- Literature and History in Eurasia Workshop
Call for Papers: Literature and History in Eurasia Workshop, 20-22 May, IU Bloomington
As part of the exchange program between Indiana University (IU) and the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), the Central Asian Studies Institute at AUCA will be holding its Literature and History Workshop on the Bloomington campus this Spring from May 20-22.The workshop was established in 2014 with the goal of identifying and gathering emerging literary scholars that might help establish the study of Central Asian literature as a "legitimate" field in Central Asian scholarship. In an effort to build relationships with scholars in adjacent fields, the workshop is expanding its focus this year to encompass literature in Imperial and Soviet Eurasia and hopes to include participants -- graduate students and faculty -- with expertise in these areas from IU's programs in Comparative Literature, Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, History, and Central Eurasian Studies.Participants would be expected to submit a paper in advance of the workshop -- something completed, in progress, or planned -- and to participate in the critique and discussion of workshop submissions. The workshop invites papers on any aspect of literature in Imperial and Soviet Eurasia and is particularly open to submissions engaging indigenous literary traditions in the Caucasus, Siberia, and Central Asia. The workshop also welcomes historians who examine literature in historical contexts or who use literary texts to illuminate past realities.Those IU faculty and graduate students interested in participating should contact Christopher Baker, the Director of the Central Asian Studies Institute, at baker_ch@auca.kg with a short description (a paragraph or two) of their proposed submission. The workshop anticipates being able to accept up to six graduate students and faculty from IU as full participants and is also open to accommodating additional faculty who may wish to participate as discussants. The workshop will involve at least six returning participants from prior workshops, including the following scholars:Sam Hodgkins (Tajik and Persian literature, Yale) presentingClaire Roosien (Uzbek literature and history, Yale) presentingChristopher Fort (Uzbek and Russian Literature, AUCA) presentingNaomi Caffee (Russophone literature in Central Asia/Eurasia, Reed) presentingGabriel McGuire (Kazakh literature, Nazarbayev University)Ali Igmen (Kyrgyz literature and history, California State Long Beach) discussant
- Warsaw East European Conference (WEEC) 2023 Call for Papers
The Centre for East European Studies of the University of Warsaw (STUDIUM EUROPY WSCHODNIEJ UW)
is organizing the Warsaw East European Conference, Nineteenth Annual Session, to be held in Warsaw,
June 28-30, 2023.
The war in Ukraine has changed the world. A year of bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the
country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world.
The war will be the main objective of the conference, as well as the development and changes in the former
Soviet Union countries, historical and contemporary relations in the region.
BELOW WE PRESENT A LIST OF GENERAL TOPICS OF THE CONFERENCE
• Authoritarianism • Borders • Civil Society, Rule of Law • Communism, Post-Communism
• Culture • Deportations • East vs. West • Economy • Energy Security, NATO, Regional Security
• Financial Crisis • Nations, Nationalities, National Conflicts, Nation Building • NGOs
• Religion • Conflict of Historical Memories in the Region • Transformation, Democratization
• West in the Post-Communist World and others
APPLICATION FORMS & PAPER PROPOSALS
Please send your APPLICATION FORMS as well as PAPER PROPOSAL FORMS, ABSTRACT SUBMISSION to
conf.studium@uw.edu.pl. Please download the application form at https://weec.uw.edu.pl/. Please
note that participants with individual papers will be brought together into panel groups.
THE PAPER PROPOSALS, full papers and their abstracts must be written in English. However, the
Conference organizers will allow some presentations in the panels to be delivered in Polish, on condition
that a comprehensive written summary or the entire text in English is made available to the audience
and the organizers. The Programme board (conf.studium@uw.edu.pl) must be informed earlier (no less
than 1 month in advance).
PANEL PROPOSAL
We are ready to consider other subjects of presentation broadly reflecting the main
theme of the Conference. Panels may be proposed under these conditions:
1. The theme of the panel has to reflect the main theme of the Conference,
2. The applicant proposing the panel must guarantee 3 – 4 participants,
3. The applicant or one of the participants has to be the Chair of the proposed panel.
Furthermore, if the conditions are fulfilled, a discussant can also be assigned to the
panel. Proposals are to be submitted directly to the Secretary of Programme Board
at conf.studium@uw.edu.pl
LOCATION
THE CONFERENCE will be held in in the building of the Faculty of Modern Languages of the University
of Warsaw, at Dobra 55str. (Wydział Neofilologii UW, ul. Dobra 55)
https://neofilologia.uw.edu.pl/9679-2/siedziba-wydzialu/.Application here.
