Calls for Papers (CFPs) – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

June 28, 2024June 28, 2024

CFP: 22nd Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies

Deadline: September 10, 2024

The UCLA Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies Committee invites current graduate students and recent graduates (MA or PhD within the last two years) to present their research at the 22nd Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies on February 21, 2025. Research papers will be accepted on all aspects of Armenian studies, including but not limited to language, literature, history, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, economics, and art history. Papers that make use of comparative themes and interdisciplinary approaches are particularly encouraged.

June 28, 2024June 28, 2024

CFP: Baltic Sexualities in Global Perspective

Deadline: September 15, 2024

Baltic Study Group

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Baltic Sexualities in Global Perspective

31 October – 1 November 2024

The conference aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines who explore, theorise, and seek to address historical, social, legal, and political aspects of sexuality (of any historical period) within the present day territories of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Sexuality is broadly defined as a range of emotional, physical, and psychological dimensions, characteristics, behaviours, and attractions that relate to a person’s sexual orientation, sexual activity, sexual identity, and sexual desires. Sexuality can involve, but is not limited to, sexual orientation (such as LGBTQ+ and/or asexuality), romantic attraction, and experiences of intimacy and pleasure. In addition, sexuality is inextricably linked to social/cultural norms and values, as well as legal and medical knowledge production.

June 14, 2024June 14, 2024

Call for Proposals – Journal of Russian American Studies (JRAS)

Deadline: July 1, 2024

https://journals.ku.edu/jras

The Editorial Board of the Journal of Russian American Studies (JRAS) is planning to publish an anniversary issue dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Russian-American relations focusing on the year 1945. This year, of course, marks the end of World War II / Great Patriotic War. We are inviting scholars to contribute articles to be included in this anniversary issue that will be published in Summer 2025. The specific theme of the article is up to the author, but it needs to focus on Russian-American relations in the year 1945 – (both broadly speaking). The deadline for submitting proposals/abstracts is July 1, 2024. In this part of the process, please submit a proposal or abstract of 100 words that describes your article. In addition, please submit a c.v. Both of these documents should be in Word or PDF form and as attachments to the following email address: jras1807@gmail.com

June 14, 2024June 14, 2024

CFP: History of Southeast Europe

Deadline: June 30 and November 30, 2024

For the two upcoming issues (Volume 83 and Volume 84), Southeast Research invites submissions from all areas of the history of Southeast Europe. The submission deadline for Volume 83 is June 30, 2024 , and for Volume 84, November 30, 2024 .

Südost-Forschungen is one of the oldest periodical publications on the history of Southeast Europe. Its first volume appeared in 1936; since then, the journal, which is published as a yearbook, has developed into one of the leading publications for German and international research on the history of Southeast Europe. For the coming year, Südost-Forschungen plans to switch from one yearbook to two issues per year.

May 21, 2024May 21, 2024

CFP: North American Dostoevsky Society Student Essay Competitions (Undergrad and Grad)

Deadline: June 3, 2024

The North American Dostoevsky Society (NADS) invites nominations for our biannual undergraduate and graduate essay competitions. The submission deadline is June 3, 2024; submissions are welcome on a rolling basis. Please see the details for both competitions below. For questions about the undergraduate competition, contact vladimir.ivantsov@oberlin.edu. For questions about the graduate competition, contact chloe.kitzinger@rutgers.edu.

Undergraduate CFP

The North American Dostoevsky Society (NADS) invites IDS/NADS members in good standing to nominate outstanding undergraduate student essays on Dostoevsky-related topics for our biannual competition. (If you are not a member of IDS or NADS, you can join at https://dostoevsky.org/). Students are also welcome to nominate their own work, in which case IDS/NADS membership is not required. The topic is open; however, Dostoevsky and his works should be the main focus of the essay. The winner of the undergraduate contest will receive free membership in NADS for one year and a Dostoevsky-themed swag. The winner will also have the option to include their work in a proposal for an online undergraduate research panel. To submit a nomination, please send an email containing the student’s name, email address, institutional affiliation, and the title and level/number of the course for which the essay was written (e.g. BIOL 322 “Dostoevsky and Spiders”) to Vladimir Ivantsov at vladimir.ivantsov@oberlin.edu. Please attach the essay to the email as a .pdf file containing no identifying information about the author. The essay (in English or Russian) should be written for a course taken in the academic years 2022-23 or 2023-24. It should be no more than 4000 words, including footnotes and bibliography; 12 font size, double-spaced; it should consistently follow either MLA or Chicago style and contain full bibliographical information on the used sources, either in the footnotes or as a separate list of references. The deadline to submit a nomination is June 3 2024, 11:59 PM EST.

