Call for Papers
Russia’s Role in Human Mobility: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
June 18-20, 2009
The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
deadline for abstract submissions:
2 June, 2008
Professor John Randolph (Department of History, UIUC) and Professor Eugene M. Avrutin (Department of History, UIUC), Co-Organizers
The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites paper proposals for an international conference, Russia’s Role in Human Mobility: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, to be held June 18-20, 2009. The conference will have a workshop format, and feature discussion of pre-circulated papers. Pending approval by donors, we hope to be able to provide travel expenses, room, and board for our panelists, including at least six participants from Russia and / or the Former Soviet Union. We also hope to edit these papers for publication in a conference volume. Please see our conference website, or below, for a fuller description of the project.
Interested parties should submit paper proposals addressing one or more of our conference themes no later than June 2, 2008. Please include a brief (500 word) summary of the proposed work, as well as a cv or resume describing your experience and research interests. These documents should be submitted by e-mail to the project’s co-organizer, Professor John Randolph, at jwr@uiuc.edu. (A surface mail address is appended below for those who wish to use it). We welcome your questions at this address as well.
Description of Project and its Objectives
Our conference aims to stimulate new thinking about Russia’s role in human mobility. It will feature a keynote speaker (delivering a public plenary address), as well as a two-day scholarly workshop. Six key themes surrounding Russia’s role in human mobility will be discussed, on the basis of pre-circulated papers submitted by panel participants:
1. Russia and the Governance of Mobility;
2. Russia, Mobility, and Migration;
3. Russia, Mobility, and Citizenship;
4. Modes of Mobility in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union;
5. Mobility and Everyday Life in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union;
6. Russia's Place in Global Mobility Systems
Each of these panels will involve at least one guest scholar from Russia or the Former Soviet Union, as well as one scholar specializing in contemporary issues. It is thus hoped that each panel, as well as the conference as a whole, will spark international as well as interdisciplinary dialog. We want our discussions to constantly move forward across time and space, building the basis for a deeper connection and mutual interaction between historical scholarship and work on contemporary issues. We therefore invite scholars from a range of disciplines working on contemporary topics to apply.
We thank you for your attention to this proposal, and would be grateful should you forward it to any parties who might be interested. Please see (and distribute) attached flyer, as well.
Professor John Randolph, Professor Eugene M. Avrutin (Co-Organizers)
Department of History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
309 Gregory Hall, MC-466
810 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
