Category: Conferences

Deadline: June 15, 2021

Keynote Speakers: Boris Groys (NYU) and Massimo Palma (Naples)
September 1-3, 2021 (Online)

Alexandre Kojève is widely recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. Indeed, the breadth of his work, which spans from a phenomenology of religion, through theoretical considerations on modern art, to one of the first philosophical treatments of quantum physics, would seem to justify this reputation. Regardless, the reception of his thought tends to be restricted to a single dimension concerning his lectures on Hegel and their ongoing influence. As a result, most accounts of Kojève’s philosophy begin and end with an analysis of his commentary on Hegel—a tendency that, until quite recently, has gone largely unchallenged.  

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Deadline: July 4, 2021

The First Wave of Russian Emigration | Symposium series 2020–22

The Research Centre for Russian Studies and Methodology of Eötvös Loránd Univeristy (Budapest), the A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature RAS (Moscow), the Historical Faculty of Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg) and the Vyacheslav Ivanov Research Centre (Rome) invites you to participate in the 3^rd event of
a series of symposia on The First Wave of Russian Emigration,
which will take place on July 15–16, 2021, online.

The aim of the 3^rd symposium

“The First Wave of Russian Emigration: Emigration and the Press”

will be to explore the range of current research topics regarding the press of and about the first wave of Russian emigration.

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Deadline: September 30, 2021

International Conference

1–3 Jun 2022, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)

Organisers: Susanne Frank (EXC 2020/HU Berlin), Clemens Günther (FU Berlin), Matthias Schwartz (ZfL Berlin)

The conference will be held in cooperation with the projects “(Post-)Soviet Literary Cosmopolis” and “Writing Berlin” of the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities.

Keynote speakers:

    Eleonory Gilburd (University of Chicago)
    James Mark (University of Exeter)
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Deadline: May 20, 2021

The session submission deadline for the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in Baltimore, MD (March 10-13, 2022) has been extended to May 20, 2021! Please submit your Session Proposals here. 

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Deadline: April 29, 2021

NeMLA invites you to submit session proposals about Slavic Studies for next year’s Northeast Modern Language Association conference (NeMLA ’22 – Baltimore | March 10-13).

Submitters are encouraged to submit session formats beyond the traditional panel, including but not limited to roundtables, creative sessions, and sessions with innovative uses of technology.   We welcome joint proposal submissions between faculty of various ranks and/or graduate students.    If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please email julia.titus@yale.edu

See below for more information about the Convention-

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Deadline: May 14, 2021

The Midwest Slavic Association is now accepting submissions for the 2021 Midwest Slavic Association Student Essay Prize Competition. The deadline is May 14, 2021. Eligible undergraduate and graduate students can submit a paper on any topic related to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies to the Midwest Slavic Association for consideration. See below for eligibility details and guidelines on submissions. The best undergraduate paper will win a one-year membership to the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), and the graduate winner will receive a one-year membership to ASEEES, as well as being considered then for the ASEEES Graduate Student Essay Prize at the national level. This competition is made possible through the support of ASEEES.

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