CREEES Professional Resources Forum – Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

December 12, 2025December 12, 2025

Job: Community Operations & Project Manager, Remote (Bellingcat)

Deadline: January 11, 2026

Location: Remote (7‑month contract, employment or freelance contract with possibility of extension)

Start Date: Early 2026

About Bellingcat

Bellingcat is an independent collective of international researchers investigating conflict, corruption, crimes, disinformation, extremist networks, and much more through open source and social media techniques. Our work has received multiple awards for its impact and innovation. At the heart of Bellingcat is a global community of staff, contributors, and volunteers working across disciplines — from journalism and research to technology.

December 12, 2025December 12, 2025

Spring Break Study Abroad Opportunities (SRAS)

Deadline: Varies, January 2026

SRAS is pleased to share several academically focused, one-week spring break study abroad programs across Eurasia and Eastern Europe for Spring 2026. These short-term, intensive courses are designed for students interested in language, international relations, media, identity, culture, gastronomy, and regional studies and in most cases are also open to faculty.

A full overview of all four programs is available here: SRAS.org/SpringBreak

Media Literacy in the Baltics: Identity, AI & Security

Program Type: Certificate Course
Location: Riga & Daugavpils, Latvia
Dates: March 7–15 or March 14–22, 2026
Cost: $2800
Application Deadline: January 20, 2026

December 10, 2025

CFP: Early Modern Postgraduate Workshop, History and Related Disciplines (University of St. Andrews)

Deadline: January 10, 2026

St Andrews Early Modern PG Workshop

Call for Papers – Candlemas Term 2026

We invite submissions for the St Andrews Early Modern Postgraduate Workshop for Candlemas Term 2026. We welcome proposals from postgraduate students at all levels working on the early modern period (c. 1400–1800) in history and related disciplines.

The workshop will continue in a hybrid format, meeting biweekly in person in the Old Seminar Room, 71 South Street, St Andrews, and via Microsoft Teams, beginning the week of 26 January 2026.

If you are interested in presenting, please send a short abstract (maximum 300 words) including a provisional title and a brief biography to earlymodernworkshop@st-andrews.ac.uk by Saturday, 10 January 2026. Papers should be 15–20 minutes long and will be followed by a discussion, with refreshments provided for in-person attendees.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact co conveners Zina Gharakhani (zzg1@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Andrew Simpson (afs5@st-andrews.ac.uk). Stay connected by joining our mailing list at earlymodernworkshop@st-andrews.ac.uk.

December 9, 2025December 9, 2025

Russian Language Summer School (Yerevan, Armenia)

Deadline: May 21, 2026

ASPIRANTUM is pleased to announce the 2026 Russian Language Summer School in Yerevan, Armenia. We warmly invite undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and professionals to join us in Yerevan for an immersive and academically rigorous Russian language experience.

Apply here: https://aspirantum.com/courses/russian-language-summer-school

Testimonials from ASPIRANTUM’s Persian language program alumni are available here: https://aspirantum.com/testimonials

December 9, 2025

Summer School: Constructing Soviet Difference: Culture and Society (Yerevan, Armenia)

Priority Deadline; January 18, 2026

For more information: https://summerschool.yerevancenter.org/

“Constructing Soviet Difference: Culture and Society” continues the summer school series “Societies and Cultures Torn Apart”, started in 2024. The 2026 summer school will focus on the ways in which, across the Soviet century, categories of difference were conceptualised, in different realms and through different practices, and how the legacies of those ideas and modalities continue to resonate today. It will explore Sovietness as a capacious category, experienced in different ways in different places. With contributions from across disciplines and areas, we will consider issues such as the following.

December 9, 2025December 9, 2025

CFP: Y-Conference: SPACES (Yerevan, Armenia)

Deadline: December 21, 2025

May 22–24, 2026, Yerevan, Armenia

The Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE) is delighted to announce the second annual Y-Conference. YCIE is dedicated to promoting international academic and research cooperation in the social sciences and humanities across Armenia and the wider region. The Y-Conference brings together scholars who work in or focus on the Caucasus and Eurasia to present their latest research and discuss their ongoing projects. Conceived as an inclusive and safe space, the conference fosters dialogue across academic disciplines and national borders — a gathering where new concepts and collaborative projects can emerge and take shape.

December 9, 2025December 9, 2025

CFP: History in the Making Graduate Conference

Deadline: January 30, 2025

On behalf of the Concordia History Graduate Student Association, we are pleased to announce that we will be hosting the 31st annual History in the Making Graduate Conference on April 10th and 11th, 2026. This year’s theme is “The Web Time Weaves: Technological, Cultural, and Intellectual Responses to Periods of Revolutionary Change.” You can find our call for papers attached in English and French.

We invite paper and panel proposals in English or French. Please send a 250-word abstract and a maximum 100-word biography to hitmconcordia@gmail.com by Friday, January 30, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Please include the subject line “2026 HITM. Conference” and your name. Abstract and bibliography should be formatted in 12-point Times New Roman font in a .doc or pdf file.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to the committee with any questions that you may have.

December 5, 2025December 5, 2025

Study Abroad: Social Entrepreneurship: Community and Innovation in Central Asia

Deadline: March 15, 2026

American Councils is pleased to offer a truly ground-breaking overseas program that combines social entrepreneurship with Central Asian studies beginning fall semester 2026. Open to students of all academic interests and backgrounds, the program is hosted by the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) in Bishkek.

Social Entrepreneurship: Community and Innovation in Central Asia places U.S. students in teams of Central Asian peers to conduct research on local community needs and develop products or services to address those needs. Students will create actual prototypes of the products they conceive in the AUCA Maker Space, an open-access workshop equipped with 3d-printers and other high-tech equipment. At the semester’s end, student teams will pitch their new products to a small group of investors and community leaders. These activities will be conducted as an integral part of semester coursework in Design Thinking and Principles of Social Entrepreneurship, taught by AUCA faculty.

December 5, 2025

CFP: Religious Trauma Symposium (Harvard Divinity School)

Deadline: January 30, 2026

Call for Submissions: Religious Trauma Symposium Harvard Divinity School April 16-17, 2026

Scope: Religious trauma, defined here as lingering harm within religious and spiritual contexts which creates barriers to physical, emotional, existential, social, psychological, developmental, and spiritual wellbeing, is a subject of mounting scholarly and popular attention with direct implications for the challenges of modernity. Recent work on religious disaffiliation (McLaughlin et al.), religious “dones” (Van Tongeren), and spiritual struggles (Excline) highlights the influence of religious trauma in demographic changes around the world, particularly in the United States. Yet despite academic and professional interest across fields as diverse as psychology, education, and religious studies growing in tandem with parallel discourses among survivors and religious practitioners alike, there has yet to be an event designed to bring these various circles into direct dialogue with one another.

December 2, 2025December 2, 2025

CFP: 4th Annual Cental Asia Research Forum

Deadline: January 23, 2026

The Slavic Reference Service and the American University of Central Asia are collaborating to host the 4^th Annual Central Asia Research Forum. This online forum aims to bring together scholars in all disciplines and stages of the research process to discuss the theme of Central Asia on film. Since the 1930s, cinema in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan has experienced numerous shifts and rebirths that have documented cultural, social, and political changes in the region.