Calls for Papers – 2021
WASS Calls for Papers
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.
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
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Our last conference in April 2018.
Western Association for Slavic Studies (WASS)
San Antonio, TX, April 4-7, 2018
Dear Colleagues,
Plan to join us for the annual Western Association for Slavic Studies
(WASS) conference. This year our host organization, the Western Social
Science Association (WSSA), will be welcoming its 2,000+ members and participants to the Hyatt Regency San Antonio Riverwalk, always a great site for a conference!
We invite proposals for individual papers, complete panels, and roundtable presentations in all areas of studies concerning Russia, the Former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Central Asia. Topics related to our conference may include any aspect of culture, economics, history, literature, or politics with a broad chronological span from the Middle Ages to present. Contributions are encouraged from disciplines including (but not limited to): anthropology, archeology, architecture, arts, communication, cultural studies, demography, economics, education, environmental studies, ethnic and minority studies, film, gender studies, geography, history, international relations, Jewish studies, law, linguistics, literature, political science, psychology, religion, sociology, theatre, and travel.
The Western Association for Slavic Studies is a regional affiliate of the American Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the principal scholarly organization in the world for these areas of interest. The Western Association for Slavic Studies encourages not only leading academics in the field, but especially graduate students to attend the conference. The WASS offers a $100 prize for the best graduate paper presented at the conference, and are also eligible the ASEEES’s and the WSSA’s graduate student paper prizes.
For more information regarding proposal submissions, the conference site and registration go to the WSSA website: http://www.WSSAweb.com/sections
The deadline for paper or panel submission is December 1, 2017
Please include the following information in your proposal: Title of Presentation Name, Affiliation, and Email Address Other Authors Abstract (not to exceed 200 words)
| AV needs: | VCR/TV LCD Projector (quantity limited) |
| NOTE on Audio-Visual Equipment: If participants on a panel wish to display outlines or images of their presentations, they may arrange with section coordinators to use the new LCD projectors that the WSSA has purchased. We will have 10 available.
Panelists may (a) save their presentation as “pictures”; (b) number the slides “01, 02, 03, . . .”; (c) load their presentation onto a thumb drive; and (d) load the thumb drive into the LCD projector, advancing one slide at a time. The presentations cannot be saved as PPT. Overhead slides and slide projectors will no longer be available. |
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Please feel free to forward this Call to individuals, institutions, or other organizations that may be interested in the conference.
Sincerely,
Mark A. Cichock, Program Coordinator
Department of Political Science
P.O. Box 19539
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019
Tel: 817-272-2388
Cichock@uta.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS: Western Association for Slavic Studies Conference in San Francisco, CA–April 12-15, 2017.
The Western Association for Slavic Studies (WASS), an ASEEES affiliated regional organization, invites proposals for panels, single papers, and workshops in ALL fields, regions and periods of history related to Slavic studies. The WASS conference will be held, jointly with the Western Social Science Association (WSSA), April 12–15, 2017, at San Francisco, CA. For more info, see the conference website or contact Robert Niebuhr (robert.niebuhr@asu.edu) or Lynn Lubamersky (llubame@boisestate.edu).
Submission guidelines are available on http://www.wssaweb.com/sections.html
The deadline for submissions has been EXTENDED TO 10 December 2016 with notification in early January of acceptance.
WASS, the Slavic Section of the Western Social Science Association (WSSA), seeks to encourage a diverse array of scholars to attend and present work at our next annual conference. We welcome graduate students and academics of all ranks to share their work. We have an annual graduate student paper prize just for our section; graduate students also have the chance to submit papers for consideration in the larger WSSA competition. At this last conference two of our graduate students won substantial monetary prizes from the WSSA for their work.
We would like to extend to all ASEEES participants the opportunity to engage with us in San Francisco. Again, a diverse array of scholars with work that deals with Slavic and/or Eurasian studies in fields such as anthropology, history, political science, social psychology, linguistics, and so on are welcome to join us in San Francisco in 2017.
Please freely distribute this email to any colleagues who might be interested!
If you have any questions please email the WASS officers for any additional information or questions: Robert Niebuhr (robert.niebuhr@asu.edu) or Lynn Lubamersky (llubame@boisestate.edu).
More on the WSSA and funding opportunities can be found at http://www.wssaweb.com/grants-awards
CALL FOR PAPERS: 58th Annual WSSA Conference in Reno, Nevada–April 13-16, 2016.
The Western Association for Slavic Studies (WASS) invites proposals for panels, single papers, and workshops in ALL fields, regions and periods of history related to Slavic studies. The WASS conference will be held, jointly with the Western Social Science Association (WSSA), April 13-16, 2016, at Reno, NV. For more info, see the conference website or contact Robert Niebuhr (robert.niebuhr@asu.edu).
Submission guidelines are available on http://www.wssaweb.com/sections.html
The deadline for submissions is 1 December 2015.
WASS, the Slavic Section of the Western Social Science Association (WSSA), seeks to encourage a diverse array of scholars to attend and present work at our next annual conference. We welcome graduate students and academics of all ranks to share their work. We are affiliated with the Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) and recognized two fantastic graduate student papers at last year’s conference with an award and monetary prize.
We are open to papers from any academic discipline covering the range of Slavic studies.
Please freely distribute this email to any colleagues who might be interested!
If you have any questions please send an email to Slavic Section Coordinator Robert Niebuhr, robert.niebuhr@asu.edu. Otherwise, simply visit the website and submit your proposal.