The International Graduate Student Symposium “New Perspectives on Contemporary Ukraine: Politics, History and Culture” will be held on January 21-23, 2010 at the Munk Centre for International Studies, 1 Devonshire Place. This year’s Symposium will be the fourth in a series of graduate student symposia of its kind taking place at two year intervals. The event is organized by a group of University of Toronto graduate and undergraduate students with administrative support of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
The Symposium’s keynote speaker is Frank Sysyn , Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
The Symposium’s objective is to bring together young and well established scholars for three days of presentations and discussions related to the political, socioeconomic, and cultural dynamics in Ukrainian society. The Symposium seeks to integrate and draw on a wide range of theories and new scholarly research by applying them to Ukraine as a case study. It encourages interdisciplinary dialogue and cross-national comparisons in the wider context of the post-communist space.
The Symposium is open to graduate students and recent PhD holders from North America and Europe. Proposals involving cross-national comparisons in the wider context of the post-communist space are encouraged. Submissions can focus on a variety of topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Political and Economic Developments;
- Identity and Regionalism;
- Foreign Relations and National Security;
- Literature, Film and Media in Ukraine;
- New Approaches to Ukrainian History and the Politics of Memory.
The Symposium will feature a workshop for graduate students “Making Career Choices.” The workshop will be led by recent graduates now working in the private, public and non-governmental sectors. The Symposium will conclude with a roundtable on the future directions in the study of Ukraine, an interdisciplinary discussion on the themes and issues covered in the conference.
For more details about the conference, program, and submission requirements please click on the links at the left. See you in January!
PAST SYMPOSIUMS:
- International Graduate Student Symposium “New Perspectives on Contemporary Ukraine: Politics, History and Culture (March 12-13, 2004)
- International Graduate Student Symposium “New Perspectives on Contemporary Ukraine: Politics, History and Culture (March 17-19, 2006)
- International Graduate Student Symposium “New Perspectives on Contemporary Ukraine: Politics, History and Culture (January 24-26, 2008)