Conferences – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

April 18, 2025April 18, 2025

CFP: Imperial Experiences in Family Violence: Crimes & Criminology in 19th-20th Centuries (National Library of Lithuania)

Deadline: June 15, 2025

Date: December 15–16, 2025
Location: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania

The University of Helsinki and the Lithuanian Institute of History are pleased to announce the international conference “Imperial Experiences in Family Violence: Crimes and Criminology in 19th–20th centuries.” The event will take place at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library’s which serves as a partner in hosting the conference. This gathering aims to examine the historical dimensions of family violence within imperial contexts.

By exploring legal practices, social perceptions, and criminological approaches across different empires, the conference seeks to analyze how state policies, legal transformations, and cultural norms shaped responses to violence in the family. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines, the event fosters a comparative discussion on the intersection of law, crime, history, and family dynamics in imperial settings.

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025

CFP: AATSEEL 2026 Conference

Deadline: (varies) May 15, July 1, August 1, 2025

The General Call for Proposals, Call for Panel Stream Topics and Application for Research Lab Participants for the AATSEEL 2026 conference, which will be held in-person in New Orleans, LA on February 19-22, 2026, are now open and currently accepting submissions.

The AATSEEL annual meeting is a forum for scholarly exchange of ideas in all areas of Slavic and East/Central European languages, literatures, linguistics, cultures, and pedagogy. The Program Committee invites scholars in these and related areas to form panels around specific topics, organize roundtable discussions, propose forums on instructional materials, and/or submit proposals for individual presentations for the 2025 conference. The conference regularly includes panels in linguistics, pedagogy, second language acquisition, literatures, and cultures relevant to the organization’s regions of focus.

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025

CFP: Academic Freedom in Flux: Purpose, Beneficiaries, and Practices in the Contemporary World (Tashkent University of Economics, Uzbekistan)

Deadline: June 30, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Academic Freedom in Flux: Purpose, Beneficiaries, and Practices in the Contemporary World”

Dates: October 16-18, 2025.

Location: Tashkent State University of Economics, Tashkent.

The fundamental questions “Why does academic freedom exist?” and “For whom does it exist?” remain central to contemporary debates about the role and function of higher education and research institutions. These questions touch upon the very foundation of the Academy and its place in society, raising critical issues about the interplay between knowledge production, democratic governance, and societal development.

February 13, 2025February 13, 2025

CFP: Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Conference

Deadline: February 17, 2025

May 8, 2025 – May 10, 2025

University of Alberta, Edmonton

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 31, 2025January 31, 2025

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

Deadline: February 17, 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 31, 2025January 31, 2025

CFP: Wisconsin Slavic Conference

Deadline: February 17, 2025

Abstracts for 20-minute papers on any aspect of Slavic literatures, cultures (including film, music, and the visual arts), linguistics, and history, as well as on Slavic language and literature pedagogy are invited for the annual Wisconsin Slavic Conference. Comparative topics and interdisciplinary approaches are welcome and encouraged. The conference will be held in-person at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5, 2025.

 Recent conference programs are available on the Wisconsin Slavic Conference website at https://gns.wisc.edu/2024/04/24/wisconsin-slavic-conference-2024/

 This year’s keynote lecture “The Other Place of Language: Hybridity and Extraterritoriality in Conrad, Gombrowicz, Stasiuk, and Wilk” will be delivered by Prof. George Z. Gasyna from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 

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.