Cara Keirstead – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

February 27, 2026February 27, 2026

Call for Proposals: an edited volume on various aspects of Russian state propaganda

Deadline: March 2, 2026

Working title: Instruments and Influences of Russian Propaganda

Kirsten Rutsala, Alla Roylance, editors

Proposals due March 2, 2026.

We are currently inviting proposals for an edited volume focused on the multifaceted nature of Russian state propaganda. We are in negotiations with Bloomsbury and are currently finalizing the formal proposal for the volume.

While the volume addresses various aspects of state-driven narratives, we are specifically seeking contributions for the following three thematic sections:

Russian Propaganda Abroad: examining the reach, methods, and impact of Russian narratives in international contexts.
Counterpropaganda and resistance: analyzing domestic and international efforts to combat, debunk, or resist state propaganda.
Propaganda in education: analyzing how the Russian state utilizes the classroom for the “patriotic upbringing” of its youth, from early childhood to higher ed.

Languages of Publication: English

February 24, 2026February 24, 2026

Call for Papers: Performing European Publics (4-5 June 2026) Conference (University of Manchester)

Deadline for Abstracts: March 16, 2026

What does it mean to perform Europe—and to perform in Europe—today? What are the political stakes of such performances? Performing European Publics (4-5 June 2026) invites researchers from Theatre & Performance Studies, Politics, and allied fields to critically reflect on how performance, publicness, and the idea of Europe itself intersect, collide, and transform across diverse cultural and political terrains. European nations today face, in varying guises, democratic ‘backsliding’ or the rise of ‘illiberal’ democracy, encroaching authoritarianism and erosion of civil liberties, the gathering strength of ethno-nationalist and identitarian populist movements, and a polarised, fragmented, even ‘post-truth’ public sphere. This conference asks how performances—embodied or digital actions, in physical or virtual public space, that establish a performer-spectator relation—and performatives—utterances that do what they state—shape this political terrain, and how the concepts and practices of performance, broadly construed, might help us to navigate it. The conference invites delegates working on and in a range of European contexts to consider performances in public space as street-level acts of political theorising, at once locally intelligible and potentially mobile.

February 24, 2026February 24, 2026

Call for Applications: 2026 Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Deadline: March 16, 2026

The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are pleased to announce a new Call for Applications for our 2026 Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) program. The SRL is an in-person program that offers comprehensive research support, access to library resources, and competitive Research Awards to graduate and post-graduate scholars developing projects on all aspects of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. It is funded by the U.S. Department of State through its Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII).

February 20, 2026February 20, 2026

Call for Editors: Language Learning & Technology

Deadline: March 15, 2026

Call for Editors | September 2026 to August 2029

The Language Learning & Technology (LLT) Executive Board invites applications for the editorship of the journal.

LLT is a free, fully-refereed, open access journal that disseminates research to foreign and second language educators on issues related to technology and language education. The focus of LLT is not technology per se, but rather how technology mediates and impacts language teaching and language learning processes and outcomes. The journal publishes original research articles, research syntheses, and technology in practice articles. LLT has been published continuously since July 1997, making it one of the oldest and highest quality peer-reviewed diamond open access journals in the United States.

February 20, 2026February 20, 2026

American Councils’ President’s Scholarship for Travel

Deadline: March 15, 2025

Please note that the newly created AC President’s Scholarship for Travel will cover the full cost of selected participants’ roundtrip flights from their home city to their overseas study location on any American Councils summer or semester program. The scholarship is open to all applicants; awards are made on the basis of financial need and academic merit.

The President’s Scholarship for Travel is part of American Councils’ ongoing commitment to ensuring that all qualified applicants are able to join the America Council program of their choice, regardless of cost. As part of that commitment, American Councils has significantly increased 2026 financial aid for program participants. For more information on the full menu of available financial aid for AC participants, please visit: https://www.studyabroad.americancouncils.org/financial-aid

February 2, 2026

Language Learning: Online Synchronous Summer Advanced Course

Deadline: Early Registration Recommended

Hunter College, CUNY is offering an Online Synchronous Summer Advanced Course:

RUSSIAN 313: Advanced Russian Conversation (ONLINE via Zoom)
Summer 2026, Session I
Dates: May 28 – July 8, 2026
Schedule: Monday–Thursday, 5:45–7:19 PM (4 evenings per week)

Instructor:
Prof. Pisetskaya Aksana
ap2479@hunter.cuny.edu

Course Description:
This course is designed to strengthen advanced-level spoken Russian through focused work on vocabulary expansion, idiomatic usage, and complex grammatical structures. Students participate in interactive discussions, role-plays, and communicative tasks that help develop fluency, stylistic awareness, and precision across a wide range of professional and cultural topics.

