The ASP Distinguished Manuscript Award in Slavic Studies

 

Teaching Russian and Ukrainian History in the Shadow of War

Call for Submissions: Teaching Russian and Ukrainian History in the Shadow of War

The impact of Russia's war in Ukraine on the Slavic and East European Studies subject area has received much attention over the past four years. Most such discussions, however, have focused on the changing research environment, from declining archival access to debates over 'decolonization'. By contrast, the war's impact on teaching practice has received comparatively little attention. This lack of attention is problematic, since what students are taught about Russian and Ukrainian history has a major influence on how the war is understood and contextualized in wider society. 

To redress this balance, Revolutionary Russia intends to publish a symposium directly addressing the pedagogical problems posed by war for those who teach Russian, Soviet and Ukrainian history (especially that of the revolutionary period) in schools, colleges and universities. In particular, we are interested in exploring how these pedagogical challenges intersect with wider structural and systemic problems in the education sector (currently acutely felt within, but certainly not limited to, universities). Contributions should be short, in the region of 3-4,000 words, and would be especially welcome from those who teach in secondary and further education as well as in universities. 

A non-exhaustive list of possible topics might include:

• 'Decolonizing Russian studies' in the history classroom
• Russia, Ukraine, and the history textbook market
• Declining archival access and the research-to-teaching pipeline
• The impact of academic precarity on teaching practice in universities

For more information, or to propose a submission, please contact Ben Phillips (b.g.phillips@exeter.ac.uk) and Rob Dale (robert.dale@newcastle.ac.uk). Proposals for submissions should be received by 27 April 2026. 

Call for submissions: Teaching Russian and Ukrainian History in the Shadow of War

The impact of Russia’s war on Ukraine on the Slavic and East European Studies subject area has received much attention over the past four years. Most such discussions, however, have focused on the changing research environment, from declining archival access to debates over ‘decolonisation’. By contrast, the war’s impact on our teaching practice has received comparatively little attention. This lack of attention is problematic, since what students are taught about Russian and Ukrainian history has a major influence on how the war is understood and contextualised in wider society. 

To redress this balance, Revolutionary Russia intends to publish a symposium directly addressing the pedagogical problems posed by the war for those who teach Russian, Soviet and Ukrainian history (especially that of the revolutionary period) in schools, colleges and universities. In particular, we are interested in exploring how these pedagogical challenges intersect with wider structural and systemic problems in the education sector (currently acutely felt within, but certainly not limited to, universities). Contributions should be short, in the region of 3-4,000 words, and would be especially welcome from those who teach in secondary and further education as well as in universities. 

A non-exhaustive list of possible topics might include: 

• ‘Decolonising Russian studies’ in the history classroom
• Russia, Ukraine and the history textbook market
• Declining archival access and the research-to-teaching pipeline
• The impact of academic precarity on teaching practice in universities

For more information, or to propose a submission, please contact Ben Phillips (b.g.phillips@exeter.ac.uk) and Rob Dale (robert.dale@newcastle.ac.uk). Proposals for submissions should be received by 27 April 2026. 

Invitation to Publish – Thematic Issue of "Slavia Meridionalis"

On behalf of Stanislava Barać, we would like to warmly invite you to contribute to the thematic issue of Slavia Meridionalis entitled “Youth Movements, Subcultures and (New) Media.” The idea for this issue emerged from the social mobilization in Serbia in 2024–2025 and its impact on the cultural sphere and the academic community.

Please find the detailed call for papers attached. Details you can find also here: https://journals.ispan.edu.pl/index.php/sm/en/announcement 

Call for Submissions to Sj/SLS

Article submissions are now being accepted for the next issue of Slovenski jezik / Slovene Linguistic Studies, which will be published in fall 2026. The editors, Mija Michelizza, mija.michelizza@zrc-sazu.si, and Grant Lundberg, grant_lundberg@byu.edu, invite contributions on Slovene or topics of interest to Slovene linguistics. The articles will go through a double-blind peer-review process. All necessary information can be found on the journal website http://sjsls.byu.edu/. Submissions should be sent to either editor. Book reviews and other contributions will be arranged with them as well. Papers received before the end of February 2026 will be considered for the 2025 issue. The journal is published in both paper and electronic form.

