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Thursday, December 8, 2022
CfP: Authoritarianism 3.0. Arendt and Orwell in the Digital Age
Deadline: January 9, 2023
Authoritarianism 3.0: Arendt and Orwell in the Digital Age. Edited by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Jasmin Dall’Agnola, and Josette Baer
Were Hannah Arendt and George Orwell right in their predictions of a totalitarian future forged by technology? How has the proliferation of recent technological innovations shaped the strategies of digital authoritarianism espoused by certain political regimes? The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted new questions for social scientists, urging them to investigate the power of technology to normalize mass surveillance. Scholars working on digital authoritarianism argue that non-democratic regimes are using new high-tech tools, such as artificial intelligence (AI), advanced biometrics, smart filtering, propagames and hacking spyware (e.g., Pegasus) to track dissident activity. So far, we know little about the way sophisticated technological infrastructure and AI technologies influence the monitoring and control of dissent. This special issue focuses on the advance of digital authoritarianism in Communist and post-Communist states (CPCS) in the third millennium.
We shall select seven key contributions for this special issue. Contributions can cover topics including but not limited to:
- The potential of China’s social credit system in other CPCS states
- China and Russia’s role in developing and promoting new digital norms
- The role of smart filtering and algorithm censorship on social media
- New mechanisms and instruments of state-led propaganda through online software (e.g. propagames, bloggers and trolls)
- State-based cyber hacking and information-distortion techniques
- Digitally enabled repression of critical voices in exiled communities
- AI, CCTV, facial-recognition technologies and drone surveillance
Please submit a title, a 250-word abstract together with a 100-word biographical statement to digitalauthoritarianism1984
We have a preliminary agreement with Communist and Post-Communist Studies, pending approval of the full proposal. Draft manuscripts will be reviewed initially by the guest editors prior to submission to the journal for peer review. Acceptance for the proposal does not guarantee acceptance for publication, which ultimately, depends on the outcome of peer review.
Timeline
09.01.2023: Submission of a 250-word abstract, title and a 100-word bio to the guest editors
30.06.2023: Submission of the final version of your article to the guest editors
31.08.2023: Submission of your article to Communist and Post-Communist Studies for peer-review. Publication planned for Spring/Summer 2024
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
CFP: “Eastern European Urban Narratives of Conflict,” Studia Rossica Posnaniensia
Deadline: November 15, 2022
The deadline for abstracts for the special volume of "Studia Rossica Posnaniensia": “Eastern European Urban Narratives of Conflict” is November 15, 2022.
Editors of the issue: Seth Graham (University College London), Rachel Morley (University College London), Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak (Adam Mickiewicz University)
1) Scope of the special issue and the relevance of the subject:
The 2022 edition of ‘Millennium Docs Against Gravity’, Poland’s largest documentary film festival, featured a Susan Sontag retrospective that included her work Waiting for Godot…in Sarajevo, made in the Bosnian capital during the siege and codirected with Nicole Stéphane. The film, which is often described as Sontag’s lasting gift to Sarajevans and which gave them hope and the possibility of responding to suppressed emotions, today inevitably brings to mind places such as Kyiv, Kharkiv and Mariupol, whose suffering inhabitants and ruined architecture have made us doubt the existence of a civilized world. Focusing attention on the mission of art and the role of the artist as an engaged witness of reality, this special issue of “Studia Rossica Posnaniensia” will concentrate on urban experiences of all kinds of conflicts: military, political, interpersonal, ethnic, religious, environmental, etc. We would like to pinpoint the role of Eastern European cities as sites of power and powerlessness, as spaces where pain is/was inflicted, contemplated, embodied, expressed or (re)negotiated, and as intersections of different cultures and traditions (e.g. Catholicism and Orthodoxy). We would also welcome proposals rooted in gender studies, queer studies, post-colonial studies, disability studies, performative studies and animal studies, that may offer perspectives on the city space as a battlefield for one’s dignity, rights and identity. We expect that authors might refer to Sontag’s belief in the artist’s social and ethical duty to explore the link between the aesthetic and the political as well as the relationship between the mind and the body in urban environments.
