Calls For Papers

The deadline for Abstracts and CVs is: January 24, 2025

The Midwest Slavic Association and The Ohio State University’s (OSU) Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (CSEEES) are pleased to announce the 2025 Midwest Slavic Conference to be held in-person in Columbus, OH on April 4-6, 2025. The conference committee invites proposals for papers on all topics related to the Slavic, East European and Eurasian world, particularly those related to the theme of authenticity. 

The desire for the authentic emerges from a complex interplay of cultural, historical, and social factors, often stemming from a longing for connection to one's heritage and identity. In a world increasingly dominated by globalization and mass production—processes that have both human and machine dimensions—many find themselves yearning for narratives, artifacts, and practices that resonate with their cultural origins and lived experiences. At the same time, forces in society today and in the past, including governments and non-government actors, sometimes look to “sell” items and storylines as “authentic” when they are anything but and have distinctly manipulative and often malign aims. Why do people desire the authentic and what values underlie that desire? Conversely, what motivates people to produce inauthentic products or narratives? We welcome papers that will examine these concepts as we explore how the tension between authenticity and inauthenticity affects perceptions of the peoples, cultural practices and histories of Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

The conference will open at 5:30PM on Friday with a keynote address by Dr. Mikhail Epstein (Emory U.). Building on the keynote address, a plenary panel will follow on Saturday morning. Panels by conference participants will then be held on Saturday from 10:30AM-4:45PM and Sunday from 8:30AM-11:45AM.

Abstract and Panel Submissions

Please submit a one-paragraph abstract and C.V. in a combined, single PDF file using our submission portal by 11:59 PM EST January 24th, 2025. Undergraduate and graduate students are strongly encouraged to participate. Interdisciplinary work and pre-formed panels are encouraged. Proposals for individual papers are also welcome. Have questions? Please send all inquiries to cseees@osu.edu.

Registration is required to attend all conference events and activities. 

Deadlines                                                                                                      

• Abstract and C.V. Deadline: Friday, January 24, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: Monday, February 17, 2025
• Scheduling Conflicts Due: Friday, February 21, 2025
• Panels Announced: Monday, February 24, 2025
• Final Papers to Chair: Monday, March 24, 2025
• Presenter Registration Deadline: Monday, March 31, 2025

Registration Fees

Registration is REQUIRED to attend all conference events and activities. Registration will include entry to all conference panels as well as all special events listed in the Special Events section below.

• Student Presenters: $35*
• Faculty/Independent Scholars: $50
• General Attendees: $25*

*Donated Registrations for Young Scholars of Slavic Studies

Want to support up and coming scholars in our field? This year we have created an option for faculty and independent scholars to donate conference registration(s) for undergraduate and graduate students who are participating as presenters or general attendees. This will allow students to enjoy the conference to the fullest extent.

Students who are interested in receiving a waiver code for donated registrations should email CSEEES at cseees@osu.edu after panels are announced on February 24. Donated registrations will be available on a first come, first served basis.

Special Events

Opening Reception and Keynote Address with Dr. Mikhail Epstein (Emory U.)

Friday, April 4, OSU Faculty Club, Main Dining Room on the 2nd Floor (181 S Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210) 

• Opening Reception, 5:30PM-7:00PM
• Keynote Address, 7:00PM-8:30PM

Plenary Panel

Saturday, April 5, 8:30-10:15AM, Pfahl Hall, Room 202 Blackwell Inn and Conference Center (2110 Tuttle Park Pl., Columbus, OH 43210)

Lunchtime Performance: Slovenian Puppeteering with Jelena Sitar Cvetko 

Saturday, April 5, 12:15-1:15PM, Pfahl Hall, Room 202 

• A light lunch will be served to attendees. Attendance is free for registered conference attendees, but sign-up is required due to room capacity.
• Presented in partnership with the Polish Studies Initiative, Limón Dance Company, and the Ohio State Department of Dance.

