JOINT HUNGARIAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION AND ROMANIAN STUDIES JUNIOR SCHOLAR CONFERENCE MARCH 22-24, 2019 INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON SUBMISSION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 8, 2018
The Hungarian Cultural Association at Indiana University is pleased to announce the First Annual Joint Hungarian and Romanian Studies Junior Scholar Conference taking place March 23-24, 2019, on the Bloomington campus. We welcome proposals from graduate students and recent PhDs on any topic related to Hungary, in any discipline or methodology. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary approaches, but we regularly accept papers from historians, political scientists, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, folklorists, linguists, literary critics, and musicologists. For this conference, we are joining forces with the Romanian Studies Organization at Indiana University, who will be holding their eleventh annual conference March 22-23. For this reason, we especially encourage submissions from scholars working on topics that engage with both fields. The keynote address, titled “Ghetto, Showcase, or Cultural Greenhouse? The Hungarian Autonomous Region of the 1950s,” will be delivered by Dr. Stefano Bottoni, senior research fellow at the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and visiting fellow at the Imre Kerteғsz Kolleg Jena in Jena, Germany. Dr. Bottoni holds a PhD from the University of Bologna, where he has also held courses on contemporary Eastern Europe. His main fields of interest include the political and social history of Eastern Europe under the socialist regimes, with a special focus on national policies in Romania. He has taken part in several international research projects, including “Schleichwege”: Inoffizielle Begegnungen und Kontakte sozialistischer Staatsbuࡇrger 1956 – 1989 (Volkswagen Stiftung), and Physical Violence in State Socialism (Zentrum fuࡇr Zeithistorische Forschung). He is currently a team member of the Horizon2020 project "COURAGE" on cultural opposition in communist Eastern Europe. His publications include the monographs Long Awaited West: Eastern Europe since 1944 (2017), and Stalin’s Legacy in Romania: The Hungarian Autonomous Region, 1952-1960 (2018). Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words, along with your contact information and a brief biography, to Alina Williams at williali@indiana.edu by December 8, 2018. Please submit abstracts in .doc, .docx, or .pdf. file format. We will send notifications of acceptance by January 11, 2019. Any inquiries about the conference or the program may be directed to Alina Williams at williali@indiana.edu. Please forward this request for proposals to anyone who might be interested.