Call for Chapters: Instructor Preparation in Russian Studies

Call for Proposals: Proposed edited volume on instructor preparation in Russian studies [Russian language and culture]. 

Working title: Russian Studies Instructor Preparation in a Changing World

Emil Asanov, Karen Evans-Romaine, and Jason Merrill, editors

Proposals due February 10, 2026

Literature on teacher education for World Languages, i.e., languages other than English, has focused on declining enrollments in teacher preparation programs at the undergraduate level (e.g., Burke & Ceo-DiFrancesco, 2021), teacher shortages (e.g., Swanson & Fischbach, 2025), and strategies to tackle these issues (e.g., Davis et al., 2022; Thompson & Morgan, 2023), all in the face of declining enrollments in language programs across the United States (Lusin et al., 2023). To address these challenges, scholars have suggested strengthening teacher preparation programs in World Languages by providing access to continuing professional development and responding to the needs of both diverse students and teachers alike (García et al., 2019). 

The field of Russian language pedagogy shares some challenges with other World Languages, while others are unique to our field: educators in Russian language and culture are reexamining what we teach by broadening and deepening our perspectives on the contexts and communities in which Russian is spoken, as well as who our students are and could be, through more inclusive materials and teaching practices (Dengub et al., eds., 2020; Evans-Romaine & Quinn, eds., 2023; Garza & Stauffer, eds., 2025). For this proposed volume, we invite teacher educators to address recent challenges by sharing their experiences and best practices in Russian language and culture instruction: for example, in teaching methods courses, teacher education curricula, and mentoring of instructors. We welcome research articles and submissions describing best practices from teacher educators throughout the world. 

Topics might include:

• Pedagogy and digital literacy in preparing new teachers
• AI in teacher training
• The place of pedagogy in graduate curricula
• Preparing teachers to work with the whole classroom, including learners of diverse backgrounds
• Preparing instructors for focusing on intercultural communicative competency
• Preparing instructors to teach literature or writing courses for general education 
• Recent theories in curriculum construction (for example, decentering Russia, translanguaging, anticolonial pedagogies) and teacher preparation
• New and innovative approaches to pedagogy and teaching Russian language and culture
• Methods courses 
• The linguistic preparation of graduate students and beginning instructors

All submissions must be no longer than 5000 words, including references and notes. 

Languages of Publication: English (with an abstract in Russian).

Submission Instructions: Those interested in contributing should submit the following to teacheredvolume@gmail.com as a single Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx) or .PDF file attachment by February 10, 2026:

• Author name(s) and affiliation(s);
• Proposed article title;
• 250-word overview/abstract;
• 50-word biography for each author.
  
  Please note: Abstract acceptance does not guarantee publication of the submitted manuscript. All manuscripts will be subject to a double-blind peer review process. 
  
  Timeline:
  
  February 10, 2026 - Submission deadline for 250-word abstracts and author bio/information.
  
  March 3, 2026   - Invitations to submit a full article sent.
  
  May 31, 2026 - Submission deadline for full-length manuscripts (up to 5,000 words, including References). Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the in-house style guidelines of the publisher. We are currently exploring different publishers to house this volume.
  
  Publication expected in 2027.
  
  We look forward to your submissions. Please send any questions about this project to the co-editors of the volume at teacheredvolume@gmail.com.

Call for Papers: Multilingual Literature in Conflict Zones

The Journal of Literary Multilingualism will publish a special issue devoted to Multilingual Literature in Conflict Zones, co-edited by Adrian Wanner and Marianna Deganutti. The call for papers is here: 

https://brill.com/view/journals/jlm/jlm-overview.xml?contents=editorialContent-133826  

Slavists are well-positioned to make meaningful contributions to this topic. For example, how has the Russian invasion of Ukraine affected the attitude of Ukrainian Russophone authors towards their native tongue? Other topics of interest include the literary consequences of the break-up of Yugoslavia and other conflicts. We also welcome book reviews, interviews, and short pieces of creative writing. Abstracts are due April 1, 2026, and complete articles by October 15, 2026.

