Calls for Papers (CFPs) – Page 20 – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

February 7, 2022April 14, 2022

CFP: The Visual Culture of Iconoclasm and Atheism (Museum of Russian Icons)

Deadline: March 31, 2022

Center for Icon Studies’ Third International Conference
The Visual Culture of Iconoclasm and Atheism
JUNE 10 – 11, 2022

In the December 1905 issue of Novaia zhizn’, the Bolshevik daily newspaper, Vladimir Lenin wrote: “The proletariat of today takes the side of socialism, which enlists science in the battle against the fog of religion, and frees the workers from their belief in life after death by welding them together to fight in the present for a better life on earth.” In the years following the 1917 Revolution, the Soviet regime launched an aggressive campaign against religion, hoping to lift the “fog” identified by Lenin. Through powerful and sometimes disturbing imagery, targeted poster campaigns warned people of the dangers of religion and ultimately, the dangers of living in the past. Soviet iconoclasm paved the way for the destruction, not only of religious images, but of an entire political, social, and cultural system.

February 2, 2022April 14, 2022

CFP: Russian Emigration on the Waves of Freedom (New Review and Harriman Institute)

Deadline: February 15, 2022

In celebration of the centennial jubilee of the Philosophers’ Ship and the 80th anniversary of The New Review / Novyi Zhurnal, the conference “Russian Emigration on the Waves of Freedom” will explore the unknown pages of the intellectual history of Russian émigré culture in the 20th century and will seek to integrate the social, cultural, and intellectual contributions of the multiethnic Russian-language diaspora into world culture. In 1922 the leading Russian intellectuals were expelled from Soviet Russia. The Philosophers’ Ship marked the beginning of the intellectual history of the Russian intelligentsia in exile. The traditions of Russia Abroad, its free thinking and uncensored literature were continued on the pages of The New Review, the only intellectual publication of the multiethnic Russian-language diaspora during wartime. For 80 years, The New Review has been the intellectual center of the Russian free word and independent thought. Today the issues of this unique journal present the intellectual treasures of contemporary American, Russian, and world culture.

February 2, 2022April 14, 2022

CFP: Views from the Exosphere – Contemporary Slavic Literatures, From Up Close and Far Away

Deadline: February 28, 2022

Harvard University Graduate Conference, April 9, 2022

*To Be Held In-Person*

Co-organizers: Joanna Burdzel, Brett Donohoe, Roy Ginsberg, Anna Ivanov, Rachael Neidinger, Harvard University

The exosphere is the most distant layer of a planet’s atmosphere that still binds objects to a body’s gravitational pull. The image of the exosphere, as a conceptual metaphor, guides our conference. Adopting this receding vantage point, paradoxically, creates a sense of proximity, as sites formerly separated by huge distances begin to appear as mere neighbors — zooming out makes distinct bodies seem all the closer. On a discursive level, approaching the study of Slavic literatures in this way seems promising, as richly informed readings of individual works or artists can often contain echoes of trends and through lines operating on a broader scale in unexpected ways. From the exosphere, however, such resonances become appreciable, and the contingency of varied, seemingly unconnected entities becomes all the more apparent. Our conference proposes to adopt this approach and see what productive pairings can be found when unlikely works find themselves in close proximity on our panels. What might one say about Olga Tokarczuk and the situation of contemporary Polish prose, for example, in discussion with another scholar talking about queer Bosnian poetry? We hope to uncover connections that can be seen from the exosphere that might be otherwise missed.

January 26, 2022April 14, 2022

CFP: 2022 Slavic Graduate Student Association Conference (University of Illinois)

Deadline: February 15, 2022

Shifting Grounds: Changing Models of Nature in the Former Soviet Sphere

Update: Due to the on-going complications of COVID-19 the SGSA has decided to move the conference online.

The Slavic Graduate Students Association (SGSA) in conjunction with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Russian East European and Eurasian Center, and the History Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign invites submissions of presentation proposals from scholars across disciplines to this year’s conference, titled “Shifting Grounds: Changing Models of Nature in the Former Soviet Sphere.” We invite all professors, graduate students, and professionals to submit papers related to our topic for consideration.

January 13, 2022April 14, 2022

CFP: 2022 Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)

Deadline: March 1, 2022

The National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and the Center for Applied Second Language Studies at the University of Oregon are pleased to announce the 2022 Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference (PLL 2022) which will take place online on September 12-14, 2022.

