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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 Centre de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires Multilingues launched a call for papers for its upcoming conference "Paradise Found, or Paradise Lost? Nostalgia, Culture and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe". The conference aims to explore the many different forms nostalgia has taken in Central and Eastern Europe since in the last twenty years.
The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event since 2002 designed to provide undergraduate students, from the University of Pittsburgh and other colleges and universities, with advanced research experiences and opportunities to develop presentation skills.
This issue of The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies will be devoted to military journalism in the USSR, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) from concurrent historical, sociological and political points of view. It will examine the faces of tension and compromise between freedom of the press and constraints suitable for military journalism.
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University, the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät University of Innsbruck launched a call for papers for its upcoming conference "Climax or Beginning? Modernity, Culture, Central Europe and the Great War".
Vestnik, the Journal of Russian and Asian Studies, is the world's first online journal focused on showcasing student research. We welcome and invite papers written by undergraduates, graduates, and postgraduates. Research on any subject is accepted - politics, literature, art, history, linguistics, etc.
The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies launched the Call for Papers "Consumption in Transition: Material Cultures 1980 - 2000" for their 2014 Convention.
The organizers are pleased to announce the International Conference on "Soviet Film Studios at War, 1939-1949" which will take place in Moscow between June 12th and 13th 2014.
Following up on the success of the first Varieties of Russian Modernity Conference held at RANEPA June 7-9, 2013, we are pleased to announce that RANEPA’s Center for Russian Studies will be hosting a second international conference in the same vein on May 14-16, 2014.
The Centre for German Jewish Studies, University of Sussex launched a call for papers for its upcoming conference "The Jewish Experience of the First World War" which will take place in June 2014.
The Institute for Central Eastern and Balkan Europe announces an open call for papers to be published with an ISSN code. The Institute welcomes papers analyzing any topic related to the political economic, historical, social or cultural aspects of a specific country or region among the following: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine.
The workshop "Church and Clergy as a Social Group in Eighteenth- to Early Twentieth-Century Russia: Key Concepts and Models" will take place at the German Historical Institute in Moscow in connection with the research project “Semantics of the Social.”
With the workshop “Visible and Invisible Urban boundaries in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world from a comparative perspective” in Berlin from 22-23 May 2014, the organizers Ulrike Freitag, Nora Lafi and Florian Riedler would like to take a fresh look on the cities and towns of the Ottoman world in order to try and gain a better understanding of their social condition, their cultural and political life, as well as their own representation and image of themselves by focussing on their internal boundaries.
The journal Snodi. Public and private in contemporary history is pleased to announce a call for papers on "Dilemmas of political representation".
The scientific quarterly journal L'Europe en formation invites would-be contributors to submit papers for consideration in a forthcoming thematic issue on Facing new challenges: the European-Mediterranean relationship in the aftermath of the ‘Arab Spring’, to be published in Spring 2014.
Kerstin Stamm and Patrick Stoffel, art historian and literary theorist, respectively, are editing “Europe: A Case Study!” which will be published by Christian A. Bachmann to study Europe critically in every aspect.
The Global Citizen is now accepting submissions for its Volume I: Issue 2 publication to be published in January 2014.
The ASN Convention, the most attended international and inter-disciplinary scholarly gathering of its kind, welcomes proposals on a wide range of topics related to nationalism, ethnicity, ethnic conflict, and national identity in seven regional sections on Balkans, Central Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia, the Caucasus, and Turkey (Turkey/Greece/Cyprus), as well as the two cross-regional sections of Nationalism Studies and Migration & Diaspora.
The University of Birmingham invites papers for a 1-day postgraduate colloquium focusing on the history and memory of GDR politics, culture and society. The event will be held at the University of Birmingham on 10 January 2014 and is sponsored by the Institute for German Studies and the Graduate Centre for Europe
The panel 'Art as cultural diplomacy' seeks papers that explore the function of art (in its broadest definition) as an instrument of cultural diplomacy in Europe before and after the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Papers are welcome which explore issues related to the role of art, diplomacy and the politicization of the European Union and its candidate countries, as are those which consider how the arts have pursued or resisted East-West dichotomies and other narratives of alterity in Europe and worldwide.
The Youth Economic Forum is organized for young scientists, PhD students and university students by the Institute of Economic Studies, Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences and financed by the Government of the Republic of Karelia. The Forum will take place in Petrozavodsk (Russia), November 14-15, 2013.
Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” Skopje (Macedonia), Centre for Empirical Cultural Studies of South-East Europe (Serbia), Social Research Kosova (Kosovo) and Centre for Social Research “Analitika” (Bosnia-Herzegovina) are issuing a call for papers to be published in the volume “A Life for Tomorrow – Social Transformations in South-East Europe”. Priority will be given to papers presented at the “Lost in Transition” conference held on July 6th and 7th, 2013 in Skopje, but other submitted papers will also be given due consideration. The deadline for submissions is January 20th, 2014. Publication is expected by the end of June 2014.