November 2025 – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

October 3, 2025October 3, 2025

Workshop at SLE 2026: Constructions with multiple wh-words across languages

Deadline: November 5, 2025

Meeting Description:

The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of constructions with multiple wh-words across languages, which are understood as constructions structured with two or more wh-elements that can fulfil different functions.

We propose the following questions for discussion:

● What semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic factors underlie the restrictions on wh-variables and their possible pairings in multiple wh-constructions, especially in their distributive readings?

● Under what semantic and pragmatic conditions are such constructions licensed in discourse, and what communicative functions do they perform across languages?

● What syntactic positions can these constructions occupy within the clause, and how do they interact with the valency requirements of the predicate (if present)?

● How do frequency, idiomatization and formulaicity influence the grammatical status of these constructions across different languages?

● What are the historical sources of such constructions (e.g. indirect questions > quasi-relatives > distributives), and what grammaticalization paths can be identified cross-linguistically?

● Can we detect areal or genealogical patterns in the distribution and structure of these constructions, and what do such patterns reveal about contact-induced change versus independent development?

● How do multiple wh-word distributives compare with other distributive strategies (lexical, morphological, or clausal) cross-linguistically?

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025

CFP: Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, & Care under Socialism

Deadline: November 15, 2025

Health, social welfare, and the organization of family and social life have been central concerns for historians of socialist states. This conference invites a fresh perspective, examining how intimacy—as both concept and practice—offers new insights into how socialist institutions fostered, reimagined, or contained bonds between parents and children, patients and practitioners, and citizens and the state itself.

How might foregrounding intimacy reshape our understanding of health, medicine, and welfare in Europe under state socialism? We particularly welcome work that explores the role of expertise and caregiving practices within diverse institutional spaces. We are interested in a breadth of state socialist institutions, spanning hospitals and clinics, nurseries and retirement homes, asylums and sanitoria, maternity wards and childcare centers, among many others. By centering intimacy in institutional settings, this conference seeks to generate new histories of medicine, society, and the everyday that reveal socialism’s distinctive social worlds.

September 30, 2025

Learn Russian in the EU (Latvia)

Deadline: November 25, 2025 (Spring); July 31, 2026 (Fall)

Learn Russian in the European Union (Daugavpils, Latvia) is accepting applications for the following 2026 Russian study abroad programs:

– Spring Semester and Fall Semester Programs

– Summer Russian Language and Area Studies Program, 5 weeks

– Summer Intensive Russian Language Program, 6 weeks

– Two-Week Intensive Russian Language Program (January and August)

We will appreciate your sharing this information with your students and colleagues who may be interested in these opportunities.

September 26, 2025September 26, 2025

Grad. Program: MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (Georgetown University)

Deadlines: November 1, 2025 (for Spring Admission); January 15, 2026 (for Fall Admission)

The Master’s Degree Program at Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES) brings together scholars, practitioners and students working on contemporary and historical issues affecting Eurasia and beyond. Through multidisciplinary coursework on the politics, history, language(s) and culture(s) of the region, the CERES MA program educates professionals prepared to engage with global challenges and supports innovative research on current issues facing the region.

September 25, 2025

Study Abroad: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (Bard College)

Deadlines: November 5, 2025: March 15, 2026

Bard College is currently accepting applications for the following programs in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan:

1) Spring 2026 Bard-AUCA Study Abroad Program

Program Dates: January 5 – May 23, 2026.
Application Deadline: November 1, 2025.

For more information and to apply visit the website.

2) Russian in Central Asia Summer Program 2026Program Dates: June 5 – August 1, 2026.
Application Deadline: March 15, 2026.

For more information and to apply visit the website.

Both programs are hosted by the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), a Bard College dual-degree partner since 2009.

Program descriptions are included below. If you or your students have any questions, feel free to contact me at torlova@bard.edu.

September 11, 2025September 11, 2025

Embedded Scholars Program for UT Students

Info Session: September 24, 2025
Application Deadline: November 1, 2025

The 2026 Embedded Scholars Application is now open for UT students to apply for Summer 2026 internships in democratic and constitutional development in the Balkans, Central Asia, Europe, and Latin America. This is a partially funded international internship open to undergraduate and graduate students from any major at UT.

The program provides unparalleled opportunities for students interested in democracy to work with CID Gallup and International IDEA in Latin America, with International IDEA in Europe, and with the National Democratic Institute, Transparency International, and the United Nations Development Programme in the Balkans, Central Asia, and Eurasia. Students receive training at UT in the spring before going abroad for the summer to support democracy assistance programs in the field.

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?