The International
interdisciplinary student-PhD student conference “Russia and its Neighbours.
Problems and Challenges” will take place on June 3rd-4th 2013 in the Auditorium
Maximum of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków. The conference is organized by Russian Studies Students' Scientific Circle, UJ, in
cooperation with Krakow Eastern Research Foundation, Eastern Circle, UJ, and
Institute of Eastern Initiatives
Russian Federation’s
“near abroad” has seen several important events in recent years. Starting with
the first democratic and bloodless transfer of power to take place in the
post-Soviet sphere, which occurred in Georgia, events such as Ukrainian general
elections, presidential elections in Armenia, visit of patriarch Cyril I in
Poland, appointment of a new Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China,
or the waves of protest in Azerbaijan and economic crisis in Belarus have all
sparked great interest in the region. They have also been of great influence on
the shaping of relations between the countries involved and Russian Federation.
Moreover, 2013 will bring about many cultural events, such as the opening of
the “Gogol Centre” in Moscow, celebration of the 310th anniversary
of the foundation of St Petersburg, 1025th anniversary of the
Christianization of Kievan Rus’, or the 95th birthday of Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn. The above examples may become an interesting starting point for
discussion about the interactions of Russia and it’s “near abroad” in both
socio-political, culturological and literary studies’ context. We would like to
cordially invite scholars from Poland and abroad to present their research
results.
Principal fields of interest of the conference:
- Russian foreign policy and internal security
- Economy – a re-conquest or continuing emancipation of post-Soviet sphere of influence?
- Revolutions in countries neighbouring Russia after 1991
- Russian neighbours as represented in Russian literature/cinema/theatre and Russia as represented in theirs
- Influence of Soviet and contemporary Russian culture upon the culture of Russian neighbours: diffusion or rejection
- Russia and neighbours: a field of impact. Religion, culture, language
Conference languages:
- Polish
- Russian
- English
In special cases we will accept
papers in Belorussian and Ukrainian, however applications and abstracts will be
accepted only in Polish, Russian or English.
Please, send your applications to the e-mail address:
rosja.sasiedzi@gmail.com until April 30th, 2013. The results will be published by May 8th, 2013 and sent to all parties. Please send your applications on a special form, available here:
Application form
The number of entrants is limited. The organizers
reserve the right to select the best papers and to reject applications which
don’t match the conference’s theme or criteria of a scientific paper. A
post-conference monograph of the papers delivered at the conference is
planned
The conference fee is 50 PLN, including conference materials, two dinners and snacks
between the conference panels.
The organizers offer their help in the search of
accommodation to all the conference participants from outside Kraków.
All foreign participants
will be provided with official invitations if necessary.
