Conferences/Seminars – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

November 26, 2025November 26, 2025

CFP: BASEEES Fifth Polish Studies Article Prize

Deadline: February 10, 2026

Call for Submissions – BASEES Fifth Polish Studies Article Prize
BASEES Polish Studies Group

The BASEES Polish Studies Group invites scholars and publishers to submit original research articles or book chapters for the fifth edition of the annual Polish Studies Article Prize!

The prize recognises the best English-language article or book chapter in Polish Studies published in a peer-reviewed journal or an edited collection in 2025. It is open to scholars of all nationalities and disciplines whose work advances Polish Studies. Doctoral candidates and early career researchers are particularly encouraged to apply. Authors who have submitted work in previous editions are welcome to reapply with new publications.

November 18, 2025November 18, 2025

CFP: Future(s) of International and Area Studies: Challenges, Opportunities, Goals (University of Pittsburgh)

Deadline: December 4, 2025

University of Pittsburgh, May 8-10, 2026

Format: Hybrid

The University of Pittsburgh’s University Center for International Studies (UCIS) invites you to join us for a conference exploring the Future(s) of International and Area Studies in May 2026. We will be convening a series of timely conversations aimed at reimagining area and global studies for the next generations. Join us to think beyond enduring paradigms, inherited structures, and established practices as we create new horizons for interdisciplinary research & learning, engagement, coalition-building, and more. Please find important information about the scope and charges of the conference HERE.  

November 17, 2025

Slavic Graduate Forum (University of Illinois)

Deadline: January 5, 2026

We are excited to announce the upcoming UIUC Slavic Graduate Forum, occurring April 11-12, 2026, in person at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. The forum will focus on an overall theme of Nationality, Identity, and Memory. The intersection of these themes is particularly relevant in today’s world, and their study is interdisciplinary by nature, applicable to scholars of all disciplines, from museum studies to literary and cultural studies. We encourage proposals from a wide variety of specialties and will consider compelling research relevant to the field of Slavic Studies, even if it does not necessarily meet the agreed upon theme.

Proposals for individual papers and pre-formed panels are now being accepted and should be submitted by January 5, 2026. Details regarding the formatting of proposal submissions can be found on this poster, and completed proposals should be sent to uiucslavicforum2026@gmail.com. Please include “UIUC Slavic Forum” in the subject line of your email.

In order to ensure equal access, any need for accommodation should be included in the proposal email. Due to limited funding, we kindly request that any applicants in need of financial assistance apply early and similarly petition their home universities for any necessary travel and accommodation funding.

Acceptance notifications for both individual paper and pre-formed panels submissions will be sent by February 5, 2026. Participants should confirm their participation by email within three weeks of notification, or by February 26, 2026, at the latest. The final program schedule will be sent in March.

For questions or difficulties, please reach out to Shannyn Bald at sbald2@illinois.edu and Danielle Hix at dhix2@illinois.edu.

October 21, 2025October 21, 2025

Call for Proposals: AATSEEL Translation Workshop

The AATSEEL translation workshop team wants to hear your ideas for translation initiatives for the 2026 conference!

Please write to Ainsley Morse (aemorse@ucsd.edu) or Jen Kindick (aatseelconference@colorado.edu) with a one-paragraph proposal for workshop material from any time period and any AATSEEL-covered [Slavic/East European/Eurasian/Caucasian/Baltic] language. The genre is also open, but please consider a length of text that can be productively dealt with in a brief (1h15m) workshop.

Examples from recent years: poems by Odesa-based poet Maria Galina; poems by early modernist classic Lesia Ukrainka; poems by Lviv-based poet Ostap Slyvynsky; poems by Austin-based poet Oksana Lutsyshyna; poems by Siberian poet Ekaterina Simonova; several passages from the autobiography of Avvakum; two brief prose passages from the novel Appendix by Rome-based Alexandra Petrova.

October 17, 2025October 17, 2025

CFP: KFLC 2026: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference (University of Kentucky)

Deadline: November 15, 2026

https://meetinghand.com/e/kentucky-foreign-language-conference

The Russian, Eurasian and Slavic Studies section of KFLC is a small but enthusiastic track of this large, dynamic conference. We encourage you to join us to share new research work in progress or a finished project in need of feedback toward publication. This is also a terrific venue for graduate students to get conference presentation experience in a supportive scholarly setting. In addition, we are hosting an undergraduate research session this year; undergrads can submit directly to Russian/Slavic—I recommend this—or choose to present in the broader conference undergrad sessions.

