Deadline: March 31, 2025
The Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to invite you to submit paper proposals for a workshop for emerging scholars (M.A. students, Ph.D. students, and postdoctoral researchers) focusing on the study of contemporary East-Central and Southeastern Europe. We are interested in novel sources and approaches that reinterpret traditional historical narratives of these regions.
We welcome submissions related to East-Central and Southeastern Europe from history and other historically-informed disciplines, such as political science, anthropology, sociology, and film and literary studies. Scholars from the regions of inquiry are especially encouraged to apply. We hope to create panels of scholars from diverse national and temporal subfields to discuss shared challenges and insights related to the use of different sources – including, but not limited to, oral histories, literary sources, government documents, photography, video, or material culture. We will accept papers on any topic. In their presentations, panelists will address the source base of their papers and their interpretations thereof.
The workshop is remote and will take place via Zoom on May 16, 2025. Participants will have 15–20 minutes to present their papers in English. Each presentation will be followed by comments from a discussant and questions from the audience.
Please send a short abstract (300 words) and a CV in English via this form. Proposals should briefly explain the paper’s source base and argument, as well as its contribution to the fields of East-Central and Southeastern European history. The deadline for submission is 11:59 pm EST on March 31, 2025.
Applicants will be informed of their status by April 7. Those accepted into the workshop will be asked to submit a complete paper by 11:59 p.m. EST on May 2, 2025. Please direct questions regarding the workshop to myself (ahuselja@email.unc.edu) and Mira Markham (miram@live.unc.edu).