Central Asia

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 Davis Center will award one postdoctoral fellowship in history and one postdoctoral fellowship in literature and culture, beginning in September 2022. We welcome research proposals on topics related to the study of Eurasia. The Davis Center Postdoctoral Fellowship Program offers comprehensive research, training, and professional development opportunities for scholars advancing their careers in history and the humanities. Fellows pursue their research with support from an interdisciplinary community of experts, and with access to world-class resources.

Deadline for Applications: January 24, 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. 

The Harriman Institute invites applications for 2 two-year Mellon Teaching Fellow positions, extending over 2022-2023 and 2023-2024. Mellon Fellows are expected to concentrate on their own research and writing; to teach a course of their own design in the spring semester of each of the two years; to give a public seminar/lecture on their research and to be active participants in the Institute's scholarly community. The Institute provides opportunities to organize conferences and other public events around their particular interests.

Eligibility is restricted to those who have received the Ph.D. between January 1, 2020 and June 30, 2022 and do not hold a tenure-track position.

Applications are invited for the position of Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  The Stuart Ramsay Tompkins endowment provides for the University to invite scholars from the successor states of the Soviet Union to visit the Departments of History, Classics, and Religion and Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, so that “the body of the University and Canadians generally shall have the benefit of scholarship” from this region.