Category: Conferences/Seminars

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CFP: Contemporary Political Myth and Reality in Eurasia (University of Texas at Austin)

Deadline: October 31, 2025

The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Clements Center for National Security, and Department of Government are pleased to announce a joint conference on Contemporary Political Myth and Reality in Eurasia, taking place February 12-13, 2026, at UT Austin.

Eurasian states face mounting challenges amid growing polarization, gaps between social needs and political responses, and disinformation blurring myth and reality. Further, Eurasian states face additional pressures from a legacy of authoritarian rule, active conflict and irredentism, and political mobilization of social divisions across the region. Yet Eurasian countries also have unique strengths in navigating these challenges, with strong national identities, robust civic engagement, bursts of democratic progress, and deep cultural traditions.

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CFP: Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (Florida State, Tallahassee)

Deadline: October 17, 2025

We are accepting proposals for our upcoming Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary (LINC) Graduate Conference on “Beyond Fracture: Reimagining Futures through Divergence and Convergence: Constructing New Paths Across Division, Resistance, and Solidarity. 

The conference isscheduled for March 5-6, 2026 at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Organized by graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference will provide a space to discuss divergence and convergence as tools for imagining and reimagining the future across fields, including literature, linguistics, cultural studies, history, gender and sexuality studies, and others.

This year’s theme, “Beyond Fracture: Reimagining Futures through Divergence and Convergence,” invites participants to examine ways that we can chart directions for the future. We welcome submissions that reflect a diverse range of interests, from linguistic analysis to cultural studies and literary exploration.

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CFP: Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (Florida State University)

Deadline: October 17, 2025

Call for Papers (CfP) for our upcoming Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary (LINC) Graduate Conference on “Beyond Fracture: Reimagining Futures through Divergence and Convergence: Constructing New Paths Across Division, Resistance, and Solidarity. 

The conference is scheduled for March 5-6, 2026 at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Organized by graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference will provide a space to discuss divergence and convergence as tools for imagining and reimagining the future across fields, including literature, linguistics, cultural studies, history, gender and sexuality studies, and others.

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CFP: Teaching Russian Phonetics and Phonology

Deadline; September 15, 2025

We invite classroom-based case studies for the upcoming Routledge volume Teaching Russian Phonetics and Phonology – A Practical Approach. If you teach Russian as a foreign, second, or heritage language and incorporate pronunciation in your work, consider contributing a brief report or reflective chapter. We’re seeking practical, innovative techniques for teaching pronunciation, rhythm, stress, intonation, grapheme-phoneme correspondence, and more—across various instructional settings. 

Proposals (300–500 words) are due by September 15, 2025. 

For full details and submission, visit Call for Pedagogical Case Studies.docx – Google DocsQuestions? 

Contact Vita Kogan (UCL) at v.kogan@ucl.ac.uk or Maria Bondarenko (University of Heidelberg, Institute of Slavic Studies) maria.bondarenko@slav.uni-heidelberg.de

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CFP: XIX International Dostoevsky Symposium (Buenos Aires)

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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CFP: Special Section in East European Politics and Societies: Political Thought in Central and Eastern Europe

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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CFP: Special Section in East European Politics and Societies: New Debates in Romani Studies

Deadline: August 30, 2025

Proposed title: Contested pasts and enduring injustices: New debates in Romani studies

Romani Studies scholars have recently scrutinized the field’s epistemology and Western paradigms, the lasting effect of structures and inequalities that transcend governmental change, the effect of integration policies and environmental racism, and the ethical imperatives of scholarly engagement with these issues. This thematic cluster invites contributions that critically engage with the newest emerging debates in Romani Studies that interrogate structures of power, racialization, and systemic exclusion in Central and Eastern Europe.

Guest editors:
Delia Popescu, Le Moyne College, US, popescd@lemoyne.edu
Lavinia Stan, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, lstan@stfx.ca

Format:
We invite submissions for a cluster that will include five research articles authored by established scholars and three articles authored by emerging scholars recruited from among those who will respond to a call posted on the EEPS website and distributed widely through other venues.

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Research Lab on Sound Studies (AATSEEL)

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).

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CFP: Cultural Resistance: From Imperial Russia to Post-Soviet States

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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CFP: The Black Sea as a Literary and Cultural Space (University of Constanța, Romania)

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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