Conferences/Seminars – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

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.

August 28, 2025August 28, 2025

CFP: Workshop in Ukrainian Studies (NYC)

Deadline: September 10, 2025

The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the United States, in partnership with the American Association for Ukrainian Studies and Razom for Ukraine, is pleased to announce a call for applications from early-career scholars. PhD candidates studying at US universities and post-doctoral fellows who received their PhD degrees within the past three years are invited to apply for participation in an interdisciplinary workshop in Ukrainian Studies. Applicants engaged in a wide range of approaches and subfields are welcome to apply. Topics include, but are not limited to, civil society, culture, economic development, gender, historical memory, humanitarian aid, international relations, migration, and war.The in-person workshop will be held in New York City on October 31 – November 1, 2025, which will provide participants with an opportunity to attend some events at the Ukrainian Cultural Festival.

August 28, 2025August 28, 2025

CFP: Southern Conference on Slavic Studies: Russia and Its Neighbors (Georgetown University)

Deadline: December 1, 2025

Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
62nd Annual Meeting: March 12-15, 2026
Washington DC (hosted by Georgetown University)

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: Monday December 1, 2025

Conference Theme: Russia and Its Neighbors

The Conference Hotel is the HYATT CENTRIC ARLINGTON. Make your reservations ($179/night) using the link here or call 877-803-7354 by February 12, 2026 to receive the SCSS special rate. Most events for the conference will take place at the Hyatt, although some events may be held on the Georgetown University Campus.

August 28, 2025August 28, 2025

CFP: Higher Education Policy in Non or Partly Recognized States and Entities: Negotiating Sovereignty and Seeking Epistemic Justice (Prague)

Deadline: September 5, 2025

The Small Nation(-States) Research Centre (SnS), Institute of International Studies, Charles University, invites abstract proposals for a hybrid workshop entitled Higher Education Policy in Non or Partly Recognized States and Entities: Negotiating Sovereignty and Seeking Epistemic Justice to be held on November 6th, 2025, in Prague (both in-person and online).

• Submission deadline for abstracts: September 5th, 2025
• Notification of acceptance: September 30th, 2025

Higher education has long been one of the most powerful instruments for legitimizing state claims and cultivating national consciousness. In non- or partly-recognized states (NPRS), universities and other higher education institutions (HEIs) not only shape local identity and historical narratives but also attempt to secure symbolic and material forms of recognition—whether through accreditation, partnerships, or student and faculty mobility. At the same time, crises of sovereignty, conflict, or political fragmentation often force HEIs into exile, split institutions, or compel them to operate under severe political constraints.

August 26, 2025

CFP: Contemporary Political Myth and Reality in Eurasia (University of Texas at Austin)

Deadline: October 15, 2025

The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Clements Center for National Security, and Department of Government are pleased to announce a joint conference on Contemporary Political Myth and Reality in Eurasia, taking place February 12-13, 2026, at UT Austin.

Eurasian states face mounting challenges amid growing polarization, gaps between social needs and political responses, and disinformation blurring myth and reality. Further, Eurasian states face additional pressures from a legacy of authoritarian rule, active conflict and irredentism, and political mobilization of social divisions across the region. Yet Eurasian countries also have unique strengths in navigating these challenges, with strong national identities, robust civic engagement, bursts of democratic progress, and deep cultural traditions.

August 26, 2025August 26, 2025

CFP: Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (Florida State, Tallahassee)

Deadline: October 17, 2025

We are accepting proposals for our upcoming Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary (LINC) Graduate Conference on “Beyond Fracture: Reimagining Futures through Divergence and Convergence: Constructing New Paths Across Division, Resistance, and Solidarity.

The conference isscheduled for March 5-6, 2026 at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Organized by graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference will provide a space to discuss divergence and convergence as tools for imagining and reimagining the future across fields, including literature, linguistics, cultural studies, history, gender and sexuality studies, and others.

This year’s theme, “Beyond Fracture: Reimagining Futures through Divergence and Convergence,” invites participants to examine ways that we can chart directions for the future. We welcome submissions that reflect a diverse range of interests, from linguistic analysis to cultural studies and literary exploration.