Second Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies

Partner: Centre for EU-Russia Studies, University of Tartu
Event date: Jun 04, 2017 - Jun 06, 2017
Deadline for registering: Feb 20, 2017
Venue: University of Tartu, Estonia, Estonia
Category: Conference

You are invited to submit proposals for panels, roundtables and papers for the Second Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies on 4-6 June 2017 under the theme “The Russian Revolution and Its Legacies: Taking Stock a Century Later“. The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 20, 2017.

The Tartu Conference is a venue for academic discussion of the fundamental cultural, social, economic and political trends affecting all aspects of people’s life in Russia and Eastern Europe. The First Tartu Conference, held in June 2016, brought together more than 200 scholars from across multiple disciplines, from the region and beyond.

Participants of the 2017 conference are invited to share their reflections on the Russian revolution of 1917 and the ensuing developments in Russia, Eastern Europe and elsewhere in the world. Scholars working in all subfields of area studies, including comparative politics, international relations, economics, history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and related disciplines, are invited to submit proposals for panels, roundtables and papers for the Second Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies.

The conference will open with a keynote address by Ronald Grigor Suny (University of Michigan) who will speak about Lessons of October:  The Fate of Democracy and Socialism in the Age of Revolution and Counter-Revolution. 

Plenary roundtable Soviet Legacies and De-Sovietization in Russia and Eastern Europe will feature the following speakers:

– Mark Kramer, Harvard University
– Richard Sakwa, University of Kent
– Madina Tlostanova, Linköping University

The Conference is organized jointly by the Centre for EU-Russia Studies at the University of Tartu, the Global Europe Centre at the University of Kent, and the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University. The conference will be supported by the European Commission under a Horizon 2020 Twinning project entitled “Building Research Excellence in Russian and East European Studies at the Universities of Tartu, Uppsala and Kent” (UPTAKE).

More details can be found on the conference website: www.tartuconference.ut.ee

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Keywords: Russia, Europe