Treating Russian and Soviet literature, cinema and language as a point of departure for discussion, we anticipate that the special issue will address, among others, the following questions:
What is the language of conflict as expressed in visual images, metaphors and verbal communication? Are there recurrent formulas and images in Eastern European cultures? Are they linked specifically to one culture or are they multicultural?
- How does urban space endorse or prevent conflicts and/or wars?
- How/why do specific cities become the primary sites of conflict?
- How are future urban conflicts imagined, predicted and narrated?
- How do Eastern European cities engage in negotiating conflicts related to sexual identity? What is the role of liminal and transit spaces in this domain? Does urban architecture blur or define sexual conflicts?
Both theoretical works and discussions of artistic representations are welcome. We are particularly interested in proposals that seek connections between various disciplines, such as literary studies, film studies, linguistics, urban studies, memory studies, anthropology, and urban psychology, to name just a few.
2) Possible topics and areas of discussion include, but are not limited to, the following:
- conflicts of marginalized nationalities and ethnicities
- places that are ignored, neglected, degraded or destroyed as a result of (military) conflicts
- literary and cinematic first and second cities
- monster cities – city monsters
- navigating the psycho-fantastical geography of urban conflict
- urban memory spaces
- human vs. non-human in cities
- bodies in pain
- travel writing in the context of social, political and military conflicts
- common challenges of survival in the city
- city diaries, cinematic cities
- sounds & silence in the city under siege
- urban nature-culture
- crime fiction, speculative fiction, nuclear narratives, utopias/dystopias
- healing spaces in the urban context
- city diasporas, biopolitics, surveillance
- environmental justice, ecofiction & ecocatastrophes
- Holocaust, genocide, urban ghettos
- urbicide, the killing of cities, urban destruction, death in the city
- representations of trauma, grief, loss, mourning, works on witnessing conflicts
- urban narratives as metaphors of fear & apocalypse
- Eastern European war testimonies
- fragmented cities – fragmented nations
- decaying empires
- working women in the city, social and political control, violence and discrimination
- liminality of the city, borderlands, peripheral spheres, intersections in the context of city architecture
- childhood conflicts in the city
- cities of revolution
3) Deadlines and editorial timetable:
Submission of abstracts: 11/15/2022
Decision of the editors’ committee regarding abstracts: 12/15/2022
Submission of complete articles: 5/15/2023
Results of reviews: 6/30/2023
Submission of revised articles: 9/15/2023
Publication of the issue: 6/30/2024
Languages of submissions: English, Russian and Polish;
Abstracts (1000-1500 characters, in the language of the article) should be sent by email to the editors of the volume by November 15, 2022: Dr. Seth Graham (s.graham@ucl.ac.uk), Dr. Rachel Morley (rachel.morley@ucl.ac.uk), Dr. Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak (beata.waligorska@amu.edu.pl).
We kindly ask you to submit complete papers (25,000-40,000 characters with spaces including bibliography) through the OJS platform at https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/
Editorial guidelines can be found at:
https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/
More information about the journal is available on the journal’s website: http://srp.amu.edu.pl/en/
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
CFP: Language and War -- Sociolinguistic Shifts in the Ukrainian Language Situation in the World
Deadline: January 15, 2023
Language and War: Sociolinguistic Shifts in the Ukrainian Language Situation in the World
Guest editor(s): Olga Ivanova (University of Salamanca, Spain) & Anastassia Zabrodskaja (Tallinn University, Estonia)
Scopes of the Issue. The main aim of this Special Issue is to bring attention to the sociolinguistic changes that the war in Ukraine is triggering in its linguistic situation in both homeland and worldwide. The objective of the Issue is to report on ongoing developments in the use of the two major languages of Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russian, and in attitudes towards their functional and symbolic value, both among the Ukrainian population and in the diaspora. It is of particular interest for this Issue to report on the changes that are taking place in the perception of the linguistic situation in Ukraine around the World. One of the purposes of the Issue is to report on the initiatives of language revitalization and support that are emerging in different countries around the world in response to the wave of displacement of Ukrainian population.