CFP: Central Asia Research Cluster

Deadline: August 25, 2022

Knowledge Production and the Periphery Revisited: Decentering Cultural Heritage, Public Histories and Memory in Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia, 1917- Present

The Central Asia Research Cluster seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine the roots of knowledge production and preservation in Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia. The project recontextualizes cultural heritage, histories, and memory that illuminate and complicate the many layers of center-periphery relations at local, national, and regional levels. This cluster aims not only to focus on “peripheral” stories and archives in a geographical sense, but also to engage with the diversity of genealogies of thinking, remembering, performing, and producing knowledge in Central Asia.

 

All disciplines are welcome. Graduate students, emerging scholars, and scholars based in the region are especially encouraged to participate in the research cluster. The cluster organizers are committed to creating a supportive environment for all contributors. We have secured funding to provide limited support for translation and editing services. This transnational collaboration is further supported by two academic journals and a scholarly press.

 

Preliminary Stage

 

Through a blind review process, the Central Asia Research Cluster editorial board will evaluate abstracts for appropriateness and overall suitability of the proposal to the unifying conceptual framework of this project. Prospective authors will be notified in mid-September.

 

Manuscript Submission and Review Process

 

The manuscripts created for this project can either be co-published, or submitted by individual researchers. Only original research that has not previously been published will be considered. Each manuscript will be evaluated through the normal review processes of Slavic Review and Slavic & East European Information Resources to see whether it is acceptable for publication on its own merits. Articles not selected by Slavic Review and Slavic & East European Information Resources to be part of the cluster issues will undergo a separate review process performed by the Central Asia Research Cluster editorial board and upon selection, be published as part of a collective monograph.

 

Article manuscripts should highlight the conceptual impact and analytic and interpretative themes of the work. Manuscripts should be around 8,000 words. Footnotes may additionally make up about 3,000 additional words. Manuscripts must be 3,500 words at minimum; submitting a manuscript much shorter than 8,000 words, however, will limit possible avenues for publication. Authors specifically hoping to submit to Slavic Review should aim to write 8,000 words of body text and 3,000 words of footnotes (around 11,000 words total).

Abstracts (250 words) with a short bio must be submitted by August 25, 2022, to the cluster organizers (centralasiaresearchcluster@gmail.com). In addition, please indicate the language you will be using to write the manuscript. In order to foster collaboration, we are accepting abstracts in English and Russian. We welcome submissions from authors based in any country. Those abstracts given the green light must be developed into papers by January 31, 2023. 

CFS: All the Russias Graduate Student Essay Competition

Deadline: April 18, 2022

The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and All the Russias are pleased to announce the third annual Graduate Student Essay Competition. Enter for a chance to get published on the blog and win cash prizes.

We invite 750-1200 word submissions from full- or part-time M.A. and Ph.D. students from any accredited academic institution in the United States, on any topic and sub-discipline within Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, broadly defined.

Cultural criticism; public-facing treatments of scholarly work; political analysis; book, film, or event reviews; and more are welcome.

All submissions must be in English and observe the blog’s submission guidelines and full competition rules.

Essays are due no later than Monday, 18 April 2022, at 11:59 PM EST and must be submitted via this Google form.

Seven winners will be selected based on the originality, clarity, and argumentation of their essays, as well as general fit with the blog’s tone and interests as reflected in the submission guidelines linked above. This year, we will select three Grand Prize winners representing the disciplines of history, cultural studies, and the social sciences, each of whom will receive a $500 prize. Four additional Judges’ Choice submissions will receive $200 each. All winners will have their essays published in All the Russias.

Competition results will be announced by Summer 2022.

Please direct any questions to alltherussias@gmail.com.

