August 2025 – 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 13, 2025May 13, 2025

Language Learning: Online Intermediate Russian Conversation (Queens College)

Queens College, CUNY

RUSSIAN 2143: Intermediate Russian Conversation

ONLINE (via Zoom)

https://globalsearch.cuny.edu/CFGlobalSearchTool/search.jsp

FALL 2025

8/26/2025 – 12/22/2025

Mondays and Thursdays (2 times a week) 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM

Instructor:

Pisetskaya Aksana, email: Aksana.Pisetskaya@qc.cuny.edu

Enhance your Russian speaking skills in a dynamic, interactive environment. This intermediate-level course is designed for students with prior Russian knowledge who want to improve fluency, expand vocabulary, and gain confidence.

P.S. Potential students will have to register at Hunter College as non-matriculating students, and they should do so quickly since the CUNY registration process takes time.

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.