CFA: National Centre for Writing - Emerging Translator Mentorships

Deadline: August 31, 2021

Dear Fellow Translators,

Many/most of you will have graduated beyond the stage of "emerging", but you may nonetheless be interested to know that the Emerging Translator Mentorships hosted by NCW are now open for applications until 31 August, midnight.

This year's mentorships are:

• Italian (mentored by Howard Curtis)
• Japanese (mentored by Juliet Winters Carpenter)
• Korean (mentored by Anton Hur)
• Latvian (mentored by Kaija Straumanis)
• Norwegian (mentored by Kari Dickson)
• Polish (mentored by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
• Russian (mentored by Oliver Ready)
• Swiss German (mentored by Jamie Lee Searle)
• 2 x Visible Communities Mentorships: one mentorship for a UK-based Black or Brown literary translator and one for a UK-based literary translator from the diaspora, heritage or community languages of the UK(mentored by either Meena Kandasamy or Sawad Hussain)
• British Centre for Literary Translation and British Council Mentorship: one mentorship for a literary translator currently resident in a country on the OECD list of countries qualifying for Official Development Assistance, or (in the case of refugees or asylum-seekers from ODA-eligible countries) who has been resident in their destination country for 12 months or fewer (mentored by Canan Marasligil). Two runners-up will receive two digital mentoring sessions each (mentored by Ros Schwartz)

 Here is the link with all the info: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/emerging-translator-mentorships/apply-now-2/

CFA: Deadline Extension - American Councils Fall 2021 Online Programs

Deadline: August 31, 2021

American Councils for International Education is accepting applications for its Fall 2021 online language programs on a rolling basis through August 31st. For more information, please visit www.studyabroad.americancouncils.org. 

We are offering both a part-time and full-time track for the following semester language immersion programs: 

·       Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program 

·       Balkan Language Initiative 

·       Eurasian Regional Language Program 

 

Generous financial aid is available on all study abroad programs.

CFP: UK Czechoslovak Studies Network - Reimagining ‘The Heart of Europe’

Deadline: August 8, 2021

UK CZECHOSLOVAK STUDIES NETWORK CALL FOR PAPERS

Reimagining ‘The Heart of Europe’

Inaugural Conference of the UK Czechoslovak Studies Network, Friday 17th September 2021, University of Oxford (online and in- person pending COVID-19 restrictions)

The conference aims to be a space for new voices and identify fruitful areas of new research focusing on the Czech and Slovak region, in any of its past and present shapes, alongside all its peoples and cultures within and beyond its borders.

The day will bring together researchers on the region to discuss current projects, establish connections, and spotlight areas for collaboration. We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers from researchers of all disciplines within the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Potential topics could include, but are not limited to, the following overlapping topics:

• Insiders & Outsiders - this topic might encompass ideas of self-perception, class, gender, diaspora, emigration and otherness
• Space & Place - this could include research on national space, ethnic tensions, border tensions, landscape, cityscapes, and urban bodies
• Temporality – research may focus on regional time culture, ideas of modernity, tradition, and folk culture
• Power – the concept of nationalism, relationship with central powers, notions of the centre and periphery

All proposals should include a title, an abstract of no more than 250 words, and a brief speaker biography of no more than 150 words. They should be submitted to jana.hunter@history.ox.ac.uk and dylan.price@music.ox.ac.uk by no later than 8th August 2021. You will know the outcome of your submission by the 15th August 2021. All other attendees may sign up for the conference by 10th September 2021.

Please address any questions to jana.hunter@history.ox.ac.uk and dylan.price@music.ox.ac.uk.

We look forward to your papers.

Jana Hunter and Dylan Price University of Oxford

This conference is generously supported by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH).

[SEELANGS] The last chance to join 2021 Fall semester in-person study abroad programs

Deadline: August 1, 2021

This is the final call for applications to 2021 Fall semester in-person study abroad programs provided by “Learn Russian in the European Union” and hosted at Daugavpils University, Latvia.
The official pre-booking deadline is July 26, but we will accept applications referencing this SEELANGS offer until August 1.

As the situation in Latvia has almost returned to normal, our programs will resume in full swing.

