Conferences/Seminars – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

March 17, 2026March 17, 2026

CFP: Teaching Russian and Ukrainian History in the Shadow of War

Deadline: April 27, 2026

The impact of Russia’s war on Ukraine on the Slavic and East European Studies subject area has received much attention over the past four years. Most such discussions, however, have focused on the changing research environment, from declining archival access to debates over ‘decolonisation’. By contrast, the war’s impact on our teaching practice has received comparatively little attention. This lack of attention is problematic, since what students are taught about Russian and Ukrainian history has a major influence on how the war is understood and contextualised in wider society.

March 17, 2026

CFP: Eurasian Information Age Conference

Deadline: March 18, 2026

October 16th-17th, 2026 Yale University

Perennially understudied, Eurasia – as both a geographical and conceptual constellation – opens up a novel and fertile space for scholarly contributions. This call for papers invites submissions that engage with the region’s alternative media, information, and communications histories, bridging past and future frameworks, methodologies and forms.

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 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 23, 2026

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

Deadline: February 10, 2026

Working title: Russian Studies Instructor Preparation in a Changing World

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

January 15, 2026January 15, 2026

CFP: Background Noise: The Normalization of State Violence

Deadline: February 12, 2026

This panel examines how governments and large-scale political formations perpetuate violence not only through overt repression but by depicting it as ordinary, predictable, and woven into the fabric of everyday life. Rather than appearing exclusively as rupture or catastrophe, violence often circulates as an artificially normalized condition — it is acknowledged and anticipated by the public, yet it is rarely treated as a problem requiring ethical or political intervention.

We welcome contributions that explore how governments, institutions, and artists contribute to the normalization of violence — through xenophobic discourse, war rhetoric, imperial legacies, or art and language — making it appear familiar, forgettable, and resistant to ethical or political challenge.Possible theoretical frameworks include Foucault’s biopolitics, Mbembe’s necropolitics, Galtung’s structural violence, Nixon’s slow violence, and the concept of everyday violence developed by Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois.

If you are interested in participating, please send your paper title and proposal to Yulia Dubasova (dubasova@usc.edu) by February 12, 2026. We are also seeking a chair and one or more discussants, so please indicate your interest if you would like to serve in one of these roles.

January 12, 2026January 12, 2026

CFP: Russian Studies Instructor Preparation in a Changing World, Edited Volume

Deadline: February 10, 2025

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

Proposals due February 10, 2026