Category: Conferences

Deadline: February 1, 2025

The Havighurst Center for East European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Miami University welcomes applications from advanced graduate students and recent doctoral recipients (ABD to 5 years beyond Ph.D.) for our annual international Young Researchers Conference. The conference will take place from May 1-3, 2025 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

This call 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.

The Havighurst Center will cover room and board and the cost of an excursion in the area. Limited travel funds are available.

The deadline for the submission of the proposals is February 1st. Please send a one page abstract (no more than 500 words) and one-page CVs to the havighurstcenter@miamioh.edu with the subject 2025YRCproposal.

Deadline: February 3, 2025

REECAS Northwest, the annual ASEEES northwest regional conference for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies (REECAS) will take place April 10-12, 2025 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.

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Deadline: January 24, 2025

The Central Asia Research Forum aims to, through formal and informal discussions, bring together scholars in all disciplines and stages of the research process to discuss the theme of Teaching Central Asia. Since 1991 (and before), scholars have been trying to take on a recurring question, how should we study and teach Central Asia? Specifically, what new conceptual frameworks should we develop to convey the imbalance in sources, perspectives, and academic training, including disparities in access to publishing outlets and the production of knowledge itself? We invite scholars to submit proposals that retrace the founding of Central Asian Studies, in the region and abroad, and the numerous academic institutions that trained (and continue to do so) generations of scholars to study and teach this region. 

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Deadline: February 15, 2025

Spaces of Negotiation in Post-imperial Orders
5 – 6 May 2025 Bucharest (Romania)

Conveners: Wiktor Marzec, Daniela-Maria Stanciu-P?sc?ri?a

The post-Versailles arrangements sanctioned the redesign of states along the burgeoning projects of national self-assertion, or allowed existing units to significantly extend their borders. Many had hopes to make these emerging states their own. However, the reality was often far from expectations. The bygone continental empires, characterised by a high level of ethnic, language and religious diversity, had sported hybrid state designs. In contrast, the new states were much more compact and aspired to the unitary sovereignty of a centralised nation state. But in fact they were actually “empires writ small”, and in lieu of diversity management initiated nationalisation efforts, trying to reduce ethnic heterogeneity through assimilation or “voluntary expulsion”. The birth of eastern European states brought about a double transformation when far-reaching democratisation coincided with forceful nation-building. These acute challenges were further intensified in composite states, emerging on the territories shaped under different empires (or their distinct parts). Such tributary regions had undergone the vast bulk of political modernisation in different imperial states. Distinct populations had been socialised institutionally in many empires, themselves state spaces with multiple legal designs. Moreover, local national movements had promoted divergent versions of incumbent national identities and visions of statehood.

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Deadline: December 1, 2024

 LINC Graduate Conference on “Fluidity and Musicality: Exploring the Rhythms of Language, Culture, and Identity,” scheduled for February 27-28, 2025 at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Organized by graduate students in the Modern Languages and Linguistics Department and the School of Teacher Education, this interdisciplinary conference will provide a space to explore fluidity and musicality across fields, including literature, linguistics, cultural studies, musicology, and gender and sexuality studies.

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Deadline: December 15, 2024

Teaching and Learning Russian as a Second and Heritage Language in a Diverse and Changing World (50th Anniversary Virtual Conference), 25-26 April 2025 American Council of Teachers of Russian  The American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) invites proposals for the 50th Anniversary International Virtual Conference on the study and teaching of the Russian language. The conference is free and open to members and non-members of the ACTR.  This milestone conference event will take place April 25-26, 2025, as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR). We will reflect on significant achievements in the field of teaching Russian language and culture while exploring innovative approaches to meet the challenges of the future. All sessions will be recorded and posted on the ACTR’s Youtube channel.   ACTR welcomes submissions from both early-career and established scholars, teachers and researchers from all countries and regions where Russian is taught as a second, third, or heritage language. We especially encourage submissions from colleagues from under-represented groups and/or who teach at institutions serving minority, inner-city, or rural populations.  The deadline for submissions is 15 December 2024. For more information and to submit a proposal, please follow the link.

Deadline: January 25, 2025

‘Judicial Activism and Resistance in Eastern Europe and Beyond’, 5-6 June 2025
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford/Institut d’études européennes, Université libre de Bruxelles/British Academy

The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford is pleased to announce an upcoming conference on ‘Judicial Activism and Resistance in Eastern Europe and Beyond’, to be held on 5-6 June 2025 at the Institut d’études européennes, Université libre de Bruxelles. This prestigious event marks the culmination of an important research project on Judicial Activism in Times of Crisis supported by the British Academy.

To apply, please send an extended abstract by 25 January 2025 to Dr. Agnieszka Kubal (agnieszka.kubal@csls.ox.ac.uk). For more details, contact Dr. Kubal or follow the link.

Deadline: December 20, 2024

The NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia is excited to announce a call for applications for our annual master’s and undergraduate research symposium! This March, we will host 25 undergraduates and 25 master’s students for two days of presentations, discussion, networking, and exploration. Please note that this year’s event will feature a slightly different structure than the past two iterations, as we will host both MA and Undergraduate participants for two full days.

We invite presentation proposals from undergraduates and master’s students enrolled at universities in the USA and Canada who are pursuing or have pursued research projects, internships, or other opportunities related to Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and/or Eurasia. Students from any academic field are welcome to apply. Both symposia will feature two different types of panels: 

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