The Special Issue aims to achieve the following objectives:
- to take into account changes in the use of and attitudes towards Ukrainian
- Russian and Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism in Ukraine and in the world
- to reflect the management (and possible resolution strategies) of the language issue among refugees and in the diaspora
- to highlight top-down and bottom-up actions taken both in Ukraine and, above all, abroad to support the Ukrainian language
To this end, the Issue welcomes empirical studies based on mainly qualitative research, as well as on the discourse and social network analysis, to inquire into any aspect related to the sociolinguistic change in the language situation in Ukraine and in the Ukrainian community abroad. The Issue particularly seeks for studies based on methods from the ethnography of communication, the ethnography of the interactional, and/or interactional/
Call for papers. The editors of the Special Issue invite all interested authors to submit the abstract of their possible contribution to the Issue by January 15, 2023.
- Abstracts should be sent to olga.ivanova@usal.es and an
astassia.zabrodskaja@gmail.com (please, email to both Editors at the same time) as a Word file named after the author (e.g. Ivanova.doc) or the first author and et al. (e.g. Ivanovaetal.doc) - Abstracts should not exceed 350 words, excluding references and keywords (up to 5). All abstracts should clearly state the methodology of the proposed work
The editors propose the following tentative timetable for the Special Issue call-for-papers:
Call for abstracts: October 25, 2022 – January 15, 2023
Notification of abstract acceptance by the guest editors; January 31, 2023
Paper preparation and 1st round submission: January 31, 2023 – April 30, 2023
Paper review: April 30, 2023 – June 30, 2023
Paper revision by the authors: June 30, 2023 – September 30, 2023
Editing process by the guest editors: October – November 2023
Final submission of the whole double: December 2023
Special Issue publication: August 2024 (Issue 18.3-4 2024)
Monday, September 19, 2022
CFP: Experiment
Deadline: December 1, 2022
Dear Colleagues,
Please see below the call for proposals for the 31st issue of the journal Experiment, which will be dedicated to the theme of the otherworldly in art.
At the turn of the 20th century, Russian and Western intellectuals were much taken by the mystical, the enigmatic, and the transcendental, not least, Helen Blavatsky with her Theosophical quest and Rudolf Steiner with his elaboration of Anthroposophy— the latter, according to Nikolai Berdiaev, being "one of the most interesting tendencies... attracting cultivated people such as Viacheslav Ivanov and Andrei Belyi." By the early 1880s Russian translations of occult authors, such as Louis Jacolliot, Charles Richet, and Frank Podmore were already appearing, Russian writers like Aleksandr Butlerov with his “Stat’i po mediumizmu" and Aleksandr Aksakov with his Animizm i spiritizm following rapidly . Esoteric periodicals Rebus, Izida, and Vestnik Teosofii also mushroomed, coinciding with new interpretations of Orthodoxy as well as scientific investigations into the human psyche and the nervous system. In particular, mental illness, as another state of consciousness, formed a cardinal subject of both scholarly and artistic inquiry, a tendency which left a deep imprint on writers such as Leonid Andreev, Anton Chekhov, and Vsevolod Garshin.
It was the visual arts, however, which enhanced this spiritual voyage, Bely’s abstract paintings being a case in point. Indeed, the notion of art as a powerful tool for healing and transmuting "reality" and for escaping to "other worlds" preoccupied many accomplished artists of the time, not least, Wassily Kandinsky, Nicholas Roerich, and Mikhail Vrubel’ — whose explorations often intersected with concepts such as the Pythagorean music of the spheres, synesthesia, divination, and telepathy. This intense relationship between Russian Modernism and the higher plane constitutes the central theme of issue No. 31 of the journal Experiment (Fall, 2025) — which welcomes answers, albeit tentative, to the following questions:
· What are the techniques which artists used to explore the unknown?