Midwest Slavic Association Meeting

Saturday, April 5, 5:00-5:30 PM,Pfahl Hall, 2nd Floor Foyer

Central European History Convention
July 17th—19th 2025, University of Vienna / in person (not hybrid)
Further information: ceh-c.univie.ac.at
Deadline for proposals: January 31st 2025
Notification: February 24th 2025

In July 2025 the University of Vienna and the Institute of Austrian Historical Research will host the first Central European History Convention (CEH-C). This event is dedicated to providing a platform for exchange on Central European History from the late medieval period to the mid-20th century, with a focus on the lands of the former Hapsburg Empire and its neighbors (including the territories of the former Ottoman empire). We want to create a space in Europe where colleagues from many different parts of the world can share and discuss findings, methodologies, and ideas across regions, disciplines, and national/language traditions. We invite scholars from all historically oriented fields at any point in their academic career to submit a paper proposal and/or attend. We particularly encourage PhD students to apply. The goal of this convention is to facilitate
international dialogue about the history of this region, with a special focus on building networks and frameworks for comparative research.

Submissions should be done on an individual basis. The Program Committee will organize the panels with an eye toward fostering new networks and conversations.

This convention requires no participation fees and offers extremely economically viable housing costs, with financial support for travel and housing available for those in need.

This year’s three-day conference will feature a keynote by Professor Tara Zahra (University of Chicago) and a panel discussion on the work and influence of Professor Pieter Judson (European University Institute, retired).

English will be the spoken language of conference presentations, but scholars from all linguistic backgrounds are welcome to participate.

The CEH-C invites proposals for contributions on, but not limited to, new approaches to the following subjects as they pertain to Central European Studies:
• Cultural History
• Economic History
• Global History
• Intellectual History
• Political History
• Social History
• Administrative/Bureaucratic History
• Business History
• History of Diplomacy
• Dynastic History
• Environmental History
• History of Gender and Sexuality
• Legal History
• Media and Communication
• Military History
• History of Science & Technology
• Urban History
• Digital Humanities
• Memory Culture

This is not a comprehensive list but rather an indication of the variety of approaches we intend to cover. If in doubt, please contact the organizers to check whether the subject you have in mind would fit.

Proposals should be no more than 300 words + the name of the participant, affiliation, contact information, projected paper title plus a short cv of one page.
Proposals should be sent by January 31st, 2025 to ceh-c.ifoeg@univie.ac.at.

Abstracts will be published online ahead of the conference, and participants will be asked to provide panel discussants with a draft of their talk to serve as a basis for comments.

The European and Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event since 2002 designed to provide undergraduate students, from the University of Pittsburgh and other colleges and universities, with advanced research experiences and opportunities to develop presentation skills.

The event is open to undergraduates from all majors and institutions who have written a research paper from a social science, humanities, or business perspective focusing on the study of Eastern, Western, or Central Europe, the European Union, Russia, or Central Eurasia.

SYMPOSIUM: Friday, March 28, 2025

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, January 10, 2025

For more information and to apply, please visit our website.

QUESTIONS? Contact Zita Tóth-Shawgo

Deadline: Friday, January 24, 2025

The Central Asia Research Forum aims to, through formal and informal discussions, bring together scholars in all disciplines and stages of the research process to discuss the theme of Teaching Central Asia. Since 1991 (and before), scholars have been trying to take on a recurring question, how should we study and teach Central Asia? Specifically, what new conceptual frameworks should we develop to convey the imbalance in sources, perspectives, and academic training, including disparities in access to publishing outlets and the production of knowledge itself? We invite scholars to submit proposals that retrace the founding of Central Asian Studies, in the region and abroad, and the numerous academic institutions that trained (and continue to do so) generations of scholars to study and teach this region. 

