The Student Organizing Committee and the University of Toronto’s Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES) is pleased to announce a call for papers for its International Graduate Student Symposium in Ukrainian Studies. With the theme, “New Perspectives in Ukrainian Studies: Transnational, Transcultural, and Translocal Insights,” CEES aims to offer an interdisciplinary platform for rethinking Ukraine’s place in the world—and as a world in itself. By bringing together graduate students from across social sciences, humanities, and public policy we hope to foster relational, hybrid, and plural conversations about Ukraine’s past, present, and future, including in the context of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war.
We invite papers on a variety of topics that may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Imperial formations and dissolutions in the history of Ukraine
- Global transfer, circulation, and cross-border movement
- The interplay between the global and the local in studying Ukraine
- Heterogeneous cultural imaginaries in the past and present Ukraine
- Construction and contestation of identities in and outside of Ukraine
- Ukrainians in Canada in relation to other diasporic communities
- Multifaceted experiences and responses to the ongoing war
- Reconstruction efforts and civic activism
- The Holodomor and political violence in history and memory
- Human-environment relations in the Ukrainian history and culture
- Critical frameworks and decolonial methodologies in studying Ukraine
- Entanglements of art and resistance
We warmly welcome paper proposals that study Ukraine from a comparative, broader perspective.
The Symposium will take place at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy from January 22-24, 2026 with the aim of bringing together young scholars for three days of presentations and in-depth discussions on Global Ukraine.
The Symposium is open to all current graduate students and recent graduates (within the past two years) from any university in Canada or abroad. In some cases, we may be able to offer successful applicants some travel funding. Previous symposia have hosted participants from Canada, the United States, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, England, the Netherlands, and more.
We offer our attendees a diverse, professional, and collaborative environment that encourages constructive exchange of ideas. Presenters will have an opportunity to obtain feedback of faculty and graduate peers on their work and expand their professional networks.
Applicants should send a short CV and a paper proposal of no more than 300 words to ukrgradsymptoronto@gmail.com by November 1st, 2025. We also ask that you indicate in your e-mail whether or not you will require financial support, and in what amount.
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