The conference main theme will be Teaching and Learning Interactional Pragmatics in a Digital World, but we welcome a broad range of topics in pragmatics, discourse, interaction, and sociolinguistics in their relation to second and foreign language learning, education, and use, approached from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. We hope this conference brings together scholars and educators from all around the world who are interested in discussing both established and innovative approaches to teaching and learning pragmatics to strengthen our understanding of principles and practices in PLL and push the field to new and exciting directions in research and practice.

January 13, 2022April 14, 2022

CFP: ASEEES 2022 – Cognitive Approaches to Russian Culture

Deadline: February 22, 2022

We are seeking papers on cognitive perspectives on Russian literature and artistic culture for the Chicago meeting of ASEEES, November 10-13 or the virtual session October 13-14. “Cognitive” here is viewed broadly and may include any aspect of cognitive, developmental, evolutionary, behavioral, or cultural psychology; or any subset of the social sciences or humanities that are informed by them. If interested, please send proposed titles and abstracts to Tom Dolack at dolack_thomas@wheatonma.edu and Brett Cooke at brett-cooke@tamu.edu by February 22nd. Please state a preference for in-person or online. Chairpersons and discussants are also welcome!

January 12, 2022April 14, 2022

CFP: 54th ASEEES Annual Convention

Deadline: March 1, 2022

Call for Proposals – 54th ASEEES Annual Convention

October 13-14, 2022, Virtual Convention

November 10-13, 2022, Chicago Palmer House Hilton

Convention Theme: Precarity

We are accepting proposal submissions for the 2022 ASEEES Annual Convention with the deadline of March 1. We plan to host an in-person convention in Chicago in November following a smaller virtual convention in October. In the proposal submission process, you will need to indicate if the proposal is for the virtual or the in-person convention. The number of sessions for the virtual convention will be limited.

January 12, 2022February 10, 2022

CFP: Intergenerational Trauma in Refuge Communities

Deadline: January 31, 2022

Call for Chapter Proposals
Intergenerational Trauma in Refugee Communities

This book proposes to explore intergenerational/generational trauma, or ways in which trauma experienced by one generation affects the well-being of future generations, among refugee communities displaced throughout the world. The book will focus on legacy of trauma and how historical, cultural, and economic trauma affect survivors’ future generations. While trauma research literature documents single-episode effects of trauma, the long-term and intergenerational effects of traumatic experiences across refugee communities and cultural contexts is still a gap in the literature. This book seeks to include patterns and findings across disciplines, cultural contexts, and methodologies addressing how transmission of trauma occurs in specific refugee communities.

January 12, 2022April 14, 2022

CFP: 2022 Caucasus Research Forum (University of Illinois)

Deadline: March 7, 2022

The Slavic Reference Service is delighted to announce the 2022 Caucasus Research Forum, which will take place on March 30-31 at 9:00 am U.S. Central Time. This forum seeks to celebrate the diversity of the Caucasus region and bring together scholars, librarians, archivists, and students to discuss ongoing and completed projects. The theme for this year is Encounters. Subthemes of the forum include book culture and publishing, Post-Soviet identities, borderlands, and memory institutions. Those interested in giving a short, 15-20 minute presentation of their work should submit an abstract by March 7, 2022. Participants may present in any language, but we ask that participants provide an accompanying translation of their remarks in English. All interested in participating may register at the link below.

January 5, 2022February 10, 2022

CFA: Time, Objectified: Soviet Temporalities and Material Culture

Deadline: January 31, 2022

Edited by Julie Deschepper, Antony Kalashnikov, and Federica Rossi

In what ways were Soviet temporalities unique, from a global perspective? How can studies of Soviet material culture provide a vantage point from which to address this question?

Time is hardly a new object of research in the humanities and social sciences. The last few decades have seen landmark works on the changing conceptualizations and experiences of time, written from the disciplinary standpoints of, among others, history (Hartog, Koselleck, Tamm), sociology (Bauman, Rosa, Zerubavel), philosophy (Gumbrecht, Lübbe, Osborne) and literary studies (Assmann, Berman). These studies have identified and explored multiple temporalities: the ways in which time is constructed, produced, instrumentalized, and negotiated by individuals and collectives, themselves embedded in time. As in the current animated discussion of modern and postmodern temporal orders, these investigations have been rooted in a Eurocentric framework.