Category: Call for Submissions

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Submissions/Translations Wanted: Asymptote Journal

Deadline: Ongoing

Asymptote, an international journal of literature that has previously published new work by authors such as J.M. Coetzee, Lydia Davis, and Haruki Murakami, from over one hundred countries and languages.

At Asymptote we aim to expose our readers to the multitude of perspectives and experiences that exist outside the anglophone and particularly in languages that are not frequently translated. I want to bring more Georgian, North Caucus, Eastern European, and Central Asian voices into the journal and as the Communication Coordinator for so many academic programs in the region, you seem like the perfect point of contact. I’m interested in a whole range of subjects, especially essays and even journalism that speak to conversations about literature, politics, and culture in the region today that outside readers wouldn’t be aware of. 

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CFP: Teaching Writing in English at the Decolonial Turn in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

Deadline: August 15, 2025

We invite you to submit a chapter proposal for a forthcoming edited collection titled Teaching Writing in English at the Decolonial Turn in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, under contract with the International Exchanges on the Study of Writing book series (WAC Clearinghouse). We also encourage you to share the linked call for proposals (CFP) with colleagues and graduate students who may be interested in contributing.

We invite contributions from colleagues in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia who are affiliated with colleges and universities where the language of instruction is English. Perspectives from instructors who specialize in writing, in composition and rhetoric, in writing center praxis, in literature, and in linguistics are welcome, as are contributions from disciplinary specialists who teach writing in their primary field of study. We especially hope to hear from early career researchers. Proposals can be sent to decolonialwritingbook@gmail.com by August 15, 2025. 

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CFP: Corpus Linguistics in Russian Language Learning and Teaching

Deadline: June 15, 2025

We are pleased to invite chapter proposals for an edited volume tentatively titled Corpus Linguistics in Russian Language Learning and Teaching, to be proposed for publication in the Routledge Russian Language Pedagogy and Research series.

This volume aims to bring together scholars and practitioners engaged in the study and teaching of Russian as a second (L2) and heritage (HL) language, with a focus on corpus-based approaches. We seek contributions that examine the use of various corpora in language teaching, curriculum development, assessment, materials design, and teacher training. The volume will highlight how authentic language data can inform pedagogical innovation and bridge the gap between linguistic research and instructional practice.

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Call for Chapter Proposal: The Handbook of Place-Based Pedagogies in Language and Culture Studies 

Deadline: May 25, 2025

See CFP for more details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fM4H8f03hlgEZ8TGO7RHB_kiEZKh51AZDe-vSq6fvCk/edit?usp=sharing
Submission Form: https://forms.gle/cPgKmRncM8SxX7xX9   

The Handbook of Place-Based Pedagogies in Language and Culture Studies is envisioned as a scholarly volume which offers a comprehensive overview of the theories, methodologies, and applications of place-oriented frameworks in language and culture studies. It examines how educators and researchers incorporate spatial constructs, local environments, and community knowledge into pedagogical and scholarly practices across diverse disciplinary contexts. Emphasizing the significance of geographical, cultural, ethnographic, geopolitical, historical, and linguistic features of place, the handbook aims to deepen our understanding into spatial dimensions of cultures and languages and enrich language and culture learning, making it more engaging and relevant for students. 

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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.

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OVD-Info Prize for Master’s and PhD Research on Repression, Surveillance and Censorship in Contemporary Russia

Deadline: January 31, 2025

OVD-Info, in collaboration with several universities and faculty, has announced its inaugural prize competition for Master’s and PhD research on repression, surveillance, and censorship in contemporary Russia.  The text of the announcement is below, and more information and the application form are available at: https://en.ovdinfo.org/competition.

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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: Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies

Deadline: September 1, 2025

Special Issue on Russian Postcolonial Studies

Guest Editor: Tamar Koplatadze, Christ Church, University of Oxford, tamar.koplatadze@chch.ox.ac.uk

Russia and the countries that were incorporated into the Soviet Union have not historically received extensive critical attention within the postcolonial discourse. In the wake of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, scholarly interest has grown in re-assessing established methodologies and engaging with postcolonial theory when studying these countries. Postcolonial approaches can be key to analyzing the link between imperialism and situations of core-periphery disparity, both past and ongoing, whether expressed in the man-made famines in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, the overproduction of cotton in Central Asia, the nuclear testing in Semipalatinsk, the extraction of natural resources in Siberia, or post-Soviet migration patterns. Moreover, local writers, creative artists and activists addressing these questions are increasingly situating their works within the global postcolonial tradition.

This special issue aims to provide an interdisciplinary inquiry of the current decolonial turn, build on existing scholarship and bring to the fore new postcolonial interventions, while also countering the pitfalls of the “decolonial bandwagon” (Moosavi) such as tokenism and uncritical use of decolonial terminology. We welcome contributions that critically engage with postcolonial and decolonial theory, attempt to bridge Western and local epistemologies, compare different geographical contexts of (post)coloniality, or untangle various types of decoloniality – including political, epistemological, cultural and aesthetic, while addressing, among others, the following themes:

  • Critical theory
  • Literature, Culture and Language
  • Comparative studies of (post)coloniality
  • History
  • Race
  • Gender
  • Environment
  • Migration
  • Activism

Submission Instructions

Manuscripts following the journal guidelines and formatted in MLA style should be submitted by September 1, 2025 at https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgps/submit

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CFP: “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Translation in the Teaching and Researching of Slavic Languages and Literatures” 

Deadline: September 15, 2024

Purpose, Aims, and Foci of the Thematic Issue:  

The topic of AI has been gaining significant traction in the field of Slavic Studies. Major conferences now feature panels and streams dedicated to AI integration, and numerous professional training events have been organized to equip instructors with the skills needed to utilize AI tools in teaching and research. 

This thematic issue seeks to capitalize on this growing momentum by documenting the integration of Artificial Intelligence technologies in the teaching and research of Slavic languages and literatures. The focus will be on how these advancements can be effectively leveraged to enhance both pedagogical practices and scholarly inquiry. AI applications, such as machine learning, AI text and image generators and digital humanities tools, offer new methodologies for analyzing Slavic texts, teaching language skills, and understanding cultural contexts. The purpose of this issue is to provide an overview of current teaching and research practices and bring together diverse perspectives from educators, linguists, and researchers to reflect on the potentials and challenges of incorporating AI into the study and teaching of Slavic literatures and cultures. 

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Donna Tussing Orwin Essay Competition on Tolstoy

Deadline: September 13, 2024

We’re approaching the deadline for essay submissions to the first annual Donna Tussing Orwin Essay Competition for early career scholars writing on Tolstoy. Please submit or circulate among those who might be interested!

Eligible scholars (undergraduate, graduate students, pre-tenure scholars) are encouraged to submit essays (approximately 8,000 words) on any topic related to Tolstoy. Please send submissions to tgershko@andrew.cmu.edu. They will be evaluated by the editors as well as a panel of judges, and the winning essay will receive a cash prize and publication in Tolstoy Studies Journal. The deadline for submission is the second Friday in September (9/13/2024). The winner will be announced in early November, and the selected essay will be published in our next issue in early 2025. 

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