Call for Proposals—A World in Motion: Eurasian Border Areas in Times of War and Postwar, from the Early Modern Period to the Present
An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by Kritika, the Institut Convergences Migrations / CNRS, INED, the The American University of Paris, EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, CNRS, Max Weber Network Eastern Europe, CERCEC, and Eur’ORBEM labs, to be held at Campus Condorcet in Paris on 12–13 December 2025.
Among other topics, contributions might focus on the following:
- The projection of state power into borderlands regions
- Migration trajectories
- The entanglement of different political regimes at local, national, and imperial levels
- Forced population transfers
- The history of cross-border groups and their mobility
- Transnational and trans-imperial individual and family trajectories
- Population exchanges at the end of a war
- War crimes and postwar repressions
- The presence of border zones in international diplomacy
- The role of border zones in domestic politics
- Identity and citizenship in border zones
- The specific contributions of borderland history to the broader history of postwar eras
- The role of nonstate actors (NGOs, churches, etc.) in border zones
We invite interested participants to apply to the conference by submitting a brief abstract (250– 300 words), along with a short CV (maximum two pages), combined into a single PDF by 1 May 2025 to Kritika’s Special Topics Editor, Stephen Bittner (bittner[at]
sonoma.edu). Conference participants will be required to circulate a draft version of their paper (5,000–6,000 words) by 15 November 2025.
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