CFPs and Conferences

Carrying out research in Russia, be it quantitative or qualitative, has particular challenges that can make it difficult for graduate students to make efficient and effective use of their time while in country. The Graduate Methods Training Workshop aims to address these challenges by exploring innovative methodological approaches and engaging in training and dialogue with Russia-focused social scientists—all while fostering a community of emerging Russianists and promoting networking and professional opportunities with experts on Russia.

October 2-3, 2020 at Indiana University—Bloomington

Application Deadline: March 15, 2020

The 20th Annual Aleksanteri Conference brings together scholars exploring dimensions of global migration to, from and within the Eurasian space. The organizing committee invites papers that discuss a broad range of migration related topics through contemporary and historical perspectives. The conference committee will also consider other relevant questions related to Russian, Central and Eastern European and Eurasian Studies.

The deadline for submitting paper, poster, panel, or roundtable proposal is May 15, 2020.

Registration for the 2020 Institute for Curriculum & Campus Internationalization at Indiana University is now open and welcomes participants from all institutions of higher education, both domestic and international. 

Registration Deadline: April 21, 2020

ULBANDUS, the Slavic Review of Columbia University, invites short abstracts (200-300 words) for submissions (of no more than 8,000 words) to be published in our next (and twentieth!) issue, (RE)WRITING HISTORY.

Deadline: February 1, 2020

Call for papers for “In the Dark Spaces of Language. Negotiation of Unintelligibility in Slavic literatures”, which will take place at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Humboldt University of Berlin on March 26-27 2020. People working outside Germany can apply for travel grants.

Paper proposals are invited for the workshop The 101st Kilometre: Provincial Marginality from Stalin to Gorbachev, to be held at University College, Oxford on July 20th 2020, co-organised by Dr Polly Jones (Oxford) and Dr Miriam Dobson (Sheffield). This one-day workshop, funded by the John Fell Fund of the University of Oxford, will explore the social and cultural consequences of the Soviet-era legislation barring various categories of the population (notably, many Gulag returnees) from settling closer than 100km to Moscow and Leningrad (50km from Kyiv). 

Deadline: February 13, 2020

In this book, ‘authenticity’ will be investigated as an educational construct apt to enrich (the modern) foreign language classrooms  and university lecture halls in an age of globalisation, digitalisation, mobility and transculturality. With the contributors to this book coming from different countries and continents, the WHO, WHAT and HOW of ‘authenticity’ shall be investigated, overcoming widespread notions of native-speakerism, essentialism and stereotype. We encourage both theoretical and conceptual as well as empirical papers.

Deadline: January 31, 2020

This conference concerns Polish Chicago from the perspective of immigrants’ possessions and their material legacy. Therefore, this conference will discuss how the objects that were brought over or construed here, regardless of their scale and material, either devotional, educational or utilitarian, negotiated the past and the future through a perspective of national identity to forge it anew as a Polish-American iteration of political struggle and economic inequality. 

Deadline for abstract submission: May 31, 2020.

The Russian Language Journal invites submission of articles for inclusion in a special issue dedicated to Digital Humanities, co-edited by Thomas Garza and Robert Reynolds, to be published Dec 2020. Submissions should relate to the intersection of any treatment, field, or methodology of Digital Humanities with any topic that falls under the stated scope of the RLJ, including Russian language, culture, and the acquisition of Russian as a second language.

Submission Deadline May 1, 2020