Conferences/Seminars – Page 21 – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

April 21, 2022September 1, 2022

CFP: Industrious Nations: Reconsidering Nationality and Economy in the Soviet Union

Deadline: May 22, 2022

Princeton, New Jersey
October 28-29, 2022

Call for Papers
Deadline: May 22, 2022

Co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Department of History and Columbia University’s Harriman Institute

Russia’s attack on Ukraine illustrates the continued importance of understanding the historical formation of national narratives in post-Soviet spaces. Marking the centennial of the Soviet Union’s founding in 1922, this two-day workshop will explore the relationship between national identity and the economy in the Soviet Union. Although the pursuit of economic equality among all national groups was an explicit goal of Soviet economic policy, the interplay of nationality and economic issues has received little scholarly attention. Historians writing on nationality in the Soviet Union have long focused on the politics of language and culture. At the same time, scholars researching the Soviet economy have often tacitly assumed a uniform, technocratic, de-nationalized society, revealing an imagined binary of Soviet vs. national. In a similar vein, studies of the Soviet working class have long centered on ethnic Russians, paying little attention to other national groups.

April 19, 2022September 1, 2022

CFP: Northeast Modern Language Association Conference (NeMLA)

Deadline: April 29, 2022

As area director in comparative literature and Slavic studies, I invite you to submit session proposals for next year’s Northeast Modern Language Association conference (NeMLA) at Niagara Falls (USA) to be held on March 23-26, 2023. At our last convention in Baltimore we already had several excellent sessions on Russian poetry and prose, and it would be wonderful to continue these conversations and to have a broader representation of the Slavic field at NeMLA. The deadline for Call for Session Proposals is April 29.

Please propose a session for inclusion in the Northeast Modern Language Association’s 54th Annual Convention in Niagara Falls, NY, March 23-26, 2023. Chair guidelines and information about session formats are available on our website.

Click here to propose a session!* The deadline is April 29, 2022.

*Abstract proposals will be accepted between June 15 and September 30.

The Thursday opening address will be given by Tim Dean. The Friday keynote event will be given by Anne Enright.

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April 12, 2022September 1, 2022

CFP: Firms, Wars, and Ethics in the Business History of Central, East Europe, and Russia

Deadline: April 28, 2022

Place: Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice
Date: October 21-22, 2022

For this 4th Workshop on Business History in Central and Eastern Europe, the organizers invite scholars, including Ph.D. students of any relevant discipline to submit paper proposals on a broad range of topics related to business actors & corporate behavior in (and after) armed conflicts during the 20th century.

The workshop will particularly draw on historical research on the two World Wars and their aftermaths to provide tentative answers to several questions evoked by the Russia-Ukraine war of 2022. The aim is to explore the relationship between business and geopolitics from a long-term historical perspective focusing on the economic and social consequences of the war, including (de)globalization processes.

April 12, 2022September 1, 2022

Seminar: Summer Research Lab Research Training Workshop

We are pleased to announce in June we will be hosting a Research Training Workshop on the theme of “Northern Convergence: Peoples, Environment, and Politics in Russia’s Arctic and Sub-Arctic” co-hosted by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer (Georgetown University) and Vera Solovyeva (George Mason University and American Museum of Natural History).

In these unstable times of climate change and geopolitical testing, Russia’s Arctic and sub-Arctic have become increasingly significant. What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic, as a recent National Academy of Science symposium proclaimed. This workshop explores the implications of instability and the potential for sustainable multiethnic communities in Siberia and the Far East. We pay particular attention to Indigenous peoples, historically left out of conversations about development but increasingly part of long-term planning. Legally defined “small-numbered peoples” in Russia number over 40 groups, many of whom live in the North. In addition, according to United Nations definitions, Indigenous peoples numbering over 50,000 with their own republics within Russia should also be included. These larger groups have gained a degree of negotiated sovereignty in the post-Soviet period, but that self-determination has become threatened, especially in the past decade.

Please note that participants interested in applying to The Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) can still be admitted on a rolling basis.

We wish you the best in this painful time. Please be in touch should you have any questions about the SRL program and application process or the Research Training Workshop on the theme of “Northern Convergence: Peoples, Environment, and Politics in Russia’s Arctic and Sub-Arctic.” You may reach us at reeec-srl@illinois.edu.

April 8, 2022September 1, 2022

CFA: 2022 Midwest Slavic Association Student Essay Prize Competition

Deadline: May 2, 2022

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.

April 7, 2022September 1, 2022

CFP: Chernobyl as a Historical Caesura: Environment, Politics, and Science

Deadline: May 15, 2022

The Departments of Social Sciences and of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and the Department of History of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy are pleased to announce an open call for papers for the conference Chernobyl as a Historical Caesura: Environment, Politics, and Science to be held in Naples on 9-10 December 2022.

