August 2026 – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

July 6, 2026

CFP: AATSEEL 2027 Stream Topics and Poster Panel

Deadlines: July 25, 2026; August 1, 2026

We are pleased to announce the Stream Topics for AATSEEL 2027, which will be held virtually on February 18-21, 2027. These streams promote greater cohesion among conference panels and foster a broader dialogue throughout the conference. The result can be a series of mini-conferences within the framework of our larger conference.

Stream 1: Toward Slavic Sensory Studies: East European Memory and the Senses
Stream 2: Transformational Sexualities in Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian Literatures and Cultures
Stream 3: Practices of Multilingualism in Online and Offline Spaces
Stream 4: New Directions in Russian Language and Area Studies: Perspectives from the Summer Russian Language Teachers program in Kazakhstan
Stream 5: Beyond the Horizon III: Rethinking the Canon of Polish Studies
Stream 6: Contested Monuments: Canonical Writers of the Stalin Era between Hagiography and Demythologization.
Stream 7: Career Readiness in Russian and Slavic Studies Programs
Stream 8: AI, Language, and Media in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Contexts

July 6, 2026

CFP: “Intersectionality + Pluricentricity: Teaching Russian Language(s) and Culture(s) (Russian Language Journal)

Deadline: August 15, 2026

The guest editors at Russian Language Journal (RLJ) are pleased to announce a call for proposals for a special issue on the topic “Intersectionality + Pluricentricity: Teaching Russian Language[s] and Culture[s]”.

The special issue considers intersectional and pluricentric pathways intentionally for language instructors to more accurately describe and interpret diverse Russian speech communities in teaching culture. It seeks to didactically counter narrate Russocentric, Eurocentric, and monolingual approaches to canons and curricula (i.e., Russkij mir), while also discussing their application as content in P-24 language classrooms.

July 6, 2026July 6, 2026

Language Training: Intermediate Polish, Online (University of Kansas)

Course Begins August 24, 2026

In Fall 2026, the University of Kansas is offering Intermediate Polish ONLINE. This course is open to any learner in the United States with novice-level proficiency in Polish for college credit.

PLSH 204: Intermediate Polish I (3 credits) is a synchronous online course that meets two times a week via Zoom (Monday and Wednesday, 10:00-10:50 am CT). On Friday students work on assignments individually. In this course, we use Agnieszka Dixon’s and Agnieszka Jasinska’s Hurra!!! Po polsku 2 (new edition) as the main textbook, along with many supplementary materials, including authentic ones. The course emphasizes all four skills and developing students’ communicative competence in Polish. By the end of the first semester, motivated learners can expect to reach the ACTFL Intermediate Mid-level of proficiency in speaking, listening, reading and writing.

The course begins on August 24, 2026. Please let anyone who might be interested in taking Intermediate Polish know about this opportunity! They can email Dr. Vassileva-Karagyozova (svk@ku.edu) with questions on how to enroll, the cost, or the courses themselves.

June 4, 2026June 4, 2026

CFP: 10th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (Honolulu, Hawai’i)

Deadlines: Workshops and Talk Story sessions August 31, 2026 ; General sessions (Papers, Performances, & Posters) September 30, 2026

The Department of Linguistics and the College of Arts, Languages & Letters at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa are pleased to announce the…

10th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation:

Arts Sustaining Language

March 4-7, 2027

Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA

http://www.icldc-hawaii.org

Language lives not only in grammar and lexicon but also in the creative practices of its speakers, as expressed through song, story, performance, crafting, and visual arts. Though traditionally viewed as ancillary to the documentary process, these creative practices are increasingly being incorporated into language documentation workflows. Moreover, the arts play a critical role in furthering and supporting language maintenance and reclamation efforts, helping to sustain intergenerational transmission among minoritized, ancestral, and diaspora languages.

May 7, 2026

CFP: Fourth Annual BASEES Baltic Study Group Workshop

Deadline: August 15, 2026

Parallel Memories: People, Place and Environments in the Baltic States
Online, 30-31 October 2026

This year marks forty years since the late-twentieth century independence movements across Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia began to “crystallize around concern over environment” (Misiunas and Taagepera 1993). Indeed, the intertwinement of nature, nation and memories of interwar statehood was a notable source of mass mobilisation throughout the late 1980s. More recently, a new momentum around the study of environment and society, ecological memories, nuclear cultural heritage, emptying places, and land redistribution has been gathering momentum within research on or with the connection to the Baltic states (Rindzevičiūtė 2021; Dzenovska 2023; Annus 2025; Martínez 2026). Building on this, the fourth annual BASEES Study Group on the Baltic States workshop seeks to explore the power of memory in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania through the lens of place and environment (Martinez 2026; Annus 2025; Schwartz 2006).