Call for Panels: Y-Conference: Empires (Yerevan Center for International Education)

Deadline: September 6, 2026

The Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE) invites you to the third annual Y-Conference. YCIE is dedicated to promoting international academic and research cooperation in the social sciences and humanities across Armenia and the wider region. The Y-Conference brings together scholars who work in or focus on the Caucasus and Eurasia to present their latest research and discuss their ongoing projects. Conceived as an inclusive and safe space, the conference fosters dialogue across academic disciplines and national borders – a gathering where new concepts and collaborative projects can emerge and take shape.

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CFP: Exile as a Foreign Body International Conference (Sorbonne)

Deadline: September 13, 2026

EXILE AS A FOREIGN BODY International Conference will be held 2–3 December 2026 at Université Paris Nanterre, Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique, Sorbonne Université, UMR 8224 Eur’ORBEM UXIL & Campus Condorcet

CALL FOR PAPERS

Concept and Rationale

This conference proposes to approach the experience of exile in the twentieth century through the lens of the body. The body is understood here as a point of intersection between the material conditions of existence, the institutional mechanisms that frame migration, and the cultural forms through which exile is lived and represented. This perspective seeks to complement approaches that have primarily examined exile through the lenses of memory, identity, cultural circulation, and intellectual transfer.

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Call for Submissions; Totalitarian and 20th Century Studies

Deadline: August 31, 2026

The Editorial Board of the Totalitarian and 20th Century Studies yearbook announces a call for submissions for the next special issue of the publication, covering the years 2025–2026. We invite researchers from various disciplines, including history, political science, law, and sociology, to submit scholarly articles, editions of source materials, and reviews in line with the profile of our yearbook.

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10th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation: Arts Sustaining Language (Hawai’i)

Deadline: August 31, 2026

Conference held March 4-7, 2027 in 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.

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CFP: Special Issue on 70th Anniversary of Sputnik Launch (Journal of American Studies)

Deadline: September 15, 2026

The editors of the Journal of Russian American Studies (JRAS) are calling for proposals for a special issue on the 70th Anniversary of the 1957 Sputnik launch.  The theme of this issue will revolve around how this event in 1957, and the space race in general (before and after 1957), played a role in the larger theme of Russian-American relations.

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CFP: Women’s Education, Careers, and Social Change in the Russian & Ottoman Empires & Beyond, 1860s-1920s

Deadline: August 10, 2026

https://newsroom.aua.am/2026/07/02/call-for-papers-womens-education-careers-and-social-change-in-russian-and-ottoman-empires-and-beyond-1860s-1920s

The Max Weber Network Eastern Europe (MWNO) Georgia branch office, in cooperation with the Turpanjian Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) at the American University of Armenia (AUA) is hosting an international conference and calling for papers on Women’s Education, Careers, and Social Change in the Russian and Ottoman Empires and Beyond. 

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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