American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

Calls for Papers and Articles for Slavic, Russian, Eurasian, and East European Scholars

The listings below include calls for papers for various meetings and conferences related (sometimes loosely) to Slavic, Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies as well as calls for articles for publication.

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Joint PhD Symposium on South East Europe
Call for Papers
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, June 18, 2010
deadline: February 12, 2010

4th International Conference “Iberian and Slavonic Cultures in Contact and Comparison: Res Publica(s)”
Call for Papers
Lisbon, Portugal, May 13-15, 2010
deadline: February 15, 2010

The Romanian Association for American Studies and The Fulbright Commission Conference "The American Tradition of Descent/Dissent: The Underground, the Countercultural, the (Anti)Utopian"
Call for Papers
Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania, October 7-9, 2010
deadline: March 15, 2010

Seventh Annual Session of the Warsaw East European Conference
Call for Papers
Warsaw, Poland, 12-15, 2010
deadline: April 15, 2010

International Workshop "The Baltic Sea Region and the Cold War"
Call for Papers
Tartu, Estonia, November 27-28, 2010
deadline: May 1, 2010

On the Jewish Street/Na Evreiskoi Ulitse: A Journal of Russian-Jewish History and Culture
Call for Submissions
deadline: August 15, 2010

University of Rochester Press
Call for manuscripts for the Rochester Studies in East/Central Europe
deadline: ongoing

Joint PhD Symposium on South East Europe

Organizers of a Joint PhD Symposium on South East Europe - Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths Centre for South East European Studies, SSEES, UCL, and LSEE-Research on South East Europe, European Institute, LSE, invite submissions for a PhD symposium on modern and contemporary South East Europe. A main objective of the symposium is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas between young scholars currently undertaking research on the region. It is also intended to help graduate-level research students to overcome the academic isolation associated with PhD research, to 'try' their ideas and findings on wider audiences, and to establish new collaborative links across disciplines. Researchers will also be able to 'engage' with a wider academic community, including academic members of staff at the three institutions, and also a number of other distinguished scholars who will be involved with the symposium.

Organizers welcome contributions from research students focusing on the countries of the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Moldova, Romania and Turkey and working in the following disciplines:

Abstracts of 1000 words maximum must be submitted via the 'paper proposal' form. Abstracts should indicate the academic significance of the topic, relevance of conceptual literature, and analytical structure. It should also include six key words. In addition to the 'paper proposal' form, applicants will be expected to provide a short statement of support from their supervisor (no more than 300 words). This should be sent by the supervisor directly to the same e-mail address. The deadline for the submission of the 'paper proposal' forms is Friday, 12 February 2010. The 'paper proposal' form can be downloaded from: www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/Research/LSEE/PhDSymposium/Home.aspx

For further information please contact: Ivan Kovanovic, Administrator, LSEE-Research on South East Europe, E-mail: Euroinst.Lsee.Symposium@lse.ac.uk.

4th International Conference “Iberian and Slavonic Cultures in Contact and Comparison: Res Publica(s)”

The 4th International Conference “Iberian and Slavonic Cultures in Contact and Comparison: Res Publica(s)” will be held between 13 and 15 May 2010 at the University of Lisbon and will be truly international in its outlook, while at the same time drawing on Portugal’s rich republican experience. It intends to promote an Iberian-Slavonic debate on the differing republican concepts and traditions, as well as the corresponding cultural imprints.

The conference will constitute the central event of the 4th Week of the Iberian-Slavonic Cultural Cooperation organized at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon (10 - 17 May 2010). During this week the General Assembly of the International Society for Iberian-Slavonic Studies – CompaRes will also be held. Full call for papers and the registration form are available at the CompaRes website: http://www.iberian-slavonic.org/conferences.htm.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 15, 2010.

The Romanian Association for American Studies and The Fulbright Commission Conference "The American Tradition of Descent/Dissent: The Underground, the Countercultural, the (Anti)Utopian"

The Romanian Association for American Studies and The Fulbright Commission invite interested scholars to attend the 2010 RAAS – Fulbright Conference "The American Tradition of Descent/Dissent: The Underground, the Countercultural, the (Anti)Utopian" to take place October 7-9, 2010 at Ovidius University in Constanta

The topic of this conference aims at reflecting the contemporary atmosphere of dissent in the United States at a time when the economic, the social, the political and the cultural give rise to underground, countercultural and (anti)utopian movements and positions in the United States of America in perfect correlation with the tradition that has marked their descent from the colonial period to the present. Dissent often emerges from reinvestigating, reanalyzing and descending into the intricacies of fundamental issues that have long been left untouched. The conference offers space for papers and debates on the broader repercussions of the American tradition of descent/dissent in all the acceptations of these terms from an interdisciplinary perspective (literature, literary theory, history, anthropology, sociology, psychology, imagology, the history of ideas, cultural studies, geography, political sciences, film studies and other associated fields and disciplines).

