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International conference titled, ‘How they become Siberians: historical memory, life trajectories, and practices of rooting’

Irkutsk, Khuzhir village
20-24 May, 2015

The Centre for Independent Social Research (Irkutsk), with support from the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and with participation of the Interregional Institute of Social Sciences (Irkutsk State University) will hold the III International conference of young researchers of Siberia. The main aim of the project ‘Siberia without borders’, within which international conferences of young researchers of Siberia and Baikal international schools of social research are carried out is to encourage the formation of independent intellectual and research networks including young Russian researchers of Siberia and their international counterparts.

A direct dialogue and in-person discussion of their own research projects help develop new standards, practices and styles of research in and on Siberia, thus allowing to move away from traditional stereotypes, and broaden a spectrum of comparative research including Siberian materials.

The I International conference of young researchers of Siberia was dedicated to the topic of ‘Siberia of socialism. The Soviet century in the individual memory’ (April 2013, Irkutsk and Olkhon island), and the second conference titled, ‘Siberia of socialism-II’ (May 2014, the cities of Bratsk and Ust’-Ilimsk) looked into the issues of reproduction, transformation, and/or the overcoming of the Soviet legacy in modern Siberia.

The third conference will focus on the current and ‘eternal’ issue of Siberia as a receiving/ migration world – the problem of rooting. We offer everyone to have a look at the processes of people getting rooted in Siberia from the perspective of various disciplines studying social identity, historical memory, the relationship between a human being and a local society, and the interaction of the cultural and natural landscape.

Researchers from social sciences and the humanities, whose research focus is on the present of the space stretching from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean, are welcome to participate. Young researchers’ applications (under 40 years of age) are given priority. Senior and master students can also apply.

Research based on field- and/or archival work, visual materials, and literary texts is considered most relevant to the conference’s aims and objectives, whereas papers representing purely historiosophical or geopolitical work are beyond those.

During the conference, it is planned that 15 to 20 papers would be discussed. They can be delivered either in Russian or English, with Russian being the working language of the event. Thus, international participants would need to have sufficient knowledge of the Russian language to take part in discussions.
 

The conference venue is in the village of Khuzhir on Olkhon Island (Baikal).

Following the event, conference proceedings are due to be published in the thematic collection of the ‘Siberia without borders’ project, and the most interesting and qualified papers will be recommended for publication in New Literary Observer, NZ, Ab Imperio, Laboratorium and other journals that support and develop social research networks.

Conference’s programme committee:

Serguei Oushakine (Princeton University, USA)
Nikolay Vakhtin (European University, Saint Petersburg)
Alain Blum (French–Russian Scientific Centre)
Irina Basalaeva (Kemerovo State University, Novokuznetsk)
Mikhail Rozhanskiy (Centre for Independent Social Research and Education, Irkutsk)
Dmitriy Kozlov (Irkutsk Interregional Institute of Social Sciences)

The project "Man in a Changing World. Identity and Social Adaptation: Past and Present" is funded by the Russian Government
(grant #14.В25.31.0009)
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