The following customized programs are available to Russian majors and students who are not majoring in Russian, but study the language:
    - Russian Language, Literature, and Culture;
    - Russian Language and Political Science;
    - Russian Language and East European Studies;
    - Russian Language and Natural Sciences/STEM (math, physics, biology, chemistry, and environmental studies) with theory and laboratory practice in Russian/English.

Citizens of the USA and Canada do not need a visa to study in Latvia.
We highly recommend completing vaccination before traveling to Latvia. 

Daugavpils, the second largest city in Latvia, is a unique place – a Russian-language enclave and the largest Russian-speaking city in the European Union. In Daugavpils, 80% of people speak Russian as their native language and Russian is the primary language of everyday communication.

Students will undergo full linguistic immersion and amazing cultural experience in a city that was once part of both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and which has a remarkable historical legacy tied to Russia and Russian-European relations.

Please find more details at these links:

Undergraduate study abroad programs: www.learnrussianineu.com/semester-abroad-programs
Covid-19 

Related information: www.learnrussianineu.com/for-students/fall-2021-in-person-study-abroad-programs-and-the-pandemic
Student testimonials: https://study-abroad-fair.learnrussianineu.com/students-share-experience
The official website: www.learnrussianineu.com

CFP: The XVIII Symposium of the International Dostoevsky Society (Nagoya, Japan)

Deadline: August 20, 2021

CALL FOR PAPERS

The XVIII Symposium of the International Dostoevsky Society will be hosted by Nagoya University of Foreign Studies. Sessions will be held on its new satellite campus located at the center of Nagoya City, from March 4th to 8th, 2022. The official languages will be Russian, Japanese, and English.
For more details: https://www.ids2022n.jp/

Proposals for papers on one of the Symposium themes will be accepted until August 20, 2021. Please send your proposal using our online submission system:
https://www.ids2022n.jp/application/
Symposium participants will be limited to about 150 speakers.  
Please note that membership in IDS is required before registration. Further information regarding membership: https://dostoevsky.org/membership/

SYMPOSIUM THEME: 150 YEARS OF DEMONS
The Symposium will celebrate the 150 years since the completion of Demons, with a focus on new and multidisciplinary approaches to the novel. Sessions will include: 
Demons in Its Time and 150 Years Later
Dostoevsky and the Imagination of “Catastrophe”
Dostoevsky and Music / Cinema
Reception of Dostoevsky in Asia and His Impact on Asian Culture and Literature
Any Other Topics Relevant to Dostoevsky Studies Today

Contacts:
Mitsuyoshi Numano
The Organizing Committee for XVIII Symposium of the International Dostoevsky Society in Nagoya
Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
E-mail: ids2022n-office_gg@nufs.ac.jp
Homepage: https://www.ids2022n.jp/

CFP: AATSEEL Conference 2022

Deadline: varies by application type, please see below

The AATSEEL national meeting is a forum for scholarly exchange of ideas in all areas of Slavic and East/Central European languages, literatures, linguistics, cultures, and pedagogy. The Program Committee invites scholars in these and related areas to form panels around specific topics, organize roundtable discussions, propose forums on instructional materials, and/or submit proposals for individual presentations for the 2022 conference. The conference regularly includes panels in linguistics, pedagogy, second language acquisition, literatures, and cultures relevant to the organization's regions of focus. The next annual AATSEEL conference will be held in person at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 17-20, 2022, and the Call for Papers and Call for Streams are currently open and accepting submissions. 

To submit a panel/paper/roundtable proposal (by July 1, 2021 or August 15, 2021): https://www.aatseel.org/cfp_main

The AATSEEL Program Committee invites proposals for panel stream topics. These streams promote greater cohesion among conference panels and foster a broader dialogue throughout the conference. The result can be a series of mini-conferences within the framework of our larger conference.

To submit a stream proposal (by May 15, 2021): https://www.aatseel.org/program/2022-call-for-streams/

Notification of acceptance of abstracts will be sent only to AATSEEL members in good standing. Memberships expire June 30th each year. Those submitting abstracts are encouraged to renew membership when submitting an abstract to avoid delays in appearing in the online conference program.

We recommend consulting the 2022 Conference Guidelines to prepare any submission for review for the conference.

