Deadline: January 15, 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS
58th Annual Meeting
Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
Greenville, SC
March 12-14, 2020
The Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) will be held at the Westin Poinsett Hotel in Greenville, South Carolina, March 12-14, 2020. The meeting will be hosted by Clemson University. The SCSS is the largest of the regional Slavic and Eurasian Studies associations and its programs attract national and international scholarly participation. The purpose of SCSS is to promote scholarship, education, and in all other ways to advance scholarly interest in Russian, Soviet, and East European studies in the Southern region of the United States and nationwide. Membership in SCSS is open to all persons interested in furthering these goals.
The John Shelton Curtiss Lecture at the Friday Banquet will be given
by Professor Donald Raleigh, Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor
of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His talk is
provisionally titled “GenSec: The Brezhnev
You May not Know.” Raleigh has authored, translated, and edited
numerous books on modern Russian history including Revolution on the
Volga (1986), Experiencing Russia’s Civil War (2002), Russia’s Sputnik
Generation (2006), and Soviet Baby Boomers (2012),
a Russian-language edition of which was published in 2015. The book was
short listed for the Pushkin House Prize in Great Britain and won the
Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Book Prize. His current book
project, a biography of Soviet leader Leonid Ilich
Brezhnev, has taken the author to archives in Ukraine, Moldova,
Kazakhstan, and Russia.
Papers
from all humanities and social science disciplines are welcome, as is a
focus on countries other than Russia/USSR. We encourage
participation from scholars of all Slavic, East European, and Eurasian
regions. Papers can be on any time period and any topic relevant to
these regions.
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