Conferences/Seminars – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

April 18, 2025April 18, 2025

CFP: Imperial Experiences in Family Violence: Crimes & Criminology in 19th-20th Centuries (National Library of Lithuania)

Deadline: June 15, 2025

Date: December 15–16, 2025
Location: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania

The University of Helsinki and the Lithuanian Institute of History are pleased to announce the international conference “Imperial Experiences in Family Violence: Crimes and Criminology in 19th–20th centuries.” The event will take place at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library’s which serves as a partner in hosting the conference. This gathering aims to examine the historical dimensions of family violence within imperial contexts.

By exploring legal practices, social perceptions, and criminological approaches across different empires, the conference seeks to analyze how state policies, legal transformations, and cultural norms shaped responses to violence in the family. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines, the event fosters a comparative discussion on the intersection of law, crime, history, and family dynamics in imperial settings.

April 18, 2025April 18, 2025

Conference: ACTR 50th Anniversary

Event Date: April 25-25, 2025 (online)

American Association of Teachers of Russian cordially invites everyone to the 50th Anniversary Conference taking place virtually on April 25-26, 2025. You can view the schedule on the Conference Website.: https://actr.org/Conference-Schedule

Please share this information with your colleagues who might be interested. Conference attendance is free and open to all.

Attention! All times listed in the program are in Eastern Standard Time (US). Please be sure to calculate the correct time of the panels and sessions you are interested in for your local time zone.

To register for the conference, please follow this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zdbceS_aQaiLK6MgfXzXHQ#/registration

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025

CFP: AATSEEL 2026 Conference

Deadline: (varies) May 15, July 1, August 1, 2025

The General Call for Proposals, Call for Panel Stream Topics and Application for Research Lab Participants for the AATSEEL 2026 conference, which will be held in-person in New Orleans, LA on February 19-22, 2026, are now open and currently accepting submissions.

The AATSEEL annual meeting is a forum for scholarly exchange of ideas in all areas of Slavic and East/Central European languages, literatures, linguistics, cultures, and pedagogy. The Program Committee invites scholars in these and related areas to form panels around specific topics, organize roundtable discussions, propose forums on instructional materials, and/or submit proposals for individual presentations for the 2025 conference. The conference regularly includes panels in linguistics, pedagogy, second language acquisition, literatures, and cultures relevant to the organization’s regions of focus.

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025

CFP: Academic Freedom in Flux: Purpose, Beneficiaries, and Practices in the Contemporary World (Tashkent University of Economics, Uzbekistan)

Deadline: June 30, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Academic Freedom in Flux: Purpose, Beneficiaries, and Practices in the Contemporary World”

Dates: October 16-18, 2025.

Location: Tashkent State University of Economics, Tashkent.

The fundamental questions “Why does academic freedom exist?” and “For whom does it exist?” remain central to contemporary debates about the role and function of higher education and research institutions. These questions touch upon the very foundation of the Academy and its place in society, raising critical issues about the interplay between knowledge production, democratic governance, and societal development.

March 31, 2025March 31, 2025

CFP: Career Readiness in Learning and Teaching Slavic Langauges

Deadline: March 31, 2025

CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS

Special Issue of RLJ, Volume 76, Issue 1 (June 2026)

“Career Readiness in Learning and Teaching Slavic Languages”

Victoria Hasko and Karen Evans-Romaine, editors

Proposals due March 31, 2025

Full manuscripts due July 15, 2025 – rljeditor@gmail.com

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Purpose, Aims, and Foci of the Special Issue:

The 2023 Modern Language Association (MLA) report reveals that most collegiate modern language programs are experiencing declining enrollments nationwide (Lusin et al., 2023). This trend is creating a pressing need to articulate the relevance and value of language proficiency to language learners, parents, and campus administrators. At the same time, the report suggests that some language programs are thriving, and it attributes their vitality at least in part to the integration of career readiness into world language programming (ibid.). While a specific roadmap for such integration is lacking, the report highlights promising initiatives such as collaboration with career services, the inclusion of content courses tailored for specific professional purposes, and inclusion of language programs into interdisciplinary degrees and certificates. Recent learner surveys also suggest that students may be more committed to language programs that prepare them to apply their language knowledge effectively in diverse, real-world contexts, including professional internships, study abroad opportunities, and community partnerships (Morgan & Thompson, 2023; Murphy et al., 2022; also see JNCL-NCLIS, 2024).

