---------- Forwarded message --------- From: RUTA <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 4:49 PM Subject: Call for Proposals: RUTA Association Annual Conference 2025 To: <[email protected]>
Apply till November 1st! [image: -] *Call for Proposals* *Apply till November 1st!* [image: WhatsApp_Image_2024-10-03_at_17] [image: WhatsApp_Image_2024-10-03_at_17] 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> ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ *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 ------------------------------ *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. ------------------------------ *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. ------------------------------ *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 <https://s8855985.sendpul.se/sl/Mzc4MTczMA==/c4992d2e42d483263d29684d564bc4d3ed522s9> Please send your enquiries to: [email protected] © Copyright, 2024, RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation • [image: Facebook] <https://s8855985.sendpul.se/sl/Mzc4MTczMQ==/c4992d2e42d483263d29684d564bc4d3ed522s9>[image: X (Twitter)] <https://s8855985.sendpul.se/sl/Mzc4MTczMg==/c4992d2e42d483263d29684d564bc4d3ed522s9>[image: Instagram] <https://s8855985.sendpul.se/sl/Mzc4MTczMw==/c4992d2e42d483263d29684d564bc4d3ed522s9> [image: -]
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