Participants are also encouraged to submit proposals that shed light on innovative methods, practices, and initiatives that are used in teaching this region and the countries, societies, and peoples that inhabit this geographic space - past and present. Due to the nature of the theme, interested applicants may propose a traditional scholarly presentation or choose a more interactive format such as a lesson demonstration or syllabus workshop.

The standard length for research forum presentations is 15 minutes. Those seeking additional time for a novel format such as a lesson demonstration should indicate the necessary amount of time in their proposal. 

We strongly encourage graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, librarians, curators, and archivists to submit proposals and share their scholarly perspectives on Teaching Central Asia.

Sub-themes for this iteration of the Forum include:

• Curriculum and Pedagogical Practice
• International Cooperation & Exchanges
• Transnational Projects
• Sources on Central Asia 
• Institutes, Societies, and Academic Programs
• Professionalization - Past and Present
• Decolonizing Discourses 

Participants are welcome to present in any language, but we ask participants to provide an accompanying English translation of their remarks.

The 2025 edition of the Central Asia Research Forum will be held on February 19-20, 2025. Those interested in presenting should submit an abstract by January 24, 2025 at 11:59 p.m., CST. Applicants will be notified of acceptance status by February 4, 2025. Zoom details will be shared with all registered participants 2 days before the first event. 

Submit a proposal: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeewrQllazGxYXU6vObUiZ9SFXH4OVjOJlJq2m6-bB2wb7aMw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Register to attend: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdddutHZ7rDEPp3A38mTEqQAi9eQhng9qdVEPCV2_sOOYOewA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Deadline: Friday, January 31, 2025

What does a well society – or wellness in a socially just society – look like?

These are profound questions of great magnitude and consequence whether we are examining the past or abiding in the present. And they are quite definitely weighty matters as we consider and construct, right here and now, our individual and collective human- and eco-futures.

We invite historical, intellectual, artistic, activist, and world-building contributions that define and explore wellness, well-being, and care in relationship to the personal, interpersonal, societal, human-centric, and eco-centric.

At the 2026 Big Berks, we are starting from these three foundational premises: We want to get well. We know it’s a weighty matter. And we want to get clearer about what this means by investigating, dialoguing, and funning together. In the tradition of Kitchen Table Press (Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, and Audre Lorde), we welcome you to sit with us to be in conversation to co-create kitchen table history.

We invite you—national and international scholars, activists, and artists of all persuasions, and especially graduate students and early career colleagues—to collaborate and be nourished and nourish each other.

You might consider the following prompts:

• Historical narratives, interpretations, and analyses we create: shifting frameworks and “states of mind” toward wellness.
• Re-imagining power and the -isms, informed by our lives, to create a more holistic history and historical record.
• Decentering people as the sole focus of history: exploring alternate approaches such as eco-centric realities (e.g. remembering and belonging linked to microbes, animals, ecology, and the Earth).
• Investigating strategies of the past to deal with local and world political systems and their discriminatory, unequal, oppressive, and dystopian contexts.
• Healing from trauma, harm, and toxic environments: identifying ideological dogmatism, the ill-politics of revenge interpersonally and systemically; carceral systems and prison abolition; gracelessness in the wake of conflict and austerity, eco-annihilation, etc.
• Struggles for embodied physical autonomy and mental wellness, including reproductive justice; disability studies; impacts of pandemics, etc.
• Strengthening relationships between healing justice and structural transformation, including urban excavations and immigration; public health and anti-gentrification work; homelessness; environmental justice as human justice, etc.
• Connecting individual health to social, economic, and political health.
• Be guided by joy, love, collective care modalities, improvisation, collaboration as well as liberatory work within systems of spirituality, religious, sacred communities including freedom lineages and praxis.
• Engage the questions – What is ill-being, what creates it, and how can we break cycles of ill-being – as a way to think deeply about how we sustain wellness in its stead.
• Explore how culture, art, and music can create new worlds, as well as illuminate connections and pathways to wellness in activist, academic, and policy spaces.
• Reaffirm the morals, ethics, principles, and aspirations for scholarship and community-engaged work and how that ultimately connects to our vision of a well world.
• Recommit to activism and resistance at the local, global, and transnational levels.