For more information about the annual AATSEEL Conference, visit: https://www.aatseel.org/

For questions about stream proposals, contact the Division Head for Streams, Meghan Murphy-Lee (murphyle@uwm.edu).

For questions about all other conference proposals, contact Program Committee Chair, Ainsley Morse (Ainsley.E.Morse@dartmouth.edu)

CFP: War and Diversity Beyond the Battlefield: Cultural Encounters in the Polish Lands 1914–1923 (Panel for the 4th International Congress of Polish History)

 Deadline: August 1, 2021

Kraków, 19–22 October 2022

Every five years since 2007, Kraków has hosted the International Congress of Polish History. Each of these remarkable events has brought together hundreds of scholars from all over the world to share their interest in Poland’s history, culture, and language. From its beginnings, the main aim of the Congress has been to provide a forum for developing dialogue, exchanging experiences and inspiration, and popularizing research in Polish history. We have now begun planning for the continuation of this project, and we warmly invite you to be part of this, the Fourth International Congress of Polish History. In spite of the uncertainty and unpredictability that the pandemic has brought, we are going ahead with the organization of the Congress, firm in the belief that it will be possible for us all to meet safely in Kraków in October 2022. The theme of the Congress will be ‘Cultural Encounters.’ We set out to look at the history of the Polish lands through the lens of mutual relations and interaction and of the multiple cultural currents and models that have circulated in the country for centuries. Ideas, customs, identities and languages, have come together as if in a crucible, a laboratory, or a transhipment port. Cultural, ethnic, linguistic, religious, economic, demographic, and social diversity has always been a dominant note in Poland’s past, and has left lasting traces in its cultural legacy and collective identity. As we invite our fellow scholars with research interests in Poland to Kraków, we hope to explore the dynamics, scale, and complexity of these interactions, probe the main channels of transmission and retransmission, and consider the outcomes for Poland of these cultural encounters. We have pledged to adopt the broadest possible definition of culture, to take account of both its elevated and popular registers.

                  As a part of the 4th Congress, we propose a panel entitled: “War and Diversity Beyond the Battlefield: Cultural Encounters in the Polish Lands 1914–1923.” Within this framework, we seek to reconsider the Polish territories as a meeting point of cultures and nations during the First World War and the early post-war period. This extended historical moment saw the last gasp of land empires that died on the battlefield and the birth of a multi-cultural, post-imperial Polish state from the remnants of fallen states. The process of imperial collapse and the construction of new nation states was accompanied by multiple cultural clashes in a context of lingering influences from pre-war times. We invite presentations examining various aspects of these cultural encounters including:

• The experience of nonPolish members of imperial armies stationed in Galicia or Congress-Poland (e.g., Austrians, Hungarians, Slovenes, Slovaks, Czechs, Romanians, Germans, Russians) and their interactions with local populations;

• Impressions of noncombatants during World War I and the border conflicts that followed it, including the experiences and observations of war reporters, politicians, diplomatic staff, intellectuals, artists etc.;

• Postwar realities, including the observations of staff and representatives (of non-Polish background) from international foreign missions after 1918 in the newly-created Second Republic of Poland;

• Postwar transitions such as shifts in a sense of belonging after the rise of new states, changes in self-identification on cultural grounds before and after 1918;

• People on the move: wartime migrations (refugees, exiles, internees, repatriates) and cultural encounters;

• The remnants and cultural memory of empires and war, including the repurposing of physical remains such as fortresses, internment and POW camps, sites of memory such as monuments and cemeteries, artistic renderings of memory, or residual administrative practices carrying over from imperial rule and wartime, interrogating where we find continuity and where we see rupture after 1918;
  

• Cultural encounters in the early years of newly created Poland after 1918, dominated by Poles but inhabited by other nations (Ukrainians, Jews, Lithuanians, Belarussians and Germans), whose sense of belonging was different (especially those arising as a consequence of long-lasting conflicts).

 

Any other potential contributions linking cultural encounters and Polish territory in WW1 are warmly welcome.