CFS/CFP: 2023 International Congress of Slavists

Deadline: March 15, 2022

Further details at https://linguistics.uoregon.edu/sites/linguistics1.uoregon.edu/files/acs_call_for_papers.2023.final_.pdf

The American Committee of Slavists (ACS) hereby issues a call for papers for the XVIIth International Congress of Slavists in Paris, France, August 28 — September 1, 2023, to determine the composition of the American delegation. *Please read carefully, since the eligibility criteria and requirements have changed significantly since the last Congress.* 

1. Eligibility. To be considered, an applicant must, without exception, have a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline in hand by March 15, 2022, the deadline date for the submission of abstracts. It is no longer required by the ACS that applicants hold regular positions at academic institutions, but all applicants should be either resident in the U.S. or affiliated with, or hold a PhD from, a U.S. institution. 2. Application. Qualified applicants must submit (a) their current c.v. and (b) an abstract of their paper, roundtable, or poster proposal in PDF format, maximum 1,000 characters in length including spaces, by **March 15, 2022,** to the ACS Secretary, Daniel Collins, by e-mail at collins.232@osu.edu. This is a FIRM deadline. The cover email text must provide the applicant’s name, the academic institution that they are affiliated with or hold a PhD from, and the title of the presentation. Applicants are advised to follow instructions carefully in the preparation of abstracts (see point 5, Preparation of Abstracts, below). Incorrectly written or formatted abstracts will not be considered. Preference will be given to papers that are broadly comparative in nature. For templates and further details on abstract requirements and roundtable proposals, see also the International Committee of Slavists webpage: https://mksparis.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/10. 

3. Paper publication. Beginning with this Congress, the International Committee of Slavists is no longer requiring publication of papers before the Congress itself. There will be no U.S. delegation volumes anymore, and no subvention/application fees. While publication of the Congress paper is permitted before the 2023 Congress, all accepted applicants are expected to publish their 2023 Congress papers independently at any point before the submission deadline for the following International Congress, preferably in a peer-reviewed journal, and to submit a copy of the publication to the ACS. The ACS may deem an applicant ineligible for the next Congress if that applicant has not supplied it with a publication copy of the paper before then. There is no independent publication requirement for roundtable and poster proposals. 

4. Paper and poster summaries. Accepted applicants will also be required to submit to the ACS a year later, by March 15, 2023, four months before the Paris Congress, either a copy of a publication of their Congress paper, if they already have one, or a summary of their paper, two to five pages in length (a page constituting 1800 characters, including spaces). For posters, the summary should be a paragraph-length description. The summaries will be vetted and edited by the ACS paper reviewers in order to conform to the requirements of the International Committee of Slavists, and will be posted on the Congress website. A template for the summaries will be provided later by the Congress organizers on the ICS website. 

5. Preparation of abstracts. The application abstract that is due on March 15, 2022 must be written in English or a Slavic language and be a maximum of 1,000 characters in length, including spaces, single-spaced. The applicant’s name must not appear on the abstract itself. Any references should be incorporated into the text; there should be no footnotes. The application abstract to the ACS may be in English or one of the other accepted Congress languages (see section 6 below). 

6. Language of presentation and of summaries. The two- to five-page summary of the Congress presentation (due March 15, 2023, a year later) must be in the same language as the oral presentation or poster. All Slavic languages, English, German, and French are the languages accepted by the International Committee of Slavists for the summaries, presentations and posters. 

CFS: International 5-minute video competition: Dostoevsky's "Бесы"

DEADLINE: December 20, 2021 

In honor of the Dostoevsky Bicentennial, the 150th anniversary of the novel «Бесы» 

(Demons, Devils or The Possessed), and the 50th anniversary of the International 

Dostoevsky Society (IDS), the IDS announces an international competition of 

5-minute videos relating to the novel. 

The grand prize is a free trip to the XVIII Symposium of the IDS, Nagoya, Japan, 4-8 March 2022. 
 
The deadline is December 20, 2021. 
 
