Conferences and Calls for Papers

Conferences and Calls for Papers

BASEES Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge 28-30 March 2015

The BASEES 2015 Annual Conference will be held 28-30 March in 2015 and will be based as usual at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.  Building upon the increasing successes of past BASEES conferences the BASEES Annual Conference continues to attract scholars of Slavonic and East European Studies from a wide range of disciplines from across the world. …

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Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies 2015, Cambridge, UK, Period: March 28-30, 2015

Description Proposals are invited for panels, roundtables and papers for the 2015 Annual Conference of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES). The conference will be held 28-30 March and will be based at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The 2014 conference attracted more than 430 people and over 380 papers. Panels,…

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Call for Papers – Centrifugal Forces: Reading Russia’s Regional Identities and Initiatives – Charlottesville, USA, March 26-28, 2015

Description Contemporary Russia has been described as a “country of broken links,” where much of the financial and intellectual wealth of the country is centered in Moscow and Moscow Region (with a population of nearly 20 million), while the rest of the country (another 123 million people) remain unheard and underestimated. At first glance, Russia’s…

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International Conference on Baltic and Nordic Studies – Memoria et Cultura 2015 Historical memory, the politics of memory and cultural identity: Romania, Scandinavia and the Baltic, Constanta, Romania, May 22-23, 2015

The 6th International Conference of Nordic and Baltic Studies in Romania will be held at Ovidius University of Constanta, one of the most beautiful and culturally rich cities on the Black Sea coast. The university bears the name of the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso, who lived the last years of his life in Tomis,…

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Conference – Russian Formalism & Eastern and Central European Literary Theory: A Centenary View, Sheffield, UK, May 15-16, 2015

One of the most successful transnational European projects in the 20th century was Formalism and its heirs – Structuralism and, as some would argue, literary theory as such. Formalism profoundly affected intellectual trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences, well beyond literary analysis and linguistics. This conference will explore how the various local political, social…

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Conference – Serbia Round Table Dialogue 2015, Pristina, Kosovo, February 20-22, 2015

Description This is a diplomatic simulation for academics from all around the world, about the conflict between Kosovo and Serbia. From this Conference we’d like to achieve more peaceful diplomacy for next generations of Kosovo and Serbia’s youth. It will be held in two rounds, the first round will take place in Pristina (Kosovo) on…

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Call for Papers – Popular geopolitics in Russia and post-Soviet Eastern Europe, University College London, UK, Period: February 19-20, 2015

Description We call for papers for a workshop on ‘Popular geopolitics in Russia and post-Soviet Eastern Europe’, to be held at University College London on 19-20 February 2015. This workshop is intended to advance research into the societal or ‘popular’ dimension of geopolitics in Russia and post-Soviet Eastern Europe. Eligible topics Participants are invited to…

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Call for Papers – Contemporary Hungarian Studies Postgraduate Conference: Multidisciplinary European Perspectives, Glasgow, UK, Period: February 12-13, 2015

Description Hungary is a dynamic political and cultural space that has been in constant transformation since 1989, and where political developments since 2010 in particular have attracted considerable international attention. Although the country’s current political trajectory has already invited a great deal of commentary from within as well as beyond its borders, further critical analysis…

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“Entangled Transitions: Between Eastern and Southern Europe 1960s-2014” (8-10 December, 2014 — Leuven, Belgium)

In under two decades, authoritarian political systems collapsed across Europe – in the south of the continent in the 1970s, and then in the east between 1989 and 1991. Although much work has been done on these processes in each region, and comparative work carried out on post-authoritarian transitions and memories, there has yet to…

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CBEES Annual Conference: “Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe: A new generation on the move” (4-5 December, 2014 — Södertörn University, Sweden)

1989 is an important date in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. Since the collapse of state socialism this date has become a marker for a break in historical continuity and a starting point for a whole range of research on processes and developments labeled as ‘post-socialist’, in ‘transition’ or ‘transformation’. The point of…

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