deadline: 21 giugno 2018 The Chair of Ukrainian Studies, with the support of the Wolodymyr George Danyliw Foundation, will be holding its 14th Annual Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine at the University of Ottawa on 8-10 November 2018. Since 2005, the Danyliw Seminar has provided an annual platform for the presentation of some of the most influential academic research on Ukraine. The Seminar invites proposals from scholars and doctoral students —in political science, anthropology, sociology, history, law, economics and related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities— on a broad variety of topics falling under thematic clusters, such as those suggested below: Conflict •war/violence (combatants, civilians in wartime, DNR/LNR, Maidan) •security (conflict resolution, Minsk Accords, OSCE, NATO, Crimea) •nationalism (Ukrainian, Russian, Soviet, historical, far right) Reform •economic change (energy, corruption, oligarchies, EU free trade, foreign aid) •governance (rule of law, elections, regionalism, decentralization) •media (TV/digital, social media, information warfare, fake news) Identity •history/memory (World War II, Holodomor, Soviet period, interwar, imperial) •language, ethnicity, nation (policies and practices) •culture and politics (cinema, literature, music, performing arts, popular culture) Society •migration (IDPs, refugees, migrant workers, diasporas) •social problems (reintegration of combatants, protests, welfare, gender, education) •state/society (citizenship, civil society, collective action/protests, human rights) **To mark the 85th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor), a number of papers/events will be devoted to the Holodomor. Holodomor-related proposals are most welcome** The Seminar will also be featuring panels devoted to recent/new books touching on Ukraine, as well as the screening of new documentaries followed by a discussion with filmmakers. In 2017, new books by Oleh Havrylyshyn, Yuliya Yurchenko and Mayhill Fowler were featured, as well as the films The Trial (by Askold Kurov) and Alisa in Warland (by Alisa Kovalenko), with the filmmakers present. Information on the 2016 and 2017 book panels and films can easily be accessed from the top menu of the web site. The 2018 Seminar is welcoming book panel proposals, as well as documentary proposals. Presentations at the Seminar will be based on research papers (6,000-8,000 words) and will be made available, within hours after the panel discussions, in written and video format on the Seminar website and on social media. The Seminar favors intensive discussion, with relatively short presentations (12 minutes), comments by the moderator and an extensive Q&A with...

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CfP: Cold War Borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia, 1944-1991

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CfP: Cold War Borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia, 1944-1991

Posted By Aisseco on Apr 22, 2022

STUDYING REGIONS ALONG THE IRON CURTAIN APPROACHES TO NEW RESEARCH Workshop in Udine, Italy 9-12 March 2023 link >> Jointly organized by the University of Udine, Cold War Studies/Harvard University, and Friuli Storia This workshop will bring together scholars from various countries to discuss key issues pertaining to Cold War borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia (i.e., regions along the dividing line between East and West...

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Cf: CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS

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Cf: CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS

Posted By Aisseco on Giu 3, 2018

deadline: 21 giugno 2018 The Chair of Ukrainian Studies, with the support of the Wolodymyr George Danyliw Foundation, will be holding its 14th Annual Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine at the University of Ottawa on 8-10 November 2018. Since 2005, the Danyliw Seminar has provided an annual platform for the presentation of some of the most influential academic research on Ukraine. The Seminar invites proposals from...

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