Calls For Papers

5-7 May 2025, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague / in person (not hybrid)
Villa Lanna

Further information: Steffen Höhne (Weimar-Jena) | Franz L. Fillafer (Vienna) | Johannes Feichtinger (Vienna) |
Michael Wögerbauer (Prague)

Deadline for submissions: 28 February 2025
Notifiction: 25 March 2025Conference Languages: English and German
Audience: Doctoral and Postdoctoral researchers
Application: Abstract of your contribution/research project (250-300 words) and a brief CV (preferably as a PDF), please write to: summerschool@oeaw.ac.at.

We plan to cover participants’ travel and accommodation costs.

Habsburg Central Europe in Global History, 17th–20th centuries
Global history has established itself as a particularly fertile field of scholarly enquiry from which Habsburg Central Europe still remains strangely absent. To redress this imbalance, our summer school seeks to rediscover Habsburg Central Europe as a switchboard for the circulation of ideas, practices and objects across the globe. It tries to do so by bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines who work on the history of the region since the17th century: Our event is geared to doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from the humanities (historians and literary scholars, historians of culture and the arts, of science and the humanities, anthropologists etc.) whose research resonates with the overall aim of our meeting described above. Our event will consist of two subsections: A mini-series of seminars hosted by our faculty in which a pre-circulated reader will be discussed and a subsequent set of workshops that will allow participants to present and discuss their research.

We invite papers by doctoral and post-doctoral researchers that contribute to one or several of the following thematic fields:
• the global history of Central European institutions (administrative bodies, learned societies, academies, universities, sacred institutions and religious orders, museums, theatres etc)
• the social history of Central Europe’s interactions with the world, including, but not restricted to the activities of go-betweens, brokers, and liaison agents
• the interplay of regional and global literatures (translations, travelling forms, medias and genres)
• the practises of erudition, science, scholarship and cultural production
Special attention will be given to Bohemia as an interface between the various regions of the Habsburg lands and as a clearing house between Central Europe and the globe.

In spotlighting the global entanglements of Habsburg Central Europe, our event pursues two broader agendas, the first is historiographical, the second methodological. First, much of global history is still marked by a Franco- or Anglocentric bias: Its categories of imperial rule, national culture, sovereignty, and the production of scientific truth are derived from the study of Britain and France, as well as of their respective overseas possessions. Acting as a welcome incentive for further research, several excellent recent studies of Habsburg Central Europe show that these categories are not only inadequate for grasping the past of the region, but that the latter produced a set of alternative concepts, ideas and practises for engaging with the world whose trans-regional impact and ramifications are yet to be discovered. What does this rediscovery imply for a fresh understanding of modern history?

Second, the summer school will provide ample opportunity for reflecting on what a “global” perspective implies for the methods of the humanities: In what ways does this perspective force us to rethink our habitual units of enquiry (regions, empires, states, cultural systems, disciplines, genres and forms)? How can we avoid the pitfalls of connectivity talk, i.e. the appeal to allegedly self-propelled, benignly liquid “flows” and processes of effortless “circulation”? What conceptual lexicon and what explanatory devises do we find particularly helpful in researching and presenting our findings? What challenges and potential benefits does this global perspective entail for interdisciplinary work in the humanities?

Organizers: Steffen Höhne (Weimar-Jena), Franz L. Fillafer (Vienna), Johannes Feichtinger (Vienna), Michael Wögerbauer (Prague)
Faculty: Marketa Křížová (Praha), Ulrich Schmid (Basel), Amy Colin (Pittsburgh)
Funding Bodies: Deutsch-Tschechischer Zukunftsfonds, Herder-Forschungsrat, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Deadline: April 1, 2025

The S Word - Stanislavsky's Many Faces: Then and Now

Annual Symposium organized by The Stanislavsky Research Centre (Leeds/Malta) in collaboration with The Department of Theatre Studies (School of Performing Arts, University of Malta)

Dates:​​​ 6-9 November 2025

Venue: ​​Valletta Campus of the University of Malta, Valletta, Malta

Keynote speakers: ​Prof. Andrei Malaev-Babel (FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training and International Demidov Association) 

Prof. Frank Camilleri (University of Malta)

Benedetti Lecture:​Prof. Bella Merlin (University of California, Riverside)

Co-conveners: ​Prof. Stefan Aquilina (University of Malta)

Prof. Paul Fryer (Stanislavsky Research Centre) 

Following on from past successful editions of the Symposium, we are very pleased to announce the following Call for Papers/Presentations for the next major event of The S Word project.

Stanislavsky’s work touched so many areas of practice that simply referring to him as a ‘theatre-maker’ seems to be reductive. An actor skilled in character transformation; a highly creative director famous for compelling stage creations; a pedagogue and teacher of many performers; an experimenter who brought seismic shifts to the art of performance, in Russia and across continents; a theorist of acting and performance; book author; collaborator; public speaker;political figure; and scientist – these are among the many ‘faces’ which today we attribute to Stanislavsky. As its core, the symposium invites submissions tackling any of these or even other faces of Stanislavsky, either in isolation or in interaction with one another. 