The 4^th Congress is scheduled for October 19–22, 2022 and will be held in Kraków. The languages of the Congress will be English and Polish. For our panel “War and Diversity” we invite up to 8 speakers and discussants, all contributions should be approximately 20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals of approximately 250 words to Keely Stauter-Halsted (stauterh@uic.edu) and Kamil Ruszała (kamil.ruszala@uj.edu.pl) by August 1, 2021. The complete roster of speakers will be announced by the end of Summer 2021. Congress organisers are seeking funds for lodging in Kraków and to cover travel expenses (especially for non-European scholars). Further details will be provided later.

Panel moderators plan to follow-up after the Congress and collect contributions to publish in a journal as a special issue.

CFA: Open Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Deadline to Apply: August 15, 2019

• Please apply online through the university's website.

OVERVIEW

REEEC is now accepting applications from regional specialists (including advanced graduate students, faculty, independent scholars, and library science or other professionals with appropriate qualifications) to conduct short-term research concerning all aspects of Russian, eastern European, and Eurasian studies in conjunction with the fall Open Research Laboratory (September 1–30). Those applicants who are US citizens and whose research holds relevance for US foreign policy may also apply for US Department of State Title VIII fellowships to support their visits. ORL Associates have access to the extensive holdings of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Collection at the International and Area Studies Library and may receive one-on-one research assistance from the librarians of the Slavic Reference Service (SRS); these consultations ensure that Associates not only locate all sources pertinent to their topic at Illinois, but those housed elsewhere, as well.

Qualified ORL applicants are also encouraged to consider studying an area language through Indiana University’s Summer Language Workshop, located in nearby Bloomington, IN, after their participation in the ORL. Please check the program’s website during the coming months for further information regarding deadlines, application materials, and funding, which may include Title VIII Portable Fellowships for overseas language study as well as other opportunities available to eligible applicants.

ELIGIBILITY

We invite applications from advanced graduate students (MA candidates engaged in thesis writing and research, doctoral students, and doctoral candidates working on a dissertation), postdoctoral scholars, faculty, independent scholars, and library science or other professionals with appropriate language and area studies training whose research pertains to some aspect of Russian, eastern European, and Eurasian studies. Applicants must propose a viable research project, demonstrate a clear commitment to the field, and indicate how they will benefit from ORL participation and the resources of the SRS and Illinois library collections. Applicants conducting policy-relevant research will be prioritized and are strongly encouraged to apply for a Title VIII fellowship (below), to underwrite the costs associated with their visit.

WHAT THE LAB OFFERS:

• Full access to the physical and electronic collections of the University of Illinois Library.
• Use of the Library’s technological resources, including advanced scanning equipment and other resources.
• Consultations with the Slavic Reference Service.
• Opportunities to participate in REEEC programming (lectures, workshops, conferences, etc.).
• The help of REEEC staff in answering logistical questions related to your stay.
• Informal meetings with local scholars as desired.

FINANCIAL AID: US DEPARTMENT OF STATE TITLE VIII FELLOWSHIPS

Applicants who are U.S. citizens and who are conducting policy-relevant research may apply for a Title VIII fellowship to support their visits. These fellowships provide:   

• A housing award furnishing accommodation on campus for up to 5 days,
• A travel award of up to $500 to offset transportation costs to and from Urbana-Champaign,
• A stipend of $500 to cover food, incidentals, and other costs associated with the research visit.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

All applicants are required to submit an online application, a short-form CV, a research proposal and, if applying for funding, a clearly formulated statement of policy relevance. Failure to provide this statement will compromise applicants’ eligibility for Title VIII funding.