April 6, 2022September 1, 2022

CFP: Graduate Methods Training Workshop – Virtual (University of Indiana)

Deadline: April 20, 2022

We are pleased to be accepting applications for our third biannual Graduate Methods Training Workshop, hosted by the Russian Studies Workshop (RSW) at Indiana University’s Russian and East European Institute (REEI) with generous funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This two-day event is geared towards doctoral students working on Russia-related topics within social science disciplines to workshop their planned methodologies, discuss research challenges, and learn interdisciplinary tools from experts in the field. The Graduate Methods Training Workshop aims to prioritize student needs by tailoring sessions towards their research goals, allowing students to negotiate the difficulties faced by contemporary scholars working on Russia. The goal of the workshop is to facilitate learning and dialogue with faculty specialists on qualitative and quantitative methods, including survey methods, datasets and digital methods, media and discourse analysis as well as addressing specific student research concerns. Beyond this, GMTW 2022 provides opportunities to present your own research via lightning-round sessions and practice proposal writing for research funding. GMTW 2022 will be held virtually, allowing students from all over North America to participate in dialogue with invited experts, meet a community of emerging Russianists, and to develop networking and professional opportunities for scholarly growth. We welcome applications from doctoral students in North America whose work is in the social sciences (including history).

March 30, 2022September 1, 2022

Seminar: Q&A with Ukrainian Director

Event Date: April 1, 2022

The University of Michigan’s Flying Subtitles Collective, a joint faculty-student initiative, invites all to a Zoom Q&A with Ukrainian director Antonio Lukich. Join us this Friday at 5pm Eastern Time US! Lukich is one of the most interesting new directors in the Ukrainian film scene. His first feature film, a lyrical, absurdist comedy called My Thoughts are Silent (2019), won major international awards at the Karlovy Vary film festival and other international ceremonies, and you can watch it this week by registering for the Q&A. We invite you for a lively conversation about contemporary cinema, humor and the absurd in popular culture, what it was like to work in the film industry before the war, what’s going on with Lukich’s long-awaited sequel to his first feature, and what his hopes are for the future of Ukrainian cinema.This one-hour-long event is geared toward students and makes for an excellent extra credit opportunity! We will be speaking to the director, who is in Ukraine currently, and raising funds for anti-war aid.

Watch the Ukrainian or English-language trailer!

March 24, 2022September 1, 2022

CFP: Macalester College Student Research Competition

Deadline: April 11, 2022

Every year, the Russian Studies department at Macalester College organizes a student research competition. This year, the competition will be in a virtual format and is open to undergrads at all U.S. colleges and universities. Cash prizes awarded!

(1) Submit the title of your project and an abstract to chadaga@macalester.edu by Monday, April 11. Your project should be based on a term paper, digital project, or part of a senior thesis on any topic relevant to Eastern/Central Europe, Russia, or Central Asia written in Spring 2021, Fall 2021, or work-in-progress from Spring 2022. Your abstract should provide an overview of your project, including its thesis and conclusions, and be no more than 300 words.

(2) Based upon the abstracts received, some participants will be selected to present their projects to the virtual public. These students will prepare slide presentations with voiceover (we will provide how-to instructions) and submit them by Monday, April 25. A panel of faculty judges will provide feedback.

(3) On Saturday, April 30, Macalester College will host a Zoom session with presenters, faculty judges, and guests. Each presenter will give a brief recap of their project and field questions. Afterwards, the judges will confer to select the top presenters, who will receive cash prizes.

Contact chadaga@macalester.edu if you have questions.

March 24, 2022September 1, 2022

CFP: Russia and the Global Color Line (University of Illinois)

Deadline: April 14, 2022

Organizers:
Professor Eugene M. Avrutin, Tobor Family Endowed Professor of Modern European Jewish History
Professor Valeria Sobol, Head, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

We invite submissions for a Junior Scholar Two-Day Workshop on theme of “Russia and the Global Color Line.” Probing the role of Russia in the global dimensions of the color line, this interdisciplinary workshop raises exploratory questions about the meanings and functions of racial identifications and categories; the relationship between race, whiteness, and geography; how Russia fits into the global dimensions of the color line; and when and why skin color emerged as an important element in the complex process of identity formation. We welcome proposals on these and other related themes and questions on all aspects of modern Russian history and culture. The workshop is open to advanced graduate students and early career scholars. Abstracts and papers should highlight the critical methodologies used in the work. Selected papers will be pre-circulated among the participants, to maximize opportunity for discussion.
The workshop will be held on July 14th and 15th 2022, as part of the Summer Research Lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. We are currently planning to hold the workshop as an in-person event, but we will, of course, monitor the pandemic situation closely and will switch to a virtual format if necessary.

To apply, please send a 300-word abstract and CV to eavrutin@illinois.edu and vsobol@illinois.edu by April 14th, 2022. We will inform participants who have been selected by May 1st and ask you to develop a paper of at least 5,000 words by June 15th, 2022.