Category: Conferences

Deadline: August 31, 2025

On behalf of the International and North American Dostoevsky Societies, we are excited to announce that the call for papers for the XIX International Dostoevsky Symposium (IDS) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 16-19, 2026 is now available! All the details and the Google Form for abstract submission are available on the Symposium website (https://rusaires.wixsite.com/xix-simposio/xix-simposium-eng) and also on the North American and International Dostoevsky Societies’ website (https://dostoevsky.org/symposia/symposium-updates/). 

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Deadline: September 1, 2025

Proposed title: Political Thought in Central and Eastern Europe

Guest editors:
Aurelian Craiutu, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, acraiutu@iu.edu
Venelin Ganev, Department of Political Science, Miami University of Ohio, USA, ganevvi@MiamiOH.edu

Rationale:
Ideas have always mattered a great deal in Central and Eastern Europe where they had lasting and wide-ranging political implications. The major world wars that started there upended the old global order and redefined the map of the entire world. Regrettably, unlike the case of Russia, the political thought of Central and Eastern Europe has remained understudied in Western academic circles. To give just an example, the influential series of Cambridge History of Political Thought has had virtually no place for Central and Eastern European thinkers. The impact of the ideas of the Enlightenment and Romanticism on intellectual and political life in Central and Eastern Europe has been understudied, along with the emergence of emancipatory national movements or the growth of irrationalism and anti-Semitism in the twentieth century.

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Deadline: July 20, 2025

Deadline update! AATSEEL will be accepting applications for its new Research Lab on Sound Studies until July 20, 2025. The Research Labs, an innovative new event at our annual conference, aim to provide a space where participants can share developing research, receive and provide substantive feedback to colleagues, and generate new avenues of scholarship. The three-hour labs are held during the AATSEEL Conference on Friday and Saturday mornings.

For more information and to submit an application, please visit this page. Questions should be directed to  José Vergara (jvergara@brynmawr.edu) or Molly Thomasy Blasing (mtblasing@uky.edu).

Deadline: September 1, 2025

The concept of cultural resistance has become integral to sociological, political, and cultural studies. Emerging after the “youth revolutions” of the late 1960s (the “long year 1968”), this concept encompasses practices, artistic works, and initiatives aimed at revising or deconstructing established social hierarchies, challenging hegemonic “common sense” and dominant tastes, and confronting neo-fascist and right-wing populist movements as sociocultural forces.

Cultural resistance creates a unified framework for understanding both the politicization of cultural practices (poetry readings, exhibitions) and the aestheticization of political actions (performative political speech, political movements developing subcultural characteristics).

While this concept was initially developed through examples from Western states and their colonies, it has only recently been applied to earlier historical periods. The Center for the Study of Russian Culture at Amherst College invites scholars to explore how this concept might illuminate social and cultural history of Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states.

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Deadline: July 10, 2025

The Black Sea as a Literary and Cultural Space (3)

Ruins (Ancient and Modern) and Mobilities

20-22 November 2025

Ovidius University of Constanţa (Romania)

Co-organisers:

• Faculty of Letters, Ovidius University of Constanta
• Institute of Comparative Literature at Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia)
• CIELAM (Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Étude des Littératures d’Aix-Marseille) of Aix-Marseille University (France)
• Sextil Puşcariu Institute of Romanian Academy (Cluj-Napoca)
• Institute for Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia)
• Association “Transpontica” (Sofia)
• Department of Romance Studies at Sofia University

With the support of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie

Argument

Ruins are inseparable from habitats from (types of) experiencing a territory (and aquatory). Ruins mark the outer edges and midpoints of habitats brought about by rivers, wells, ponds, limans, peninsulas and coastal mountain ranges (on the one hand) and a wilderness beyond, on land and at sea alike (on the other hand). May they anchor discourses that are neither elegiac nor apocalyptic but re-domesticating? Or re-domestication takes place as a tacit (extra-literary) activity only? Where is the boundary between re-domestication and oblivion?

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Deadline: June 30, 2025

Conference Title: Ivan Turgenev and the European Novel

Dates and Venues: April 9–11, 2026, in Rouen and Bougival, France

Format: Hybrid format – in-person or online presentations

Working Languages: French, Russian, and English

The international conference “Ivan Turgenev and the European Novel”, jointly organised by the European Ivan Turgenev Museum in Bougival, the Friends of Flaubert and Maupassant, the Meìrimeìe Society, the Literary Society of the Friends of Eìmile Zola, and the Ivan Turgenev Centre at the University of Mons, will take place in Rouen and Bougival from April 9 to 11, 2026.

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Deadline: August 1, 2025

April 23–26, 2026

Key Dates:

Abstract submission deadline:August 1, 2025

Author notification: August 15, 2025

We invite papers that present or engage with iconoclastic, revisionist, and innovative approaches to Nabokov studies. Contributions that challenge traditional interpretations or offer new critical frameworks are especially encouraged.

Keynote Speakers

Opening Keynote: John Banville

An acclaimed Irish novelist and author of over 30 books, including the Booker Prize winning novel The Sea (2005. Banville’s many honors include the Franz Kafka Prize (2011), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature (2013), and Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (2014).

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Deadline: June 15, 2025

Date: December 15–16, 2025
Location: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania

The University of Helsinki and the Lithuanian Institute of History are pleased to announce the international conference “Imperial Experiences in Family Violence: Crimes and Criminology in 19th–20th centuries.” The event will take place at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library’s which serves as a partner in hosting the conference. This gathering aims to examine the historical dimensions of family violence within imperial contexts.

By exploring legal practices, social perceptions, and criminological approaches across different empires, the conference seeks to analyze how state policies, legal transformations, and cultural norms shaped responses to violence in the family. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines, the event fosters a comparative discussion on the intersection of law, crime, history, and family dynamics in imperial settings.

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Deadline: (varies) May 15, July 1, August 1, 2025

The General Call for Proposals, Call for Panel Stream Topics and Application for Research Lab Participants for the AATSEEL 2026 conference, which will be held in-person in New Orleans, LA on February 19-22, 2026, are now open and currently accepting submissions.

The AATSEEL annual meeting is a forum for scholarly exchange of ideas in all areas of Slavic and East/Central European languages, literatures, linguistics, cultures, and pedagogy. The Program Committee invites scholars in these and related areas to form panels around specific topics, organize roundtable discussions, propose forums on instructional materials, and/or submit proposals for individual presentations for the 2025 conference. The conference regularly includes panels in linguistics, pedagogy, second language acquisition, literatures, and cultures relevant to the organization’s regions of focus.

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Deadline: June 30, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Academic Freedom in Flux: Purpose, Beneficiaries, and Practices in the Contemporary World”

Dates: October 16-18, 2025.

Location: Tashkent State University of Economics, Tashkent.

The fundamental questions “Why does academic freedom exist?” and “For whom does it exist?” remain central to contemporary debates about the role and function of higher education and research institutions. These questions touch upon the very foundation of the Academy and its place in society, raising critical issues about the interplay between knowledge production, democratic governance, and societal development.

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