Conferences/Seminars – Page 3 – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

May 15, 2025

CFP: Destabilizing Nabokov International Conference (Princeton University)

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).

May 5, 2025May 5, 2025

Call for Abstracts: The Life and Death of Cold War Funding

Deadline: July 1, 2025

Special Issue of The Russian Review

From Fulbright and IREX scholarships facilitating in-country immersion, to the Wilson Center’s efforts to connect academics and policymakers, to Title VI and Title VIII support for less commonly taught “critical” languages, funding programs that began in the Cold War shaped the field of Russian and Eastern European studies in enduring ways. These programs not only helped the US government “know its enemy” but also consolidated and institutionalized new fields of knowledge (“area studies”), trained experts in the United States, and developed a network of content-creators in the region. Despite its ideological partiality, this system of knowledge production helped soften hearts and minds on both sides of the so-called Iron Curtain. Though the original political impetus behind these programs ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, many initiatives survived. Even after the Cold War they funded the continued creation of cross-cultural knowledge and expertise, training the next generation of American scholars, and bringing academics, writers, and other practitioners from the region to the West.

April 24, 2025April 24, 2025

CFP: Children, World War II and the Holocaust: Historical Discourses and Memory in Eastern and Southeastern Europe

Deadline: November 1, 2025

CONCEPT

Children are caught up in wars and conflicts initiated and fought by adults. This is the inherent global practice of politico-social power asymmetries. The pages of human history show how strongly the Holocaust and the Second World War, as well as the wars and conflicts of long duration still being waged, have left their mark on children. This volume focuses on Eastern and Southeastern European discourses and memory policies about the extermination of Jewish (and to some extent non-Jewish) children and connects these phenomena with diverse cultures of remembrance before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The main research questions we ask are:

How were forms of memory of child victims of the Holocaust, child courage and resistance shaped in the post-war period in the context of Eastern and Southeastern European discourses and cultures of memory?
How are these themes preserved, cultivated and transmitted in education, art and culture in material and virtual spaces?
What kind of memorial places and spaces relating to children in the Holocaust, wars and conflicts have been created, commemorated, and what does memory (as sensitive category in research) look like nowadays at the intersection of Eastern, Southeastern and Western discourses in the European context?

April 18, 2025April 18, 2025

CFP: Imperial Experiences in Family Violence: Crimes & Criminology in 19th-20th Centuries (National Library of Lithuania)

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.

April 18, 2025April 18, 2025

Conference: ACTR 50th Anniversary

Event Date: April 25-25, 2025 (online)

American Association of Teachers of Russian cordially invites everyone to the 50th Anniversary Conference taking place virtually on April 25-26, 2025. You can view the schedule on the Conference Website.: https://actr.org/Conference-Schedule

Please share this information with your colleagues who might be interested. Conference attendance is free and open to all.

Attention! All times listed in the program are in Eastern Standard Time (US). Please be sure to calculate the correct time of the panels and sessions you are interested in for your local time zone.

To register for the conference, please follow this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zdbceS_aQaiLK6MgfXzXHQ#/registration

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025

CFP: AATSEEL 2026 Conference

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.

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025

CFP: Academic Freedom in Flux: Purpose, Beneficiaries, and Practices in the Contemporary World (Tashkent University of Economics, Uzbekistan)

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.

March 31, 2025March 31, 2025

CFP: Career Readiness in Learning and Teaching Slavic Langauges

Deadline: March 31, 2025

CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS

Special Issue of RLJ, Volume 76, Issue 1 (June 2026)

“Career Readiness in Learning and Teaching Slavic Languages”

Victoria Hasko and Karen Evans-Romaine, editors

Proposals due March 31, 2025

Full manuscripts due July 15, 2025 – rljeditor@gmail.com

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Purpose, Aims, and Foci of the Special Issue:

The 2023 Modern Language Association (MLA) report reveals that most collegiate modern language programs are experiencing declining enrollments nationwide (Lusin et al., 2023). This trend is creating a pressing need to articulate the relevance and value of language proficiency to language learners, parents, and campus administrators. At the same time, the report suggests that some language programs are thriving, and it attributes their vitality at least in part to the integration of career readiness into world language programming (ibid.). While a specific roadmap for such integration is lacking, the report highlights promising initiatives such as collaboration with career services, the inclusion of content courses tailored for specific professional purposes, and inclusion of language programs into interdisciplinary degrees and certificates. Recent learner surveys also suggest that students may be more committed to language programs that prepare them to apply their language knowledge effectively in diverse, real-world contexts, including professional internships, study abroad opportunities, and community partnerships (Morgan & Thompson, 2023; Murphy et al., 2022; also see JNCL-NCLIS, 2024).

March 14, 2025March 14, 2025

CFP: Emerging Scholars Workshop on Sources and Approaches in the Study of East-Central and Southeastern Europe

Deadline: March 31, 2025

The Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to invite you to submit paper proposals for a workshop for emerging scholars (M.A. students, Ph.D. students, and postdoctoral researchers) focusing on the study of contemporary East-Central and Southeastern Europe. We are interested in novel sources and approaches that reinterpret traditional historical narratives of these regions.

March 14, 2025March 14, 2025

Call for Participation: How Financial Interests Shape Democracy – Lessons from Central Easter Europe’s Democratic Transition

Deadline: April 4, 2025

Democracies worldwide face mounting internal and external threats (Wolf 2023). Domestically, neoliberal reforms—particularly financial deregulation—have deepened inequality (Stockhammer 2013, Lin and Tomaskovic-Devey 2013), eroded social solidarity (Brown 2019), and depoliticized key distributional policies (Burnham 2001, Harvey 2011). Internationally, financial liberalisation has facilitated tax evasion (Palan et al. 2010, Shaxson 2011, Wojcik 2013) and pressured governments to cut social provision (Streeck 2017), further weakening social cohesion. Meanwhile, global finance has enabled autocratic regimes to reinforce one another and disrupt democratic societies through misinformation (Applebaum 2024). These trends took hold in democratic societies in the 1980s and accelerated while the former Eastern Bloc underwent its democratic transitions.