BASEES/ICCEES European Congress
Published: 5 April 2013
European Congress on the theme of 'Europe: Crisis and Renewal' to be held in Cambridge. 5-8 April 2013.
The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) and the International Council for Central and East European Sudies (ICCEES) will hold a European Congress on the theme of 'Europe: Crisis and Renewal' from 5 - 8 April.
The processes of political, economic, and cultural change in Europe have had a particularly strong impact upon the countries of Eastern Europe and their neighbours in the east. It is timely to reflect on and debate the ways in which Europe and the former Soviet Union has experienced and coped with crisis in all its forms, past and present.
The process of change in Eastern Europe since the fall of communism at the end of the 1980s, the accession of 10 Eastern European states to the EU and the continuing work of European integration in the former Yugoslavia make this an appropriate time to reflect on the experience of Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union.
The congress theme 'Europe: Crisis and Renewal' provides a focus to allow reflection on contemporary challenges – political, economic and social – as well as on the history of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Keynote speakers and panel discussions
The confirmed keynote speakers are:
- Professor Jörg Baberowski (Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany)
- Professor Richard Sakwa (University of Kent, United Kingdom)
Panel, roundtable and paper proposals on the congress theme and on other topics in Central and East European and Slavonic Studies will form a major part of the proceedings. The deadline for panel and roundtable proposals was 1 October 2012 and 14 September 2012 for individual paper proposals.
Panels, roundtables and papers will cover a range of subject areas, including Politics, History, Economics and Geography, Film and Media, Languages and Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures, Sociology. The congress especially welcomes participation by postgraduate research students and by young scholars.
Date: 5 - 8 April 2013
Location: Cambridge, UK
Deadline for papers has passed
First published: 5 April 2013