Conferences – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

January 27, 2025January 27, 2025

Call for Applications: 6th Annual Yale European and Eurasian Studies Graduate Student Conference

Deadline: February 17, 2025

The European Studies Council (ESC) of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University invites applications to the 6th annual Yale European and Eurasian Studies Graduate Student Conference

On May 6-7, 2025, a hybrid-format conference is scheduled to take place at Yale University. This conference will bring together graduate students, early-career scholars, and established academics from across disciplines to discuss the most pressing challenges facing Europe, Russia, and Eurasia today. The deadline for applications is February 17, 2025. To propose an individual paper, please submit an online application form.

Political Science, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Film and Media Studies, Economics, Literature, Law, Cultural Studies, and Public Health are all examples of acceptable fields for paper topics. Only open to applications from graduate students and early career scholars.

In the backdrop of Russia’s war against Ukraine, we are especially receptive to initiatives that further the decentralization and decolonization of the study of the former “communist bloc” of the Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and Eurasia at large. The results of the selection will be communicated by February 21, 2025.

January 17, 2025January 17, 2025

Call for Proposals: Teaching Central Asia

Deadline: January 24, 2025

The Central Asia Research Forum aims to, through formal and informal discussions, bring together scholars in all disciplines and stages of the research process to discuss the theme of Teaching Central Asia. Since 1991 (and before), scholars have been trying to take on a recurring question, how should we study and teach Central Asia? Specifically, what new conceptual frameworks should we develop to convey the imbalance in sources, perspectives, and academic training, including disparities in access to publishing outlets and the production of knowledge itself? We invite scholars to submit proposals that retrace the founding of Central Asian Studies, in the region and abroad, and the numerous academic institutions that trained (and continue to do so) generations of scholars to study and teach this region.

January 17, 2025January 17, 2025

CFP: Canadian Association of Slavists (University of Alberta)

Deadline: February 17, 2025

The annual conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists will take place at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta) May 8 through 10, 2025. This is the first year the conference will take place independently of the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Proposals are invited for individual papers, panels, and roundtable discussions. Complete panels are preferred. Proposals can be submitted by filling out the necessary form at:

https://event.fourwaves.com/casedmonton2025
Please follow our abstract specifications and note that this is a new system for submitting conference proposals.

January 13, 2025January 13, 2025

CFP: II International Conference “Dostoevsky: Multiple Perspectives” (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Just as Russian culture and literature, Dostoevsky’s work can be approached from a multidisciplinary perspective. Philosophical, historical, sociological, psychological, religious aspects, and many others are part of the history of the criticism of Dostoevsky’s works. With the title “Dostoevsky: Multiple Perspectives”, the conference seeks to broaden this debate in Brazil and is open to the participation of Dostoevsky scholars from across the country for the presentation of papers.

The Brazilian Dostoevsky Society invites all of the researchers interested in discussing the life and work of the writer to participate in the II International Conference “Dostoevsky: Multiple Perspectives”, which will be held on March 26-27, 2025.

January 13, 2025January 13, 2025

CFP: International Conference – Language Standardization: Trends and Challenges (Tbilisi State University, Georgia)

Deadline: February 25, 2025

Language policy makers, literary language theorists, language standardization and codification specialists are invited to the international conference

“Language Standardization: Trends and Challenges” (LSTC) organized jointly by the State Language Department of Georgia, Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, Tbilisi State University and Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the History of Linguistics.

The conference will be held on 14-15 April 2025 at Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi, Georgia).

January 10, 2025January 10, 2025

CFP: Socialisms in the Face of the Holocaust in Central and Eastern Europe: 80 Years to 1945, Hybrid Research Workshop (University of Haifa, Israel)

Deadline: January 25, 2025

Two radically opposed manifestations of human society reached the climax of their realization in the twentieth century: the utopian vision of socialism and the catastrophic reality of the Holocaust. Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, this workshop, hosted on 7-8 April 2025 by the Haifa Interdisciplinary Unit for Polish Studies (HIUPS), the Gotteiner Institute for the History of the Bund and the Jewish Labor Movement, and the University of Haifa, aims to untangle socialist responses to the Holocaust within the context of twentieth century Central and Eastern European Jewish history.

January 10, 2025January 10, 2025

CFP: New Perspectives in Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies (Miami University)

Deadline: February 1, 2025

The Havighurst Center for East European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Miami University welcomes applications from advanced graduate students and recent doctoral recipients (ABD to 5 years beyond Ph.D.) for our annual international Young Researchers Conference. The conference will take place from May 1-3, 2025 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

This call aims for a broad range of proposals with a focus on Russia, Eastern Europe, and/or Eurasia. Papers will be pre-circulated and read by the conference participants, Havighurst faculty, and the key-note speakers. Because the theme is an open one, selection will be based not just on the quality of the proposals but on the interdisciplinary themes that emerge from these proposals. This conference offers participants the opportunity to workshop their recent research.

The Havighurst Center will cover room and board and the cost of an excursion in the area. Limited travel funds are available.

The deadline for the submission of the proposals is February 1st. Please send a one page abstract (no more than 500 words) and one-page CVs to the havighurstcenter@miamioh.edu with the subject 2025YRCproposal.

January 10, 2025January 10, 2025

CFP: 31st Annual REECAS Northwest Conference (University of Washington)

Deadline: February 3, 2025

REECAS Northwest, the annual ASEEES northwest regional conference for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies (REECAS) will take place April 10-12, 2025 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 subjects connected to the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian regions 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.

January 10, 2025January 10, 2025

Conference: The Russo-Ukrainian War: Russia’s Information Warfare Strategies in Comparative Perspective (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies)

Event Date: February 21 & 22, 2025 (In person & online)

On 21–22 February 2025, CIUS’s online analytical newsmagazine Forum for Ukrainian Studies will host an international invitational conference in Canada’s capital, Ottawa—“The Russo-Ukrainian War: Russia’s Information Warfare Strategies in Comparative Perspective”—generating new ideas and solutions to counter the Russian Federation’s practiced and extensive propaganda machine.

This creative forum will bring together renowned specialists from Canada and other countries—including professional journalists and media experts, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists—in order to closely examine the propaganda and disinformation warfare strategies that Moscow has been using to destabilize political and social situations in Ukraine, other countries, and indeed in Russia itself.

While in-person attendance will be limited, the conference will also be broadcast live online. For more information and to register, please visit ruwconference.ca.

January 10, 2025January 10, 2025

CFP: Third Annual Graduate Student Conference on Central Asia (Davis Center, Harvard University)

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Call for Papers for Davis Center’s Third Annual Graduate Student Conference on Central Asia

The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University will host the third annual graduate student conference on Central Asia from April 18 to 20, 2025. 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 professionally and receive feedback from peers and experts in the field.