September 2025 – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

July 2, 2025July 2, 2025

CFP: Teaching Russian Phonetics and Phonology

Deadline; September 15, 2025

We invite classroom-based case studies for the upcoming Routledge volume Teaching Russian Phonetics and Phonology – A Practical Approach. If you teach Russian as a foreign, second, or heritage language and incorporate pronunciation in your work, consider contributing a brief report or reflective chapter. We’re seeking practical, innovative techniques for teaching pronunciation, rhythm, stress, intonation, grapheme-phoneme correspondence, and more—across various instructional settings.

Proposals (300–500 words) are due by September 15, 2025.

For full details and submission, visit Call for Pedagogical Case Studies.docx – Google DocsQuestions?

Contact Vita Kogan (UCL) at v.kogan@ucl.ac.uk or Maria Bondarenko (University of Heidelberg, Institute of Slavic Studies) maria.bondarenko@slav.uni-heidelberg.de

June 16, 2025June 16, 2025

CFP: Special Section in East European Politics and Societies: Political Thought in Central and Eastern Europe

Deadline: September 1, 2025

Proposed title: Political Thought in Central and Eastern Europe

Guest editors:
Aurelian Craiutu, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, acraiutu@iu.edu
Venelin Ganev, Department of Political Science, Miami University of Ohio, USA, ganevvi@MiamiOH.edu

Rationale:
Ideas have always mattered a great deal in Central and Eastern Europe where they had lasting and wide-ranging political implications. The major world wars that started there upended the old global order and redefined the map of the entire world. Regrettably, unlike the case of Russia, the political thought of Central and Eastern Europe has remained understudied in Western academic circles. To give just an example, the influential series of Cambridge History of Political Thought has had virtually no place for Central and Eastern European thinkers. The impact of the ideas of the Enlightenment and Romanticism on intellectual and political life in Central and Eastern Europe has been understudied, along with the emergence of emancipatory national movements or the growth of irrationalism and anti-Semitism in the twentieth century.

June 16, 2025June 16, 2025

CFP: Cultural Resistance: From Imperial Russia to Post-Soviet States

Deadline: September 1, 2025

The concept of cultural resistance has become integral to sociological, political, and cultural studies. Emerging after the “youth revolutions” of the late 1960s (the “long year 1968”), this concept encompasses practices, artistic works, and initiatives aimed at revising or deconstructing established social hierarchies, challenging hegemonic “common sense” and dominant tastes, and confronting neo-fascist and right-wing populist movements as sociocultural forces.

Cultural resistance creates a unified framework for understanding both the politicization of cultural practices (poetry readings, exhibitions) and the aestheticization of political actions (performative political speech, political movements developing subcultural characteristics).

While this concept was initially developed through examples from Western states and their colonies, it has only recently been applied to earlier historical periods. The Center for the Study of Russian Culture at Amherst College invites scholars to explore how this concept might illuminate social and cultural history of Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states.

June 5, 2025June 5, 2025

CFP: Donna Tussing Orwin Essay Competition

Deadline: September 12, 2025

Please submit your scholarly essays to the second annual Donna Tussing Orwin Essay Competition for early career scholars in Tolstoy Studies Journal.

Eligible scholars (undergraduate, graduate, pre-tenure) 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 (9/12/2025). The winner will be announced in November, and the selected essay will be published in our next issue in early 2026.