Fall Deadlines

The Union of What? Soviet Internationalism Thirty Years After the Fall of the USSR

Call for Submissions to The Russian Review

Deadlne to apply: September 1, 2020

When the Soviet Union collapsed, contemporaries heralded the emergence of fifteen separate republics; yet nearly three decades on, it is still common to refer to the “post-Soviet space.” Important questions remain about what it was that knit the Soviet Union together and why connections across national boundaries forged in the Soviet period remain relevant within and beyond Eurasia a generation after the union’s demise.

Dismissed until recently as an ideological fig leaf concealing the USSR’s “true” regional and global ambitions, Soviet internationalism has received renewed attention among scholars who take it seriously as a conceptual framework and practice that ran through Soviet life and shaped engagement with the broader world. Recent scholarship has unearthed Soviet internationalism’s intellectual underpinnings and traced its influence in a wide range of areas, including foreign policy, education, art, literature, cinema, and everyday life. Scholars have also pointed to its legacies, both among the diverse populations of contemporary Russia and Eurasia and in Russia’s current relations with Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Soviet internationalism offers a way to connect the study of nationality, a subject that has received ample attention in our field, with the study of race, which has been comparatively neglected.

To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Soviet Union’s fall, The Russian Review invites submissions for a special issue on Soviet internationalism and its legacies with the goal of furthering the study of the region’s diversity and examining it in a global context. We plan to publish a cluster of articles considering internationalism within the multiethnic Soviet Union, across the socialist camp, and in relations with post-colonial countries throughout the globe. The cluster will consider the ways that Soviet internationalism built cultural, political, and personal connections across national boundaries but also sometimes asserted racial and ethnic hierarchies in an imperial fashion. It will compare and contrast practices of internationalism with manifestations of nationalism, transnationalism, and cosmopolitanism. It will look at interactions between internationalism and local intellectual traditions, and investigate internationalism as a lived experience in school and university clubs, pioneer camps, and international forums and festivals. Chronologically, it will span Soviet internationalism’s early development, its expansion and operation during the Cold War, and its afterlives in the contemporary world. Finally, the cluster will engage internationalism and its legacies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including history, literature, art, film and media studies, anthropology, political science, and sociology.

To be considered for the cluster, please email a 500-word abstract to rusrev@ku.edu outlining your argument, methods, and sources by September 1, 2020.

Authors of selected abstracts will be notified soon after and will be expected to submit a complete article manuscript (up to 9,000 words, including endnotes) by December 18, 2020.


The cluster will then go through the journal’s typical process of double-blind peer review, with oversight from the editorial collegium. Authors whose abstracts are not selected for inclusion in the cluster will still have the opportunity to submit their article manuscript for consideration as an individual submission.

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Call for Submissions: 2020 AWSS Graduate Research Prize

Deadline to apply:  September 1, 2020

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) Graduate Research Prize is awarded annually to fund promising graduate-level research in any field of Slavic/East European/Central Asian studies by a woman or on a topic in Women's or Gender Studies related to Slavic Studies/East Europe/Central Asia by a scholar of any gender. Graduate students who are at any stage of master's or doctoral level research are eligible.  Only current graduate students are eligible for this prize.

The grant can be used to support expenses related to completion of a thesis or dissertation, as well as travel, services, and/or materials.  The award carries a cash prize of $1000.00. Nominations and self- nominations are welcome.

A completed application consists of 1) a 2-3 page proposal that explains the project, how the funds will be used, and why this funding is necessary for continued progress on the project; 2) a CV; 3) a detailed budget and timeline; and 4) two letters of recommendation.  Please submit application materials in MS Word or PDF.  Winning recipients should submit a report on their use of the funds to the Committee Chair by August of the year following the receipt of the award.  Recipients must be members of AWSS; if award recipients are not current AWSS members, they must join AWSS as condition of the award.