All details and the submission form can be found at the IDS/NADS website: https://dostoevsky.org/
 
Carol Apollonio, Duke University
President, International Dostoevsky Society

CFP: Russian as a Foreign Language: Dynamic Teaching for Dynamic Times

Deadline: May 19, 2021

Russian as a Foreign Language: Dynamic Teaching for Dynamic Times

Do you teach Russian as a foreign, second, or heritage language? Do you employ fun and engaging strategies instead of or in addition to a textbook that have your students beg for more Russian? Please consider submitting a proposal for a chapter or a case study in the edited volume Russian as a Foreign Language: Dynamic Teaching for Dynamic Times. We would like to hear from various fields and backgrounds of Russian language instruction. Language of publication: English; 1,500 to 5,000 words + references and appendices.

We are equally interested in theory-heavy explorations and submissions that focus on teaching experience for the Case Study practice-oriented part. International teams of co-authors are especially encouraged: please consider reaching out to a colleague outside of your country.  

Submit proposals to the editor Svetlana Nuss, University of Alaska, via https://forms.gle/mSVjwczC9AN3mBPG6

Proposal requirements: up to 500-word expression of interest, outlining main arguments and methodology, if applicable. 

Timeline:

• Up to 500-word expression of interest due: May 19, 2021
• Notification of acceptance to proceed to chapter/case stage: May 25, 2021
• First draft of chapters/case studies due: July 1, 2021
• Revisions and peer review: draft of chapters/case studies due: July to September, 2021
• Final manuscripts due: mid-October of 2021
• Publication: Spring of 2022
• Case-study submissions follow the same timeline and same general requirements

CFS: Edited Volume on "Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context" (2023)

Deadline: March 31, 2021

Scholars with relevant expertise are invited to submit essays for a new edited volume on the global translation and reception of Russian literary fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. "Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context" (2023) is intended to constitute the first geographically coherent, culturally inclusive, and theoretically consistent model of the distribution and influence of translated Russian literature on global cultures from 1900 to the present day. The editors seek articles of up to 8,000 words on aspects of the history and influence of Russian literature in translation in different cultures for an Open Access publication funded by the European Research Council in association with the University of Exeter RusTrans project (Grant Agreement no. 802437). Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words, excluding bibliography, to the editors (Dr Muireann Maguire and Dr Cathy McAteer) at rustrans@exeter.ac.uk, by March 31st, 2021.

For more information on this call, please visit our website: http://rustrans.exeter.ac.uk/translation-archive/translating-russian-literature-in-the-global-context/.

CFS: Publishing Opportunity in Russea (UdSU)

Deadline: Not specified

Greeting from the editing board of the Russian journal "Vestnik of the Udmurt University. Sociology. Political Science. International Relations". We are very happy to announce that we are accepting new articles for publication in our Spring issue. The editorial board of the Academic Journal “Vestnik of Udmurt State University: Sociology, Political Science, International Relations” aims at further development of its international cooperation with foreign institutions, provides support for outstanding projects, and invites scholars for collaboration. Please note that we accept manuscripts written both in English and Russian. We currently have 18 foreign experts from Europe and US who publish with us, and we look forward to expanding our pool of authors. We also welcome articles from graduate students of foreign and domestic universities.

About the Journal 

The Russian journal "Vestnik of the Udmurt University. Sociology. Political Science. International Relations" publishes original theoretical and applied scientific works in three research areas. The editorial board of the Journal is represented by 29 Russian scholars and 18 foreign researchers from the USA, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, and Belgium. In order to be accepted for the publication, the article needs to be approved by the editorial board and must contain new findings. 

Preferred research areas include:

• Theory and methodology of general sociology
• Sectoral sociological theories
• Applied sociology
• Comparative sociological, interregional, and cross-cultural research
• Theoretical models of political development, change, modernization, transit, progress and regress in politics
• Fundamental, medium and applied levels of policy research
• Interdisciplinary and comparative studies in political science
• Development of political science in different countries and regions
• History of international relations and foreign policy
• Political issues in international relations
• Central issues of geopolitical dynamics
• National interests and globalization
• Features of international conflicts of our time
• Expanding cooperation as a factor in stabilizing international relations.
• Demography and cultural anthropology
• Social psychology
• Modern history

We publish articles both in Russian and English.

