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Date: Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Subject: Call for Proposals: RUTA Association Annual Conference 2025
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Apply till November 1st!
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*Call for Proposals*
*Apply till November 1st!*
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The RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European,
Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asia Studies in Global Conversation
invites proposals for research paper presentations, panels, roundtable
discussions, and other forms of knowledge exchange for its annual
conference, to be held in *Ukraine, 26–29 June 2025*.
*The conference will take place in Ukraine in the Carpathian Mountains, in
a location with on-site air raid shelters*. The Carpathians are recognised
as a Green All state and local guidelines regarding safety and security
will be strictly adhered to throughout the conference. For safety and
security reasons, the venue and logistics pertaining to the conference will
be disclosed to registered participants close to the conference date.
More information
<https://s8855985.sendpul.se/sl/Mzc4MTcyNg==/c4992d2e42d483263d29684d564bc4d3ed522s9>
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With the aim of upholding the RUTA Association and its annual conference as
a space, which will continue the transformation of the *RUTA region(s) from
the object of study to an active and visible epistemic agent*, this year’s
conference is entitled *Imagination: New Visions and Connections*. The
event strives to reimagine the process of knowledge-making, by exploring
novel approaches to RUTA region(s), while centering and building on the
region(s)’ rich academic, cultural and artistic traditions and liberation
movements and seeking global connections and conversations.
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Our conference *welcomes proposals from diverse academic, artistic, and
community practice backgrounds*. We invite researchers from the humanities,
social sciences, area studies, and interdisciplinary fields, as well as
practitioners in community organizing, media, journalism, environment,
national and international law, museums and other memory institutions,
archives, the performing and visual arts. Exhibitions, film screenings,
talks, plays, and other contributions to the conference are welcome.
We strongly encourage and prioritise *transregional panels* that will
foster conversations on particular themes among scholars working from/on
various parts of the RUTA region(s) as well as comparative approaches that
situate the region(s) in *global conversations*. Those who will submit
individual presentations will be clustered into transregional panels formed
from various individual submissions.
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*We particularly invite engagement with, yet not only, the following themes
and questions in relation to the conference theme:*
- Decolonizing of the RUTA region(s): which traditions of thought and
praxis are relevant and/or can be learned from? Different lineages of and
approaches to de/anti-coloniality in the RUTA region(s) and beyond, how
they can be interconnected with global debates and movements, and how can
we acknowledge, work with and bridge divides and tensions
- Legacies of imperial resources, extractivism and exploitation that
have shaped the RUTA region(s): countering peripheralization, postcolonial
conditions, and (neo)colonialism
- Intersections between academia, arts and activism
- What is Indigeneity in the context of the RUTA region(s) and why does
it matter, including how can we better understand, solidarize with and
support Indigenous struggles for liberation?
- Roma rights and liberation movements in the region(s) and globally
- Critical perspectives on imperial conceptualisations of nationalism,
economic development, environmental sustainability, and their imposition on
de/anticolonial liberation struggles, including disinformation, social
polarization, ethno-nationalism and homo-nationalism, absence of
accountability of government officials, while remaining critical of the
global rise of the far right and authoritarian politics
- Lineages, traditions, histories and specific aspects of antiracist,
antifascist, feminist and LGBTQ+ scholarship and movements in the region(s)
and beyond: how to approach the limitations of Western- and Russia-centric
and various fellow imperial theories and frameworks in scholarship and
debates? How to adapt, transform or refuse various concepts, while
centering direct and embodied knowledges?
- New connections: how can we conduct research in socio-cultural
contexts that are not our own? Methodologies of de/anticolonial,
non-extractivist and antiracist research, including debates on how to
foster difficult discussion and navigate tensions
- Epistemic reparations, transitional justice, transnational
solidarities: fostering socially responsible, non-extractivist and
epistemically reparative research methodologies and praxis
- Socio-economic inequalities, security threats and restrictions of
topics in most countries, unequal distribution of research funding within
European and global research infrastructure, the impact of funding
inequities across the RUTA region(s): countering precarity, neoliberalism,
discrimination and brain drain and strengthening liveable and sustainable
conditions for the production of knowledge
- Interdisciplinary, transnational and global dialogues: challenges and
good practice
- Global climate emergency; environmental politics and action;
sustainability; and degrowth: how and what can we learn from each other?
What kind of mindset and tools we need to adopt to address predicaments of
our unsustainable modernity
- Renewable energy games, nuclear terrorism and strategies of resistance
of various authoritarian and capitalist private interests
- Health and wellbeing: mitigating inequalities, healing from trauma and
burnout, surviving and thriving, navigating expectations of emotional and
other labour of educating those unburdened by de/anticolonial work and
resistance, trauma-informed practices and research
- Disinformation and propaganda: how can we counter their impact across
the world?
- Artistic imaginations on all of the above and the future
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*Proposals of panels and roundtables must be submitted by Fri, Nov 1, 2024.*
Confirmations of acceptance will be communicated no later than the end of
Dec 2024.
We strongly encourage and prioritise *trans-regional panels,* involving
researchers working from/on various parts of the RUTA region(s) and
globally. In regards to the format of the debates, we welcome panels and
roundtables discussing particular* topics*, but also e.g. different ways
that particular *concepts* or *theories* have been worked with or critiqued
in various parts of the RUTA region(s) and globally. We also welcome panels
and roundtables that will focus on discussing the significance of a
specific *core text* and its links or importance to the RUTA region(s) and
beyond; and those that will explore how to conduct socially responsible,
ethically sound, non-extractivist and *anti-colonial forms of research and
fieldwork* in the RUTA region(s) and globally.
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*Conference registration fee*: the conference will have sliding scale fees.
As the RUTA Association, we are committed to making our conferences
affordable for scholars from the RUTA region(s).
There will be a *limited number of travel grants* that participants in need
of financial assistance and without institutional funding can apply for.
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*Apply*
Panel Application
<https://s8855985.sendpul.se/sl/Mzc4MTcyNw==/c4992d2e42d483263d29684d564bc4d3ed522s9>
Roundtable Application
<https://s8855985.sendpul.se/sl/Mzc4MTcyOA==/c4992d2e42d483263d29684d564bc4d3ed522s9>
Individual Presentation
<https://s8855985.sendpul.se/sl/Mzc4MTcyOQ==/c4992d2e42d483263d29684d564bc4d3ed522s9>
Artistic Engagements
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Please send your enquiries to: conference at ruta-association.org
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