Moreover, in its subtitle of ‘Then and Now’, the symposium is offering a second prompt for further discussion. Proposals that tackle the ‘then’, i.e. which seek to unravel Stanislavsky’s own ideas, productions, methods of work, etc. are certainly welcome; so are other proposals which consider the ‘now’, or our own interpretations and applications of Stanislavsky in a markedly different, twenty-first-century performance context. In this way, the Symposium seeks to develop a dialogue between past and present, at a time when we are steadily moving forward into ever-more contemporary understandings of the System. The ‘now’ is also extended to the research methods used today to study a historical figure like Stanislavsky. While rigorous historical study will always be important, the Symposium asks what other methodologies can be used to extend our knowledge of Stanislavsky.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Stanislavsky’s many faces, their negotiation and interaction 

• Relatively obscure work, sources, or practices within Stanislavsky’s oeuvre 

• Reappraising the System: how and why 

• Stanislavsky and his collaborators

• Stanislavsky today – issues of international transmission, appropriation, and adaptation

• Teaching Stanislavsky and pedagogical perspectives

• Stanislavsky and contemporary performance (e.g. postdramatic theatre, digital performance, etc.)

• Stanislavsky and contemporary concerns including gender, race, well-being, intimacy, etc.

• Methodologies used in researching Stanislavsky today: history-based; practice-as-research; use of theory, etc. 

• Interdisciplinary connections with other fields, such as Psychology, Cognitive Science, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, History, etc.

• Provocations that critique or offer a ‘risk-taking approach’ towards Stanislavsky. 

We invite proposals for contributions in the following formats:

• an individual conventional paper (20 minutes);

• practice-as-research sessions/practical presentations (20 minutes);

• practical/workshop sessions (40 minutes);

• panel presentations (a minimum of three participants) (60 minutes).

In a first instance please send a short written proposal (no more than 300 words) to Prof. Stefan Aquilina (stefan.aquilina@um.edu.mt) and Prof. Paul Fryer (paul@paulfryer.me.uk), to arrive no later than 1 April 2025. Please include a short bionote.

Symposium papers and presentations will be considered for publication in the journal Stanislavski Studies, published by Taylor and Francis.

Registration for this event will open in Spring 2025.

Deadline: April 18, 2025

The Azerbaijan American Music Foundation (AAMF) announces a call for contributions to the International Ethnomusicology Conference 2025, held in memory of Aida Huseynova. By utilizing a virtual format, AAMF aims to enhance global interest and participation among presenters. The conference welcomes ethnomusicologists, researchers, and graduate and postgraduate students from around the world. English will be the official language of the event.

The conference aims to unite musicologists and researchers to share their experiences and findings related to the music of the Middle East, Asia, and particularly Azerbaijan. Aida Huseynova (1965 – 2022) was a prominent Azerbaijani musicologist. She taught in the Music in General Studies program at Indiana University Bloomington and served as an art consultant for Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, the Mike Morris Dance Group, and other initiatives. Huseynova authored the comprehensive monograph “Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera.”

The AAMF has initiated this conference to honor Aida Huseynova’s legacy and to encourage musicologists to explore the captivating music of Azerbaijan, examining its role and impact on global music.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

Friday, April 18, 2025: Abstract submissions

Friday, May 23, 2025: Notification to candidates whose abstracts are approved; they will be invited to present their complete papers at the virtual conference.

Tuesday, September 30, 2025: Submission of full research papers due by midnight EST and 5:00 AM GMT

Thursday, October 2, and Friday, October 3, 2025: Virtual conference; participants will receive a Zoom invitation. Time TBA

Friday, October 10, 2025: Announcement of award winners on AAMF’s website and social media.

Date to be Announced: Winners will have the opportunity to present in person at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music in Chicago, where they will meet with faculty and students and receive their awards.

International Conference on GLOBALISATION IN LANGUAGES, EDUCATION, CULTURE, AND COMMUNICATION (GLECC2025)

https://glecc.org/2025/

Dates: 30-31 July 2025 (main conference)
Venue: Manchester, U.K.
Submission deadline: 30 April 2025

The past two decades have witnessed remarkable advancements in the studies into Education, Second and Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Cultural Studies & Communication. This growth can be largely attributed to the forces of globalisation. Consequently, adopting the globalisation perspective is timely and provides a natural framework for connecting these diverse yet interlinked disciplines.

This conference aims to bring together researchers, educators, practitioners, and policymakers to disseminate research outcomes, share insights, discuss findings, exchange visions, and identify challenges and trends in an interactive and immersive multidisciplinary environment. The submissions take the forms of abstract, full paper, panel discussion, and workshop proposals.

There is a “conference first” policy in place. Selected papers will be invited to further develop into full journal articles free of APCs. Conference proceedings will be published open access with an ISBN.