Or other related topics!

We welcome submissions that explore the prompts above while also paying attention to what we are calling “cross-category meta-themes” such as race and imperialism; gender and sexuality; class, poverty, and economic systems; geography and place; compassion and courage; and accessibility and disabilities. We encourage submissions that use interdisciplinary methodological, pedagogical, and digital humanities approaches that engage up to three of the themes listed below.

Please begin by selecting the format of your proposal. You can choose to submit a single paper, traditional panel, roundtables, interactive workshop, lightning session, curriculum discussion/workshop, or other formats. Once you begin your submission you will be required to select 1-3 of the following themes in order of relevance.

CONFERENCE SUBTHEMES:

      The Art of Interpretive Work: Excavating, Creating, and Complicating Historical Narratives

      Power, Economy, Political Ecosystems

      Marginalized Identities, Global Majority Resistance, and Justice Agendas

      History, Practices, Policies of Physical and Mental Health

      Joy, Love, Healing, and Collective Care

      Life Writing and Other Sources of Community-Based Intellectual History

      Repair: Naming Ill-Being, Suffering, and Struggling as a Path Toward Transformation

      Culture, Art, World-building, and Enacting Different Futures

      Collaborations: Community-based Research and Feminist Engagement The 2026 Berkshires conference will have a small theater setting for the ongoing screening of films submitted for viewing at the conference. To submit a film to be included as part of the screening, we offer a separate form on the submission site to provide required information for the film along with information for the format required to be included in the screening.

Submissions for the 2026 conference will open on Friday, 27 September 2024 and end on Friday, 31 January 2025.For more information, please email: execadmin@berksconference.org

The Berks is committed to encouraging new scholarship, especially by graduate students. If your session includes at least three presentations by graduate students and you would like your session flagged, please check “emergent scholars” on your session submission.

The Program Committee actively promotes the full and equitable inclusion of racial and ethnic minorities, religious minorities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people. To that end, the Big Berks Officers and Trustees, 2026 Program Co-Chairs, and Program Committee encourage session proposals that include diverse participants in various career paths such as  activists, artists, filmmakers, and academics of various ranks (i.e. senior and junior scholars, public historians, graduate students, independent historians, and historically-grounded scholars in any discipline).

The Program Co-Chairs and Program Committee encourage the submission of complete sessions. When this is not possible, single papers will be accepted and then  added to the program where appropriate.

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.

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

The Slavic Reference Service and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures are pleased to invite proposals for the biennial Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Please forgive the cross-posting, and pass this along to any colleagues and graduate students who might be interested! Submissions are due November 15, 2024.

Dates: October 2-4, 2025

Theme: Continuities and Ruptures in Ukrainian Culture and Society

Format: Hybrid 

The conference seeks to bring together scholars across a broad spectrum of disciplines working on topics related to Ukraine. With the thematic focus 'continuities and ruptures,' presentations will span across historical and contemporary contexts to bring into conversation various perspectives on Ukrainian identity, ethnic minorities, culture, language, and history.

We welcome papers on a range of topics, including (but not limited to) national identities, literary traditions, trends in Ukrainian arts, historiography, libraries and archives, memory politics, women and gender, diaspora and minority experiences, and cultural heritage. Proposals are invited from scholars across humanities, arts, and social sciences at any stage in their careers. Graduate students, emerging scholars, and scholars based in the region are especially encouraged to participate.

Presentations will be held in a hybrid format, both in-person and on Zoom. Working languages of the conference are English and Ukrainian. In addition to panels and a keynote address (Dr. Emily Channell-Justice, Harvard University), the conference will include cultural events and a professionalization workshop for graduate students and early-career scholars (led by Dr. Yuliya V. Ladygina, Pennsylvania State University). We look forward to a conference that will spark further discussion and development within the field of Ukrainian studies.