March 14, 2025March 14, 2025

CFP: Emerging Scholars Workshop on Sources and Approaches in the Study of East-Central and Southeastern Europe

Deadline: March 31, 2025

The Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to invite you to submit paper proposals for a workshop for emerging scholars (M.A. students, Ph.D. students, and postdoctoral researchers) focusing on the study of contemporary East-Central and Southeastern Europe. We are interested in novel sources and approaches that reinterpret traditional historical narratives of these regions.

March 14, 2025March 14, 2025

Call for Participation: How Financial Interests Shape Democracy – Lessons from Central Easter Europe’s Democratic Transition

Deadline: April 4, 2025

Democracies worldwide face mounting internal and external threats (Wolf 2023). Domestically, neoliberal reforms—particularly financial deregulation—have deepened inequality (Stockhammer 2013, Lin and Tomaskovic-Devey 2013), eroded social solidarity (Brown 2019), and depoliticized key distributional policies (Burnham 2001, Harvey 2011). Internationally, financial liberalisation has facilitated tax evasion (Palan et al. 2010, Shaxson 2011, Wojcik 2013) and pressured governments to cut social provision (Streeck 2017), further weakening social cohesion. Meanwhile, global finance has enabled autocratic regimes to reinforce one another and disrupt democratic societies through misinformation (Applebaum 2024). These trends took hold in democratic societies in the 1980s and accelerated while the former Eastern Bloc underwent its democratic transitions.

March 4, 2025March 4, 2025

CFP: When History Rhymes Too Much: Lessons for the Present from Central & Eastern Europe’s Past

Deadline: March 12, 2025

The weeks since January 20, 2025 have shocked the world with breathtaking failures to learn from history. From a second Munich Agreement to an American withdrawal from global engagements that recalls Mikhail Gorbachev’s pullbacks after 1988, repetition of the past has abruptly ended an eighty-year period of world history. If Mark Twain was right that “history rhymes,” it is clearly rhyming too much.

Central and eastern Europe have seen some of the most instructive precedents for today’s developments. Their history can therefore help us understand what is happening and how our future might unfold. Recognizing the moment’s urgency, Canadian Slavonic Papers invites proposals for relevant papers that might be included in flash forum to be published this summer.

February 13, 2025February 13, 2025

CFP: Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Conference

Deadline: February 17, 2025

May 8, 2025 – May 10, 2025

University of Alberta, Edmonton

The annual conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists will take place at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta) May 8 through 10, 2025. This is the first year the conference will take place independently of the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Proposals are invited for individual papers, panels, and roundtable discussions. Complete panels are preferred. Proposals can be submitted by filling out the necessary form at:

https://event.fourwaves.com/casedmonton2025

Please follow our abstract specifications and note that this is a new system for submitting conference proposals.

February 10, 2025February 10, 2025

CFP: Women in Conflict, War, and Revolution in Post-Soviet Space

Deadline: March 15, 2025

CFP for an Edited Collection

Questions can be sent to womeninwarandrevolution@gmail.com.

Overview and Scope

The present volume explores the intersection of political, economic, and gender dynamics in the post-Soviet space, focusing on the challenges faced by women as newly independent states redefine their identities while navigating Russia’s sustained imperial ambitions and its newly redefined spheres of influence. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, many former Soviet republics faced persistent political and economic instability. The dissolution, although relatively peaceful overall, was marked by violent conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya, Georgia, and Ukraine which resulted in significant bloodshed and displacement. In other parts of the newly independent states, there were less bloody encounters and tensions, though political instability and ethnic conflicts were widespread. These conflicts have led to immense human suffering, displacement, and economic turmoil.