- The 22nd Annual Aleksanteri Conference
We welcome submissions to the 22nd Annual Aleksanteri Conference
This year’s conference will address changes in the relationships within and between the former communist countries of the Global East, by which we mean the region that has been labelled as post/former -Soviet, -socialist, -communist, -imperial.
In particular, we encourage colleagues to propose panels and papers that address the conference’s principal themes of legal choices, political transformations, and carceral practices. We also welcome submissions on recent research across a broad range of disciplines, including (but not limited to) law, geography, politics, history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, literature and language, and international relations.
Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2023
Link with further information: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/decolonizing-space-global-east
To contact the organizing committee, please email mfcree-aleksconf@helsinki.fi.
- International Summer School "The Struggle for Attention in Public Sphere" in Dresden
Call for Participation for the International Summer School "The Struggle for Attention in Public Sphere. A Perspective of Critical Phenomenology", July 23 – 29, 2023, University of Dresden (Germany), organized by Professor Klavdia Smola, Dr. Tatiana Vaizer, and Dr. Annelie Bachmaier.
About the Summer School
In our summer school we understand the public sphere as a public space (or spaces) where socially, culturally and politically meaningful events and processes take place. But what makes them „meaningful“? And what makes them „public“? In order to produce a meaningful event or an action, do we need attract the attention of the public to this event or action? Why do we consider some events as meaningful and leave others aside as insignificant? How is attention distributed and redistributed in the public sphere and what instances are responsible for that? In what cases do we become hostages of the economics of attention and how does paying attention to some things and not paying it to others form our identity?
We can imagine modern human history as a permanent struggle for attention in the public sphere. The struggle could take place in order for one group to gain more power or more influence, or, on the contrary, in order to restore social or political injustice and to attract attention to an unfairly marginalized group. If attention is a means of making something or someone visible in the public sphere and, thus, existing, isn’t the articulation of attention also a means to undermine hegemonies, to redistribute power in a society in a fairer way?
Detailed information about the conception and application of our project you can find here:
Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Klavdia Smola
Technische Universität DresdenFakultät Sprach-, Literatur- und KulturwissenschaftenInstitut für Slavistik
Lehrstuhl für Slavische Literaturwissenschaft
Wiener Str. 48 - 01219 Dresden
+49 351 463-32415
Professor Dr. Klavdia Smola
Chair of Slavic Literatures
Institute of Slavic Studies
Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies
University of Dresden
Wiener Str. 48 - D-01062 Dresden
+49 351 463-32415
- AATSEEL 2024: Call for Streams and Call for Papers
The AATSEEL annual meeting is a forum for scholarly exchange of ideas in all areas of Slavic and East/Central European languages, literatures, linguistics, cultures, and pedagogy. The Program Committee invites scholars in these and related areas to form panels around specific topics, organize roundtable discussions, propose forums on instructional materials, and/or submit proposals for individual presentations for the 2024 conference. The conference regularly includes panels in linguistics, pedagogy, second language acquisition, literatures, and cultures relevant to the organization's regions of focus.
The next annual AATSEEL conference will be held in person February 15-18, 2024, at Harrah’s on the iconic Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Call for Papers and Call for Streams are currently open and accepting submissions.
The AATSEEL Program Committee invites proposals for panel stream topics. These streams promote greater cohesion among conference panels and foster a broader dialogue throughout the conference. The result can be a series of mini-conferences within the framework of our larger conference.
To submit a stream proposal (by May 15, 2023):
https://www.aatseel.org/program/2024-call-for-streams/
Notification of acceptance of abstracts will be sent only to AATSEEL members in good standing. Memberships expire June 30th each year. Those submitting abstracts are encouraged to renew membership when submitting an abstract to avoid delays in appearing in the online conference program.
We recommend consulting the 2024 Conference Guidelines (https://www.aatseel.org/program/2024-guidelines/) to prepare any submission for review for the conference.
