North American Dostoevsky Society Martinsen Conference Travel Award

The North American Dostoevsky Society invites applications for the Deborah A. Martinsen Conference Travel Award for 2025. Named for Deborah A. Martinsen, a former President of both the International and North American Dostoevsky Societies and preeminent Dostoevsky scholar, the Martinsen Award is a travel bursary to help graduate student or other precarious employed members of the North American Dostoevsky Society to defray costs associated with attending a conference to present their work on Dostoevsky. More information can be found here: https://bloggerskaramazov.com/martinsen-award/. 

This cycle will support an award of up to $1000 towards the costs of attending the ASEEES conference in Washington, DC in November 2025. The submission deadline is Monday, September 29th, 2025, and successful applicants will be notified by Monday, October 6th, 2025. All NADS members who are based in North America and have had a paper accepted for the ASEEES conference that is significantly or wholly dedicated to Dostoevsky are invited to apply. Please submit your application to this Google form before midnight PST on Monday, September 29th, 2025: https://forms.gle/XFa4rPcdMdrmaJuV8.

 

This call can also be found on the website here: https://bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/09/18/call-for-applications-2025-deborah-a-martinsen-conference-travel-award/

XIX International Dostoevsky Symposium CFP

We are writing with a reminder about the upcoming deadline for proposal submissions for the XIX International Dostoevsky Symposium scheduled for June 2026 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Please note that the Argentinian orgkomitet has extended the deadline to Sept 15 2025. 

For more information, please visit the info page on dostoevsky.org: https://dostoevsky.org/symposia/symposium-updates/

Or the XIX IDS website: https://rusaires.wixsite.com/xix-simposio/xix-simposium-eng

All information about how to submit your proposals is available there.

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/