Category: Conferences

Deadline: February 1, 2022

 Princeton University Graduate Conference, May 13-14, 2022
*To Be Held In-Person*
The ‘Byt’ of Literature:
Literary Personalities, Scholarly Discourses and the Modes of Their Production

Co-organizers: Lidia Tripiccione and Benjamin Musachio, Princeton University

 Keynote Speaker: Kevin M.F. Platt, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania

In his most famous article, Boris Eikhenbaum showed how Gogol’s Overcoat was made: a literary text was presented as a product of meticulous fabrication. In his later work, Eikhenbaum similarly explored the constructed nature of the environment (byt) in which literature is produced. Focusing on social and artistic milieus, Eikhenbaum asked: How are poets and literary figures “made?” In responding to this question, we seek to refine, recast, and expand the Formalist mode of inquiry.

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Deadline: March 1, 2022

Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum, Moscow

June 23–24, 2022

Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum organizes the Conference dedicated to the Russian writer Varlam Shalamov and invites proposals on the works and life of Shalamov in the context of literature and arts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Varlam Shalamov was an attentive observer of the events of his epoch. His diaries and letters are full of accurate remarks and portraits of his contemporaries. His works cannot be examined without the context of the epoch, the history of literature, and culture of the twentieth century. It is important how Shalamov is read and understood now. Poets and writers who found themselves with Shalamov in the same epoch, also tried in their own way to reflect on the twentieth century in all the senses that this concept means.

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Deadline: January 28, 2022

2022 Midwest Slavic Conference

April 1-3, 2022

Columbus, OH

The Midwest Slavic Association and The Ohio State University (OSU) Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (CSEEES) are pleased to announce the 2022 Midwest Slavic Conference to be held at OSU in Columbus, OH on April 1-3, 2022. The conference committee invites proposals for papers on all topics related to the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian world, particularly those that explore issues surrounding climate change: the usage and depletion of natural resources, environmental changes, as well as issues surrounding the changing climates in politics, society, and culture (eco-criticism, eco-poetics, etc.). How has climate change affected the way we live today and our vision of humanity’s future, and how might these issues have inadvertently impacted other climates? The conference theme of climate change will naturally tie some conversations to the present and future, but we welcome investigations of the past as well, in addition to papers that do not align with the theme.

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Deadline: December 8, 2021

Call for papers for a virtual conference this December in Ukraine

Topics of Interest and Call for Scientists and Scholar Submissions
The potential participants are invited to prepare a presentation that
covers a wide range of issues related to the integration and disintegration
processes, including the following:

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Deadline: January 15, 2022

The conference will reflect on the process of the globalisation of avant-gardes in the arts and literature, and on the situation of artistic avant-gardes in the context of globalisation more generally – technologically, economically, and politically. We invite papers on topics related to the avant-garde across all of the arts.  

From the point of view of the arts, artists and writers have promoted, through their travel and networking, cultural interchanges and transformations that often appear to challenge the boundaries of national identities and their accompanying official histories and institutions. The historical avant-garde has always presented itself as transgressive, yet at the same time has tended to be located within a European history and in the optic of a certain kind of idealism which places art itself at the apex of an implicitly Eurocentric view of societal and technological progress. As well as examining the transnational or supranational facets of artistic practice in its genuinely transgressive aspects, this conference will also ask in what ways modernity itself – in all of its economic, technological and geopolitical ramifications – has shaped the avant-garde and the varieties of its manifestations across the globe. This approach can complexify the narrative of the avant-garde. 

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Deadline: November 30, 2021

Dobroljubov State Linguistic University in Nizhnyj Novgorod, Russia  issued a call for papers for an international interdisciplinary scholarly conference, Dec. 21, 2021, to be conducted in Russian and English, online and in person.  Deadline for submissions: Nov. 30, 2021. The topic is: The Effect of NEP on World History and Its Legacy in PostSoviet Russia. 

For further details, see the university website: https://lunn.ru/events/8789

The contact person for the conference is Prof. Marta Valeri, martavaleriv@gmail.com

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Deadline: November 20, 2021

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies invites papers to present at an AWSS-sponsored panel at the upcoming Southern Conference on Slavic Studies in Richmond, VA in February 2022.  If you are interested in presenting a paper or participating on a panel that focuses on gender, sexuality, and/or queer theory, please send a brief description of your project to NMcCaule@richmond.edu by 11/20/21.  Specific disciplinary foci may include, but are not limited to, literature, film/media, history, anthropology, sociology, and/or political science.  

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Deadline: April 30, 2022

SEMINAR: TRAVELLERS IN OTTOMAN LANDS: THE BALKANS, ANATOLIA AND BEYOND 
SARAJEVO, AUGUST 2022
CALL FOR PAPERS

24 – 26 August 2022
We invite proposals for contributions to a Seminar organised by ASTENE (the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East), in association with the Faculty of Islamic Studies of the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Deadline: December 1, 2021

The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University welcomes applications from advanced graduate students and recent doctoral recipients (ABD to 5 years beyond Ph.D.) for annual international Young Researchers Conference. The conference will take place from March 31-April 3 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. 

This call for papers 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. 

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