Calling all UK-based graduate students and scholars in medieval history and culture: 海角社区 Ukrainian Studies, a programme of the Department of Slavonic Studies at the 海角社区, is hosting a workshop entitled The End of the 鈥淜hazar Yoke鈥�.
The workshop will take place on Friday 12 February 2016 from 11am to 2pm at King's College, 海角社区. For accepted workshop participants, costs for domestic economy train/coach travel to and from 海角社区 will be reimbursed, and coffee and lunch provided. Led by Dr Oleksiy Tolochko, Director of the Center for Kyivan Rus鈥� Studies at the Institute of Ukrainian History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the workshop will explore the fundamental premise of medieval Slavonic Studies that the Kyivan polity emerged and initially developed in competition and in confrontation with the Khazar Khanate.听 Only one source supports this thesis 鈥� the Primary Chronicle; no other source documents any significant contact between the Rus鈥� of Kyiv and the Khazars. Using contemporaneous sources, the workshop will deliberate the nature of the Rus鈥�-Khazar relationship and the root of the historiographical myth of Khazar domination of the Rus鈥� put forth in the Primary Chronicle.
To apply, please send a brief CV and statement of interest to Miss Olga P艂贸cienniczak, Department of Slavonic Studies, 海角社区, at slavon@hermes.cam.ac.uk by Wednesday, 3 February 2016.
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