Proposal Submission Guidelines 

If interested, please fill out the Google Form and provide a 200-word abstract by November 15, 2024.

For more information, please visit the conference website https://uconference.web.illinois.edu/ or contact us at dmytroshtohrynconference@gmail.com with any questions.

Deadline: November 29th 2024

Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges University of Exeter, UK

2-4 June 2025

The Cultures of Philosophy project at the University of Exeter in the UK invites proposals for our first conference, ‘Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges’ to be held at Reed Hall, the University of Exeter, 2-4 June 2025.

Confirmed speakers:

Cassie Gorman (Anglia Ruskin)

Ruth Hagengruber (University of Paderborn) Sarah Hutton (University of York) Eric Jorink (Leiden University) Meredith Ray (University of Delaware) Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (KCL)

The history of philosophy is experiencing a major paradigm shift, with the work of early modern women philosophers in the spotlight (for e.g. Detlefsen and Shapiro 2023): this conference builds on that momentum to produce a more inclusive account of “science” in the long seventeenth century. The conference aims to recover women’s contributions to early modern natural philosophy, looking beyond the treatise and dialogue to other genres both in manuscript and print; and to examine women’s roles in transnational communities of scientific exchange.

In particular, the conference will foreground women’s textual engagement with natural philosophy and investigate transnational institutions, communities, and collaborations. How are philosophical concepts conveyed by diverse literary forms that cannot be categorized as scholarship? How did European women draw on global perspectives and philosophical cultures outside Europe? How can we trace women’s engagement with philosophical networks and institutions? How might including different genres, figures, and communities shift our understanding of natural philosophy in this period?

Taking a comparative, relational, and transnational approach, the conference seeks to investigate women's collaborations, exchanges, and roles in networks both within or at the margins of academies, institutions, and other official sites of scientific knowledge exchange; and their involvement in informal salons, manuscript circles, and other spaces of encounter. The CultPhil project examines the European context, but we welcome papers that engage with non-European cultures and philosophical traditions, with attention to different languages, international networks, and contexts. We encourage proposals from scholars in disciplines including (but not limited to): history of science, environmental humanities, literary history, intellectual history, book history, and the history of philosophy.

Proposals could include, but are not limited to:

Female-authored philosophical writings that engage with natural philosophy within a range of genres, such as hagiography and other devotional genres, poetry, marginalia, miscellany, historical fiction, salon verse, annotation etc.

Women’s participation in (and exclusion from) academies, salons, manuscript circles, institutions, and other spaces of learning Women and transnational and national manuscript and epistolary networks, exchanges, dynamics of collectivity and collaboration, circulatory systems, book history and their relations to natural philosophy Recovery of forgotten thinkers; methods for approaching the history of (natural) philosophy Intersections between natural philosophy and other disciplines:  theology, natural history, medicine, political thought, rights of women Women’s ecological thought Ecofeminist and animal history readings of early modern texts Variations in women’s intellectual conditions (both constraints and opportunities) across borders and cultural regions Encounters, influence, entanglements with the global context

We invite proposals (200-250 words) for 20-minute papers or 10-minute lightning talks, delivered in English (please include a short biographical note of c. 50 words); we welcome proposals from PhD students and early career scholars.

Conference attendance will be free, but participants are expected to arrange and cover the costs of their own travel and accommodation. There will be a limited number of bursaries to support speakers without access to institutional funding. If you wish to be considered for a bursary, please note this with your proposal.

Deadline: November 29th 2024. Please send proposals to cultphil@exeter.ac.uk.

We envisage publishing a collected volume based on the conference proceedings.

