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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 Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences invites you to participate in the international conference “Balkan and Baltic States in United Europe: History, Religion, Cultures II” which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria on the 1 – 3 October 2014.
The Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg, Germany, is soliciting papers for its forthcoming conference "Labor in East and Southeast Europe: Institutions and Practices Between Formality and Informality".
The Program in Comparative Literature and Theory, Slavic Languages and Literatures,and Slavics Without Borders of the University of Pennsylvania are soliciting papers for the forthcoming Graduate Student Colloquium “Russia, in Theory”.
The Faculty of Journalism and Political Science of the University of Warsaw launched a call for proposals for its conference “Nationalisms and State Consolidation in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe”, which will take place in Warsaw in May 2014.
An international conference on "The Cold War on Film: Then and Now" will be held at the German Historical Institute in Moscow, Russia, on 19-20 September 2014. The conference is supported by the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, and the German Historical Institute in Moscow.
The Eurasia Studies Society of Great Britain and Europe launched a Call for Papers for the forthcoming workshop "Social and economic development in Central Asia: Theory and practice", which will take place in London in January 2014.
The transdisciplinary electronic scholarly journal Sextures launched the call for papers "Muddied Masculinities in Central and Eastern Europe” . This special issue of Sextures seeks to expose how masculinities have evolved, merged, split, gained and lost hegemony, and been normalized in the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe.
Imre József Balázs and Tamás Scheibner launched a call for papers for their upcoming conferece "Transferring the Soviet New Man: Eastern and Central European Perspectives", which will take palce at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in June 2014.
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) is soliciting paper presentations on the theme of “Women, Gender, and Revolution in Slavic Studies” for its 6th Biennial Conference to be held on Thursday, April 10, 2014 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Atlanta, GA.
The not-for-profit organization Inter Alia launched the Call for Papers "An Agenda for the Western Balkans" in order to compose a Collective Volume on Western Balkans Politics & Society.
The Faculty of Architecture, Estonian Academy of Arts launched a call for papers for its upcoming conference "Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanizations: Architecture, Land and Property Rights".
Twenty years after the fall of the Soviet bloc, contested memories of Communism are being constantly reactivated by political and social actors in the former Eastern bloc. COST Action IS1203 "In search of transcultural memory in Europe (ISTME)" launched a Call for Papers on this theme for its upcoming workshop.
The University College London launched a Call for Papers for its forthcoming conference "Reverberations of the Second World War in Europe after 1945".
This is a call for papers for a cross-Centre post-graduate conference in Language-Based Area Studies, organized by the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW); the Centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies (CEELBAS); the Centre for Russian Central and East European Studies (CRCEES); and the White Rose East Asia Centre (WREAC).
Marina Antić and Jasmin Mujanović launched a Call for Papers called "And after Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia! New Histories & New Approaches" for a Planned volume on post-Yugoslav realities and nationalist historiography.
The Department of Medieval Studies at CEU invites proposals for papers by senior scholars and young academics alike for the two-day conference "A Forgotten Region? East Central Europe in the Global Middle Ages".
The 19th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore will take place at The University of Chicago in Chicago, IL, USA, April 25-27, 2014.
The European University at Saint Petersburg, together with Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Goznak” launched a Call for Papers for their upcoming conference "Subjectivities after Stalin: The Khrushchev and Brezhnev Eras" which will take place in Saint Petersburg in April 2014.