Announcements

Political Transformation and Social Change in the South Caucasus: Georgia and Armenia in Perspective; June 29-30, 2012, Yerevan (Armenia).

The international conference “Political Transformation and Social Change in the South Caucasus: Georgia and Armenia in Perspective” will be held with support of the Academic Swiss Caucasus Net (ASCN) and is designed for junior scholars.

Proposals must be linked to one of the following themes:

• Migration, Diasporas and Social Inclusion
• Civil Society, Social Networks and Social Capital
• Media, Discourses and Public Space
• State Power, Governance and Democracy
• National Identity, Minorities, Religious and Cultural Capital
• Social Change (Youth Identity, Youth Employment, Change of Values, etc.)

Conference Objectives: 

The conference aims to gather junior scholars and researchers from various disciplines of the social sciences (political science, sociology, anthropology, etc.) involved with the South Caucasus. More specifically, the conference will address the following points of interest:

• It will provide opportunities for researchers vested in Armenia and Georgia to engage, network, exchange and discuss their research projects, papers and findings; 
• It will provide a forum for discussion regarding the contradictions and ambivalences of the transformation process in the South Caucasus;
• It will provide a forum for discussion regarding the challenges confronting social science researchers in the South Caucasus.

Eligibility:

The conference is open to PhD students and recent PhD graduates (2008 or later).

The contributions to be presented must deal specifically with Armenia or Georgia. Contributions with a comparative dimension including at least one of the two countries are also accepted.

Working Language: English 

Submission Instructions

All interested scholars are requested to submit an abstract (no more than 300 words) of their contribution, a 1-page C.V. and a short motivation letter. Submissions must be sent no later than 12 March 2012 to info@ascn.ch and to jan.kreuels@ascn.ch with the following email subject: ASCN Annual Conference 2012. All documents must be in English and must be merged into a single PDF file. The result of the selection process will be announced by 10 April 2012.

The conference will be held in Yerevan.  All expanses will be covered.  

For further information, please contact:

Denis Dafflon, ASCN Programme Manager

info@ascn.ch; denis.dafflon@unifr.ch 

for detailed information, please visit the following web-page: 

http://ascn.ch/en/Events/Annual-Conference-2012.html.