Category: Calls for Papers (CFPs)

Deadline: January 16, 2023

The Gagarin Center of Bard College invites scholars, graduate students and practitioners of related fields to participate in Life in the Face of War: Political Challenges, Social Responses, Cultural Shifts an international conference, which will be held on April, 13 – 14, 2023, in New York City.

Deadline: February 1, 2023

New Britain, Connecticut, June 9-11, 2023

The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America and the Polish Studies Program at Central Connecticut State University are pleased to invite proposals for a joint conference/anniversary celebration to be held at Central Connecticut State University, June 9-11, 2023.

Deadline: February 28, 2023

29-30 June 2023, University of Vienna

This two-day workshop invites doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers to reflect on the impact that the modernization of states and societies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) had on the construction of sexual and gender identities and experiences, as well as the notion of sexual deviance. While the 20th century was marked by increasingly modern (secular, science-based, medicalized, etc.) conception of sexuality across Europe, this new understanding interacted in complex ways with traditional and religious notions of morality and sin. Furthermore, the twentieth century in CEE was marked by multiple regime and ideological changes, which also impacted the ways people lived and understood their personal lives, gender identities, and sexual experiences. Considering the limitations of the Foucauldian narrative of the history of sexuality in the West, the workshop invites participants to reflect on the methodological and theoretical tools that are needed to interrogate the continuity and change of sexual discourses and practices in CEE.

Deadline: January 10, 2023

SIEF2023 16th Congress, Living Uncertainty, Brno, June 7-10, 2023

This panel looks at Ukrainian cultural responses to Russia’s war, from explicit resistance to humour, from verbal defences to re-assertions of identity through traditional practices. In dark times, we need optimism and hope; we try to reassert a sense of control.

Much of culture is an attempt to assert control over the world around us, controlling the uncontrollable through searching for patterns and predictability. But when the world as you know it is turned upside down, questions of identity are brought to the fore – Who am I? Who are we? Who are my people? – and there is an urgent need to reconstruct it through enacting and reinventing traditions, humour, and stories.