Conference organizers (University of Exeter):

Helena Taylor

Felicity Henderson

Catherine Evans

Carlotta Moro

Floris Verhaart

Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024

The Slavic Reference Service and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures are pleased to invite proposals for the biennial Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Please send your abstract(s) by November 30, 2024

The 14th International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies

“The 14th International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies (Congressus XIV Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum, CIFU XIV) will take place in Tartu, August 18–23, 2025. For the 14th Congress, 19 symposia proposals in four different categories have been accepted: A.Discipline-related approaches; B. Linguistics; C. Ethnology, religion, and folklore; and D.History, prehistory, and archaeology. The list of symposia is available at the Congress

homepage:

https://cifu14.ut.ee/programme/symposia/

It is still possible to submit abstracts for the General Session. Find the instructions for abstract submission in the 2nd Circular: https://cifu14.ut.ee/2nd-circular/

We are looking forward to abstracts on various Finno-Ugric topics (linguistics, literature, culture, ethnology,ethnography, art, music, history, archaeology). Please send your abstract(s) by November 30, 2024.”

Applications are due by no later than December 20, 2024.

The NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia is excited to announce a call for applications for our annual master’s and undergraduate research symposium! This March, we will host 25 undergraduates and 25 master’s students for two days of presentations, discussion, networking, and exploration. Please note that this year’s event will feature a slightly different structure than the past two iterations, as we will host both MA and Undergraduate participants for two full days.

We invite presentation proposals from undergraduates and master’s students enrolled at universities in the USA and Canada who are pursuing or have pursued research projects, internships, or other opportunities related to Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and/or Eurasia. Students from any academic field are welcome to apply. Both symposia will feature two different types of panels: 

1. Traditional research panels featuring 10-12 minute talks on executed research projects

2. Casual, discussion-based panels featuring 4-5 minute talks on experiences — internships, study abroad, volunteer opportunities, and more — related to the region 

Each accepted participant presenting a research project will be placed onto a panel organized by format and theme, will receive feedback from a discussant, and will be given time to discuss questions with the audience. Accepted participants presenting on experiences in the field will be placed on a single panel, and will get the chance to discuss their experiences with both a moderator and the audience. Masters and Undergraduate students will present on separate panels.

The symposium will host a keynote speaker as well as a career panel featuring professionals in various fields with backgrounds in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Each day will conclude with a networking dinner, and will include ample time for connection with peers, faculty, and local professionals. All accepted participants will have their travel costs covered by the Jordan Center, as well as two nights in a hotel close to campus. Participants traveling from outside of the northeast may be eligible for up to three nights of lodging.

How to apply

Interested applicants should submit the following materials/information HERE: 

1. CV/Resume 
2. Presentation title 
3. Preferred format (Type 1 – research presentation vs. Type 2 – experience presentation) 
4. Brief abstract 

4. 1. For research presentations: please include a description of your topic, your main argument, and your main sources 
   2. For experience presentations: please include a description of your topic/experience

5. One reference

5. 1. For research presentations: from a research advisor or professor 
   2. For experience presentations: from a supervisor or other individual who provided some supervision on the specific experience 

The symposium will take place from March 14-15. Applications are due by no later than December 20, 2024.  Decisions will be announced in January. 

Please feel free to contact jordan.russia.center@nyu.edu with any questions!

American Hungarian Educators Association (AHEA) 

49^th Annual In-Person Conference 

June 19-21, 2025

University of Pécs, Hungary

The American Hungarian Educators Association (AHEA) will hold its 49^th Annual Conference in person at the University of Pécs in Pécs, Hungary. We welcome participation by academics, independent scholars, and graduate students interested in Hungarian culture, history, literature, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, political science, education, folklore, fine arts, music, and other related disciplines.

This year’s conference theme is: 

Transatlantic Insights: Scholarship in Hungarian and American Contexts

Presentations should report the results of original research. Proposals can address a broad range of topics dealing with Hungarian culture, including interactions between Hungarians and Americans, as well as life in the Hungarian diaspora. We also welcome presentations on methodology and those that provide directions for future research.

Abstract submission deadline: December 15, 2024.