There will be optional pre-conference workshops on 29 July and post conference events on 1 August.

Manuscripts are due by September 1, 2025

Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies

Call for Papers

Special Issue on Russian Postcolonial Studies

Guest Editor: Tamar Koplatadze, Christ Church, University of Oxford, tamar.koplatadze@chch.ox.ac.uk

Russia and the countries that were incorporated into the Soviet Union have not historically received extensive critical attention within the postcolonial discourse. In the wake of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, scholarly interest has grown in re-assessing established methodologies and engaging with postcolonial theory when studying these countries. Postcolonial approaches can be key to analyzing the link between imperialism and situations of core-periphery disparity, both past and ongoing, whether expressed in the man-made famines in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, the overproduction of cotton in Central Asia, the nuclear testing in Semipalatinsk, the extraction of natural resources in Siberia, or post-Soviet migration patterns. Moreover, local writers, creative artists and activists addressing these questions are increasingly situating their works within the global postcolonial tradition.

This special issue aims to provide an interdisciplinary inquiry of the current decolonial turn, build on existing scholarship and bring to the fore new postcolonial interventions, while also countering the pitfalls of the “decolonial bandwagon” (Moosavi) such as tokenism and uncritical use of decolonial terminology. We welcome contributions that critically engage with postcolonial and decolonial theory, attempt to bridge Western and local epistemologies, compare different geographical contexts of (post)coloniality, or untangle various types of decoloniality – including political, epistemological, cultural and aesthetic, while addressing, among others, the following themes:

• • • Critical theory
    • Literature, Culture and Language
    • Comparative studies of (post)coloniality
    • History
    • Race
    • Gender
    • Environment
    • Migration
    • Activism

Submission Instructions

Manuscripts following the journal guidelines and formatted in MLA style should be submitted by September 1, 2025 at https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgps/submit

Dear Grads and Undergrads,

A summer internship with the theme of Advancing Digital Democracy in Eastern Europe. All questions/inquiries regarding this opportunity including the deadline for applying should be directed to:

Lupton P. Abshire
Strategic Outreach
Advisory Voting Initiative
A Vote, a Voice, and the Power of Participation
www.advisoryvote.us

For Russian Language Teachers, Students, and Others Interested in Russia,

On behalf of the American Home in Vladimir, Russia – which is celebrating its 30^th anniversary this year – I would like to remind you about several program opportunities and deadlines.

Applications Accepted All Year
(http://www.ah33.ru/study-russian/)

Longer and shorter programs, from one week to a year, are also possible.

The benefits of the American Home’s long-standing Intensive Russian Program – the main program offers one-to-one instruction to each participant – are provided to group participants:

• Experienced faculty specializing in teaching Russian to non-native speakers;
• Program and schedule customized to the needs of each group of students;
• Study from one week to one year;
• Individual home-stay with a Russian family;
• “Russian friend-conversation partner” program;
• On-site administrative support;
• Well-equipped classrooms in a comfortable, home-like, atmosphere;
• Excursions in Vladimir and to Suzdal (a UNESCO World Heritage site) and Bogoliubovo;
• Opportunities to meet and socialize with some of the more than 600 Russians participating in the American Home English Program and others;
• Opportunities to participate in a variety of activities—for example, volunteering at an orphanage

New master’s program “Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages” (EFUL) at the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics at the University of Tartu.

This two-year MA program is unique in combining in-depth language learning with comprehensive, English-based studies in linguistics. Because classes are taught in English (with the exception of language classes, of course), students whose Estonian language skills are not advanced enough to take university classes in Estonian can still study Estonian and Finno-Ugric languages in Tartu, and take full advantage of the great opportunities that Estonia has to offer.

Students in the program can choose between specializing in either Estonian or Finno-Ugric languages. In addition to attending the institute’s advanced classes in linguistics and digital methods taught by cutting-edge researchers and lecturers, studying in Tartu has a clear advantage because of its location in Estonia and in proximity to other Finno-Ugric language areas. This gives our students not only the chance to practice Estonian on a daily basis, but also access other Finno-Ugric languages, partly via the many smaller Finno-Ugric language communities in Estonia. In addition, students can develop their digital skills in modules on computational linguistics and programming, in collaboration with the University of Tartu’s Centre for Digital Humanities and Information Society.

We are happy to offer a number of scholarship opportunities, including full tuition waivers. The final details about the application process are still being worked out, but will be announced next month. For more information about the program as well as about living and studying in Tartu, check out both the EFUL website at https://ut.ee/en/curriculum/estonian-and-finno-ugric-languages and the Study-in-Estonia website www.studyinestonia.ee.

I have also attached our EFUL flyer. And of course, feel free to contact me or the program director Prof. Gerson Klumpp (gerson.klumpp@ut.ee) if you have any other questions.

Please see the link below for unpaid part/full time internships with the US Department of Education. All inquiries/questions should be directed to the point of contact at the bottom of the advert. Thank you.

Internship Opportunities with the Office of International and Foreign Language Education