· What drove individual artists towards the "Other" and whence — and whither — did they escape?
· How did the pursuit of the spiritual change the creation and reception of art?
· In conjuring with the fourth dimension, how did artists elicit the unseen?
· Which esoteric societies and systems (Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Anthroposophy) were essential to the development of Russian Modernism?
· Were Russian esoteric societies national or transnational?
· How did artists treat Demonism, astrology, and Spiritualism?
· What, for artists such as Vasilii Denisov, Nikolai Kalmakov, and Roerich was the "Other"?
· Was Russian Modernism in itself an altered state of consciousness?
The length of the article is around 4000-5000 words, and the abstract deadline is December 1, 2022. Experiment, an annual journal devoted to Russian culture, focuses on the movements of the early twentieth century. For more information, please see https://brill.com/view/
Olga Seliazniova and Ksenia Radchenko
(Guest editors)
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
CFP: The Hungarian Historical Review
Deadline: September 30, 2022
The Hungarian Historical Review (https://www.jstor.org/
Modernity Bottom-Up: How Popular Perceptions and Practices Changed the Ideas of Modernity
The deadline for the submission of abstracts: September 30, 2022.
The deadline for the accepted papers: November 30, 2022.
While the study of bottom-up perspectives has significantly enriched our understanding of several fields of research, such as the history of nationalism and religion, the history of the idea of modernity is still dominated by a focus on the contributions of elites, which are implicitly entirely adequate for a nuanced grasp of this ensemble of cultural practices, norms, and attitudes, however admittedly complex it may be. This is all the more puzzling given that modernity has profoundly reshaped entire societies since its emergence in the eighteenth century. Modernization understood as “a body of experience involving a radically new kind of understanding of both time and space” (Berman 1988: 15) is a phenomenon from which, clearly, no one is exempt. Furthermore, the same propaganda that aimed to awaken a sense of national consciousness also spread an unconditional faith in progress, human and technoscientific. It is thus safe to assume that historians can investigate popular ideas about and reactions to change and can reexamine the agency of those who were often considered passive subjects of the various efforts and interventions which came with campaigns to “modernize.”
The Hungarian Historical Review invites research papers that examine how popular behaviors and practices challenged the mainstream, usually optimistic discourses crafted by the modernizing elites about progress and growth from the Enlightenment to the present day.
The geographical focus of the issue is Central and Eastern Europe. However, we do not confine ourselves to the strict geographical borders of the region, especially in the case of comparative papers.
We welcome proposals from scholars at all stages of their careers pursuing work on any of the aspects of the questions raised above.
This special issue particularly welcomes papers discussing the following fields:
- overlapping histories of nation building and modernization, seen from below
- methodological approaches, documents, and narrative sources that make possible to discern popular perceptions of modernity
- critical perceptions of urban modernity
- rural populations and modernization
- anxiety about, reservations concerning, or resistance to modernization as incentive of popular discontents
- strikes and workers’ movements reinterpreted alongside attitudes towards modernity
- modern experiences that cut across boundaries of ethnicity, class, religion, or gender
- popular perceptions of ecological degradation linked to modernization
- challenges put by modernity to popular religiosity and other faith-based understandings of the world
Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words and a short biographical note with a selected list of the author’s three most important publications (we do not accept full CVs) no later than September 30, 2022.
Proposals should be submitted to the special editor of the issue by email:
The editors will ask the authors of selected papers to submit their final articles (max. 10,000 words) no later than November 30, 2022.
The articles will be published after a double-blind peer-review process. We provide proofreading for contributors who are not native speakers of English.
All articles must conform to our submission guidelines.
