Category: Conferences

Deadline: April 29, 2022

The AHRC-funded Slavic and East European Maternal Studies Research Network (SEEMS) will host a one-day symposium on July 9th, 2022 in Exeter, UK at the historic Devon and Exeter Institution, Cathedral Green, Exeter. The symposium will explore maternal creativity and depictions of motherhood in Slavic and Eastern European cultures. The organizers (Professor Muireann Maguire, University of Exeter and Dr Eglė Kačkutė, University of Vilnius) welcome papers from a range of disciplines, including literature, art, cinema, and comparative cultural studies.
‘[A] woman is never far from “mother” […] There is always within her at least a little of that good mother’s milk. She writes in white ink,” wrote Hélène Cixous in her influential 1975 essay, ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’. The SEEMS research network aims to encourage and integrate scholarship from the field of Slavic and Eastern European Studies with the wider discipline of Motherhood Studies; for this symposium, we invite research on literary and cultural expressions of motherhood and parenting in the Eastern European sphere, the ‘white ink’ that was hidden for decades behind the ‘red flag’ of socialist politics and internal censorship.

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Deadline: April 30, 2022

THE 11TH MACEDONIAN-NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON MACEDONIAN STUDIES will be held in person on November 4th – 7th at Arizona State University. The conference will be hosted by the Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, with support from the Mary Choncoff Fund at ASU. Proposals are invited for papers on topics in the broad area of Macedonian studies, including language, linguistics, literature, cultural studies, folklore, art, history, anthropology, sociology, and politics. The working language of the conference will be English. Those interested should submit a paper title and abstract of up to 300 words, and at least three relevant citations to scholarly literature which the paper will address. The abstract should fit on one page. Submissions should be as a pdf, with the (shortened) paper title as the file name. (To assist in the blind review process,) please do not include any identifying material in the abstract or its name. Submissions will be reviewed by the conference organizing committee. Abstracts should be submitted as email attachments to David Brokaw at mnacms2022@asu.edu. The deadline for submissions: April 30, 2022 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2022 ASU is served by Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Visitors from North Macedonia will be staying at the *Graduate Tempe* close to the ASU campus. ASU can assist US participants in making booking in either single ($182 per night [FRI-SUN nights]; $160 [MON-THU nights]) or shared ($91 per night [FRI-SUN nights]; $80 per night [MON-THU nights]) rooms. The cost of meals and an optional excursion to Sedona on Monday, November 7, will be covered by the Mary Choncoff Fund. US participants whose participation would be prevented by financial needs are asked to contact the conference coordinator, David Brokaw.

Deadline: March 28, 2022

1. “At Work and at Play: Opera, Musical Performance, and Reflections on (Creative) Labor”

(this is the Opera and Musical Performance Forum’s guaranteed session)

This panel engages with the relationship between work and art, labor and creativity. How do labor conditions influence the production, economics, and industry of opera and musical performance? How do pandemics impact this labor?

Deadline for submissions: Monday, 28 March 2022

Naomi E. Morgenstern, U of Toronto (naomi.morgenstern@utoronto.ca )

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Deadline: May 6, 2022

The Anglo-Russian Research Network (ARRN) is pleased to announce a conference to be held in-person at the University of Exeter on Thursday 21-Friday 22 July 2022.  

We welcome proposals for panels and individual papers on any aspect of Anglo-Russian cultural relations, broadly defined, from the late nineteenth century (c. 1850 onwards) to the present day, and from all relevant disciplines, including, but not limited to:  

– History 

– Art history 

– Literary, translation and reception studies 

– Film studies 

– Migration/diaspora studies 

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Deadline: April 5, 2022

The Conference will be organised online on May, 20-21, 2022 at the Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov in Arkhangelsk, Russia. 

Communication on the Internet is special due the constant emergence and change of types and tools of communication. People start to use new forms of communication like stories, live streaming of events or write digital narratives. Some forms are used or broadcast constantly, thereby contributing to the development of a new Internet culture. Some forms of communication change and become an integral part of the Internet culture, while others are forgotten quickly or simply disappear in the fast flow of information on the Internet. 

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Deadline: March 15, 2022

Virtual conference, May 23–24, 2022

See below or https://www.redefiningborders.com/ for more details.Call for Papers

The issue of borders has long been contested in Central Asia and the Far East with present-day consequences stretching from academic theorizations to military confrontations. These debates often fixate on the role of the state in drawing and fortifying boundaries with skewed historical arguments about glorified national pasts and anxieties about the future, often overlooking the complicated meaning and nuanced context in which borders are formulated. The outdated approaches, underpinned primarily by colonial and Eurocentric perspectives, have long limited directions in research, and necessitate rethinking and reformulation.  
 
The purpose of the conference is to critically interrogate these conventional narratives and rethink the role of borders through a historical and anthropological perspective. By challenging the preoccupations around divisions and boundaries, the conference invites participants to consider the importance of hubs and mobilities throughout the modern age. We hope to bring together histories and ethnographies of mobility and the everyday in Central Asia and the Far East to challenge narratives of the periphery and frontier that continue to frame the region.

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