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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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Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University Young Researchers’ and SOYUZ (the Post-Communist Cultural Studies interest Group of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the official unit of the Association for Slavic, East European Studies and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)) launched the Call for Papers “The Topos of Justice”, for the homonymous conference which will take place February 28-March 1, 2014 at Miami University (Ohio).
The 2014 Conference on Baltic and Scandinavian Studies is hosted by Yale’s Baltic Studies Program and the European Studies Council at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.
Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, will hold an international cross-disciplinary workshop and a conference on Jews and Gentiles in East-Central Europe in the Twentieth Century on May 26–30, 2014 and on May 31 – June 1, 2014 respectively.
The Olympic Winter Games 2014 will take place in Sochi, southern Russia. They are high-intensity geopolitical events and they present a highly stimulating case study to analyze different ongoing trajectories in the Caucasus and Russia. Beyond the event itself, there are that deserve scrutiny and consideration.
The call for papers "Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union" seeks contributors to an edited volume on the gendered histories of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union during the twentieth century, aimed primarily at an undergraduate/taught postgraduate readership.
The International Committee of Historical Scienes (CISH/ICHS) will held a conference in Sarajevo in June 2014 about the First World War, the preliminary title being "From the Balkans to the World : Going to War (1914-1918). A Local and Global Perspective".
The International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and its Consequences, the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow), the German Historical Institute (Moscow) and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC) with additional support from a number of other institutions, are pleased to announce an international conference on Russia in the First World War to be held on 3-5 June 2014 in Moscow, Russia.