CFP: Southern Conference for Slavic Studies

 Deadline: January 3, 2023

The 59th annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies will take place at the University of Florida on March 30–April 1, at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center (booking code embedded in link). The Curtiss Lecture (following Friday's banquet) will be delivered by Mark Galeotti, Honorary Professor of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies and author (most recently) of The Weaponization of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (Yale U.P., 2022). The title of Galeotti’s talk: “Putin's Russia and the struggle between autocracy, adhocracy and technocracy."

The deadline for panel and paper proposals is January 3, 2023. You can find all the information and links you’ll need at the SCSS Conference homepage. This includes the 

• Call for panel and paper proposals (deadline: Jan. 3)
• Conference hotel booking page (limited bookings at $179 per night)
• Conference registration page (includes banquet registration; early-bird rates end March 1)

and the 

• SCSS dues and membership page (conference participation requires current membership in the SCSS)

Finally, thanks to the generous support of the US Russia Foundation, University of Florida Russian Studies, in collaboration with University of South Florida’s Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies (IREES), this year’s SCSS Conference will feature a conference scholarship for participating students. Students planning on delivering a paper at this year’s Southern Conference may qualify for a stipend package that would cover two night’s lodging at the conference hotel,  the full cost of conference registration, and a ticket to the Friday evening banquet. For additional information, contact local organizers, Seth Bernstein (sbernstein@ufl.edu) or Michael Gorham (mgorham@ufl.edu).