Calls for Papers (CFPs) – Page 26 – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

November 9, 2022February 13, 2023

CFP: Epidemics and Contagion in Slavic and East European Studies

Deadline: December 18, 2022

CfP: Epidemics and Contagion in Slavic and East European Studies

Hamilton College

March 3-4, 2023

Clinton, NY

The working group “Medical Humanities in Slavic and East European Studies” at Hamilton College, Yale University, and Brown University invites proposals for papers at a symposium hosted by Hamilton College on March 3-4, 2023.

This two-day symposium aims to foster collaboration and intellectual exchange amongst researchers who are currently investigating the representation of epidemics and contagion in Slavic and East European Studies (SEES). We invite participants to discuss how epidemics affected the historical, artistic, and literary landscape of Eastern Europe and Russia and, in turn, how cultural perceptions of epidemics challenged predominant medical narratives and histories of public health. We welcome proposals from a variety of disciplines, including literature, history, ethnography, and medical anthropology. We are especially interested in approaches that consider epidemics within medical geographies, focusing on the asymmetrical power relations between metropolitan and rural areas, Imperial centers, peripheries, and frontiers.

October 27, 2022February 13, 2023

CFP: 2023 Midwest Slavic Conference

Deadline: January 27, 2023

The Midwest Slavic Association and The Ohio State University (OSU) Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (CSEEES) are pleased to announce the 2023 Midwest Slavic Conference to be held at OSU in Columbus, Ohio on March 24-26, 2023. The conference committee invites proposals for papers on all topics related to the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian world, particularly those related to the theme of displacement and diaspora. As war and other disasters continue in these regions, this theme will explore how war has displaced and damaged cultures, cultural artifacts, and cultural production. It will also provide students and scholars with the opportunity to think about how these horrors prompt cultures, societies, and languages to flourish and thrive while also creating new centers and pulls across the globe when citizens are forced to flee.

The conference will open on Friday with a reception by Dr. Valeria Sobol (U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Building on the keynote address, a plenary panel will follow on Saturday morning Panels by conference participants will then commence on Saturday and Sunday. This year’s conference will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Society for Slovene Studies.

October 27, 2022February 13, 2023

CFP: Language and War: Sociolinguistic Shifts in the Ukrainian Language Situation in the World

Deadline: January 15, 2023

https://journal.equinoxpub.com/SS/announcement/view/294

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN A SPECIAL ISSUE OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDIES (AUGUST 2024)

Language and War: Sociolinguistic Shifts in the Ukrainian Language Situation in the World
Guest editor(s): Olga Ivanova (University of Salamanca, Spain) & Anastassia Zabrodskaja (Tallinn University, Estonia)

Scopes of the Issue. The main aim of this Special Issue is to bring attention to the sociolinguistic changes that the war in Ukraine is triggering in its linguistic situation in both homeland and worldwide. The objective of the Issue is to report on ongoing developments in the use of the two major languages of Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russian, and in attitudes towards their functional and symbolic value, both among the Ukrainian population and in the diaspora. It is of particular interest for this Issue to report on the changes that are taking place in the perception of the linguistic situation in Ukraine around the World. One of the purposes of the Issue is to report on the initiatives of language revitalization and support that are emerging in different countries around the world in response to the wave of displacement of Ukrainian population.

October 20, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: Towards Decolonizing Eastern European and Eurasian Art and Material Culture: From the 1800s to the Present

Deadline: November 1, 2022

Proposed edited volume by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary) and Alla Myzelev (SUNY at Geneseo)

The world had changed forever after February 24, 2022, when the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. Before this invasion, it de facto occupied Belarus in 2021 and later used its territory as a launch pad for shelling Ukraine. Currently, all other neighboring countries are expressing their concerns about the future intentions of Russia, which allegedly claims that its borders be reinstated to the former Russian empire or the USSR. The urgency to reassess Russian and Slavic studies is imperative in this outrageous geopolitical situation. The evidence that we should decolonize many subfields, including art and material culture in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, is only growing.

October 19, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: Diversifying Slavic: New Approaches to the Field

Deadline: November 1, 2022

Diversifying Slavic: New Approaches to the Field

Harvard University Graduate Conference, March 10-11, 2023

To Be Held In-Person

Co-organizers: Alex Braslavsky and Anna Vichkitova, Harvard University

In recent months, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has challenged scholars in Slavic studies to collectively rethink approaches to the field. Our aim for this conference is to invite fellow graduate students from other universities to join us in engaging these new and developing approaches to the region. We intend to have broad representation of many Slavic literatures and cultures along with from Russian on the panels to make for comprehensive discussion. We are interested in films and works of literature as well as other cultural representations.

