Karazin University School of History is pleased to invite everyone interested to take part in the 35^th International Local History Conference of Young Scientists “Local History in the Context of Modern Science (to Borys Zaitsev’s 90^th Birth Anniversary)” to be held on December 8, 2017.

Conference focus areas:

— historiographical and source study aspects of local history research;

— local history in the context of methodological turns in historical science;

— challenges and achievements of microhistory;

— interdisciplinary dimension of local history research;

— regional history through the prism of biography studies;

— funds of archives, museums, and libraries: their importance for studying local history monuments;

— issue of teaching local history at secondary and higher educational institutions;

— local history as a social movement: history and modern times;

— health care and social protection of population: microhistorical and local history studies;

— development of local history research at Kharkiv University.

The agenda of the event includes the roundtable discussion “Holodomor of 1932-1933 in the State and Region History”.

Working languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English.

Materials submission deadline: November 15, 2017.

Contact Information

Organizing Committee address: School of History, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 4 Svobody Sq., 61022, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Phones: +380 (57) 707-53-85, +380 (57) 707-52-42

E-mail: tronkocentr@karazin.ua, sntistfak@gmail.com

Information letter (PDF, 328 Kb)

Translation by Veronika Vetukhova