Fall 2019 ORL Application

STATEMENT OF POLICY RELEVANCE

US citizens applying for Title VIII financial support must also upload a Statement of Policy Relevance. This statement should comprise a brief project abstract (up to 500 words) that draws a connection between your research topic and any aspect of US foreign policy issues, strategies, emphases, or concerns. The extent to which a project is policy-relevant will vary with the field of study, but most research pertaining to the region informs our understanding of, helps contextualize, or otherwise holds implications for the history, nature, or legacy of policy considerations. A partial list of contemporary policy-related topics might include security issues of all sorts (e.g., border, military, energy, food, and water security); conflict, extremism, terrorism, trafficking, violence, and international criminal syndicates; government, politics, sociopolitical movements, state building, elections, populism, and the cult of political personalities; Cold War studies and the  legacies of state socialism; environmental policy, degradation, and climate change; displaced populations and demographic movement (political, economic, and climate-change refugees, migrants, and immigrants); studies of social identity and difference (gender, sexualities, ethnicity, nationalism, class, religion and belief); information access and dissemination (freedom of the press, communications, education, journalism, social media); international and supranational alliances; technological advances and artificial intelligence (e.g, aeronautical, bio-, communications, computer, information, medical, nano-, and military technology); and artistic and popular culture engagement with or commentaries on any of these topics, whether through literature, film, music, visual art, dance, or other expressive culture media. In short, applicants are asked to indicate how their research might inform, resonate with, or otherwise contribute to the understanding of regional topics of concern to policy makers as well as the scholarly community.

FACTS AND QUESTIONS ABOUT ORL

1. When can I attend?Participation in the Open Research Lab is flexible. You may attend at any time between September 1 and September 30, 2019.
2. Is it difficult to acquire funding for ORL; how constrictive is the funding process?Funding for ORL is competitive. Eligible applicants with strong proposals are more likely to receive funding for their research. ORL awards are made by a committee of scholars derived from the Research Laboratory Advisory Board and University of Illinois faculty.
3. What kind of funding is available?All ORL grant applicants must be U.S. citizens. Awards include travel support up to $500, housing grants for up to 5 days, and a stipend of $500.
4. Can I access any of the resources after I leave the lab?Yes! The Slavic Reference Service librarians are very adept at loaning circulating items through Inter-Library Loan (ILL).
5. Why should I visit, if SRS is willing to loan so much material via ILL?ORL is a great opportunity to develop good relationships with the librarians at the Slavic Reference Service. They are ready to use their specialized knowledge to help you do research on your dissertation or research project. SRS librarians will work with ORL Fellows long after they leave ORL. Additionally, an in-person visit gives scholars the opportunity to access specialized materials that carry constraints due to particular governmental and copyright restrictions. Scholars who utilize ORL also have access to the main stacks at the University Library.
6. Am I allowed to make digital copies of materials that I would like to take with me after I leave?Absolutely! You can create your own digital library of the resources acquired during ORL.
7. Is ORL only for preliminary research, or does ORL have more in-depth resources that would cater to more specialized research?ORL can assist both preliminary and advanced stages of research. ORL also facilitates access to hard-to-find materials that are not located anywhere else in the US. This can be especially helpful to scholars who have done their preliminary work using more available resources.
8. What are the library hours for the Slavic Reference Service?Slavic Reference Service hours correspond to the Main Library hours of operations. Please check the Library website for a full schedule of Library hours. When planning your trip to the ORL, please be aware that the library maintains limited hours on weekends.

If you have any additional questions or concerns, please contact the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) at reeec-srl@illinois.edu

CFP: Soviet Cultural Policy: Agencies, Regulations, Bureaucracy (Montreal, Canada)

Deadline to Apply: August 15, 2019


Conference Details: Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, 4–9 August, 2020. 

With the October Revolution, along with the economy and defense, Soviet cultural policy became an important site of strategic activity meant to foster the transition from a tsarist, theocratic culture to a socialist one, and to form «Soviet citizens». 

At one level, cultural policy refers to how governments fund, promote and protect the arts, cultural industries and heritage.

Cultural policy is also associated with a variety of communication techniques such as film, book and magazine publishing, as well as radio- and TV-broadcasting aimed at dissemination within national borders and as cultural diplomacy. 

Finally, cultural policy relies heavily on bureaucracy, a term that rapidly became contentious in the Soviet context. Building on Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality, we offer to explore bureaucracy as a means by which the state and its cultural institutions communicate, and therefore an instrument of cultural policy. 

This panel invites contributions that interrogate infrastructural, legislative, and communicative elements of Soviet cultural policy such as institutional and transnational actors, bureaucratic management, regulations in creative sectors, etc.

To apply, please send an abstract (250 words max) and a brief CV (1 page max) to both:

Annie Gérin (UQAM) gerin.annie@uqam.ca

Maria Silina (UQAM) silina.mariia@uqam.ca

The proposal should contain your name, affiliation, address (either home or work), phone number, and email.

