European Congress 5-8 April 2013
'Europe: Crisis and Renewal'
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge UK
The processes of political, economic, and cultural change in Europe have had a particularly strong impact upon the countries of Eastern Europe and their neighbours in the east. It is timely to reflect on and debate the ways in which Europe and the former Soviet Union has experienced and coped with crisis in all its forms, past and present.
The process of change in Eastern Europe since the fall of communism at the end of the 1980s, the accession of 10 Eastern European states to the EU and the continuing work of European integration in the former Yugoslavia make this an appropriate time to reflect on the experience of Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union. The congress theme 'Europe: Crisis and Renewal' provides a focus to allow reflection on contemporary challenges - political, economic and social - as well as on the history of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union.
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Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Professor Jörg Baberowski (Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany)
Professor Richard Sakwa (University of Kent, United Kingdom)
Prof Simon Dixon (University College London SSEES)
Prof Sabrina P. Ramet (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)
Aleksey Popogrebskiy (Film director and screenwriter)
Luke Harding (The Guardian) in conversation with Stephen White (University of Glasgow)
Academic Conference Organisers:
Dr Matthias Neumann ([email protected])
Prof Peter Waldron ([email protected])
Dr Jonathan Oldfied ([email protected])
Prof Stephen Hutchings ([email protected])
The congress will be based at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.