PhD students and recent PhD graduates (2009 and later) dealing with the Western Balkans, eager to present and discuss their research work with colleagues from the region and beyond (especially current research results) that relate to our general topic "Social, Political and Economic Change in the Western Balkans".

More specifically, papers should fit into one of the following panels:
1) Gender Politics and Discourses
2) Media, Political and Social Discourses
3) New Social Disparities/Social and Economic Change
4) States, Networks and Informality
5) Migration, Diasporas and Remittances

Papers to be presented can handle topics within the region in general or deal with the processes of change in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.

All interested candidates should submit a single PDF file containing a short Curriculum Vitae (max. 1 page), an abstract of the proposed conference paper (max. 300 words) and a short letter of motivation (max. 1 page) by 19 January 2013 at the latest to delia.imboden@unifr.ch and rrpp@unifr.ch.
In submitting an abstract, all candidates should state, in the ‘Subject’ section of their email, their chosen topic/panel.

The selection process for abstracts will be completed by the end of February 2013. After the initial approval of abstracts, selected candidates will be invited to submit a full research paper (up to 5000 words) by 28 April 2013.

Source: RRPP