Calls for Papers (CFPs) – Page 15 – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

April 13, 2023June 12, 2023

CFP: GCE-HSG 2023 Conference-Environment, Energy and Economy in the Black Sea Region

Deadline: May 16, 2023

The Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE-HSG) at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland invites paper proposals for a conference “Environment, Energy and Economy in the Black Sea Region,” to be held in Constanţa, Romania, 14-16 September 2023

The rich and complex history of the Black Sea Region is very much entangled with struggles and conflicts over its resources and with empires and nation-states’ efforts to manage them. Even currently, international energy, grain, and transportation crises caused by the Russian war on Ukraine are closely connected to the Black Sea. In addition to the obvious energy and economic instability, the war creates numerous ecological challenges and is extremely harmful to the environment. These events and threats in the region create a growing demand for platforms for multidisciplinary analysis and expertise. By examining the region’s past and present through various lenses, including politics, governance, economics, social justice, and technology, the conference will contribute to a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the region’s development.

Constanţa, the venue of the event, is an outstanding location for a discussion about the environment, energy, and economy in the region. The city, a former capital of the historical border region Dobruja, has one of the biggest ports on the Black Sea and entered the Danube–Black Sea Canal, a large-scale navigable artificial watercourse.

April 11, 2023June 12, 2023

CFP: 2023 Midwest Slavic Association Student Essay Prize Competition

Deadline: May 1, 2023

The Midwest Slavic Association, with support from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), is now accepting submissions for its annual essay prize competition for undergraduate and graduate students. Students can submit a paper on any topic related to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies to the Midwest Slavic Association for consideration. The best undergraduate paper received will win a one-year membership to ASEEES, and the graduate winner will receive a one-year membership to ASEEES, as well as then being considered for the ASEEES Graduate Student Essay Prize national level competition. The graduate winner of the ASEEES Student Essay Prize at the national level wins travel, lodging, and registration for the Annual ASEEES Convention and membership for the following year. The prize is presented during the awards presentation at the Annual Convention.

Undergraduate paper submissions can be in a variety of formats, including: conference paper, thesis, course paper, or article. They should be no longer than 20 double-spaced pages including notes and bibliography. Entries must be submitted electronically and written in English.

Graduate essay submissions can be of several formats: expanded versions of conference papers, graduate level seminar papers, Master’s thesis chapters, or dissertation chapters. The student should indicate what type of paper they are submitting and provide an abstract. Essays should have a minimum word count of 7,500 and a maximum word count of 14,000 (25 to 50 pages approximately) inclusive of footnotes and bibliography. Submissions must be written in English, double-spaced, and include footnotes or endnotes.

All submissions are due Monday, May 1, 2023, and should be emailed to The Ohio State University’s Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at cseees@osu.edu. Students who wish to submit an essay should have participated in the 2023 Midwest Slavic Conference, or be from an institution in the Midwest (defined as any college or university in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin). With your submission, please also include the following:a short bio of the author an abstract of the essay indicate the format of the essay

Please visit ASEEES’ website for full information on the national level competition: http://aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/graduate-student-essay-prize.

April 7, 2023June 12, 2023

CFP: West Point Conference on Language, Culture, and Military United States Military Academy

Deadline: May 1, 2023

West Point, NY September 29 – October 1, 2023

The United States Military Academy’s Department of Foreign Languages (DFL) invites proposals from scholars across cultural and linguistic disciplines for the Inaugural West Point Conference on Language, Culture, and Military, with a focus on representations of military experiences in the humanities. This conference welcomes multiple and diverse approaches at the intersections of language, culture, and aspects of the human experience with a nexus to “military” (such as but not limited to militar, militaire, 軍 jūn, revolution, rebellion, guerrilla, etc.). From Xenophon to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Penthesilea to Joan of Arc, Cervantes to Camões, Erich Maria Remarque to Václav Havel, we witness across all linguistic, literary, and cultural traditions the impact of what one may classify as military (or paramilitary) activities on the broader human experience. We can draw great insight from an analysis of these experiences across all linguistic and cultural traditions, as language reflects, constructs, records, and negotiates key socio-cultural aspects, such as individual and collective identities, conceptualizations of reality, motivations, aesthetics, and historical narratives.

April 7, 2023April 7, 2023

Graduate Student Essay Competition (Jordan Center, NYU)

Deadline: June 1, 2023

The blog of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia is pleased to announce our fourth annual Graduate Student Essay Competition. Enter for a chance to get published on the blog and win cash prizes.

We invite 750-1200 word submissions from full- or part-time M.A. and Ph.D. students from any accredited academic institution in the United States, on any topic and sub-discipline within Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, broadly defined. Cultural criticism; opinion pieces; public-facing treatments of scholarly work; political analysis; book, film, or event reviews; and more are welcome.
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March 30, 2023June 12, 2023

CFP: Graduate Student Research Conference on the Study of Eurasia in the Social Sciences (UNC Chapel Hill)

Deadline: April 14, 2023

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 graduate student research conference on the study of Eurasia in the social sciences. We welcome submissions of high-quality empirical or theoretical research related to Eurasia in disciplines including, but not limited to:political science,history,media studies,sociology,anthropology.

We are interested in papers on contentious politics, media and politics, and the dynamics of autocracy. We would also welcome papers on Islam, gender, sexuality, minority experiences; family and informal networks; health, healing, religion; demographic politics; politicization and other extra scholarly dimensions of research on the region; the new academic diaspora; connecting existing and “new” knowledge on the region and scholarly networks.