Presenters should expect to hear from the Program Committee by January 31, 2025. Applications for travel scholarships will open in January.

Abstracts (200-250 words) should be submitted through THIS FORM.

Submission guidelines:

-   The official languages of the conference are English and Hungarian. Abstracts and presentations in either language are welcome.

-   Only one “Individual Presentation” per author will be considered. A presenter’s name can appear max. twice in the program.

-   All authors must be AHEA members. Information on joining or renewing membership may be found on the AHEA website.

We invite abstracts in the following categories:

- Individual presentations describe original research by the author. Altogether the total time allotment is 30 minutes (15-20 minutes for the
presentation and 10-15 for questions and discussion).

-   Panel discussions are for interactive discussion of a topic among a panel of experts. Typically, a panel of two or three speakers makes introductory remarks. The audience is then invited to make comments and question the panel. 

-   Roundtable discussions are intended for informal discussions of pressing current topics important to scholars in the field and to provide a venue to both share with and learn from each other. Each submission should have no less than three participants knowledgeable in the discipline.

-   Book Presentations: Recently published books are invited for presentation either by the author or by an interested reader. These offer a short, max. 10-minute synopsis of a book published within the last year and of potential interest to members of AHEA.

Program Committee Chair: Prof. Helga Lenart-Cheng, President, AHEA
Local Organizing Committee Chair: Prof. Mónika Fodor, Head of Department of Literatures and Cultures in English, University of Pécs

Contact: 

hl4@stmarys-ca.edu

fodor.monika@pte.hu

Call for Papers: Scandal and Infamy

Deadline to submit is December 9, 2024

On 2nd December 1814, Donatien Alphonse François, the Marquis de Sade, died in the insane asylum Charenton, on the outskirts of Paris. Imprisoned for just under thirty years, burned in effigy, and immortalised by the term ‘sadism’, he was as infamous for his personal life as he was for the libertine novels he wrote. Taking inspiration from this author, this issue of Working Papers in the Humanities aims to examine the traces of infamy and scandal on and in literary works.

Scandal brings the private into public view; infamy commits it to memory. These interrelated markers of notoriety taint both the public life and the literary works of an individual, calling into question the boundaries of morality and acceptability. Their role in literature can be interpreted in many ways: how scandal and infamy are narrated and represented as well as their influence on the constructions and legacies of literary works. We invite proposals engaging with (but not limited to) the following areas of study:
•    Censorship
•    Rehabilitation of image
•    Gender and sexuality
•    Reception and transmission of texts
•    Adaptation and parody
•    Dynamics of power
•    Transgression and taboo(s)
•    Memory and legacy
•    Morality and immorality
•    Violence
•    Desire
•    Courting scandal

Proposals may cover a range of periods (from the medieval and Early Modern to the twenty-first century) and different cultural contexts (including English-, French-, Germanic-, Hispanic-, Italian-, Portuguese-, and Slavonic-speaking cultures). We hope to attract scholars working in a variety of fields (Modern Languages, English Studies, Comparative Literature, Cultural History, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Film and Media Studies, the Digital Humanities, Art History, Performance and Reception History). 

MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities is an electronic open-access journal intended to allow researchers to present initial findings or hypotheses. As such it will be of particular interest to postgraduate and early-career researchers. We invite proposals for papers of up to 4000 words in MHRA style, with completed essays to be delivered to the editors by 4 April 2025.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent, accompanied by a short biographical statement on the same page, to postgrads@mhra.org.uk by 9 December 2024. Abstracts must include clear reference to the authors/directors and literary/cinematic works to be discussed.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is December 13, 2024

Call for Papers— University of Chicago Slavic Forum Graduate Student Conference

The deadline for submissions is December 30, 2024

Date: April 4, 2025

We are pleased to invite submissions for the University of Chicago’s Slavic Forum Graduate Student Conference to be held on April 4, 2025. The Slavic Forum is a one-day multidisciplinary conference dedicated to graduate student work in the field of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies. We welcome papers discussing any aspect of culture, literature, or history from the region as well as research that engages with the study of Eastern Europe and Eurasia from a transnational perspective. We especially encourage submissions that adopt an interdisciplinary approach and take as their focus traditionally underrepresented geographic and linguistic constellations.  

