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June 16, 2025June 16, 2025

Research Lab on Sound Studies (AATSEEL)

Deadline: July 20, 2025

Deadline update! AATSEEL will be accepting applications for its new Research Lab on Sound Studies until July 20, 2025. The Research Labs, an innovative new event at our annual conference, aim to provide a space where participants can share developing research, receive and provide substantive feedback to colleagues, and generate new avenues of scholarship. The three-hour labs are held during the AATSEEL Conference on Friday and Saturday mornings.

For more information and to submit an application, please visit this page. Questions should be directed to José Vergara (jvergara@brynmawr.edu) or Molly Thomasy Blasing (mtblasing@uky.edu).

June 16, 2025June 16, 2025

CFP: Cultural Resistance: From Imperial Russia to Post-Soviet States

Deadline: September 1, 2025

The concept of cultural resistance has become integral to sociological, political, and cultural studies. Emerging after the “youth revolutions” of the late 1960s (the “long year 1968”), this concept encompasses practices, artistic works, and initiatives aimed at revising or deconstructing established social hierarchies, challenging hegemonic “common sense” and dominant tastes, and confronting neo-fascist and right-wing populist movements as sociocultural forces.

Cultural resistance creates a unified framework for understanding both the politicization of cultural practices (poetry readings, exhibitions) and the aestheticization of political actions (performative political speech, political movements developing subcultural characteristics).

While this concept was initially developed through examples from Western states and their colonies, it has only recently been applied to earlier historical periods. The Center for the Study of Russian Culture at Amherst College invites scholars to explore how this concept might illuminate social and cultural history of Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states.

June 5, 2025June 5, 2025

CFP: The Black Sea as a Literary and Cultural Space (University of Constanța, Romania)

Deadline: July 10, 2025

The Black Sea as a Literary and Cultural Space (3)

Ruins (Ancient and Modern) and Mobilities

20-22 November 2025

Ovidius University of Constanţa (Romania)

Co-organisers:

Faculty of Letters, Ovidius University of Constanta
Institute of Comparative Literature at Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia)
CIELAM (Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Étude des Littératures d’Aix-Marseille) of Aix-Marseille University (France)
Sextil Puşcariu Institute of Romanian Academy (Cluj-Napoca)
Institute for Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia)
Association “Transpontica” (Sofia)
Department of Romance Studies at Sofia University

With the support of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie

Argument

Ruins are inseparable from habitats from (types of) experiencing a territory (and aquatory). Ruins mark the outer edges and midpoints of habitats brought about by rivers, wells, ponds, limans, peninsulas and coastal mountain ranges (on the one hand) and a wilderness beyond, on land and at sea alike (on the other hand). May they anchor discourses that are neither elegiac nor apocalyptic but re-domesticating? Or re-domestication takes place as a tacit (extra-literary) activity only? Where is the boundary between re-domestication and oblivion?

June 5, 2025June 5, 2025

CFP: Donna Tussing Orwin Essay Competition

Deadline: September 12, 2025

Please submit your scholarly essays to the second annual Donna Tussing Orwin Essay Competition for early career scholars in Tolstoy Studies Journal.

Eligible scholars (undergraduate, graduate, pre-tenure) are encouraged to submit essays (approximately 8,000 words) on any topic related to Tolstoy. Please send submissions to tgershko@andrew.cmu.edu. They will be evaluated by the editors as well as a panel of judges, and the winning essay will receive a cash prize and publication in Tolstoy Studies Journal. The deadline for submission is the second Friday in September (9/12/2025). The winner will be announced in November, and the selected essay will be published in our next issue in early 2026.

June 3, 2025June 3, 2025

CFP: Teaching Writing in English at the Decolonial Turn in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

Deadline: August 15, 2025

We invite you to submit a chapter proposal for a forthcoming edited collection titled Teaching Writing in English at the Decolonial Turn in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, under contract with the International Exchanges on the Study of Writing book series (WAC Clearinghouse). We also encourage you to share the linked call for proposals (CFP) with colleagues and graduate students who may be interested in contributing.

We invite contributions from colleagues in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia who are affiliated with colleges and universities where the language of instruction is English. Perspectives from instructors who specialize in writing, in composition and rhetoric, in writing center praxis, in literature, and in linguistics are welcome, as are contributions from disciplinary specialists who teach writing in their primary field of study. We especially hope to hear from early career researchers. Proposals can be sent to decolonialwritingbook@gmail.com by August 15, 2025.

