CREEES Professional Resources Forum
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
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.
Continue reading “CFP: Life in the Face of War (Gagarin Center, Bard College)”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.
Continue reading “CFP: Polish Studies Conference (Central Connecticut State Unviersity)”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.
Continue reading “CFP: Queering Modernization in Eastern Europe: Deviant Sexualities, Gender Regimes, and the Limits of State Control”University College Dublin, Ireland
7-9 June 2023
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. William Davies (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Prof. Ellen Rutten (University of Amsterdam)
This conference aims to connect two prominent scholarly conversations of the contemporary moment: concerning, on the one hand, the ways in which the digital age has shaped (and been shaped by) human trust relations; and on the other, how digital technologies have intersected with the traditions and practices of imaginative literature. We seek to bring together scholars interested in either or both of these fields of inquiry for an interdisciplinary dialogue on trust, the digital, and the literary.
Continue reading “CFP: Trusting and Distrusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature”April 20-22 at the University of Washington
REECAS Northwest, the annual ASEEES northwest regional conference for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies (REECAS) will take place April 20 – 22, 2023 at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
The REECAS Northwest Conference welcomes students, faculty, independent scholars, and language educators from the United States and abroad. Proposals on all topics connected to the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian world are encouraged. The conference hosts panels on a variety of topics and disciplines including political science, history, literature, linguistics, anthropology, culture, migration studies, gender studies, LGBTQ studies, film studies and more.
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.
Continue reading “CFP: Heritage AS Resistance – Looking Forward to Cultural Recovery”The Non-Aligned News Research Partnership (NANReP) invites applications from collaborative-minded scholars located anywhere in the world to participate virtually in a five-day research workshop on the history of the New World Information and Communications Order (NWICO). This international e-workshop is scheduled for 5-9 June 2023.
Continue reading “CFP: Collaborative Research Workshop on the History of the New World Information and Communications Order”Edited by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Jasmin Dall’Agnola and Josette Baer
Were Hannah Arendt and George Orwell right in their predictions of a totalitarian future forged by technology? How has the proliferation of recent technological innovations shaped the strategies of digital authoritarianism espoused by certain political regimes? The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted new questions for social scientists, urging them to investigate the power of technology to normalize mass surveillance. Scholars working on digital authoritarianism argue that non-democratic regimes are using new high-tech tools, such as artificial intelligence (AI), advanced biometrics, smart filtering, propagames and hacking spyware (e.g., Pegasus) to track dissident activity. So far, we know little about the way sophisticated technological infrastructure and AI technologies influence the monitoring and control of dissent. This special issue focuses on the advance of digital authoritarianism in Communist and post-Communist states (CPCS) in the third millennium.
Continue reading “CFP: Authoritarianism 3.0: Arendt and Orwell in the digital age”Conference
February 25, 2023
In-Person and Online
Call for Papers
Deadline Extended
New Submission Deadline: 31 December 2022
The Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) at Indiana University
is requesting submissions for our annual conference. We are accepting abstracts
for 15-20 minute presentations on topics related to Central Eurasia. We welcome
proposals from all disciplinary backgrounds, as well as from any regional or
historical focus. Presentations may include, but are not limited to, topics in Iranian
(Afghan, Persian, Tajik), Mongolic, Tibetan, Tungusic, Turkic, and Uralic
(Balto-Finnic, Hungarian, etc.) studies.
Our mission at ACES is to bring together emerging scholars in the field of Central
Eurasian studies to exchange ideas and refine their research with feedback from
their peers. Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and independent
scholars are all invited to submit.
Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Conference will be tentatively held in
a hybrid format, both in-person in Bloomington, Indiana and virtually via Zoom,
on February 25, 2023. We welcome submissions from any part of the globe, so long
as presenters are able to participate online. Those who wish to present in-person
will be responsible for their own travel arrangements. Accepted panelists should
be prepared to give their presentation during normal business hours (9:00 A.M.-
5:00 P.M.) in U.S. Eastern Standard Time (UTC -5:00). All presentations will be
given in English.
The Davis Center’s Program on Central Asia is organizing a graduate student conference on Central Asia in April 2023. Please see the call for papers below; submissions are due on December 31, 2022. I’d be grateful if you could share this information with your graduate students.
With thanks,
Cris
CALL FOR PAPERS
Graduate Student Conference on Сentral Asia
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
April 21-22, 2023 (in-person)
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Davis Center) at Harvard is planning a graduate student conference devoted to Central Asia in April 2023. We invite paper proposals from graduate students at any stage, including master’s students, working on a topic related to Central Asia within any discipline. The conference will allow U.S.-based graduate students to present their original and ongoing work in a professional environment and to receive feedback from peers and experts within the field.
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