Forthcoming Eastern Platform Seminar – Call for Papers

We are glad to announce that the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies will host, on March 18-19, a two-day seminar entitled “Post-soviet space between the EU and Russia. The state of the crisis: winding down or going global?”

The event is jointly organized by the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies of the University of Tartu and the University College London, in cooperation with "Eastern Platform-Platform Ukraine", a multidisciplinary project based at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (SSEES).

The objective of the event is to gain a better understanding of the multiple challenges threatening peace, security, democracy and prosperity in the region, and to identify and assess possible scenarios for the future. While the focus will be mostly on the Ukrainian crisis and its repercussions at the continental level, contributions involving relevant comparisons with other events and/or geographical areas will also be welcome. The panel discussion will be followed by an expert roundtable with the objective to combine the different perspectives debated in the individual panels.

The call for papers is now open. Paper proposals can be submitted by February 12, 2016. Contributions are welcome from scholars, researchers, and experts from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives ranging from politics, history, economics, anthropology, sociology, geography, semiotics, and media studies.

Students of all levels and everybody interested in the debate are more than welcome to attend the panels and the roundtable!

For further details, please visit the webpage of the event at or contact Dr. Stefano Braghiroli ([email protected]).

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