Conferences/Seminars – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

July 6, 2026July 6, 2026

CFP: “The Long Perestroika from Below”

Deadline: July 31, 2026

edited by Juliane Fürst, Bradley Gorski, Veronika Pehe, Kathleen Smith

We invite submissions of abstracts for a collective volume to be published by CEU Press under the title “The Long Perestroika from Below.” The volume will be open access and aims for publication in the summer of 2027. It wants to be a comprehensive overview over the historical research on Perestroika ‘from below’, meaning the experience of and activism in perestroika actions, which took place across Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and outside the centres of political power usually associated with the reforms and campaigns of the time. We encourage scholars at all stages of their career to participate in this volume, which aims to turn perestroika research on its head by switching the perspective of investigation from Gorbachev and political elites to society.

July 6, 2026

CFP: AATSEEL 2027 Stream Topics and Poster Panel

Deadlines: July 25, 2026; August 1, 2026

We are pleased to announce the Stream Topics for AATSEEL 2027, which will be held virtually on February 18-21, 2027. These streams promote greater cohesion among conference panels and foster a broader dialogue throughout the conference. The result can be a series of mini-conferences within the framework of our larger conference.

Stream 1: Toward Slavic Sensory Studies: East European Memory and the Senses
Stream 2: Transformational Sexualities in Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian Literatures and Cultures
Stream 3: Practices of Multilingualism in Online and Offline Spaces
Stream 4: New Directions in Russian Language and Area Studies: Perspectives from the Summer Russian Language Teachers program in Kazakhstan
Stream 5: Beyond the Horizon III: Rethinking the Canon of Polish Studies
Stream 6: Contested Monuments: Canonical Writers of the Stalin Era between Hagiography and Demythologization.
Stream 7: Career Readiness in Russian and Slavic Studies Programs
Stream 8: AI, Language, and Media in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Contexts

July 6, 2026

CFP: “Intersectionality + Pluricentricity: Teaching Russian Language(s) and Culture(s) (Russian Language Journal)

Deadline: August 15, 2026

The guest editors at Russian Language Journal (RLJ) are pleased to announce a call for proposals for a special issue on the topic “Intersectionality + Pluricentricity: Teaching Russian Language[s] and Culture[s]”.

The special issue considers intersectional and pluricentric pathways intentionally for language instructors to more accurately describe and interpret diverse Russian speech communities in teaching culture. It seeks to didactically counter narrate Russocentric, Eurocentric, and monolingual approaches to canons and curricula (i.e., Russkij mir), while also discussing their application as content in P-24 language classrooms.

June 4, 2026June 4, 2026

CFP: 10th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (Honolulu, Hawai’i)

Deadlines: Workshops and Talk Story sessions August 31, 2026 ; General sessions (Papers, Performances, & Posters) September 30, 2026

The Department of Linguistics and the College of Arts, Languages & Letters at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa are pleased to announce the…

10th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation:

Arts Sustaining Language

March 4-7, 2027

Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA

http://www.icldc-hawaii.org

Language lives not only in grammar and lexicon but also in the creative practices of its speakers, as expressed through song, story, performance, crafting, and visual arts. Though traditionally viewed as ancillary to the documentary process, these creative practices are increasingly being incorporated into language documentation workflows. Moreover, the arts play a critical role in furthering and supporting language maintenance and reclamation efforts, helping to sustain intergenerational transmission among minoritized, ancestral, and diaspora languages.

May 29, 2026

CFP: Systematic Disorder: Russian Culture under Neoliberalism

Deadline: July 1, 2026

SYSTEMATIC DISORDER: RUSSIAN CULTURE UNDER NEOLIBERALISM

An international conference to be held on September 25-26, 2026,

at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University in New York

Organizers: Daria Ezerova (Cambridge), Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia),

and the Harriman Institute

Keynote: Masha Salazkina (Concordia)

Special Event: the launch of Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology (Stanford University Press, forthcoming in September 2026) by Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev

For all participants, the Harriman Institute will cover travel expenses and a three-night stay in New York.

