Category: Conferences

Invitations to attend conferences

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CFP: Religious Trauma Symposium (Harvard Divinity School)

Deadline: January 30, 2026

Call for Submissions: Religious Trauma Symposium Harvard Divinity School April 16-17, 2026

Scope: Religious trauma, defined here as lingering harm within religious and spiritual contexts which creates barriers to physical, emotional, existential, social, psychological, developmental, and spiritual wellbeing, is a subject of mounting scholarly and popular attention with direct implications for the challenges of modernity. Recent work on religious disaffiliation (McLaughlin et al.), religious “dones” (Van Tongeren), and spiritual struggles (Excline) highlights the influence of religious trauma in demographic changes around the world, particularly in the United States. Yet despite academic and professional interest across fields as diverse as psychology, education, and religious studies growing in tandem with parallel discourses among survivors and religious practitioners alike, there has yet to be an event designed to bring these various circles into direct dialogue with one another.

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CFP: 4th Annual Cental Asia Research Forum

Deadline: January 23, 2026

The Slavic Reference Service and the American University of Central Asia are collaborating to host the 4th Annual Central Asia Research Forum. This online forum aims to bring together scholars in all disciplines and stages of the research process to discuss the theme of Central Asia on film. Since the 1930s, cinema in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan has experienced numerous shifts and rebirths that have documented cultural, social, and political changes in the region.

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CFP: 26th Annual Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Deadline: January 12, 2026

The Twenty-Sixth Annual Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop, to be held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on April 23-25, 2026, welcomes papers on Czech and Slovak topics, broadly defined, in all disciplines. In the past, our interdisciplinary conference has drawn participants from colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Areas of interest have been anthropology, architecture, art, economics, education, film, geography, history, Jewish studies, literature, music, philosophy, politics, religion, society, sociology, and theater. Work in progress is an appropriate format for our workshop. Junior faculty and advanced graduate students are particularly encouraged to apply. Hotel accommodation will be provided for participants who are presenting at the workshop, and some travel assistance will be provided to those in financial need. 

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CFP: 11th Annual London Conference on Belarusian Studies

Deadline: January 5, 2026

Call for Papers, 11th Annual London Conference on Belarusian Studies, 8-9 May 2026

UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, the Ostrogorski Centre and the Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum invite paper proposals from established academics and doctoral researchers discussing various aspects of contemporary Belarusian studies.

   The London Conference on Belarusian Studies serves as a multidisciplinary forum of Belarusian studies in the West and offers a rare networking opportunity for researchers of Belarus.

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CFP: Future(s) of International and Area Studies: Challenges, Opportunities, Goals (University of Pittsburgh)

Deadline: December 4, 2025

University of Pittsburgh, May 8-10, 2026

Format: Hybrid

The University of Pittsburgh’s University Center for International Studies (UCIS) invites you to join us for a conference exploring the Future(s) of International and Area Studies in May 2026. We will be convening a series of timely conversations aimed at reimagining area and global studies for the next generations. Join us to think beyond enduring paradigms, inherited structures, and established practices as we create new horizons for interdisciplinary research & learning, engagement, coalition-building, and more. Please find important information about the scope and charges of the conference HERE.   

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CFP: KFLC 2026: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference (University of Kentucky)

Deadline: November 15, 2026

https://meetinghand.com/e/kentucky-foreign-language-conference

The Russian, Eurasian and Slavic Studies section of KFLC is a small but enthusiastic track of this large, dynamic conference. We encourage you to join us to share new research work in progress or a finished project in need of feedback toward publication. This is also a terrific venue for graduate students to get conference presentation experience in a supportive scholarly setting. In addition, we are hosting an undergraduate research session this year; undergrads can submit directly to Russian/Slavic—I recommend this—or choose to present in the broader conference undergrad sessions. 

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Workshop at SLE 2026: Constructions with multiple wh-words across languages

Deadline: November 5, 2025

Meeting Description:

The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of constructions with multiple wh-words across languages, which are understood as constructions structured with two or more wh-elements that can fulfil different functions.  

We propose the following questions for discussion:

●      What semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic factors underlie the restrictions on wh-variables and their possible pairings in multiple wh-constructions, especially in their distributive readings?

●      Under what semantic and pragmatic conditions are such constructions licensed in discourse, and what communicative functions do they perform across languages?

●      What syntactic positions can these constructions occupy within the clause, and how do they interact with the valency requirements of the predicate (if present)?

●      How do frequency, idiomatization and formulaicity influence the grammatical status of these constructions across different languages?

●      What are the historical sources of such constructions (e.g. indirect questions > quasi-relatives > distributives), and what grammaticalization paths can be identified cross-linguistically?

●      Can we detect areal or genealogical patterns in the distribution and structure of these constructions, and what do such patterns reveal about contact-induced change versus independent development?

●      How do multiple wh-word distributives compare with other distributive strategies (lexical, morphological, or clausal) cross-linguistically? 

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CFP: Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, & Care under Socialism

Deadline: November 15, 2025

Health, social welfare, and the organization of family and social life have been central concerns for historians of socialist states. This conference invites a fresh perspective, examining how intimacy—as both concept and practice—offers new insights into how socialist institutions fostered, reimagined, or contained bonds between parents and children, patients and practitioners, and citizens and the state itself.

How might foregrounding intimacy reshape our understanding of health, medicine, and welfare in Europe under state socialism? We particularly welcome work that explores the role of expertise and caregiving practices within diverse institutional spaces. We are interested in a breadth of state socialist institutions, spanning hospitals and clinics, nurseries and retirement homes, asylums and sanitoria, maternity wards and childcare centers, among many others. By centering intimacy in institutional settings, this conference seeks to generate new histories of medicine, society, and the everyday that reveal socialism’s distinctive social worlds.

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WGCTV Graduate Student Travel Grant for ASEEES 2025

Deadline: October 10, 2025

In 2025, the Working Group on Cinema and Television (WGCTV) is committed to subsidizing graduate students working in film and media studies who are attending the ASEEES convention for the first time or who have no local institutional resources for travel support. We anticipate that we will be able to fund, on a competitive basis, 3 awards of $300 each.

Eligibility

  • MA and PhD students from all backgrounds working in film and media studies at any college or university
  • Applicants must be session participants (panel, roundtable, or lightning round) in the convention program to apply.
  • Recipients of a Graduate Student Travel Grant cannot receive the WGCTV grant for the same convention.
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WGCTV Funding Opportunity for Graduate Students

Deadline: October 10, 2025

In 2025, the Working Group on Cinema and Television (WGCTV) is committed to subsidizing graduate students working in film and media studies who are attending the ASEEES convention for the first time or who have no local institutional resources for travel support. We anticipate that we will be able to fund, on a competitive basis, 3 awards of $300 each.

Eligibility

All applicants must be:

  1. Students working at either master’s or doctoral level in film and media studies within Slavic, East European, or Eurasian Studies departments.
  2. Presenting a paper on a panel at the ASEEES Annual Convention.

*Recipients of the ASEEES Graduate Student Travel Grant cannot receive the WGCTV grant for the same convention.

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