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CFP: Russian Language Journal re: Diversity, Equity, Access and Inclusion
Deadline: January 1, 2021
Given recent conversations in the field and ACTR’s statement concerning systemic racism and police brutality in the United States, the Russian Language Journal is dedicating a special issue to the topic of diversity, equity, access and inclusion. We invite submissions that address any aspect of DEAI in language study, instruction, and/or curriculum, including, but not limited to:
• The implementation of critical pedagogies in K-16 language classrooms
• Developing community engagement initiatives in the language classroom that promote equity and social justice
• Redesigning curricula and language learning materials to promote learner identity and self-representation
• Language ideology and public policy at the local and national level
• Analysis of public discourse related to issues of race, gender, LGTBQ+, and marginalized ethnic communities in Russian-speaking countries
• Methods of teaching, training, and mentoring graduate students and language instructors in addressing inequity and promoting inclusivity
• Study abroad programing for students from underrepresented populations
CFP: The First Wave of Russian Emigration
Deadline: October 26 2020
The Research Centre for Russian Studies and Methodology invites you to participate in a series of symposia on The First Wave of Russian Emigration, the opening event of which will take place on November 13, 2020, online.
The aim of the opening symposium “The First Wave of Russian Emigration: Focal Points of Research” will be to explore the range of research topics regarding the first wave of Russian emigration with an interdisciplinary approach.
Experts studying the first wave of Russian emigration face a multifaceted set of phenomena, which can be approached from various angles. Besides researching the lives of individual émigrés and personal decision-making strategies, it is possible to group émigrés by geographic, professional, and ideological factors. The examination of these groups, as well as emigree institutions, scientific schools and press may help exploring the dynamics and collective identity of émigré communities.
CFP: Folklorica, the Journal of the Slavic, E European & Eurasian Folklore Association
Deadline: October 31, 2020
Folklorica, the Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association, is accepting submissions for a special issue on vernacular responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
The Covid-19 Pandemic has sent a ripple through a fraught and interconnected world, drastically shifting global currents towards stasis and seclusion. Countries have shut-down, hospitals have been overwhelmed, people have been relegated to their homes and the world has ground to a halt in a number of ways. It is in such times of crisis as these that folklore becomes a tool to fill the gaps of indeterminacy, to provide comfort, to attempt to explain how and why these events are unfolding and, in more insidious manifestations, to cast blame for the crisis on various real or imagined parties.
Continue reading “CFP: Folklorica, the Journal of the Slavic, E European & Eurasian Folklore Association”CFP: 16th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Proposal Deadline: March 15, 2021
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center of Hokkaido University (http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/index-e.html) is pleased to inform that the 16th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-16) will take place at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
The conference website has just been launched: https://bit.ly/SLS-16 and the conference FB page is also ready:https://www.facebook.com/16th-Annual-Meeting-of-the-Slavic-Linguistics-Society-107796054428299
Continue reading “CFP: 16th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (Hokkaido University, Japan)”CFP: Literary Classics and Intellectual Autonomy in the Soviet World from 1920s to 1980s
Deadline: November 30, 2020
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Online Conference: March 26th 2021
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This one-day conference aims to explore how classic works of “foreign” literature were experienced by different groups of readers in the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1980s. For many Soviet citizens, regardless of their social status and political views, fictional worlds from bygone centuries and alien cultures formed an alternative reality that allowed them to escape the difficulties of everyday life. The translation and publication of classics helped those intellectuals who did not toe the party line to survive, both physically and morally. By attempting to use the concept of world literature for propagandist aims the state unwittingly created a zone of intellectual autonomy that it could not penetrate. We are particularly interested in papers that interrogate ideological positions and interpretative models, regardless of whether they aim to address institutional or individual aspects of literary reception.
CFP: Teaching the Languages of Central and Eastern Europe: Best Practices
Deadline: September 30, 2020
NeMLA 2021 roundtable (March 8-14, 2021, Philadelphia)
Update: NeMLA has confirmed that virtual participation will be available for this conference, so feel free to apply even if in-person may not be an option for you!
This roundtable seeks input from instructors of less-commonly-taught languages of the former Eastern Bloc in an effort to share experiences and best practices across languages. Our goal is to bring together higher education instructors of foreign languages in the US (and possibly beyond) to facilitate collaboration and exchange successfully implemented ideas in pedagogy as well as the organization of academic language programs. While these languages are taught at various universities of North America, professional opportunities to compare and exchange such ideas and experiences are limited. We hope to establish a conversation across languages and institutions that can prove useful in the future implementation of best practices to attract and educate learners in these typically small language programs.
Continue reading “CFP: Teaching the Languages of Central and Eastern Europe: Best Practices”CFP: Anthology of Eastern and Central European Horror
Deadline: October 31, 2020
In the imaginations of Western European and US authors, Eastern and Central Europe function as a maledicta terra, a cursed mythical land where dragons dwell. Michael Goddard claims that “Eastern Europe is presented condescendingly as the new Europe as if it had no history before 1989 and above all in terms of abjection and monstrosity.“ Some post-Soviet horror narratives contribute to this narrative – for example, the 1997 Russian film The Vampire (Упырь), which combines the genre of the “wild 90s” crime story with vampire film. Other narratives, from Marc Chagall’s artwork to Igor Ostachowicz’s novel The Night of the Living Jews (2012), lean towards disenchanting the idea of the region as the epitome of chaos and emancipating it from the condescending Western gaze. Still, very little is known about the function of horror fiction in post-Soviet space more broadly – an issue this project aims to remedy.
Continue reading “CFP: Anthology of Eastern and Central European Horror”CFP: 7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (University of Hawai’i)
Deadline: September 30, 2020
Recognizing Relationships
The 7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC)
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
March 4-7, 2021
COVID-19 Statement
Due to COVID-19, ICLDC 2021 will be held virtually. The ICLDC 7 organizers are excited about this year’s theme, and the possibilities for broad international discussion that an online conference can offer.
We are currently investigating what technologies we will use and how the conference will take shape and how we can accommodate time zone differences for presenters, as well as family and work obligations.
We look forward to your participation. Please “join” us!
Continue reading “CFP: 7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (University of Hawai’i)”CFP/Conference: 7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (University of Hawai’i)
Deadline: September 30, 2020
ICLDC 2021: General Session proposals (papers & posters – deadline: September 30, 2020)
While we especially welcome abstracts that address the conference theme, we also welcome abstracts on other subjects in language documentation and conservation, which may include but are not limited to:
- Archiving and mobilizing language materials
- Ethical issues
- Indigenous language education
- Indigenous sign languages
- Language and its relation to health and well being
- Language planning
- Language reclamation and revitalization
- Language work in the era of covid-19
- Lexicography, grammar, orthography and corpus design
- Multidisciplinary language documentation
- Successful models of documentation
- Technology in documentation and reclamation
- Topics in areal language documentation
- Training and capacity building in language work
- Other