{"id":12287,"date":"2025-02-25T02:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T02:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=12287"},"modified":"2025-02-25T02:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T02:05:11","slug":"cfp-a-world-in-motion-eurasian-border-areas-in-times-of-war-and-postwar-from-the-early-modern-period-to-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=12287","title":{"rendered":"CFP: A World in Motion: Eurasian Border Areas in Times of War and Postwar, from the Early Modern Period to the Present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by Kritika<\/em>, the Institut Convergence migrations, Sorbonne, INED, the American University in Paris, EHESS, CNRS, Max Weber Network Eastern Europe, CERCEC, and Eur\u2019ORBEM labs, to be held at Campus Condorcet in Paris on 12\u201313 December 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kritika <\/em>editors and our colleagues at EHESS and CNRS, Juliette Cadiot and Irina Tcherneva, are soliciting analyses of the border regions of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in times of war and postwar. Building on several decades of \u201cborderlands\u201d scholarship that focuses on the tension between local diversity and fluidity, on the one hand, and state-driven campaigns for security, legibility, and homogeneity, on the other, Kritika <\/em>editors seek to highlight the centrality of the borderland as a \u201cshatter zone\u201d: a site for violence, genocide, warfare, forced population transfer, and migration. We intend for the conference to be transnational and decolonial in orientation. For instance, how was the expansion of the Soviet Union in and after the Second World War experienced by displaced and replacement populations? Similarly, what was it like to travel as a pilgrim or refugee from Soviet Central Asia to Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, and elsewhere?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among other topics, contributions might focus on the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n