Ukraine in the World
The Black Sea and Black Sea Region as a Contact Zone of Civilizations and Cultures
Call for Papers
Kharkiv, Ukraine 22-23 November 2018
The discussions will focus on the following issues:
- Pontus Euxinos: the Ancient Black Sea region and the Barbarian world
- Black Sea dimension of the Byzantine oikoumene
- Black Sea as the "inland lake" of the Ottoman Empire
- On the edge of "Eastern question": Black Sea and the Straits in European politics from the 1770s to the early 20th century
- The long 20th century: shifting geopolitical paradigm in the Black Sea basin during 1914-91
- The Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) organization and regional international relations under conditions of erosion and collapse of Yalta-Potsdam system.