For more information about the annual AATSEEL Conference, visit: https://www.aatseel.org/program
For questions about stream proposals, contact the Division Head for Streams, Alisa Lin (lin.3183@osu.edu).
For questions about all other conference proposals, contact Program Committee Chair, Ainsley Morse (Ainsley.E.Morse@dartmouth.edu).
- West Point Conference on Language, Culture, and Military
The United States Military Academy’s Department of Foreign Languages (DFL) invites proposals from scholars across cultural and linguistic disciplines for the Inaugural West Point Conference on Language, Culture, and Military, with a focus on representations of military experiences in the humanities. This conference welcomes multiple and diverse approaches at the intersections of language, culture, and aspects of the human experience with a nexus to “military” (such as but not limited to militar, militaire, 軍 jūn, revolution, rebellion, guerrilla, etc.). From Xenophon to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Penthesilea to Joan of Arc, Cervantes to Camões, Erich Maria Remarque to Václav Havel, we witness across all linguistic, literary, and cultural traditions the impact of what one may classify as military (or paramilitary) activities on the broader human experience. We can draw great insight from an analysis of these experiences across all linguistic and cultural traditions, as language reflects, constructs, records, and negotiates key socio-cultural aspects, such as individual and collective identities, conceptualizations of reality, motivations, aesthetics, and historical narratives.
Scholars are invited to contemplate language, culture, and the military realm of the human experience in the broadest sense through various theoretical lenses and across all media. Suggested lines of inquiry include but are not limited to:
- Arms and Letters: language, culture, and the figure of the soldier-scholar across regions and time periods;
- Constructions, narrations, and contestations of/by the military institution, including its influence on broader culture;
- The human experience in theatres of conflict, including the derivation and construction of meaning, whether published or unpublished, as depicted through the arts; personal and professional correspondence; memoir; biography; official documents; literature in all its forms; and other modes of communication, such as new media.
The language of presentation will be English. Preference will be given to proposals that touch upon topics that originate outside of Anglophone regions. We encourage the submission of original works. Select works will be submitted to a publisher for a proposed edited volume. No later than May 1, 2023, please submit an abstract of up to 300 words and include a short bio of up to 100 words to DFLConference2023@westpoint.edu.
- 2023 Midwest Slavic Association Student Essay Prize Competition
2023 Midwest Slavic Association Student Essay Prize Competition
The Midwest Slavic Association, with support from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), is now accepting submissions for its annual essay prize competition for undergraduate and graduate students. Students can submit a paper on any topic related to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies to the Midwest Slavic Association for consideration. The best undergraduate paper received will win a one-year membership to ASEEES, and the graduate winner will receive a one-year membership to ASEEES, as well as then being considered for the ASEEES Graduate Student Essay Prize national level competition. The graduate winner of the ASEEES Student Essay Prize at the national level wins travel, lodging, and registration for the Annual ASEEES Convention and membership for the following year. The prize is presented during the awards presentation at the Annual Convention.
Undergraduate paper submissions can be in a variety of formats, including: conference paper, thesis, course paper, or article. They should be no longer than 20 double-spaced pages including notes and bibliography. Entries must be submitted electronically and written in English.
Graduate essay submissions can be of several formats: expanded versions of conference papers, graduate level seminar papers, Master's thesis chapters, or dissertation chapters. The student should indicate what type of paper they are submitting and provide an abstract. Essays should have a minimum word count of 7,500 and a maximum word count of 14,000 (25 to 50 pages approximately) inclusive of footnotes and bibliography. Submissions must be written in English, double-spaced, and include footnotes or endnotes.
All submissions are due Monday, May 1, 2023, and should be emailed to The Ohio State University’s Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at cseees@osu.edu. Students who wish to submit an essay should have participated in the 2023 Midwest Slavic Conference, or be from an institution in the Midwest (defined as any college or university in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin). With your submission, please also include the following:
- a short bio of the author
- an abstract of the essay
- indicate the format of the essay
Please visit ASEEES' website for full information on the national level competition: http://aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/graduate-student-essay-prize.
