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Deadline: December 20, 2024

The NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia is excited to announce a call for applications for our annual master’s and undergraduate research symposium! This March, we will host 25 undergraduates and 25 master’s students for two days of presentations, discussion, networking, and exploration. Please note that this year’s event will feature a slightly different structure than the past two iterations, as we will host both MA and Undergraduate participants for two full days.

We invite presentation proposals from undergraduates and master’s students enrolled at universities in the USA and Canada who are pursuing or have pursued research projects, internships, or other opportunities related to Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and/or Eurasia. Students from any academic field are welcome to apply. Both symposia will feature two different types of panels: 

Deadline: December 1, 2024

We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for our upcoming LINC Graduate Conference on “Fluidity and Musicality: Exploring the Rhythms of Language, Culture, and Identity,” scheduled for February 27-28, 2025 at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Organized by graduate students in the Modern Languages and Linguistics Department and the School of Teacher Education, this interdisciplinary conference will provide a space to explore fluidity and musicality across fields, including literature, linguistics, cultural studies, musicology, and gender and sexuality studies.

Deadline: December 15, 2024

We are delighted to announce a Call for Papers for an upcoming graduate student conference “Slavic and World Literatures,” hosted by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University on March 8th, 2025.

Over the past two decades, the concept of “world literature” has been in the spotlight of scholarly attention. This influential discourse, which can be traced back to Goethe’s idea of Weltliteratur, was put forth by three groundbreaking studies that came out at the turn of the 21st century: Pascale Casanova’s La République mondiale des Lettres (1999), Franco Moretti’s pair of essays “Conjectures on World Literature” (2000) and “More Conjectures” (2004), and David Damrosch’s What Is World Literature? (2003). They each propose a distinct conceptualization and theoretical method: adopting a sociological perspective, Casanova analyzes the diffusion of literary ideas from peripheral locations to the center, which she clearly identifies with Paris; Moretti describes an opposite route of circulation: from a European core to a global periphery; and Damrosch comes up with a threefold definition of the discipline, which states that world literature is “an elliptical refraction of national literatures,” “writing that gains in translation,” and “a mode of reading” rather than a set canon of mostly Western texts (281). This approach to world literature, which pays close attention to foreign reception of works and the mobility of literary artifacts, has become a subject of lively debate in academia, stirring up reactions from scholars of national literatures, area studies, postcolonialism, and translation studies. Slavicists are often absent from these discussions or focus solely on the Soviet model of world literature, whose best expression is the activity of the Gorky Institute of World Literature. For its own part, world literature as a field of study has not tended to incorporate Slavic literatures into the discussion. With this conference, our aim is to bridge this “communication gap” and bring these conversations into the present of Slavic Studies, while also bringing Slavic literatures into focus for scholars of world literature.