CFP: Re/Framing Eastern European Cinema Conference (Princeton University)

Deadline: August 1, 2023

Event Date: October 28-29, 2023

Abstract Submission Date: August 1, 2023

Organizer: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, USA

A two-day international conference, Re/Framing Eastern European Cinema, will focus on the re-conceptualization of Eastern European cinema and its master narratives before and in the aftermath of the Russian-Ukrainian war of 2022. We will particularly welcome contributions discussing media cultures from the zones of passive and active conflicts in the former communist states constituting the Eastern Bloc.

Participants will interrogate the principal cultural canon, challenge common historical interpretations, and reflect on the visual experiences of displacement and violence in light of the largest military crisis in Europe since WWII. The interdisciplinary nature of the conference will situate the project in relation to the humanities by exploring traditional aspects of the filmmaking (production, distribution, exhibition and reception) and the new regional cultural politics. The main research goal is to shift the optics of our understanding of the essence of Eastern European cinema and conflicts reflected both in its past and present. 

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CFP: Princeton University Graduate Student Conference

Deadline: June 23, 2023

Call for Papers
Princeton University Graduate Student Conference, October 6-7, 2023
 *To Be Held In-Person*

The Art of Self-Obsession? Interrogating Slavic Ego-Documents and Auto-Fiction

Interrogating his own diaristic output, the young Leo Tolstoy wrote that the “motto” of  his diary “should be ‘not for proof, but for a narrative.’” As this suggests, autobiographical texts – letters, diaries,memoirs, etc. – can possess a poetics all of their own. Now, in the Internet age, such forms proliferate more than ever, radically expanding the remit of what can constitute an ego-document. Spanning
numerous figures and media, from Avvakum, to TikTok, Slavic cultures are saturated with content about the self. Moreover, ego-documents and their poetics form the foundation of seminal scholarly works from the likes of Boris Eikhenbaum and Yuri Tynianov. The “ego-text” in the broadest sense is – perhaps most importantly – a vehicle for self-articulation for those at both the center and margins of culture and society.

We invite submissions that interrogate the boundaries of what constitutes the autobiographical mode, and its poetics, in the Slavic context. How have specific political conditions across Eastern Europe shaped the production of ego-documents, and are there distinctive national and historical forms that emerge from these contexts? What can frameworks that have long been associated with autobiographical writings, such as trauma studies and ideas of postcoloniality, do for readings of Eastern European texts? To what extent can we speak of an ego-document’s formal devices or structure? When, how, and why do autobiographical readings fail? What critical possibilities do such approaches foreclose? We hope to develop and discuss these questions at our conference. 

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CFP: Lessons & Legacies 2024: “Languages of the Holocaust”

Deadline: December 4, 2023

Call for Papers

Lessons & Legacies 2024:”Languages of the Holocaust”

14 – 17 November 2024 Claremont and Los Angeles, California 

Submission Deadline: 4 December 2023

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.

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Conference: Imperial Plow: Settler Colonialism in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (Yale University)

Event Dates: May 1-2, 2023

https://europeanstudies.macmillan.yale.edu/imperial-plow-settler-colonialism-russian-empire-and-soviet-union

Location: Henry R. Luce Hall, Rm 203, (2nd fl.) 34 Hillhouse Ave.

Monday, May 1, 2023 

9:00 AM  Breakfast

10:00 -10:15 AM  Welcome By Hosts: Professors Claire Roosien and Edyta Bojanowska of Yale University

10:15-12:00 PM  Panel 1:  Theories and Temporalities

  • Discussant: Jane Burbank (New York University)
  • Chair: Nana Osei Quarshie (Yale University)
  • Michael Khodarkovsky (Loyola University, Chicago), “The Cannon and the Plow: Transforming Imperial Frontiers into Colonial Borderlands”
  • Sergei Glebov (Smith College), “Paradoxes of Settler Colonialism: Imperial Far East, 1850-1940”
  • Timm Schönfelder (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe), “Transhumance Submerged. Adyghe Traditions and Socialist Modernity along the Kuban River”
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CFP: West Point Conference on Language, Culture, and Military (United States Military Academy, West Point, NY)

Deadline: May 1, 2023

West Point Conference on Language, Culture, and Military United States Military Academy West Point, NY September 29 – October 1, 2023

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 militarmilitaire, 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.

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Conference: Alison Des Forges Symposium on “The Russo-Ukrainian War: Achievements and Limitations of Today’s International System” (University of Buffalo)

Event Date: April 26, 2023

This symposium will examine the Russo-Ukrainian War and what it tells us about the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary international system.  It will explore war crimes, crimes against humanity and alleged genocide arising from the conflict.  It will also revisit the enduring dichotomy between Russian authoritarian imperialism and Ukrainian democratic nationalism. 