In the past few decades, a body of historical and theoretical work has emerged on neoliberalism that might radically alter our understanding of the decline and fall of the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet transition. It allows us to see beyond the narratives of the triumphant liberal world order of the 1990s, to read cultural shifts in relation to the transformation of the global economy from the crisis of the 1970s onward. Although the leadership of the late Soviet Union could not crush worker power, roll back the welfare state, deregulate financial markets, or enforce a new spirit of competitive individualism like their Western counterparts, they arguably already governed under the same straitened circumstances of the global economy after the oil shock. 1991 would provide the opportunity to finally shred the socialist state and turn its former citizens into faster guns than even those in the West. As communities held together by socialized labor, housing, and healthcare were torn apart, nationalism and conservatism, with their promises of the restoration of organic community, gained purchase.

May 7, 2026

CFP: Fourth Annual BASEES Baltic Study Group Workshop

Deadline: August 15, 2026

Parallel Memories: People, Place and Environments in the Baltic States
Online, 30-31 October 2026

This year marks forty years since the late-twentieth century independence movements across Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia began to “crystallize around concern over environment” (Misiunas and Taagepera 1993). Indeed, the intertwinement of nature, nation and memories of interwar statehood was a notable source of mass mobilisation throughout the late 1980s. More recently, a new momentum around the study of environment and society, ecological memories, nuclear cultural heritage, emptying places, and land redistribution has been gathering momentum within research on or with the connection to the Baltic states (Rindzevičiūtė 2021; Dzenovska 2023; Annus 2025; Martínez 2026). Building on this, the fourth annual BASEES Study Group on the Baltic States workshop seeks to explore the power of memory in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania through the lens of place and environment (Martinez 2026; Annus 2025; Schwartz 2006).

April 16, 2026April 16, 2026

K-12: Drama for Schools Symposium: Celebrating 20 Years of DFS and Beyond

Event Date: Friday May 15 & 16, 2026 (Registration Deadline: May 4)

We are delighted to invite you to the Drama for Schools Symposium: Celebrating 20 Years of DFS and Beyond, at the University of Texas at Austin on May 15–16, 2026. The Drama for Schools Symposium will bring together university faculty and students, teaching artists, and K-12 educators from Texas and around the globe to explore how drama-based pedagogy can support more welcoming, equitable, and engaged classrooms. Come for one day or both! Registration is only $50 a day and includes breakfast and lunch! The event is co-sponsored by Texas Global, OVPR, CoFA, CREEES Center, and the Clarke Center.

The Symposium will feature sessions focused on K-12 and university teaching, teaching English and other languages in higher education, human rights curriculum, arts and health, climate justice, drama in museums, drama as tool for healing-centered engagement amongst many other topics! There is a session in every block that is appropriate for university educators. We have numerous global partners attending (from Australia, Poland, Bosnia, UK, Ireland, Taiwan, Hong Kong) who are eager to set-up partnerships. We have a special discount for UT faculty and students.

March 31, 2026April 3, 2026

CFP: AvtobiografiЯ. Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture

Deadline: June 30, 2026

The international, peer-reviewed and open access journal «AvtobiografiЯ. Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture» is now accepting submissions for its fifteenth issue.

«AvtobiografiЯ» is a journal devoted to the representation of the self in Russian culture. Its Advisory and Editorial Board are comprised of internationally renowned scholars in the field of Russian and Slavonic Studies. The journal welcomes contributions on any topic related to Life Writing and Auto-Biography and related genres in Russian literature, history, art and culture. The editors are particularly keen to theoretical and interdisciplinary articles, and welcome contributions about Russophone literature and other Slavonic cultures.

Proposals must be sent to the address: info@avtobiografija.com. The deadline for submissions is the 30th June 2026. All necessary information, including style notes and submission guidelines, are on the journal’s

website: http://www.avtobiografija.com/

AvtobiografiЯ has been recognized as “Classe A” journal in the assessment carried out by ANVUR, the agency designated by Italy’ s Ministry of Education and Research for evaluating research institutions and scientific output.

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.