CREEES Professional Resources Forum

Deadline: March 1, 2023

Date: April 21, 2023

Venue: School of Politics and Law, Almaty Management University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

The escalation of international conflicts in post-Soviet Eurasia and beyond, crises threatening global stability in the largest economic centers, the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the looming threat of a worldwide climate catastrophe – all these factors have an impact on the situation in Central Asia. On the one hand, this situation can create a number of serious challenges for the region, including being drawn into the geopolitical confrontation between global centers of power, the negative consequences of economic recession and stagnation in the largest partners, new waves of epidemics and social instability in region, and experiencing the shortage of water resources. At the same time, new opportunities arise for the region due to its prospects as an economic center of post-Soviet Eurasia, building alternative logistics between Asia and Europe, as well as due to serious change in the supply chains in the global and regional energy markets. The countries of Central Asia need to take into account not only their own experience but also the positive and negative experience of other countries and regions if they want to take full advantage of the above-mentioned opportunities.

We invite scholars whose works, devoted both directly to the situation in the Central Asian region, and to those problems of other countries and regions, whose experience is applicable to the situation in Central Asia. The list of possible topics (not exhaustive) includes:

Deadline: June 1, 2023

27-29 September, 2023

Yerevan, Armenia

Keynote speakers: Theo Hermans (University College London)Theo Maarten van Lint (University of Oxford)Brian James Baer (Kent State University)Alvard Jivanyan (Yerevan State University)

Call for Papers

The practice of mediated or indirect translation has a long-standing history and for centuries a large corpus of literature – both literary and technical — has been made available to a much wider audience through translation from an intermediary language. Yet, translation scholars have traditionally paid little attention to the concept of mediated or indirect translation regarding it as a poor quality and second-rate form of translation. It was only in the second half of the 20th century that the concept of indirect translation grew in popularity and became the focus of linguistic research. The role of mediated translation is pivotal since it enables to disseminate authors’ voices from and to every stretch of the globe. Nowadays, due to globalization, the practice of indirect translation is widely applied in cross-cultural communication. The majority of international organizations adopt it, where a large number of working languages often results in drafting documents via the linguae francae — English these days or some other mediating languages.

Deadline: February 24, 2023

We are excited to announce the ASEEES Music Study Group’s sponsored session for ASEEES 2023 in Philadelphia. In keeping with the theme of this year’s conference, “Decolonization,” we are inviting a range of proposals that address the many ways in which music captures, responds to, or amplifies “(De)colonial Voices”—please see the detailed CfP below. While we hope to attract proposals that reflect on the ASEEES 2023 theme, we will also consider music-related proposals even if they don’t speak directly to it. We are currently planning this session to be part of the in-person convention on Nov 30-Dec 3, 2023.

Please submit a brief proposal for this session and a 2-3 sentence bio blurb, as well as your preference for a roundtable or panel format to David Salkowski (Secretary, dsalkows@utk.edu) by Friday, February 24.After collecting proposals, we (the MSG officers) will submit the proposal to ASEEES on the group’s behalf. We welcome proposals from all disciplines, and we particularly encourage submissions from group members who have not yet presented as part of the sponsored session.

We look forward to receiving your proposals, and please, let us know if you have any questions.