Conferences/Seminars – Page 26 – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

December 16, 2021February 10, 2022

CFP: Sound in the (Post-) Soviet Realm (Journal of Sonic Studies)

Deadline: January 15, 2022

When an empire falls, does it make a sound? And who is there to hear it?

The sonic history of the USSR and the Post-Soviet realm that succeeded it, is rich and turbulent. The 2013 book Sound in Z by Andrey Smirnov introduced the world to the daring sound experiments of the Soviet avant-gardists of the 1920s. From the city-wide noise symphonies of Arseny Avraamov to the first electronic instruments of Leon Theremin to experiments with sounds drawn on paper or film, the futuristic optimism of the first decade following the revolution unleashed an explosion of sonic artistry. While the strict censorship and state control over the arts forced sound artists underground or into applied work, the Soviet sonic creativity persisted on the margins, or even wholly outside, of the state-controlled art world: in the kinetic sound sculptures of the Dvizhenie art group, the explorations of light and sound by the researchers of the Prometheus Institute, or the extravagant performances of the Pop-Mechanics movement, for example.

December 10, 2021February 10, 2022

CFP: Special Cluster in Russian Language Journal

Deadline: December 31, 2021

Title of Special Cluster:
Collaboration Beyond the Classroom: Undergraduate Research in Russian Language Studies

Brief description:
Undergraduate research, as defined by the American Association of Colleges and Universities “involve[s] students with actively contested questions, empirical observation, cutting-edge technologies, and the sense of excitement that comes from working to answer important questions.” Undergraduate research is considered a high impact practice that can increase student learning driven by mentoring relationships with faculty while also building a culture of innovation and scholarship on campus.

December 9, 2021April 14, 2022

CFP: 2022 Slavic Graduate Student Association Conference, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Deadline: February 15, 2022

The Slavic Graduate Students Association (SGSA) in conjunction with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and co-sponsored by the Department of History and REEEC at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign invites submissions for presentation proposals from scholars across disciplines to this year’s conference, titled “Shifting Grounds: Changing Models of Nature in the Former Soviet Sphere” on April 15-16.

This conference aims to explore the figuration of Post-Soviet environmentalism and the disparate models of nature that constitute a larger Post-Soviet and Eurasian cosmology. We are also excited to announce that our keynote speaker for this conference is Dr. Pey-Yi Chu, associate professor of History, from Pomona College.

December 8, 2021February 10, 2022

CFP: Sibirica – Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies

Deadline: January 17, 2022

Special Issue Proposal: The spectrum of intersectionality in the Arctic –from discrimination to diversity and inclusion

Guest editors: Dina Abdel-Fattah, Doris Friedrich, Olivia Lee, Sardana Nikolaeva

The people who call the Arctic their home are diverse on many levels, from ethnicity, class, and gender, to sexual orientation. Many of these aspects are often overlooked or ignored, not only in everyday social life, but perhaps even more so in political decision-making. Discrimination is still an important issue. Women and LGBTQ+ are disadvantaged on various levels and there is little knowledge and mention of non-binary genders. Indigenous peoples still struggle to make their voices heard and have their rights respected.

December 8, 2021February 10, 2022

CFP: Gender, Power, Violence in the Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Regions (Association for Women in Slavic Studies)

Deadline: January 14, 2022

IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Gender, Power, Violence in the Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Regions, March 31-April 2, 2022

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies welcomes paper proposals from scholars engaged in research on the role of gender in understanding acts of violence, including epistemological and discursive violence, and the power dynamics of gender in the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian regions. We seek paper submissions that will discuss the breadth of gender-based violence which may include examples from war, ethnic and racial conflicts, displacement, state policies, domestic and sexual abuse, trafficking, suppression of LGBTQ+ identities, and violence emanating from other contexts.

December 1, 2021February 10, 2022

CFP: The Emergence of Gendered Power Structures since Early Modern Times: Practices, Norms, Media (Philipps University, Germany)

Deadline: January 15, 2022

International, interdisciplinary Conference at Philipps-University,f
Marburg/Germany, November 23 to 25, 2022.
Organizer: Interdisciplinary Research Network: Gender. Power
Relations. State (Philipps-University
Marburg, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Herder-Institute for
Historical Research on East Central
Europe, Marburg)
Deadline for proposals: January 15, 2022
The conference aims at analyzing configurations of gendered power
relations from the early modern era to the present from an
interdisciplinary perspective. The focus will be on these relations’
transformations and how they have been renegotiated and revisioned
regarding the interwoven analytical levels of medialization, normative
frames, and social practices. Correlations between transformation and
change will be examined as well as formations of traditions and the
development of historicizing narratives employed to legitimize
gendered relations of power, including the justification of state
power through naturalizing gender discourses.

December 1, 2021February 10, 2022

CFP: Deconstructing the Past, Reconstructing the Future; Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA); University of Pittsburgh

Deadline: January 5, 2022

Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA)

https://www.goseca.ucis.pitt.edu/conference

February 25th-26th, 2022

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Aneta Pavlenko

Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan

University of Oslo, Norway

Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia have often been conceptualized as a single geopolitical unit due to the significance of the Soviet Union and its eventual disintegration. However, the twenty-first century has challenged essentializing conceptions of the region thanks to breakthroughs in technology and medicine, new regional conflicts, and globalization. Transformations in daily life, prompted by climate change and disaster, paradigm shifts in thought, and sweeping political revolution have molded individuals, nations, cultures, languages, and disciplines, and provoked intense social construction and reconstruction. For our 19th annual conference, GOSECA invites presentations exploring the themes of reconstruction and deconstruction, whether political, economic, linguistic, social, cultural, artistic, or any other kind.

December 1, 2021February 10, 2022

CFP: Arab-Soviet Internationalism – Socialist Internationalism, International Organizations and the Politics of Revolution in the 20th and 21st Centuries (German Historical Institute)

Deadline: December 15, 2021

A three-day workshop held on July 13-15, 2022 at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, Germany

The German Historical Institute in Moscow, Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME), a research program at the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien, the Texas State University, and the Orient-Institut Beirut invite scholars in the fields of anthropology, history, literary studies and the political sciences to apply to take part in a workshop on »Arab-Soviet Internationalism – Socialist Internationalism, International Organizations and the Politics of Revolution in the 20th and 21st Centuries« to be held in Berlin 13-15 July 2022, at the Forum Transregionale Studien.

November 30, 2021February 10, 2022

CFP: NESEEES Online Conference

Deadline: January 14, 2022

The North East Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (NESEEES) Executive Board invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels for the 43th annual NESEEES conference.

The conference will be held virtually on Saturday, April 30th, 2022. Details on the conference format and procedures will be provided to registered participants. The registration fee will be waived this year due to the online format.

November 30, 2021April 14, 2022

Conference: Southern Conference on Slavic Studies

Event Date: February 24-26, 2022

After a two-year hiatus, the Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) will be held at the Omni Richmond ($135/night) in downtown Richmond, Virginia, February 24-26, 2022. The meeting will be hosted by the University of Richmond.

The SCSS is the largest of the regional Slavic and Eurasian Studies associations, and its programs attract national and international scholarly participation. The purpose of SCSS is to promote scholarship, education, and in all other ways to advance scholarly interest in Russian, Soviet, and East European studies in the Southern region of the United States and nationwide. Membership in SCSS is open to all persons interested in furthering these goals.