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CFP: GCE-HSG 2023 Conference-Environment, Energy and Economy in the Black Sea Region

Deadline: May 16, 2023

The Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE-HSG) at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland invites paper proposals for a conference “Environment, Energy and Economy in the Black Sea Region,” to be held in Constanţa, Romania, 14-16 September 2023

The rich and complex history of the Black Sea Region is very much entangled with struggles and conflicts over its resources and with empires and nation-states’ efforts to manage them. Even currently, international energy, grain, and transportation crises caused by the Russian war on Ukraine are closely connected to the Black Sea. In addition to the obvious energy and economic instability, the war creates numerous ecological challenges and is extremely harmful to the environment. These events and threats in the region create a growing demand for platforms for multidisciplinary analysis and expertise. By examining the region’s past and present through various lenses, including politics, governance, economics, social justice, and technology, the conference will contribute to a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the region’s development.

Constanţa, the venue of the event, is an outstanding location for a discussion about the environment, energy, and economy in the region. The city, a former capital of the historical border region Dobruja, has one of the biggest ports on the Black Sea and entered the Danube–Black Sea Canal, a large-scale navigable artificial watercourse.

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Conference: Symposium on Ukrainian Cultural and Linguistic Shift, University of Illinois

Event Dates: April 19, 21, and 26, 2023

The Russian-Ukrainian war of the 21st century aimed not only to physically destroy Ukraine but also to expand the linguistic borders of the “Russian world,” denationalize Ukraine, and reestablish the cultural dominance of Russia over the Ukrainian people. The war that began in 2014 and intensified in the last year’s invasion has led to a cultural and linguistic shift from Russian to Ukrainian among much of the Ukrainian population. On April 19, 21, and 26, 2023, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host a virtual symposium titled “Away from the Empire: The Linguistic and Cultural Shift in Ukraine in the Wake of the Russian Invasion” that will explore this topic. The symposium will feature seven Ukrainian scholars (linguists, sociologists, literary scholars, ethnologists, and political scientists) and practitioners (front-line interpreters embedded with the Ukrainian Armed Forces). We kindly invite you to this exciting event. The symposium is supported by the Center for Global Studies and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois.

For the program, registration link, and other information, please see the symposium webpage:

https://cgs.illinois.edu/spotlight/global-intersections-project/symposium-ukrainian-cultural-and-linguistic-shift

Conference: #Connexions Conference (UT Austin)

Event Dates: April 10-12, 2023

On April 10-12, 2023, The University of Texas at Austin will host the #Connexions Conference on global media in diplomacy and foreign policy. #Connexions will create an international space for discourse on modern media and technology in state affairs to help address the critical need for informed and expert leadership in the information sphere, promoting a safer and healthier digital environment that in turn shapes the direction of history. Of main focus will be the chaos of information itself and how it informs and impedes the creation, execution, and communication of policy and the effective conduct of diplomacy. Academics, policymakers, and media practitioners will convene to address the key issues of our ever-evolving media environment, including fake news, disinformation, social media, cyber warfare, artificial intelligence, and the vulnerabilities of technologies that govern and drive global connectivity.

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CFP: Graduate Student Research Conference on the Study of Eurasia in the Social Sciences (UNC Chapel Hill)

Deadline: April 14, 2023

The Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to invite you to submit paper proposals for a graduate student research conference on the study of Eurasia in the social sciences. We welcome submissions of high-quality empirical or theoretical research related to Eurasia in disciplines including, but not limited to:political science,history,media studies,sociology,anthropology.

We are interested in papers on contentious politics, media and politics, and the dynamics of autocracy. We would also welcome papers on Islam, gender, sexuality, minority experiences; family and informal networks; health, healing, religion; demographic politics; politicization and other extra scholarly dimensions of research on the region; the new academic diaspora; connecting existing and “new” knowledge on the region and scholarly networks.

Ph.D. students in and from Eurasia are especially encouraged to apply.

The conference will take place over Zoom on May 26, 2023.

Participants will have 15-20 minutes to present their papers in English. Each presentation will be followed by feedback from a discussant and comments from the audience.

Please send a brief abstract (in English) and 2-page CV to cseees@unc.edu. The deadline for submission is 6:00 PM EST on April 14, 2023.

Applicants will be informed of their proposal status by April 21.

Those accepted to present will be asked to submit a complete paper by May 17.

Please direct questions regarding the conference to Bryce Hecht (bwhecht@unc.edu) and Elena Sirotkina (esirotkina@unc.edu).