June 3, 2025June 3, 2025

CFP: Corpus Linguistics in Russian Language Learning and Teaching

Deadline: June 15, 2025

We are pleased to invite chapter proposals for an edited volume tentatively titled Corpus Linguistics in Russian Language Learning and Teaching, to be proposed for publication in the Routledge Russian Language Pedagogy and Research series.

This volume aims to bring together scholars and practitioners engaged in the study and teaching of Russian as a second (L2) and heritage (HL) language, with a focus on corpus-based approaches. We seek contributions that examine the use of various corpora in language teaching, curriculum development, assessment, materials design, and teacher training. The volume will highlight how authentic language data can inform pedagogical innovation and bridge the gap between linguistic research and instructional practice.

June 3, 2025June 3, 2025

CFP: Ivan Turgenev and the European Novel International Conference (Bougival, France)

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Conference Title: Ivan Turgenev and the European Novel

Dates and Venues: April 9–11, 2026, in Rouen and Bougival, France

Format: Hybrid format – in-person or online presentations

Working Languages: French, Russian, and English

The international conference “Ivan Turgenev and the European Novel”, jointly organised by the European Ivan Turgenev Museum in Bougival, the Friends of Flaubert and Maupassant, the Meìrimeìe Society, the Literary Society of the Friends of Eìmile Zola, and the Ivan Turgenev Centre at the University of Mons, will take place in Rouen and Bougival from April 9 to 11, 2026.

May 15, 2025May 15, 2025

Call for Chapter Proposal: The Handbook of Place-Based Pedagogies in Language and Culture Studies

Deadline: May 25, 2025

See CFP for more details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fM4H8f03hlgEZ8TGO7RHB_kiEZKh51AZDe-vSq6fvCk/edit?usp=sharing
Submission Form: https://forms.gle/cPgKmRncM8SxX7xX9

The Handbook of Place-Based Pedagogies in Language and Culture Studies is envisioned as a scholarly volume which offers a comprehensive overview of the theories, methodologies, and applications of place-oriented frameworks in language and culture studies. It examines how educators and researchers incorporate spatial constructs, local environments, and community knowledge into pedagogical and scholarly practices across diverse disciplinary contexts. Emphasizing the significance of geographical, cultural, ethnographic, geopolitical, historical, and linguistic features of place, the handbook aims to deepen our understanding into spatial dimensions of cultures and languages and enrich language and culture learning, making it more engaging and relevant for students.

May 15, 2025

CFP: Destabilizing Nabokov International Conference (Princeton University)

Deadline: August 1, 2025

April 23–26, 2026

Key Dates:

Abstract submission deadline:August 1, 2025

Author notification: August 15, 2025

We invite papers that present or engage with iconoclastic, revisionist, and innovative approaches to Nabokov studies. Contributions that challenge traditional interpretations or offer new critical frameworks are especially encouraged.

Keynote Speakers

Opening Keynote: John Banville

An acclaimed Irish novelist and author of over 30 books, including the Booker Prize winning novel The Sea (2005. Banville’s many honors include the Franz Kafka Prize (2011), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature (2013), and Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (2014).

May 5, 2025May 5, 2025

Call for Abstracts: The Life and Death of Cold War Funding

Deadline: July 1, 2025

Special Issue of The Russian Review

From Fulbright and IREX scholarships facilitating in-country immersion, to the Wilson Center’s efforts to connect academics and policymakers, to Title VI and Title VIII support for less commonly taught “critical” languages, funding programs that began in the Cold War shaped the field of Russian and Eastern European studies in enduring ways. These programs not only helped the US government “know its enemy” but also consolidated and institutionalized new fields of knowledge (“area studies”), trained experts in the United States, and developed a network of content-creators in the region. Despite its ideological partiality, this system of knowledge production helped soften hearts and minds on both sides of the so-called Iron Curtain. Though the original political impetus behind these programs ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, many initiatives survived. Even after the Cold War they funded the continued creation of cross-cultural knowledge and expertise, training the next generation of American scholars, and bringing academics, writers, and other practitioners from the region to the West.