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"Building Balkan Studies: Integrating Multidisciplinary Perspectives"
June 30 - July 2, 2008
Moderator Julie Mostov ( Associate
Vice Provost for International Programs and Associate Professor of Political
Science, Drexel University)
Workshop Goals and Themes
The workshop is part of the Summer Research Lab.
The central aim of this three-day workshop is to bring together advanced
graduate students, junior faculty and other professionals who focus
on the modern Balkans in various disciplines to discuss their work and
issues in the field. Although massive political change and the Yugoslav
wars regularly put the region on the front page of major newspapers
throughout the 1990s, Balkan studies is still a relatively underrepresented
field. The workshop’s objectives are to foster a supportive network
of colleagues involved in this field and to explore recent research
paradigms and resources. Comparative work is strongly encouraged. The
workshop will provide a superb forum in which to investigate a variety
of issues, including, but not limited to, the following:
- State formation and democratization
- Status of Kosovo
- Privatization and the creation of new market economies
- Ethnopolitics and the civil rights of minorities
- The role of language (identity and citizenship; maintenance, shift, and endangerment)
- Law reform, the writing of new legal codes, and rethinking intellectual property rights
- Human security (terrorism, trafficking of women and children, organized crime syndicates)
- Demographic movement (displaced peoples, diasporic formations, refugees, guest workers)
- The culture of socialism and postsocialism
- Education (rewriting of curricula; establishment of new institutions for higher learning)
- Popular culture and contemporary society
- The arts, social change, and postsocialist identity (literature, fine arts, architecture)
- The changing position of Balkan states vis-à-vis the EU, the U.S., Russia, and the Middle East
- Religion in the Balkans
- Gender, especially changing roles and images of women in society
Workshop sessions will be devoted to a discussion of the participants’ research; investigation of current literature and paradigms; and a presentation of scholarly resources, including relevant databases by staff specialists from the Slavic and East European Library. Time will also be available for research in the UI Libraryone of the largest Slavic and East European collections in the U.S. Participants may stay beyond the workshop dates to conduct individual research.
Eligibility
The workshop is open to doctoral students and junior faculty in any discipline and professionals who specialize in the modern Balkans. To be eligible for the workshop housing and travel grants, which are funded by a Title VIII grant from the State Department, participating scholars must be US citizens/permanent residents and must state the policy relevance (broadly defined) of their research in the application. Very limited housing grants are available for international scholars. Those who are not eligible for financial support may take part in the workshop at their own expense, pending space availability.
Workshop Housing and Travel Grant
Since all participants will be considered Summer Research Lab associates, participants are eligible for free housing grants for up to 14 days for graduate students and 8 for all others. A limited number of travel grants are available for graduate students (US citizens/permanent residents) only .
Deadline
Same as SRL housing grant deadlines. See Deadlines.
Application
All participants must submit a Summer Research Lab application and application fee (upon acceptance). To be eligible for financial assistance, applicants must submit a one- to two-page research proposal that includes a statement clearly indicating the policy relevance of the proposed research, broadly defined. For more information on this issue please click on proposal information in the side bar. Workshop space is limited.
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