Calls For Papers
- Conference on Academic Freedom
Freedom of academia in and out
Social Sciences and Humanities in the Time of Geopolitical Crisis
Conference
Yerevan, 25-27 October 2023
The spread of post-truth in the populist term, wide-scale propaganda during the Russia’s war against Ukraine, sharply exacerbated the fundamental dilemma of the Academia, and scientific work as such – between “pursuing the objective truth” and a scholar’s positionality; between responsibility for the result of research and responsibility for personal words and actions. The challenge of this choice is particularly critical in the social sciences and humanities. Dramatic political events, severe ideological pressure from the state and increasing censorship deeply affect the scientific, educational and public aspects of the life of the Academia. They urge to resist ideological pressure, establish reliable methods and approaches, clearer self-reflection - awareness of previously half-hidden value biases, search for forms of adequate transfer of knowledge to students, upholding of scientific truth, refutation of lies and propaganda in the public sphere. One way or another, it is necessary to rethink the very concepts of academic truth, objectivity and neutrality - if possible, their preservation, but with the rejection of their distanced, value-free interpretation.
Authoritarian consolidation in Russia and threats to democracy on a wider post-socialist space in Eastern Europe and Central Asia open the window of opportunities to re-assessment of the role academic knowledge can and should have to protect the commitment to truth. These questions are raised in a dramatic form in social sciences and humanities, but they have always been and remain relevant for scientists in all academic communities. Is the Academia an ivory tower, dedicated to the creation and preservation of knowledge and fenced off from a world torn by conflicts? Or can/should scholars be engaged in the public sphere and openly take civic positions buttressed by their knowledge? However, if scholars are publicly engaged, then is there a threat of losing the Academia’s special identity, the principles that constitute it? Where is the limit of engagement of the “public intellectual”, which guarantees the preservation of the free expression of scientific truth, the recognition of contradictions and blind spots, criticism and the possibility of dialogue?
Participants are invited to discuss both general theoretical issues related to the problem of "science as a profession" in its today’s understanding, and specific situations when dramatic political events and military conflicts affect research in a particular discipline and area, lead to a reassessment of approaches, methods and research strategies; as well as specific practices of public engagement of the Academia and related splits within it.
In addition to the main topics, the fact that the conference will be held in Yerevan will allow us to consider Armenia and its academic community as an example of a new critical reflection, deconstruction of myths and stereotypes and the formation of a new subjectivity as a communicative space for maintaining and restoring academic communications interrupted by the war in Ukraine.
Possible conference themes include:
· The status of "truth" in the modern (and post-post-modern) Academia: the authenticity of the evidence and the validity of the conclusions
· Academy and the phenomenon of post-truth in the context of total digital mediatization
· Epistemes, paradigms and dogmas - open and hidden; freedom of criticism from inside and outside the Academia
· Splits and parties within the Academia: epistemological, economic and/or political roots?
· Limits of academic neutrality and objectivity in the time of political and military conflicts
· Academic activism - its forms and normativity
· Academia between partisanship and maintaining a distinct identity
· Academia’s opposing to public and political falsifications
· Rethinking the specific scientific fields in the context of current political events
· Rethinking Russian and Eurasian area studies, (post)colonial processes, as well as specific approaches in various disciplines of social sciences and humanities.
The conference is organized by CISRus with a generous support of Yerevan State University.
Participants’ thoughts will be presented either in the form of papers or participation in thematic round tables. Please send an application - a short academic biography (about 100 words), the title of the topic, and a brief description of the topic (about 100 words) for individual presentation, or a least of several possible topics for round table participation - to the email: freeacademia.conference@gmail.com
Application Deadline: June 15, 2023
The Conference Committee is ready to provide participants with the accommodation for the days of the conference and has some capacity to contribute to the tickets as well.
- NYU Jordan Center's 2022 Grad Student Essay Competition
The blog of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia is pleased to announce our fourth annual Graduate Student Essay Competition. Enter for a chance to get published on the blog and win cash prizes.
We invite 750-1200 word submissions from full- or part-time M.A. and Ph.D. students from any accredited academic institution in the United States, on any topic and sub-discipline within Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, broadly defined. Cultural criticism; opinion pieces; public-facing treatments of scholarly work; political analysis; book, film, or event reviews; and more are welcome.
All submissions must be in English and observe the blog’s submission guidelines and full competition rules.
