Category: Conferences

Deadline: November 1, 2021

In 2010, the critic Peter Osborne argued that contemporary art is post-conceptual. Notwithstanding broad generalizations, it is undeniable that key traits of contemporary art are rooted in the notion of global conceptualism. Two decades after the closing of the blockbuster exhibition Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, scholars still ponder the dilemma that propelled the show’s ambitious agenda. Was conceptualism a unified movement that emerged in the West and spread worldwide, or did unique local circumstances give birth to multiple conceptual trends in distant geographic regions? What factors facilitated the development of a global phenomenon, and what transcultural considerations prompted the shift from the formalist preoccupation with material objects toward broader attention to the ideas and conceptual framing of artworks?

Deadline: November 10, 2021

Södertörn University, With support of the Baltic Sea Foundation/Östersjöstiftelsen

Department of Historical Studies
Institute of Contemporary History

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Workshop, March 3-4, 2022
Deadline: November 10, 2021. 

Deadline: October 22, 2021

The 22nd biennial conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore will be hosted by The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH from Thursday April 7 – Sunday April 10, 2022.

Due to uncertainties about COVID-related safety and possible difficulties or uneasiness participants may have about travel, both domestic and international, to Columbus, we have decided to hold the conference virtually, entirely on-line via Zoom.  It is not ideal, we realize, but a virtual conference has the advantage of guaranteeing that we can indeed hold a robust and intellectually stimulating gathering, and doing it this way will maximize participation.  We will also explore various avenues for socializing via virtual modalities.

Deadline: September 30, 2021

NeMLA is the regional MLA affiliate for the Northeast.
The convention is smaller, just as vibrant, and much less pressure.
We’re hoping for a noticeable Slavic presence, so
please consider submitting a paper on Russian Poetry for the NeMLA convention.
Deadline for submission: 30 SEP 2021

Deadline: March 15, 2022

*Call for literature papers, roundtables, and posters for the U.S. delegation to the 2023 International Congress of Slavists, Paris, August 28–September 1, 2023*

The International Congress of Slavists particularly encourages literature specialists to participate in the upcoming International Congress, which will be held at the Sorbonne.

*Firm submission deadline for U.S. delegation: 15 March, 2022.* Please read the instructions in the link below carefully, as the eligibility criteria and requirements have changed significantly since the last Congress.

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2021

After a two-year hiatus, the Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) will be held at the Omni Richmond ($135/night) in downtown Richmond, Virginia, February 24-26, 2022. The meeting will be hosted by the University of Richmond. The SCSS is the largest of the regional Slavic and Eurasian Studies associations, and its programs attract national and international scholarly participation. The purpose of SCSS is to promote scholarship, education, and in all other ways to advance scholarly interest in Russian, Soviet, and East European studies in the Southern region of the United States and nationwide. Membership in SCSS is open to all persons interested in furthering these goals. 

Deadline: January 15, 2022

We invite submissions for the following international on-line conference, to be held August 29-31, 2022:

Women Philosophers and Russia

The barriers that women have faced in philosophy are no secret to specialists in the field. As Immanuel Kant said, “A woman who has a head full of Greek, like Mme Dacier, or carries on fundamental controversies about mechanics, like the Marquise de Chatelet, might as well have a beard” (Observations II, 230). In recent decades, scholars have begun to publish with increasing frequency on the philosophical work of Émilie du Châtelet, Christine de Pizan, Elisabeth of the Palatinate, and others—this, in spite of the almost complete absence of serious consideration of these thinkers in certain philosophical contexts. Up until the 20th century, in fact, it was nearly impossible for women to integrate themselves into philosophical life in any widespread sense. An example in this regard is Harriet Taylor Mill, who was unable to publish her own work independently, but who collaborated closely with her husband, a relationship that remains up for debate to this day. In John Stuart Mill’s own words on this kind of collaboration: “When two persons … arrive at their conclusions by processes pursued jointly, it is of little consequence … which of them holds the pen; the one who contributes least to the composition may contribute most to the thought; the writings which result are the joint product of both, and it must often be impossible to disentangle their respective parts, and affirm that this belongs to one and that to the other” (J. S. Mill, Autobiography, 251).