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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 academic program for the conference will be organised in the usual format of panels. Each panel should comprise four to five papers plus the chair. We welcome individual paper proposals and / or complete panel proposals as well.
The aim of this conference is to examine the legacies of these debates about photography and socialism as they developed from the late 1920s through to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In recent years there has been renewed academic interest in studying experiences of repression in the former communist bloc as scholars increasingly recognise the need to move beyond previously narrow definitions of communist ‘terror’ and ‘repression’ to reflect better its multifaceted political, ideological and socio-economic dimensions.
The fields of Holocaust and trauma studies have been dominated by material and testimonial-based evidence. While these forms of witness capture the concentration camp narrative and illuminate aspects of the catastrophe in Western Europe, the East remains underdeveloped in popular knowledge and scholarly discourse.
The purpose of the conference is to promote collaboration between native and foreign specialists in the spheres of Russian culture, history, sociology, literature, and the Russian language. The aim is to share pedagogical knowledge on the experience and activities of the Russian diaspora in Britain and other countries and continents, including its contribution to development of local societies
The Sixth Euroacademia International Conference 'Re-Inventing Eastern Europe' aims to make a case and to provide alternative views on the dynamics, persistence and manifestations of practices of alterity making that take place in Europe and broadly in the mental mappings of the world.
Transnational interchanges between Western Europe and Russia surrounded the October Revolution of 1917.
The Public Policy Department of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia invites applications for full-time, tenure-track positions of Assistant Professor inpublic policy and all subfieldsnotably in global political economy, global citizenship and participation, global public policy, comparative public policy, public policy analysis; public service, human rights, public health policy and education policy.Knowledge of Russian is not required as teaching and research are both conducted in English.
The Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine invites proposals for papers for an interdisciplinary conference called “A Century of Ukrainian Statehoods: 1917 and Beyond.” The conference will be held at the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto on March 24–25, 2017.