Big thanks to our
#RUTA2024
speakers and organisers from Ukraine, RUTA region(s) and many faraway places. Thank you all for joining us, sharing your work with us and turning our debates into global conversations. Please reserve the end of June for next RUTA conference in Ukraine
Do not hesitate and join us next year! We sincerely welcome non-academic participants. This year we had immensely inspiring panels and roundtables with journalists, social justice advocates and a wide range of formats with artists: walks, music, performance art, film screenings..
I know I’m not an academic but I still wish I was at
@associationruta
’s inaugural conference 🥲 Looks like an amazing line up of speakers and presentations
The first of our programming meetings for RUTA's inaugural conference Re(kn)own: Region(s) from Within. The team is excited about so many incredible panels, talks and art works. We are doing our best to select the most inspiring submissions and cannot wait to see you in Ukraine!
The new RUTA Board of Representatives has met! Welcome
@AsselTutumlu
, Epp Annus, Martin-Oleksandr Kisly,
@TerezaHendl
, and Maria Shuvalova, with RUTA Coordinator Kate Kostohryz. The Board is already planning the next RUTA conference: an exciting call for papers is coming in Sept!
Our team has now finalised the programme for RUTA's inaugural conference Re(kn)own: Region(s) from Within. Thank you all for your patience. We have received a large number of incredible applications. We will be sending out participant confirmations over the next few days.
We are hiring: RUTA is looking for an Association Coordinator to help build our Ukraine-based transnational association. Office space in Kyiv or Lviv, with remote work possibilities
We are thrilled to announce the second featured panel, “Genealogies of Anti-colonial Thought in RUTA regions,” featuring Zaal Andronikashvili, Epp Annus,
@ManuelaBoatca
, Tamara Hundorova, Aniko Imre, Almagul Menlibayeva
Moderator:
@DaryaTsymbalyuk
Congratulations to our newly elected members of the RUTA Board of Representatives! From our founding team, we have
@TerezaHendl
and Martin-Oleksandr Kisly, joined by
@AsselTutumlu
, Epp Annus and Maria Shuvalova. We wish you lots of success and strength on this important journey
Some of the reasons to join us in RUTA
See our membership options and help us grow and strengthen transnational research communities committed to socially responsible, critical and epistemically reparative research in global conversation:
The RUTA Association is now open for membership registration on our webpage. Support our activities by becoming a member and you will also be able to vote for the candidates for the RUTA Board of Representatives. See our various membership types
Today is the final day to apply for the RUTA conference "Re(kn)own: Region(s) from within." Do not forget to send us your abstracts! We look forward to learning about your work and holding inspiring discussions, strengthening communities and making new connections in Ukraine
Congratulations to our founding member
@UnaBergmane
on being awarded the 2024 AABS Biennial Book Prize by
@balticstudies
for her book "Politics of Uncertainty: The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union." Such well deserved recognition!
The AABS Biennial Book Prize has been awarded to
@UnaBergmane
for her book "Politics of Uncertainty: The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union."
Congrats, Una!
Read more about this important publication:
Are you a scholar with expertise on RUTA region(s) and interested in growing an association, which centers the rich scholarship from these regions? You are welcome to nominate yourself as a candidate for elections onto the RUTA Board of Representatives:
Read an interview with journalist, lecturer and RUTA Advisory Board member Tatev Hovhannisyan, exploring the importance of establishing the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asia Studies in Global Conversation
Congratulations to one of our founding members, historian Una Bergmane, on being awarded the 2024 Cambridge Baltic Geopolitics Network Publication Prize
I was honored to recive Cambridge Baltic Geopolitics Network Publication Prize 2024 for my book "Politics of Uncertainty: The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union" (OUP 2023)
The book is dedicated to Ukrainian scholars and students.
💗Very excited and proud to join the Advisory Board of the RUTA Association which promotes and supports Central, South-Eastern, Eastern Europe, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asia studies in Global Conversation.
@associationruta
Its first Annual Conference is schedule for June 27-30 in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine. Follow us for news about RUTA and our inaugural conference this summer.
See below for a new mailing list that scholars might be interested in joining. We are very happy that RUTA is inspiring fellow research communities, including on how to describe the region(s) we study and do research from
Join the new mailing list:
political ecologies, rural geographies, agrarian, land, and food studies in Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern Europe, Central and Northern Asia, the Baltics, and the Caucasus (c.f.
@associationruta
framing)
join, use, and share
The voting for candidates onto the RUTA Board of Representatives is in full swing. Do not forget to cast your votes until midnight on 25 June EET. All RUTA members can vote, see details on how to become a member:
The Association strives to lead and amplify debates on issues concerning the region(s), making them accessible to local scholars and strengthening their connections with academics and institutions globally.
‼️ Important announcement for those who have applied for the RUTA conference: several applicants might have not received their letters of confirmation, can we please ask applicants who have not heard from us to check their spam folders in case our emails were misplaced ‼️
Special thanks to our Election Committee - consisting of five Advisory Board members,
@tahovhannisyan
, Tamta Khalvashi, Maja Kominko,
@TamarKoplatadze
, and Sunnie Rucker-Chang
@slavprofsrc
. Read about our new Board of Representatives
RUTA invites proposals for research paper presentations, panels, roundtable discussions, and other forms of knowledge exchange for its inaugural
conference, to be held in the Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine, 27-30
June 2024.
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In response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and as part of the reckoning with its horrific violence, new connections of solidarity and knowledge exchange have
emerged. RUTA’s annual conference aims to uphold the emerging debates, inquiries, and cooperation.
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For safety and security reasons, the venue and logistics pertaining to the conference will be disclosed to registered participants close to the conference date. 10/11
By basing the Association and its annual conference in Ukraine, RUTA examines how the practice of knowledge-making is inherently rooted
in our region(s), bodies, material, and lived realities.
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We welcome presentations that engage the region(s) in its cultural and geographical diversity. We are especially interested in transnational and comparative approaches
that situate the region(s) in global conversations.
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The founding of RUTA and its inaugural conference aims to transform the region(s) from an object of study to an active and visible epistemic agent. It aims to place the region(s) at the centre of epistemic debates.
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For 2024, RUTA is offering free membership to individual researchers, artists and social justice advocates who are Ukrainian citizens, currently residing in Ukraine, or who have a Ukrainian institution as their primary affiliation
The conference will take place in the Carpathian mountains in a location with on-site air raid shelters. All state and local guidelines regarding
safety and security will be strictly adhered to throughout the conference.
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@AnL93337430
Yes, you can. The free membership is offered to those who are Ukrainian citizens and/or currently residing in Ukraine and/or have a Ukrainian institution as their primary affiliation, so you are eligible and very welcome to join us and help us grow the RUTA community.
For inaugural conference panels, we invite you to challenge language & spatial divides, and to think of how we can re-map connections to question both area studies and nation-centric approaches in our studies. 3/3