May 10, 2024May 10, 2024

CFP: Religion, Human Dignity, and Human Rights: New Paradigms for Russian and the West

Deadline: June 1, 2024

A Conference in Honor of Nikolai Berdyaev at 150

November 1-3, 2024

Keynote speakers:

November 1: John Witte, Jr., Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law and McDonald Distinguished Professor at Emory University

November 2: Samuel Moyn, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History, Yale University

The Hamilton Center at the University of Florida and the Northwestern University Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought are calling for paper proposals for a conference on human rights and human dignity, held in honor of the 150th birthday of Nikolai Berdyaev, a Russian émigré who brought to Europe a Russian religious philosophy of freedom, dignity, and rights. The conference intends to bring together scholars from multiple regional and disciplinary perspectives to investigate the question of religion and rights, East and West. Conference participants should consider the option to produce papers suitable (in their final form) for publication in an eventual edited volume.

For more information, please see https://hamilton.center.ufl.edu/call-for-papers-religion-human-dignity-and-human-rights/ or https://rprt.northwestern.edu/.

Please send paper proposals of approximately 250 words to Ana Siljak (ana.siljak@ufl.edu), Randall Poole (rpoole@css.edu), or Brad Underwood (bradleyunderwood2025@u.northwestern.edu). Proposals should be submitted by June 1, 2024.

April 26, 2024April 26, 2024

CFP: Volume on Literary Journalism/Creative Nonfiction in East-Central Europe

Deadline: April 30, 2024

Call for Abstracts

Proposals for Book Chapters for a Volume on Literary Journalism/Creative
Nonfiction in East-Central Europe:
https://ialjs.org/cfp-proposed-volume-on-literary-journalism-creative-nonfiction-in-east-central-europe/

Abstracts are invited for a proposed collection on Literary Journalism/
Creative Non-Fiction in East-Central Europe. The volume takes as its central
concern the current shapes and forms of what is variously called literary
journalism, creative non-fiction, creative documentary narrative, or reportage
(among other terms) in the region. We have already received preliminary
interest from an academic publisher.

April 19, 2024April 19, 2024

CFP: What keeps Ukraine together? Continuity and Change as Interrelated Forces in Ukrainian History and Culture (Italian Association of Ukrainian Studies )

Deadline: May 30, 2024

The Italian Association of Ukrainian Studies (AISU) is pleased to announce a call for papers for its second international conference, which takes the idea of “Continuity and Change” as its theme. The University of Cagliari will host the event on January 15-16, 2025.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has caused many to reconsider Ukraine’s place on their mental maps, spurring reflection on what makes Ukraine a nation in its own right. Until February 2022, the notions that Ukraine is historically a part of Russia, and that Ukrainian identity has only emerged as the result of foreign interference, were deeply ingrained not only in the minds of Russian leaders but also in large sectors of Western public opinion. However, Ukraine’s fierce and spontaneous resistance in the face of Russian aggression conveyed an image of a remarkably unified nation despite a past of incomplete statehood and an internal landscape rich with ethnic, linguistic, religious, and regional differences. What, then, keeps Ukraine together across ethnic, linguistic, and confessional lines?

April 12, 2024April 12, 2024

CFP: Gentry, Nobility, Aristocracy: The Post-feudal Perspectives (Warsaw)

Deadline: May 19, 2024

The conference will take place in Warsaw at the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Warsaw (ul. Dobra 55) on 25-27 September 2024 in a hybrid format with possible online participation.

The vital and complex role of the landowning elites in the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe has been extensively researched, resulting in a wealth of literature. However, the question of how this role has been remembered since the dissolution of these elites as a social class, and what the implications of this memory and legacy are for contemporary European societies, has only recently been addressed by sociologists, historians, and anthropologists.

April 12, 2024April 12, 2024

Call for Contributions: Anthology: Soviet Cultural and Education Policy

Deadline: April 28, 2024

Anthology: Soviet Cultural and Education Policy | H-Soz-Kult

After 1989, the Western narrative of the triumph of free-market capitalism and liberal democracy spread rapidly, along with the promise of prosperity for more and more people. However, since the global crises from 2007 onward, it has become clear that the liberal vision of the end of history has not been realized. The economization of the former socialist states did not lead to an increase in living standards, on overage, these have declined significantly and were largely deindustrialized to the advantage of the leading economies. This has in many cases been associated with political crises and the rise of right-wing governments. Therefore, a renewed thinking about alternatives to the present organization of society gains once again actuality.