CFPs and Conferences

The purpose of this themed issue of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies (JICMS) is to explore the encounter between artistic geographies and academic geometries delineated by the role that Italian cinema plays and has played in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia and various post-Soviet states (like the Central Asia countries, the Baltic states, the Caucasus, etc.) and East Germany, during and after the Soviet period, as well as in cooperation opportunities between the film industries of these countries.

Proposal Due: May 31, 2021

The Editorial Team of the journal “Adeptus” would like to invite you to submit your research articles for the new issue (2/2021), entitled “Closely Watched Biographies” which will take a closer look at the process of confrontation between the author and the protagonist of biographical literature, not only from the perspective of literary studies. The issue is being prepared in cooperation with the KARTA Center Foundation and Czech Literary Bibliography.

Deadline: June 30, 2021.

This conference focuses on the relationship between temporality and material culture in twentieth-century socialist regimes. We are primarily interested in looking at case studies from the USSR and Europe, but also from other geographical contexts such as Asia, Latin America, and Africa, especially from a comparative perspective. This conference focuses on the relationship between temporality and material culture in twentieth-century socialist regimes. We are primarily interested in looking at case studies from the USSR and Europe, but also from other geographical contexts such as Asia, Latin America, and Africa, especially from a comparative perspective.

Due: 16 April 2021

This special issue of AvtobiografiЯ investigates the poetics of queer life-writing in Russian. What does a queer text in Russian look like? How do queer writers make use of, appropriate, or transform existing forms and genres? How does the queer Russian text evolve over time? How has the queer Russian text developed alongside, and responded to, queer texts that have come into Russia from other cultures? How has the evolution of literary forms and genres in Russian culture, as well as the evolution of information technologies, shaped the poetics of queer life-writing?

Abstract Due: 5 April 2021

the Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRCs) seeks proposals for the 7th Annual CRRC Conference and welcomes methodologically driven, substantive contributions. We invite panel and paper proposals investigating the profound sociopolitical, cultural, and economic changes occurring in the South Caucasus through a comparative, empirical lens. We welcome quality scholarly contributions from emerging and established academics exploring the following broader topics: Conflicts, displacement, and reconciliation; Politics, power, and democracy; Culture, values, and identity; Economic development, digitalization, energy, and mobility; Urban and environmental issues; Civil society and activism.

Due: April 16, 2021

Folklorica, the peer-reviewed Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association, is accepting submissions for a thematic issue “Folklore and Protest.” We invite folklorists and scholars of related disciplines to reflect on the folklore of protest in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. What role does folklore play in communicating political concerns? What creative forms and expressive strategies, traditional or new, do protesters employ? How can a folkloristic perspective, rooted in contextual nuances and insider voices, contribute to a better understanding of protests? What positions—ranging from relatively neutral observation and documentation to active political engagement—do folklorists envision for themselves in particular protest contexts and why?

Abstracts Due: May 1, 2021

This special issue of Apparatus sets out to revisit the early period of cinema in this region from a wide-ranging interdisciplinary and comparative perspective that embraces film history, film theory and media studies. Our aim is to inspire new writing on the early period of moving images in the Russian Empire that exceeds the cinematic and the local, and advances for this area of study a new cross-disciplinary and cross-national reach.

Proposal Due: March 8, 2021

Scholars with relevant expertise are invited to submit essays for a new edited volume on the global translation and reception of Russian literary fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. "Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context" (2023) is intended to constitute the first geographically coherent, culturally inclusive, and theoretically consistent model of the distribution and influence of translated Russian literature on global cultures from 1900 to the present day. The editors seek articles of up to 8,000 words on aspects of the history and influence of Russian literature in translation in different cultures for an Open Access publication funded by the European Research Council in association with the University of Exeter RusTrans project.

Abstracts due: March 31, 2021

The purpose of this special issue on the “unknown nineteenth century” is to collect and highlight new research on less-studied authors, and to encourage the creation of more venues for work on a broader, more diverse, and less predictable nineteenth century. We conceive of this as a project for literary scholarship. Historians have done much to expand the social, cultural, economic, and geographic breadth of nineteenth-century Russian studies, but literary studies, with some prominent exceptions, has tended to remain locked into discussions of major canonical figures. We hope that this special issue will contribute to closing that gap. We welcome proposals for articles focused on specific writers in Russian, as well as other languages of the Russian Empire, and studies of groups of authors and of issues in the broader literary culture of the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century. Because the center of gravity for the canon of authors we now study is realism and the latter half of the nineteenth century, this issue will generally focus on the realist period (roughly, 1835-1905), but we are open to studies of literary works in all genres—novel, play, poem, feuilleton. 

Due March 15

The Working Group in Russian and East European Jewish Cultures at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invite submissions for a Junior Scholar Workshop in Russian and East European Jewish Cultures.

Submission Deadline: January 25