Proposals for 20-minute papers should be submitted by March 15, 2010 in the form of an abstract of 150-200 words. As each paper will be followed by 10-minute discussions, participants are kindly asked to limit the presentation to their time-slot. Those interested in proposing a panel discussion should submit the title and the names of at least three other academics who will participate in the talk.

If you are interested in participating, please fill in the registration form attached separately to this message and return it to Ludmila Martanovschi, RAAS Secretary, Ileana Jitaru, RAAS Treasurer, and Nicoleta Stanca at the following e-mail address: raas.conference@yahoo.com.

Seventh Annual Session of the Warsaw East European Conference

The Centre for East European Studies of the University of Warsaw (Studium Europy Wschodniej), organizer of the Warsaw East European Conference, Seventh Annual Session, to be held in Warsaw, July 15-18, invites paper proposals. The purpose and the main subject of the Seventh Warsaw East European Conference is an attempt to answer the question: "Where are we now? Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Countries over the Past Twenty Years."

The deadline for submission of proposals is April 15, 2010. For more information, visit: www.studium.uw.edu.pl.

International Workshop "The Baltic Sea Region and the Cold War"

The historiography of the Cold War circles usually around the great players and the major events and developments. The Baltic Sea region seemed to play only a peripheral role in this context. Nevertheless, the last 20 years saw a blossoming of national approaches to the history of this region. In the light of new research in recently opened archives, it turns out that the role of the region before and during the Cold War was more diverse and probably more important than previously expected. The impact of the Cold War even on so-called neutral countries was obviously larger than thought. The workshop aims at bringing together scholars and PhD-students working on the history of the region during the Cold War and to overcome the isolation of national historiography.

Fields to be covered might be:

A preliminary version of the paper should be distributed to all participants in advance. During the workshop the major themes of the paper should be presented in 20 minutes. Time will be left for extensive discussion. It is the intent of the organizers of the workshop to publish the final versions of the papers afterwards. The workshop will be held at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Board and accommodation and part of the travel expenses will be covered for all paper presenters. We encourage especially PhD-students to propose papers. The workshop is organized by the Institute of History and Archeology of the University of Tartu, Estonia, and supported by the Nordic and North/Central European Network of Cold War Researchers, the target financed project "Estonia in the Era of the Cold War" and the project "Baltic Regionalism: Constructing Political Space(s) in Northern Europe, 1800-2000."

Please send your proposal for a paper (250-300 words) and a short CV no later than May 1, 2010, by e-mail, to the organizer Dr Olaf Mertelsmann (omertelsmann@yahoo.co.uk).

On the Jewish Street/Na Evreiskoi Ulitse: A Journal of Russian-Jewish History and Culture

On the Jewish Street/Na Evreiskoi Ulitse:  A Journal of Russian-Jewish History and Culture, a new peer-reviewed journal to be published byCharles Schlacks Jr Publishers, is now accepting submissions for its Fall 2010 issue. Deadline: August 15, 2010.

The theme for the 2010 issue is “The State of the Field.”

We invite submissions of Bibliographies, Bibliographic Essays, Historiographic Essays and Collection Review Essays that examine the state of research and/or research materials on any aspect of Russian-Jewish History and Culture.

Please direct all inquiries regarding submissions to: Michael C. Hickey (editor), mhickey@bloomu.edu

University of Rochester Press; call for manuscripts for the Rochester Studies in East/Central Europe

The University of Rochester Press is accepting manuscripts for its publication series entitled Rochester Studies in East/Central Europe.

rofessor Timothy Snyder, Professor of History at Yale University, serves as series editor, and is assisted by a panel of scholars from a variety of institutions. The editorial board seeks new projects and formats ranging from monographs to edited volumes representing myriad points of view.

The series encompasses contemporary and historical works relating to all areas of East and Central Europe including the territory of the former Habsburg Empire, the western Soviet Republics and their successor states, and the Balkans. We seek manuscripts of original historical synthesis on a variety of subjects, and would especially welcome works that cross traditional disciplinary, geographic, and period boundaries (for example on the Ottoman Empire in Southeastern Europe, or the Central European diaspora in Latin America). We will consider works of literature in translation and historical memoir, in both cases only when English language rights are available.

To submit an appropriate project for consideration, please send a formal proposal or prospectus. The proposal should include:
1) a brief but detailed synopsis of the work, outlining its intended contribution to the existing literature;
2) an abstract of 300 words or less, summarizing the work’s content;
3) a complete table of contents and one or two sample chapters;
4) an updated CV.

Scholars interested in submitting their work for consideration should request a proposal form from the press editor: guiod@uofrochesterpresss.net