06.11.2024

Call for Papers: Workshop “The Russian Spectacle. Global Publics and Modern Russian and Soviet History”

Workshop von PD Dr. Jan Arend, Deadline 15.12.2024

Deadline: 15.12.2024

The pursuit of war and the hope for peace, as well as the quest for empire and the struggle against it have repeatedly cast Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union into the center of international public attention. At least since the last third of the nineteenth century, events in Russia such as acts of violence, warfare, scancals and celebrations led to the emergence of transnational publics that can be described as ‘global’ in that they went beyond the ‘West’ and were often transimperial and transcontinental in nature. The Workshop “The Russian Spectacle. Global Publics and Modern Russian and Soviet History “ will explore when, how and where Russia came to attract attention on a global scale.

The workshop is a cooperation between FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Moritz Florin) and the University of Tübingen (Jan Arend) and will take place on 10 and 11 April 2025 in Tübingen. The organizers plan to publish selected workshop papers as a special issue of a refereed journal.

Please submit your paper proposal to Jan Arend by December 15, 2024. The proposal should include an abstract of up to 350 words, a brief CV (1–2 pages), and your contact information.

For the full text of the Call for Papers please see the H-Soz-Kult-website

The workshop is funded by the DFG within the framework of the project “Stress im Spät- und Postsozialismus”. Link

Contact: PD Dr. Jan Arend