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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for Papers</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Second International Interdisciplinary Workshop</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Imaginary Borderlands: ‘Othering’ and ‘Domestic Others’ on Post-Soviet Frontiers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">KYIV, June 21 – 22, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Theme:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Social anthropology interprets the notion of ‘border’ and ‘borderlands’ as some physical space; it suggests something located ‘between’, in a contact area; a territory where
the discontinuity becomes a little out of focus (Herzfeld 2001). </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interdisciplinary
</span><span lang="UK" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">re</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">search</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">of ‘border studies’ in Eastern Europe
</span><span lang="UK" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">reflect</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">s</span><span lang="UK" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
the internal complexity </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">and</span><span lang="UK" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> dynamics
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">of social-cultural changes in a region</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">that has constantly faced political, social and economic challenges, including shifting borders and massive in and out migrations.
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The category of
<i>‘borderland’</i> acquires a new urgency in the current context of social and political change and instability in Eastern Europe, especially in post-Soviet areas. Nowadays we witness how unprotected and flexible state borders are. Political elites use the
idea of ‘common cultural heritage’ or ‘common history’ to revise the borders of another state.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The western border of Ukraine can be considered a border of post trauma, while the eastern border is one of actual traumatic experience. However, current painful changes on
Ukrainian eastern borderlands, including new ‘borders’ with the unrecognized republics of ‘LPR’ and ‘DPR’, the huge dimension of displaced people and migrations abroad evoked conflicts of memory between neighbours on its western borderlands, which include
the former boundaries of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland and Romania. Thus, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine has already exacerbated existing conflicts among various social groups, reducing the general level of social trust and tolerance. Therefore, we urgently
need to enhance understanding among various culture agents and encourage different social groups to look for strategies to understand their neighbours and
<b><i>‘domestic others’</i></b>. For this purpose, we suggest to discuss the multiplicity of
<b><i>imaginary borders</i></b> that occurs when hidden wounds, traumas and stereotypes dominate the experience of real communication. The discourse of ‘imaginary borders’ coincides with the process of ‘othering’ and divides social groups from each other.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The case of Ukrainian society reflects the problems and challenges of post-socialist and post-Soviet states on its local level.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We encourage young scholars, representing various disciplines, to reflect upon the following questions: what does the process of ‘othering’ mean for Ukrainian society
and societies in the post-Soviet space; who are those <i>‘domestic others’</i> living nearby; how to avoid the stigmatization of ‘others’ on a social and political level; is ‘multicultural tolerance’ is a myth created by scholars, journalists and ‘opinion
makers’; how can post-colonial theories be applied to the processes of ‘othering’ on post-Soviet frontiers; how should we perceive the notion of ‘frontier’ given the ongoing political challenges and shifting borders in Eastern Europe, etc.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The workshop will offer debates on the ‘border studies’ as a scholarly field, on the multi-sited perceptions of ‘other’; on the narratives of East and West in Ukraine, and broader
– on Post-Soviet space, and on the institutions that conserve the past or construct new horizons of expectations and identities. We
</span><span lang="UK" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">focu</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">s</span><span lang="UK" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
not on </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">‘</span><span lang="UK" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">real</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">’</span><span lang="UK" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
history, but on images that can be seen through</span><span lang="UK" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span><span lang="UK" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">articulations of a local point of view</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, stressing on the experiences
and perceptions of the ‘Other’. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We seek proposals for presentations, based on qualitative research methods, which explore demarcations, experiences, and imaginings of
<b><i>‘domestic others’</i></b><i> </i>on post-Soviet frontiers. Focused predominantly on Ukraine, but also on the whole post-Soviet space, papers may be theoretical in nature or may assess the meanings of these ideas within specific ethnographic cases and
local communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height:115%"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Expected results of the Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-pursuing critical reflection on the history and nature of ‘border studies’ as a scholarly field, and on the narratives of ‘borders’, ‘borderlands’ and ‘frontiers’ in the region;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-enhancing an understanding of the ‘othering’ problem for the present discourse of the post-Soviet frontiers;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-debating ethical issues of ethnographic fieldwork in stigmatized communities and among ‘domestic others’;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-developing cooperation among NGO actors, volunteers and researches;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-building a sustainable network by encouraging an epistemic community in the region on the theme of the workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Format</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The target group encompasses young scholars (those under 35 years of age on January 31, 2018).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
The event envisages 4 panels (<b>12 participants</b>), 4 discussants and 2 lecturers-key-note speakers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">All papers will be pre-circulated to participants to facilitate fruitful discussion. Each participant will give a 20-minute presentation (PowerPoint or Prezi presentation is
obligatory), followed by commentary by an invited discussant (20 minutes) and open discussion (30 minutes for questions and answers).
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The working language of the workshop is English</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Logistics</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The cost of travel to Kyiv (economy) and three nights of accommodation will be covered.
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Proposals</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">: Please submit a brief CV with your contact details (max.
3 pages) and a <b>300-word proposal</b> to e-mail: </span><a href="mailto:imaginary.borderlands2018@gmail.com"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">imaginary.borderlands2018@gmail.com</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">by
<b>10 January 2018</b>. Notification of acceptance will be given by <b>31 January 2018.</b> All documents should be submitted in English, preferably as a single PDF file. Please, note that partial participation is not possible.<b><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Contact details:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Olena Soboleva
</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><a href="mailto:olena_soboleva@yahoo.com"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">olena_soboleva@yahoo.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span><span lang="PL" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Iuliia Buyskykh
</span></i><a href="mailto:julia.buj@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">julia.buj@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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