Essays are due no later than Thursday, 1 June 2023 at 11:59 PM EST, and must be submitted via https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSeof6TjImAh7T2EIiKPKKcL0QpceH4DrK_JAViFiKL01BmCOA%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link&data=05%7C01%7Cenowacky%40iu.edu%7Ce985d9bd02014392dd2208db34755cb8%7C1113be34aed14d00ab4bcdd02510be91%7C0%7C0%7C638161450897596889%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Q5FgC1CK11Nx9NBdy8N3R%2F2uivB7rnvg3AxaPNjRelU%3D&reserved=0
Seven winners will be selected based on the originality, clarity, and argumentation of their essays, as well as general fit with the blog's tone and interests as reflected in the submission guidelines linked above. An interdisciplinary panel of judges will select three Grand Prize winners representing history, cultural studies, and the social sciences, each of whom will receive a $500 prize. Four additional Judges' Choice submissions will receive $200 each. All winners will have their essays published in the Jordan Center Blog.
Competition results will be announced in August 2023.
Please direct any questions to Jordan.Center.Blog@nyu.edu.
- AATSEEL 2024: Call for Streams and Call for Papers
The AATSEEL annual meeting is a forum for scholarly exchange of ideas in all areas of Slavic and East/Central European languages, literatures, linguistics, cultures, and pedagogy. The Program Committee invites scholars in these and related areas to form panels around specific topics, organize roundtable discussions, propose forums on instructional materials, and/or submit proposals for individual presentations for the 2024 conference. The conference regularly includes panels in linguistics, pedagogy, second language acquisition, literatures, and cultures relevant to the organization's regions of focus.
The next annual AATSEEL conference will be held in person February 15-18, 2024, at Harrah’s on the iconic Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Call for Papers and Call for Streams are currently open and accepting submissions.
The AATSEEL Program Committee invites proposals for panel stream topics. These streams promote greater cohesion among conference panels and foster a broader dialogue throughout the conference. The result can be a series of mini-conferences within the framework of our larger conference.
To submit a panel/paper/roundtable proposal (by July 1, 2023 or August 15, 2023):
Notification of acceptance of abstracts will be sent only to AATSEEL members in good standing. Memberships expire June 30th each year. Those submitting abstracts are encouraged to renew membership when submitting an abstract to avoid delays in appearing in the online conference program.
We recommend consulting the 2024 Conference Guidelines (https://www.aatseel.org/program/2024-guidelines/) to prepare any submission for review for the conference.
For more information about the annual AATSEEL Conference, visit: https://www.aatseel.org/program
For questions about stream proposals, contact the Division Head for Streams, Alisa Lin (lin.3183@osu.edu).
For questions about all other conference proposals, contact Program Committee Chair, Ainsley Morse (Ainsley.E.Morse@dartmouth.edu).
- Post/Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition,
FP: POST/SOCIALIST MEMORY CULTURES IN TRANSITION
2nd PoSoCoMeS Conference20-23 September 2023, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia
The Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies (PoSoCoMeS) working group is part of the Memory Studies Association. Our goal is to bring together researchers, activists, and practitioners working in and on post-socialist countries. We call for trans-regional comparative studies that connect Eastern Europe and Africa, Latin America and Asia and result in broad conceptualizations of post-socialist memories.The keynote speakers:Erica Lehrer (Concordia University, Canada)Maria Mälksoo (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)Andrea Petö (Central European University, Austria)Tatiana Zhurzhenko (Centre for East European and International Studies, Germany)Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw, Poland)We aim to explore change in post-socialist memory cultures, with a particular focus on Eastern, Central and South Eastern European memory cultures that emerged/are emerging from the tensions and interactions between the transnational, the regional, the national and the local and are further exasperated by the Russian destructive military invasion of Ukraine. Possible topics include:- transnational memory in the post-socialist world: vernacularisation, encapsulation- tangled relationships between memory and human rights- politics of memory: key agents and institutions- the workings of memory in relation to (new) social challenges: climate crisis, migration, social inequality- regional regimes of memory: post-socialism as a regime of memory, continuities and/or re-formations, memory traffic within post-socialist space- reconfiguration of the borders between communities- memory and translation: movement of memories across national and regional borders, forms and templates- media of memory (film, literature, memorial museums, commemorative