October 19, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: ACLA 2023 “Comparative Slavic”

Deadline: October 31, 2022

Comparative Slavic

Historically, the philological traditions of Slavic Studies have proven somewhat resistant to comparativist inquiry. Yet Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, as well as a long overdue reckoning with the question of race in research and professional practices, have brought into focus the urgent imperative to decolonize and diversify the scope of Slavic Studies. What tools from Comparative Literature might help to fuel this revision?

This seminar aims to bridge the banks of Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies. It invites papers from scholars writing for audiences in both fields and hopes to provide a space for productive conversations about their respective disciplinary expectations, conventions, and trends, while also forging paths for new directions. We welcome papers that explicitly address these questions of disciplinarity, as well as those drawn from exemplary research that straddles the Slavic/Comp Lit divide and that blend a commitment to philological precision with comparative theoretical inquiry. We also especially welcome contributions from graduate students who are expecting to go on the job market in both Comparative Literature and Slavic, as the stream will aim to provide a space to think through strategies for reaching these different audiences.

October 19, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War

Deadline: November 10, 2022

Call for Papers:

International Workshop: A Music So Popular That No Curtain Could Contain: Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War

New Europe College (Bucharest, Romania), December 5, 2022

The purpose of the workshop “Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War” is to investigate the means through which popular music developed in the Eastern Bloc and circulated across borders and the Iron Curtain (on either side). In particular, we are interested in exploring how popular music was influenced by cultural, technological, and informal transfers, by the larger processes of modernization and development of leisure life, as well as by institutional cooperation between various states, either within the Socialist Bloc, or beyond it.

October 10, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: “The Imperial Plow: Settler Colonialism in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union”

Deadline: November 7, 2022

Organizers: Edyta Bojanowska and Claire Roosien, Yale University

Conference at Yale University, May 1-2, 2023 (New Haven, Connecticut)

The familiar icon of Russian imperial expansion is the violent nineteenth-century conquest of the exotic mountainous region of the Caucasus. The imperial pen – of Pushkin, Tolstoy, and others – has eagerly followed the imperial bayonet to the Caucasus. Yet the imperial plow was no less a tool of conquest than the pen or the bayonet. This conference aims to shift scholarly attention away from the high drama of military conquest to the understudied processes of settler colonization and to their cultural echoes in the Russian and Soviet empires. More than anything else, it is the activities of the Russian and Soviet agricultural settler that ultimately bound various non-Russian peripheral regions to the social and cultural imaginaries of “Russia” and established enduring forms of imperial control. The idea of settler colonization came to be viewed as Russia’s manifest destiny: its mission to settle “empty” spaces, binding them to the Russian core in the process. The Slavic settler became the key Kulturträger of Russia’s civilizing mission, especially in the east and south.

October 6, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: International Workshop “Witnessing the Now: Challenges of Emergency Documenting and Archiving in a Comparative Perspective”

Deadline: November 13, 2022

We are now inviting paper proposals for the international workshop “Witnessing the Now: Challenges of Emergency Documenting and Archiving in a Comparative Perspective”, that will take place in Warsaw, 23-25 February, 2023.

https://swiadectwawojny2022.org/en/#news

The escalation of Russian aggression against Ukraine – an attack launched almost all over its territory in February 2022 – has triggered numerous initiatives documenting the atrocities of the Russian aggressors and the experiences of refugees in and out of that country. The project “24.02.2022, 5 am: Testimonies from the War” was initiated by the Center for Urban History in Lviv and, apart from Ukraine, is now being implemented in Poland, Luxembourg and Scotland. Reaching the mid-term point in the process of testimony gathering, we would like to share our experience with colleagues carrying out similar projects, encourage the exchange of knowledge and know-how and initiate discussion about methodological and ethical problems of emergency documenting and archiving.

September 26, 2022December 5, 2022

NeMLA 2023 CFP: Mythology of Historical Trauma and National Healing in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Cinema

Deadline: September 30, 2022

Please consider taking part in the panel on historical trauma and national healing at the NeMLA conference in Niagara Falls, NY, March 23-26, 2023.

Panel Title: “Mythology of Historical Trauma and National Healing in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Cinema.”

Description: This panel reflects on the cinematic representations of historical traumas in Soviet and post-Soviet cinema and their impact on the Russian collective memory and national identity.

From the final years of the Soviet Union and up to the present, Russia has been struggling how to address the problem of its “usable past” (Van Wyck Brooks) by reconciling the need for national atonement for its bloody history with the national pride for the astounding resilience of its people. Cinematic attempts to process historical traumas and possibilities for national healing (such as Abuladze’s “Repentance,” Lungin’s “Battle for Afghanistan”, Konchalovsky’s “House of Fools,” German’s “Khrustalyov, my car!” among others) expose the unresolved national identity crisis. Mythology of historical traumas on the screen is typically represented in two ways: it either solidifies the state narrative and serves its political agenda or it is reassessed in films, frequently festival films, that are often rejected by Russian mass audience as West-oriented because of the perceived national self-flagellation and belittlement.