Ph.D. students in and from Eurasia are especially encouraged to apply.

The conference will take place over Zoom on May 26, 2023.

Participants will have 15-20 minutes to present their papers in English. Each presentation will be followed by feedback from a discussant and comments from the audience.

Please send a brief abstract (in English) and 2-page CV to cseees@unc.edu. The deadline for submission is 6:00 PM EST on April 14, 2023.

Applicants will be informed of their proposal status by April 21.

Those accepted to present will be asked to submit a complete paper by May 17.

Please direct questions regarding the conference to Bryce Hecht (bwhecht@unc.edu) and Elena Sirotkina (esirotkina@unc.edu).

March 24, 2023June 12, 2023

Undergraduate Research Competition

Deadline: April 3, 2023

Every year, the Russian Studies department at Macalester College organizes a student research competition. This year, the competition will be in a virtual format and is open to undergrads at all U.S. colleges and universities. Cash prizes awarded!

(1) Submit the title of your project and an abstract by Monday, April 3 by following the link at the competition website. Your project should be based on a term paper, digital project, or part of a senior thesis on any topic relevant to Eastern/Central Europe, Russia, or Central Asia written in Spring 2022, Fall 2022, or work-in-progress from Spring 2023. Your abstract should provide an overview of your project, including its thesis and conclusions, and be no more than 300 words.

March 24, 2023June 12, 2023

CFP: Integrating Histories of Development: the Good, the Bad, and the Joined (Shanghai University)

Deadline: April 8, 2023

Center for the History of Global Development – Shanghai University

There are two principal master narratives about modern global development. One is a positive story of significantly improved quality of life for people around the world. This perspective is especially taken by scholars studying health. Over the last 200 years, people around the world have grown taller and lived longer, the result mainly of better nutrition, better housing, better clothing, higher incomes, more tax revenues and better healthcare policies. Despite an eight-fold increase of the global population since 1800, the percentage of malnourished has steadily decreased, and the rate of people dying of famine has dropped to a tiny fraction of those at any time during the last two centuries. Angus Maddison has documented the spectacular (albeit unequal) growth in global wealth, while Robert Fogel and Dora Costa have demonstrated the intertwined character of the changes in human bodies and inventions: better nutrition and living standards have enabled people to work with more strength and better cognitive abilities for longer hours, resulting in further improvements in nutrition and living conditions in a “techno-physio evolution” of continuous improvements. Nobel Prize laureate Angus Deaton has framed such improvements in health and living standards as “escapes” from earlier fates of hunger and premature death. Steven Pinker has argued that modern societies have kept becoming more peaceful, with violence increasingly exceptional and considered outside of accepted social norms, and the late public health specialist Hans Rosling, insisted on the overall positive tendencies of world development in a book aptly entitled Factfulness: Ten Reasons we’re wrong about the world – and why things are better than you think (2018).

March 24, 2023June 12, 2023

CFP: International Security in the Post-Pandemic Era: Threats and Opportunities

Deadline: April 10, 2023

Conference:

25-26 May 2023

Hybrid (online and in person)

Babes-Bolyai University Cluj (Romania)

The interdependence between the economic, environmental, military, political or societal sectors of security represents a core debate in social sciences. Beyond its theoretical approaches, policy-makers strive to implement optimal strategies for assuring national security. In spite of the interest for national security, the experts, sometimes, fail to foresee the ‘black swans’ that generate serious dangers to the national security. The COVID-19 pandemics was one of the ‘black swans’ that made the world to the face one of the biggest security challenges since the beginning of the 21st century. This crisis made clear how and why the security sectors are interdependent and challenged the policy-makers and experts to identify solutions for maintaining the optimal functioning of societies.

March 14, 2023June 12, 2023

Conference/CFP: Third East Europe Consortium for Korean Studies (EECKS) and the International Conference Board on East-Asian Korean, Balkans and Mediterranean Cultural Studies 2023 and Studia Mediterranea Centre at the University of Split

Deadline: April 1, 2023

Conference Dates: June 26-28, 2023

This conference is a forum for comparative studies in culture, literature, arts, and historical studies. It focuses on cultural theory, comparative and cross-media topics, Slavic and East-Asian scholarship, with a focus on cultural transfers between the Balkans, Mediterranean and the Korean Peninsula. It is held jointly by the members of EECLS which are: the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split, Croatia, Yonsei University, Seoul, Inha University, Inchon, Korea National Open University, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul and Yongin, Korea, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. The conference will be held in English with one section also organized in Croatian and Korean.

March 7, 2023May 3, 2023

CFP: Teaching Media and Media Literacy

Deadline: March 25, 2023

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Special Issue of RLJ (December 2023):

“Teaching Media and Media Literacy”

Guest Editors:

Dr. Karen Evans Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, evansromaine@wisc.edu

Dr. Liudmila Klimanova, University of Arizona, klimanova@arizona.edu

Purpose, aims, and foci of the special issue:

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and tighter restrictions on press freedom in Russia have caused instructors of Russian to focus attention more sharply on teaching information literacy skills. Instructors of Russian have taught media courses for decades, but the necessity to enable students to develop their interpretative skills for various forms of media has grown significantly over the past year. This issue of RLJ invites articles on all aspects of the teaching and learning of media in Russian, from news to social media, to discussions of censorship and self-censorship in the language and culture classroom, to teaching critical thinking skills through media broadly defined.