The Hungarian Historical Review is a peer-reviewed international quarterly of the social sciences and humanities, the geographical focus of which is Hungary and East-Central Europe. For additional information, including submission guidelines, please visit the journal’s website: www.hunghist.org
Monday, August 22, 2022
CFA: Reviewers for "Dynamic Teaching of Russian"
Dear colleagues,
The editors of Dynamic Teaching of Russian: Games and Gamification of Learning invite chapter reviewers/referees. If selected, each reviewer/referee will be formally acknowledged in the volume. The volume is published in the Routledge Russian Language Pedagogy and Research series
Language of publication: English. Please fill out this GoogleForm if you are interested. We appreciate your knowledge and expertise.
On behalf of the editorial team,
Svetlana Nuss
University of Alaska
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
CFP: The Russian Review
Deadline: September 1, 2022
Rupture: When Things Fall Apart
We were warned, repeatedly. But on February 24, 2022, the vast majority of Ukrainians, Russians, and the rest of the world was stunned. Not only by the Russian invasion of Ukraine but also by how rapidly the order of things can radically change and crumble. In response, we are devoting a special issue of The Russian Review to the theme of Rupture: When Things Fall Apart. By “rupture” we imagine a sudden rift in historical time but also a spatial dis- and relocation that manifests in the fragmentation of regions and world areas as political units and subjects of knowledge. The peoples of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia have had recurrent experiences with socio-political and historical rupture, and our field has done extensive work on previous ruptures, most notably 1917 and 1991, years of rupture that “shook” and reconfigured the world.
These ruptures are often accompanied by violence and brutality, with the physical destruction of lives and the very ground of former life. But they are also accompanied by a vertiginous sense of free fall and disorientation, with a sense of being launched on a journey with no signposts and no destination that raises the most fundamental questions. One of the most jarring aspects of rupture is how quickly everyday life adapts – even under hellish conditions – and settles into a new normal. Even so, nothing can be taken for granted and everything needs to be reexamined.
The Russian Review invites scholars in our field to draw on their expertise to reflect on the experience of rupture in history, literature, the arts and media, society, politics, social and individual psychologies in order to illuminate the loss and trauma, the uncertainty and the possibility that rupture entails at the moment/site of rupture and beyond.
The essays should bring past or ongoing research to bear on reflections about the present rupture to expand and interpret contemporary debates. Hoping to transcend the limitations of the news cycle, we are seeking research and knowledge-based thought pieces that probe the deeper historical, artistic, epistemological, experiential, and existential facets of rupture, as well as the fundamental debates and changes underway in the field of Russian Studies.
To be considered for the special issue, please send an abstract of approximately 500 words outlining your approach, sources, and argument or perspective to rusrev@ku.edu by September 1, 2022. Authors of selected abstracts will be notified soon after and will be expected to submit a complete essay manuscript (max. 5,000 words, including endnotes) by December 15, 2022. The cluster will then go through a dual review process by the editorial collegium and an external blind review.
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
CFP: Baltic Screen Media Review (special issue)
Deadline: October 1, 2022
Intersections of Film and Television in the Baltic Sea Region: Past and Present
https://sciendo.com/journal/
Until very recently, the scholarship concentrating on moving images has typically regarded cinema and television as two separate fields of study, each with its own evolutionary biographies, industrial mechanics, institutional spaces, aesthetics, and methodologies of inquiry. Even more – the relationship between cinema and television has often been imagined and defined as one of rivalry, running in parallel and engaging in battles over the attention of the audiences. Lately, however, several authors have begun to show the fallacy of such an artificial divide (Gray and Johnson 2021; Richards 2021) and others are calling for a broader understanding of television, seeing it as part of larger cultural systems (Ostrowska and Roberts 2007; Imre 2016; Mihelj and Huxtable 2018).
