Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
****We are sorry to announce that our 2021 CfP has been cancelled. Please read the statement below:
The Western Association of Slavic Studies will not be holding any meeting or conference in 2021. This is because of the instability still lingering from Covid-19, including university funding of events, fatigue from continued online learning environments, and a general difficulty for members to produce scholarship while juggling work and home life. However, because we value our collaboration with the WSSA we are dedicating this next year to networking and planning for the 2022 meeting in Denver. If you have a paper to submit to the Western Social Science Association, please check out the others sections to see if your project would match (History, Borderland Studies, etc.). We are sorry for the inconvenience and wish you all well for 2021.
CfP: The 2021 Western Association of Slavic Studies Conference
Held under the auspices of the Western Social Science Association’s
63rd Annual Conference
held virtually, due to COVID-19 restrictions
April 12 – 25, 2021
The conference will accept proposals for:
♦ Live ZOOM sessions (paper presentations, roundtables, workshops)
♦ Recorded sessions (paper presentations, roundtables, workshops)
♦ Hybrid sessions (Recorded sessions, with a scheduled online Q&A session during 2nd week)
♦ Document-only papers (not attached to any other format)
Proposals must be submitted through the website, at the link below, by
January 29, 2021
For more information and the portal to submit your contribution, see the WSSA website at: http://www.WSSAweb.com/sections
We encourage participation of graduate students and advanced undergraduates. The best graduate paper wins a prize and will be eligible for the graduate student paper prize sponsored by ASEEES.
Please follow the instructions for submissions under the “Slavic and Eurasian Studies” section. Deadline for submission is 29 January 2021.
Papers from any academic discipline covering the range of Slavic and Eurasian Studies will be accepted.
For questions, please email section coordinator, Robert Niebuhr at robert.niebuhr@asu.edu.
RECENT MEETINGS
CfP: Western Slavic and Eurasian Association Annual Conference (Portland, 1-4 April 2020)
by Evguenia Davidova
The Call for Papers and registration are now open for the annual conference of the Western Slavic and Eurasian Association (WSEA) to be held from 1-4 April 2020, in Portland, OR at the Marriot Downtown Waterfront.
WSEA holds its annual conference as part of the Western Social Science Association. To submit a proposal for a paper or panel, please register on the Western Social Science Association website: http://www.WSSAweb.com/sections
WSEA encourages participation of graduate students. The best graduate paper wins a prize and will be eligible for the graduate student paper prize sponsored by the ASEEES.
Please follow the instructions for submissions under the “Slavic and Eurasian Studies” section. Deadline for submission is 1 December 2019.
Papers from any academic discipline covering the range of Slavic and Eurasian Studies will be accepted.
For questions, please see http://www.wssaweb.com/upcoming-conference.html
or email evguenia@pdx.edu or patrickpatterson@ucsd.edu
Western Association of Slavic Studies WASS 2019 Annual Conference
Registration is now open for the WASS 2019 conference in San Diego, CA (April 24-27, 2019, in San Diego, CA at the Manchester Grand Hyatt). We hold our annual conference as part of the Western Social Science Association; please register on their website: http://wssaweb.com/sections and follow the instructions for paper or panel submission under the “Slavic and Eurasian Studies” section. Deadline for submission is 1 December 2018.
We are open to papers from any academic discipline covering the range of Slavic and Eurasian studies.
For questions see the website above or send an email to robert.niebuhr@asu.edu
Recent Conferences of the WSSA
Past Programs can be found on this link: http://www.wssaweb.com/archive-search.html
Preliminary Program for 2018 Conference: Slavic and Eurasian Studies
*Please note this is subject to change
Panel 1: Culturalism in Soviet and Russian Society
Friday – 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Moderator: Thomas Garza, University of Texas at Austin
“Performing Masculinity: Machismo and Russian and Mexican Pop Music”
Thomas Garza, University of Texas at Austin
“Responses to Soviet Authoritarianism in Russian Literature and Mass Culture”
Lonny Harrison, University of Texas at Arlington
“Working for the Collective: A Comparative Analysis of Communist Subbotniks and American Charities”, Linda-Marie Sundstrom, California Baptist University
“Women and the Holodomor: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators”
Victoria Malko, California State University-Fresno
Panel 2: Integration in the Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Spaces
Friday – 9:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Moderator: Stephen Riegg, Texas A&M University
“Armenian Economic Integration into the Russian Empire in the 1820s”
Stephen Riegg, Texas A&M University
“Rethinking the “People’s Revolutions”: the Georgian and Ukrainian Cases”
Jane Leftwich Curry, Santa Clara University and Aurora Zahm, Santa Clara University
“Working for the Collective: A Comparative Analysis of Communist Subbotniks and American Charities”
Linda-Marie Sundstrom, California Baptist University
Panel 3: Russian Foreign Policy Goals and Mechanisms
Friday – 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Moderator: Mark A. Cichock, University of Texas at Arlington
“Cyber Power as Prophylaxis in Russian and Baltic Foreign Policies: Effecting Policy Strategies for its Employment”
Mark A. Cichock, University of Texas at Arlington
“Politics Aside: Building US-Russian Relationships Through Scholarship”
Allison Evans, Western New Mexico University and Heather Steinmann, Western New Mexico University
“The Estranged Eyes and Ears of Nikita Khrushchev: How Khrushchev’s relationship with his intelligence services brought the world one step closer to nuclear holocaust”
Jacquelyn Chorush, University of Texas at Austin
Western Association of Slavic Studies Business Meeting
Friday – 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Panel 4: Social Organization and Civilizational Dynamics in Russia
Saturday – 8:00 a.m. to 9:15 a.m.
Moderator: Emily Hoge, University of California-Berkeley
“Industrial Conflicts in Russia: Historical Legacies and Recent Trends”
Irina Kozina, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, and Elena Vinogradova, independent researcher
“Homo Faber: Darwinism and Soviet Comparative Psychology”
Mirjam Voerkelius, University of California-Berkeley
“Vietnamtsy and Afgantsy: PTSD in the Soviet Vietnam”
Emily Hoge, University of California-Berkeley
“Russia as a State-Civilization under Putin”
Susanne Sternthal, Independent scholar
Panel 5: Historical Formulations of Identity in Eastern Europe
Saturday – 9:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Moderator: Michael Cude, Schreiner University
“New Populist Nationalism in Bulgaria: Europeanization of the Old Nationalism”
Nuri Korkaz (Nuri Ali Tahir), Bursa Technical University
“Nicolae Ceaușescu and the two faced policy: 1965-1981”
Alexandru Christian Groza, University of California-Berkeley
“Wilsonian National Self-determination and the Slovak Question during the Founding of Czechoslovakia, 1918-1921”
Michael Cude, Schreiner University
“Developing the New Super-Ableist Czechoslovakia: Women, Health and the Right to Choose between 1945-1960”
Andrea Prajerova, University of Ottawa