Deadline for proposals

31. January 2007

Proposals should be sent, as email attachments, to: tomasekm@fss.muni.cz
Further detail: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=152432

Date of conference

28-30th June 2007

About the conference

Since 1989 CEE societies have undergone unparalleled social change, however, the expected reforms in the spheres of law, public policy, culture, media, economy and social policies have been substantially delayed and compromised. The simultaneous emergence of free-market economies and pluralist politics led to situations in which the state quickly withdrew or collapsed, and distinctions between state, collective, and private domains became unclear. It has been in the interest of those actors that emerged in this initial phase of change to prolong a specifically post-socialist culture between socialism and the free market. This may have decisively contributed to the Eurosceptic backlash in the ranks of particular mainstream political forces and in specific cultural segments and sections of societies in some CEE countries.

Key questions

• What is in this light the meaning of "the big European switch" of 2004 and its upcoming enlargement follow-up?
• How 'Central and Eastern European' have the CEE countries stayed and Western Europe become?
• What are the reconstituted boundaries?

Responsible institution

The conference is held by School of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 28th - 30th June 2007 and organized in cooperation with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, the conference presents a major opportunity for postgraduate students and young academics to discuss the events in Central and Eastern Europe also including but not limited to Russia, Eurasia, the Balkans, and the Baltic States. We invite submissions and participants from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.