The founders of the Journal include: The researchers of the Center for Family and

Demography of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan, RF),

The School of Earth, Geography and Environmental Sciences of the University of

Birmingham (Birmingham, Great Britain), the laboratory of the Federal Research

Center for Medico-Prophylactic Technologies (Perm, the Russian Federation), the

Department for the Study of Political Institutions and Processes of the Perm

Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Perm,

Russia), the Udmurt Branch of the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Urals

Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Izhevsk, Russia ) and etc.

The journal does not require payment for the publication of articles. Access to articles

is also free.

The Journal is published four times a year - quarterly. Articles can be submitted at

any time.

Address:

Udmurt State University, INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY

Dr. Vladimir R. Zolotykh (Deputy Chief Editor)

Universitetskaya St., 1. Building 2.

Izhevsk, Russia

426034

You can contact us with questions or submit your article via email:

vladzolot@mail.ru

vladzolot1@yahoo.com

http://journals.udsu.ru/sociology/issue/archive

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions!

For Reference:

• E-Library: https://elibrary.ru/title_about.asp?id=64269
• ISSN (Printed version): 2587-9030
• ISSN (Electronic version): 2587-6163
• Wed (English): http://en.sociology.vestnik.udsu.ru/
• Previous Issues: http://en.sociology.vestnik.udsu.ru/archive

CFP: Steel Strings and Iron Curtains

Deadline: Rolling

In light of the 30th anniversary of the end of the Cold War, Plamen Press (https://plamenpress.com)  is creating a platform/blog “Steel Strings and Iron Curtains”. Scholars and literary translators are encouraged here to contribute to presenting the significance of the music sub-culture that was influential during the years leading to the collapse of Communism in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. We are looking for topics about singer/songwriters such as Vladimir Vysotsky, Bulat Okudzhava, Karel Kryl, Jaromir Nohavica, Djordje Belashevic or the booming Ex-Yugoslav Rock influence of Bjelo Dugme, Riblja Chorba . We would prefer articles that have not yet been published and that preset an in-depth analysis of the sub-culture of that era.  

Literary translators, we are looking for translations of song lyrics that relate to this period. The translations must be artistic. Our goal is to present translations that can be sung in English to the original melodies.

We published our first posting: a translation of Jaromir Nohavica’s the Wastrel / Darmoděj.

Please take a look at our new platform at

https://plamenpress.com/category/steel-strings-and-iron-curtains/

Submission can be uploaded at https://plamenpress.com/steel-strings-and-iron-curtains-submissions/

Call for Submissions: Russia and Politics issue of MATTER

Deadline: May 14, 2019 

Essay is for a special July issue of the political journal Matter on Russia and politics - here is the call:

Russia, the American mirror - serfs and slaves, manifest destiny, nationalism, strongmen at the helm; LGBT outlawed, racisms, religiosities, and misogynies enthroned. Pushkin to Pussy Riot, how do we engage Russia and her dead Kareninas, her poetry, her dissent? How does Russia affect us? What is our shared history and politics, the literature of our culture wars? Collude with us with your submissions of poetry and poetry in translation, short essays by May 14.

Contact Larissa at Larissa@LarissaShmailo.com.

CFP: Женщина в российском обществе (Woman in Russian Society) Journal

Deadline: ASAP

 The Editorial Board of the Russian academic journal "Женщина в российском обществе" (Woman in Russian Society) invites international scholars to join leading Russian scholars in submitting high quality articles for publication in the area of gender studies. Published four times a year since 1996 by Ivanovo State University, the journal has since 2017 been included in SCOPUS, the largest data bank of peer reviewed literature. The journal serves as a major force for scholarship on gender approaches to research methodology, gender pedagogy, social policy, history, family relations, political science, economics and culture. PhD students as well as young scholars and distinguished academics are encouraged to submit their research for consideration. 

Submissions to the journal can be in English and will be printed in English. The journal publishes articles free of charge.