practices), remediation- new forms of digital memorialisation in the post-pandemic era- post-socialist/post-communist memory culture in relation to the rest of the world: post-socialist comparisons with other parts of the world, to allow for transregional comparative studies that connect Eastern Europe and Africa, Latin America and Asia and result in broad conceptualizations of post-socialist memories- uses and abuses of memory in contemporary and ongoing conflicts, weaponization of the past, especially in the context of the war in UkraineThere will be two special streams that focus on the themes of the co-organizing research projects:Mnemonic Pluralism and Critical Dialogue in the MuseumThrough the concept of mnemonic pluralism, which links memory to the principles of democratic pluralism, this special stream explores the ways museums deal with the complexities of the 20th century and the multiplicity of competing perceptions of the past in changing political and socio-economic contexts. It aims to establish the factors that undermine or support mnemonic pluralism and reflexive, critical engagement with the complexities of the past: How are the politically laden periods represented in exhibitions and related public programs as well as in collecting work? How are dissonance and difference (ethnic, national, generational, gender, class) addressed? How are divergent group-specific, local, national, and transnational mnemonic discourses linked to each other? What is the relationship between the emergence of pluralistic and deliberative curatorial practices and the museum’s positioning in trans/national and local memoryscapes and vis-à-vis societal challenges? How are choices of curators, designers, and educators related to their backgrounds as members of memory communities?Translating Memories: The Eastern European Past in the Global ArenaThis stream focuses on interconnections between local, national, regional and global memory cultures in postsocialist countries and their transnationalisation. It is particularly interested in aesthetic media of memory, such as literature, art, cinema and memorial museums/monuments, that circulate globally and bring local memories to global audiences. This stream explores the attempts in these media to make the histories of the Second World War and Socialist regimes known globally. The stream proposes to look at these movements of memory as a process of translation. What memorial forms have been used to make the Eastern European past intelligible in the global arena? How are global memory cultures vernacularised in the region? What is gained and what is lost in this translation?FormatsThis is an in-person conference. We will be able to accommodate only a limited number of online panels.Paper proposals should include abstracts (no longer than 250 words) and information about the presenter(s) (affiliation and short biography). Panel and roundtable proposals should include an abstract (no longer than 250 words) and a complete list of max 4 participants, the titles of their papers. Please mention 1) if you would like to be part of one of the two streams; 2) if you need to present online. Please send your proposals by 10 February 2023 to the following e-mail address: posocomesconference@tlu.ee. The notifications of acceptance will be sent on 15 March 2023.Cost and financial supportWe do not ask for any registration fee, but all participants have to be members of the Memory Studies Association. The exceptions for those in need are possible, but have to applied for directly at Memory Studies Association. https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/membership-levels-2/We are working towards securing funds to cover the travel and accommodation costs for our Ukrainian scholars.OrganisersThe 2nd PoSoCoMeS conference will be organized by two major memory studies research projects in Estonia, in collaboration with PoSoCoMes: "Translating Memories: The Eastern European Past in the Global Arena", a European Research Council Grant that has received funding under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Tallinn University, project leader Eneken Laanes, grant agreement 853385), and “Practices and Challenges of Mnemonic Pluralism in Baltic History Museums”, funded by the Estonian Research Agency (University of Tartu, project leader Ene Kõresaar).Programme committee:Local: Eneken Laanes, Ene Kõresaar, Kirsti JõesaluPoSoCoMeS: Daria Khlevnyuk, Milica Popovic, Maria MatskevichMore information available here
- 2023 AWSS Student Essay Prizes: Undergraduate & Graduate
