The Central Slavic Conference is pleased to invite scholars from all disciplines working in Slavic, Eurasian, and East European studies to submit proposals for panels, individual papers, and roundtables at its annual meeting from March 11-13, 2021.
Proposals Due: February 1, 2021.
The goal of this edited collection is to bring together the work of scholars working on Soviet and Russian animation from a transcultural or global perspective. We are interested in a variety of cross-cultural encounters between Soviet and Russian animators and their Western counterparts. Our timeline includes any Soviet cartoons produced between the October Revolution and the fall of the U.S.S.R. as well as their afterlives in the present. Our aim is to show the complex ways that Soviet/Russian animation industry interacted with the West, broadly defined, and how this interaction changed after 1991.
Abstract Due: February 15, 2020
The Midwest Slavic Association and the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at The Ohio State University announce the 2021 Midwest Slavic Conference. This year, the conference will be an online conference that will give participants the opportunity to present panels in live, virtual sessions or individual papers at virtual afternoon blogging/discussion sessions. Proposals are welcome from undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars from across the Midwest, the U.S., or overseas. Panels and papers may be on any topic related to the Eastern European and Eurasian regions and from any discipline.
Abstract Due: February 1, 2021
The Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA) at the University of Pittsburgh are hosting their 18th annual graduate student conference in 2021. They invite submissions related to this year’s theme, Crisis, Change, and Dissent,’ as well as those focused on Russia, Eastern Europe, or Central Asia. The event will be held virtually on February 12-13.
Proposal submission deadline: January 10, 2021
We invite proposals for a special issue of Russian Literature dedicated to Cultural Biopolitics in Modern Russia. This special issue will seek to address a gap in scholarship by focusing on the importance of Russian culture as an instrument of biopower. We invite scholars from all disciplines to submit articles on “cultural biopolitics” in every period of modern Russian history: from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
Abstract deadline: January 15, 2021
“During the war people avidly read Tolstoy’s War and Peace as a means of testing their reactions.” So begins Lydia Ginzburg’s The Siege of Leningrad: Notes of a Survivor. Now that the very fiber of our social life has been upended by the pandemic, whose reverberations will be undoubtedly with us for many years to come, the journal Russian Literature proposes to again turn to books for insights on our common predicament. In the Petersburg of Osip Mandelstam’s The Egyptian Stamp, library books “are inhabited by measles, scarlatina, and chicken pox.” Indeed, classics of Russian and East European literature are swarming with infection and more often than not contagion mixes with political conflagration in their fevered collective consciousness. And, even before the era of Covid-19, contemporary literature and film became infested with scenarios in which viruses, both biological and digital, are unleashed, either intentionally or accidentally, by either the West or the East upon the world with catastrophic consequences.
Abstract deadline: February 1, 2021
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, to be held via Zoom on May 24 and May 25, 2021. The workshop is open to advanced graduate students and early career scholars (up to five years after the PhD). Abstracts and papers should highlight the critical methodologies used in the work. Selected papers will be pre-circulated among the participants, to maximize opportunity for discussion. Note that circulation-ready papers will be due April 26. Participants will also have an opportunity to meet with a panel of invited archivists and reference librarians in the field of Jewish and Slavic Studies.
Due: January 15, 2021
The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are pleased to announce a Call for Applications to its Spring 2021 Virtual Open Research Laboratory (VORL) Program. The program will take place January 25 - May 5, 2021. Funded in part by the U.S. Department of State's Title VIII Program, the VORL Program provides research stipends and long-distance library support for specialists conducting research on all aspects of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
The priority application deadline is December 9, 2020.
The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event since 2002 designed to provide undergraduate students, from the University of Pittsburgh and other colleges and universities, with advanced research experiences and opportunities to develop presentation skills. The event is open to undergraduates from all majors and institutions who have written a research paper from a social science, humanities, or business perspective focusing on the study of Eastern, Western, or Central Europe, the European Union, Russia, or Central Eurasia. The Symposium is usually held on the University of Pittsburgh-Oakland campus.
Due: January 15, 2021
Our workshop welcomes interdisciplinary research focused on East Asia, such as History, EALC, Anthropology, and Political Science. In response to growing interest in transregional scholarship, we would also like to extend an invitation to scholars working on Asia more broadly, whether it be through Eastern bloc socialism, South Asian Pan-asianism, or something else. If you wish to workshop a paper this Winter, first priority will be given to those who let us know by December 21st. Please respond to this email with a provisional title, an abstract (no more than 250 words), and a sentence about the project type (seminar paper, chapter, article, etc).
Due: December 21, 2020
