Call for proposals: Siberia, Central Asia, the Russian Far East and North Pacific: Asia in the Russian Imagination
Asia in the Russian Imagination
The Univer
sity of Utah’s Asia Center is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on Siberia, Central Asia, and the Russian Far East and North Pacific, organized around the theme of “Asia in the Russian Imaginati
on.” The conference will be held at the University of Utah
’s campus in Salt Lake City on March 23-24, 2018. Over the past th
ree years, the Asia Center’s “Siberian Initiative” has sponsored talks on a
nthropology, environmental studies, history, film studies, and linguistics,
and we are continuing this interdisciplinary approach to Russia in Asia/As
ia in Russia at our conference.
We welcome proposals exploring
political, economic, and socio-cultural interactions from a variety of fiel
ds and perspectives. We foresee extended discussions on Russian-Asian
connections and networks, as well as policies, processes, and populations i
n “Russian Asia,” within the imperial, Soviet, or post-Soviet eras. We hope
that this conference honors the interdisciplinary tradition established by
the British Universities Siberian Studies Seminar, last held in 2007. Foll
owing the conference, the organizers intend to publish a selection of the e
ssays either as a special issue of a journal or as an edited volume.
Please submit proposals for individual papers no later than 1
5 October 2017 to the Events Coordinator of Utah’s International S
tudies program, Rocío Torres This email address is being protected from spambots. Yo
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of “Asia-Russia 2018” to make sure you receive full consid
eration. Submissions should include a 250-word abstract as well as a brief
(1-2 page) C.V. The organizers will make their decisions by early December.
Advisory committee:
Jane Frances Hacking
, University of Utah
Eric R. Laursen, University of Utah
Robert A
rgenbright, University of Utah
Marisa Karyl Franz, University of Toron
to
Jessica Graybill, Colgate University
Lenore Grenoble, Universi
ty of Chicago
Jeffrey F. Hardy, Brigham Young University
Matthew
P. Romaniello, University of Hawaii
John Ziker, Boise State University