Please direct any questions regarding the panel to Maria Silina silina.mariia@uqam.ca

NB: All presenters based in Canada must be members of the Canadian Association of Slavists Join CAS online at: http://www.ualberta.ca/~csp/Membership.html

For any general questions please visit https://sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/iccees/en/iccees2020 or send a message to the ICCEES email address: iccees2020@concordia.ca

CFA: Historicity of the Visuality and Image History: New Forms of Digital and Visual History/Humanities (Lviv, Ukraine)

Deadline to Apply: August 23, 2019

Workshop Dates: November 14-15, 2019

Since the formulation of the "visual history" and announced pictorial turn in humanities, pictures have enjoyed increased scrutiny. Often different approaches to visual history followed an operationally mixed attitude to studying the pictures of history (cultural history) and the historicity of images (art history). Today visual history is combined out of diverse disciplines, from history to art history, from communication and media studies to social and political studies. However, the current turn to digitalization poses new challenges for visual history – it can confront images as a medium, to analyze the material dimension of traditional visuality (its mediality) and immateriality of digital pictures. In addition, images, which are disseminated through various media, cause informational overload, and require a new research agenda. The workshop purpose is to analyze the relation between history, visuality, and academia with special concerns of the digital turn. It demands to combine the theoretical debates on digital history along with the educational experience. The workshop may suggest new research directions in visual history research, to familiarize the visualization research community with the problems faced by historians, and to foster future collaboration between fields such as vision (and visualization) and historical research.

We are interested in applications that can cover the following questions: How do we make use of images in an insightful way, and what history can learn from the new digital (visual) practices? Digital methods bring new applications and ways of dissemination. What are the lessons drawn from the new media? How do archives benefit from these applications? How institutions use digital historic projects in educational programs?

• Visual Epistemology: Defining basic concepts in digital and visual history. What do we mean by the term historic (digital) image? What are the limits? How does image change under digital turn?
• Reading Images/Films: How do we train people and historians to read images? How do we avoid the trap of overstatement while analyzing images? How the image turns from illustration to a problem? What do (digital) images want and which questions they ask?
• VR and Games: How digital applications and online projects change our imagination about the past? What are the benefits and difficulties in this new digital imaginary?
• Storytelling: How do we manage to turn image collections into narratives? What is the role of an archive in the dissemination of pictures? What are the practices to turn the collection into a story?

Who is eligible to apply:

We invite researchers who work with images and foster to reveal unique stories that lie within historic pictures. We are looking for researchers of various professional backgrounds, such as historians, archivists, museum curators, photography specialists, and other relevant researchers are strongly encouraged to apply.

The application should include:

• Title and brief description of your research / project (under 500 words)
• CV

Please, submit your applications to conferences@lvivcenter.org with the subject "Digital History Seminar 2019".

Deadline for applications: August 23, 2019

Funding

The organizers will cover travel to and accommodation in Lviv. 

Digital History Seminars of the Center for Urban History explores methodological, ethical and theoretical aspects of generation, collection and analysis of digital or digitalized photographs and video recordings as testimony on the past and the worlds in which people used to live or are still living. In addition, the seminars also touch upon the issue of awareness capacity of historical visual data used for comprehensive presentations and lectures for different audiences. The goal of the seminars is to have a discussion on available possibilities and challenges of digital history among researchers.

Seminars consist of three major blocks:

•      Artifacts (photographs, files, films, etc.)
•      Technologies (camera, antenna, screen, print, software, etc.)
•      Visual and digital methods (sense and analysis)

The event is implemented as part of "Digital History Seminars" of the Center for Urban History of East and Central Europe as supported by the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland).

CFP: International Conference "Between Kyiv and Vienna"

Deadline to Apply: August 5, 2019

Center for Urban History of East Central Europe invites to participate in the International Conference "Between Kyiv and Vienna: Histories of People, Ideas, and Objects in Circulation and Motion"

Dates and Location  4-7 December 2019, Vienna

This multidisciplinary conference invites scholars to propose contributions that explore questions related to the concept of circulation and motion in the region "between Kyiv and Vienna" by looking at thematics that include but are not limited to:

• People: professionalization and criminalization of mobility

• Ideas: knowledge, science, scholarship and the transnational and international flow of ideas

• Objects: discovery, distribution, management and exploitation of goods, resources, and capital

We encourage submissions from advanced graduate students and early-career academics as well as established scholars.   Conference organizers will cover travel costs and accommodations

Details www.iwm.at/between-kyiv-and-vienna.