- 2023 AWSS Student Essay PrizesCall for NominationsThe Association for Women in Slavic Studies is pleased to announce the callfor submissions for the 2023 Undergraduate Essay Prize and the 2023 GraduateEssay Prize.The Undergraduate Essay Prize recognizes outstanding essays in Slavic/EastEuropean/Eurasian women's and gender studies written by an undergraduatestudent in any discipline based at any tertiary institution worldwide.Submissions must: (1) be in English, (2) have been written while the authorwas a degree-seeking undergraduate, (3) have been submitted and assessed foran undergraduate class between August 1, 2022 and August 31, 2023, (4) be of3,000-5,000 words in length, (5) be accompanied by a nomination letter fromthe instructor of the course for which the essay was written. The instructormust be a current member of AWSS.Letters of nomination, accompanied by an electronic copy of the nominatedessay in either Word or PDF, should be sent electronically to each of thecommittee members listed below. Be sure to include both the permanentmailing address and email contact information for the student.The Graduate Essay Prize is awarded to the author of a chapter orarticle-length essay on any topic in any field or area of Slavic/EastEuropean/Eurasian Studies written by a woman-identifying scholar, or on atopic in Slavic/East European/Eurasian Women's or Gender Studies written bya scholar of any gender.This competition is open to current doctoral students and to those whodefended a doctoral dissertation in 2022-2023. If the essay submitted is aseminar paper, it must have been written during the 2022-2023 academic year.If a dissertation chapter, it should be accompanied by the dissertationabstract and table of contents. Previous submissions and published materialsare ineligible. Essays should be no longer than 50 double-spaced pages,including reference matter, and in English (quoted text in any otherlanguage should be translated). Please send a copy of the essay and anupdated CV to each member of the Prize Committee as email attachment.Deadline for both prizes: Completed submissions must be received bySeptember 1, 2023. Please direct any questions to Student Essay PrizeCommittee Chair, Dr. Melissa Bokovoy: mbokovoy@unm.edu
December
- Lessons & Legacies 2024: "Languages of the Holocaust"
The Seventeenth Biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference, sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, and hosted by Claremont McKenna College and the University of Southern California, invites proposals for papers, panels, workshops, and seminars. This conference will focus on languages of the Holocaust and its history, representation, and memory. We aim to bring together scholars working in different languages, disciplines, discourses, and methodologies for intellectual exchange.
We encourage proposals that interpret the theme “languages of the Holocaust” from a wide range of vantagepoints and disciplines. The conference theme refers both to the specific languages in which people have spoken and written—during and about—the Holocaust, as well as the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in a wide range of discourses (documentary, archival, testimonial, judicial, academic, artistic, non-verbal, photographic). We are interested in proposals that explore different phases of the vast and ever-expanding range of postwar discourses by survivors and their descendants, scholars, artists, filmmakers, journalists, and so forth. Further, we invite proposals that take up issues of translation in both its literal and figurative meanings in the field of Holocaust Studies.
Questions of interest include: What role did linguistic strategies—and strategic silences—play in extending Nazism’s reach and in the perpetration of the Holocaust? What cultural, social, and political tensions or hierarchies emerged between different linguistic and cultural communities in the ghettos and camps? During the Holocaust ,what strategies did Jewish writers and activists adopt to try to keep sensitive topics and projects illegible to potential Nazi observers/readers? How do the conceptual paradigms—and the literal languages—of wartime documents differ from those of postwar written and oral memoir and testimony?
How have paradigms and presuppositions in the history of the Holocaust, the study of Holocaust testimony, literature and film, and/or ethical reflections on the Holocaust and its legacy been shaped by the inclusion or exclusion of documents or whole archives in certain languages? How have political and ideological languages, particularly of the Cold War and of Zionism, highlighted, manipulated, or suppressed events and documents of the Holocaust? What is the role of translation in mediating, shaping, popularizing, flattening, or obscuring our understanding of the Holocaust? Do artifacts of visual culture transcend linguistic boundaries, or relate to specific language traditions in specific ways? Does silence relate to all languages identically, or to specific languages in particular ways (does silence have an accent)? How might the discourses of history and the languages of memory and memorialization differ across nations, disciplines, and a group’s situatedness in relation to the Holocaust?
The above questions are meant to suggest and facilitate, but not to limit, possibilities for reflection and exchange. We invite proposals on any aspect of the Holocaust, in addition to those focused on the conference theme. Because we want to encourage exploration of new ways of approaching the Holocaust, we ask that proposals focus on research that the scholar has not presented at a previous Lessons and Legacies conference.
Submission Deadline: 4 December 2023
Conference sessions include several formats, as outlined below.
Submissions should clearly indicate one of these formats.
