Conferences – Page 2 – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

January 29, 2024January 29, 2024

CFP: Central Asia Forum

Deadline: January 31, 2024

February 28–29, 2024 (on zoom)

Hosted by the Slavic Reference Service

The Central Asia Research Forum aims to bring together scholars in all disciplines and stages of the research process to discuss the many interpretations of the forum theme Civil Society in Central Asia. Since 1991, civil society in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan has undergone significant transformations and revitalization that warrants continued scholarly attention. We invite all those interested to submit proposals for paper presentations, panels, and roundtables on this year’s theme. We also invite proposals that shed light on the current condition of contemporary civil society since the start of the Russia–Ukraine War and how those societies view and interact with each other on their own terms.

January 26, 2024January 26, 2024

CFP: Titanism: Figures of Social and Political Subjectivity between Superman and Nation-Builder

Deadline: March 15, 2024

International Conference

23-25 May 2024, University of Fribourg

Organised by SNF-Project “Communities of Dialogue: Russian and Ukrainian Émigrés in Modernist Prague”
Official Website: https://comdial.sdvigpress.org/event-100737

The relatively obscure term of “titanism” is at the heart of a complex debate involving prominent Russian and Czech intellectuals of the first third of the twentieth century. Used initially by Nikolaj Berdjaev in his Origins of Russian communism (1937, written in 1933) and by Tomáš Masaryk in his philosophical interpretations of Goethe’s Faust (Masaryk 2000 [1934]), it was taken up by literary scholar František Xaver Šalda and his student Václav Černý (1934), and again by the philosopher Jan Patočka in his critical engagement with the work of these masters (Patočka 1936). Where Masaryk saw in Goethe’s character the definitive symbolic representation of the modern “Superman” and his “egoism”, Černý objected to this identification of Faust with the Titanic Superman and insisted on the latter’s creative potential. Moreover, titanism is not limited to this specific filiation from Masaryk to Šalda, Černý, and Patočka. Rather, “The use of the word titanism in Czech is rooted in a specific Central-European aesthetic and philosophical tradition, largely based on the appropriation of German romanticism and its philosophical, social and political implications.” (James 2021, 4-5).

January 23, 2024January 23, 2024

CFP: Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War (George Washington University)

Deadline: Friday, February 9, 2024

Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War
May 2-4, 2024
Venue: The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
The Cold War Group (GWCW) at The George Washington University (GWU), the
Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) of the University of
California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), and the Department of International History at the
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) are pleased to announce the
2024 Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War. The conference will take place at
GWU in Washington, D.C. from Thurs. evening May 2 through Sat. evening May 4, 2024.

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024

Yale European and Eurasian Studies Graduate Student Conference

Deadline: February 15, 2024

The European Studies Council (ESC) of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University invites applications to the 5th annual Yale European and Eurasian Studies Graduate Student Conference.

On May 8-9, 2024, in celebration of Europe Day, 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 15, 2024. To propose an individual paper or a complete panel, please submit the online application form, HERE

January 12, 2024January 12, 2024

CFP: 30th Annual REECAS Northwest Conference (University of Washington)

Deadline: February 5, 2024

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 12, 2024January 12, 2024

CFP: Nationalist Polylingualism: Multiple Linguistic Loyalties in East-Central Europe and the Balkansand National Belonging

Deadline: May 26, 2024

Scholarship of nationalism in East-Central Europe and the Balkans has made great strides in the last decade. Though Robert Kann (1950) once analyzed the Habsburg monarchy as “the Multinational Empire,” recent scholarship, however, has increasingly problematized such narratives of the Habsburg Empire as a mosaic of mutually exclusive nations. Work on national indifference (King 2002; Judson 2006; Zahra 2011; Ginderachter & Fox 2019) has shown that nation-ness and ethnicity were not relevant in all situations and for all people.

January 12, 2024January 12, 2024

CFP: Infrastructures of Trading and Transferring Art since 1900 (workshop) | June 26–28, 2024, KEMKI – Central European Research Institute for Art History, Budapest, Hungary

Deadline: January 31, 2024

Although art market studies as an academic field has become increasingly popular in the last decade, there has been little research that critically examines the actors, places, rules, and structures of this system. This workshop aims to explore the infrastructures through which artworks have been produced and exchanged for goods, money, services, and reputation since 1900.
Our focus is not only on the dominant and well-known structures of the art market but also on alternative practices in specific times and places and under various regimes. Proposals may relate but are not limited to the following topics and can present arguments based of case studies or an overarching thesis:- Actors and networks for transferring and trading art, such as auction houses, dealers, galleries, museums, art societies, artists’ networks or collectives, dealer and/or collector consortia, laymen;- Locations and platforms for trading and transferring art, such as museums, freeports, hotels, apartments, fairs, and online platforms;- State involvement in trading and transferring art, such as commissioning monumental art/murals, guaranteed buying, soft power cultural politics, censorship;- Communication for trading and transferring art, such as art critique or catalogue raisonné writing by dealers, advertisement or PR;- Logistics and shipping of trading and transferring art- Finances of trading and transferring art, such as collateralization or tax deduction;- Illicit or unethical trading and transferring of art such as unprovenanced and/or looted objects, forgeries, insider trade.

December 20, 2023December 20, 2023

CFP: Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Conference in Montreal, QC

Deadline: February 1, 2024

Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Conference
June 14-16, 2024 at McGill University in Montreal
CALL FOR PAPERS

The annual conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists will take place at McGill University (Montreal, Quebec) in early June 2023. The CAS Annual Conference is held as a part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences with more than 70 national associations in attendance. The theme of the 2024 Congress is “Sustaining Shared Futures.” More information is available here: https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2024

December 18, 2023December 18, 2023

CFP: 30th Annual REECAS Northwest Conference (University of Washington)

Deadline: February 5, 2024

REECAS Northwest, the annual ASEEES northwest regional conference for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies (REECAS) will take place April 11-13, 2024 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.

December 15, 2023December 15, 2023

CFP: CALL FOR PAPERS Biennial Conference of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies

Deadline: January 20, 2024

Hosted by the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “Hidden Histories: Reshaping Canons, Reimagining Archives, Making Gender Visible”

Dedicated to the Late Mary Zirin

June 6-8, 2024

(in person and virtual)