As such, following the success of the 7th Baltic Sea Region Film History Conference, we call for papers and ‘think pieces’ investigating the long and ongoing relationship of film and television of the Baltic Sea countries (incl. Germany, Poland, Denmark, etc.) in the broadest of terms and in full spatio-temporal perspective. Analyses of similar issues elsewhere, especially in countries of similar sizes or circumstances are also welcome. We call for papers investigating the institutional, industrial, aesthetic, historic, political, and philosophical dimensions of film and televisions interactions. Potential areas of interest could be, but are not limited to, for example:
- technological inventions and advancements and their cultural, economic, and political implications;
- fiscal politics and cultural policy (e.g. various models of funding);
- institutional frame- and networks;
- flows of crew and talent;
- cultural and aesthetic patterns, conventions and shifts;
- changing landscapes of distribution, exhibition, and consumption;
- representations of the two media as cultural technologies;
- archival afterlives.
Abstracts of 200–300 words, title, and a short bio are to be received by 1 October 2022, and full manuscripts of either 4,000–8,000 words or the shorter ‘think piece’ format of 1,500–2,500 words, excluding refs, by 1 February 2023 in order to be sent out for review. The special section of Baltic Screen Media Review (BSMR) will appear in issue vol. 11:1 published both online and in print in the second half of 2023.
All submissions should be sent via email attachment to Teet Teinemaa (teinemaa@tlu.ee) and Eva Näripea (eva.naripea@ra.ee). Any questions regarding the special issue or the submission process should be directed to the same addresses.
Gray, J., and Derek Johnson. 2021. Television Goes to the Movies. Routledge.
Ibrus, I., and Teet Teinemaa. 2020. “The Changes that COVID-19 Catalysed for Audiovisual Industries”. Baltic Screen Media Review 8:1, pp 1–7.
Imre, A. 2016. TV Socialism. Duke UP.
Mihelj, S., and Simon Huxtable. 2018. From Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television. Cambridge UP.
Ostrowska, D., and Graham Roberts. 2007. European Cinemas in the Television Age. Edinburgh UP.
Richards, R. W. 2021. Cinematic TV: Serial Drama Goes to the Movies. Oxford UP.
Thursday, June 10, 2021
CFP: The Creation and Re-creation of National Armies in Post-Soviet and Post-Communist Countries
Deadline: July 1, 2021
The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies is
an online international social sciences publication (blind
peer-reviewed) devoted to the armed forces and power institutions in
former Soviet countries. The journal draws on a comparative and
multi-disciplinary perspective to study institutions employing armed
personnel, their interaction with the society and their activity in
times of war and conflict. It covers issues from the pre-Soviet times
until today.
Issue Editors: Masha Cerovic, Paul Lenormand, Ben McVicker,
Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, 15 post-Soviet Armies have emerged, sometimes built from scratch. During this time, armies of post-communist countries[1] have undergone several major transformations. For this future issue, we have chosen to study the creation and evolution of these armies primarily through the lens of social and cultural history, and the political aspects of their transition since 1991.
The process of creating post-Soviet and post-communist armies can be analyzed in different perspectives and at different levels. The issue will focus on the experience of post-Soviet states and post-communist countries with an in-depth examination of the kinds of individuals who put on the uniform, combining the approaches of sociologists, historians, political scientists, ethnologists and anthropologists from a comparative perspective.
The following aspects could be of particular interest, the list being far from exhaustive:
- Culturally situated perceptions of threat and security: how perceived threats to security, military cooperation with foreign countries, and membership in the EU, NATO or CIS shaped national armies.
- The transformation of international military socializations within a changed geopolitical environment.
- The impact of contemporary military conflicts on military reform: civil wars, occupations, intervention in foreign conflicts, or reactions to conflicts taking place in neighboring countries.
- New loyalty and allegiances: affirmations, shifts of and calls upon the loyalty and allegiances of Soviet officers in an uncertain environment.
