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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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Proposals are invited for panels, roundtables and papers for the 2014 Annual Conference of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES). The conference especially welcomes participation by postgraduate research students and by young scholars.
The Sorbonne Cold War History Project, in partnership with the Gorbachev Foundation (Moscow) and the François Mitterrand Institute (Paris) launched a Call for Papers for the Conference "France, the USSR and the end of the Cold War, 1975-1991", taking place in Paris on January 23-25, 2014.
The Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe at the University of Leipzig and the University of Siegen launched a Call for Papers for the conference "Phantom borders and legal regionalism. The legal culture in post-imperial and post-national contexts in East Central Europe 1919 – 1945 – 1989", that will take place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in November 2013.
Södertörn University launched a call for papersfor its January 2014 Conference “Radical Left Wing Movements in the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe. The aim of the conference is to contribute to research on radical left wing movements in the Baltic region and Eastern Europe, by establishing contact between researchers studying these movements/activist environments. Sociologists, historians, political scientists, anthropologists, and scholars within other relevant academic disciplines with an interest in the field are invited to submit papers of original research.
The School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University College, London announced its 13th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe. The conference will take place in February 2014 and will discuss generational divides in Central and Eastern Europe.
The journal Feminist Media Studies launched a call for papers for "Mediating Post-Socialist Femininities" issue to be published in February 2015. Dr. Nadia Kaneva will be the guest editor for this special issue.
The issue will seek to provide a forum for innovative, feminist media scholarship on women’s experiences, struggles, and identities as they intersect with media production, distribution, and consumption in the post-socialist context. Research that explores gender and mediation in relation to the geographic regions of Central and Eastern Europe (including the Balkans) and the former Soviet Union is particularly welcome.
On September 26–28, 2013, the Centre for Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) will hold an international scientific conference called “Mythological models and ritual behaviour in the Soviet and post-Soviet sphere”.
The project “Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism” at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam is seeking additional contributions for a volume that will consist of original research by the project’s fellows and international academics.
Remembrance and Solidarity Studies in 20th Century European History is inviting articles for the upcoming special issue of the journal.
“Conceptualizing the Human in Slavic and Eurasian Culture” is an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to the changing concept of the human in Slavic and Eurasian culture.
The European Network Remembrance and Solidarity launched a call for papers for its conference "Legal Frames of Memory. Transitional Justice in Central and Eastern Europe", which will take place in Warsaw next November.