Call for Applications
Balkan Studies Training Workshop for Junior Scholars
“Building Balkan Studies: Integrating Multidisciplinary Perspectives”
University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign
June 27–29, 2007
http://www.reec. uiuc.edu/ srl/srl.html
This workshop is part of the Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia; organized by the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Slavic and East European Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and funded in part by the U.S. Department of State Title VIII program.
Workshop Moderator
Victor Friedman, Mellon Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures and Linguistics, Director of CEERES, University of Chicago
Workshop Goals
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. The workshop will provide a superb forum in which to investigate a variety of pressing issues, including, but not limited to, the following:
§ State formation and democratization
§ 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 entertainment industry, especially music and film)
§ 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
§ Islam in Europe (architectural restoration, revival of Sufism, renewal of worship practices)
§ Gender, especially changing roles and images of women in society
Workshop Eligibility
The workshop is open to advanced graduate students and junior faculty in any discipline and professionals who specialize in the modern Balkans. To be eligible for workshop housing and travel grants, which are funded by a U.S. State Department Title VIII grant, applicants must be U.S. citizens/permanent residents and must state the policy relevance (broadly defined) of their research in the application. Depending on space availability, those who do not qualify for financial support may
participate in the workshop at their own expense.
Housing and Travel Grants
Participants who are eligible for workshop housing and travel grants (see eligibility) may also apply for additional research housing grantsa total of up to 14 days for graduate students; 8 for all others. Graduate students may also apply for travel grants of up to $200.
Deadline
15 April 2007 for US citizen/permanent resident applications
1 April 2007 for international applications (limited housing grant only)
Application
All participants are considered Summer Lab associates and must submit a Summer Research Lab application and application fee. To apply for financial assistance, applicants must also submit a one- to two-page research proposal that includes a statement clearly indicating the policy relevance of the proposed research. Workshop space is limited.
To download an application form go to www.reec.uiuc. edu/srl/srl. html and
click on “how to apply” in the navigation bar. To request a paper application form contact:
Summer Research Lab
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
104 International Studies Building
910 S. Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 333-1244; fax (217) 333-1582
reec@uiuc.edu
www.reec.uiuc. edu
Lynda Y. Park, Associate Director
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
University of Illinois
104 International Studies Building, MC-487
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 333-6022, 333-1244; fax (217) 333-1582
lypark@uiuc. edu
http://www.reec. uiuc.edu
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