Conference Panels will consist of three or four papers and a moderator. Conference chairs will consider individual proposals and organize them as panels, as well as proposals for full panels. Paper proposals should include a title and abstract (up to 300 words) and a short (1–2 pages) CV. Proposals for full panels should include a panel title and brief description of the full session (up to 300 words), in addition to a paper proposal and CV for each presenter. We welcome the trend toward increasingly collaborative work and are happy to acknowledge co-authors, but for logistical issues of hotel space, presentation time, and limited financial assistance for presenters, we ask that only one person submit a proposal and, if accepted, present a paper.
Workshops consisting of one or two presenters should focus on particular questions, approaches, or sources. Workshops are intended to be interactive and practical, highlighting, for example, a new pedagogical approach or research question or method, curricular innovations, or creative ways to examine and interpret artifacts or texts both in research and the classroom. Conference organizers will prioritize proposals centered on participation and discussion.
Seminars bring together a diverse group of scholars at various career levels for three meetings over the course of the conference, for sustained discussion of a question or problem. Participants will access a common syllabus of readings and position papers before the conference. Only those registered for the seminar will have access to the papers; online access will be removed immediately after the conference. If you are interested in proposing a seminar, submit an abstract (up to 350 words) that describes a compelling case for why this particular issue should be explored. Once a seminar is accepted, conference organizers will issue a call for applications to participate in seminars (9–12 papers accepted).
Participants will be determined by the seminar organizer in consultation with a conference co-chair. Seminar papers must be available to post by 1 September 2024. On the conference program, seminars can be designated as open or closed to auditors, at the decision of the seminar organizer. We encourage open seminars but appreciate that in certain cases there can be good rationales for keeping a seminar closed to non-participants.
To the extent possible, financial assistance for conference presenters will be provided. Priority is given to scholars who would otherwise not be able to attend: graduate students, independent scholars, faculty at teaching-oriented colleges not offering research support, and scholars living outside the United States with unusually high travel costs. Instructions for funding applications will be posted once the conference program is finalized.
Conference Co-Chairs:
Jennifer Geddes (University of Virginia) and Sven-Erik Rose (University of California, Davis)
Conference Co-Hosts:
Wolf Gruner (University of Southern California) and Wendy Lower (Claremont-McKenna College)
Workshop and Seminar Coordinator:
Anna Veprinska (Cape Breton University)
All proposals must be submitted online via the Lessons & Legacies Oxford Abstracts portal. The submission portal will open in Summer 2023.
Check the HEFNU website for updates.
Questions regarding registration and submission can be addressed to hef@northwestern.edu.
Year Round
- AWSS Travel Grants
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.
- Summer Internship Opportunity / Advancing Digital Democracy in Eastern Europe
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- Teach English/Maymester/Study Russian in Vladimir, Russia (The American Home) Intensive Russian Program
For Russian Language Teachers, Students, and Others Interested in Russia,
On behalf of the American Home in Vladimir, Russia – which is celebrating its 30th 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/)Approximate program fee: one-to-one instruction group instruction
(2-5+ people, 15-35% discount)Four weeks $3,651 $2,994 - 2,254
Six weeks $5,009 $4,133 - 3,044
Eight weeks $6,367 $5,272 - 3,834
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
- Estonian and Finno-Ugric languages new master's programme to be opened in 2022
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://www.keel.ut.ee/en/admission/masters-progamme-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.
- Critical Language Scholarship Program Hiring Short-Term Resident Directors for Summer 2022 - FYI
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until positions are filled.
American Councils for International Education is hiring short-term Resident Directors for summer language immersion programs abroad for American high school and college students studying one of 15 critical languages. You or someone in your network may be especially interested to know that positions are available to support learners of Azerbaijani, Persian, Russian, and Turkish.
Resident Directors must be proficient in the target language and typically have experience studying, working, or traveling in the host country. They are responsible for promoting student success by ensuring the health and safety of program participants, helping them to maintain a language policy, and assisting them in acclimating to life in the host country. In-country partner institutes are responsible for administering the academic curriculum. Therefore, the Resident Director position is a non-teaching position.
A full list of available Resident Director positions is available at https://www.americancouncils.org/careers
- Unpaid Part-Time/Full-Time Internships with the Office of International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) // US Department of Education
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
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies