Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
at the University of Kansas
Central Europe 1989: Lessons and Legacies
Lawrence, KS, October 16-18, 2009
As part of a semester-long commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of Communism in East Central Europe, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas announces a conference, "Central Europe 1989: Lessons and Legacies," to be held in Lawrence, KS, October 16-18, 2009. We invite 250-word abstracts dealing with the question of transition and change in Central Europe as it relates to discourses, narratives, myths of identity in a variety of areas, including but not exclusively culture, literature and film, gender, ethnicity, civil and state structures, environment, economy.
Historical and political contextualizations of the "Turn" are also welcome. Please email your abstract by May 1, 2009, to: crees@ku.edu (and put "CE1989" in the subject line), or mail to: CE1989, CREES, University of Kansas, 320 Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045.
Possible topics include:
meanings of revolution (society, arts, science, technology, environment, etc.)
transition (and its discontents)
myths of identity
discourses of change
thinking and rethinking history
(re)defining Central Europe
stocktaking on the transition
structures of political change
institutional design
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies University of Kansas 320 Bailey Hall 1440 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045-7574
tel.: 785-864-4236
fax: 785-864-3800
http://www.crees.ku.edu