February 2, 2026

CFP: The Subliminal Porte: Sephardi Jews & the Ottoman Resonances, ASEEES 2026

Organizing a panel for ASEEES 2026 (Nov. 12-15, Chicago, IL) titled “The Subliminal Porte: Sephardi Jews and the Ottoman Resonances” and looking for two (or three) co-panelists and a volunteer to serve as our chair. Here is a brief CfP:

Ever since Bayezid II had issued a ferman welcoming the expelled Sephardi Jews into the Balkan eyalets of his empire, the Balkan Peninsula became a new and vibrant Sefarad—a home to the Iberian exiles. This panel will examine the many ways in which Sephardi Jews and the Ottomans remained entangled and imbricated with one another all the way until “the last Ottoman century” (as per Julia Phillips Cohen) and in the long-cast shadow of the Sublime Porte—be it in terms of linguistic borrowings from Turkish into Judeo-Spanish, the extraterritorial citizenship (to recall Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s term), or the quotidian lived experiences of the former. Once “gone,” the Empire did not disappear entirely, but, instead, continued to enjoy a subliminal/vestigial/subterranean presence in the lives of the Sephardi communities, now integrated into the new nation-states, while still impacting their self-image and haunting their imaginary—and their dreams of affiliation. This at times barely audible, yet clearly discernible plane of resonance—across the artifacts of cultural history, socio-political musings, literary fiction, life writing, and more—will be at the focus of our panel.

If you are interested in joining as a speaker or serving as a chair, please contact Alex Pekov at ap3543@columbia.edu. Please feel free to share this CfP with anyone who might be interested but is not subscribed to the list.

February 2, 2026

Call for Chapters: Instructor Preparation in Russian Studies

Deadline: February 10, 2026

Call for Proposals: Proposed edited volume on instructor preparation in Russian studies [Russian language and culture].

Working title: Russian Studies Instructor Preparation in a Changing World

Emil Asanov, Karen Evans-Romaine, and Jason Merrill, editors

Literature on teacher education for World Languages, i.e., languages other than English, has focused on declining enrollments in teacher preparation programs at the undergraduate level (e.g., Burke & Ceo-DiFrancesco, 2021), teacher shortages (e.g., Swanson & Fischbach, 2025), and strategies to tackle these issues (e.g., Davis et al., 2022; Thompson & Morgan, 2023), all in the face of declining enrollments in language programs across the United States (Lusin et al., 2023). To address these challenges, scholars have suggested strengthening teacher preparation programs in World Languages by providing access to continuing professional development and responding to the needs of both diverse students and teachers alike (García et al., 2019).

February 2, 2026

CFP: 21st Annual Meeting of Slavic Linguists (Seoul National University)

Deadline: April 15, 2026

We invite proposals for presentations at the 21^st Annual Meeting of Slavic Linguistics Society to be held at Seoul National University (Korea), from August 12 to 14, 2026. Papers dealing with any aspect of Slavic linguistics, within any theoretical framework or methodological approach, are welcome. The abstract submission deadline is April 15, 2026.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

John F. Bailyn (Stony Brook University)

Hana Filip (Heinrich Heine Universität)

Motoki Nomachi (Hokkaido University)

TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS

We invite submissions for:

● individual papers for general sessions

● panel proposals for thematic sessions

January 30, 2026

Summer teaching positions in BCMS, Polish, Russian, Arabic, Turkish (University of Pittsburgh)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

The Summer Language Institute at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt’s SLI) is accepting applications for summer teaching positions in Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian, Polish, and Russian* as well as in Arabic and Turkish. All classes begin on June 1, 2026 and last for 6-10 weeks.

*Please note that the opening in Russian involves teaching in the domestic institute in Pittsburgh followed by coordination duties on site in Riga therefore we can only consider candidates whose passport/citizenship allow visa-free entry to Latvia. We are not currently accepting applications for teaching Russian in Pittsburgh without the duties in Riga. If a Pittsburgh-only vacancy arises for Russian, we will post a separate announcement.