We encourage submissions of 300-word abstracts that engage with any number of themes or readings of Slavic literatures and cultures, past and present. Papers are not restricted to contemporary literature and culture, but should approach literature and other cultural materials through modern transnational or exospheric perspectives. The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2022.
In August 2021, Ukraine celebrated 30 years of independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union. While the ideas of independence and sovereignty have always resonated for Ukraine, they have various complex meanings in the modern world. Do state borders designate sovereign land? What happens when those borders change? Who can claim to be part of a sovereign state? And how does the internet change our understanding of sovereignty? With increased urgency brought to these questions by the Russian annexation of Crimea and ongoing war in Donbas, the 2022 TCUP Conference interrogates the meaning of “sovereignty” for Ukraine in the 21st century.
The Slavic Graduate Students Association (SGSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign invites submissions of presentation proposals from scholars across disciplines to this year’s conference, titled “Shifting Grounds: Changing Models of Nature in the Former Soviet Sphere.” We invite all professors, graduate students, and professionals to submit papers related to our topic for consideration. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Feb.15, 2022.
The Midwest Slavic Association and The Ohio State University (OSU) Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (CSEEES) are pleased to announce the 2022 Midwest Slavic Conference to be held at OSU in Columbus, Ohio on April 1-3, 2022. The conference committee invites proposals for papers on all topics related to the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian world, particularly those that explore issues surrounding climate change: the usage and depletion of natural resources, environmental changes, as well as issues surrounding the changing climates in politics, society, and culture (eco-criticism, eco-poetics, etc.). Abstract submissions are due January 28, 2022.
This book proposes to explore intergenerational/generational trauma, or ways in which trauma experienced by one generation affects the well-being of future generations, among refugee communities displaced throughout the world. The book will focus on legacy of trauma and how historical, cultural, and economic trauma affect survivors’ future generations. Chapter proposal deadline is January 31, 2022.
PhD Candidate Alexander Herbert of Brandeis University is seeking participants for an interdisciplinary panel for ASEEES 2022 devoted to disaster studies in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Disaster studies is an emerging field within environmental history that aims to look at the ways disasters are constructed and used by states to make claims on legitimacy and power. We invite scholars from all disciplines to submit an abstract for consideration on any time period and place within the ASEEES realm.
In what ways were Soviet temporalities unique, from a global perspective? How can studies of Soviet material culture provide a vantage point from which to address this question? The editors of edited volume "Time, Objectified: Soviet Temporalities and Material Culture" invite contributions on topics relating to temporalities in the USSR. The deadline to submit abstracts is January 31, 2022.
The Slavic Graduate Students Association (SGSA) in conjunction with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and co-sponsored by the Department of History and REEEC at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign invites submissions of presentation proposals from scholars across disciplines to this year’s conference, titled “Shifting Grounds: Changing Models of Nature in the Former Soviet Sphere.” We invite all professors, graduate students, and professionals to submit papers related to our topic for consideration.
The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 15th, 2022.
IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL CONFERENCE, March 31-April 2, 2022
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies welcomes paper proposals from scholars engaged in research on the role of gender in understanding acts of violence, including epistemological and discursive violence, and the power dynamics of gender in the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian regions. We seek paper submissions that will discuss the breadth of gender-based violence which may include examples from war, ethnic and racial conflicts, displacement, state policies, domestic and sexual abuse, trafficking, suppression of LGBTQ+ identities, and violence emanating from other contexts.
The deadline for submissions is January 14th, 2022.
Princeton University is hosting a Graduate Conference, May 13-14, 2022, on The ‘Byt’ of Literature: Literary Personalities, Scholarly Discourses and the Modes of Their Production. We welcome submissions from graduate students and postdoctoral scholars across disciplines working on 19th, 20th, and 21st-century Russian/Soviet literary and literary-academic culture. Note that the deadline for submissions has been extended to February 20, 2022.