Format:

This conference will take place in person at the University of Chicago. We intend to offer advanced graduate students the opportunity to present their work and receive constructive feedback from senior scholars in the field. Presentations will be delivered in a roundtable format with fifteen minutes allotted to each presenter. Paper presentations will then be followed by an extended discussion. Participants will be expected to pre-circulate their papers prior to the conference. The working language of the Slavic Forum is English. 

Submission Details: 

Only submissions from advanced graduate students in the Midwest region will be considered. Limited reimbursement for transportation is available.

Please send an abstract (300 words or less) and short bio (100 words or less) to uchicago.slavicforum@gmail.com. 

The deadline for submissions is December 30, 2024.

Any questions can be sent to uchicago.slavicforum@gmail.com.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is December 1, 2024

“Russia's War Against Ukraine: Perspectives from Eurasia”

We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for an upcoming symposium titled “Russia's War Against Ukraine: Perspectives from Eurasia.” Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has had profound consequences for the global order, significantly altering geopolitical dynamics within and across the Eurasian region. This symposium aims to examine how countries in the region have responded to and been affected by the war. The event will critically explore the regional dimensions of the conflict, considering the agency and strategic interests of Eurasian states and societies. It will investigate the political, economic, and social effects within these countries, examining both governmental strategies and societal perspectives.

2. Public opinion and societal reactions to the war 
3. Socioeconomic effects of the conflict on Eurasian states, including impacts on trade, migration, and labor markets
4. Evolving dynamics of domestic politics and public discourse surrounding the war and its implications
5. Transformations in these countries' relationships with Russia, their neighbors, and the international community

submit proposals by December 1st, 2024, at midnight 

We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for our upcoming LINC Graduate Conference on “Fluidity and Musicality: Exploring the Rhythms of Language, Culture, and Identity,” scheduled for February 27-28, 2025 at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Organized by graduate students in the Modern Languages and Linguistics Department and the School of Teacher Education, this interdisciplinary conference will provide a space to explore fluidity and musicality across fields, including literature, linguistics, cultural studies, musicology, and gender and sexuality studies.

This year’s theme, “Fluidity and Musicality,” invites participants to examine the intersections and transformations in language, identity, culture, and sound. We welcome submissions that reflect a diverse range of interests, from linguistic analysis to cultural studies and literary exploration.

We encourage both faculty and graduate students from different institutions to submit proposals by December 1st, 2024, at midnight at this link: https://forms.gle/eQH4X4bV59G4YHvD6. Presentation formats include individual papers and short presentations.

For full details, including submission guidelines, deadlines, and potential topics, please refer to our call for papers: https://tinyurl.com/linc2025

Whether you’re interested in presenting, volunteering, or attending, your participation and support will be invaluable in making this event a success. Please feel free to distribute this CFP to any colleagues, students, or contacts who might be interested in participating.

If you have questions or would like to discuss potential proposals, please reach out to mllgradconference@gmail.com. 

Thank you, and we look forward to a vibrant, engaging conference with contributions from across the institutions!

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) is pleased to be able to offer travel grants of between $200 and $1000 for scholars from Eurasia studying women's and gender studies, who are presenting papers at the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) meetings, the AWSS meetings, or the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) meetings.

Requests to support travel to other conferences will be considered if funds are available. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. Scholars should complete the information listed below and submit a budget and a current CV with their application. All recipients of awards are required to submit a short (maximum 250 words) report on their grant activity within 30 days after the event for which travel was supported.

To apply

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 which was not provided in the two attachments 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