Applications are due by September 1, 2020, and must be complete by that date to be considered for the award.  Letters of recommendation should be forwarded to the AWSS Graduate Prize Committee Chair directly.

Please direct all questions and send all application materials by email attachment to the Committee Chair, Sharon Kowalsky, Associate Professor of History, Texas A&M-Commerce:

Sharon.Kowalsky@tamuc.edu

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Call for Papers: Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History

Deadline to apply: September 1, 2020

seeks articles and other contributions that explore the history of women and gender in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE). We welcome submission on any topic and any time period in the field of women's and gender history in CESEE.

We are currently soliciting submissions focused on the topic of "Queer
Histories of Women in CESEE" that address the histories of queer
femininities and/or queer women. Contributions of research articles and/or
discussions of primary sources focused on any time period or geographic area
within the CESEE are welcome.

Article Submissions

Submissions are welcome at any time and will always receive full
consideration. We encourage submissions on the theme of "Queer Histories of
CESEE" by 1 September 2020.

Submissions of up to 9,000 words (including endnotes) can be sent to
aspasia.editor@gmail.com. Please direct any questions to that email, or
contact the Managing Editor, Sharon Kowalsky, at Sharon.Kowalsky@tamuc.edu

For more information, visit www.berghahnjournals.com/aspasia, where you can
also download the Aspasia Guidelines for Authors.

Aspasia is Open Access, published and distributed in print and online by
Berghahn Journals www.berghahnjournals.com/aspasia.

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Call for Papers: Dostoevsky and World Culture. Philological Journal

Deadline for Submissions: September 30, 2020

Dostoevsky and World Culture. Philological Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal publishing research into the life and works of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), into the influence of the world culture on him and his influence on the world culture in a wide range of areas. The journal welcomes submissions from scholars working in literary studies, history, cultural studies, philosophy, theology, psychology, and art history.

The journal accepts submissions in Russian and English. Articles may be submitted via the journal’s website. Submission deadline for articles to be considered for the 4th issue is September 30. Submissions received at a later date will be considered for subsequent issues.

The journal is published by the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMLI RAN).

Current and back issues are available at:

http://dostmirkult.ru/index.php/ru/

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Call for Submissions: SEEIR Internet column

Deadline for Submissions - October 1, 2020

This is a call for content to be featured in The Internet column of the journal Slavic & East European Information Resources, vol. 22.

Considering researchers’ and librarians’ almost absolute dependence on remote discovery and access during the coronavirus pandemic, there could hardly be a more appropriate time or venue for you to share your experience with colleagues.

How has your work changed by moving entirely online? What new online tools or resources have you discovered? What role is the internet playing in different SEE regions during the pandemic? Maybe you’re part of a new RuNet literacy project or effort to collect online repositories of Central European historical newspapers. What have been the challenges, the lessons, and the outcomes of such projects, and what work still needs to be done?

These are just a few ideas for the kind of content you might submit for The Internet column, and by no means must submissions deal with the pandemic. If you have something to contribute about the state of digitization efforts, digital materials, or digital applications as they relate to SEE studies or information science, please send that contribution in and we’ll gladly consider it.

Keep in mind that, because they are not peer reviewed, the guidelines for column submissions are more flexible than for articles. Please also consult the general instructions for authors for guidelines on originality, style, manuscript preparation, and preparation of illustrations.

Submissions should be sent to Brendan Nieubuurt at bnieubuu@umich.edu.

The deadline for submissions OCTOBER 1ST, 2020.

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Call For Papers: Special Issue

Folklorica, the Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association, is accepting submissions for a special issue on vernacular responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Deadline to apply: 31 October 2020

The Covid-19 Pandemic has sent a ripple through a fraught and interconnected world, drastically shifting global currents towards stasis and seclusion. Countries have shut-down, hospitals have been overwhelmed, people have been relegated to their homes and the world has ground to a halt in a number of ways. It is in such times of crisis as these that folklore becomes a tool to fill the gaps of indeterminacy, to provide comfort, to attempt to explain how and why these events are unfolding and, in more insidious manifestations, to cast blame for the crisis on various real or imagined parties.