 For more information, see womaninrussiansociety.ru 

CFS: Soyuz Article Prize Annual Competition

Deadline: October 25, 2018

The SOYUZ Post-socialist Studies Network announces its annual competition for the best article related to the culture, history, politics of post-socialism by a junior scholar. This prize recognizes significant contributions to the advancement of scholarly understandings of post-socialism, broadly defined.

Articles published in 2017 and 2018 by a scholar who has earned a PhD within the past six years (2012 or later) are eligible. Scholars from any discipline with any geographic area of interest are encouraged to apply.

Submissions should be sent electronically to Kathryn Graber at graberk@indiana.edu no later than October 25.

Please include "Soyuz Article Prize" in the subject line.

CFS: All the Russias, the official blog of NYU’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia

As we gear up for the new academic year, All the Russias, the official blog of NYU’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, is accepting submissions. We welcome short pitches and/or completed drafts of 500-1200 words on any topic relating to Russian, East European, and Eurasian politics and culture. 

Pieces may belong to any number of different genres, including, but not limited to,

• Cultural criticism 
• Political analysis 
• Reviews of recently released or upcoming films or books, fictional or non-; ongoing or upcoming exhibitions, performances, or events 
• Exposés of recent research within Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, broadly defined 
• Essays on disciplinary matters
• “Explainers” offering insight into perplexing contemporary cultural phenomena or current events 

Please send ≤200-word proposals/ pitches (in the body of your email) or 500-1200-word drafts (as .docx’s or Google Drive attachments) to Maya Vinokour at alltherussias@gmail.com, along with a one-line bio (including a hyperlink to your webpage, if applicable). For detailed submission and style guidelines, please see this page. We’re excited to read your submissions!

CFS: Colloquium at the Udmurt State University: Izhevsk, Russia

Deadline: November 1, 2018

The Institute of History and Sociology of the Udmurt State University will hold a series of events during the "Mayer Week" on December 10-14 2018, dedicated to the 100th birthday anniversary of the scholar of medieval studies, Professor Wilhelm (Vasily) Evgen'evich Mayer (1918-1985).

The following events will be held within the framework of the "Mayer Week”:

- Presentation of the book "V.E. Mayer. Selected Works "and the latest publications on V.E. Mayer and his work

- Scientific colloquium "Matters of the scientific heritage of Professor V.E. Mayer and the teaching of the history and culture of the Middle Ages" (with the publication of materials)

- Web conference on the matters of world history with the participation of Professor Goettingen University (Göttingen, Germany) Martina Tamke

- Exhibition "100th anniversary of Professor V.E. Mayer " in the Scientific-Educational and Exposition Center of UdSU

- An exhibition of documents from the personal fund of Professor V.E. Mayer in the SCU "Center for Documentation of the Modern History of the Udmurt Republic"

- Republican Scientific and Practical Conference of university and high school students "Mayer Readings"

- High school students creative competition of research works dedicated to the fields of "History and culture of the Middle Ages" and "Local History"

- Presentation of the scientific theater "German walks ..."

We would like to extend an invitation to participate in “Mayer Week” to students of Prof. Mayer, researchers of medieval Germany and Europe, scholars studying the history of Russians of German descent. We welcome a participation of academic scholars, professors, museum and library employees, teachers of history and social sciences and high school students interested in this topic.

Participation can be in-person or without presence by pre-submitting the text and presentation materials.

As an outcome of the scientific colloquium, we will publish presented material online. Texts of up to 20,000 characters must contain the UDC code, title, abstract (up to 100 words), keywords (up to 10) - in Russian, English or German, footnotes, and at the end of the list - bibliography listed alphabetically.


Applications for participation in the "Mayer Week" (with the first name, last name, place of work, occupation, contact addresses, title of the presentation (if available) and materials for publication) must be submitted by November 1, 2018 to: UdSU, Institute of History and Sociology. Call with questions: +7 -3412-72-84-80. Submit to: history@udsu.ru or iis-nauka@mail.ru and include "Mayer's Week" in a subject line.