- The management of nationalities: the hierarchy of Slavic officers and national officers in post-Soviet armies; the weight of ethnolinguistic factors and qualification for citizenship in the construction of national armies; minorities in post-Soviet & post-communist armies.
- The demographic and quantitative evolution of the officer corps, conscripts, and contract personnel; the sociological profile of military personnel.
- The professional background of national elites: professional trajectories of officers from disbanded state federations (Soviet, Czechoslovak, Yugoslav) and their new national career paths.
- Military seniority facing change: opposition to reform and nostalgia for the Soviet Union or communism.
- The veterans’ legacy: the roles played by veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War, the Chechen Wars, and wars in Yugoslavia in military reform.
- Transforming practices of care: the reorganization of medical, mental health, and spiritual services in the armed forces.
- Gender issues: women in the military forces; shifting norms of masculinity; images and management of soldiers’ sexuality, from sexual violence to (non-) integration of LGBT service members.
- Renegotiation of the relations between military and civilian authorities.
- Redefinition of authority: which skills and competences (military, field experience, linguistic skills, political affiliations...) are devalued, which are promoted.
- Hierarchies and positions: economic and symbolic status of officers and other professional soldiers (wages, privileges, material support, symbolic rewards e.g. medals and awards).
- Funding the militaries: state funding of the army and the privatization of social support via semi-public foundations; private military companies or contractors.
- Memories and rituals: how does the military participate in the “memory wars” surrounding past military conflicts? How are military traditions invented? What are the roles of various veterans in the creation or transmission of military rituals? How have Soviet soldiers been commemorated and memorialized since 1991?
- Spaces: how were former military spaces - military barracks, training grounds, military academies, militarized border zones - abandoned, repurposed, reappropriated? How were new ones created?
- Public opinion toward conscription and professional armies: the impacts of dedovshchina/hazing; resistance to pre-draft training and compulsory military service; representations and symbolic position of officers and other professional soldiers.
- Veterans’ participation in political affairs.
- The impacts of social media on military operations in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans, on post-communist participation in international coalitions (Afghanistan, Iraq).
- The emergence of grassroots movements, non-government organizations, and veterans’ unions; international organizations fostering alternative solidarities among soldiers and their families.
- The fate of army pensioners on foreign territory: social-welfare benefits and symbolical status as veterans in post-Soviet and post-communist states.
Selected submitters will be asked to provide a first draft of their paper by the end of February 2022.
Guidelines for submission
The journal publishes articles in three languages (French, English and Russian with a 100-word abstract in English), as a result of which most authors will be able to write in their native language. But we would like to draw your attention to the fact that articles in English will reach a much broader audience.
The articles (30 000 to 50 000 characters) submitted to pipss.org for publication should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication. Each article will be submitted to double-anonymous peer review; final decisions on publication will be made by the Editorial Board. For details about the guidelines for article submission please check http://pipss.revues.org/
We also welcome shorter research notes (15 000 signs), interviews as well as presentation of unpublished documents.
Book review proposals are also welcome.
Book Reviews
Publishers interested in publicizing their editions, please send review copies to: Elisabeth Kozlowski, CERSIPS c/° CERCEC-EHESS, #B305, 54 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris, France.
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
CFP: "Russian Language Journal" 2022
Deadline: December 31, 2021
Call for papers for proposed special cluster of Russian Language Journal
Undergraduate Research in Russian Language Studies
Guest Editors: Svetlana Sokolova and Anna Endresen.
Brief description:
Undergraduate research, as defined by the American Association of Colleges and Universities “involve[s] students with actively contested questions, empirical observation, cutting-edge technologies, and the sense of excitement that comes from working to answer important questions.” Undergraduate research is considered a high impact practice that can increase student learning driven by mentoring relationships with faculty while also building a culture of innovation and scholarship on campus.
