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CFP: Third Annual Graduate Student Conference on Central Asia (Davis Center, Harvard University)

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Call for Papers for Davis Center’s Third Annual Graduate Student Conference on Central Asia

The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University will host the third annual graduate student conference on Central Asia from April 18 to 20, 2025. We invite paper proposals from graduate students at any stage, including master’s students, working on a topic related to Central Asia within any discipline. The conference will allow U.S.-based graduate students to present their original and ongoing work professionally and receive feedback from peers and experts in the field. 

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Call for Proposals: Central Asia Research Forum

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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European & Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium

Deadline: January 10, 2025

URS—the European & Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium—is scheduled for March 28, 2025 and open to undergraduates from all majors and institutions who have written a research paper (social science, humanities, or business perspective) focusing on Eastern, Western, or Central Europe, the European Union, Russia, or Central Eurasia.

Undergraduate students  apply here.

Details here:

  • URS applications due January 10th, 2025.
  • Limited URS travel grants help defray travel expenses for accepted participants outside the Pittsburgh region.
  • Selected participants are grouped into panels according to their research topics.
  • Participants give 10- to 15-minute presentations to a panel of faculty and graduate students.
  • URS presentations are open to the public.

URS is an annual event since 2002 that provides undergraduate students with advanced research experiences and opportunities to develop presentation skills. For more information, visit our page.

Should you have any questions, please reach out to Zita Tóth-Shawgo. 

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CFP: Spaces of Negotiation in Post-Imperial Orders (Bucharest, Romania)

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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Undergraduate and Graduate Research Symposium (NYU Jordan Center)

Deadline: December 20, 2024

NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia Masters and Undergraduate Research Symposium

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: 

1. Traditional research panels featuring 10-12 minute talks on executed research projects

2. Casual, discussion-based panels featuring 4-5 minute talks on experiences — internships, study abroad, volunteer opportunities, and more — related to the region 

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CFP: Fluidity and Musicality: Exploring the Rhythms of Language, Culture, and Identity

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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Submissions Wanted: Collective Subjects in Historical Narratives of the Balkans

Deadline: January 10, 2025

Makers of Their History: Collective Subjects in Historical Narratives of the Balkans 
Hiperboreea journal (thematic issue)Contributors are invited to propose analyses and interpretations of the ways in which authors have discursively shaped group-identities based on cohabitation, common labour, place, political practices, class, ethnicity, gender, and social kinship as agents, passive characters, narrators, and narratees in narratives of the Balkans’ past. Contributors can also submit theoretical essays focusing on collective subjectivity through literary, narrative, sociological, political-science or anthropological approaches, with case studies from the region. 

Please submit a 300-word article proposal to milan.vukasinovic@lingfil.uu.se by  Friday, 10 January 2025.

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CFP/Conference: Teaching and Learning Russian as a Second and Heritage Language in a Diverse and Changing World

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. 
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CFP: Judicial Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond

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.

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NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia Masters and Undergraduate Research Symposium

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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