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The Calls section of PECOB collects information about calls that deal with Central Eastern and Balkan Europe. Each link below displays information on calls for applications, calls for conferences and calls for papers that fall within PECOB's sphere of activity. Browse the calls below to find out more about deadlines, requirements and other useful information.
Calls are listed according to their deadline. Those currently displayed on this page include a call for papers for a 2013 Congress on European crisis, calls for applications for various summer schools and master courses, a call for papers on the intersection of identities in Central Eastern Europe and a prize for the translation of russian poetry.
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The forthcoming issue of the academic journal History of Communism in Europe is Narratives of Legitimation in Totalitarian Regimes in the 20th Century Europe – Heroes, Villains, Intrigues and Outcomes. Twenty five years ago the grand narrative of European communism collapsed together with the Great Wall of Berlin, leaving in its wake an invitation for questions, analyses and startling revelations.
Debrecen Summer School in association with the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen (Hungary), Poznan University College of Business (Poland) and Emanuel University (Romania) launched a call for papers for the conference "Central Europe and the English Speaking World" that will take place in Debrecen in July 2014.
The Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki) and the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies, "Choices of Russian Modernisation" will hold the 14th Annual International Aleksanteri Conference on 22-24 October 2014 in Helsinki, Finland.
The Amsterdam Centre for the Study of Lived Religion invites proposals for articles for the volume Religious and Sexual Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. One of the prominent and fiercely contested issues in Eastern European societies regards the position of religion and homosexuality.
Take part in the 9th edition of International Symposium on „Social, Cultural, Ethnic, Religious Identities in Communism”. The Symposium will take place in Fagaras, Romania, between July 9th and 12th, 2014. Considering the specific interests and competences of the scholars, they are invited to take part in this event. In addition, the papers presented at the Symposium will be edited in a distinct volume.
This symposium seeks to gather researchers working on the social, economic, and cultural implications of changes in information technologies in the early modern period in Russia. Questions about the way information has been encoded, stored, distributed, exchanged and retrieved profoundly impact society at all levels.
The Sociology of Work Section of the Polish Sociological Association and the Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław in cooperation with the Students’ Circle for Social Initiatives, University of Wroclaw and the Wrocław Branch of the Polish Sociological Association invite paper proposals for the international conference „Social boundaries of work. Changes in the sphere of work in the 21st century capitalism”. The conference will take place at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław, on 14-15 November 2014.
The UACES Collaborative Research Network ‘Fringe Politics in Southeast Europe’ is organizing a workshop on the theme of "Fringe Politics in Southeastern Europe: Drivers of Change?" that will take place in Zagreb on September 12-13, 2014.
The Mission of the Republic of Azerbaijan to NATO launched an Essay Contest for papers on the theme of “Future of Azerbaijan-NATO relations”. The three winners of essay contest will have an opportunity to visit NATO HQ in Brussels and the essays will be published on the Journal dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of Azerbaijan - NATO relations.
Ohio State University is excited to announce the interdisciplinary conference, "Imagining Alternative Modernities: Interventions from the Balkans and South Asia", which will take place at The Ohio State University, Columbus, October 9-11, 2014. The conference completes and complements a series of interdisciplinary activities in 2013-14, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the John E. Sawyer Seminars on the Comparative Study of Cultures grant program.
LCC’s 2014 academic conference brings together scholars from Lithuania, across Europe and beyond, to present research, promote conversation, generate new questions, and rigorously reflect on the complex issues generated by the constellation of concepts: demographics, multiculturalism, citizenship.
University of Rome “La Sapienza” launches the call for papers for an international Conference in History and Political Science “The Great War. Analysis and Interpretation”, which will be held in Rome on June 19th - 20th, 2014.
As part of the 600th anniversary of Polish-Turkish relations the Department of Turkish Studies and Inner Asian Peoples of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw in cooperation with Warsaw Center of Yunus Emre Institute are organizing the Third International Congress of Turkology "600 Years of Polish-Turkish Relations – Research on Turkology Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, 25-27th June 2014.
The three organising institutions, the Lithuanian Institute of History (Vilnius), the Herder-Institut (Marburg), the Nordost-Institut (IKGN e.V., Lüneburg) launched a call for papers for their forthcoming conference " National Minorities in the Soviet bloc after 1945", which will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania in October 2014.
Politikon is the flagship publication of the International Association for Political Science Students. It publishes papers submitted by undergraduate and graduate students and it appears with a frequency of four times per year, with one issue out every three months. The abstracts of each issue of Politikon are indexed in the IPSA Annual International Political Science Abstracts.