We at SEEFA are interested to hear how various parts of the Eastern European and Eurasian world are handling these events and what productive, vernacular arts and practices are flowering in this unusual yet fertile soil. We invite calls for the submission of original articles and field reports regarding Eastern European and Eurasian vernacular responses to the pandemic for an upcoming special issue of Folklorica. Given the scope of our field and the many angles from which articles could approach the material, we are aiming to receive numerous shorter pieces (theoretical musings, preliminary fieldwork reports, smaller articles on specific iterations, and other short, quality work) that will serve as an expanded forum on Eastern European folkloric approaches to the pandemic. 

We welcome proposals/abstracts by 31 October 2020 and completed submissions by December 31, 2020 for inclusion in the special issue. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Folklorica’s Editor, Dr. Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby (j.rouhier@uky.edu) or the guest co-editor, Dr. Dorian Jurić (juricdb@gmail.com). 

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For those teaching undergraduates, could you please bring this to their attention.  It is a unique opportunity to have their research published - and given this particular situation, a chance for something positive during the pandemic. 

Undergraduate students working in any relevant discipline are invited to submit their papers for consideration to the UC Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East/Central European Studies.  All papers will be subject to peer review. 

Deadline to apply: October 5, 2020.  Late submissions will not be considered.   

If you are submitting now, please send your papers to Prof. Roman Koropeckyj, Editor-in-Chief: koropeck@humnet.ucla.edu

Whether you are submitting now or later, please also do the following now: email me with your name, preferred email, paper title, and name and email of your advisor so that we have a preliminary headcount: yfurman@humnet.ucla.edu

It is expected that you will work with your advisor between now and the submission deadline on revising your paper.  Please keep in mind that there is a large difference between a conference presentation and a written article.  Your papers should have a well-formulated and well-developed thesis, with plenty of textual evidence to back it up. When citing a non-English language source, please give the quote in English translation in the body and in the original Slavic language in the footnotes. The papers should be a maximum of 25 double-spaced pages and need to include footnotes and a bibliography (the page limit is inclusive of the bibliography/footnotes). For the bibliography, please use the Chicago Manual of Style format.

The call for papers can be found here: 

https://slavic.ucla.edu/conference/uc-undergraduate-conference/undergraduate-journal/

And if you haven't seen the journal, you can do so here: https://www.international.ucla.edu/cwl/slavicjournal/1415

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Call for Submissions:  Ukrainian Studies Conference at Indiana University
Deadline for Proposals: December 15, 2020

The Ukrainian Studies Organization at Indiana University will be holding a
second Ukrainian Studies Conference (Taras Shevchenko Conference) which will
take place at Indiana University, March 19-20, 2021. Taking into consideration
the current uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will announce
later if the conference will be online or on campus (Bloomington, IU).

Our conference aims to bring scholars from all disciplines to explore the ways
in which Ukrainian studies is presented and shaped in the current political
and cultural contexts. In addition to this broad range of topics, we welcome
talks and presentations that focus on the exploration of trauma. The events of
2014 ask for the discussion of traumatic experiences triggered by war,
dislocation, re-integration into society after military actions, social
isolation, sense of lostness, etc. The range of trauma narratives is open
(Chornobyl, WWII, deportations, the Holodomor, collectivization, etc.).

Submissions from any academic discipline are welcome, including but not
limited to: history, literature, memory and trauma studies, linguistics,
translation, music, film, religious studies, political science, anthropology,
sociology, gender studies, mass media. Graduate students are welcome to submit
proposals. We also invite professionals in nonacademic settings to submit
proposals.

Abstracts should not exceed 300 words. All submissions will be peer reviewed.
The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2020.

Please direct inquiries and proposals to Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
(nshpylov@iu.edu) and Ani Abrahamyan (aniabrah@iu.edu).