October 3, 2025October 3, 2025

Workshop at SLE 2026: Constructions with multiple wh-words across languages

Deadline: November 5, 2025

Meeting Description:

The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of constructions with multiple wh-words across languages, which are understood as constructions structured with two or more wh-elements that can fulfil different functions.

We propose the following questions for discussion:

● What semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic factors underlie the restrictions on wh-variables and their possible pairings in multiple wh-constructions, especially in their distributive readings?

● Under what semantic and pragmatic conditions are such constructions licensed in discourse, and what communicative functions do they perform across languages?

● What syntactic positions can these constructions occupy within the clause, and how do they interact with the valency requirements of the predicate (if present)?

● How do frequency, idiomatization and formulaicity influence the grammatical status of these constructions across different languages?

● What are the historical sources of such constructions (e.g. indirect questions > quasi-relatives > distributives), and what grammaticalization paths can be identified cross-linguistically?

● Can we detect areal or genealogical patterns in the distribution and structure of these constructions, and what do such patterns reveal about contact-induced change versus independent development?

● How do multiple wh-word distributives compare with other distributive strategies (lexical, morphological, or clausal) cross-linguistically?

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025

CFP: Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, & Care under Socialism

Deadline: November 15, 2025

Health, social welfare, and the organization of family and social life have been central concerns for historians of socialist states. This conference invites a fresh perspective, examining how intimacy—as both concept and practice—offers new insights into how socialist institutions fostered, reimagined, or contained bonds between parents and children, patients and practitioners, and citizens and the state itself.

How might foregrounding intimacy reshape our understanding of health, medicine, and welfare in Europe under state socialism? We particularly welcome work that explores the role of expertise and caregiving practices within diverse institutional spaces. We are interested in a breadth of state socialist institutions, spanning hospitals and clinics, nurseries and retirement homes, asylums and sanitoria, maternity wards and childcare centers, among many others. By centering intimacy in institutional settings, this conference seeks to generate new histories of medicine, society, and the everyday that reveal socialism’s distinctive social worlds.

September 18, 2025September 18, 2025

WGCTV Graduate Student Travel Grant for ASEEES 2025

Deadline: October 10, 2025

In 2025, the Working Group on Cinema and Television (WGCTV) is committed to subsidizing graduate students working in film and media studies who are attending the ASEEES convention for the first time or who have no local institutional resources for travel support. We anticipate that we will be able to fund, on a competitive basis, 3 awards of $300 each.

Eligibility

MA and PhD students from all backgrounds working in film and media studies at any college or university
Applicants must be session participants (panel, roundtable, or lightning round) in the convention program to apply.
Recipients of a Graduate Student Travel Grant cannot receive the WGCTV grant for the same convention.

September 11, 2025September 11, 2025

WGCTV Funding Opportunity for Graduate Students

Deadline: October 10, 2025

In 2025, the Working Group on Cinema and Television (WGCTV) is committed to subsidizing graduate students working in film and media studies who are attending the ASEEES convention for the first time or who have no local institutional resources for travel support. We anticipate that we will be able to fund, on a competitive basis, 3 awards of $300 each.

Eligibility

All applicants must be:

Students working at either master’s or doctoral level in film and media studies within Slavic, East European, or Eurasian Studies departments.
Presenting a paper on a panel at the ASEEES Annual Convention.

*Recipients of the ASEEES Graduate Student Travel Grant cannot receive the WGCTV grant for the same convention.

August 28, 2025August 28, 2025

Sonja Luehrmann Article Prize for Graduate Students and Untenured Faculty

Deadline: September 15, 2025

Soyuz: The Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies is accepting submissions for the 2025 Sonja Luehrmann Article Prize for the best published peer-reviewed article related to the culture, history, or politics of (post)socialism, broadly defined. Although we encourage submissions that contribute to the advancement and nuancing of contemporary scholarly understandings of (post)socialism, (post)communism, and decolonization, submitted entries may be on any topic that falls within the broad scope of interest represented by Soyuz. Submissions from any discipline are welcome.