CFP: CfP: Between Kyiv and Vienna: Histories of People, Ideas, and Objects in Circulation and Motion (Vienna, 4-7 December 2019)

Deadline to Apply: August 5, 2019


The Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna), Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe (Lviv), and Ukrainian Institute (Kyiv) invite paper proposals for a conference to be held in Vienna on 4-7 December 2019.

This multidisciplinary conference, which concludes the "Cultural Year Austria-Ukraine 2019", seeks to explore the contemporary and historical dynamics that have shaped Austria, Ukraine, and the space between and around them, through the lens of circulation and motion.

Ukraine has been described as a "laboratory of transnational history," widening our perspectives on Ukrainian history by embedding Ukraine within a broader European space.  This conference is intended to build on this notion, expanding our framework to encompass a region that once was governed by the Habsburg, Romanov, and Ottoman empires. By looking more broadly at a region that today is divided among nation states within and outside the borders of the EU – from Poland to Albania, from Italy to Turkey, from Russia to Romania, and indeed from Ukraine to Austria – we gain new insight into the crucial themes that have shaped the modern history of the region, of Europe, and of the world.

Recognizing the ever-changing, fluid, dynamic nature of the space under consideration, this conference focuses on motion, circulation, and interaction, whether across time or at a particular moment. We seek to provide a venue to look at people who moved within, out of, and into the region, interrogating the forces that drove them and the consequences of their movement; to examine the flow of ideas that were articulated and set in motion there and resonated in lived experience both within the region and beyond it; and to ask how the circulation of material objects, goods, and resources impacted societies and the environment, shaping relations and hierarchies between places and people.

We invite scholars to propose contributions that explore questions related to the concept of circulation and motion in the region broadly defined (for the purposes of this conference) as "between Kyiv and Vienna" by looking at thematics that include but are not limited to:

People: professionalization and criminalization of mobility: labor, services, legal frameworks, and technology; (in)visibility of movement and travel: hierarchies and representations, personal agency and encounters; 
Ideas: knowledge, science, scholarship and the transnational and international flow of ideas; intellectual and cultural experiments: texts, artefacts, artworks, artists, production; 
Objects: discovery, distribution, management and exploitation of goods, resources, and capital; living from and living with the environment: practices of recognition and use, environmental and technological advances and failures.
For more details, including an expanded programmatic statement and further suggested themes, please see www.iwm.at/between-kyiv-and-vienna.

To Apply

Please submit your paper proposal, including title and abstract (max. 250 words), and a CV to austriaukraineconf2019@iwm.at by 5 August 2019.

We encourage submissions from advanced graduate students and early-career academics as well as established scholars.

Important Dates

• Proposal submission deadline: 5 August 2019
• Notification of acceptance: by 1 September 2019
• Paper submission deadline: 15 November 2019

Practical Information

The working language of the conference is English. Presenters are expected to submit a paper of 3000-4000 words by 15 November 2019. Conference organizers will cover travel costs and accommodations; most meals will also be provided.

Advisory Board

Olena Betlii (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
Harald Binder (Center for Urban History)
Alison Frank Johnson (Harvard University)
Ambassador Olexander Scherba (Embassy of Ukraine in Vienna)
Volodymyr Sheiko (Ukrainian Institute)
Timothy Snyder (Yale University/IWM) 
Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University)

Organizing Committee

Sofia Dyak (Center for Urban History)
Oleksandr Vynogradov (Ukrainian Institute)
Katherine Younger (IWM)

The conference is organized in cooperation with the Jerzy Giedroyc Centre for Polish and European Studies at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv) and the Department of History of Central European University (Budapest).

Funding: Fulbright Fellowships

Application Deadline:  August 30, 2019

About:  The Institute of International Education (IIE), on behalf of the U.S. State Department, administers the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, which makes fellowships available to approximately 1,900 U.S. students annually to study, conduct research, teach English, or train in the creative arts in more than 140 countries worldwide. This competition is administered on campus by the International Institute.