In addition to its usual topics, Volume 72, issue 1 of Russian Language Journal will involve a special cluster of articles, focusing on undergraduate research. The guest editors seek research articles in which undergraduate students are involved as researchers and as co-authors on any topic related to Russian-language study, including, but not limited to:
- curriculum and materials design
- assessment and evaluation
- other areas of scholarship related to Russian language (linguistics, sociolinguistics, translation studies, etc.)
All articles should include students as co-authors. Articles may be written in English or Russian. Note that all articles will go through a peer-review process. An invitation to submit an article does not necessarily constitute acceptance.
To join this special cluster, please send by December 31, 2021 your name and affiliation, and a title and abstract (up to 750 words) in English or Russian for your submission to both Svetlana Sokolova (svetlana.sokoloa@uit.no) and Anna Endresen (anna.endresen@uit.no). Your abstract should outline the article’s focus and methodological approach.
RLJ volume 72 will also accept other Russian-language related topics not related to the special cluster.
Projected timeline for volume 72, issue 1 of Russian Language Journal:
December 31, 2021: authors submit titles and abstracts
January 15, 2022: authors notified about invitation to submit their article to special issue
April 1, 2022: authors submit articles
June 1, 2022: authors receive feedback on articles
July 15, 2022: authors submit final revised versions of articles
December 2022: publication of volume
Friday, April 16, 2021
CFP: DiSlaw
Deadline: April 28, 2021
Call for Papers (DiSlaw): MOTIVATION
Motivation is a phenomenon each and every one of us is confronted with on a daily basis. For more than three decades research has had its focus on motivation in the field of (foreign) language teaching and learning, especially in applied linguistics, social psychology and (foreign) language education. In this context, L2 motivation research has produced a large array of different models and theories regarding different motives for learning (foreign) languages and questions on how to generate and maintain motivation in the learning process (Dörnyei & Ryan 2015; Lamb et al. 2019; Legutke 2017; Riemer & Wild 2016, Ushioda 2013).
In spite of the recent profound engagement with the theme of motivation in the field of (foreign) language education, this research area has now become even more relevant: the Covid-19-pandemic has led to new learning settings such as online and distance learning or home schooling. These new settings again raise questions about fostering and maintaining the motivation of language learners and teachers. These questions need to be brought to the centre of public and academic attention.
For this reason, the first issue of the newly founded open access journal DiSlaw (Didaktik der Slawischen Sprachen) is dedicated to the topic of motivation with the aim of stimulating discourse on motivation from the perspective of teaching and learning Slavic languages. The first issue of DiSlaw will not only focus on motivational aspects of online learning, but also deal with general questions regarding motivation in the (foreign) language classroom, as well as the motivational design of teaching and learning processes.
As a theoretically well-founded and practice-oriented journal, DiSlaw is looking for both academic contributions as well as techniques that bolster motivation for both teachers and students learning (slavic) languages.
The following topics may serve as orientation, but do not exclude other aspects on motivation in (foreign) language research:
- Motivation & communication
- Motivation & (digital) media
- Motivation & emotion
- Motivation & demotivation
- Motivation & language of origin
- Motivating teaching/learning methods (e.g. task-based/scenario-based language education) or environments
- Motivation & feedback / performance assessment
- Motivation & regional aspects, institutional frameworks, needs analysis
Please send the title (working title) and an abstract of approximately 250 words to the following address by 28 April 2021 at the latest: redaktion-DiSlaw-Slawistik@uibk.ac.at.
Abstracts must be written in one of the languages listed below.
Please indicate in which of these languages you will write your contribution and include a short biographical statement about yourself in the abstract (institutional affiliation, function/area of work, research interests).
Each contribution and a second abstract in English must be submitted by 31 July 2021 at the very latest, as the first issue of DiSlaw will be published this year. Further information on the length of the contribution as well as the style sheet will be made available in June 2021 at the following address: http://slawistik.uibk.ac.at/dislaw
Possible languages for your contribution: Bosnian, Croatian, English, German, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian