Calls for Papers (CFPs) – Page 27 – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

January 5, 2022February 10, 2022

CFA: ARISC Teaching the South Caucasus Workshop!

Deadline: January 10, 2022

The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) in conjunction with the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center’s (REEEC) Summer Research Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invite applications for the 2022 Teaching the South Caucasus workshop, a five-day forum focusing on curricular development for post-secondary educators, with a priority given to community college and minority serving institutions (CC/MSI).

In a five-day workshop participants will engage with topics on the history, societies, politics, environment, and culture of the South Caucasus; take part in pedagogical activities; conduct research at the University of Illinois’ world-renowned library; and workshop individual and group projects. Participants will work with scholars specializing in the South Caucasus who will give lectures, lead discussions, and provide feedback on participants’ projects. The workshop will also include a session with a UIUC librarian, three nightly films, one from each South Caucasian country, as well as a presentation from a regional film scholar.

December 23, 2021April 14, 2022

CFP: Princeton University Graduate Conference

Deadline: February 1, 2022

Princeton University Graduate Conference, May 13-14, 2022
*To Be Held In-Person*
The ‘Byt’ of Literature:
Literary Personalities, Scholarly Discourses and the Modes of Their Production

Co-organizers: Lidia Tripiccione and Benjamin Musachio, Princeton University

Keynote Speaker: Kevin M.F. Platt, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania

In his most famous article, Boris Eikhenbaum showed how Gogol’s Overcoat was made: a literary text was presented as a product of meticulous fabrication. In his later work, Eikhenbaum similarly explored the constructed nature of the environment (byt) in which literature is produced. Focusing on social and artistic milieus, Eikhenbaum asked: How are poets and literary figures “made?” In responding to this question, we seek to refine, recast, and expand the Formalist mode of inquiry.

December 23, 2021April 14, 2022

Conference/CFP: Varlam Shalamov in the Context of Contemporaneity

Deadline: March 1, 2022

Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum, Moscow

June 23–24, 2022

Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum organizes the Conference dedicated to the Russian writer Varlam Shalamov and invites proposals on the works and life of Shalamov in the context of literature and arts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Varlam Shalamov was an attentive observer of the events of his epoch. His diaries and letters are full of accurate remarks and portraits of his contemporaries. His works cannot be examined without the context of the epoch, the history of literature, and culture of the twentieth century. It is important how Shalamov is read and understood now. Poets and writers who found themselves with Shalamov in the same epoch, also tried in their own way to reflect on the twentieth century in all the senses that this concept means.

December 23, 2021April 14, 2022

CFP: Mobilization through Sport in Southeast Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Deadline: February 2022

The spread of various forms of physical movement could also be observed in Southeast Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries, such as physical exercise, gymnastics and organized sports. The basis for these parallel developments included a new understanding of physicality resulting from the Enlightenment and of the relationship between humans and nature, a growing political awareness, various approaches to sporting activity (from national-mobilizing in the sense of Jahn’s gymnastics movement or the widespread “Sokol” groups among the Slavs up to internationalist-socialist) and a new understanding of leisure time, which in the middle-class milieu was derived from changed working hours and a new concept of consumption. In the 19th century, the middle class created associational structures that enabled leisure and exercise in the great outdoors, for example through the widespread hiking clubs, which mainly researched and mapped mountain landscapes through infrastructural measures, which in turn contributed to creating symbolic boundaries.

December 16, 2021April 14, 2022

Conference / CFP: “In (the) Place of Memory” Interdisciplinary Conference / “Memory as History and Imagination” (student) (Russian State University)

Conference Dates: February 12, 2022 / March 11-12

CFP: “In (the) place of memory”: the historical past and literary imagination, an international interdisciplinary conference, Saturday, 12 February 2022, sponsored by the Institute of History and Philology, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). This conference addresses historical memory as approached by multiple humanistic disciplines: history, literature, and cultural studies. Questions to be considered include: the poetics of memory in fiction and non-fiction; historical/cultural memory as a function of literary process; personal and/or collective historical memory; historical memory and the reality of a work of art; postmemory (M. Hirsch); approaches to the reconstruction of the historical past in literature; fact and imagination in “historical” genres of writing; the role of imagination in the (re)construction of historical memory; the artist’s imagination and historical imagination; nostalgia and historical imagination; “places of memory” (P. Nora) and their representation in literature; “ruins”and historical memory in literature; memory and forgetting in artistic works. Working languages of the conference: Russian, English. To submit paper proposals and request additional information contact: Anatoly Korchinsky (korchinsky@mail.ru) or Viktoria Malkin (poetika@gmail.com). See below for parallel student conference.

December 16, 2021February 10, 2022

CFP: Sound in the (Post-) Soviet Realm (Journal of Sonic Studies)

Deadline: January 15, 2022

http://sonicstudies.org

When an empire falls, does it make a sound? And who is there to hear it?

The sonic history of the USSR and the Post-Soviet realm that succeeded it, is rich and turbulent. The 2013 book Sound in Z by Andrey Smirnov introduced the world to the daring sound experiments of the Soviet avant-gardists of the 1920s. From the city-wide noise symphonies of Arseny Avraamov to the first electronic instruments of Leon Theremin to experiments with sounds drawn on paper or film, the futuristic optimism of the first decade following the revolution unleashed an explosion of sonic artistry. While the strict censorship and state control over the arts forced sound artists underground or into applied work, the Soviet sonic creativity persisted on the margins, or even wholly outside, of the state-controlled art world: in the kinetic sound sculptures of the Dvizhenie art group, the explorations of light and sound by the researchers of the Prometheus Institute, or the extravagant performances of the Pop-Mechanics movement, for example.

December 10, 2021February 10, 2022

CFP: Special Cluster in Russian Language Journal

Deadline: December 31, 2021

Title of Special Cluster:
Collaboration Beyond the Classroom: Undergraduate Research in Russian Language Studies

Brief description:
Undergraduate research, as defined by the American Association of Colleges and Universities “involve[s] students with actively contested questions, empirical observation, cutting-edge technologies, and the sense of excitement that comes from working to answer important questions.” Undergraduate research is considered a high impact practice that can increase student learning driven by mentoring relationships with faculty while also building a culture of innovation and scholarship on campus.

December 9, 2021April 14, 2022

CFP: 2022 Slavic Graduate Student Association Conference, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Deadline: February 15, 2022

The Slavic Graduate Students Association (SGSA) in conjunction with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and co-sponsored by the Department of History and REEEC at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign invites submissions for presentation proposals from scholars across disciplines to this year’s conference, titled “Shifting Grounds: Changing Models of Nature in the Former Soviet Sphere” on April 15-16.

This conference aims to explore the figuration of Post-Soviet environmentalism and the disparate models of nature that constitute a larger Post-Soviet and Eurasian cosmology. We are also excited to announce that our keynote speaker for this conference is Dr. Pey-Yi Chu, associate professor of History, from Pomona College.

December 8, 2021February 10, 2022

CFP: Sibirica – Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies

Deadline: January 17, 2022

Special Issue Proposal: The spectrum of intersectionality in the Arctic –from discrimination to diversity and inclusion

Guest editors: Dina Abdel-Fattah, Doris Friedrich, Olivia Lee, Sardana Nikolaeva

The people who call the Arctic their home are diverse on many levels, from ethnicity, class, and gender, to sexual orientation. Many of these aspects are often overlooked or ignored, not only in everyday social life, but perhaps even more so in political decision-making. Discrimination is still an important issue. Women and LGBTQ+ are disadvantaged on various levels and there is little knowledge and mention of non-binary genders. Indigenous peoples still struggle to make their voices heard and have their rights respected.

December 8, 2021February 10, 2022

CFP: Gender, Power, Violence in the Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Regions (Association for Women in Slavic Studies)

Deadline: January 14, 2022

IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Gender, Power, Violence in the Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Regions, March 31-April 2, 2022

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies welcomes paper proposals from scholars engaged in research on the role of gender in understanding acts of violence, including epistemological and discursive violence, and the power dynamics of gender in the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian regions. We seek paper submissions that will discuss the breadth of gender-based violence which may include examples from war, ethnic and racial conflicts, displacement, state policies, domestic and sexual abuse, trafficking, suppression of LGBTQ+ identities, and violence emanating from other contexts.