Eligibility:  Enrolled students are required to apply through U-M. Recent alumni (those who last attended no more than 3 years ago) may also apply through U-M.

• U.S. citizen or national at time of application
• Conferred bachelor's degree by the start of the grant
• Demonstrate language skills necessary to complete the proposed project

*Additional eligibility may apply.

How to Apply:  The online application opens April 1, 2019. Applications are due just over a year before grants begin. Undergraduates planning to begin a grant following graduation should begin the application process in January of their junior year.

Contact:  iifellowships-fulbright@umich.edu

CFP: Muslim Communities in Europe and North America

Deadline: Abstracts: April 5, 2019

Deadline: Final Papers: August 26, 2019

48th Annual Conference of the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Students (NAAIMS) Presents: 

"Muslim Communities in North American: Contemporary Developments and Challenges"

Friday, September 27, 2019 in Boston, MA

Although there have been Muslim communities in Europe since the Middle Ages, they have become a sizable part of the population of modern Western Europe only since the 1960’s, when large numbers began to arrive from Pakistan, the Maghreb, and Turkey to provide much needed labor. When the Asiatic Barred Zone act of 1917 was repealed in 1965, Muslim immigrants began to arrive in the United States, joining existing communities of largely African American converts. In Europe, political opposition to Muslim immigrants arose already in the late 20th century, producing anti- immigrant parties such as France’s National Front.

At the turn of the 21st century, Muslims seeking asylum in Europe and North America due to the destruction brought on by wars in Iraq and Syria, became the driving force behind immigration. According to Pew, the total number of Muslims in Europe in 2010 was around 44 million and growing, while birth rates throughout Europe have fallen well below replacement level. Political and social frictions emerged in many European countries due to these demographic shifts, and full- fledged turmoil erupted starting in 2015 due to the surge refugees fleeing Syria.

Muslim immigration was a top issue in the two countries that took in the lion’s share of refugees: Germany and Sweden. In 2017, the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party became the first political party to the right of the Christian Democrats to win seats in parliament since the Second World War. In September 2018, the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats came in third in national elections with 17.5% of the vote.

In other countries, including the United States, anti-Muslim sentiment has fueled the rise of populist politicians, including in countries of Eastern Europe that have accepted next to no refugees. Throughout Europe and the United States, campaigns against “sharia law” have become common, as have unsubstantiated allegations that Muslim neighborhoods in major European cities have become “no-go zones.” Denmark has recently passed harsh laws that include mandating 30 hours per week of pre-school for immigrants for the sake of fostering Danish values. Many native Europeans fear that Muslim immigrants are intent on Islamizing Europe rather than integrating. Many Muslims in Europe, both native born and immigrants, fear that they will never be accepted as equal citizens even if they do integrate.

We invite a diverse range of papers from professors and advanced Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences. Questions the papers might address include, but are not limited to the following:

• Consequences of Post-war European Labor Shortage of the 50s & 60s: Guest- workers from Pakistan, the Maghreb, and Turkey

• Muslim immigration, Populism, and Polarization in Europe and North America

• Contemporary Developments

• Challenges of Non-integration of Muslim Immigrants in European Communities

• Impact of Political Motives of Immigrant Muslim Communities in non-Muslim Majority Nations

• Demographic shifts and Political Stability in Non-Muslim Majority Nations

• Muslim Travel Ban in North America and Extremism

Abstracts (250 words) Due April 5, 2019 Abstracts from Professors and Advanced Ph.D. Candidates ONLY

• Abstracts will be evaluated according to following criteria: clear data & methodology used, relevance & contribution of proposal to conference theme. Abstracts must include a title, author’s full name, contact information, and university position (Professor or Ph.D. Candidate)

• Panelists required to pre-register by May 3, 2019, and pay non-refundable registration fees of $105.00. Online registration will be available

• Final papers must be submitted by August 26, 2019

• Send abstracts & final papers to Layla Sein, NAAIMS Executive Director, and Director of Academic Affairs at conferences@naaims.org

This event is Cosponsored by: Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA), Pardee School of Global Studies Boston University, Boston, MA